RENEGADES

RENEGADES

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food themed oc asks 🍅

food preferences tell a lot about us and the same can be said about our ocs. And so, here's a funny ask game.

GENERAL/MISC

🍎 What's your oc's favorite food(s)?

🍊 Your oc is brought to the fruits and veggies aisle of the grocery store. What do they pick?

🍌 If your oc would pick a yoghurt or something like it, would they rather 1) eat plain yoghurt 2) eat flavored yoghurt or 3) eat yoghurt with the fruit bits in it.

🥭 Does your oc drink juice? What's their favorite kind of juice? Do they mind the fruit pulp that can sometimes be found in these?

🥝 Does your oc have food restrictions? Is the reason related to health, culture, ethics, preferences or something else?

🫐 Would your oc eat something they found outside? (for example: berries, mushrooms, not eaten chocolate bar, stuff like that)

🍇 Does your oc prefer coffee, tea, or hot chocolate? Do they prefer them hot or cold? What would their usual order in a cafe be?

🧄 How much spices does your oc use when cooking? Do they prefer bland taste or spicy/rich in flavor meals?

🍤 What's their opinion on seafood?

🧇 Do they enjoy baking? What's their favorite thing to bake? What's their favorite pastry to eat?

🍳 Do they enjoy cooking? What's their favorite thing to cook? Do they cook alone or with someone else?

🥖 What's their favorite kind of bread?

🫕 Do they like cheese?

🍾 Does your oc drink alcohol? What's their favorite drink(s) (can be alcoholic or non-alcoholic)? Would they know how to mix a cocktail?

🍟 What is your oc's opinion on fast food? How often do they buy it?

BREAKFAST

🥐 Your oc is given a chance to order a breakfast from cafe - what do they order? Would they actually do that?

🥯 What's their usual breakfast like? Do they eat breakfast, and if so, how regularly? Do they eat alone or with someone else? What would an ideal breakfast for them be?

🥚 What is your oc's preferred way to eat eggs? If your oc doesn't eat eggs, what do they think about scrambled tofu or the equivalent in their world?

🥓 At what time does your oc eat breakfast?

🥨 Brunch picnic time with friends/partner(s)/companions/[insert your ocs' close people here]! What is your oc bringing?

LUNCH

🥗 Your oc is now at a salad bar (a buffet-like place where you can do your own salad). What do they put in there? Do they add some kind of protein? Some sweet fruits? Some seeds or bread?

🥪 What kind of sandwiches does your oc like/would like to eat? If they could eat it for lunch, would they only eat it or something else, too?

🍣 What's your oc's typical lunch like? Do they usually eat lunch, and if so, how regularly? Do they eat alone or with someone else? What would their ideal lunch be like?

🥟 What's something your oc would love to eat for lunch almost every time?

🥙 They are having a lunch date. Which place do they pick and what are they ordering? Do they hurry or would they rather be late from whatever happens after lunch?

DINNER

🧆 Would they rather eat a stuffing lunch and light dinner or vice versa? Why?

🍚 They have been invited for a dinner by someone close to them! Where are they going, what are they ordering, what are they drinking and what do they talk about?

🍛 What's your oc's typical dinner like? Do they usually eat dinner, and if so, how regularly? Do they eat alone or with someone else? What would their ideal dinner be?

🍜 Do they love cooking dinner or would they rather eat somewhere else or order takeout?

🥘 Does your oc prefer a quick, calm dinner or would they rather have a very long one?

SNACKS & CO.

🍩 What is their favorite dessert? Do they get it often? What is their go-to dessert?

🥕 They are packing some snacks because they're going to be away from home for a while. What do they take with them? What's their opinion on trail mix?

🍒 How often do they eat berries and other kinds of veggies?

🥞 Your oc is ordering food from a fast food chain. They can also pick something else than the main meals. What do they buy?

🍦 Your oc wakes up at night, feeling hungry. Do they go eat? If yes, what will they eat?

🫖 Does your oc eat anything between dinner and going to sleep? How often?

☕️ Does your oc eat anything between lunch and dinner? How often?

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TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OC

Name

Vladimir Volkov

Nicknames

Everyone usually just addresses him as Vlad. He prefers a less pretentious form of speech. He is also universally famous and infamous under the name Firebird and has something of a national ‘legend’ status as a result. Firebird refers to the mythical creature of the phoenix, which dies and rises again from its ashes. Vlad died three times during his time working for the police, the KGB and finally in the Secret Police for SovOil and was ‘resurrected’ through the wonders of technology. 

