#divan umarov

[sirofreak]

A lot more villian stuff cuz evil thruple has taken over my brain

[angelseverything]

I finally finished it!

[bopeisdope]

Inspired by Hayden headcanon from @sirofreak !

How the gang sits on couches

Sorry if I forgot anyone! I could only add 10 text boxes

[mybrainisrottingat3am]

[luckytidbit]

Unwind characters as the Major Arcana (+OCs)

[star-dust777]

Divan Umarov drawing for the second part of a request, for some reason my brain perceived him as looking somewhat like this.

[gustavofringishot]

im having trouble imagining how divan looks tbh i know that he was described as having jet black hair but his face i just cant picture correctly

[bopeisdope]

Starkey: I think he's a great villain to Connor because they have so many parallels! Literally I could write an essay about their similar experiences, so if you want me to...

But also he is so smart and SO DUMB at the same time. He's great about strategizing but he could not care less about the conquesuences of his actions.

He got three girls pregnant. I hated that part.

Roland: I didn't really have a strong opinion of him my first read through in 7th grade but I also totally missed the attempted SA. Now that I'm older I can say that I'm glad we got his background in the short stories but I don't think any tragic backstory could have excused what he did. But then I think about how he... passed. And I'm always always torn because no one deserves to die like that, ever. That's the only valid reason I can think Neal included the SA attempt, to make the readers conflicted.

Nelson: BOY he is such a wet rag left to mold in a basement somewhere. His wife left him because he lost his job from Connor tranqing him LOL. Argent and Nelson's roadtrip was a fun arc I must admit. But Nelson is out to get Connor for his eyes and the ANGST potential from that makes me brbrrrrrrrrrr. Like we totally should've gotten a final confrontation between the two that was more than just Nelson tranqing him from behind, I know that it goes full circle but still.

Roberta: She is so manipulative, Cam deserved a better caretaker than her.

Divan: He gives me the CREEPS. He was wayyyy too touchy and the implications about Risa gave me the ick. His character is interesting only because it takes a certain breed to have the job that he does. And the short story with his family was neat and gave him more depth.

What about you OP?

Ok what are you guys opinions on the villains from unwind? How do yoz see them do you like them? Understand them? What do you think could help them be better? Any other opinions ir Things you want to say.

I'm really interested in what you guys think :))

[tonitheloftwing]

So I just finished UnBound.

NEAL THAT CLIFFHANGER OH MY GODDDDDDDDD All I can think about now is Argent being like out on the beach or something, and then he sees Risa and the person he’s been totally PLATONICALLY obsessed with and just loses his shit, and I’m not sure if Divan would be too tired and old to do anything or would try to get Connor and Risa unwound at any cost. 

Also, UnBound is the best UnWind book. Why? NO CONNOR!

[incorrectunwind]

When I was young, every great king had an executioner. Not just to execute people, but also to execute their vision. But mainly to execute people.

Divan

[sirofreak]

What if I said unwind villain thruple…

It’s like the evil parallel to hayconrisa to me

[angelseverything]

[unwindquotes]

Then Divan pulls something out of his backpack—the only object he salvaged from the plane—and hands it to Argent. It’s a biological stasis cooler about the size of a lunch box.

“What’s . . . inside?” Argent asks.

Divan sighs. “The only part of Malik I didn’t sell. His best part, actually.”

Argent doesn’t dare open it. He knows what it is. “And it’s . . . for me?” Argent asks, scarcely willing to believe it.

“It’s an elegant solution, don’t you think?” Divan says. “It fulfills my promise to you, and allows me to see my nephew’s handsome face once more, without having to suffer the rest of him.”

Argent holds the box closely. He feels awful, he feels grateful, he feels damned, and he feels blessed. How could something generate so many conflicting emotions? He decides to go with the positive ones, because the negative ones will surely drive him mad. “Thank you,” he says.

“I do believe Malik is better off living divided,” Divan says. “It’s certainly better than the life path he was on.”

- Neal Shusterman, Unknown Quantity

[hurtcomfortforeveryone]

Nelson is a beast, Nelson is a bastard, Nelson is an asshole. This is a documented fact, and I'm not going to argue with it. But I am still tormented by the question, why don't we send the same amount of hate rays to Divan Umarov?

Of course, there is some progress in this direction, but I think he deserves ten times more people's anger than Nelson.

