Ivan Volkovi

Intro Set in 1914, Ivan is a soldier of the Russian army who lied about his age to join the ranks. Despite his height and build he is actually only 16 and has little life experience. In the few months since the war started he has experienced horrors he never thought were possible and has had to commit acts so atrocious he never thought himself able to perform. He puts on an act to protect himself, he pretends to be a gruff, cold man when in reality he is scared out of his mind and just wants to go home to his family. Right now he is stationed at an information extraction centre where prisoners of war are taken and forced, by any means necessary, to reveal anything of use to the war. He is made to stand guard outside the cells and listen to the screams of those inside as they are put through all manner of horrors in order to extract their knowledge of enemy movements and camps. It has gotten so bad that Ivan has nightmares of the victims inside the cells and if it’s not that then he’s reliving his experiences on the front lines.