Ilya

ILYA is the main character of the screenplay.

Personality
Ilya is the only person who works on the third floor of the printing-house which contains largely boxes of supplies. His manner is largely flat, which sometimes brings him into conflict with his coworkers and others who perceive him as being rude or disrespectful.

Ilya goes out of his way to avoid experiencing emotions if possible. It is typically more possible when he is among other people and less possible when he is alone with his thoughts. Many of the emotions he experiences are negative, hence his general avoidance of them.

Natalya
NATALYA is Ilya’s wife.

Nadya
NADYA is Natalya’s partner and Ilya’s flatmate.

Nadya teases him regularly. Although he is accustomed to it, it may still upset him when he is feeling particularly sensitive or irritable (which is often). Ilya and Nadya are alike because they both struggle a lot in social situations and have flat voices but Nadya has a tendency to act more aggressively and Ilya also frequently talks at inappropriate volumes.

Nikita
NIKITA is Ilya’s lover. He works often and lives in his own apartment, and Ilya sometimes feels that they are more distant than he would like.

Sveta
SVETA is Ilya’s coworker. They have a particularly complicated relationship, as Ilya perceives him as being overbearing.

Ilya and Sveta both have poor social skills but in opposite directions because Ilya is more of an isolator and doesn’t want to socialize with people and Sveta likes to socialize. However, Sveta doesn’t understand that it’s socially inappropriate to pick certain people he likes to stand close and talk to all the time.

Sveta likes Ilya and Ilya doesn’t like it that Sveta gravitates towards him and stands in his way when he’s walking around but Sveta doesn’t pick up on that and Ilya would rather just put up with it then talk to him.

Sveta is also an Orthodox Christian and believes strongly in angels, which Ilya contests him on.

Konstantin
KONSTANTIN is Ilya’s coworker. They are on friendly terms. Ilya doesn’t have many more thoughts on him besides that.

Artemiy
ARTEMIY is an artist frequently published in VANGUARD. Dealing with artists directly is not part of Ilya’s job, but Artemiy seems to seek him out deliberately. Ilya hates dealing with him and views him as terribly dismissive and disrespectful of his boundaries; consequently, Artemiy is one of the few people to whom Ilya is openly and deliberately rude.