#pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov

[karamazovanon]

some smerds

#pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov #the brothers karamazov #still working out a design.............sans man bun #super rough sketches but i dont feel like cleaning it up #no references no lineart just vibes #ill do a better one of smerdyakov with a guitar at some point and actually look at a picture of a guitar instead of going #uhh yeah that seems guitar shaped #anonart #his squinty eye is very good #i hated him SO MUCH when i started reading but i turned into a smerdyakov apologist by the end. is that a hot take #i just think hes neat (tormented by societal dehumanization and finally snapping and reclaiming the agency hes been denied all his life) #tag rant over it is simply wild how much this guy grew on me #smerdyakov

[incorrectlit]

Ivan: You know Archaic Latin?

Smerdyakov: I got bored with classical Latin.

Ivan: You know normal Latin??

Smerdyakov: Yeah, someone from my knitting club taught me.

Ivan: YOU HAVE A KNITTING CLUB???

Smerdyakov: You don’t know everything about me, Ivan Fyodorovich. Now, do you want a sweater, or a scarf?

#deadass how their last convo went #you don’t need to read the chapter this is what happened #just trust me #literature #russian lit #incorrect quotes #fyodor dostoevsky #source: unknown #the brothers karamazov #tbk #bros k #ivan fyodorovich karmazov #ivan karamazov #pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov #pavel smerdyakov #smerdyakov

[alioshakaramazov]

me @ the entire cast of the brothers karamazov

#the brothers karamazov #fyodor dostoevsky #pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov

[possessedbydevils]

Keeping up with the Karamazovs

#dostoevksy #dostoevsky #dostoyevski #fyodor dostoevsky #my art #digital art #pavel smerdyakov #alyosha karamazov #alexei karamazov #alexei fyodorovich karamazov

[strangebrew]

karamazov family line up! yes im a freakishly tall alyosha truther im right abt this

#also the idea of pavel being taller than mitya but nevertheless being scared shitless of this 5’8 5’9 w shoes on manlet is hilarious #alyosha karamazov #alexei fyodorovich karamazov #ivan fyodorovich karamazov #ivan karamazov #pavel smerdyakov #smerdyakov #dmitri karamazov #dmitri fyodorovich karamazov #fyodor karamazov #fyodor pavlovich karamazov #the brothers karamazov #tbk #lit #art #my art #fanart #the karamazov brothers #karamazov #russian literature #lee's art

[gegengestalt]

131 useless or often forgotten facts in The Brothers Karamazov!

This 27 of April is the second anniversary of the day I finished this book for the first time. To do something special, I reread it over the last 20 days and as I did it, I compiled little things that are easy to forget in these 1000 pages filled with food for thought. Let's go!

1. Mitya fought in a duel, though it's most likely that nobody died in it.

2. Ivan's journalist pseudonym is "Eyewitness".

3. Alyosha, in his own words, came back to Skotoprigonyevsk to visit his mother's grave.

4. Fyodor Pavlovich owns several taverns in the district.

5. Grigory was the one who gave Sofia Ivanovna a proper gravestone.

6. Alyosha is one deduction away from becoming a communist.

7. The Brothers Karamazov begins in late August.

8. Kalganov is supposedly Alyosha's friend. This is never mentioned ever again.

9. Kalganov gave one coin to some beggars and told them to divide it among themselves.

10. There is a rumour that the previous elder beat people with sticks. This is false.

11. Alyosha is the only person in the monastery who knows that Rakitin is an atheist, and keeps his secret.

12. Four years ago, Pyotr Miusov divulged a fake story about a saint making out with his own decapitated head. Fyodor never forgot.

13. Madame Khokhlakov is only 33 years old. She has been a widow for 5 years, meaning Lise lost her father at age 9.

14. Zosima's serenity in front of the woman who confesses to a murder may foreshadow his later recollection of having a murder confessed to before.

