Heydar Abuzkharoglu

Heydar Abuzkharoglu (full name: Heydar Abuzkharoghulu Aliyev) is the Main Character and Protagonist of the Toxic Soviets Comic Series. Born in the central Anatolian region of Turkey to a nomadic family, Heydar began his career in the USSR as a weary carpet seller and would later on serve as the People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs for completing his mission in the Cuban War.
== Backstory ==
=== Early Life ===
Born to a nomadic Turkish family in central Anatolia, Heydar was the youngest of 12 brothers. His parents, Abuzkhar Aliyev (father) and Emine Aliyev (mother) were lower class shepherds who put a lot of pressure on their sons to maintain their own businesses and become economically self sufficient as soon as possible. This was hastened by the global recession occurring during the teenage years of Heydar's life, and as Heydar was not suited to the work of the rural lifestyle and was more suited to urban skills like negotiation and journalism, his parents saw it best to force him out of the house into the real world.
After being kicked out of the household he was raised in, Heydar decided that he would dedicate the rest of his life to becoming an important figure in the world, to prove to his parents and others that doubt him that he was worth something. Being the youngest child instilled in him a sense of inferiority as his brothers exceeded him in every tangible way, and this further motivated him to achieving his goal. 
== Toxic Soviets Events ==
=== Volume 1: The Beginning ===
Heydar, a humble carpet merchant, arrives near Moscow after a long trek across the frozen Russian wilderness. Unbeknownst to the naïve traveller however, he trips and falls down a radioactive zone. Heydar gathers himself after the fall before suddenly, a mysterious medal greets Heydar at his feet. But before Heydar gets the chance to ask any questions Heydar is abruptly ambushed by an unverified which demands Heydar return the medal to it. Thankfully, his life is spared when the beast is swiftly vanquished by Babush, a soviet border guard who introduces Heydar to the Soviet Union and warns him of the dangers of the contaminated water, politicians, and the radioactive air. 
At last setting foot in Moscow, Heydar is brought to tears being reminded of the motive for his journey, to bring his family honour by making a name for himself. Heydar recalls his earlier conversation with Babush and the warnings he gave him but before being given the time to doubt him, Heydar runs into Faded Escobar, an enthusiastic individual who spares no time in inviting Heydar to his services. Heydar declines the offer, uncomfortable about Faded's sketchy character before they are quickly ambushed by a mob of antifa. Faded then uses his perms to flee from the crowd, much to their dismay, leaving Heydar alone to confront the savagery group. 
Heydar is then mugged by the crowd, having his gold and carpets stolen from him but before they could do any more damage the mysterious medallion activates, giving Heydar superhuman strength he uses to quickly knock out his attacker. Frightened, the gang disperses leaving a now terrified Heydar in the cold of the Russian night, stripped of his all his belongings. 
=== Volume 2: Why Cuba? ===
Heydar is now left depressed and confused in a Bar, where he is confronted by an Old Bolshevik by the name of Abbie. Later, Shadow Hokaj appears and, after pranking him, offers him a meeting with Generalissimus Leon and a job in the Two Month Plan’s program. Heydar then goes to meet with the Generalissimus in his tent, and it is decided that he will be sent on a mission to Cuba. Although hesitant, Heydar ends up going. While in the Cuban Gallego Airport , Heydar meets with Leon (although he doesn’t know it’s him), who is disguised as an American diplomat as part of the mission. He is also given clothes to wear for his disguise and the operation proceeds. 
Upon arriving in the Palace, Heydar sees the dead bodies of two Soviet diplomats who were executed by the Cuban Authorities, with their deaths also being the reason for the Conflict. Though at first they manage to trick the Guards, they are soon caught, get chased and are forced to escape through a vent, thus ending up in the corridors of the Palace. There, Heydar expresses his frustration and anxiety, but he is comforted by Leon later on. The two are spotted by a Cuban Guard who hesitates on shooting them and eventually is disarmed by Leon with the use of his Perm. Meanwhile, Heydar was sent to grab the nuclear documents, however he ends up coming across Emperor Joel Gallego of Cuba and his Government Officials, who order his execution. However, he is saved thanks to the activation of the Heydar Aliyev Order, where he meets a superhuman being who calls himself Heydarius X. After discussing, Heydar agrees to let Heydarius take over his body in order to defeat the Cubans, and so it happens, with Heydarius defeating multiple guards and forcing the Emperor himself to fight. 
