#rurik

[rurik-dmitrienko]

Trocadéro, Paris By Rurik Dmitrienko

[mickycute]

Volviendo a dibujar a los Palets :3

Paleta 1

Paleta 2

@angeutblogo💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

[nathfadeu]

Some drawings for a roleplay I have :D all the characters have things I created myself, but I also referenced them off other people!! (None of these designs are canon, so don't take them as such!!)

Palette and Rurik belong to @angeutblogo

Goth belongs to @nekophy

Pinto Bean belongs to me :3

[chompskysssalad]

spree !? (shopping and kilking 😋😋😋😋)

they make such a good duo..... kisses them

i like to think rurik likes legos 😋 he seems to be the typa guy to enjoy sitting down for hours putting together little bricks in his free time

my guilty pleasure is going thru Victoria secret whilst im at the mall, so i gave lotus a VS bag

(quickly googles how to draw blood)

thank u so much for @maggots-inmyguts for suggesting this one !!!!!!! i had fun doing it.....

[myoureblog]

Hi sorry for taking so long I'm a full time student, thanks again for letting me draw the scene hope you like it ywy I didn't know where else to send it to you 😔 ( yes I love them ) :3 ✨🫴

Holy crap, these are amazing! The first image is so adorable, and the second one really captures the terror and desperation he was feeling in the moment. Thank you so much for sharing these~

[caucaxican]

there he is... my sweet auchenai boy...

[n1ght-sh4d3]

Current Follower Count: 83

whenever I reach 100 I'll do either a Lurik DTIYS or a Blind Painting (Grisaille x Sorell) one, feel free to request what I should do for rewards

I do draw from time to time but my speciality is moodboards of any kind in my own opinion

[formual]

Мини комикс по этим двоим. Коса Лотоса выглядит даже как то глупо, но мне нравится, ха-ха

Lotus belong to @nekophy

Rurik belong to @angeutblogo

[paintingsbyrurik]

1993, huile sur toile, 55.5 X 71 cm (93HT05)

[mysteryflavorsoda]

Rurik Liderc and the stereotype of the broken (but sexy) anti-hero

(and how it makes him worse as a character)

Heyy, I'm back, kind of! This is my first actual rant, so I'm sorry if it's a bit boring or confusing. Feel free to ask me anything! This is just something that I've always had looming in the back of my mind, and I really want to talk about it. 

In October 2005, Pop Punk band Green Day released their seventh studio album, American Idiot. It follows the life of the central character, Jesus Of Suburbia, a middle-lower-class all-American teen who hates his town and pretty much everything. He's pretentious, a rebel, angsty; a faithless, working-class man who hates the system he's placed in, screaming for the rebels living in post-2000s America. It comes as no surprise, then, that @angeutblogo's Lasser would inspire her iconic character, Rurik Lidérc, off the song that describes this main character.

As the years went by, Rurik gained more and more traits, hobbies, a story, friends, and of course, multiple lovers. As it is today, you could call him a multifaceted character- I'm here to say that this perhaps might've been his downfall, too. As it stands, Rurik is a badly constructed character, where new information contradicts old information and traits that are not in line with the logic set upon him initially are imposed. It seems that the creators try and stuff him to the brim with different exciting ideas, but ultimately end up getting a messy clump of characteristics that results in many users having to redefine him with headcannons and rereadings, myself included, because he ends up being so confusing.

First, Rurik being a US Army veteran is one of the biggest pillars in his personality. Although not a lot of information is revealed about that part of his life specifically and the effects it had on him, we can deduce that it greatly affected him in more than one way, changing him fundamentally; PTSD. A prime example is that Lasser has stated that he has an aversion to loud noises, such as fireworks and thunder, but then proceeds to state that it only makes him have a minimal response of being "more alert". How can he be fundamentally changed as a person due to trauma and still only suffer minor damage? Are the creators afraid of making a character that's fully and realistically traumatized by war because it would compromise his appealing "sexy bad boy" nature? But then, that very nature is driven forward by the very fact that he's traumatized, that he's "angsty". It just confuses me how posts speaking of his trauma are immediately followed by posts describing his kinks and hypersexuality, and descriptions of his mental state are switched out for retellings of future events where "everything is all right finally", not bothering to make him go through the process of recovery, and research of trauma responses or toxic relationships is traded for discussions of what motorbike he has. It almost seems like the creators want him to be many different things that cancel each other out.

