#Alexei Kazakov oc

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He's a little confused but he's got the spirit 👍

He doesn't understand the LGBTQ and pride stuff very well but Nikolai asked him to come and he's always happy to support his brother in any way he can 😁

Details cause Tumblr's photo quality is not very nice and I like the small details that I added (some even being canon in the lore hehe):

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I originally wanted to add a background too but I've been working on this for almost 12 hours and if I stay on this project for more I'm going to have an aneurysm 🙂

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art by @uesugi-akechi-please, Picrew, and @shadowfairyy

An introduction to my OC for the IkesenNW's OC week!

Character’s full name: Sofiya Alexandrovna Tsvetayeva (born Esfir Sakharova) 

Reason or meaning of name: Means wisdom. A popular name in Russia, given to her by a social worker as her birth name was unknown.

Character’s nickname: Sonya, Sonechka, Sonyushka 

Reason for nickname: Russians are big on nicknames, y'all

Birth date: 24th August

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Age: 25

Height: 4’11 | 150cm

Body build: Endomorph, pear-shaped

Shape of face: Round

Eye color: Brown

Glasses or contacts: None

Skin tone: Fair skin

Distinguishing marks: Burn scars on left side of face and body

Hair color: Blonde

Type of hair: Wavy

Hairstyle: Loose down to her shoulders, tends to wear headbands.

Disabilities: Hearing loss, dyspraxia, autism, loss of some phalanges of the pinky and ring finger on left hand.

Usual fashion of dress: Likes vintage style clothes. Tends to pick outfits based on their textures. Comfy.

HISTORY

Childhood/Family Life: Born in Chechnya, she experienced memory loss, hearing impairment and burns during the second Chechen war from a bombing. Was unable to recall her name or her family members. All records were inaccessible due to the destruction of infrastructure during the war. Evacuated to Yekaterinburg and put into the social work system there. Adopted by Alexei Tsvetayev and Haruki Matsuoka. Meets Val when they are 9 and 10 respectively, and he gradually begins to live with them over the next two years. Their family moves to Hokkaido when she is 12 years old. Accidentally took someone's life in the name of self-defense when she was 16; this led to her current pacifistic outlook on life.

Education: Completed high school with a diploma. Garners interest in the history of art / fashion. Graduates from Osaka University. 

REGRETS

Never going back to Chechnya. She didn’t want to face the emotional strain as the possibility of never finding her birth family was too high. But now she has no way to get back to the present, it’s an impossibility. She should have taken the chance.

Not taking more action when it came to Val’s interactions with his family or standing up to bullying of herself and others in her school. She was afraid to paint a target on herself, but feels like a coward now.

SECRETS

Envious of her brother. The fact that his temperament and fighting skills are much more suited to their current era makes her feel inferior in comparison.

Wrote terrible fanfiction in her youth. Val absolutely read it but pretends he knows nothing.

Desperate to know what her original name was so she can have a semblance of closure.

PERSONALITY

Positives/Virtues/Skills: Honest, considerate, loyal, warm, sincere.

Flaws/Weaknesses: Stubborn, opinionated, wound up easily, keeps people at arms’ length.

LIKES AND DISLIKES

Favourite colour? Pink

Favourite food/cuisine? Udon noodles, medovik (honey cake), tempura.

Least favourite food/cuisine? Carrots, courgettes, fish pie. 

Do they like spicy food? Yes

Favourite smell? Cinnamon, the scent of the air inside a bakery, peaches.

Favourite taste? Raspberry jam and butter on toast.

DREAMS AND AMBITIONS

Introducing disability awareness into the Sengoku is a big goal. She aims to learn about the era’s medicinal practices so she can potentially save lives. Wants to save as much artwork from destruction as she can, though human lives take precedence in her mind.

She thinks it’s silly, but she wants to find someone she can love and adopt kids together.

FEARS

Her friends abandoning her. Not being good enough. Ostracization. People secretly detesting her.

RELATIONSHIPS

Parents: Alexei Tsvetayev and Haruki Tsvetayev (n. Matsuoka)

Siblings: Valentin Kazakov.

Children: Touma Akechi-Takeda. Irina Akechi-Takeda, Katsu Akechi-Takeda.

