#Grigory habit

[xreno]

The ballad of smokin Joe rudeboy

Yeehaw

Ocs belong to:

Lial Parkers- me

Lane love bug - @l0nelyappariti0n

Wylie- @beaniemace

Favian- @s3al-t3mprr

Lilac- @poppingsmoothie

Au by @ultimaid

[eye-of-enigmatic-thought]

I'm not too late to this bandwagon am I? If I am, have three examples with different comfort characters i thought would be most funny to pair together xD

[captorkinnie-deactivated20187224]

introducing kamal to grigory must have been a Situation for habit i think

[beaniemace]

I had a vision

[joojdraws]

Uncle & nephew!! 🌈✨

[ennaku-sirri-da]

Who knows what lies in the hearts of Dolls? ( Hold on to this lullaby. Even when the music's gone.)

( Plain text: Who knows what lies in the hearts of Dolls? [Hold on to this lullaby. Even when the music's gone. ])

[ ID: Traditional fanart of the game Smile For Me showing Dr Habit, and fandom-created OCs Uncle Grigory and the Habit Twins, Forsaw and Bahd. It is all uncolored and any filled-in parts are with pencil. The style mostly follows the game but not exactly. Artist has taken divergent design interpretations from the game.

The main scene shows a younger Uncle Grigory holding an infant Habit. Grigory's hair is less dense and styled more closely to his head, a few curls framing his face. He has on some dark eyeshadow as well as nailpolish. He wears a half-sleeve shirt, pant, and pointed shoes, all dark. A heavy-looking cross necklace with three curving circular tips at its ends ( like a clovers head) hangs around his neck. He bottle feeds the small Habit wrapped in a blanket, held in his arms, as he sits bending with one leg spread a little away. The muppet Habit here has a teddy bear-like appearance when this young, with short curls of hair, big ears, and the usual big lashes with freckled cheek-patches. His eyes are closed. Grigory's face wrinkles as he tearfully smiles, "You are so beautiful." He says in Russian, with some hearts beside the floaty chatbox.

Beside them are the Habit Twins, just children as of now. They are both living ragdolls with splits in their faces, buttons for eyes, stitched-on mouths and cute lashes. Bahd Habit is in a dress with a pale apron. The dress is full-handed and topped by frills at the sleeves and hem. Bahd also wears mittens and simple shoes with socks. His yarn hair is tied down in two ribboned pigtails. Forsaw Habit wears a simple full-hand shirt with a small neck-bow, a heart patch design near it. She has on mitts, a beanie-like cap and puffy short pants that end in simple socks with shoes. Her own yarn hair is in a medium-length bangs cut. They both grin in delight, Bahd looking a touch more devilish. He stands on his toes, straining for height to look at Habit by pressing his hands atop his siblings shoulders. Forsaw holds her hands together. They both sing in unsion,

" Bayu Bayushki Bayu

do not lie down near the edge( of the bed)

Or the grey wolfie will come and BITE you by your tiny side...!~"

Music notes and hearts are drawn around their lyric lines. The crescent moon and simple stars in the background also seem to imply it's night.

On the other side of this scene, a huge furry plush heart is drawn. Thick letters embedded in it spell out, " I love you" in Russian.

Below it a sketch of the grown-up Habit is seen. He is closer to his canon appearance but with some of the artists own touches such as on his baby form. An X-stitch scar also runs up the side of his mouth, and he wears lipstick. He smiles sincerely, gratefully, tipping his hat down as his great lengths of hair billow out behind him, artistically filled in with swirls. In one scarred hand he holds the same heavy-cross necklace, looking at it. A red sketchpen etches a shaky line from the plush heart, crossing Habit and going to the far end of the page, "You and I'll be Safe and Sound..." is written, with music notes and hearts. Finally a bit of a simply styled flower border can be seen around the whole photo of the page.

The page is of a lined, rectangular notebook. The photo taken casts a soft, light shadow on swathes of the mildly warm-toned image. End ID]

Talk..and context.. under the cut, you know!!

Oh yes, many of my works are produced under musical influence! There's a fact for you. This is that one song that's known from the Hunger Games(Safe And Sound). Surprisingly I'd never heard of it, but when I did, the emotions washed over me in such powerful waves that I 1) Cried and 2) Drew. You'd be surprised how often those two things come in tandem for me.

