a lot of ppl haven’t comprehended that the entity he represents is an aggressive imperialist power, and when you mix that into shipping discourse you see a lot of rosewashing/overlooking the unequal nature of his relationships w non western characters
You are GOING to have to write him to have deep rooted issues with black people, immigrants, women, and etc. or it just doesn’t make sense. And Ivan isn’t the person who’s going to be able to fix any of THOSE issues. a white gay from Russia is going to be useless regarding it
Yall ain’t gunna like this… but if you want to make Alfred suffer from internalized homophobia from religion/cult/maga…. You gunna also have to make him racist/sexist/transphobic. people who think gays are going to hell aren’t woke on every other topic.
Not to be a hater but I rlly don’t get the amount of rusame fics where al has deep internalized homophobia and Ivan doesn’t. So the character from a country where gay marriage is legal is having a crisis while the dude from one where gay pride publicly is illegal isn’t? okay…