Throughout the fight with the Cuban Emperor, Heydar serves as the brain to Heydarius’ brawn, however Heydarius doesn’t listen and as a result is outsmarted multiple times. After an intense fight, Heydar comes up with the idea to throw water onto the electric sword of Emperor Gallego, and although hesitant at first, Heydarius accepts and as a result a Soviet Victory is granted. Upon leaving, Leon declares that he is impressed with Heydar’s work and promotes him to Chief Diplomat of the USSR for his Victory. 
=== Volume 3: The Voronezh Regime ===
During Leon’s vacation and Wilhelm’s promotion to incumbent President of the Soviet Union, granting him Generalissimus powers, Heydar begins to worry about the state of the leadership. In multiple instances he gets into quarrels with Wilhelm Pieck and disagrees with him, albeit he tries to remain calm and stable. Due to his Anti-Wilhelm views, he is approached by the always opportunistic Faded, who offers Heydar to join his plan in ousting Wilhelm and declaring him as the Generalissimus instead. Though hesitant, Heydar accepts, thinking that nothing can be worse than Wilhelm's leadership. 
The next day, after Faded has already gathered his support through bribery and corruption, Heydar thinks of a plan for the coup which is later on implemented. On the day of the coup, Heydar and Joseph gather in the Red Square as they hold Anti-Wilhelm signs and try to encourage the people to join the protest. Though doubtful, the plan ends up working and large crowds of people gather to voice their support. Meanwhile, Heydar runs off quickly to inform Faded, Casreor and the armed forces of the plan’s success. With the arrival of Faded and the army, Heydar watches the Duel of Faded against Wilhelm as he comes across Abbie, the old Bolshevik who he met in the bar, and Grill, a conservative Old Bolshevik who voices his dislike towards the new generation of immigrants. While they discuss, Heydar also wishes to know more about perms, how one finds his and how it works, with Grill accepting to educate Heydar on them. 
Following Faded’s victory, Heydar voices his doubts of the Party in the Kremlin, claiming that it’s destructive for the government and showing his doubts of the New Leader early on. The next day, Heydar finds out about Faded’s mountainous amounts of debt and bribery, with him now being openly aggressive and mad towards Faded. Faded’s solution of printing money didn’t help, and Heydar proceeded to attack him and shut down the money printing machine. This bickering is later interrupted after the government is informed of a crime that has taken place in a small cabin in the woods. 
Heydar becomes one of the top people in the investigation process, with him communicating with the victim and searching for possible suspects, as well as clues. Later on with all suspects gathered, Heydar stops Vasily from his aggressive interrogation and takes on the mantle himself, interrogating calmly and presenting clues (despite punching Spoop for insulting his family). Later when Faded frames Wilhelm and accuses him of being guilty in the crime, Heydar doubts him in his thoughts and then looks at Grill, who is standing ominously, fueling his suspicion that perhaps he was the criminal. 
=== Volume 4: Noreaga’s Dungeon ===
Following Leons return, Heydar finds himself in a private meeting with members of the central committee. Upon hearing Leons plans for war, Heydar impresses Leon with his suggestion of sending an ultimatum to Warsaw rather than an instant attack. Leon agrees to his suggestion and sends Heydar to a diplomatic mission to Poland, accompanied by Grills and the recently appointed officers of the KGB: Svoboda and Joseph Konstantin.
Heydar's enthusiasm is quickly abrupted by anxiety as he begins to stress about how he will present himself during diplomatic talks but is supported by Joseph who suggests him to write a speech to help prepare him. Heydar notices that Joseph was quietly doodling by himself when his perm activates much to both their surprise as his drawing of a spider in the corner of the ceiling is killed when Joseph scrunches up the drawing. Any excitement the two had upon this discovery is abruptly ended when the helicopter they are travelling on is attacked over the skies of Poland and they are forced to crash into the forest below. Heydar is quick to anger as he blames Grill for the crash and then attempts to attacks Grill before being pushed off and commanded to stay calm. The group are made to set camp for the night until they land themselves in a hunters trap triggered accidentally by Heydar.
The group are then attacked by a worm cyclops which they narrowly evade before finding themselves in a new area and hunted by a hoard of unverifieds. The group finally find refuge in an area of the old building they find themselves in but Heydar is pained by his homesickness and hunger for his homemade kebabs.