Age

Born in 2022 (the exact date is not known - he celebrates his birthday on the 23th of october. That's the day he was adopted from an orphanage) 

Pronouns

He / Him 

Sexuality

Heterosexual

Hair Color and style

He has short black hair that is slowly graying and which he always wears neatly combed to one side. The sides of his head are shaved short. 

Eye Color

In the course of his life, he has had various optics, technology that was made available to him or that was prescribed for his job. He chose the current ones with the golden irises himself. They give him a rather demonic look, which is exactly what he wants to achieve. Fear. They also match the rest of the gold-coloured cyberware he owns, and he's a perfectionist and very keen to match everything.

Height

Something around 1,80 m

Body Type

Robot KEK - Most of his body is replaced by cyberware, but overall he is very athletic. He has full cybernetic arms, a Sandevistan, power legs, a thick layer of subdermal armor and the core piece of his enhanced body is an artificial heart. 

Personality

He can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. If you only know him casually, e.g. his colleagues, you either get on quite well with him or find him completely obnoxious because he can be an arrogant arsehole. He is extremely good at his job, which is why he has climbed the career ladder relatively quickly, and he doesn't hold back in letting anyone who questions his abilities know that. In a social or private setting with people he is comfortable with, he is charming and polite. Simply a well-mannered businessman.  If you get to know him better, it is very likely that sooner or later you will discover the depths of his damaged psyche. Due to the many modifications and the fact that he was repeatedly brought back to life by his employers, he suffers from severe cyberpsychosis. His mind has split further with each of his deaths and this has left traces, or rather voices. Each of them has its own personality and endeavors to ‘help’ Vlad through life. One of them is a brutal and disturbed man who knows nothing but destroying and killing to protect himself. Another is an extremely cunning, but also judgemental and sometimes even contemptuous man who helps Vlad to function more or less normally, but condemns and verbally punishes him for many of his decisions. The last voice is that of reason, remorse and compassion, but it hardly ever gets a chance to speak, as the other two are far too dominant.  Accordingly, Vlad's moods are very different depending on which of his personalities is triggered and can change from one moment to the next. People he gets particularly close to, such as a love interest, will always learn this trait from him the hard way. 

Tattoos and/or Piercings

Nothing 

Any definable features such as: Birthmarks, Scars, Freckles, Beauty Marks, Accent when they talk, Lisp, Natural slurring of words, Walk with a subtle limp, ect.

The most remarkable thing about him is probably the amount of chrome he wears. If it weren't for that, you probably wouldn't be able to tell him apart from any other man in the corporate world. He has a small scar on his forehead from an ‘accident’ he had as a young boy, but it barely stands out from everything else that's been done to his body. 

Hobbies

He loves classical music and everything that goes with it in the broadest sense, such as concerts, ballet, opera and theater. He also enjoys listening to it at home or when traveling. His adoptive mother was a teacher of literature and linguistics and was able to teach her son several languages in the years before her death. As a result, he speaks fluent Russian, German, English and French and has been trying to expand his knowledge of these languages ever since. She also fuelled his existing interest in books and reading. In his youth he did a lot of athletics, which later became rather obsolete due to all the body modifications, and he quickly lost the ambition to achieve anything in this field when he entered professional life as a policeman. Two other things that fascinate him are wine, especially red wine, and perfume, which he collects and consumes with a passion.  Travelling is a hobby that he always shared with his mother, but which was somewhat forgotten after her death and a corresponding lack of time due to his work. His favorite places were the entire Mediterranean and countries such as the south of France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Morocco. For personal reasons, he has not traveled to many of these countries for over a decade, with the exception of France, where he is still invited by his best and probably only friend. 

Gang/Occupation {Mox, Max Tac, etc}

He is not in any gang but his allegiance belongs to SovOil and the Neo-Soviet-Union. Since he worked for the police and the KGB before joining the company, he has one hundred per cent connections to all possible Russian gangs. Connections from which he naturally benefits as the corrupt bastard that he is. 

Do they smoke?

Only occasionally in company. For example, when he is invited to dinner by colleagues and they usually sit together afterwards with a high-proof drink and/or cigars. He also likes to use smoking as part of his undercover work, as it makes him less conspicuous. A man who just sits in a café and stares in front of him is much more eye-catching than someone who simply enjoys a cigarette, for example. 

