sputnik | ᴡɪsʜʟɪsᴛ

sci-fi / space / cosmic horror & adventure —

— wide open to potential here: whether set in Kostya's time (the early 80's) or sometime in the future for all the advanced spacetime fun

— give me all your space peeps, alien species, etc

— canon / universe mashups very workable here, as well as all the space-time shenanigans: characters ending up in some jamjar-type nexus, or Kostya crash landing into your character's universe, whenever & wherever that might be... Sudden Russian Spaceman Acquisition

— I'd love to keep Kostya's parasite situation regardless to maintain his horror vibes, but happy to adjust & play around with it

laboratory shenanigans —

— spooky research facilities, experimentation labs, etc

— Kostya as a lab rat and your character as a doctor / scientist / researcher or fellow lab rat

— sudden or longterm cellmates or maybe set in a larger place where they're more free to "live" but kept under surveillance; it could even be a small town or something like that, for the long-term potential

on the run —

— which could very easily include / branch off of the above, with our characters making an escape from some sort of laboratory / research facility / etc, but straight-up playing out the "on the run" part could be its own fun

— give me all the road trips (or space travel trips), hotel hopping, lying low, narrowly avoiding re-capture adventures...!

misc. wants —

— Kostya on the search for victims to keep his alien passenger fed. Could be gen or nsfw, in which case he could try to seduce someone. Flexible to play around with this, but a fun possibility could be him intentionally targeting victims he thinks are involved in some kind of bad business / might not be the greatest people / are criminals / seem Unfavourable for some various reason to "justify" choosing them, so that might be a factor we could work with! And we can find plenty of fun reasons for your character to not actually end up as alien chow with this

— Sad Space Dad... Konstantin is canonically A Failed Dad™ with a slew of his own daddy issues, and I'd love to explore that theme further — whether working his abandoned son angst into our shenanigans or even if you'd be interested in your character being his child (whether genuinely, adopted literally, or adopted in ~concept, etc...) or simply him picking up a kid / young person along the way somewhere and for some reason! Basically here for all the complicated family times / themes, and any kid / teen / young person character interactions

— The Alien also offers a ton of interesting potential to work with! It can be adjusted to suit different AUs, and I'd love to play around with this beyond just as a source of Horror & Gore. Canonically, it's capable of developing attachments / associations / "positive sensations" towards people that Konstantin feels positively towards, so it's not as though everyone is in danger of it at all times! Basically, I'd love to explore all of this, and the inevitable complications there. I'm also very interested in seeing how it might adapt & develop outside of the only canon environment it was exposed to on Earth (which was stressful, dangerous, and one in which it was being kept in captivity and shaped into a weapon). Its only experience with humans beyond "a food source" has been extremely negative, so it would be fun to play around with how this highly adaptable little thing might change in different settings

— some favourite tropes: forced reliance on one another, hurt/comfort, found family, all the angst, all the horrors, all the fluff inbetween the horrors, any number of Accidental Situations...

— things like "there was just one bed", "the day after", and "accidentally turned on" could offer interesting starting points to test out character connections with before committing to something longer-term, if you prefer! For anything regarding sexual intimacy in those quick & easy type threads, we'd probably need to hash out some details first; I'm absolutely open to it, but he comes with a nocturnal alien that needs to feed on blood in a gruesome manner in the middle of the night... (although I do think it would be hilarious to play out Kostya making bad manwhore decisions, Sleeping With Someone, and then at some point after or even during.... he just throws up an entire alien)

— I'm also very interested in all the psychological deep dives with this character, and ways to use Physical Intimacy to do that, whether general/platonic or romantic/smutty. He comes with a ton of Commitment Issues TM in general, but now tack on the body image issues he's facing as a result of his gnarly situation... I'm also forever thrilled to work in / play around with all the psychological components that other characters offer on their ends! Let's get deep and dark 💪

NOTES

💫 — I'm always down to brainstorm and incorporate any elements or ideas you might have! I'm good both with planning out specifics you might be itching for or tossing out more vague ideas and letting things develop organically.

💫 — This character is available for general / platonic, familial / found family, romantic / shippy / smutty, and horror / gore things. I have no limits on any of this, but please let me know if you do, if you prefer anything faded to black, etc. I'm also happy to roll with established cr / relationships or build up to things.

💫 — Feel free to hmu in a message first if you like, or just throw something at Kostya's open post! I'm also good to play on memes, journal posts, or museboxes. I'm easy ♡