15. Zosima likes to make jokes.

16. Lise and Alyosha last saw each other two years before.

17. Reminder that Grushenka met Mitya because Fyodor wanted her help to throw Mitya into a debtors' prison.

18. Kuzma Samsonov is the mayor of Skotoprigonyevsk.

19. Ivan rambled to Dmitri and Katerina about how he thinks Rakitin will be a failed journalist turned landlord.

20. Fyodor Pavlovich's house is filled with rats.

21. The Miusov family had their own private theatre.

22. Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya was a bit over 142cm/4'7 tall.

23. In 1842 there was a runaway convict called Karp commiting crimes in Skotoprigonyevsk.

24. Marya Kondratievna's mother is missing a leg.

25. Mitya ghosted a girl in real life.

26. Katerina's mother died when she was young.

27. Mitya had a fever for two weeks once because of a spider bite.

28.Mitya thought Grushenka was "nothing striking" the first time he saw her.

29. Mitya was squatting in his neighbour's rented room.

30. Fyodor Pavlovich has a portrait of the former provincial governor in his house.

31. Fyodor Pavlovich goes to sleep at 3- 4AM, like Dostoyevsky himself.

32. Sofia Ivanovna was being courted by a rich man called Beliavsky while she was married.

33. Who was the woman coming from the alley that Mitya mistook for Grushenka? I still wonder.

34. A cheap glass jar was destroyed during Mitya's frenzied break- in.

35. Katerina sends two detailed reports a week to her surrogate mother figure who lives in Moscow.

36. Katerina has an aquarium.

37. Alyosha sleeps using his monk habit as a blanket.

38. Father Ferapont survives eating nothing more than 1,6kg of bread a week.

39. Ivan had told his father about his feelings for Katerina, for some reason.

40. When Alyosha kissed his father, he had the impression that Alyosha was thinking that it was their last conversation.

41. Madame Khokhlakova owns three houses as property.

42. Madame Khokhlakova and Katerina Ivanovna are supposedly great friends.

43. Ivan reads Schiller when nobody is looking.

44. One of Snegiryov's daughters, Varvara, is invested in feminism.

45. Captain Snegiryov's childhood friend is a lawyer.

46. Mitya spilled cognac over the table of the summerhouse.

47. Smerdyakov sings in falsetto.

48. Marya Kondratievna is the only one who ever calls Smerdyakov 'Pavel Fyodorovich'.

49. Ivan uses Smerdyakov as a messenger.

50. Dmitri and Katerina had been engaged for around six months.

51. Ivan's right shoulder looks lower than the left one when he walks.

52. Smerdyakov often moves the tip of his right foot from side to side when he stands (adorable).

53. Dmitri's favourite death threats are "pounding in a mortar" and "breaking legs".

54. Grigory suffers from paralysis three times a year.

55. The real name of 'Lyagavy' is Gorstkin.

56. Zosima's real name is "Zinovy".

57. There was actually another old German doctor before Herzenstube and he was named Eisenschmidt.

58. Zosima has known Brother Anfim for forty years.

59. The Bible is thrown once.

60. Madame Khokhlakova asked Rakitin to go to the funeral as her eye.

61. Alyosha was hiding behind the grave of starets Iov, who lived 105 years.

62. Zosima was harshly criticized for telling a monk hallucinating to take his meds if praying doesn't work.

63. Both Grushenka and Rakitin are children of deacons.

64. Samsonov is the only person that Grushenka seems to be completely and clearly sincere with.

65. Likewise, Samsonov only trusts her when it comes to counting money.

66. Samsonov has the entire first floor of his house for himself.

67. Mitya tells many of his secrets to his landlords, who are fond of him.

68. Alongside eggs and bread, Mitya grabbed and ate a piece of sausage that he "found".

69. Mitya and Perkhotin first met at the Metropolis tavern.

70. Mitya's dueling pistols are his "most prized possessions".

71. Madame Khokhlakova apparently borrows money from Miusov.

72. The brass pestle was 17 centimetres long.

73. Mitya spent exactly 300 rubles in food and alcohol in Mokroye, and it would have been 400 if Perkhotin didn't help.

74. Mitya gave a glass of champagne to a kid.

75. The owner of Plotnikov's shop is called Varvara Alexeievna.

76. Two thousand villagers live in Mokroye.

