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In honor of the new wwdits season premier, “family portrait” of my own wwdits ocs. The Brighton Beach “coven,” three that made their way out of the USSR at different times of the 20th century to settle among the Soviet diaspora in Brooklyn.

Velira was an avant-garde dancer and bought into a secret accelerationist group that turned each other in the 1920s, believing that they would live immortally in what would become a socialist utopia. When it didn’t happen, she slunk away to Paris and from there to New York. She has the special ability of becoming a shadow. “Velira” is a name she adopted in the revolutionary fervor, as many did. It’s a contraction of “великий рабочий”, “great worker.” (Her name used to be Vika, if you see earlier art of her).

Kuz’ma was the product of a wartime scientific project to create new soldiers out of maimed bodies, after the real-life research of Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov. He’s kept “alive” by some kind of pacemaker and wires under his skin, but by now parts of him have begun to fall away. He’s a himbo par excellence, though he can recite out Marx and Lenin like an encyclopedia. His brain is a socialist realist dream. He’s super strong, and sometimes doesn’t realize how much. He often forgets where he is or what year it is. He wandered out of the ussr after it’s collapse and defunding of the research center where he lived. Inessa found him somewhere and found him too pitiful to leave.

Made some fan art of NBA star Kyle Kuzma’s most notorious fit