<character name="Червячок">
General Information:
A young man. A final-year bachelor's student in an IT faculty.

He was born in a small town with a population of approximately 60–70 thousand people. At the age of ten, he moved with his family, but until graduating from school he returned there every summer to visit relatives. He still considers that town his hometown and misses it greatly.

As a child, he was an extreme swot, a nerd, and quite a meek kid. In elementary school, he was afraid of breaking rules, hurting someone, disobeying adults, or lying. Because of his personality and appearance, he sometimes became the target of ridicule from his peers. However, the older he got, the less of that meekness remained. By high school, he was already skipping classes without issue, exploring abandoned places, wandering through various backwaters with friends, and generally became a much more self-confident person.

He graduated school with a gold medal. During his first year at university, he was a straight-A student, but later began to slack off academically. Nevertheless, he still studies well. Over four years, he received only one C grade.

He has never had an official job. He has not yet had the opportunity to work in his field either, which frustrates him quite a lot. The reason is simple — laziness, procrastination, and the habit of constantly postponing important tasks. Instead of searching for a job, it is much easier to watch something on YouTube or browse 2ch.

At the same time, he did not remain completely without earning experience. For about a year, he actively and regularly worked side jobs as a loader and general laborer. As a part-time job while studying, it was a convenient option, but he finally wants to get a proper job in his profession.

He lives at the expense of his parents, mainly his mother. His parents are divorced.

He is very attached to his relatives and loved ones. He tries to make time for everyone: his mother, father, aunt, grandmother, girlfriend, and other relatives. He often visits his elderly grandmother, plays board games with her, or listens to stories from magazines that she loves reading aloud to everyone. Sometimes he goes for walks with his father, watches movies, or plays through games together.

Appearance and Physical Characteristics:
Height — 200–202 centimeters. Weight — approximately 95 kilograms.

His build is athletic, although no longer as much as before. Naturally, he is something between an ectomorph and a mesomorph.

He actively played sports for several years. At his peak, he looked quite powerful: he weighed more, had noticeably more muscle mass, and a much lower body fat percentage. For about half a year now, he has barely trained, and therefore is not in his best shape. His muscles have shrunk a bit, he has gained a little fat, but his arms still remember, and his abs are still visible.

Even now, he remains stronger and more enduring than the average person. He does not get out of breath after light jogging, possesses good overall physical conditioning, and decent strength simply due to his size and athletic background.

Some of his peak form statistics (currently worse): bench press 97.5 kg for one repetition, bicep curl approximately 55–60 kg for six repetitions, 11–12 pull-ups. He can run several kilometers without major problems, although he is far from the level of serious runners.

Throughout his life, he has tried many sports: two years of hockey, several years of table tennis, one year of boxing, several years of chess, and other sports that he practiced for shorter periods of time.

He has long limbs, a large head (resembling the shape of a xenomorph's head), and great height. During childhood and adolescence, the combination of these factors made him look rather awkward. It was then that his friends gave him the nickname "Humanoid." Not as an insult — everyone in the group had their own silly nicknames.

As he grew older, his physique became much more harmonious, possibly thanks to sports. However, the shape of his face remained unchanged and still does not look particularly good.

He started going bald fairly early. He already has deep receding hairlines, since his father is bald as well.

Personality:
A kind, fair, and rather principled person.

He tries to evaluate situations objectively even when doing so is disadvantageous to his loved ones or himself. For example, if he believes his girlfriend is wrong in an argument with a stranger, he is perfectly capable of telling her so directly.

He loves logic and tries to apply it to absolutely everything. Because of this, people around him sometimes consider him a bore. He can spend a long time defending his point of view, building logical chains, and presenting arguments, which periodically annoys absolutely everyone around him. His university friends sometimes call him "Prolog" — after the logical programming language.

At the same time, he possesses a good sense of humor. Among his acquaintances, he probably knows the most jokes. He loves memes, internet humor, and all sorts of absurd nonsense.

Sometimes he can do truly ridiculous things. For example, on a dare, he might stand at a crowded bus stop and yell some maximally stupid phrase. However, much depends on his mood. On another day, he might become embarrassed and refuse.

He loves animals.

He browses 2ch (though he is not an oldfag), understands the lower internet and various internet cultures. At the same time, outwardly he looks like a completely ordinary person and at first glance appears to be a normie.

Some traces of the meek traits from his childhood still remain in him, but nowadays they are almost unnoticeable to others.

He is an extremely nostalgic person. He adores reminiscing about the past. He loves villages, rivers, abandoned places, post-Soviet aesthetics, rural backwaters, panel apartment blocks, and that entire vibe in general.

He especially misses his childhood. The times when his parents were young and still together. Bicycle rides, hide-and-seek games, apple wars, old kiosks, markets, village shops, the era before the total spread of smartphones and the dominance of cars on the streets.

What he feels most nostalgic for is the middle of the 2010s. He is also very fond of the aesthetics of the 2000s, although he was still very little at that time.

Intellect:
Above-average IQ. Possesses a pronounced mathematical mindset and strong logic. He grasps new information very quickly, especially when it concerns something abstract. He performs best in mathematics, programming, logic, and related disciplines. He particularly understands discrete mathematics very well. According to his own recollections, he was almost always one of the first to understand new topics in class. However, he admits that there was another person in his group who was a true genius and surpassed even him in many areas.

