Meet my OC - Viktor Ivanov
Name: Viktor Ivanov
Book: Immortal Desires
Orientation: Bisexual
Pronouns: He/him
Birthday: 12th October 1997
Sign: Libra
Born: Dunedin, New Zealand
Raised: Sydney, Australia, and Inverness, Scotland (with some short stints in both NZ and Croatia)
Heritage: Croat
More under the cut! 🖤✨
Family
Henrik Ivanov (younger brother)
Mother (name tbd)
Father (name tbd)
Viktor’s closest family member is his younger brother Henrik (Henri, as a diminutive), who is eight. Henri attends boarding school, so they do not see each other much, but Henri idolises his big brother and Viktor would do anything to keep Henri from being hurt. He believes his parents treat Henri as the “do-over” child, and that they think Viktor “lacks ambition” and “refuses to take anything seriously”. There is a lot of pressure on Henri to perform well academically and to follow in his father’s footsteps, career-wise.
Viktor’s father’s career remains something of a mystery to him — he knows it is a somewhat high-ranking governmental position that requires him to travel a lot, so his father is only home for short stints every few months. When he was around 12 or 13, Viktor decided he would ask his dad outright what his job actually was the next time he showed an interest in one of Viktor’s hobbies or interests.
To this day, Viktor has no idea what his father does for a living.
His mother is a stay-at-home housewife. She is the family member Viktor sees the most often, and also the one he has the worst relationship with.
Skills / Hobbies
Sketching, painting, singing — frontman and founder of grunge/rock band Your Bisexual Awakening. Also plays bass
YBA cycles through names often, all of which have a story attached. They choose a new name via the following system: if a band member says something stupid or memorable in conversation, and two or more members simultaneously say "band name", they must change it to whatever was just said. I.e.
Cal: seriously, guys? again?
Ava: my bad. Angel's refractory period is more like a Refractory Comma
Angel, Viktor, and Luca, simultaneously: band name
Ava: aw, fuck.
Random Trivia
Moved a lot as a child — growing up jumping between Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Croatia has left Viktor with the weirdest accent. Its mostly Scottish... ish? Kinda?
Enjoys anime — once described watching Tokyo Ghoul as the purest spiritual experience of his life (and then sulked inconsolably for a week when he found out the final season was copaganda)
Scared of dogs (was bitten when he was younger)
Loves having his photo taken, but also can’t look at photos of himself sometimes, because they often bring on depersonalisation episodes
Huge collection of slogan t-shirts he crops and alters himself.
Can do overtone / polyphonic singing (but not well)
When he shared a dorm room with Luca at Avalon, for a while his alarm was this Marc Rebillet song (until Luca threatened to beat him to death with a pair of socks unless he changed it)
Has a crush on Kylo Ren
Is deeply ashamed of his crush on Kylo Ren
Favourite movie is Sucker Punch (will rant AT LENGTH about how people completely miss the feminist read)
His fashion sense is varied and questionable. One day he’ll be in gritty, black techwear, the next he’s full flower-boy poet. Then he’ll be Grandma-chic, and the next day he might be wearing a three-piece suit patterned exclusively with cobs of corn.
He does really love garments that drape and flow, though, and is a bit of a sucker for glitter and fun textures. No matter how loud, he somehow manages to always wear the outfits, and not have them wear him.
Viktor’s goals are informed by an odd mix of wanting a sense of agency and independence, while also just wanting to be taken care of and not have to think
Pathetic Babygirl of All Time
Personal Life
cw!! for talk around mental illness, suicide, and substance abuse
Viktor’s childhood was extremely difficult in that his mother simply does not believe that mental illnesses and neurologic disorders are legitimate conditions, and denies that Viktor’s many conditions are real. She believes he is making everything up for attention. Viktor has had this rhetoric drilled into him since childhood — there is nothing wrong with him, he’s just weak, lazy, a failure, a troubled child.
As such, he has never been diagnosed with anything on record.
He is quite mistrustful of authority figures as a result of his upbringing.
The first real, healthy parental influence in his life was Terri O’Rinn. She was the one to refer Viktor to a specialist doctor — she called in a favour from a friend/colleague, who was able to confirm Viktor’s diagnosis of mild to moderate Tourette Syndrome. This diagnosis remains strictly off-record. He primarily has motor tics, but he does have some verbal ones too — many of his tics are indistinguishable from the way he carries himself and his usual, somewhat eccentric mannerisms of speaking and moving.
Viktor also suffers from depression and generalised anxiety disorder. Luca has “diagnosed” him with “ADHD by peer review.” Viktor also deals with frequent bouts of passive suicidal ideation. Luca has had to talk him down on two separate occasions when he has threatened attempts. He has attempted once, on his own, and has never told anyone about it. Viktor loves Luca like a brother, as they do him, and their bond is fundamentally unshakeable.
