#hws soyotia

[peonycats]

Hello! How do you think Buryatia would be like?

Thank you @irithnova for letting me borrow her Buryatia OC!! GOSH it took me a couple of rounds of drawing and doodling before I finally felt like I had gotten his features down right LOL...

To people who don't know him well, he comes across as friendly, warm, and sociable. He is reliant on tourism after all...

His public face hides some unusual hobbies and tendencies 🤨

Goes out of his way to avoid pissing off russia 🗿

Bugs Tuva to join him at the Inner Asian meetups

Streams online 🎮

BONUS:

Buryatia has a close relationship with Soyotia, who are a Turkic people who've traditionally made their living herding reindeer rather than yak herders like a lot of Buryats. Due to their long history together (as well as Russian imperial and Soviet ethnic minority policies), a lot of Soyots have intermarried with Buryats and have been heavily influenced by Buryat culture, so much so that Soyot culture and language itself is at risk of dying out.

Buryatia treats Soyotia as one of the few people he can let go of his "outside face" around, and holds the philosophy of "we're basically the same, so we can count on each other 😊" towards Soyotia...

[irithnova]

Buryatia when he's allowed to bring his slave husband Soyot over when Mongolia invites him to visit (Mongolia is making Buryatia pay for all of Soyot's expenses because they ruin his sleep with really loud se-):

[irithnova]

Mongolia: If you're going to bring him over act normal please

Buryatia: ^.^

Soyot: ._.