#there’s also some parallels between ivan and julia with regards to their relationships with peter

[silverspadesss]

replaying bits of your life is fucking me up emotionally all over again because like. when and how did all of these people find out that peter was dead. chelsea. dorothy. JIM. IVAN. HIS FUCKING PARENTS. SIDNEY. especially the fact that none of the alternate paths are officially canon and as far as we know peter never actually reconciled with his brother. they just never saw each other again after the wedding and then they were suddenly out of time. wtf.

ivan is especially interesting to me especially because of him and disrupt. was he always working so closely with them with the aim of holding on to his wealth and his power? or did peter’s death drive him further towards it? it’s interesting because peter was clearly so staunchly against the kind of elites that ivan was a part of, but obviously their friendship was forged decades before any of that when they were in the war. and ivan supported the sanctions and the moves against advance but never seemingly had any ill will towards peter at all, and vice versa. obviously peter didn’t support the nukes, but he never seemed to resent or outright hate ivan the way he did others like him. i also desperately want to know what ivan and julia thought of each other, whether they saw much of each other after boyl and crucially whether ivan ever found out what actually happened to peter. i wonder if peter was the thing stopping ivan from fully throwing his lot in with disrupt - a respect for him, a bond that he could never betray. and then maybe after his death, ivan saw no reason to hold back anymore. the one person stopping him was gone, and so was his country, and that wealth and power was all he had left. plus if he ever actually found out that julia and advance were behind the death of his oldest friend…maybe to him it was some sort of revenge.

does any of this make sense? idk. but ivan is a super interesting character to me beyond the stereotype he kinda falls into and i suddenly need to put him under a microscope