77. Trifon Borissovich makes his younger daughters clean up the messes of every guest of the inn.

78. Pan Wroblewski is 190cm / 6'2 tall.

79. Madame Khokhlakova gets a migraine whenever she has to talk to Mitya.

80. The ispravnik's elder granddaughter is called Olga, and the night of the murder was her birthday.

81. The prosecutor's wife seems very interested in sending for Mitya often, for reasons he doesn't know.

82. Mitya does not know that the epidermis is the outer layer of the skin.

83. Nikolay Parfenovich is the only person in the world who trusts Ippolit Kirillovich.

84. Mitya often dreams that a person that he fears is chasing him and searching for him.

85. Nikolay Parfenovich wears a smoky topaz ring on his middle finger.

86. Pan Wroblewski is a dentist without a license.

87. Kalganov had visited Grushenka once before, but she seemed to dislike him for some reason.

88. Kolya's father died when he was a little baby.

89. There was a plot going on in the background about the doctor's maid having a child out of wedlock.

90. Rakitin often talks with Kolya. Seems like the only person who takes his ideas seriously is a literal child.

91. Smerdyakov and Ilyusha met and talked to each other.

92. Alyosha rarely gets colds.

93. Katerina befriended Snegiryov's sick wife.

94. Kolya was taken to a judge for teaching a guy how to efficiently crack the neck of a goose.

95. Kolya is against women's rights.

96. Mitya and Grushenka spent five weeks secluded and away from each other after the arrest.

97. Grushenka went to see Grigory to try to convince him that the door wasn't open.

98. Rakitin made up in an article that Madame Khokhlakova offered Mitya 3k rubles to run away with her.

99. Madame Khokhlakova doesn't remember Rakitin's patronymic, and calls him "Ivanovich" instead of "Osipovich".

100. Madame Khokhlakova didn't know of the judicial system reform until two days before the trial.

101. Lise sent chocolates to Mitya in jail, even though there's no reference to them ever interacting before.

102. Alyosha has had the same dream about the devils that Lise has.

103. Alyosha is friends with the jail inspector, who often discusses the gospels with him.

104. Mitya spent two entire nights awake since he discovered ethics.

105. Ivan cleans his own room.

106. Smerdyakov shared a hospital room with an agonizing dropsy patient.

107. Mitya's letter had the bill on the other side.

108. Smerdyakov uses garters with his stockings.

109. There is an apple tree in Fyodor's garden.

110. One of Ivan's "most stupid" thoughts is being the fat wife of a merchant.

111. Ivan had a friend named Korovkin when he was 17, the one he told the story of the quadrillion kilometres to.

112. Ivan has another poem named Geological Cataclysm.

113. Alyosha was the first person the distraught Marya Kondratievna ran to.

114. Ivan is mistaken for "the eldest son" twice in the trial.

115. Grigory did not remember he was in 1866.

116. Rakitin knows "every detail" of the biography of Fyodor Pavlovich and all the Karamazovs.

117. Grushenka's surname, Svetlova, means "light".

118. Mitya once dropped 100 rubles while he was drunk.

119. Ivan saw not just the Devil, but people who had died while he walked in the street.

120. Ippolit Kirillovich died nine months after the trial, the first and last day he received applauses.

121. Marfa is dismissed as a suspect simply because they can't imagine her killing.

122. There is a partition wall in Mitya's lodgings.

123. Mitya mostly stopped staring at the floor during the prosecutor's speech whenever Grushenka was mentioned.

124. Fetyukovich bends forward in an unnerving manner when he speaks.

125. An 18 year old street vendor committed axe murder earlier that year.

126. The verdict was given past 1AM, making the trial last almost 16 hours.

127. Katerina kept the sick Ivan in her house knowing it could possibly be harmful to her reputation.

128. Rakitin tried to sneak in to see Mitya in the hospital twice.

129. Lise sent the flowers that adorn Ilyusha's coffin, and Katerina paid for the grave.

130. Snegiryov cries seeing his late son's little boots the same way one of the women at the monastery in the beginning of the book did.

