Appearance: A serious looking man with brown eyes and black hair kept in two braids. Has a smattering of freckles over his nose and wears what looks to be high ranking Fatui garb, though all Fatui emblems and paraphernalia have been removed.
Fighting Style: Uses his Delusion to absorb and re-release elemental energy as his own attacks. Specialized in taking out vision holders as a Fatui member. Otherwise, is very proficient with his polearm, enough to be feared even among the Fatui.
Story:
Born and raised in Snezhnaya, Kotik was raised with love for his country and reverence for the Tsaritsa
After his parent’s untimely deaths, he willingly joined the Fatui at a young age
Though he never received a vision, for his loyalty and strength he received a delusion and the new name Orazio from the Tsaritsa.
Years after making a name for himself, he was sent on a mission to take out a couple who were directly stalling the Tsaritsa’s plans. He was successful in his mission to end these threats before making a heartbreaking discovery that the two had a child. This brought back memories of his own parent’s untimely deaths, and seeing that he had just given a child the same fate as himself, Kotik became disillusioned with the Fatui, and began to question his own past.
He returned to Snezhnaya, returned to his Tsaritsa with questions about what happened to him as a child. The Tsaritsa answered his questions willingly, proving his suspicions to be true- the Fatui killed his parents, sentenced to death for speaking out against the Fatui and the Tsaritsa.
Kotik was enraged and left the Zapolyarny Palace, the Tsaritsa making no move to stop him while his once fellow Fatui agents fought him every step of the way.
He escaped, barely, and left Snezhnaya for good, and now hides his identity to protect himself both from the enemies of the Fatui, and the Fatui themselves.
Notes:
Kotik is a Russian term of endearment meaning cat.
Sad
Has probably fought Diluc at least once while Diluc was in Snezhnaya. Either ended in a tie, or with Diluc winning (with Diluc pissed that Kotik was so young at the time, and yet fought so well)
Commonly just called Blind or Unseeing by other Fatuus, both as a title, and as a remark on him being visionless
Though he was respected, most other Fatuus either feared or outright disliked him
If he had stayed with the Fatui, he could have been in line to become a Harbinger due to his fighting prowess and the Tsaritsa’s favor over him
i have been receiving and reading daily poetry emails for quite literally every day of my adult life. yet somehow every time i seek to compile collections of quotes for people, there is a solid 70% chance a line from andrei bely will creep in there, a man who normal english-speaking people have never heard of and who i obsessively read every single one of his works i get my hands on.
i feel like both of these are if not individual red flags, at least yellow ones, and they are both things that make me go "fucking of course you write urianger, you weird little fruit"