Upon further travelling down the building tunnels the group discover they are in a dungeon filled with the unverified. They discover a new room decorated with crystals and strange glyphics but then Heydar notices Grill place something within his pocket. Heydar confronts Grill who then reveals about his knowledge of his medal and his distrust of Heydar, telling him his true purpose for accompanying the mission was to keep an eye on him. Before the confrontation gets any more heated, they are quickly swarmed by unverifieds but are thankfully rescued by Felix, A former polish duke who was imprisoned for offending the Queen who explains he has been consuming unverifieds to sustain himself (much to the disgust of Heydar). The group now including Felix draws up a plan to escape which they accomplish thanks to the worm cyclops being distracted by Heydar. The group now return to the surface awaiting the rescue team that has been sent to return them to safety.
=== Volume 5: Operation Fallen Eagle ===
Heydar, Joseph, Grill and the newly recruited Felix get rescued following their previous incident, with Leon, Svoboda and a squadron of KGB agents arriving to rescue them. In the helicopter, Heydar is excited in his descriptions of what went on in the dungeon and he is also happy for being rescued and coming out of it alive. Heydar thinks that they’ll head back home and their diplomat mission will be cancelled, however Leon insists on carrying on with his plans, much to Heydar’s anger.
Heydar is next seen with Poland along with the rest of the Soviets, where the helicopter lands near the Palace and gets spotted by a squad of Polish Guards, who threaten them to put their hands up and state what they’re there for. The Guards are skeptical of the large amount of Guards, to which Heydar replies that they’ll stay behind and that they’re here for peaceful negotiations before being interrupted by the Queen’s arrival, who agrees to negotiate and have dinner with the Soviets (much to her brother’s disdain).
In the Dinner, Heydar, who is still anxious about what he’s going to say, attempts to make a speech on why the USSR has arrived to talk with Poland as an answer to the Queen’s question. However, Heydar is overridden with anxiety, and soon after Anne "goes to the bathroom" for a short while and the rest of people started chatting again, he feels as if he completely screwed up. When Leon writes "OUT" in the notebook as a signal to the KGB, Heydar mistakenly thinks that he’s ordering him to get out, thus proceeding to take his leave before being stopped by Leon, who tells him to keep going right when the Queen arrives. After that, Heydar’s speech goes on normally and he begins by getting a list of all delegates from both nations.
Heydar is interrupted with the rest of his procedures when Leon asks that people rise of the Polish anthem, something surprising and sudden. However, Leon "mixes up the tapes" and plays the Soviet anthem instead, much to everyone’s shock. Heydar is watching the events unfold as Franz rages at Leon and even punches him for suspecting that the Soviets are plotting against Poland. Heydar then carries on with his speech once again before being interrupted by Franz, who, after acquiring information about a rat within the Polish ranks, gathers all janitors in the dinner room. Heydar, however has no idea how any of what Franz is doing or saying relates to the "diplomatic mission", and he soon gets disappointed once Polish officials start rebelling against the Soviets’ arrival, siding with Franz. When Franz smacks a cleaning lady’s head on the table (the same person who he suspects of being the rat of the KGB), Heydar rages at him and asks him to leave her alone before Franz starts taunting Heydar for the KGB mic behind her ear. Heydar starts panicking and questioning the event’s true intentions, when he asks Leon if any of what Franz is saying is true.
When all 3 Soviet officials are being threatened with death by Franz, Leon runs off with Heydar and Grill when he drops a few hidden smoke bombs into the ground. They escape to the backyard of the palace, where they’re unexpectedly met by a Squad of Polish Guards alongside their Chief in their command. Franz and the rest of the Poles then show up behind them and taunts them with now, leaving Heydar to seriously panic and worry about his life. Heydar is devastated when the blow up the Soviet helicopter however the Soviets take a complete 360 turn once it’s revealed that Svoboda was the spy within the Polish ranks, going up behind Franz with a gun pointing at him. With the ground starting to shake, Heydar suspects it’s an earthquake before a giant explosion hits the palace, much to Heydar’s already giant shock. Following that point, he is left with no words when the KGB start ambushing the Polish soldiers and kidnapping the Polish officials in vans. 
It is then revealed that Leon, following Grill’s idea, decided to keep the mission a secret from Heydar so his emotional and over-sensitive personality doesn’t cause any disturbances. When Heydar finally asked what really happened in this supposed diplomatic mission accompanied by Leon’s bodyguards, it is revealed by Joseph that everything screw-up that took place in the meeting was coordinated to take control over the palace and kidnap the royal family. This absolutely fuels Heydar’s anger, where he immediately starts shouting and goes on to attack Leon and Grill for not telling him about any of this, especially since he’s the Head of Foreign Affairs, thus furthering increasing his suspicions that he is not trusted by anyone in the government. When Svoboda shoots Franz, Heydar asks he does something about it, and that what he did was immoral and screwed up. Heydar then goes on to shout at Leon for every other vile act that happened throughout this event, with Leon still insisting that sacrifices for the greater good needed to be made. In the end, Heydar feels as if he’s not being respected or trusted and that he’s treated as an outsider by everyone. 
