#mikhail osipovich rakitin

[plutorine]

rakitya 🚬💨

[gegengestalt]

Mikhail Rakitin must be stopped.

[yvehattan]

Mikhail Osipovich ‘want some of my sausage, Alyosha?’ Rakitin

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

Just realised I’m finally going to get to unleash all of my Grushenka (and Rakitin!) backstory headcanons in this fic! Get ready (mostly to be sad)

[plutorine]

Serpentine Tears Character Designs ^^

1. Alexandra Andreyeva

2. Anna Afonina

3. Mikhail Osipov

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

Ok like overall Rakitin is not a good friend at all HOWEVER

Taken by itself completely out of context, when Alyosha is having a whole spiritual crisis and Rakitin is like “Have you eaten today?”

That is objectively 10/10 good friend behaviour

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

I thoroughly enjoy Rakitin as a character because he’s just a trrrible little guy and it’s fun. He always knows the tea even if it’s just something as minute as what the father superior is serving at his dinner, and he lives for the drama. I am, however, going to run over him with my car just a little bit, just enough to scrunch him up a little, for the disdainful manner in which he talks about Grushenka and the things he says about her to Alyosha.

It’s just absolutely egregious and audacious of him given the fact that he continues to enjoy her generosity and hospitality, all while he has such a low opinion of her, meanwhile she knows and even says outright that he doesn’t like her. She even gives him money, as much as thirty roubles a month! And of course we eventually learn that they’re actually cousins but he’s so ashamed of the relation that he’s asked her to keep it secret, and she actually agreed to this! I just…add Rakitin to the heap of rubbishy men who do not deserve the seemingly inexhaustible warmth and softness and goodness and generosity of spirit that is Grushenka’s self-allegedly base and violent and spiteful heart.