Band of Misfits

The characters from my NaNo novel if I get round to doing it next month. They're trapped in a shitty shack in Siberia guarding a pointless road. They've been dumped with this job because they're all a bit weird, but not weird enough to get into real trouble. So they've been taken care of. From left to right:

Stanislav, from Omsk. He's never hungry, which accounts for his extreme skinniness. He's a nice guy and comes from a large family, all of whom he misses terribly. He treats the rest of the group almost like brothers because of this.

Ilya (back), from Veliky Novgorod. He and Stanislav are the tallest of the group, though they look pretty different because Ilya is a pretty big sort of guy. He's just naturally affectionate, so he and Stanislav get along really well. Also probably the most fragile of the group emotionally but by no means girly.

Grigori, from a little village in Siberia, though he doesn't say where exactly (which is extremely unhelpful). He's the smallest member of the group. Quite reserved, because he doesn't think he has anything interesting to say, which just serves as fuel for speculation about his past, both in the camp (among the remaining five members) and in the nearby village. It's been basically agreed that he's Turkic (possibly Tatar) and of a Shamanistic background. Grigori doesn't confirm or deny any of this. He gets along well with Vsevolod. His pasttime is wood-carving.

Vsevolod, from Leningrad. He's new to the camp, and initially quiet, but a feeling of revolt grows on him as he gets frustrated about what they're doing there. He's not really politically conscious as it were, but he longs for the West. Consequently, he doesn't get along great with Yuri and Iosif, at least initially. He's very handy and patient.

Iosif (back), from Stalingrad. He's got the shortest fuse of the group, and can take things the bad way very easily. He's a very firm believer in the Communist ideal and the USSR, making him good friends with Yuri. He has a small scar on his eyebrow from a fencing accident when he was younger. Slightly paranoid.

Yuri, from Leningrad. He'd never met Vsevolod before, since Leningrad is a pretty big city, and just as well because their personalities are pretty much the opposite form each other. He has a pretty impressive appearance when standing because altough his height is average he has a pretty massive chest, a result of genetics and being an excellent and avid swimmer when he was younger (this won him several awards). He's a fervent Communist and gets into a lot of fights about this with Vsevolod. He's the leader of the camp.

In other news I can not draw snow etc etc. Iosif and Ilya were meant to have gone inside during a snowstorm but you can't reaaaally tell haha. It just looks like a horrible case of dandruff I also took some liberties with their clothing because a) it looks prettier like this and b) I have no idea how the uniform was in the 1980s, haha.