Have I established by now that Habit's a dolly? I have! But I haven't said much else. I suppose now is as good a time as any for a dump.

Well, his father made him. Like, MADE him, all on his own. With a little magic and a little blood and sets of discarded teeth, haaa. Why, you ask....to bring happiness into his life. This is what Habit was always meant to be. A ball of sunshine, sunshine, forever. But...

[ ID: A screencap from the original Powerpuff Girls intro. A scene in mostly red and black shows Professor Utonium looking on in horror as Chemical X mistakenly pours into his formula for making the "three perfect little girls". End ID]

Oh shit, oh no!

There is more to this tale, but for now I shall focus on a few choice aspects.... when you make a doll, you give it a heart. And on it's heart, you shall write. These words will never leave your creation's very being. It is the final step to give them life.

All his father's sadness, jealously ( some towards his brother-in-law's strange satisfaction with his own morbid ragdoll children ), hate, boiling bitterness, selfish desire.... none of it left the doll in the making unscathed. Now, Habit is on his way to being well and truly human. A curse or a blessing, even we mundanely-born humans cannot decide.

( I want to clarify here that what I mean is that IMO humanity of an individual can not exist strictly only in positives, or any sort of clear cut thing like that. )

" я тебя люблю " ( I did not include this text in Russian script itself in the ID because it'd confuse predominantly English screenreaders ) " I love you " is a phrase and sentiment Habit has struggled to accept without suspecting a million unreadable, unreasonable requests hidden underneath. He must re-define his being for himself.

OK...now onto other things...I sure hope you enjoy long text...!

I cross checked the Russian in this a Lot but please tell me if something has still escaped my notice, not a native.

Incase it looks unclear, what Grig is saying is :ты такая красивая

Anyway yeah, Grigory was a more caring figure to Habit growing up I think, as is HC'ed. Specifically I think they'd visit when his mother went over to Russia for the summers or such. So he did not see him very much, but his few memories are precious. Speaking of, this whole picture is a bit inspired by when I first held my baby sister. I was LITERALLY CRYING WHEN FEEDING HER. I was like. Oh my god. Small human. MY human. Must protect!!!

Grigory in my headcanons is related to Habit through being his mother's brother. His father gradually grew more and more distant, disappointed with how Habit was turning out and frankly he's just a shitty parent, fuck this dude. So his mom had to go it alone raising him a lot. She has a sticky relationship with Grigory but she appreciated the help( not always though). I think Grig Grog Eggnog's definitely one of those relatives who go full on STUPID MODE trying to make babies laugh. It amuses me. He's definitely a recluse from most other people, but I guess The Cursed Baby Of 19XX caught his crusty heart. Another thing I think happened is he'd babble talk to tiny Hab when visiting like a lotttttt. I don't know if this would really be directly related, but later in life Habit says nonsensical things, sounds to himself as a vocal stim, for that mouth-feeling. I like to think I'm clever so I said these sounds can correspond to well, how the soundbytes in the actual game are. Example;

If he's picking up Kamal's sounds it'd be " baaaaa baa ba beep worp worp buhhh" OR WHATEVER ELSE OH MY GOD

ANYWAY the lullaby I wrote here is this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8WYvAo-RA

I thought it's tone fit the bedtime story segment of the game pretty well. And it fits the Twins' like, lightheartedly threatening nature. I suppose if he has good childhood memories associated with it, he would hum it to himself, or maybe ask someone else to sing to him during bad days, etc etc.

LAST thing, Forsaw and Bahd are like, kind of trans (?) IDK how to really explain it but one thing is they "swap" their gender presentations later in life.

Really do not what else I can add on here without making it a small novel!!! Thank you for reading the backstory of this impulse piece.

[gegengestalt]

131 useless or often forgotten facts in The Brothers Karamazov!

This 27 of April is the second anniversary of the day I finished this book for the first time. To do something special, I reread it over the last 20 days and as I did it, I compiled little things that are easy to forget in these 1000 pages filled with food for thought. Let's go!

