#mischa rasputin

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Ben has kind of won the slightest trust from the Isle kids, but only slightly. They don't understand him and they think he isn't being genuine because no one would be so open with their intentions like he is, so what he's doing must be a front. They aren't openly distrusting of him, but they don't trust him.

Until Gil wound up in the hospital.

Long story short, he wound up taking a very bad fall and slammed his head on the way down, Ben was there and dead certain he heard something crack. Ben, not knowing what else to do, immediately called 911 and had Gil taken to the hospital. Ivy and Mischa were alerted, of course, but for a good twenty minutes, Ben was the only one accompanying Gil. And the way the nurses and doctor at the hospital treated him pissed him off.

Number one, they said everything to Ben, not to Gil, and that had started when Ben had told the paramedics about Gil's intellectual disability (they were asking questions to try and get an idea of how bad his head trauma was and Gil struggled with some of them in ways that could have been explained by his ID, so Ben told them.) And number two, they misgendered him. Multiple times. The straw that broke the camel's back was when the nurse came back to report on the results of the pregnancy test they'd done- a test that had already been difficult for Gil to have to go through considering his trauma and dysphoria. And the nurse told Ben "Her pregnancy test came back negative." That was when he broke and asked to speak to her in the hallway.

Mischa and Ivy walked in on him giving the nurse a lecture about how she needed to speak to Gil, not to Ben, and how if she would actually look at Gil and not his chart, she would see that Gil is a young man, not a young lady, and that by ignoring who Gil was she was just making him feel uncomfortable and unsafe and that wasn't going to help his situation. And that if his current care team was unable to treat Gil with basic human dignity, Ben wanted different people to help his friend, please.

He won Mischa and Ivy's very rare respect that day, and it was the first major step he made in actually getting them to trust him. And Gil? Gil trusted him completely from that day on.

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The Isle kids have invented a game called Triple T (Top That Trauma,) where they list horrific things that have happened to them to try and figure out who had the worst traumatic event. Mischa Rasputin and Ace Hearts are permanently banned from playing because Jesus Christ do those two have some trump cards.

Yes, they are aware this is a horrible coping mechanism

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As a general rule, Mischa and Ivy don't keep weapons in the house. They have them, sure, but they keep them in safehouses, not in their actual home. They have a six-year-old, after all, a baby on the way, too many suicidal and traumatized people coming in and out to keep track of, and occasionally Nikita comes over and she can't understand that weapons are dangerous to her (while Maverick usually comes over with her to keep an eye on her, they do not want to take that chance.) It's way too dangerous to keep weapons in their house full stop. So they don't keep knives or guns in the house, or anything that could be considered solely a weapon.

They don't need weapons, anyways. Break into that house without a good reason and you are leaving in a coffin, and neither of them need a knife or a gun to do it. They have lived a very long time for a reason, and that reason isn't a reliance on weapons.

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By the way, Nikita gets to keep the cat.

Fairy Godmother is going to find out about him, but at that point Mischa and Ivy will be willing to argue any point as long as it's against Auradon Prep (they are REALLY not happy about Nikita being there) so they refused to let FG make Nikita get rid of her cat. That school has put Nikita through such a profound amount of shit and the kitten is what gives her the strength to keep putting up with it, they refuse to let anyone take that away from her. The only way that kitten is leaving that dorm room is if Nikita leaves that dorm room with him- if she can't have the cat, they'll pull her out of the school and move her and the kitten into Xavier's with them. Nikita is not staying in that school unless the cat stays with her. They don't care what the rules are.

Since they are so desperate to make Nikita attend Auradon Prep for some reason, they have to let her keep her cat.

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Someone; Are you seriously dating that Rasputin freak? Ivy, scoffing; No Ivy, very proud; I'm married to that Rasputin freak

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The weird thing about the unnatural hair colours on the Isle is they kind of maintain the original colour. Like, Mischa was born platinum blond like his mother, but it should have faded to brown like her hair did, or at least darkened to a more normal shade of blond. But when he was seventeen and survived an attempt on his life that used up basically all of his stored magic (turning his eye and hair colour back to normal for about a week,) his hair was still the exact same shade of blond it had been when he was a baby. If Riah were to do something similar, his hair would still be the same shade of reddish it was when he was a baby, even though it likely would have faded some by now. A lot of Isle kids, if they used their stored magic, would find that they still have baby blue eyes. No one knows why it works that way but it does

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Ivy; I got some of those peanut butter eggs and when I go to grab one this morning, all of them are gone. Someone in this house stole my favourite Easter treats. Mischa; Aren't you Jewish? Ivy; I don't have to be Christian to like peanut butter eggs.

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Mischa, trying to explain to Pasha why Ivy cannot turn into a bear to calm Pasha down; Mami can't turn into a bear unless you get a witch to turn her into a bear. Pasha; *lights up* Mischa; Pavlina, do not have a witch turn your mami into a bear. New rule- no asking witches to turn Mami into a bear. Pasha; Dang it.