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singillppl2024-02-14 08:56 pm
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February CR Meme
CR MEME
Below is a helpful form to use in laying out your thoughts!
Below is a helpful form to use in laying out your thoughts!
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OOC Limits: Dog/horse death, eye/nail/dental trauma.
Character Name: Vasiliy Yegorovich Ardankin. He introduces himself to others as Vasiliy; characters may hear those close to him (only Konstantin, at this point) address him by his diminutive, Vasya, but if they try it when they haven't been explicitly invited to use it, it'll rub his fur the wrong way and clock as overfamiliar.
Canon: Original character. Info sheet here; the basic beats are—
Vasiliy is a Soviet ex-interrogator, fervent communist, and revenant–born in 1910, he served in Nikolai Yezhov’s NKVD from 1936-1940 as a ‘good cop’ interrogator responsible for emotional manipulation in the distinctly Soviet split style interrogation system: instead of beating confessions out of prisoners, Vasiliy approached them casually and with kindness, expressing sympathy and emphasizing that it was in their best interest (and their family’s) for them to sign the falsified confessions that would ultimately get them jailed or shot outright, justifying it to himself with the belief they’d be tortured until that happened anyway. When Yezhov fell from Stalin’s favor and was jailed and executed, the NKVD was purged just as it had been during Vasiliy’s time, and he was arrested, interrogated, and executed as an enemy of the state. But his story didn’t end there–for reasons that aren’t clear to him, Vasiliy woke up lying on his back in the snow in the middle of nowhere in 2015, unharmed, carrying the documents of a man by the same name born in 1985. He’s spent the past three years unlearning Stalinism and coming to grips with the sheer magnitude of what he did, racked with overwhelming guilt and deep paranoia over being discovered and executed for what he did a second time. He trained as an EMT and immigrated to the US on a work visa two years after his return to the world of the living, and spent the year before his arrival in Milton working with Chicago municipal EMS in an unconscious effort to balance some of the cosmic harm he did while processing how he was summarily disposed of and living in fear of rediscovery, still a true believer in communism but now living in an environment in which traits that helped him survive in a police state are seen as deeply unusual and offputting - he is, more or less, a creature perfectly adapted to a high-pressure deep sea environment abruptly brought to the surface and regarded as ugly by fishermen from a very different environment for those same adaptations.
Residence: A small one-bedroom cabin at the edge of town, shared with Konstantin Veshnyakov (
Notable CR: Vasiliy's CR circle is pretty limited so I'm looking to expand it! Right now the only person close to him is Konstantin, cosmonaut/Hero of the Soviet Union/alien parasite host/his Dream Man TM, whom he's been generally keeping an eye on, providing medical care and companionship, etc.
Skills:
Aurora Feat: None. Aside from being frozen in time, he's a normie.
Wanted CR: Friends! Collaborators! Vasiliy's genuinely very collectivist and has a strong desire to be helpful, so that provides an easy opening for interactions of the group of people trying to survive together variety. He's also an EMT, so he can provide emergency medical care when needed, and I'd love for him to get some CR-in-law based on people who know Konstantin - in general, he's a lot more outgoing and less paranoid than Vasiliy, which provides a good vehicle for him to get to know new people after getting a feel for them by watching someone else interact with them first. He put up a notice advising others of his availability in medical emergencies, which could be an 'in' for CR.
Unwanted CR: Romance — he is embarrassingly infatuated with Kostya and it's very, very gradually headed toward a relationship.
Day to Day: Vasiliy can usually be found helping around wherever people need a hand, providing medical assistance to people who are injured, or in his cabin. Of late, he'll be seen around town salvaging materials - see below.
The Story So Far / Plans: Vasiliy's had a quiet few months, mostly keeping to himself and focusing on surviving and contributing to the collective where he can. He's offered medical aid to a few different members of the community, and that was how he made his first real friend here and since returning to the world of the living. He's started to socialize a bit more in non-pragmatic circumstances, and attended the grand opening of the General Store.
At present, he's getting together the necessary materials to put together a makeshift grouse coop to keep and breed them as a source of blood to feed the alien parasite living in his roommate and a source of food for himself and Konstantin's still-human body.
Anything Else?: God I have really fallen off the bus with him this winter but I'm looking to get back into the swing of things and build some CR for him now that life's calmed down a bit!!
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I also still love the idea of Vasiliy at some point feeling a little jealous because Kostya flirts with her in passing because that's just What He Does t b h
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Chloe would love to hang out with her new vampire friend’s shady “roommate” while they break bird necks together and he's trying to obliquely ask her how well they know each other.
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But Tobi's nosy enough to just rock up on Vasiliy to sus him out, whether that's just popping over to his place or offering a hand with something while he's out and about. How does the man feel about dogs?
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incredible