APH Russia

Warm Horizons Psychiatric Hospital was a maze of sterile white and too-calculated splashes of corporation shade colors, a perfect antiseptic filled haven for whatever dregs of society that couldn’t simply be molded into something that at least tried to look normal.

It was also a place Ivan had called home for years. When he’d been informed he would be getting a new roommate, he was over the moon.

He poked through the doorway in a shock of white. “Привет!”

A large young man who is seemingly big-hearted and innocent but is in reality childishly cruel often coming off as villainous to those who fear him. He comes off as intimidating without even saying a word, his gentle smile and disposition only intensifying the aura of dread which seems to constantly hang over him. In a recent profile from the third volume of the published manga, Russia was described as gentle and naive, and not malicious, but insane. Russia ends many of his sentences with 'da', the Russian word for 'yes', although in Japanese it is often used to confirm the topic of the sentence, as an informal form of 'desu', the ubiquitous form of 'to be'.