1. Mitya fought in a duel, though it's most likely that nobody died in it.

2. Ivan's journalist pseudonym is "Eyewitness".

3. Alyosha, in his own words, came back to Skotoprigonyevsk to visit his mother's grave.

4. Fyodor Pavlovich owns several taverns in the district.

5. Grigory was the one who gave Sofia Ivanovna a proper gravestone.

6. Alyosha is one deduction away from becoming a communist.

7. The Brothers Karamazov begins in late August.

8. Kalganov is supposedly Alyosha's friend. This is never mentioned ever again.

9. Kalganov gave one coin to some beggars and told them to divide it among themselves.

10. There is a rumour that the previous elder beat people with sticks. This is false.

11. Alyosha is the only person in the monastery who knows that Rakitin is an atheist, and keeps his secret.

12. Four years ago, Pyotr Miusov divulged a fake story about a saint making out with his own decapitated head. Fyodor never forgot.

13. Madame Khokhlakov is only 33 years old. She has been a widow for 5 years, meaning Lise lost her father at age 9.

14. Zosima's serenity in front of the woman who confesses to a murder may foreshadow his later recollection of having a murder confessed to before.

15. Zosima likes to make jokes.

16. Lise and Alyosha last saw each other two years before.

17. Reminder that Grushenka met Mitya because Fyodor wanted her help to throw Mitya into a debtors' prison.

18. Kuzma Samsonov is the mayor of Skotoprigonyevsk.

19. Ivan rambled to Dmitri and Katerina about how he thinks Rakitin will be a failed journalist turned landlord.

20. Fyodor Pavlovich's house is filled with rats.

21. The Miusov family had their own private theatre.

22. Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya was a bit over 142cm/4'7 tall.

23. In 1842 there was a runaway convict called Karp commiting crimes in Skotoprigonyevsk.

24. Marya Kondratievna's mother is missing a leg.

25. Mitya ghosted a girl in real life.

26. Katerina's mother died when she was young.

27. Mitya had a fever for two weeks once because of a spider bite.

28.Mitya thought Grushenka was "nothing striking" the first time he saw her.

