hi leo!! regarding your no escape au, was there something that happened to ivan to make him develop into the person he is? or is he just Like That
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I'm sorry this took so long i was about to go to sleep but i had to write this so I'm sorry if this isn't very coherent
He has always just kinda like this. But it could've been prevented from getting this bad.
Ivan's home life was extremely dysfunctional, his father (Unsha) was Abusive (towards him and his mother) and his mother (his wife i forget if she ever had a name) had an incestuous attachment to him. They were poor and lived in a neighborhood where people appeared dead almost everyday, no one cared and the police did basically nothing.
Unsha was a killer himself and he forced 8/9yo Ivan to learn and watch, the same way he now does with Till. At first he had the normal reactions like vomiting, crying and refusing to partake in murder, but through punishments and "positive reinforcement" Ivan learned that the best he could do was follow Unsha's orders.
One night, Unsha was passed out drunk and Ivan's mother convinced him to kill Unsha. "It will be better once he's gone, baby! It'll be just you and me... Just us! Kill him and we'll be free!" She said. And Ivan, little 11yo Ivan, believed her and did what she told him to do.
After, Ivan started to feel a sort of hollowness he couldn't name, nor had time to try and process it because; "you're the man of this house now, Ivan. You're my man now. My beautiful man." She'd say. She started raping him.
Years went by where Ivan felt power against his mother until one day, not loong after his 16th birthday, she called him her "husband" and he snapped. He killed her, beheaded her and speared her head on the fence.
After he killed her, he felt the hollow go away. But then it came back. So he figured that killing equals not feeling hollow.
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Now, I'm gonna be honest. At first i didn't wanna write him to be a victim, i wanted him to be evil for the sake of it but i figured it'd be boring lol.
Thank you for the ask i love you 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