#katia's mother

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Every time I picture Katia's mom I see this:

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I am HAUNTED by a review I read of a romance novel where the main hero reminisces about learning exotic sex acts from an exotic woman living in an exotic land. This exotic woman doesn't get a name and doesn't speak except in the hero's reminiscences, and I felt such relief because up till now I felt like I'd been going insane in my own little corner raving about how Katia's mother doesn't get a name or to speak really outside of Katia's memories and dammit I wanted to know more about the KGB dude and the Tamil woman who probably did something supremely badass such that KGB dude views similar badassery in their kids as a reflection on her.

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I just had a vision of an alternate universe version of myself going "hehehe aren't I Clever and Subversive for writing Katia's mother as the worst person ever?!"

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I've never seen a movie with more untapped backstory potential than Hitman: Agent 47

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Idk if I made this post before but there is something so deeply and painfully romantic about the fact that Litvenko learned Tamil to better communicate with his girlfriend/wife.

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I just realized how 47 describes the day Katia watched her mom get assassinated as "the last time you saw your mother" which is a) gentle toward Katia, who is obviously traumatized by it as any ordinary person would be (I'm hard pressed to think of people who AREN'T traumatized when their mom ties at a young age), and b) just kind of soft in general?

OK, see, I have this theory that she was involved in clone shit beyond the basics of what's stated in canon (like, she knew the risks of creating Katia, for example, and is implied to have been on board with the enhancing bc she would naturally want her daughter to have the best chance at survival and life overall). I think she knew the other clones and they knew her, and she felt maternally protective of them and in turn they held her in high respect.

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For some reason I remember Katia screaming "MOMMY" in one of the flashback sequences, but it hasn't turned up in any recent rewatch or in looking at the transcripts.

Therefore it is entirely possible Katia referred to her mother as "Amma" and we never would have known (but we should have).

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I see my efforts to name Illakiyamathi are as old as me writing fanfic for the Hitman fandom which is about as old as H:A47 itself.

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Things Litvenko has said about Katia and her mom:

"You are your mother's daughter" when Katia tracked him down finally

"Your mother would be proud" after watching 47 and Katia lay waste to the last of the guards (but before Litvenko blew the chopper into smithereens)

"I loved your mother very much. She was a light in a very dark world."

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Random headcanon that Litvenko's then-girlfriend Sriyani turned him on to tea as a concept and now he's got a fuck million boxes of random teas

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Other finds from a trawl through my vast and unsorted collection of Hitman themed images: this shot from a deleted scene I'll probably crib bits from in the future bc it's cool, and this one photo I could find of the actress playing Katia's mom.