#burakhovsky lore

hiiii Smiles so already kinda of replied [here] so yeva gets along Great with burakh. She kind of spent her life not minding her business too much (and since dankovskys an only child she can't rely on siblings for gossip) + daydreaming about being a grandma (including bringing up adoption when dankovsky came out gay. I mean came out as gay) so when dankovsky shows up with this guy + 3-in-1 deal with kids in tow (including one whos brown-eyed black-haired bushy-browed it's like Christmas for her) it's like a gift. She looooves teaching him how to cook fun things from her family recipes book especially since dankovsky is chronic maker of. in french we say "cuisine de célibataire" mean "bachelor's (HA!!!) (unmarried man meaning) cooking" it's fucked up dishes you eat when you live alone. yeah that. So burakh can do the fancier cooking learned from mamakovskaya. teaches him to knit and embroider. she's a pious woman but basically every christian lowkey fw divination as long as you invoke the saints or mary so she reads his palm [2021 art jumpscare] and things of the sort. mostly she loves having him around to fetch stuff on the high shelves because she's 5 feet tall.

you are indeed here you are homonculus in my study from behind the glass of this bocal youre in you see me pace around talking to myself running my hand in my hair like a maniac until I suddenly walk to your shelf and lean over towards the bocal you're in like this

and force you to listen to me.

anyways as far as Rubins thought on Dankovsky Well he doesn't hate him as much as he's hated burakh in the past you know. even as the rubin burakh relationship has been/is more complicated than brotherly bond [I'd argue it barely is especially in p2, it's not about being a brother to him its about being him. A topic for another time] they've been very much Cain & Abel yeah. Like rubin has wanted to hit burakh over the head with a rock if that meant being favored by god I mean isidor. but dankovsky well. he has no animosity towards him, as a pseudo-in-law or as a guy in general. indeed they have mutual respect and indebtedness for The Plague Time and maybe rubin thinks dankovsky kinda has bad taste in men since he still has residual desire to hit burakh with a rock [not out of hatred or jealousy anymore, just to see what that'd be like], but like. <peterstakhblogreminder> rubin can talk. like he doesn't have the best taste in men either. </peterstakhblogreminder>. Rubin is doubly in dankovkys circle from him being 1) his pseudobrother's hubby 2) his own hubby's like. third side of the threefold coin or whatever. so they do run onto each other frequently. when dankovsky shoulders burakh at his medical practice rubin is also there. the healers and also rubin you know. he sees dankovsky be bad at cooking and burakh taking over the stove and is like damn maybe he's just some guy. there is the type of respectful distance you'd expect from in-laws except rubin has seen dankovsky get tipsy in Peter's attic and he called burakh to come pick up his man.

hiiii ^_^ first of all THANK YOU... i make storeys over storeys... they call me the storyteller the way i telll story etc

as far as Kin language goes:

murky knows a few sentences, this is because she hangs out outside, and outside is where The Herb Brides are. i was cooking once and thought of a herb bride subtype(?) that carries out chants from the herb brides underground, so i think murky picked up on some chants (not necessarily knowing what they mean). but she also picked up words which She Knows What They Mean.

sticky Will Learn, i think he already caught up on some #vocab from hanging out with isidor a lot + as basically a stray cat he's bumped into herb maidens [more of my cooking lore] a few times who also obviousky speak Kin tongue. he will learn more as he lives with burakh due to the Obviously.

getting vocabulary from hanging out with isidor has happened to the rest of Burakh's Bond too, so Grace & Khan & Notkin & Capella have also some minimal knowledge of it. Notkin's knowledge is more #advanced because he too runs into the herb maidens a lot from Being Outside (where the herb maidens are). most of what he hears of them is "OUT OF MY WAY" though but hey it's useful.

hiiii don't even worry about it Keep Asking it busies my weekends.

anyways i sure did. it is true to me. cain killed abel because god preferred abel's sacrifices to cain's, and in my mind rubin would want burakh out of his way (salient p2 lore which i like to abide by) for isidor to recognize his sacrifice; that's why he's sooo aggro in p2 seeing burakh's return. while he gets murderous because he thinks burakh killed isidor, i think there is, underlying this, a "Master would be so so mad if i killed his son so i mustn't. buuuuuuuuuuttttt omggggggg".

rubin has a lot of resentment towards burakh for stealing (what he sees as his) inheritance from him, so while he accepts to shoulder him in his doctor's duties, he's mad the whole time. he is mad but it is also a way to partake in the inheritance, so he engages in competition with burakh (which burakh disregards. flies right over his head. rubin is working himself up in his own mind many such cases). by following in isidor's footsteps, even if it is alongside his fake brother whom he hates, he is doing what he's always wanted to do.

rubin is quite a good doctor. he was a good student of isidor's and is skilled. i think burakh probably says "dad would be proud of you if he saw you" and rubin tries to strangle him. but it is true. rubin doesn't have the human warmth that burakh has so he scares the hoes a bit but he is good at his job. dankovsky also partakes in burakh's medical practice when he's over and rubin calms down because it's not dankovsky's fault he's got decades-old beef with burakh.