Thus, this contradiction leads us to the next point: Dante and Rurik have an open relationship, despite Rurik being shown to be possessive and emotionally immature. Rurik is, in simple terms, a manchild at times, stalking Dante when he feels like it, being insecure, and being sad by small things Dante says, in addition to threatening his exes. Those are toxic, insecure behaviours, of course, but it gets brushed off as "oh, but it ends in them sexually punishing each other" (going into how their relationship is sexualized, but that's a topic for another day), which in itself is contradicting because it's written to be a healthy relationship that's good for the both of them. And yet, we get bombarded with recounts of Dante being toxic to Rurik and vice-versa. He's also said to get extremely uncomfortable when Dante flirts with other women because he "can't compare", so how on earth could they have an open relationship without constant interventions and fights?

I believe that, if Rurik is insecure, it would naturally cause him to believe that Dante is replacing him if he flirted with another person. This is because he has a fragile ego, and people like him tend to fall into that insecurity (speaking out of experience and my interest in human psychology), and it would lead to constant fights, doubts, manipulation, and overall a bona fide toxic couple. Perhaps even worse than Lurik, as Dante is constantly described as psychopathic and manipulative, even to Rurik himself. They're shown to kind of fix everything with sex and "punishments", downplaying the other's insecurities and genuine feelings and promoting unhealthy dynamics. Rurik is not written to be someone who could have an open relationship that would be fair to himself and Dante, and yet, they push on, because of course they do; they are entirely centred around having sex, after all.

So, where am I going with all this? In all the glamourized media that we see, there's a strong tendency to try and make perfect characters. Rurik Lidérc is broken, angsty, insecure, and repressed, but that doesn't get in his way at all! All he wants is sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He reminds me of James Hurley from Twin Peaks: his conflict can be so well-explored, his trauma could be so fleshed out and the effects of trauma on the human mind could have given us a beautiful story of redemption, of growth, of understanding. But God, he just keeps making out with Donna all the damn time, and the camera always focuses on him like he's in a Playboy magazine. The realism, the beauty, the relatability- it's all sacrificed for middle schoolers to ogle at him and go "Wow, he's so misunderstood! I could fix him!". But that comes at the cost of a character that has the full potential to be truly amazing, as I've seen with my friends in the fandom.

When you look at Rurik Lidérc, he comes across as well-researched because he's traumatized, but it doesn't take long before you realize that that's quite a far-fetched idea. It seems like he's just a list of ideas and randomness that no one bothers to organize, and that deeply saddens me because I've seen the interesting directions he could be taken in, and I just wish the love and care put into this character also shined through through the creators.

[rainbabbles]

assorted bich and hughie doodles i torture @sycopomp with (first pic a nataliedecorsair homage)

and taking a leap of faith and posting mild risky shit below... (,,>﹏<,,)

[rurik-dmitrienko]

Parisian lovers under the moon By Rurik Dmitrienko

[mickycute]

OTRA VEZ EL SHIIP XD

[summer-lhy]

Who's the greatest dad~⚗︎·̫⚗︎

[chompskysssalad]

first request i got! warrior cats rurik (wildfire waltz) and lotus (swamp's revival)!!!!!

i actually love warrior cats, got into it in the past two years or so...

lore!!!!! rurik (w.w. for short) is apart of the windclan, he's a warrior and a mentor, he mentors palette whos also becoming a warrior! palettes still a kit at this point in time (so is goth - goth and pal havent met yet)

lotus is apart of shadowclan, hes a medicine cat. he also helps babysit his little cousins (bc in this au geno and reaper died.... mysteriously 😜) goth, raven, and shino.

dante (not pictured bc it wasnt in the request) is also apart of shadowclan, but more as a scientist due to a disability.

lotus and rurik meet at the windclan/shadowclan border, and they cant help but fall in love !!!! (jk rurik tried to kill him over a mouse but then they fell in love !!!!!!!!!)

i also cannot draw. cats. so theyre anthro 😋

thank u to my friend Memphis for requesting this one...

rurik belongs to @ angeutblogo

lotus belongs to @ nekophy

[justshiloh]

I made you some content  enjoy  the h u r t Lotus - Nekophy Rurik - Angexci