#1 Simo Häyhä fan, at your service! ♡

"...namely that there are more things to admire in men than to despise." My special interest is the Winter War, I love industrial/synthpop music and I'm developing a love for classic literature (˶◜ᵕ◝˶) Leena, like the nurse from The Winter Warriors!! ♡

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Jean Tarrou and Dr Bernard Rieux from the "La Peste" manga by Ryota Kurumado!! (づ˶> ᵕ < ︎˶)づ❤︎

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I do like their designs a lot - even though they aren't the most book accurate, I think most of the designs in the manga are really good at getting across the personality and theme of the characters (like Rieux being quite young and slightly naïve at the beginning, and Tarrou being experienced from an eventful life and now being energetic about what is around him). Although I must admit, Rieux's hair was a bit of a nightmare to draw - and I do wish they would've given him eyebags or perhaps a little more of a design change to show his change throughout ૮ ◞ ﻌ ◟ ა

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Dr Richard from The Plague/La Peste!! ☆

I don't really see many people talk about him (since he appears very little) compared to other characters, but I do think he's quite an important example of how hesitant Oran was to accept the existence of the plague at first, especially since he is described as being a leading doctor and someone Dr Rieux immediately turned to for clarity.

Of course, there's no real hints in the book that talk about his physical appearance, but something about his dynamic with Rieux (and how he thinks it would be better to not worry the town since it'll lead to a better outcome for the mentality of the people, despite the fact that Rieux is more concerned about the deaths that will occur) reminds me vaguely of the reason why the conflict between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre began later on in the writer's life :')

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Dr Bernard Rieux from "The Plague" by Albert Camus!! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

I find him so sweet, he's always trying to do the best he can to help others and his little habits (like falling asleep in the car) make him so endearing - he truly is the world's most tired doctor XD

Out of all the Camus books I've read so far, he's probably my favourite protagonist and a good example of how to respond to the absurd - I think what makes him so likeable is that despite him having to become indifferent to do his job well, inside, he's still such an emotional person and still tries to show as much empathy and understanding as he can to others. I've seen him be described as a "Pollyanna" (staying optimistic, even in the worst of situations) and I think that fits quite well, since even at the end of the book where his initial idealism has been shattered, he still maintains a lot of hope in the goodness of humanity. <33

I do sometimes imagine him wearing circular glasses, although I couldn't draw them properly without them looking weird in my style :'DD

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First post, some ROR/SNV art I've made of Simo and an OC who hates him (ᵕ ´ ∇ ˋ ˶)♡

The art is based on the songs "Military Fashion Show" by AND ONE and "Military Fascist Show" by Caustic (which is thought to be a song slandering the former band, although its not clear how true this theory is or whether the allegations held against them are credible...) ♪

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The OC is Sulo "Simeoni" Kolkka, a fusion of both the IRL journalist and the sniper myth of the same name. To describe him, he's a hot-headed Finnish sports/investigative journalist and war correspondent who firmly believes that Simo's accolades are a lie based on propaganda and wants to expose him for such reasons, harbouring a lot of hatred towards Simo and his companions. Of course, a lot of this hatred towards Simo being a "fraud" and a "liar" is obviously based on false evidence (especially with Simo's own hatred for the White Death myth considering what its driven him to do), and it's very easy to hate Sulo - however, there are rumours of a ruthless sniper sharing his name operating during the Winter War at a similar time to when he had gone missing (and upon being found, having lost an eye to a blade for an unknown reason), and due to the truth of his disappearance being unknown to both him and the public, there may to be more to Sulo’s story and his hatred of Simo...

Some other fun facts about him: He's also famously a progressive and fair sports journalist (although many only see him as the Simo-hating investigative journalist), he has a young daughter, he drinks a lot of coffee to stay awake whilst writing stories, and despite saying that he has no "heroes", he has a secret admiration for a certain philosopher he refuses to name ⋆.˚☆