Current Partner(s): Mitsuhide Akechi, Shingen Takeda. AU- Kaida Gates.

Enemies: Unknown.

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Tw fresh (not quite accurate I think) burns, blood, angst.

There's not outwardly gore but it may be disturbing to some people. Yeah this one's not light, viewer's discretion is advised. Genuinely. Don't sacrifice your mental health for a mediocre drawing. (Uncensored is below cut)

Imagine being 16 years old, just a few days into an internship at a local hospital, when your brother, the person who raised you ever since you were a newborn, comes back covered in burns and welts from the nuclear disaster just a few kilometers away.

Nikolai Kazakov (Left) [he/she]

Alexei Kazakov (right) [he/him]

I learned that a friend of mine likes repaints of the "ivan the terrible and his son", so this is something for them. Plus I wanted to draw something representing one of the main scenes in my book and I chose to combine the two.

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Uncensored drawing

This took me eight hours and a half and I have no idea why

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I tried doing some pixel art :3 I'm pretty proud of it for being my first time :)

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Happy Pride everyone! Pripyat has a resting bitch face but he's happy lol

Flags and characters (from left to right):

First row:

Nikolai Kazakov (he/she): intersex (someone born with a reproductive anatomy that doesn't fit into the male/female binary)

Emily Williams (she/her): lesbian (a woman attracted to the same sex)

Pripyat (Alexei) Kazakov (he/him): asexual (someone that feels little to no sexual attraction) and greyromantic (someone that rarely feels romantic attraction)

Second row

Darien Evans (she/her): transgender (person who's gender doesn't align to their sex assigned at birth)

(used to be my oc Michelle btw I changed her name)

Isaiah Xu-Dai (he/him) : straight ally (someone attracted to the opposite gender, but is supportive of the LGBTQ)

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Here he is, the bastard from my nightmares (jk I love him)

I tried giving it an outline, what do you guys think?

Original photo by @ellastseva on Pinterest

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It's you!

Despite everything, it's still you.

Funny how things change, huh?

Also for the love of G0d I couldn't for the life of me find where the hell I got the original background for the drawing wtf

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May you be blessed kind person.

May you always sleep on the fresh side of the pillow and your milk never spoil.

May you never get a single stomach ache again

May you never get stuck in traffic again

Google Drive full of book PDFs about Chernobyl

Link to the Google Drive if you don't want to click the title: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kscKFciW6almJA8p-0sUQPO3c0A4AQYe

Note: It will be updated regularly - for as long as I'll be able to find/get new things =) So far I've compiled 41 books in three languages.

Just to repeat what I said in the first post: I'm open to any requests or suggestions or even PDFs themselves, if someone wants to share theirs from their collection. Message me, send me an ask, throw a rock through my window - whatever you prefer, just please, do it yourself because I'm too scared to message anyone, thanks. No fiction - that's the only rule. Any language is welcome - if you want me to look for a certain book in the language of your choice, I'll do that. If you have a book in language other than English, I'd love to add it to the Drive! If you have a better version of whatever PDF I've already got, then I'd be more than happy to do a swap.

Now, some of my reasoning, if anyone's interested: first of all, I think it's important for everyone to be able to access stuff like this. Think of it as a library, minus the "give these back" part. Secondly, I get soooo mad when people are like haha, found this super rare, basically impossible to find, very expensive book! ...I shall now keep it exclusively to myself. Ma'am, you're ruining the vibe and stalling everyone's hobby research but I guess you do you...

List of all the books (under the cut):

In English:

Voices from Chernobyl - Alexievich S.

Chernobyl Reactor Accident - Source Term

Chernobyl - Insight from the Inside - Dr. Chernousenko V.M.

How It Was - Dyatlov A.S.

(ENG+RUS) Chernobyl Booklet

Chernobyl: The Devastation, Destruction and Consequences of the World’s Worst Radiation Accident - Fitzgerald I.

Final Warning. The Legacy of Chernobyl - Gale R.P.

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Higginbotham A.

INSAG-1

INSAG-7

Interesting Chernobyl - 100 Symbols

From Chernobyl To Fukushima - Karpan N.

