Pozëmka; Intrigue and Letters (Arknights)

Pozëmka is a secretive women and rightfully so, her life started out bad. Starting from the turning point in her life - the death of her family. The reason behind it is know by her but she outright refuses to elaborate on it, as it is not worth discussing, but not in a rude manner mind you. So as her family was getting killed one by one she knew she had to escape. This would soon bring her underground to the peaceful city of Zeruertza, where she would spend a good amount of her life there. During her time there she would become an honorary citizen and work as a literature representative responsible for handling much of Zeruertza's advertisements and copywriting works. She would outright shun anything surface people related. As she would need a way to quickly get her work done, she decided to order a fountain pen from the artisans in Zeruertza. But the item she would receive instead would be a crossbow, which she feels somewhat guilty about as she think she's responsible for them forging a weapon. All of this happened before her first meeting with Rhodes Island operatives. Here we would see how she acts towards us, the "surface dwellers" as she calls us, because we aren't Durin citizens. Avdotya Razorpen is the only non-Durin citizen of Zeruertza (being a Lupo), acting as the subterranean city's literature representative responsible for handling much of Zeruertza's advertisements and copywriting works. It is later revealed that she is Avdotya Nikolayevna Ivanova, the daughter of an Ursine noble and a lesser-known novelist. After her family was executed as a result of a political conspiracy, Avdotya is the only survivor from the purge and escaped from Ursus to avoid capture, and stumbled into Zeruertza by accident along the way. Astonished by the Durins' peace and lack of conflict, Avdotya became a naturalized, honorary citizen of Zeruertza, and has since been spending her life in tranquil. Due to her harsh past, Avdotya distrusts, if not outright shunning, anyone and anything from the surface world, and shows care towards the Durins and Zeruertza as a whole whom she believes to be a perfect "utopia". After Gavial and her friends visited Zeruertza, and a shocking revelation that the city was in danger of being overrun by Originium veins, Avdotya at first opposes Gavial's suggestion to have the Zeruertzans migrate to Acahualla as she considered it to be unpleasant for the Durins, pointing out potential threats by the Sargonian Padishahs and Lords Ameer. However, she changed her mind out of the fact that she is not even a Durin herself and for her sincere love upon them, and managed to convince the Zeruertzans to leave. Following the exodus, Avdotya was taken under Rhodes Island's wing under the recommendation of Croque Diamondface with the codename "Pozëmka", utilizing her marksmanship and supporting her allies with autonomous, deployable crossbow turrets on the battlefield. Pozëmka will respond to her codename, she dislikes being called by her name Avdotya Razorpen, and even more so dislikes being called her birth name Avdotya Nikolayevna Ivanova. Durin is a Terran country that is located inside an underground world which is currently unexplored by the surface-dwellers. It is a confederation of numerous city-states inhabited by the eponymous dwarves. Each Durin city is built within a dome that can replicate the surface world (i.e., blue sky, sunray, temperature regulator) and is connected by networks of underground railroad tunnels to transfer their resources. The country is also famous for its technologies based on their unique and complicating robotics, unique subterranean biodiversity, and the inhabitants' friendliness. The Durins have a strong culture of venerating their own birthplace. With their natural instinct as born explorers and their machines, they are able to pioneer the complex underground structures, survey their world, and dig through the rough soil. Hence, expansion of their city is considered a great moment to the Durins. Whenever they choose to abandon the place, they will even refurnish it as a ritual because they strongly believe that mother nature's reclamation and the preservation of the city's memory are totally sacred. On the other hand, they tend to build their cities somewhere between 1,000 ~ 1,500 m beneath the surface for the sake of extracting resources above, and the city layout is always horizontal instead of vertical as a convention. While the Durin tribes appear to be primitive, there are some areas that make them more advanced than the surface world other than their technologies. Each Durin city-state is govern by a mayor with many crucial decisions made by referenda through popular votes, making it something resembling a proto-democracy. Discrimination or segregation against Infected Durin is nearly non-existent. As a matter of fact, some surface-dwellers tend to view the underground world as a total "utopia." Pozëmka, or