Do they drink? If so, what's their poison of choice?

He drinks, but only for pleasure. I headcanon that he can only get drunk with great difficulty or not at all anyway due to the many body modifications. His favorite drink is red wine, preferably Cabernet Sauvignon from France. 

What do they usually wear on a normal day?

A black shirt, with tie or without, suit trousers, some chic shoes. A heavy black coat if he needs to go outside, his two pistols hidden underneath in a harness. Casual corpo-guy look if you like. 

What do they wear when they "Get dressed up"? And what would be considered a "special occasion" to them {such as an "Oh they're gonna be there so I have to look my best." Or an "It's our anniversary".}

Since his normal attire is already what other people would wear if they get dressed up he simply chose higher quality fabrics for his clothes or extravagant brands. His favorite color is burgundy, although he rarely wears it in everyday life. He prefers accents or entire items of clothing in this color all the more when he is invited to dinner or goes to events in his free time. 

What do they smell like? {For example: they smell like cinnamon flavored liquor, cigarettes, leather, and motor oil.}

Like a floral-woody blend of jasmine, saffron, amber and cedarwood. Because these are the main scents of his favorite perfume Baccarat Rouge 540. If he wasn't wearing it, I would describe his fragrance as rather unsettling. Somehow artificial, metallic like copper or blood and somehow cold. Somewhat like you are standing in a cold storage (I can't describe smells holy shark.)

How do they walk? Do they sway their hips? Do they walk with a sense of determination? Do they bounce as they walk? Etc.

Overflowing with self-confidence and strength. Upright, elegant, sometimes very pretentious. But he is incredibly good at adapting to certain situations when he has to work undercover, and therefore changes his posture to blend in more credibly with his surroundings. 

Are they more of an early bird or a night owl?

A mixture of both. Since he doesn’t get tired really fast, he can stay up for at least a few days until exhaustion kicks in.  So night and day doesn’t have much relevance for him except if his job requires him to be present at a certain time. 

If you had to use one word to define them, what word would you use?

Broken

What words or catchphrases do they say that's unique to that character?

He doesn’t say it often, at least I will write it down only one time but a catchy metaphor he likes to use is: ‘Seems like neither heaven nor hell want to let me through its gates’, when asked how he feels about his resurrections. Would say that's kind of unique. 

Favorite Season

Summer

Favorite type of weather {Thunderstorms, sunny, etc}

Warm and sunny

Do they have someone they're with relationship-wise? If so, who?

He had a relationship with a mercenary called Ghislaine who lived in Tanger. He hasn't had a steady relationship since then, except with a young woman called Dasha from St. Petersburg, but it didn't last very long because no one could replace his ‘Gazelle’, as he liked to call her. 

Main Ship/Pairings

My main ship would be him and Ghislaine since it's the only impactful he ever had in my headcanon. I don’t have a name for it yet. 

Side Pairings

There are some AUs with friends who ship him with their OCs.

Favorite/Self-indulgent Pairings

Ship: 4ever_alone // Ship:he_doesnt_deserve_anyone // Ship: broken_psycho_searching_for_love_but_is_not_able_to_express_it // Ship: don’t_touch_this

How do they show affection to their loved one?

He was never really a very deeply sensible person. Of course he was very fond of his ‘one true love’, as he called her, but he always had problems showing or feeling much affection. This was probably due to the harsh living conditions he had grown up in, the rather cold way his adoptive parents treated him and the fact that his way of life was very different from hers. Therefore, his main means of showing affection were gifts, which were always expensive, to show the value the person has for him, and a lot of charming words and usual romantic gestures like kisses and all that. This didn't change when his emotional world completely shattered after his first death, but his affection is often questionable as to whether it's really sincere. He then acts extremely pushy, possessive and even abusive, which in his fucked up little mind is a way to show how much he cares. 

How do they sit in a chair?

It depends on where he is. At home: simply relaxed, letting go of all tension. When he's around people he needs or wants to impress, he sits very elegantly, upright, with his legs crossed - you know how posh, rich people sit in a chair. When he needs to assert his dominance, whatever the occasion may be in his working day, he makes himself tall/strong/terrifying, whatever, to intimidate those around him.

How do they sit in a chair {uncomfortable version}

He simply doesn't sit uncomfortable. 

What do they wear to bed?