Then there is a retelling of impressions from "undivided", it seems without spoilers, but still I warn you.

And spoilers for "unbound", I completely forgot.

I do not know how to express it, but the rest of the Unwind villains at least look like people. Do they know that they kill and hurt? Someone knows, but he do it because he have a sick self-esteem and he feel better seeing how someone "right" and "clean" is helpless in front of him. Someone also has a sick self-esteem, and he pushes morality far away in favor of the thought "I deserve good luck and luxury," although more recently unwinding was a sore topic for him.

(And someone drives that thought away because it's her job, but still brings at least something good to the world, because would any of the Unwinds want to be alone in the last hours?)

These are awful people, but they are people. With vices brought to the highest point, but such as you can understand.

And the Divan is like a chthonic deity, completely blind and deaf to everything human. Like Solaris. But Solaris is simply unknowable and alien, and the Divan is unknowable, alien and dismembers children.

These are not eyes blurred by cruelty, and not eyes deliberately closed so as not to be tormented by conscience - these are eyes that have hardly ever been opened. This is a man who has lost his boundaries so much from his impunity that you, although just a reader, feel fear very close to disgust.

Like, you got to the core, to a kind of beginning of the chain. Here he is, a man who benefits from unwinding and trades in child deaths. He inspires others that this is a good thing, because he needs others to be believed in it. But he himself must know that he is lying, because there is simply no one above him anymore, right?

But then you look closer and see that he is so disconnected from reality that this thought is simply inaccessible to him.

"Connor, understand, I'm not your enemy" - wow, how can you even make such a thing if you have a sane mind? From the mouth of another character, it would sound stupid, but from the mouth of the Divan, it gives you goosebumps.

Because it would never occur to him to try on other people's feelings - not only Unwinds, but people in principle. Because a person who is able to buy literally everything and bring to life any perversions will never be in the place of someone else, and he is subconsciously sure of this. He has simply indecent power, which is available, God forbid, to one thousandth of a percent, but expects others to understand him for some reason. Because everyone always adapts to him, and it lasts so long that from a whim it became almost a law of nature in his mind.

Speaking of disconnection from reality… When I read to the moment when he tells Risa bullshit like "here are the capsules, teenagers sleep in them in euphoria and do not suffer," I was like, "well, damn… Maybe it's not so bad as harvesting camps, at least not to go crazy from the realization of your complete helplessness." But then guess what, yes, that's right, because it's so humane and compassionate to wake up children before they die! An engineer of human souls, bitch.

And then he's like, "but at least I didn't choose the path of evil, like my family or like Da Zey". Ugh, fuck! A life hack for your note: choose the most complete scumbags as your equal, and then, proudly demonstrating your moral superiority over them, continue to do things that are absolutely immoral from beginning to end (but a little less than your role models (crossed out) colleagues).

If this was a pathetic attempt to whitewash himself, with the understanding that in fact it is a falsehood and sophistry, then I would not be so angry. But that's the horror of it, that he really believes in this excuse!

And yes, the "Unknown Quantity" did not help me in any way to see in him some more ambiguous character. Or rather… What is considered an ambiguity? Yes, the character definitely makes you feel emotions, rather than rolling your eyes at his cliched nature. I think it's noticeable to me, and yes, it's the moments from "undivided" with Divan that kept me awake at 2 AM.

But some form of "maybe he had a reason to become like that?" - no. Just no.

And in the scene with his cruel and moody nephew, it's not just the nephew that pisses me off. "He was a terrible teenager with sadistic tendencies. If he is now happy to tell you how he "unwound" the dog, what will happen next? That's why I unwound him - as a punishment. And then I did it with a bunch of kids, most of whom didn't do anything to get to the unwinding, but it's not so important anymore."

Fuck you. Touch the fucking grass outside of your private plane, maybe something human will wake up in your soul.

The only thing that could add ambiguity and depth to him is death. And even this is not a fact.

[sirofreak]

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Inspired by Hayden headcanon from @sirofreak !

How the gang sits on couches

Sorry if I forgot anyone! I could only add 10 text boxes

[fluffyotters]

“It’s an elegant solution don’t you think?” Divan says. “It fulfills my promise to you, and allows me to see my nephew’s handsome face once more, without having to suffer the rest of him.”

Divan giving Argent Malik’s face in Unknown Quantity