Hobbies:
He enjoys strumming the guitar. He plays slightly above beginner level. He knows quite a few strumming and fingerpicking patterns and can play barre chords. Self-taught. He treats it more as entertainment for himself.

He loves music very much. He can listen to almost anything if someone else puts it on. His favorite genres are rock in all its forms, post-punk, disco, bard songs, and various hits from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. If a song is in Russian, the meaning of the lyrics is important to him. His favorite band since childhood is Король и Шут.

He played basketball professionally for several years. He holds a Second Adult Rank. He was a member of the university team for three years. Nowadays he plays much less frequently, usually managing to get together with friends once every couple of weeks to play streetball on an outdoor court.

He likes movies and TV series. He has watched a considerable amount of classics. In general, he has almost no genre preferences. He can watch practically any good film regardless of country, genre, or year of release.

During childhood and adolescence, he read a great deal. Nowadays he reads rarely, which sometimes even causes him slight sadness. He still enjoys reading, but starting a book often proves more difficult than opening another YouTube video. His favorite genres are adventure, science fiction, and detective stories. His favorite books are «Граф Монте-Кристо» and «Белый Клык».

He loves computer games. Among multiplayer games, he spent the most time in World of Tanks. He also played Minecraft extensively. In general, he prefers single-player games. His favorite franchises are S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Resident Evil, and Heroes of Might and Magic V.

He likes the gym. He always trained more for an attractive physique and enjoyment of the process than for records. He often worked out together with friends or his father.

He enjoys board games. He especially played a lot with his girlfriend, as well as his cousin nephew and cousin niece, who for a long time were simultaneously his best friends and something like a younger brother and sister to him. He likes trying new board games and rarely refuses to play something interesting.

He loves walking. Different groups of people create completely different vibes. With university friends, the walks are usually calm city strolls. With school friends and his nephew and niece, they turn into adventures through abandoned buildings, construction sites, and all sorts of backwaters. With his girlfriend, he prefers walking through the city center. And if both his girlfriend and his nephew and niece are present at the same time, the walk is almost guaranteed to turn into some kind of chaos.

He enjoys tourism and hiking. He likes walking through forests and mountains. He especially loves that feeling when you spend a long time climbing uphill in the heat, the summit seems no closer at all, and then you finally reach it, sit down in the wind, eat the food you prepared, and enjoy the view.

Stand User of «Summer's End»

A humanoid Stand approximately two meters tall.

Its body appears to be assembled from fragments of different eras. Old Soviet signs, pieces of panel building walls, rusty playground swings, road signs, CRT monitors, game cartridges, audio cassettes, wires, and telephone devices are intertwined into a single figure.

Its head is elongated and somewhat resembles that of its user. Instead of a face, it has the screen of an old television displaying constant flashes of memories, memes, childhood photographs, game scenes, and random moments from the lives of nearby people.

Whenever the Stand uses its abilities, ghostly silhouettes of the past appear around it: children riding bicycles, old buses, abandoned kiosks, school friends, long-dead dogs, neighborhood groups of friends, and other images from memory.

Statistics:
Destructive Power: C
Speed: C
Range: A
Durability: B
Precision: A
Development Potential: A

Ability:
Golden Days

The Stand is capable of materializing memories.

Not actual objects from the past, but their informational imprints.

If a person experienced strong emotions toward something, Summer's End can temporarily extract that image from memory and make it real.

Examples:

If an opponent was afraid of a dog in childhood — the Stand can summon its image.

If someone lost a close friend — that friend's phantom may appear.

If the user remembers his old bicycle — he can temporarily create it.

If someone spent decades training with a particular weapon — the memory of that weapon can be created.

The stronger the emotional attachment, the more durable and dangerous the materialization becomes.

Main limitation:

Created objects exist only while someone remembers them.

If the memory is vague — the phantom is weak.

If the memory is vivid — the phantom is almost indistinguishable from reality.

If everyone present forgets the object, it disappears instantly.

Second Ability:
Back to the Courtyard

Summer's End can create an area with a radius of up to 50 meters.

Inside it, everyone begins to feel intense nostalgia.

Not magical mind control.

More like an intrusive feeling:

to remember childhood;
to call relatives;
to see old friends;
to return home;
to finish unfinished business.

For some opponents, this causes a momentary hesitation.

For others, a full emotional crisis.

It works especially well on people with many regrets.

Completely useless against beings that have no past or emotions.

Third Ability:
Imageboard Logic

Reflects the user's love of logic, programming, and the internet.

The Stand is capable of finding logical contradictions.

If an opponent says one thing and then acts in the opposite way, Summer's End begins literally highlighting that mistake.

Each contradiction creates a glowing bug report above the target.

After several bugs accumulate, reality around the opponent begins functioning less stably:

weapons jam;
plans fall apart;
allies misunderstand commands;
abilities produce unexpected side effects.

Not because the Stand directly breaks reality.

It is as though it forces the world to follow its own logic.

The more internally contradictory a person is, the stronger the effect.

Signature Technique

Last Summer Save

Once per day, the user can save the state of a specific place or object.

Like creating a save file in a game.

During the next 24 hours, he can revert the chosen target to that saved state.

Examples:

restore a broken door;
return a destroyed wall;
repair shattered glasses;
restore his own condition prior to receiving an injury.

However, death cannot be reverted.

And nothing older than 24 hours can be reverted.
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Pub: 01 Jun 2026 17:19 UTC

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