@cndice said: 📂 📂 📂 📂 📂 ( i want all the headcanons! 😊 (meme)
I know we haven’t spoken much about Sokol so let me introduce you to my new Tol Angery Russian Boi— does that description ring a bell?
📂: The brute nature of his sport's bound to catch up with him someday. There’s no way he’s knocking heads or getting knuckle-sandwich’d on a routine basis without coming out unscathed. Sokol’s definitely going to develop some brain damage. Like how A/aron H/ernandez did, dude’s got chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated head injuries. It’s gonna manifest in the forms of erratic behaviour, anger outbursts, depersonalisation... BUT he won’t know it because he doesn’t get it checked. Just thinks it’s part of the hardened personality he’s developed over the years from heisting and general competitiveness. It’s gonna be ugly and for sure it’s gonna endanger his life or someone elses’ sometime down the line.
📂: Growing up Sokol was incredibly poor. To him the national ice hockey team was his ticket to getting out of poverty more than anything else, and also a way of reclaiming that humility lost to bullying. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of being good at hitting a puck into a net. Don’t know how the events of hiring Sokol as a heister began, because suddenly he got picked up as part of a bank-robbing crew. He sends off 80% of his earnings from his heists back home to his family in Kaliningrad. They don’t know it’s him; every fortnight the fat envelope comes without a stamp or a name and is deposited in the mailbox discreetly. By now the debts would have been paid off, they can use the money to get a new house and live comfortably.
📂: Considering the number of players in the game, every heist pays incredibly well. It’s more than thrice the amount of money he’d earned as an athlete. But after a while even money loses its value to him, the numbers on his offshore bank account a highscore that just keeps climbing. But he just keeps heisting because what else is there for him to do? He’s established, has a solid gang he can rely on and a place to live. There’s no turning back; he can’t return to his life in Russia because he knows he’d probably get caught in the sticky maws of the interpol and get sent back to Siberia bc of the paper trail he’s been leaving behind.
📂: I don’t know how much more of a Mary Sue Payday can make him, because on top of being a gifted athlete and genius and a part time bank robber he’s also an engineer that designed the drill to break into a casino??? All at the age of 25??? Like does this man have 48 hours in a day because I want that too! Honestly the engineering bit was so out of place but I tried my best to work it into his backstory so... my Sokol attends a design & engineering school in Russia but obviously paid more attention to team sports as an extra-curricular. At this point i’m projecting bc I myself am currently doing the same type of course in uni and love it to death.
📂: Sokol isn’t beyond a mass murderer at this point, even though it’s something I haven’t really explored yet in my writing. He’s a bank robber, has no qualms picking off cops and authority figures for that sweet, sweet cash. But he draws the line at civilians, he wouldn’t harm an innocent person caught in the crossfire and might even comfort them. If anything, he still think it’s comparable to any other 9-5 job because it comes with prep, risks and payout except it’s all p much magnified.

