Manual for Survival. A Chernobyl Guide to the Future - Kate Brown

Chernobyl. Confessions of a Reporter - Kostin I.

The Politics of Invisibility. Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl - Kuchinskaya O.

Memories - Kupnyi A.

Chernobyl 01:23:40 - The Incredible True Story of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster - Leatherbarrow A.

Chernobyl Notebook - Medvedev G.

No Breathing Room - Medvedev G.

Chernobyl Record - The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe - Mould R. F.

Wormwood Forest - A Natural History of Chernobyl - Mycio M.

Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl - Petryna A.

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy - Plokhy S.

Ablaze - Story of Chernobyl - Read P.P.

Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry - Schmid S. D.

Chernobyl: A Documentary Story - Shcherbak I.

The Vienna Report

Chernobyl - Crime Without Punishment - Yaroshinskaya A.A.

In Russian:

Chernobyl: Kak eto bylo. Preduprezhdeni - Kopchinsky, Steinberg

Chernobyl. Tak eto bylo. Vzglyad Iznutri - Voznyak Ya. Troitskiy N.

Лучевая болезнь человека (очерки) - Гуськова А.К., Байсоголов Г.Д.

Чернобыль. Как это было - Дятлов А.С.

Чернобыль: 30 лет спустя - Кравчук Н.В.

Живы - Купный А.

Чернобыль - Щербак Ю.

(ONLY Pages 367-383) Чернобыль, 10 лет спустя. Неизбежность или случайность?

KGB files - pre and post accident (includes additional information in Ukrainian)

In Polish: 

Jak to było - Diatłov A.S.

Czarnobyl - Plokhy S.

Czarnobyl - Sekuła P.

Katastrofa w Czarnobylu - Sekuła P.

Czarnobyl. Od katastrofy do procesu - Siwiński W.

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Pripyat on babysitting duty!

Here's another little thing for disability pride month! 😁 I wanted to draw more honestly but my art wasn't arting and I burned myself out aaa😭 glad I'm recovering a bit now yippee 🌟

[left] Alexei (Pripyat) Kazakov - {he/him, 37, disabled}

[right] Darien Evans - {she/her, 12, autistic}

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Pripyat is supportive of his sibling's fashion shenanigans but isn't very up to be his model

Left: Pripyat (he/him). Right: Nikolai (he/she)

I'm not really satisfied with this one but i saw two nice fits on Pinterest and wanted to draw them

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Happy disabled pride month! Pripyat's just finding out about all these "new" flags and he's a bit confused lol. At least he's trying his best 🙂

Alexei (Pripyat) Kazakov [he/him]

I'm pretty sure I got the prosthetic leg's perspective wrong so feel free to give me tips in the comments 👍

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Drunk shenanigans

every hate is a love-hate when you love hate

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On today's episode of Arsen is a fking dumass:

After almost seven hours of drawing, I just realized that I drew Pripyat, my OWN OC,'s prosthetic leg on the WRONG SIDE OF HIS BODY

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Neglect, generational alcoholism and overworked-ness don't make a good combo. But they sure make good lore!

Alexei Kazakov (he/him)

I'll share context if y'all are interested. (This is pre-incident Pripyat btw.)

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#1 and #20 for the OC asks? For your OCs with the most interesting answers to those questions!

Thank you for participating! 🫶

1) Does your OC have a voice claim, if so who?

I haven't found a precise voice claim for Pripyat or Darien yet. I'd say that the closest one I could find would be Буерак, for Alexei, but it's not 100% accurate. (Take Спортивные очки as example)

For Darien, I'd say just a genetic 12 year old voice with a bit of an afro-american accent. Maybe a voice similar to Erica Sinclair from stranger things (I haven't seen that show though, so my memory from the vague clips I saw in 2021 could not be accurate) but a little bit more low and certainly more quiet.

20) If they fight, what's their weapon of choice?

The only character who'd fight is Emily, who'd fight with her purse for self defense since she's practically homeless for a good chunk of her story. Alexei was a bit aggressive too, especially when drunk, but I wouldn't say he's a fighter. Especially not anymore. (I have to say that I refer to Alexei as the who he was before the Chernobyl accident, and Pripyat the one he became afterwards.)