#gabrielacore

so, gabriela kozlova: you may not know her !! but ive posted some (like, two) art of her on my art blog.. shes a high ranking scientist at the facility, involved in a bit of everything. shes nastyas primary handler, too! sometimes involved with alík, but not all the time. only sometimes, and only ever since alík became an 04. not as close to her as she is to nastya, or even just other 01s and 04s she gets to see on a more regular basis. the some times she does see alík are often when alík's in wolf mode

gabriela doesnt wish bad things to happen to the mutants. she doesnt think they deserve to be killed or smth just bc theyre mutants - shes a mutant herself, after all, and so is her brother (she only has to sleep like 4 hours a day, kozlov doesn't feel pain) - but she does see they hold scientific potential. and, well, science is the whole reason she moved to pafl city from poland city!! she doesnt see the experiments she performs on the subjects, no matter how brutal, as immoral, cruel, or any kind of evil. she sees them as subjects. theyre living, sure, they breathe, they feel, she knows that. but they hold scientific potential.

she Does also experiment on herself, sorta, by only sleeping 2 hours a day at most ever. her mutation isnt that big tho so she cant all too much. her brother, tho, he lets her inspect him and shit. if he gets a wound he lets her take samples and such. shes patching him up for free, after all, and his only alternative is going to the hospital - and well. they could figure out hes a mutant there, And a stalker. Not Good. also he trusts gabriela

i think kozlov dies in quite a few timelines. theres a bunch of different ways this could play out. he could die in the zone, he could get caught as a mutant and get sent to the facility, he could get killed by a rival stalker gang, he could just do something stupid - the list goes on and on. i Promise this will tie into alíks happy ending. he doesnt care for his safety all that much, is very carefree, and a silly goofy guy! alík and he would get along if they ever met. they're similar in many ways, after all:)

i think that similarity would matter to kozlova so so much, if kozlov died. she'd be sooo sad. tremendous grief. maybe angry? a whole bunch of emotions, too ugly for her to unwrap without her brother, her twin, with her around.

she's not close with alík. but she knows enough about her to project the image of kozlov onto her, esp young kozlov. again, i'll reitarate that kozlova holds a high ranking position - she's not above temnova, or even same rank as her, but she's well respected - and that shes involved in a bit of everything.

"Sheltering mutants and possession of anomalous objects without special governmental permission is illegal." extra emphasis on "special permission" this is from the google doc. what's in it also, though, states that mutants who are deemed too dangerous stay at the facility, and ferrys said before that most ever 02s get released, with 03 releases being even rarer. 01s are too important and 04s are too dangerous.

as we know, alík is an 04.

as we know, alík didn't start out as an 04. she started her stay at the facility as an 03. i dont remember her exact age when she gets it changed, but its lke.. 12? so shes been an 04 for about five years when kozlov dies. if he dies. maybe he just goes missing. idk. wouldnt it be fucked up if he like, died at kozlova's? comes to her bc hes injured and she fails to save him. that could drive her to try and save alík even more

so, i think... kozlova, in this universe, would get more.. intense? protective? she'd spend more time with AT004-212. she'd argue for better living conditions for the subject, that if she gets more free time that her mutation will grow easier to control, if her hypothesis is correct. she argues she can traint the subject. and, bc of her position and connections.. i think she could make it happen. little by little, at least.

and i think alík could get better, yea. i think she could develop a bond with kozlova. shes like Wowww miss youre so nice to me thank you for getting me a bigger room and a better bed and giving me excersicing time:))) and such.. and i think kozlova would eventually realize alík and kozlov aren't that similar, at the core. but i think she'd get too attached to stop at that point. to give up on the subject. or she'd lie to herself idk

so. it might take a year, might take half a year, might take two years - but, i think... kozlova would eventually argue that alíks scientific potential is no more. not much more to do with her... so, let her take the subject home. if she hurts anyone, she'll bear the consequences. if she breaks any law, she'll go to jail too. and i think she knows how to forge some documents:) i thinkshe knows how to lie:)

so i think that's how alík could get legally free. well. she'd probably be legally 'owned' by kozlova, but ahh technicalities. theres still the societys great . um. uh. hate? for lack of a better word. or fear. of mutants, and since alíks such a visible one.. maybe she'd wear a collar with a nameplate or smth to signify shes allowed out

i dont think it'd be easy for either of them. but i think she'd be happy. she'd have someone that loves her! that sees her as not human, sees what she is, and accepts it! she'd have a home, food, a whole city to explore.. itd be hard adjusting, and even harder not going wolf mode all the time.