Depends on how long he sleeps or how the circumstances are. It happens quite often that he just falls asleep in his regular attire sitting on his couch or wherever he’s resting while listening to his music. If he goes to bed on purpose he just wears his underwear. 

How do they usually sleep? {Side sleeper, back, fetal position, backwards, nest sleeper, blanket mountain, etc}

Straight on his back, hands tightly folded on his stomach, legs sometimes crossed. If it occurs he has some of his night terrors he switches a lot and a few times he even sleep walks. 

How do they sleep in a place they don't know? {Can't due to anxiety, in small bursts of sleep that are short lived, holding themselves, etc}

If he sleeps then only at home or in hotels or whatever and that doesn't make any difference for him. If necessary he does short power naps wherever he feels safe enough to let his guard down for a few minutes even if his senses are on alert the whole time. 

Do they have to have a form of "white noise" in order to sleep? {The sound of a fan, the sound of rain, the sound of a city, etc}

I think he has enough “white noise” in his head already. He doesn’t need more distracting stuff that keeps him from resting. Though I can imagine he listens to some of his favorite classic music before going to bed to soothe his mind.

What's a place they go to feel comfortable, that's their "spot" they always go when they're upset?

Considering that his head is 99% of the reason why he gets upset in the first place, it sounds odd when I say that he also takes refuge there to calm down. Whenever the voices in him get too loud and provocative he turns on his music to silence them. This is the only way, as he found out after a while, to keep his thoughts from drifting and to keep a clear mind. at least for a short time. His surroundings don't play a role, it's more about what's happening inside him. 

What do they do when they're nervous? {Fidget with jewelry, pick at nails, bite nails/lips, play with knife/zippo lighter, etc}

He’s a high functioning psychopath so he knows how to mask unfavorable emotions quite well. If he’s highly upset and he can hardly contain the voices screaming in his head he tends to get nervous ticks like a twitching eye, shaky hands or trying to soothe ‘the pain’ like a headache by pressing the usual energetic points such as the temples or the bridge of the nose or by taking a few deep breaths. 

What is their "tell" for lying?

He knows how to use words as effectively as any other weapon. You can't really tell if he's telling the truth or lying, no matter what he does. 

What is their favorite color?

Burgundy

Favorite flower/plant

Wolfsbane

Favorite sweet of choice

He is not a person who generally eats a lot, especially nothing that’s only “for pleasure” like something sweet. He has his wine kink for that. His favorite fruit is pomegranate. It's sweet, so I would go for that answer. 

Do they have any pets? If so, tell me about them

No he doesn’t have any pets. If so I’d see him as a dog person. 

What are their triggers {If they have any}? If so, what calms them down?

He has a rather disturbed attitude towards romantic relationships. He killed his girlfriend and great love Ghislaine after a series of unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances to which both probably contributed. It also happened shortly after Vlad had died for the first time and the extremely experimental technology that had kept him alive since then had taken its toll on his psyche. The event traumatized him for the rest of his life and since then he has found it very difficult to have a normal romantic relationship as he can no longer trust anyone and has lost almost all forms of sincere affection. Accordingly, everything that slightly reminds him of the day and the reason why his relationship ended back then is a huge trigger. And pity to those who have to experience one of his episodes. Another trigger is his father. He gave his son a lot of freedom when he was young. He allowed him to go his own way, even though he actually wanted Vladimir to work for SovOil like himself as soon as he was an adult. After watching his son die due to a few missteps, he decided to take his life into his own hands by ensuring that he was brought back from the dead, much to his mother's regret. Even though she had a rather cool relationship with her son, she was always the more caring part of the family. And she is a strong advocate of the movement that cyberware is something bad and cruel. Seeing her son as a walking corpse broke something in her, which is why she fell seriously ill and died just a few months later. The relationship between Vlad and his father had been very difficult ever since. On the one hand, he blamed him for his mother's death, but he was also ultimately the one who had given him back his life and ensured that he continued to be “improved” with more and more technology, which fueled the side in him that is hungry for power. However, he also has extremely high expectations of his son and does not hold back in showing him contempt when he is unable to fulfill them. Accordingly, every encounter with him is a severe test.  His third trigger is the memories he has of the events that led to his death. He can’t remember every single detail of them but enough to fall in a very tense state of mind every time he’s getting into a similar situation. His last trigger and basically the only reason I created him at all is Aon. He was tasked with hunting her down after she escaped from Moscow and, in the best case scenario, bringing her back to face punishment. However, this task turned out to be impossible, which put him in a situation where he could only report his failures over and over again, which after a few years raised doubts about his abilities and took a huge toll on his ego and reliability. Whenever he set off to a new attempt to catch her you really don't want to be one of the poor souls who have to accompany him on that task. 