now that's what i'm talking aboutttttt i have a fic on the stove which is a two in one burakhovsky & peebeestakh deal but like probably won't be done in 5yrs fuck my life. anyways peterstakh are an item before burakhovsky becomes it: they hang out before the plague hits (#platonically), both are out of the closet (or as out as you can be when your celibacysweeping your way through life [not on purpose in peter's case (nobody wants him), on purpose after getting it on with your fellow soldiers in rubin's case] or at least Know This about themselves.

they hang out since dankovsky and peter Are Buddy and dankovsky Figures Out they're an item, and shuts it. is quite envious, sometimes, cf [this old thing] (2022 art jumpscare) which is still so true. rubin is mildly put off by dankovsky's presence but peter Makes Him Understand He Is #ofthem and rubin is like oooh okay. and shuts it.

burakh takes seven trillion years to figure out rubin and peter are an item because he's like. pure of heart or whatever. multiple times he has to help the team (rubin dankovsky andrey) manage peter because he's drunk or high or hurt himself or is out of his mind nuts and he watches rubin be very kind very tender uncharacteristically so and he's like ❓ damn okay that's his friend but doesn't catch on. in my mind and i have been wanting to either draw or write it for fucking years now, one night he and dankovsky sneak into rubin's place while he sleeps to steal something, peter is in the bed with him looking unnerving as he does, burakh gasps because it just clicked what their deal is, dankovsky turns to him, burakh goes "i just understood something" and as dankovsky looks with hopeful eyes he has to say "nothing that's going to help us though so sorry" and dankovsky goes "well. better luck next time"

eventually mid-plague he asks rubin something like. "...... so are you happy" and rubin goes "? i'm fucking miserable cub have you see how everything is so shit outside. i'm miserable, you're miserable, everyone is miserable. [stops, blushes a bit] but he makes it more bearable" #awww

as far as it goes when burakh and dankovsky gets together rubin is endlessly amused. basically

> be burakh > come home after 6 years away > learn your closest friend and non-blood-related brother is gay and has bad taste > say nothing love is love bro > learn you're gay and you have bad taste > he clowns on you endlessly

the Kin does have its proposal rites in my mind's eye (even though it is heavily fictionalized Not Always For The Best it is supposed to be centraleast-asian-ish and most cultures of this area [and of plenty others] have [often extensive] proposal rituals) but since to me these rites include involving the parents quite a lot and 1) burakh is an orphan 2) dankovsky's parents live on the other side of the country i think they Make Do. i think for a while they're both kinda "damn i kinda wanna propose to that guy" [dankovsky in no small part swayed by knowing his mom loves a wedding it has to be said But Also he means it for real. she puts the thought in his head and he lets it stew and is like damnnnnn yeah that'd be nice].

valentine's day was not a big thing before the fall of the soviet union was it. i read over it and then forgor💀. would make sense since that Valentine is a catholic saint. they're men en avance sur leur temps but i don't think they'd manage to be 50 to 80 years early.

anyways in the lore of my mind since they go back and forth between each other's place (men_will_go_each_others_house.txt etc) they can sometimes spend months without seeing the other for example is the railway is completely covered in snow. wait it just sprouted into my mind. late february/early march reunion if they didn't see each other during the winter. valentine's day comes to you...

regardless of where they are/go a romantique day consists of:

THE KIDS STAY WITH SOMEONE ELSE. lara (who's the most stable one out of the gang hates to say it. rubin already has enough with being the not-dad-that-barely-stepped-up to grace and do not let the kids with grief lets they become rascals. and sticky already steals.), dankovsky's parents, or in the General Care of the town but have the keys to get back home.

the visiting one would have more often that not brought something. new homemade tea blend, new porcelain cup, new fancy writing papers for correspondance..;

fulfilling a promise that was made last time. typically consists of bringing the other to a nice restaurant, theatre play, monument, museum [dankovsky], cooking a specific meal, showing a specific way to make a tea [burakh]...

catching up yeux dans les yeux and. i just checked the translation for this man it sucks. playing footsie under that dinner table or from the other side of the sofa.

conversation alwaysss dissolves into long #deep conversations they would have had even if they were not lovers. about theology, history, ethics, philosophy. whatever else.

they both routinely and consistently work with their hands -> the lover's almost-platonic hand massage

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the gigglers: main thing is constant loving jabs about the other's medical(ish) practice. "love you but this meat is so raw you could try your ressurection trick on it and it'd work without trying that hard". "you're my dearest but the weeds you've let grown in the garden are getting so tall they'll just walk themselves to your workshop". trust and believe. playful and dramatic declarations of abandon to the other's hands or will over silly stuff when one does not succeed immediately. a lot of playfully referencing how their relationship was when they first met with the distance, arrogance, power struggle they went on to various degrees. funniest shit to them. they have very little to laugh about but themselves.

the elders: they stay in medical practice for a significant amount of time, frankly i don't think burakh ever retires (especially since he's more than just the doctor guy he's a spiritual leader) even after Relief Team is secured. he gets visibly hunched because he spent his life bending over to talk to people (that's what he gets from being tall)