maybe there'd have to be monthly reports, even. who knows? all i know is kozlova can forge and fake, and ithink if she really had to, she'd forge alíks death.

and i think alík would be happy. and i think kozlova would be, too. and i think she'd learn to overcome kozlovs death with alík. maybe. she'd accept it. and i think it gets better:)

andddddd i also i think alík would go by ája. as we know, alík is the nickname the scientists gave to her. so i think... as a treat, ája would give herself a new name:) to symbolise shes her own (as much as she can be..) wolf, that shes no longer a subject, that she can decide things for herself. i think she'd be happy:)

(you can refer to her as alík, ája, at, whatever you want! all are a-ok)

she comes to the facility when shes ~25, the main plot kicks off when shes 38.

a good chunk of her job is performing experiments on the subjects in that facility - mutants !! for example, my mutant ocs mutations are regeneration, cant die but decays its whole life, innability to feel pain/fucked up sensory issues (her brother), and turns into a wolf when stressed... gabriela herself is a mutant, tho its nothing too major. she just doesnt need to sleep as much as normal people.

an example of an experiment would be, like... Fucked Up surgeries the regeneration mutant. stressing out the wolf on purpose, again and again, to see how its body transforms. taking the decaying one's heart out of its body. her brother isnt caught until the end of the story but theyre basically trying to get him to feel pain, so, cruel unnecessary stuff.

in pafl, mutants are viewed as non human. so that gabriela doesnt feel hypocritical about dehumanising them but not her brother/herself, she excuses it as "theyre test subjects so its ok". if her brother was a test subject, of course shed experiment on him, but hes not so its fine. mutants are human until theyre test subjects. this view gets fucked when viktor (her brother) is caught and she cant rationalise her grief and anguish away

shes naturally not an expressive or empathetic person. shes always struggled expressing her feelings as other people do, understanding why others feel the way they do. its why she throws herself in her studies, and its a good chunk of the reason why she doesnt wanna quit her job. all her life, shes been ashamed of this part of herself - she tries to feel things right, to be pleasent to be around, but its just so. hard. and wastes sm energy. but then, at the facility, they praiseher for this part of herself - her low empathy makes her more efficient in her work. shes not happy, doesnt like her work all that much at the start, but she likes the prsise she gets - shes not only not shunned for this, but praised !!! wow !!! so awesome for her

another part of the reason why she doesnt leave is sunk cost fallacy. it doesnt matter if she harms 1 or 5 mutants; she harmed someonething, so shes irredeemable. doesnt matter if u kill 1 or a 100 people, ur still a killer. not her brightest moment

another reason is: this is a good, stable job. theres nothing other than her guilt that make this bad... even if she didnt like it, what would she do? quit and move back to poland? with what money ?? sure, she can work for a few months and save up, But: sunk cost fallacy :( getting another well paying job isnt an option, rlly... shes a brown woman in the 90s in russia its a christmas miracle she got hired ... this job isnt all that "well paying" either, so.. shes kinda stuck in it until she at least saves up enough to move away

... but, by that point, she feels too irredeemable, and doesnt want to go back to being shamed for who she is. shes useful here. shes a Good Cog.

along the way, she stops only listening to orders, doing what shes told, and starts giving out orders too. she becomes an important of the facility, someone they need to function. shes kind of like the head of terminating subjects - her Cool Head allows her to see who needs to be terminated to save costs. doesnt let emotional attachment get in the way.