If they could visit anywhere in the world, where would they go and why?

There are two places, but he only visits one of them more or less regularly. The place he is desperate to visit again is Tanger in Morocco, because that's where he met his Ghislaine and spent some of the best moments of his life with her. But if he were to return there, it would trigger him insanely. At least he is aware of that. The second place he likes to visit is Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where his best friend Roy invites him at least once a year during the ‘Fête du Beaujolais Nouveau’. Their connection is very special to him because he can talk to him about all his interests and they both keep out of each other's work and love lives, so there's nothing to really bother him. It's a carefree time where it feels like a lot of weight is falling off him. Of course, they sometimes meet up in Moscow or wherever their schedules coincide, but the time in France is always very special for him.  

What is their favorite comfort meal?

I know I said he doesn't like sweets, as in candy or such but his favorite food is Apple Strudel. His adoptive mother used to make it every week fresh and the smell of cinnamon and warm pastry are a fond memory for him. 

Do they have a food they hate?

Anything that's incredibly bland, stale or cheap. It reminds him of the “food” they had to eat in the orphanage and he’d rather forget everything about that time.

What is their favorite {non-alcoholic} drink?

The tears of his enemies. Probably just water or any fancy cyberpunkish drink with supplements that keep his tech running. 

What are their plans for the future {if they have any}?

He's so deep in the corporate world that his only plan is to continue climbing the career ladder. Apart from that, at a certain point he is so dissociative that it doesn't even occur to him to plan far ahead. For him, almost everything takes place exclusively in the present, at least as far as his private life is concerned, and he has no one at his side, except perhaps his best friend, who could give him a glimpse of something else. 

What's a song that "fits" them?

If I had to choose a theme song for him it would be Du hast kein Herz. 

Give me 5 facts/random bits of information about them

- His guns are called “Dies irae” and “Ab imo pectore” - The voices in his head have a very specific tone so that he can distinguish between them. The one that literally drives him mad, that makes him lose all control, sounds like his own but is heavily distorted. It sounds like an artificial entity and is often nothing more than a deep growl. The second voice, which is more commanding and judgemental towards him, sounds like his father. So whenever he is near his real father, as he is still alive, the voice either falls silent or he has to try very hard to distinguish which voice is the one in his head and the one in real life. The third voice, which he unfortunately never gets to hear in my headcanon or only perceive as a faint whisper, is again his own, but has the tone of voice and choice of words of a young and innocent boy.  - The only person he would describe as his one true friend is Elroy Vincennes - His favorite piece of music is Mozart’s Lacrimosa  - In rare moments of clarity he hates every little bit of tech that’s in his body

Give me their backstory {can be long, or brief.}

Vlad lived the first 8 years of his life in an orphanage in St. Petersburg before he was adopted by a wealthy couple and grew up to be a well-mannered corporate boy. As soon as he was old enough he got a job in the police force, shortly after completing his training he was given the opportunity to work in the KGB due to his outstanding skills, but this proved to be his undoing. A botched mission cost him his life which, unfortunately, was not the end for him. His father, a high-ranking member of the SovOil corporation, ensures that his son is revived by experimental technology and kept alive from then on by an artificial heart. The psychological consequences that this procedure and many others that followed had on Vlads psyche played a minor role for everyone involved. They saw the potential he carried within him and did not hold back from using it to their advantage. Since then, Vladimir, like his father, has worked for the mega-corporation for the Secret Police and has taken care of the interests of his employers in countless missions, most of them under cover.  In the mid-2050s, he met a young woman named Alyona for the first time, who kept him on the run across the country for a long time just a few years later and arguably became his greatest nemesis. 

Free Space! Give me any sort of extra information about them you'd like to share

It's been a wild ride creating this man. From the first draft in my head, where he only existed to be Aon's antagonist, to now, where I have to admit he's grown on me a lot, even though he's still a terrible guy. But I'm a sucker for the morally gray, he's definitely on the dark gray side, but the character development he's gone through in the last few months has just been insane and he's gained a lot of depth.

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