I have a hc about Raz and Dunya bringing even the old and physically off but mentally surely eloquent uncle Porfiry to Siberia with them (lmao i would watch Rodya's face when they finally meet again lmaooooo😂😂😂😂) Then Porfiry inherently has to meet Sonya, too.
I think they would befriend each other so soon because according to my hc they have a pretty lot in common☺️ First point is, i think, Sonya is a tee person, too. (About this, more infos later, mhm, @yvehattan?) And on an another but not less deep and spiritual level:
Porfiry is i think kinda atheist but he has a similarly humane opinion on psychology as Sonya has on faith. Also both of them are shy/socially really awkward people in society who are despite totally able to open up and be abstract and weirdly enthusiastic about topics, they only need to be in the right, safe places (rolled up in cosy blanket, sipping tee, together and alone at the same time, if possible). And as they notice it, they immediately become soulmates. (yeah!)
And i lowkey LOVE imagining their dynamic:
I think Porfiry is the person who is awake whole nights to explain how domestic abuse works (okay this could get unnecessarily postmodern at this point but i hope it won't)
Porfiry:
"Sonya it wasn't your fault - surely not. Yes. Yes, haven't i said yet? No, my dove, please, stop this. May i note, the word strong in this context is cruel and inappropriate. Sonya, dear Sonya. For God's sake. You were a child. You didn't need to be strong, you needed to be safe. Be careful with words, hehe, especially if you have talent to use them - and you have! Sure, hehe! Also you don't start to laugh in a demoralisingly hysterical way in the middle of any sentence! What a rhetorical advantage! Oh, my dove, Sonya. Are we now crying or laughing? You don't have to decide, this is called recovery, too. Or an other kind of hysteria than mine, hehe, you name it. Nah, you're more like laughing, aren't you? Oh, ahem, ehehe, sure, just hug me if needed. I have never had a daughter, bytheway. And as all of my conditions show - probably never will, hehe. Nah, who needs that ugly burocracy, of course you can be! Dear Sonya, dearest Sonya. Yes of course we don't have to erase this poor Semeon Marmeladov, too. We acknowledge what he gave and what he took from us and - no, it is not obligatory to forgive him if you don't feel like that. Don't blame anybody else either, i think... Except burocracy. The only thing we can blame with cold blood is burocracy, hehe. And... What? Pyotr Petrovi... Of course, burocracy and Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin! Holy shit that man - oppardon dear, it was unfortunately intentional. But anyway! This man is the only one i won't have a conversation with! Only if he pays my whole retirement!
"'Your mama…' Luzhin began.
A loud 'hm!' came from Razumikhin. Luzhin looked at him questioningly.
'Nothing; never mind; go on…'
Luzhin shrugged.
'…Your mama began a letter to you…'"
-- fyodor dostoevsky, crime and punishment, pg. 145
Love how Raskolnikov is trying so DESPERATELY to justify his actions by comparing himself to Napoleon. He's trying SO HARD to convince himself that he isn't like the old woman he killed, Pyotr who wants a wife that will let him control her, and Marmeladov who uses the money Sonya gathers by destroying herself. Bro is so delusional for saying "Wait no, I'm better than them, they corrupt the youth and are the cause of bad things in other people's lives but I'm better because l killed the cause of it. Even though l killed her sister, who did nothing wrong, too, sacrifices must be made to erase the bad. Napoleon did TONS of bad things to other people, including his country, but the good things he did had more effect and therefore he is praised instead of insulted, so who cares if l murdered a girl who wasn't like her big bad sister? My good doing(killing the evil, old woman) will surely cover the bad thing l did, which is killing her little, insulted sister... Right?". Like that's a whole other level of hypocrisy.
after an undisclosed amount of time, luzhin & lebezyatnikov's silly shenanigans are finally animated in this one-time animated internet-exclusive production :) please enjoy and thank you