Viktor fell into performing initially as a means to cope with his Tourettes — music helps to help him feel in control of his symptoms, so he can often be found singing, humming, or whistling to himself as he goes about his business. Alcohol and weed incidentally dial back his premonitory urges as well, allowing him to more easily suppress his tics, so there have been patterns of substance abuse throughout Viktor’s life when he’s been in a bad place mentally.
In classes at school, he was something of the class clown — Viktor quickly realised he liked dictating the kind of attention that was on him (and that he actually really loves attention when its the kind he has sought out himself). So rather than people staring at him because of his tics, he’d rather enrapture them on purpose with beautiful and hypnotic performances. Leaning into his role as the band’s vocalist and frontman did wonders for his self-confidence and overall quality of life.
Also — he’s just really, really, good at singing 🖤🖤🖤
You can find out more about Viktor via my masterlist, or read about him in my longfic, snow in crimson, starlight in gold on AO3! 🖤(direct link, fic is rated Explicit)
tagging: @choicesficwriterscreations
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December 2023
My favorites this month were Nighthawk, Fest, The Fall and Bubble Bath!
Nighthawk - Špela Čadež (2016), The Fall - Boris Labbé (2018), Absent Minded - Roberto Catani (2013), Bubble Bath - György Kovásznai (1979), Animated Putty - Walter R. Booth (1911), Fest - Nikita Diakur (2018), Le Parc aux Cerfs (2023), Tampopo - Jūzō Itami (1985), Cloudy - Filip Diviak & Kateřina Čupová (2018), The City - Sabin Bălașa (1967), Krabi - Václav Mergl (1976), Amane Diary - Amane Oda (2021), Stupid Dinner - Victoria Vincent (2023), Kitten - Viktor Minakhin (1968), La Sagra - Roberto Catani (1999), Il pesce rosso - Roberto Catani (1995), dream girls - TAEETIMEE (2023), Country Ball 1989–2012 - Jacolby Satterwhite (2012), A Short Vision - Peter Foldès & Joan Foldes (1956), Ave Maria - Ivan Ivanov-Vano & Vladimir Danilevich (1972)
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I posted 1,829 times in 2022
1,559 posts created (85%)
270 posts reblogged (15%)
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Longest Tag: 39 characters
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My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
“No war!” Poster by Viktor Ivanov (1962)
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#4
See the full post
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#3
“At Knitting” by M. Gerasimov (1984)
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#2
Where do you live and do you microwave tea
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My #1 post of 2022
“Date Night” by Anatoly Kuvin (1956)
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Kai and Rei’s daughter Rina Hiwatari from an upcoming fic of mine ♡ picrew
Naming:
Japanese: 火渡 リナ
Romaji: Hiwatari Rina
In Japanese, her given name Rina is written in katakana and thus has no inherent meaning. However, in Chinese, her given name is written as 麗娜 or 丽娜 (Lìnà); 麗/丽 (lì) means “lovely”, “beautiful”, “gorgeous” or “resplendent” while 娜 (nà) means “beautiful” or “graceful”. Her Chinese name was picked by her mother, Rei.
Misc. Notes:
A disarmingly cute kitty with dangerous hidden claws.
Like Rei, she possesses feline characteristics such as catlike reflexes, sharp fangs, pointed ears and pupils capable of slitting.
She has mastered her “kitty eyes”, using her big eyes and cute, kittenish pleading face to get what she wants.
Rina has a “kitty” mode and a “hellcat” mode. Her kitty mode is her default when she acts cute and sweet and her snark is playful and laced with sugar. Her hellcat mode is when she’s pissed off, catty and viciously snarky. In hellcat mode she is capable of pulling off both Rei’s feral cat snarl and Kai’s death glare.
She has a complex over her pointed ears due to her nekojin ancestry. As a teen, after having grown her hair out, she hides her ears behind her hair. During the winter, she wears earmuffs.
She tends to overdress for casual events.
She has feelings for Viktor Kuznetsov, son of Boris Kuznetsov and stepson of Yuriy Ivanov. He acts as her bodyguard of sorts at school.
Rina is very much a daddy’s girl. She adores her father, Kai, and acts very clingy with him.
In somewhat childish fashion, even as a teen she refers to Kai as “Daddy” and Rei as “Mama”.
She can tie a cherry stem knot with her tongue.
She can be very teasing and flirty despite radiating innocence, this as a contrast to the jaded Viktor whose icy glare intimidates anyone interested in him into staying away.
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