131. At the end, Alyosha mentions "leaving the city for a long time" soon. Where to? We don't know.

If you read this far down, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing all of these down.

#the brothers karamazov #fyodor dostoyevsky #I had made a thread on twt about this but decided to post it all at once on tumblr

[emrys-rusts]

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On the semester theme "trauma" which my artclass had picked in mid-september, I decided to present a series of digital images/scenes from the literary work "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In further detail, the portraits focus on the childhood trauma of two of the brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich and Pavel Fyodorovich (Smerdyakov), which manifests itself through their father's mistreatment, and how this affects their dynamic and individual mentality later in life. The conclusions of the latter are drawn off of the first two images:

• Ivan fyodorovich childhood trauma

• Pavel Fyodorovich's childhood trauma

In total there are 7 images I will be posting here, but as I was in quite a rush in the last couple of weeks before the presentation, I couldnt finish about two of them fully and will need a bit of time finishing them before they are ready to be posted. For now have the first two artworks!! I can't say I am very proud of the end result, but I gathered that there should still be people out there who enjoy my art regardless :)

Yes yes I know I didnt finish pavels hand, but I'll post these now or never :'D

Maybe I'll make a re-draw one day, who knows!!

My art hasnt improved as much as I would have liked it to (and decreased in some ways, at least in my opinion), yet I am excited to get back into drawing after a very tiring and tedious half-a-year artblock! Yayyyy :>

(The original project I picked for the theme was supposed to be the same premise but instead of a series, I wanted to create an animatic to the song "touch-tone telephone" by lemon demon. Sadly, my computer cannot handle any sort of animation program, but I still highly recommend checking the song out!! It is a long-time ivan-pavel daydream song of mine!)

#classical literature #fyodor dostoevsky #russian literature #the brothers karamazov #pavel karamazov #pavel smerdyakov #ruslit #ivan karamazov #tbk #EmrysArt

[sabakos]

In which I refuse to allow any moral agency to be assigned to Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov.

#the primary antagonist of the book is the father #this continues to be true long after his death

[oleworm]

Was Pavel Fyodorovich / Fyodorich the prototypical name for manservants in those times, or? Why does Shatov's father have the same name as Smerdyakov?

[stickylittlespringleaves]

no because i LOVE the ivan-smerdyakov divide,. the way half the discourse around the brothers karamazov thinks smerdyakov was the ultimate mastermind, he schemed brilliantly (and hatefully) to wreck the family and society, smerdyakov is a master duplicitor who manipulated ivan, he is the incarnation of the devil, etc etc while the OTHER half of TBK critics/fanbase is convinced that ivan has ruined everything with his "all is permitted", ivan is the evil faithless influence behind smerdyakov and rakitin and kolya and lise and everyone, ivan has fully brought his own demise and misery upon himself, ivan is the epitome of hubris and self-annihilating skepticism, and so on

i love this because nobody knows. the book has ended and still we can't decide—was it evil or was it man? are people responsible for somebody else's crime, or for nothing at all? do bad things happen because they are planned, and do we even want the things we plan? do we forgive the murderer; do we forgive the one who let them do it? it seems to me TBK readers are perfectly split in half.