its so !!! aughhh ... she moved there for viktor, bc he moved there first and she missed him. she got a job, disliked it, but couldnt quit bc what else can she do. by the time she can quit she views herself as too valuable to the facility and as irredeemable/unforgivable. she bottles the latter up. theyre Subjects theyre not Human its for science its Fine. the facility owns them its Fine. shes not doing anything wrong, bc the facility says so, shes actually doing the subjects a favor by putting them to good use

shes sooo. god. like she COULD have quit. anytime during the 13 years. at the start, yes, itd be hard, but like i said, she could have quit a few months after.. but she was too. happy? relieved? that the parts of her that everyone hates are what make her a Model Employee. a few years in, its like, who even is she without the facility? could she handle going back to how things were? could she live a normal life, knowing they could be better?

shes selfish, she makes the choice to stay again and again and along the way becomes, not just a victim, but an abuser. ex. she grooms the regeneration subject (and many others tbh), tells it she loves it, creaters a mother-daughter bond kinda... and she doesnt care !!! she dislikes it, thinks its annoying and would throw it out or terminate it were its mutation not so useful. its hard to work with. its needy, clingy, moody, and vulnerable.

and its like, gabriela CHOSE to do that. the facility didnt tell her to groom it. it even rec'd just forcing it to comply in experiments. but gabriela said "nooo itll be easier if it complies let me form a bond with it that i can leverage against it" !! she doesnt care that this subject loves her, thinks of it as its mother - the subject believes that gabriela really loves it. gabriela ruins its life. if the subject escapes and isnt terminated, it becomes convinced that its 'damaged goods', unloveable, and blames itself for how it was treated.

its just so !!!! and gabriela doesnt careee bc by that point, like i said, guilt is so intertwined w who she is as a person that she jusr !!! doesnt care !!! shes vaguely aware that what shes doing is bad - but its a test subject. its her right to do this, no?

she drives me nuts

10. id say that kozlova, while not with malicious intentions and not a villain, is an antagonist indeed !! to certain characters... points at ája points at nastya. she does care for them!!! in one au she even saves ája. but like, she still does unethical experiments on them. her care for nastya doesnt stop her from vivisecting her on the daily. though alík would never blame her for how shes treated, saying kozlovas just doing her job, its still like... still messed up !!

as for how she justifies her actions... i dont think she lies to herself that shes doing a Good Thing. deciding which mutants should be terminated when their budget is cut isnt fun for her. but i think shes got a "somebody has to do it. if i dont do it, somebody else will" mindset.. as well as the regular "for science!" approach at the Zh. I. Alferov National Institute of Anomalous Research hehe

so shes just !! idk. its a necessary evil. i dont get to talk about this side of kozlova much hehe... shes not happy about it, she doesnt revel in it !! but like. she Is right that if she doesnt do it, somebody else will. might as well be somebody that doesnt delight in hurting people, that will hurt the subjects in the gentlest way avalible.

28. for alík, in her pafl canon, id say, regrettably, like.. and for nastya too i think but in her every canon. i think.. just feeling safe? alíks like this in the alnst au too but in her human au shes jsut some guy shes happy. its not easy but shes happy.

she cannot be safe at the facility, nor if she escapes, nor if she never gets there in the first place !! nastya... god id have to do a 10 thousand word essay on why she never feels safe anywhere. blame her parents blame the school system. i think.. smth interesting about her and dasha is like.. even with dasha being a bit meanies at times and not letting nastya smoke her cigs .. she doesnt report nastya, yea?? and like. thats all that nastyas asking for, ever. i dont think they could be healthy like i think itd be funny if nastya still stabs dasha at some point. but like. not being reported is the bare minimum for nastya. she coiuld feel a bit safe after some time maybe:) and i think thatd scare her ❤️they call her the Vane - Heart's Claws, the Weevildoing - Deviant, they call her the Normal Girl.

i think alík, while also scared if she started to feel safe, i think she'd cling to it, unlike nastya. nastya goes into fight mode and then flight mode (first comes fawn mode) if she gets scared like that. but alík !! like. i think.. im gonna use sanya as an example. i thinkkkk. shed cling to sanya as much as she could without being weird. in a Dont Leave Me way but also in a Hii Im Scared way ??? idkkk !!! alík clings to the feeling of safety while nastya punches it with her mega fists. is that anything boss

31. oh i found osme music!!! isome time ago!!! i think he'd like depeche mode :) i think hed like mcr too tbh i just dont think he'd know them. if dasha or roma or zhenya introduced it to him i think hed like it... also just like instrumentals...