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CR meme
Deerington's CR Meme
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vasiliy yegorovich ardankin / original — historical/revenant
Preferred Contact: grinchhands mcgee#7599 /
Time Zone: EST
Personal Style: Action, generally speaking, and I tend to write on the longer side with network tags. I'm most active on the weekends/evenings.
OOC Limits: Eye/nail trauma or discussion thereof. Mentor/student, healthcare provider/patient, and ships with similar gaps in age/power dynamics make me uncomfortable on a personal level, so I'd prefer that any you may be playing not be referenced in our threads.
Character Name: Vasiliy
Age: 35
Employment in Deerington: Harren Hospital - EMT-A
Residence in Deerington: David Cliff Apartments, #313
Day to Day Activities: Vasiliy spends most of his time at the Hospital waiting for calls, idling the ambulance in a strategic position, or addressing medical emergencies. He doesn't really shop or engage in hobby things, because he feels a crushing obligation to more or less be on-call 24/7 given that he's the only EMT in the whole town who isn't physically bound to the hospital as of right now. That having been said, he does now own one (1) horse he boards at the sleeper-run stable, so he can be seen there occasionally.
About This Character: Vasiliy is a revenant. Although he's been alive for 35 years as of 2020, he was born to a working class family in St. Petersburg much earlier than that—in 1910, to be exact. His parents were both first-wave Bolsheviks and raised him as Lenin instructed, which shaped their child into a man who very rarely shows strong emotions, prioritizes the group at all costs, self-effaces to an obviously dishonest degree, and values education and self-betterment. At 18 he took an entry-level job as a local party clerk and ultimately graduated to personnel and staffing; in 1936, Vasiliy was chosen along with hundreds of others in similar roles to accompany his supervisor in that department, Nikolai Yezhov, to the NKVD - the Communist Party's secret police and secret services division.
This coincided with the beginning of four years of mass-murders and imprisonments known as the Yezhovshchina ('Yezhov's Time') or the Great Purge. A constant flow of confessions were needed to power this machine and meet execution and imprisonment quotas, so interrogators were in high demand; Vasiliy was initially tasked with solely playing the 'good cop'/sympathetic figure typical to the Soviet interrogation style because it was seen as a way to ease an outsider into the rougher work of interrogations using physical force, but his charisma and perceptive nature made this a role that he excelled in, so there he stayed. Over the next four years Vasiliy successfully talked hundreds of fellow Soviets into signing false confessions by 'coming to them as a fellow Communist, a fellow Russian', etc etc (a typical example here). This came to an end when Yezhov lost favor and was executed; because members of any party entity were tied to the person who had brought them in, Vasiliy was arrested, made to sign a false confession by someone with the role he had held a few days prior, and executed in the basement of the Lubyanka with little fanfare, all of which was a highly formative experience.
Then he woke up.
For reasons he's still unsure of, Vasiliy abruptly re-entered the living world on his back in the snow exactly 75 years after his death — with identity documents in his pockets for a man of the same name with the same day of birth... in the year 1985. Over the past 5 years he's been coming to terms with the sheer amount of damage he's personally responsible for as well as his own role in the Yezhovshchina while doing something anti-cult advocates refer to as 'deprogramming' himself - unlearning a mentality that regarded Stalin as a living god and obeyed without question (or at least without voicing those questions). After two years in the living world he trained as an EMT and subsequently fled to America out of fear someone would discover his secret and execute him for it; although he isn't religious, he views his medical work as the closest thing to atonement and counterbalancing the harm he did as is realistically possible.
Vasiliy is a man who wants to be a better person than he was, but it's a process. He's come a long way from where he was during his time in the NKVD, but he still has a ways to go. He does have genuinely good traits - altruism, empathy, and generosity, to name a few — and they were what drew him to Communism (in which he is still a radical believer), but he's also shouldering a tremendous amount of guilt and paranoia as well as deep feelings of betrayal and grief. He's immensely distrusting and shows signs of undiagnosed PTSD, which he hasn't gotten treated because he'd have to explain the catalyst, an event he fears would get him either executed for his crimes or sent to a psychiatric hospital if disclosed. He's highly susceptible to peer pressure and typically assumes the worst of people; Vasiliy still sees the world with very little room for grey areas, and if someone isn't at least a left-leaning socialist he will absolutely think of them as a Bad Person. He's also in the process of adapting to 1950s American society - it's rough being plunged into a culture with values diametrically opposed to his own in which he is the enemy in addition to being a regular ol' Sleeper, and he generally resents America and Americans as symbols of everything he stands against.
Present Life: Vasiliy is about to be put on trial for his crimes during the Great Purge, which is exactly what he's been fearing for the past 5 years. He's in a horrible mental state this month because he's basically been plunged back into a terrifying time in which even perpetrators could be arrested and killed at any moment. I plan on only having a few parties attend, and he's going to plead guilty from the start.
Future Ideas: Mother Superior more or less confirmed Vasiliy's suspicions about/lack of trust in Sodder in this thread, so I'm excited to work with that new info in threads, and to generally start to get into the 'always being watched' element of the setting.
CR You Want: Everything, tbh. I really enjoy tense/negative CR and Vasiliy can be pretty polarizing, so I'm fine with letting things spiral. He also needs friends! People who start to notice that something's a little off about this guy! Etc etc!
CR You Don't Want: N/A
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