#the brothers karamazov #ivan karamazov #pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov #ivan fyodorovich karamazov #pavel smerdyakov #russian literature #classic literature #literature #dostoevksy #fyodor dostoevsky #fedor dostoevskij #fyodor dostoyevsky

[xillionart]

The Invisible Brother

Fanart vs Screenshot: Day 8 - The Brothers Karamazov (TV 2009)

To celebrate the bicentennial of Dostoevsky’s birth, the Chinese Dostoevsky fandom is running a 11 day fanworks challenge!

#the brother karamazov #Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov #fyodor dostoevsky #xillionart #the brothers karamazov

[karamazovanon]

#5 for the karamazov brothers!! :)

(character ask game!)

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

OOOOO boy you have no idea how crazy i am about making character playlists. i have so many. one day i will post each of their playlists but as for the very first songs that come to mind........

mitya - you probably couldn't see for the lights but you were staring straight at me (arctic monkeys)

okay so my first thought was depeche mode but we already went over this so this was my next thought LOL these simp ass lyrics are just so very mitya <3

ivan - beach life in death (car seat headrest)

this part of the song physically hurts me bc it's so ivan. just (radiohead) is another ivan song of all time for sure, also basket case (green day)

alyosha - she's a rainbow (the rolling stones)

he is SO beatles-coded but this is the first song that i thought of for alyosha! the lyrics aren't even applicable really but the vibes are PEAK alyosha, the little piano bits & the strings & the whole song just sounds like a sunny afternoon & i could totally see him listening to it!!

smerdyakov - people are strange (the doors)

this is literally pavel. out of the 4 brothers i think his playlist has the most songs that are PERFECT for him (mr self destruct - soft cell, walking in my shoes - depeche mode, hell even you're gonna go far kid - the offspring etc.) but the one that i associate w him the most is people are strange!! it's got the vibe of that positive feedback loop of isolated from society -> hates society for it -> society isolates him even more -> etc

#THANK U FOR THE ASKKKK i need to make playlist posts for them Yesterday. theyre all hours long tho rip #anonasks #anon ask game #sorry 4 no art recently my finals are this week and im SWAMPED #i have a few wips (remember that mitya i posted a while ago?? yeah) but theyre not anywhere near done enough to post :( #will post some low effort memes soon tho :D #the brothers karamazov #ivan fyodorovich karamazov #mitya fyodorovich karamazov #alyosha fyodorovich karamazov #pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov #ivan #mitya #alyosha #smerdyakov #<- i dont remember if i tag their patronymics or not. oh well. ill have to do an overhaul of my tagging system at some point #tbk #edit: fixed the ss for ivans lyrics so there isnt a bigass space lol

[incorrectlit]

Alyosha: I’d like to be in the friendzone! I like friends!

Smerdyakov: It's not as pleasant as you'd think. They don't treat you like a friend, they treat you like an item. Sometimes I wish I was more than an accessory to these women, but unfortunately as a gamer I don't get respect.

Alyosha: Well, I’m not a gamer, so maybe they’ll respect me!

Smerdyakov: That just makes you a beta cuck

#i’m sorry #literature #russian lit #incorrect quotes #fyodor dostoevsky #the brothers karamazov #bros k #alyosha karamazov #alexei karamazov #alexei fyodorovich karamazov #pavel smerdyakov #pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov #smerdyakov #source: sonic fandub

[alioshakaramazov]

pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov deserved to go on a fun little trip to paris and have his girlboss arc tricking nobles and bourgeois types into investing in some pyramid scheme. so many evil plans in his future, so much potential

#smh #the brothers karamazov #fyodor dostoesvky #let him have fun for once #ofmd style

[possessedbydevils]

Pavel and his gay voice

#dostoevksy #dostoevsky #dostoyevski #fyodor dostoevsky #my art #digital art #my digital art #animation #art #i should do more animations #or animatics #OH MY GOD I WANNA DO AN ANIMATIC WITH MITYA WIHT THE SONG VERBATIM #its so him #pavel smerdyakov #grigori... i dont know his last name #fyodor pavlovich karamazov #fyodor karamazov #mitya karamazov #dmitri karamazov #dmitri fyodorovich karamazov #fiodor dostoievski #fedor dostoevskij