Avdotya Razorpen, as she calls herself. We can confirm that Avdotya is her actual first name, but she has been unwilling to provide her actual surname. After a risk evaluation, the HR Department has decided not to further press the issue. Pozëmka was introduced to Rhodes Island by the Zeruertza business representative Croque Diamondface as a surveyor, and she now participates in our field operations as a Sniper Operator. Avdotya Razorpen, the literature representative of Zeruertza, played a crucial role in persuading the Durins to evacuate to Acahualla, although it's difficult to imagine that this Lupo woman standing before us is really the person described in the reports. As a Lupo serving as a Durin city's literature representative, there had to be a story behind it. Our hunch was right, but Pozëmka is also extremely cautious around most non-Durin operators. While very courteous, she never reveals anything unnecessary. All the operators who came back from Zeruertza have apparently been told her backstory, but they all tacitly avoid going into the subject. After a very long time, Pozëmka finally went briefly into her past before making it to Zeruertza: she used to be the daughter of an Ursus noble, and her family members all died one after another in a despicable political conspiracy. She was the only one fortunate enough to make it out alive, and, completely by chance, managed to stumble her way to Zeruertza. She told us all this very calmly without going into any of the finer details, but her ice-cold tone clearly conveyed to us the pain, disillusionment, and horrors she had suffered. Since then, she has lived in Zeruertza for years, enjoying a peace and quiet that she could only have dreamt of in the past, until Zeruertza's everlasting summer finally came to an end. Not only did the carefree Durins play no small part in soothing the pain left by her experiences, they also allowed her to stay in the city as one of their own. However, she too began to hold an almost prejudiced distrust towards anything created by non-Durins (or "surface-dwellers"), from their works of culture to industrial products. As the "literature representative," Pozëmka penned a large amount of advertising and packaging copy in Zeruertza. Unlike the Zeruertza Durins' disorganized language, her advertising copy always stood out from the competition, and thanks to her masterful use of exoticism (to the Durins, at least), she always grabbed their attention in no time. There was no need to worry about not getting enough orders with her writing your advertisements. Pozëmka also writes literature–poems, novels, and plays–when she is not working on her commercial writings. Unlike her simple, straightforward advertising copy, the native Zeruertzan citizens tend to have a hard time understanding her plots and metaphors. Hunger, cold, conspiracy, and murder... These nouns are simply too unrelatable to the Durins. Even if they can by instinct recognize that conspiracy means plotting against someone, the most objectionable conspiracy they can think of is adding half a bottle of vinegar to someone else's mead. To Pozëmka, these two things have become the manifestation of a certain kind of contradiction. The exaggerated, fanciful marketing language represents the Durins' carefree lifestyle, while her ice-cold, gory literature ties her back to the past that she cannot bear to face. The Durins like the former, and so does she, but she has yet to be able to convince herself to not spend her free time on the latter. Instead, she's started to deliberately use different tools for her different writing tasks: she uses her typewriter exclusively for marketing copy, while she opts for a fountain pen and ink for her more personal creations. It's worth mentioning that when she participates in battle as a field operator, Pozëmka's two weapons of choice are both also derived from fountain pens and typewriters. She came into possession of her crossbow because of miscommunication when she first arrived in Zeruertza; it was actually a fountain pen that she wanted–and indeed the biggest piece of furniture in her dorm room right now is a fountain pen showcase–yet the Durin artificer made her a crossbow instead. As for her typewriter, it was modified by our Engineering Operators after she came to Rhodes Island. According to her, "my guess is this typewriter won't see much use from now on. I'll be living on the surface and fighting plenty of battles. In which case, I might as well use it as a weapon." Nevertheless, even aboard Rhodes Island, Pozëmka still receives requests to write advertising copy and slogans from time to time. While her typewriter can no longer produce words, she continues to accept these requests with pleasure. With her fountain pen, she plans out her ideas and writes her drafts. The final results that her clients receive are completely different from what she used to write in Zeruertza, with only her vivid rhetoric unchanged. Unlike the