29. Mitya was squatting in his neighbour's rented room.

30. Fyodor Pavlovich has a portrait of the former provincial governor in his house.

31. Fyodor Pavlovich goes to sleep at 3- 4AM, like Dostoyevsky himself.

32. Sofia Ivanovna was being courted by a rich man called Beliavsky while she was married.

33. Who was the woman coming from the alley that Mitya mistook for Grushenka? I still wonder.

34. A cheap glass jar was destroyed during Mitya's frenzied break- in.

35. Katerina sends two detailed reports a week to her surrogate mother figure who lives in Moscow.

36. Katerina has an aquarium.

37. Alyosha sleeps using his monk habit as a blanket.

38. Father Ferapont survives eating nothing more than 1,6kg of bread a week.

39. Ivan had told his father about his feelings for Katerina, for some reason.

40. When Alyosha kissed his father, he had the impression that Alyosha was thinking that it was their last conversation.

41. Madame Khokhlakova owns three houses as property.

42. Madame Khokhlakova and Katerina Ivanovna are supposedly great friends.

43. Ivan reads Schiller when nobody is looking.

44. One of Snegiryov's daughters, Varvara, is invested in feminism.

45. Captain Snegiryov's childhood friend is a lawyer.

46. Mitya spilled cognac over the table of the summerhouse.

47. Smerdyakov sings in falsetto.

48. Marya Kondratievna is the only one who ever calls Smerdyakov 'Pavel Fyodorovich'.

49. Ivan uses Smerdyakov as a messenger.

50. Dmitri and Katerina had been engaged for around six months.

51. Ivan's right shoulder looks lower than the left one when he walks.

52. Smerdyakov often moves the tip of his right foot from side to side when he stands (adorable).

53. Dmitri's favourite death threats are "pounding in a mortar" and "breaking legs".

54. Grigory suffers from paralysis three times a year.

55. The real name of 'Lyagavy' is Gorstkin.

56. Zosima's real name is "Zinovy".

57. There was actually another old German doctor before Herzenstube and he was named Eisenschmidt.

58. Zosima has known Brother Anfim for forty years.

59. The Bible is thrown once.

60. Madame Khokhlakova asked Rakitin to go to the funeral as her eye.

61. Alyosha was hiding behind the grave of starets Iov, who lived 105 years.

62. Zosima was harshly criticized for telling a monk hallucinating to take his meds if praying doesn't work.

63. Both Grushenka and Rakitin are children of deacons.

64. Samsonov is the only person that Grushenka seems to be completely and clearly sincere with.

65. Likewise, Samsonov only trusts her when it comes to counting money.

66. Samsonov has the entire first floor of his house for himself.

67. Mitya tells many of his secrets to his landlords, who are fond of him.

68. Alongside eggs and bread, Mitya grabbed and ate a piece of sausage that he "found".

69. Mitya and Perkhotin first met at the Metropolis tavern.

70. Mitya's dueling pistols are his "most prized possessions".

71. Madame Khokhlakova apparently borrows money from Miusov.

72. The brass pestle was 17 centimetres long.

73. Mitya spent exactly 300 rubles in food and alcohol in Mokroye, and it would have been 400 if Perkhotin didn't help.

74. Mitya gave a glass of champagne to a kid.

75. The owner of Plotnikov's shop is called Varvara Alexeievna.

76. Two thousand villagers live in Mokroye.

77. Trifon Borissovich makes his younger daughters clean up the messes of every guest of the inn.

78. Pan Wroblewski is 190cm / 6'2 tall.

79. Madame Khokhlakova gets a migraine whenever she has to talk to Mitya.

80. The ispravnik's elder granddaughter is called Olga, and the night of the murder was her birthday.

81. The prosecutor's wife seems very interested in sending for Mitya often, for reasons he doesn't know.

82. Mitya does not know that the epidermis is the outer layer of the skin.

83. Nikolay Parfenovich is the only person in the world who trusts Ippolit Kirillovich.

84. Mitya often dreams that a person that he fears is chasing him and searching for him.

85. Nikolay Parfenovich wears a smoky topaz ring on his middle finger.

86. Pan Wroblewski is a dentist without a license.

87. Kalganov had visited Grushenka once before, but she seemed to dislike him for some reason.

88. Kolya's father died when he was a little baby.

89. There was a plot going on in the background about the doctor's maid having a child out of wedlock.

90. Rakitin often talks with Kolya. Seems like the only person who takes his ideas seriously is a literal child.

91. Smerdyakov and Ilyusha met and talked to each other.

92. Alyosha rarely gets colds.

93. Katerina befriended Snegiryov's sick wife.

94. Kolya was taken to a judge for teaching a guy how to efficiently crack the neck of a goose.

95. Kolya is against women's rights.

96. Mitya and Grushenka spent five weeks secluded and away from each other after the arrest.

97. Grushenka went to see Grigory to try to convince him that the door wasn't open.

98. Rakitin made up in an article that Madame Khokhlakova offered Mitya 3k rubles to run away with her.

99. Madame Khokhlakova doesn't remember Rakitin's patronymic, and calls him "Ivanovich" instead of "Osipovich".

100. Madame Khokhlakova didn't know of the judicial system reform until two days before the trial.

101. Lise sent chocolates to Mitya in jail, even though there's no reference to them ever interacting before.

102. Alyosha has had the same dream about the devils that Lise has.

103. Alyosha is friends with the jail inspector, who often discusses the gospels with him.

104. Mitya spent two entire nights awake since he discovered ethics.

105. Ivan cleans his own room.

106. Smerdyakov shared a hospital room with an agonizing dropsy patient.

107. Mitya's letter had the bill on the other side.

108. Smerdyakov uses garters with his stockings.

109. There is an apple tree in Fyodor's garden.

110. One of Ivan's "most stupid" thoughts is being the fat wife of a merchant.

111. Ivan had a friend named Korovkin when he was 17, the one he told the story of the quadrillion kilometres to.

112. Ivan has another poem named Geological Cataclysm.

113. Alyosha was the first person the distraught Marya Kondratievna ran to.

114. Ivan is mistaken for "the eldest son" twice in the trial.

115. Grigory did not remember he was in 1866.

116. Rakitin knows "every detail" of the biography of Fyodor Pavlovich and all the Karamazovs.

117. Grushenka's surname, Svetlova, means "light".

118. Mitya once dropped 100 rubles while he was drunk.

119. Ivan saw not just the Devil, but people who had died while he walked in the street.

120. Ippolit Kirillovich died nine months after the trial, the first and last day he received applauses.

121. Marfa is dismissed as a suspect simply because they can't imagine her killing.

122. There is a partition wall in Mitya's lodgings.

123. Mitya mostly stopped staring at the floor during the prosecutor's speech whenever Grushenka was mentioned.

124. Fetyukovich bends forward in an unnerving manner when he speaks.

125. An 18 year old street vendor committed axe murder earlier that year.

126. The verdict was given past 1AM, making the trial last almost 16 hours.

127. Katerina kept the sick Ivan in her house knowing it could possibly be harmful to her reputation.

128. Rakitin tried to sneak in to see Mitya in the hospital twice.

129. Lise sent the flowers that adorn Ilyusha's coffin, and Katerina paid for the grave.

130. Snegiryov cries seeing his late son's little boots the same way one of the women at the monastery in the beginning of the book did.