[ivanshatov]

my brother, pavel!

wc 1.1k

i wrote this eating ice cream at 5pm yesterday , it may be ooc because i am only 200 pgs into brothers k but at the same time these two are my favorites and i think they should have a brotherly dynamic and if there is none of that i will create it myself. anyways

Alyosha returned home to the sound of a soft guitar coming from upstairs. He cleared his throat, let the door shut behind him, and the melody abrputdly ended. Surveying the bottom floor from the foyer, he noted that his brothers, and his father, seemed to be absent. Then, hearing footsteps creaking above, he spoke. “Smerdyakov?”

Pavel Fyodorvich Smerdyakov appeared at the top of the staircase, guitar slung over his back. He glared at Alyosha, who replied with a toothy smile. “It sounds quite nice, Smerdyakov.”

Smerdyakov grunted a response and vanished again, footsteps disappearing down the corridor.

At first, Alyosha thought,  Smerdyakov should not be in the house. Why isn’t he out in the back? Then, once he kicked off his shoes, he clutched his rosary, he felt both curious and generous. Such was a particular mixture for the youngest Karamazov.

Smerdyakov left the doors open, and looked to be sweeping the upstairs quarters. Specifically, he had landed in Ivan’s room, where the bedsheets had been tousled and rufdled and some books strewn over the floor, open and laying facedown on their pages. Plays, books on religion, philosophy, history. Smerdyakov must have sensed Alyosha’s peeking, though, for he stormed out of his spot and slammed the door shut in his face.

Alyosha reached out his hand to the door, then pulled it back, hesitating. Instead, he stepped into his room. He opened the windows, lit a few candles, ran his hands up the spine of the Bible, whispered a prayer. He removed the shawl of his cassock and draped it on the back of his chair, and shut the door behind him, returning across the hall, where faint guitar could be heard through the door. Alyosha pressed his head to the door, listening to the surprisingly elegant strumming and the contolled falsetto of Smerdyakov’s otherwise pitchy tone. He paused when the music stopped again, reaching a hand to the crucifix around his neck, when the door swung open. Smerdyakov stared hatefully at him. “What are you sniffing around for?”

“I was simply enjoying your music,” Alyosha commented. “I didn’t know, really, that you were a musician, until I crossed you and Maria that day. You have quite a talent, not just in cooking, it seems.” Smerdyakov reddened, scrunching his brows and responding with a frustrated huff. Alyosha waited, patient, hands folded on his lap. “I enjoy hearing you play. You must do it more often.”

“Yes, Alexey Fyodorovich,” Smerdyakov began, slicking back his hair and straightening his posture. “I shall suit to play more often.” He turned back into Ivan’s room, hunching over to pick up the spilled books and neatening up the sheets. “Excuse my invasion of your brother’s room.”

Alyosha nodded and smiled warmly.

Smerdyakov turned to him as he returned the books to their place on Ivan’s shelf. “And please do not inform him, or Fyodor Pavlovich, please, Alexey.”

“I won’t,” Alyosha said, hiding his hands in the pockets of his cassock. Alexey Fyodorovich was not one to lie. In fact, he felt squeamish at the thought of it. But, despite this, and the monitoring eyes of his father and brother, he did feel as if he owed poor Smerdyakov at least somewhat of a favor for his hard work and beautiful song. “Where is my father?”

Smerdyakov shut Ivan’s door behind him and looked at Alyosha through suspicious, narrowed eyes. “Out,” he replied, monotone. The acoustic guitar was slung over his back, elevating Smerdyakov’s height to be just above Alyosha. “Your brothers, too. You’ve returned earlier than expected.”

Alyosha responded with a halfhearted shrug. “My apologies. I didn’t mean to interrupt you.”