== Personality ==
Heydar is energetic, curious, empathetical and hot-headed. He values emotion and is able to communicate easily with others and understand them thanks to his empathetic nature, which allows him to serve as a talented diplomat and negotiator. However, he often has misunderstandings with people who conflict with him in beliefs and values. Heydar is very strict in his adherence to certain ethical principles, and will challenge anyone who opposes them. He can be angered relatively easily, which causes him to be quite impulsive and rash at times. Essentially a chaotic good character, combining a good heart with a free spirit.
Heydar is also quite intelligent and enjoys journaling and poetry.
== Relationships ==
=== Faded ===
Being one of the first major figures Heydar comes across during his arrival at Moscow, Faded quickly proved to be sleazy and untrustworthy. In the conflict between Wilhelm and Faded, Heydar chose to support Faded as he assumed he would be the lesser of the two evils. Ultimately however, Heydar's emphasis on moral integrity and honesty starkly contrasts with Faded's character. This leads the two characters to be at odds in most cases.
=== Grill ===
Heydar's first impressions of Grill greatly impacted his early perceptions. Heydar was taken aback by Grill's dislike of the newer generation of immigrants, and Grill's menacing personality (along with certain circumstances) intimidated Heydar and lead him to be skeptical of his intentions. However, over time, Heydar begins to implicitly see Grill as more of a father figure and seek his respect. Heydar's frustration with Grill's attempts to restrict Heydar's influence in missions deeply impact his sense of personal worth. 
=== Joseph ===
Although not thinking much of each other at the start, with Joseph being generally wary of Heydar's volatile nature, the shared experiences they go through together eventually creates a bond of friendship between the two. Josephs cautious and pragmatic personality makes him a sort of "voice of reason" for Heydar, especially in times of conflict. In turn, Heydar's ambition and brashness puts Joseph in many situations which in the long term provide him with much needed knowledge and experience which he likely would've never gained on his own accord. 
=== Leon ===
Heydar holds a great deal of respect for Leon, as is demonstrated by his enthusiasm to complete tasks on his orders. Regardless, Heydar's moral compass stands at odds with Leon's apathetic nature and often leads to conflict between the two. Leon seldom responds in kind to Heydar's outbursts, and this leaves Heydar generally more frustrated and confused then before. 
=== Wilhelm ===
In their interactions, Heydar and Wilhelm are always at conflict with each other, mostly due to Wilhelm’s own rudeness towards Heydar. Heydar views him as rude and incompetent, going as far as to view Faded as the lesser of two evils throughout the events of Volume 3. Simultaneously, Wilhelm’s disdain for Heydar is due to his general rudeness and aggression to people. His reasons to hate him are not specific, it’s just edginess and angst towards someone who is "neurotypical" and "normal".
== Abilities ==
=== Intelligence ===
In many instances, Heydar has shown that he is greatly intelligent, multi-talented and creative despite his lack of a perm or special ability. He has mentioned that he excels at multiple subjects and is able to do just about any task, as demonstrated in Volume when he spoke to Leon about his recruitment and possible role in the 2 Month Plan. Heydar is also an exceptionally creative reformist who is able to find quick solutions to problems, such as his plan for escaping Noreaga’s Dungeon, something that was deemed impossible. Heydar also possesses great emotional intelligence. Thanks to his empathetic character, he is able to emotionally connect with people, something that makes him an effective negotiator, diplomat and foreign representative of the USSR.
=== The Heydar Aliyev Order ===
A mysterious medal discovered by Heydar on his journey to Moscow during the events of Volume 1, the Heydar Aliyev Order transforms Heydar into Heydarius X, a brash and powerful alter ego that grants Heydar the abilities of superhuman strength, endurance and near invulnerability to assist Heydar in easily dispatching his foes. Despite its true potential still not being fully realised yet, Heydar has no control over when its activated and how long for as well as the confusion it also brings him due to wrestling for sovereign over his own body with his alternate identity which is evident during the events of Volume 2 when he first unleashes Heydarius X.