131. At the end, Alyosha mentions "leaving the city for a long time" soon. Where to? We don't know.

If you read this far down, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing all of these down.

[killkaramazov]

The Brothers Karamazov is a LOT of things but at its core it is a murder book, everything about it stretching backwards and forwards in time revolves around this single inciting incident, as it exposes and tests the faith and opposing philosophies of the characters involved, not even to mention the effect it has upon their material realities. Any murder book is just always going to hinge upon the murderer for me, I get a certain blindness to everything else, the murderer is the engine of the book. Smerdyakov is SUCH an interesting choice for this role because he exhibits basically no agency and has very little voice. He gets little attention from the readership and comparatively little time on the page. He basically fulfills what Grigory and everyone else tells him he is and is a “non person” in the narrative, just existing in the background to quietly and dutifully carry out Ivan’s will. Most of the actual text about him from other characters POV is about how annoying he is, but then we get these little glimpses into what shred of an inner life he may have—- his time in Moscow, how he feels about being treated with pity due to his parentage, his habit of staring off into space “collecting impressions”, his having a girlfriend. Smerdyakov exhibits basically no will and agency of his own that we can decipher, and Mitya even describes him as so sickly and feeble that he “could be thrashed by an eight-year-old boy”—-but when it comes down to it, he is the only one to physically carry out the act that Dmitry and Ivan, who are ALL free will and agency and masculinity and vitality, are ultimately, for better or worse, too inhibited to carry out. Ivan can philosophize, but Smerdyakov is the only one who is, ultimately, really with the shits about it. They are my absolute favorite Dostoevsky double-pair.

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

Grigory is relentlessly loyal to Fyodor Pavlovich, no matter what Fyodor does, no matter how grossly Fyodor’s actions fly in the face of all Grigory’s pious feelings. So we are not surprised when this loyal-to-a-fault manservant vigorously defends his master against the rumours and proclaims that “It’s she herself, the foul one, who’s to blame.”

What, then, are we to make of it when his opinion regarding Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya seems to undergo an abrupt and complete turnaround, to the point of calling her orphaned baby “the offspring of a devil’s son and a woman righteous”?

It’s actually not so strange when we remember that we have seen him stand up to Fyodor Pavlovich once before, in defence of another of his victims. A woman who, like Lizaveta, was a defenceless, insulted, completely innocent orphan: Sofya Ivanovna, the mother of Ivan and Alyosha.

And in the last chapter, we also learned a lot about how Grigory thinks, including the detail that he is inclined toward mysticism, especially following the death of his six-fingered child, which happened shortly before this. Although as the narrator points out, Lizaveta’s presence in Fyodor Pavlovich’s garden is entirely explicable despite the high fence given that it is her habit to climb over such fences, and that she does not do so on this occasion without injury to herself. Still, the circumstance strikes many as hard to explain, even uncanny. And there is an element to it that might seem to hint at divine intervention or retribution, especially to someone with Grigory’s sensibilities. It might seem as though a higher power intervened in order to expose Fyodor’s crime. If Grigory perceives this as a miracle, then in turn proves Lizaveta’s innocence, showing her to be a guiltless victim of Fyodor Pavlovich.

That being the case, he posthumously declares Lizaveta to be “a woman righteous.” And as he was moved to stand up for Sofya Ivanovna, he permits himself, just once, and in the company of no one else but Marfa and the new baby, to acknowledge that his master’s evil behaviour warrants calling him “a devil’s son.”

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Tundra Swan

Photo: Grigory Heaton

"Nesting on Arctic tundra and migrating long distances to favored wintering areas, this native swan was less affected by human settlement than was the Trumpeter Swan. Destruction of southern wetlands has reduced its former food sources in wintering areas, but it has adapted by shifting its habits to feeding on waste products in agricultural fields. The North American population is often called Whistling Swan."

- Audubon Field Guide

[hexagonaldragons]

Wow! Another page of stick-bird-creatures! This one's pretty long.

