#Oblast rescue au

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Does anyone want to listen to more of my Oblast rescue Au? I'm not waiting for an answer y'all are getting my rambles whether you like it or not hehe

Oblast lore:

The Oblast is a ship run by an Ukrainian agency focused on rehabilitating and helping "difficult situations" get back into social life, such as addicts and/or mentally ill people. It's more like a school trip than an actual job. It's funded by the state so they don't have to pay anything, but they won't get paid in return since it's, as I said, not a job.

The whole ship is in Ukrainian so Pripyat and Nikolai are captain and co-captain since they're the only ones who can understand it.

Pripyat however believes in a more "everyone's say is fundamental " type of approach so he views himself as more of a spokesman than a captain.

They get bi-weekly check-ups by the crew on earth, except on emergencies, where someone (usually Nikolai) needs to send a request for an emergency meeting (hehe amogus)

The ship is... Old, to say the least. It's not really well cared for and its state isn't the best, but it holds up. It's something state-owned after all. It doesn't look way as "fancy" as the Tulpar does, it doesn't have big screens or machines to cook their food, but it has a tv and a game console brought by Isaiah.

They do have portholes though, which is how the crew saw the Tulpar.

Isaiah is only there to supervise Darien since she's a minor.

The ship used to be a big industrial freighter ship that got repurposed. It has a shitload of rooms because it used to carry dangerous stuff that entailed a lot of personnel for its supervision.

In relation to the Tulpar:

The Oblast crew sent a message to the wrecked ship in Ukrainian, English and Chinese consisting of an "Hello? Is somebody there?"

Once they get a response, they immediately set up a rescue to transfer the Tulpar workers to their ship

Pripyat hits it off quite well with Swansea, Daisuke admires him and Anya and Curly are pretty intimated by him, as he's a big guy after all. He doesn't have good vibes from Jimmy but doesn't interact with him almost at all. He's cold with everyone but cares a lot for his crewmates (hehe amogus again)

Nikolai really likes Anya and almost immediately takes her under his wing. Well, Nikolai is a social person so she hits it off with basically everybody. Him and Daisuke become good friends

Emily doesn't like anyone but Anya off the bat, especially Jimmy. He ends up getting a bit too touchy with her and that pisses her off.

Isaiah is a chill guy with everyone. Curly enjoys when he sings to himself when he's trying up the medbay or helping him do something.

Darien is distrustful of everyone except Anya and Daisuke.

The crew takes shift taking care of Curly for the most basic tasks such as feeding, while the more "medical" roles are filled in by Anya and Nikolai.

They have game nights! Sometimes it's board games, others are videogames, others are card games. Pripyat hates monopoly with a passion so he dips out every time they play it.

I have some more, let me know if y'all are interested to hear about them!

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Fuck It I'm writing a fanfiction about the Oblast rescue AU

Tw for implied abuse/ sexual assault, mentions of drug addiction and overall much yapping on Isaiah's part

This is my first ever fanfic (is it even a fanfiction if half the cast is your own separate ocs and the setting is completely different?) and English isn't my first language so beware it may most likely be absolute ass 🤙 but, if it isn't, let me know if you guys want more writing like this helps me fall asleep lolol

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•New beginnings.

Anya couldn't sleep. The new sleeping quarters were smaller, more sterile than the ones back on the Tulpar. She tossed and turned, not used to sleeping in a bed after months of laying on the floor when the Tulpar crashed. The fact that the lock on the door was weak and didn't work almost at all didn't help with her anxiety; who could enter the room was all she could think about.

She turned a final time, facing the clock on the bedside table. She picked it up, its low blue light turning on once it sensed the motion; the digits "5:10 am" blinked back at her.

She eventually sighed and got up from the bed, then walked to the main room in hope of getting something to drink. As she stepped closer and closer to her destination, she heard two voices overlapping each other: a soft, whiny hum and a quiet, harmonic lullaby singing. She stopped in her tracks, not expecting to find somebody else awake at this hour. She hesitantly walks to the water machine, spotting Isaiah and Darien on the couch.

«Can't sleep?» She asks as she pours herself a cup of water, trying to be friendly to the man who's been nothing but welcoming to her.

«Yeah, someone here keeps having bad dreams.» The priest responds, holding the kid's curled up body in his arms and gently rubbing her back, a frog plushie laid next to them. "What about you? Still gotta get used to the different environment, huh?"

«mhmh...» She hummed, sitting down at an arm's length from Isaiah. Monopoly pieces rested organized by shape, color and size on the table, laid out in parallel straight lines.