Smerdyakov scoffed and turned his attention to Alyosha’s room. “Do you need anything cleaned?” he asked, voice going saccharine and condescending, as if he were speaking to a tiny schoolboy. “Your icons, your bible, your desk, your windows... Anything, Alexey Fyodorovich?”

“I don’t believe so,” he replied with a chuckle. Smerdyakov rolled his eyes and started down the stairs. “Thank you for the offer, though.”

Smerdyakov stopped on the stairs and sneered. “You’re welcome,” he spat, continuing down the staircase with the gait of an angry soldier. Alyosha followed, his steps light and unnoticeable. No wonder he had been able to sneak up so easily on Smerdyakov. Smerdyakov, moving in the direction of the kitchen, turned back to Alyosha. “Anything else?”

Alyosha shook his head and sat at the table. A Bible was opened on some indistinct bit of Leviticus, pages dog-eared and tabbed all the while. Must be Ivan’s, Alyosha thought, as he smoothed out the pages and moved the ribbon bookmark to the appropriate spot. Smerdyakov, hunched, watched from his placement at the stove. “Do you like the monastery, Alexey Fyodorvich?” asked Smerdyakov.

Looking up, surprised, Alyosha beamed another toothy smile. “Quite. I do feel quite at home there. It is a place of faith, beauty, and peace.”

“And what makes you faithful, Alexey Fyodorovich?”

“God’s love, God’s graciousness. The immortality that awaits us. Piousness is an honorable quality, Pavel Fyodorovich.” Smerdyakov seemed to jump at that, and Alyosha tugged at the skirt of his cassock. “You can call me Alyosha, too. We are brothers, after all.”

“No,” Smerdyakov growled. “Don’t do that. We are not equals. Remember, Alexey Fyodorovich, I cook your meals, and clean your house. I’m no brother of yours. A son of Fyodor Pavlovich, maybe,” he spun a spatula in the air and slammed it on the counter. “No brother of yours. Unless, O Holy One, you’d consider a pathetic bastard servant a brother of yours.”

“Of course I consider you a brother,” Alyosha said incredulously. “You are a brother of mine. Just as much as Ivan or Mitya.”

“Certainly,” Smerdyakov replied sarcastically, casting his eyes down to the stove.

“Pasha...” Alyosha began, his voice syurpy and warm. Smerdyakov seized up at that, his face going bright red and his eyes shining with sudden rage. “You are, certainly, a brother of mine. I am grateful for your hard work here,” Alyosha rose, a hand extended. “Matthew— Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.”

“I am not—“ Smerdyakov, furious, jammed a finger in Alyosha’s face. “I am not interested in your preaching, O Holy One. Do not call me that. You are not to call me that,” he hissed, face contorted with anger. Then, seeing the surprise in Alyosha’s glassy eyes, he lowered his finger and stuck them in the pockets of his dirtied apron. “Forgive me, Alexey Fyodorovich. I didn’t intend to frighten you. Do, do forgive me,” he said, lifting a trembling hand to his forehead.

“You are forgiven.” Then, Alyosha signed the cross on Smerdyakov, who lurched back in horror.

“No,” he said, shaking his head. “No.”

“My apologies,” Alyosha said, hands dropping to his sides. “I will pray for you, dear brother.”

Smerdyakov shivered. “And I forgive you.” With an exit fit for a flourish, he stormed out the back door of the kitchen, marching towards Grigory’s shack in a rage and a hurry.

#its short #and poorly written #but #UGH #i think they should be brothers #i think they should be besties #i think pavel should make pancakes for alyosha and ruffle his hair #just my onion though #alexey fyodorovich karamazov #pavel fyodorovich smerdyakov #alyosha karamazov #pavel smerdyakov #the brothers karamazov #fyodor dostoevsky #dostoevsky tag #my writes #what if there was no existentialism and religion and everyone held hands #.