#vadik

[keydekyie]

Vadik Fyodorov in his book II outfits: his "distinguished Kellaborn Officer" uniform and his bushwacking getup.

[loadsofcats]

Despite the fact that Vadim is like 38 years old, he knows the newest memes better than the 23-year-old Altan who I doubt knows what Loss is. Vadim once sends him a meme as a response to some job he’s done and Altan just texts him back with “what is that.”

[pompadorkery]

Idk why I never posted these whoops-

Last Unicorn AU feat: Evangelos and Vadik as The Unicorn and Red Bull/Prince.

[missveryvery]

Edgy/misc OC ask meme ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 for your most favorite little meow meow of an OC?

Edgiest Character: Kliment!

He was raised by a guerilla resistance group. Got scooped up by the other side in the middle of a suicide mission. Other side is nicer to him and also he gets intensely attached to the people there (one, Vadik, becomes his husband). But he still wants to set everything on fire and gets very "I've become what I hate" about it. You know how some guys are wifeguys? Kliment is a husbandguy. Absolutely unwell about his husband. He's stationed overseas and misses Vadik and gets very pensive and drinks in a tank top very attractively. He's very cool and "manly" in an action hero-type way that his partner in the field, Tsezar, finds obnoxious. 

5. How far is your OC willing to go to get what they want?

Well, his whole thing starts with him trying to blow himself up for The Cause and that's when he's a teenager so there’s your baseline. He's very "for the greater good" and "casualties are unavoidable" about things.

10. What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?

He's so intense and ridiculous I feel like he'd be right at home in some serious Game of Thrones + the Witcher fantasy bullshit. Like he already speaks like a dramatic elf.

15. Does your OC have a faceclaim? If so, who?

Hmm, not really. He has the same VIBES as Michael Fassbender's Magneto?! Like with a manifesto and especially the single manly tear and black turtlenecks. But they look nothing alike.

20. Does your OC have a tendency to get jealous? If so, how does this manifest?

He turns into a big baby if he feels like someone is offering his husband something he can't offer. He's not, for example, worried about Tsezar + his husband (Vadik) because Kliment knows he's cooler than Tsezar and that Vadik likes him better. But if it was someone that was like, mega cute he'd get very depressed and drink and smoke hotly and shed a single manly tear like "I can never offer Vadik such cuteness...I'm too broken, I'm trapping him in my haunted life when what he needs is someone pure and sweet without such dark shadows upon their souls". This bullshit continues until Tsezar tells Vadik and Vadik calls Kliment and talks him out of his weird emo hole.

The same thing would happen if Tsezar met someone way cooler than Kliment and started hanging out with him. He'd be really upset and feel like Tsezar was going to leave (?!?!) him for this cooler person but wouldn't know why. He's like a dog that sees a bigger dog and is like "wtf. wtf... this is ruining my life?!?!" but once he's made friends with the bigger dog and is assured he's not going to be replaced he calms down (re: he grew up being very disposable).

25. What is your favorite thing about your OC?

I think I like that he's so "ultra cool spy guy with a dark past" but then is also embarrassing. When he's younger he has no chill and wants to talk about politics and manifesto shit all the time. Picture a fucking teenager trying to lecture another teenager (Tsezar) about what a lumpenproletariat is. Very "sir, this is a Wendy's" bullshit. When he's older, only his very close friends get to see his cringe behavior but it's still there.

[bana-ki-art]

Well, as long as I don't have any drawings, I will share something else with you... . This is Vadik, a fucking homemade pencil holder, of course you can move his hands, but you can't move his legs BECAUSE HE BARELY STANDS ON THEM. Seriously, any micro movement will knock him down, I tried to glue him to some kind of stand, but he fell off from it.

[elderkale]

Do you think Sergey and Oleg's arc have any parallels?

gonna be honest bestie, i had literally never considered this before today, but now that i have i SO many thoughts.

(sorry, not entirely sure if you mean if sergey and oleg's individual arcs have any parallels to each other or if their shared arc has any parallels so i'm gonna blab about both)

comicverse only, as oleg does not pass the sexy lamp test in the movie.

i don't think there are many parallels between sergey and oleg's individual character arcs (maybe because they're willingly apart for approximately half a second in most of the comics), but the main one that i do think about is that they both go back to their "destruction" for the sake of each other: oleg consistently breaks sergey out of prison (the game, time of the raven), even after he shoots him, and sergey takes on the characteristics of the bird to save oleg from altan.

as for parallels between their shared arc and any other character pairings, i think the biggest one i can pick out is yulia and igor. aside from the fact that oleg is literally meant to be as important to sergey as yulia is to igor during the game, there's also a sort of parallel during time of the raven, with both oleg and yulia being catalysts for their respective partner's kuthk decisions. igor rejects kuthk because he used yulia; sergey accepts kuthk because, with oleg "dead," he has nothing left (yeah ik it's not completely canon but come on).

AND if we take the epilogue into account, you could maybe argue that oleg leaving sergey in the cell parallels igor's vision of yulia, with both being their ways of coming to terms with the game (this one's a bit of a stretch though).

a popular comparison for serovolk is vadim and altan, but honestly it's not really my favourite? surface-level, yeah, they're both rich villain/mercenary combos with things about vengeance, but i personally see them as having very different dynamics. we've only had altan and vadim together for, like, three volumes thought, so maybe this'll change lol.

one more, because i'm on a roll: i think there's a surprising amount of parallels between sergey/oleg and anna/olga from just like a fairytale (major grom). gay criminality aside, both pairs are made up of a rich mastermind hell-bent on revenge and someone willing to do anything to make it happen for them, and both revenge plots are theatrical and personal (sergey fighting igor intellectually, olga taking away her father's wealth). and, in the end, both anna and oleg are fatally shot because of the plots except anna doesn't have the luxury of being besties with local italian politicians

(bonus both get fucked up by igor lmao)

and i know i wasn't going to talk about the movie, but i think it's pretty interesting that both comic!olga and film!sergey get rid of suspicion on themselves by "falling victim" to their own crimes (olga being "kidnapped," sergey getting his shit wrecked by that dude at the casino), even if sergey's not doing it on purpose.

in conclusion: crime is forgivable when it's gayi

[bileshroom]

wow you look different

[the-chattering-tower]

To be fair it is a shame that I somehow didn’t have any vampires yet

I have only Some impulse control and a huge soft spot for everything @cecils-dragons​ draws and thus, here we are. Meet Silas, biggest smug bastard on the block

Idk much about them yet besides the fact that they’re, of course, a vampire, alongside Vadik, who I previous had no lore idea for but these two have an Aesthetic going on that I can’t deny