«It took me a while to get used to the change too, don't worry. Emily struggled to- Emily's the other woman with, like, brown hair and Grey eyes - she struggled to sleep on the beds too for the first few days or so. Said they were too soft and that she kept sinking in it.» He continued, going on and on. His voice was strangely soft but energetic, a weird but welcoming mix.

Anya listened, fidgeting with her hands.

«You know, I was wondering… what-… what kind of rules do you have on here…?» She asks, her voice coming out quieter than she wished it was.

«mh? Oh, yeah, well… the basics, really. Try not to break stuff, not waste water… I think a big one is to not waste water, yeah. A shower should last no longer than, like, 40 minutes, except for Pripyat and Darien who have an hour maximum. But I think pretty much everyone doesn't take longer than 10 minutes, really. Oh, and another thing is to wait a full hour between showers because the water needs to go through a whole purifying process or something. Then there's the bi-weekly check-ups, the meds restrictions… I mean, since we have a recovering addict on board all medicine must be under strict control of Nikolai, our nurse. He has, like, a key to unlock the shelf and he needs to supervise who's taking the medication as they take it. Oh, and respect your crewmates, yeah. Basic decency, really.»

«What happens if someone breaks the rules…?»

«Uh… it depends on what rule is being broken, I think. I mean, if someone breaks something they'll need to pay for it when we come back on earth, I suppose.»

Anya stays silent for a few seconds, the words getting stuck in her throat. Isaiah has been nothing but kind to her, but she can't help to feel that twinge of fear that's holding her back from saying what she wants to say. Would he help? Would the others help? Would he blame her? Tell her it's her fault? Maybe if she didn't freeze, maybe if she said "no" a bit more sternly, a bit more clearly… Her hand hovered over her lower stomach.

«Is something on your mind? You can ask me anything, don't worry. I'm a priest, I'm used to confessions.» his voice was quieter, hushed. Soft snores could be heard from the kid in his arms. He smiled softly, a hint of worry in his eyes.

Anya gathered her breath, then forced out an extremely quiet: «What a-about if someone does something against a crewmate...?»

Isaiah stayed quiet for a moment; «What do you mean by that?»

«L-like… if someone hurts another person… wha-what would happen...?»

Isaiah stayed quiet for another moment, gathering his thoughts.

«I'm… not sure… that never happened to us before, so… uhm… i should ask Pripyat, I guess… Why, did-...» He watched her lower her head and hold her stomach, trying to not let the tears spill from her eyes.

«I… I'll go put Darien to bed and we'll continue talking about this, okay...? Only if you want, of course.» She nodded and he got up and walked away.

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Anya picked at the skin around her fingernails, wondering if it was a good idea to tell him. He's a priest, what if he forces her to birth the kid? What if he shames her for it? A priest… He's probably more sexually repressed than anyone else on this ship and now he knows he can have free reign with her without fear of getting her knocked up again. It was a horrible idea to tell him. Him, of all people. She should've told the nurse, "why were you so dumb"-

«Okay, I'm back.» She jolted at the sound of his voice. He sat at the same spot he was before, just out of reach.

«About the… "hurt" situation… uhm… If it's something tame like a squabble, I guess a talk to the parties involved is enough… but, in regards to something more serious, I'm pretty sure we'd have to notify authority if something like that happened. We can- c-could ask Pripyat, the captain, to let us send an emergency ticket to them.»

She nodded, her head low. She stayed silent, thoughts swirling in her head.

«Would the perpetrator need to know about it? A-about the ticket, I mean.» Her voice was quiet and hesitant, but she managed to talk

He shook his head. «The perpetrator doesn't need to know anything, I promise.»

Anya let out a sigh of relief, tears fogging her vision.

«You can let it out, I'm here for you.» As soon as the words escaped his mouth, the dam broke and she started sobbing.

Isaiah wanted to hug her, wrap his arms around her shoulders and rub her back while attempting to comfort her. Yet he didn't move, his fists planted on his legs, just above his knees. He wouldn't dare make the situation worse by making unwanted, possibly triggering contact.

«I'm just so scared…» she whispered, her hands pressed against her eyes.

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Context for the au:

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Au where the Tulpar comes across the Oblast and they get rescued and no I'm not brutal forcing my ocs into stuff I like how did you get that

I think Nikolai and Anya would get along tbh. As a fully trained nurse, he'd be a mentor to her and help her study for nursing school. Plus they both have experiences with treating burn victims (with or without copious amounts of radiation) so, yeah. They'd have a few topics to talk about together.

(this is solely meant as platonic btw. Nothing against selfshippers or stuff like that but it's not my thing)

Nikolai Kazakov [he/she] (character on the right)

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