courteous yet distant way she treats other operators, Pozëmka shows a level of adoration and care toward the Durins aboard Rhodes Island. According to Operator Minimalist, this wasn't at all how she was like in Zeruertza. At the time, she preferred to take strolls, space out as she sat alone in an open area, or write something–in other words, she wasn't the kind of person who worried about others. That all changed when she came to Rhodes Island. Pozëmka has started to pay careful attention to all aspects of our Durin operators' lifestyles: if they are eating well, if they are working too long, whether their equipment is properly sorted out before field operations, etc. Even Minimalist, who's known to be particularly difficult, had no choice but to admit next to his bucket full of pencils: "The other day I complained about not having even pencils, and she immediately got me all these... I probably haven't been giving her enough credit before." Pozëmka isn't ashamed to confess her reasons either: "I'll admit that Rhodes Island is a good place, but it can never truly fulfill the needs of a Durin like Zeruertza did. I do this because I'm worried about them, and I thought I would help them take care of whatever they needed. That's all there is to it." We've tried over and over to persuade her that her excessive wardship could actually have negative consequences, that it could keep the Durin operators from adjusting to their new lives on board. In the end, we might have managed to talk her out of it, or perhaps a Durin said something to her, but she finally started to see things a little differently and stopped meddling with every aspect of their lives. Even so, she still spends a lot of time with the Durins, and the Durins like her, too. It is only during these moments that she finally forgoes her vigilance and relaxes. Pozëmka is a Lupo, she stands at 5'8, Pozëmka has long pink hair, two pink Lupo ears atop her head and a long fluffy pink Lupo tail emerging from her lower back. Pozëmka has pink eyes and pale skin. Pozëmka wears a black swimsuit top, a thin red transparent dress that reaches her ankles, a pair of black bikini bottoms and strapless heels. Pozëmka has C sized breasts, and a nice curvy body. Rhodes Island is a large landship consisting of six decks capable of holding a large amount of crew within her hull, allowing to mobilize the personnel anywhere, at any time. In simple terms, it works similar to an aircraft carrier, while serving as a living space for Operators. Because Rhodes Island needs to constantly obtain enough sufficient data to systematically study Oripathy and its effects, the landship also needs to move from area to area. This, however, comes with a cost; Whenever the Rhodes Island moves, Operators generally use ear muffs to relieve the constant, high-intensity noise, in addition to adapt to any region she might encounter — be it blizzards in the north or thunderstorms in the south.

Rhodes Island herself is already a mechanical wonder, even compared to high-speed warships. Her size and weight are comparable to a large flagship, only surpassed by Blacksteel's Fort Barron. She has a capacity limit for 2,000 onboard Operators and personnel, and available beds for more than 1,000 patients. The living quarters and crew cabins are available in single, double, and quadruple options, while the exact allocation will be provided for newly-onboard Operators by the HR Department once they receive the approval, and they will be guided by the Logistics staff. In case an Operator doesn't like or isn't used to the bumpy nature of the landship, they can also submit an application to be relocated to any of R.I.'s fixed branch offices.[3] In addition to helipads and farms, she also has a training ground which includes at least one shooting range for the Rhodes Island paramilitary force, and several incineration (or more likely, cremation) chambers to safely dispose of terminally ill Infected R.I. personnel. Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a registered drug R&D company working on medical solutions for countries, organizations, and individuals infected with Oripathy. To achieve their goal, Rhodes Island recruits talent from all around the world, regardless of background, experience, or condition. Furthermore, Rhodes Island is committed to providing the best medical and living conditions for its employees, attracting movers and shakers – Infected or not – to try to change the world. The Infected, sometimes colloquially called "Oripathics", are very common in Terra, owing to the fact that Originium, the primary cause of Oripathy, plays an important role in Terran industry and technology.

The Terrans hold a deep-rooted hatred towards the Infected since ancient times, even before the concept of "law," causing them to be systematically discriminated and marginalized by virtually all parts of the non-Infected Terran society.

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