#myon94

foxtrot was the dance style, in particular they banned it as a "bourgeois" dance style because teenagers were getting together to learn and perform it (they were worried about secret anti-communist networks). another example of yagoda being a little hater

i can definitely see the potential there, but i'm so just taken by the mental image of niko straddling dimitri while he's beating the shit out of him-- like. dimitri looking up at niko, glasses askew, blood all over his face, and niko staring down at him.

i wouldn't consider them a ship personally, but i like how they're mirror images of each other. two broken people who do things without consideration for those around them, driven by the single need to see a deep-planted purpose within them to the very end.

i guess

a few points in favor of beria as "high functioning psychopath" (really just means that the mix of personality traits + low/no affective empathy he got were conducive to the environment) are definitely his ability to build a political machine within the caucasian nkvd, his extraordinary capacity for work, the whole poisoning lakoba thing (and also an attempt on sergo possibly), at the same time somehow maintaining a happy marriage and being a good dad to sergo beria and treating his scientists well enough that they bothered to get his family out of prison after he himself got got.

also the sycophantic behavior, while making fun of stalin behind his back- very conscious and purposeful

there was also that one interrogation that anna larina recounts with him, beria seemed like he wanted to find an excuse to spare her and offered her an out, whether it was out of genuine kindness or to get an asset is not clear. beria seems to have genuinely underestimated how much she loved bukharin compared to the discomfort of spending time in the gulags

off the top of my head, i believe that dzerzhinsky supported stalin for the sake of party unity rather than for personal friendship but they appeared to have civil relations (same with menzhinsky & stalin) and i would have to double check on points of disagreement, theoretically and politically

i think he fucked nasty and made it clap and died. but really why was his relationship with stalin like that. why was he stalin's best instrument up until she had to put that twink down like a dog. allegedly he ended up as nkvd director through diligence and also knowing kaganovich so like. did iron lazar look at this shivering wet dog of a man and was like "omg koba would LOVE to have this thing crying in her office" and then speed him off to moscow. there's also the question of if people knew he was getting his yaoi over every man he knew... like it was probably an open secret in the kremlin rumor mills. stalin had to have known right? and those letters from stalin being like "please treat him well he's very important for the country" to the foreign sanatoriums she sent him to...

so yeah i see his blorbo appeal like newly born baby bird fragile one day old... too bad he got Cancelled after going above and beyond in the purges.

also in tsrpfau i think stalin and yezhov would both be aware of yagoda being transfem but like. they literally can't actually talk about it together or else it's a "why were YOU at the devil's sacrament" thing. or stalin tries to bring it up and yezhov stonewalls the conversation because he thinks she's trying to bait him out of the closet. there is also the transfem yezhov headcanon that could also result in toxic doomed power difference closeted yuri between them...

francis is probably my favorite mcreary bc of how shitty he is and how much he fits into my favorite category of character of bastard cop :) (and he ties into my other favorite category of irish + cop + green color scheme)

oh man, francis. shit. i love that he tried to be a priest first, then decided to be a cop, like okay the two worst professions in the world? in a better world he'd probably have been the corrupt cop but for his family, like a direct connection to the LCPD. but francis is amazingly selfish and his own moral code is so twisted that no one really benefits from it but himself.

he's also really cute and i think about sitting under his desk at the LCPD a lot and--- [GUNSHOT]

anyways here are some light headcanons lol:

bisexual, and stupid

needs reading glasses but pretends he doesn't