Top row: Ellie: Somewhat normal looking, except for her red hair. Red hair is much more common among male sticks, and Ellie's hair is so red it's a little unnatural-looking. Her whole body is tinted red from the Chaos in her system. Reginald: Fairly normal looking, with a long neck. He's quite bird-like, even for stick-birds. Right Hand Man: Also has a bunch of Chaos in his system. His Chaos color is red-orange. He always like to wear purple, since it's his favorite color. Dr. V.: Being from a cold place, she's a little fluffy. She's also pretty disheveled-looking, since she doesn't have the best hygiene habits… Her eyes are magenta, like her glasses.

Middle row: Grigori: Also a little bird-like, and pretty fluffy. His fluff is swept back, unlike Dmitri's. He's got a wrinkled forehead and some stress lines. Geoffrey: His large head is unusual even among stick people. While stick people with odd proportions aren't uncommon, those with more extreme varieties like this don't tend to be as healthy… His large head sort of scrunches his eyes, making it hard for him to see. His eyes are green. Dave: Pretty skinny, even for a stick person. He's got particularly long ears and a long neck. Bill Bullet: His sharp teeth, unusual ears, bright eyes, and ridged back are all symptoms of repeated Chaos exposure. If he gets agitated enough, he'll get a bit… goopy (another Chaos exposure symptom). His sides and arms are totally white.

Bottom row: Ellry: Being a fusion of two very Chaotic people, Ellry is pretty bright in color. They're also large and their voice is quite loud. They've got the signature 'Chaos spikes' (the round ones being more like Henry's, and the sharp ones more like Ellie's). Carol: She's got a couple of white spots on her neck. Her hair is tinted purple, which is pretty normal. Stick people almost never have pure black hair. Carol also wears shoulder pads. Earrings: Her earrings are cut to be obscenely bright. They're hooked to her ears, which in stick-birds are floppy like some dogs' or rabbits' (they're also more prone to ear infections like them). She has a tuft of fluff on her lower jaw. Mr. Macbeth: He has a wrinkled forehead from always frowning. People have always treated him like a child… even as an adult. This has impacted his self-esteem quite a bit.

[eye-of-enigmatic-thought]

A goofy character interaction with Grigory and my oc Ruth xD

Just in case it's not clear, Ruth isn't the mother of the twins, the actual sire was someone who Grigory had a brief relationship with and can no longer recall. Grigory being a trans man had a lot of hardships in his life in the Soviet Union and in his late teens to early 20s he tried to look for distractions in other people, but these relationships were often short lived. He doesn't have that many regrets with them however, because he had his twin children as a result!

Despite not being the mum, Ruth has helped care for Grigory's children many times to the point of sometimes being like a mother figure to them. Helps that Grigory has a life long queerplatonic relationship with Ruth, and the two are very close! :)

[hannahofathousanddays]

⭐️ can you talk about how you came up with the fic where aleks listens to conor oberst and gets pressured into leg day with protein shake drinking juris? anything about that hilarious fic you care to share!

OK SO

King of Scars came out while I was in a heavily committed semester in college and I was perpetually sleep deprived so my primary reaction to it was “uh. Haha what? 😅” My main takeaway was that the only fanfic I was interested in seeing moving forward was of Aleksander and the other immortals/saints (who apparently existed? And he knew that perfectly well? The entire time??) as wacky roommates and all the shenanigans they could get into.

So I wrote that fic and posted it in under 24 hours (while I was supposed to be taking notes for seminar lol), and absolutely conceived that Aleksander spent the entire sesh afterwards at the gym openly weeping, much to Juris’s amusement.

Their house is based (unsurprisingly!) off a place I lived briefly, and I think it would actually be a lot of fun to write more about these 4 being weird roommates who are incredibly specific, uncooperative people who hate each other but are stuck in this one place together regardless. I love the idea of putting them together in a modern AU because of how easy it is to communicate them picking up on and detesting each others habits, which is the concept I found most amusing in KoS.

Also I made granola the other weekend so I’ll be enjoying that in a grigori-honoring way moving forward

[beaniemace]

some !! character designs !!

[chaosandcrimson]

no way is that PANDORA CHERNYKH.. they’re a 30-year-old SYNTH notoriously known for being SUBSERVIENT & SHREWD but there are some people who have seen them being DEMURE & BEGUILING. if you ask me, they remind me a lot of a deck of cards expertly shuffled and stacked, skin that has gone from porcelain to ivory to steel, and the bittersweet reminder that the house always wins, but that could just be because they’re considered the DECOY DAMSEL around town. just keep an eye on them & see if their true colors shine through..

I wait by the door like I'm just a kid Use my best colors for your portrait Lay the table with the fancy shit And watch you tolerate it

OVERVIEW

Name: Pandora Lakshmi Chernykh (née: Brody)

Nickname(s): Dora, Pan Pan (by Herc)

DOB: August 20, 2094

Age: 30

FC: Summer Bishil

Height: 5'3"

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Heteroflexible

Occupation: Card Dealer at The Lotus Casino / Informant for the Skyport Mafia

Relationship Status: Widowed (Closed)

[+] docile, demure, beguiling [–] subservient, shrewd, hardened

BIOGRAPHY

tw: emotional abuse, domestic abuse, death

Pandora is one of five Synth children brought up by two scientists in the middle district. They had not gotten married because they were in love, and they did not decide to have a family because they wanted to raise children; it was simply the most convenient (read: least suspicious) setup for their research.

They were studying pair bonding and what qualities make an attractive mate. Funded by a reclusive benefactor, their children were each created with carefully selected DNA and programmed to have a predisposition toward certain traits. Both their physical and psychological characteristics were chosen based on what their parents hypothesised would make them an ideal spouse to a certain type of person, which in turn was based on years of previous research, although they had never been able to attempt an experiment of this scope before.

Each child was raised in a manner designed to encourage the traits that they had been programmed with. They were parented differently and exposed to different environments. Where one was coddled, another received strict punishments; where one was sheltered, another was largely left to their own devices.

Pandora was made to be soft-spoken, docile, deferential, and demure. She was home schooled to keep her sheltered, was not allowed to socialise much with her peers, and was responsible for most of the chores at the house. Her parents went to great lengths to make sure that she maintained the innocence and naivety of an ingenue, and on the handful of occasions that she tried to break their strict rules, she was warned that the world was a dangerous place for a girl like her.

At 18 years old, she was finally released into the world and almost immediately caught the eye of a rank and file mafia soldier with aspirations to be more. Grigori Chernykh was 10 years her senior and her polar opposite in personality—brash, confident, and decisive. They were married within the year.

It did not take long for her husband to make it clear that he had only married her for the traits her parents had designed her to have, and that was the kind of wife he expected her to be—dutiful, obedient, and to not speak unless spoken to.

For the next 8 years, she dedicated her entire life to being the perfect wife. She kept their home in pristine condition, put food on the table every evening, and played the role of arm candy whenever it was required. Grigori expected a lot from her and showed very little gratitude or appreciation for any of it. After all, it was her sole duty to serve and please him, so why should he be grateful?

Eventually, indifference became the best that she could hope for. When she didn't do what he expected of her, or when she did but not how he wanted her to, it was much worse. He had a short temper and a bad habit of breaking things and blaming her for making him do that; and while he rarely got violent with her, the few times that he did were enough to put the fear of God into her.

One night, when she was 26 years old, he didn't come home. In itself that was not unusual, since he had many mistresses and was not particularly subtle about it. However, the next day she was informed that he had been killed on a job.

There is a saying that widows are either bereaved or relieved. Pandora was both. On one hand, the tyranny that she had been living under was finally over; on the other hand, without her husband to provide for her, she had no idea what to do with herself. She had no education past high school, no real skill set, and nothing to fall back on. The only thing she had ever trained to do was be a wife.

She was offered a job as a server at The Lotus Casino in exchange for keeping her eyes and ears open for useful information. As it turned out, years of making herself as small as humanly possible made her very good at listening in on conversations undetected, and eventually, she was promoted to a card dealer.

Pandora has gone from being a clueless and helpless damsel in distress to being someone who is very good at acting the part of one in order to trick people into letting their guard down around her. She plays the part of a woman trapped in her circumstances with such conviction that sometimes even her fellow mafia soldiers believe it, but in reality, she has no desire to leave. Why would she? Being in the mafia is the first time in her life that she has ever felt powerful, and like she can fend for herself, and she has no intention of giving that up.

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So… I’m probably gonna regret this post, but…

Since we know that HABIT has possessed multiple notorious serial killers and historical figures over the course of his life, do you think that Grigori Rasputin was HABIT’s hoe phase? 👀

Just a tho(ugh)t… =3