Pavel Antonivich Chekov

== Childhood in Russia ==
==== Raised in Rostov ====
Pavel was born in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia. With his identical twin brother Ivan, Pavel Mikhail Antonivich Chekov was born as one of two twin sons of literature professor Anton Antonivich Chekov II, PhD. and classical musician Yulia Pavlovna Vasilyev. Before he had his name, he was named "Diva" ("two" in Russian) because his parents found them hard to tell him and Ivan apart until they got baby clothes with numbers on them. When his mother returned to the orchestra and practiced one day, she observed that Ivan couldn't stand her violin playing and Pavel fell asleep until she stopped playing when Ivan fell asleep and Pavel made a fuss. Because his parents had different interests in their sons, with one parent favoring one over the other, they ended up living separately until they officially divorced when their sons turned one. After Pavel was under custody of his mother after the divorce, he lived in Rostov and took on her maiden name "Vasilyev". 
Ever since Pavel was born, music became an essential part of his life. His mother was an accomplished violinist and classical singer until she bore Pavel and Ivan. She used to play music when Pavel was still an infant. As a prodigy in music, Pavel learned the alphabet and music theory under his mother’s tutelage, and he also learned classical arias as a young soprano that he was once known to be the young idol of Rostov. His personal lessons with her was cut off short when she passed away from acute pneumonia and Pavel was five. His mother’s untimely death greatly affected Pavel that he sang "Laschia ch'io pianga" for her funeral, which became Pavel's swan song that he was no longer able to sing due to his broken heart.
Following his mother's death, Pavel grieved and moved to Moscow, where he lived with his brother and father, who was more close to Ivan than him, referring Ivan as the “teacher’s pet”. On the other hand, he was close to his maternal relatives in Rostov. His maternal grandfather Fyodor who was a violin maker made Pavel’s first viola and his aunt Mila who was a music teacher taught him how to play the viola and the piano. His uncle Ilya used to take him to the Sea of Azov for skating during winter, fishing during summer, and birdwatching swans during spring, up to the point he became closer to a father to Pavel than Anton. 
Sometime during their childhood before meeting Pierre, Ivan and Pavel knew the endeavors of Stefan and Vasily Trifonov, but he admired Vasily more than Stefan because of Vasily’s down-to-earth personality.
Ivan and Pavel got enrolled in a co-ed private school in Moscow, Svitigaila Technical School. When 5-year-old Ivan had a crush on his fellow classmate named Svetlana Maximov, Pavel teased Ivan by making up his brother’s nickname “Pomme-Pomme” after reading a French grammar book and learning the said word sounded like a beating heart. After three years in the school, Ivan couldn’t stand the embarrassment. Pavel also met Sharon, who was introduced as the daughter of Stefan Trifonov, one of Ivan's idols, and became one of her best friends in Moscow, up to the point that he had a crush on her. 
Decided to move on from his ancestral lands, their father decided to move to Ekaterinburg, where he would work as a professor in Razumikhin Academy, a private school for boys. When Ivan heard about it, he convinced his father to transfer him to Razumikhin Academy. While Ivan moved to Ekaterinburg with his father, Pavel remained in Rostov with his uncle Ilya. 
==== Ballet in the Bolshoi Theater ====
To keep himself preoccupied and cope with his loneliness and mourning, Pavel taught himself how to play the viola and piano with notes from his aunt and scores passed down by his late mother. Proving to be a child prodigy in the musical arts, Pavel, at the age of 8, gained attention to the Bolshoi Theatre, where he was trained in the orchestra under the Chief Conductor that time, Alexander Lazarev. For his dedicated training in the Bolshoi Theater, he was transferred from Svitigaila Technical School to Malta Crown Boarding School in Moscow, saving him from living with his father and twin brother in Ekaterinburg. Upon his adoption and his enrollment in his new school was only 2 hours away from Rostov, he lived away from Ivan and his father as he remained in Rostov with his aunt, uncle, and grandfather.
In the Bolshoi Ballet Company, he also met Sharon. As a means of pursuing Sharon, Pavel secretly learned ballet in his leisure time after observing the ballet company until the Director of the Bolshoi Ballet discovered his potential and made a deal with Lazarev to mentor him in the Bolshoi Ballet Academy after his recital with the orchestra. Pavel was also transferred from Malta to the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in preparation for his induction in the company. According to Sharon, Pavel was the most versatile dancer in the company, and as the youngest principal dancer, he played many of the lead roles in their productions, in spite of his young age. After his participation in the RSF’s summer camps under Yakov, Pavel was also offered to train for figure skating by the RSF but declined the offer in favor of ballet and his studies.
Despite of his great accolades in ballet, Pavel was not completely happy, however, because his passion in ballet was stemmed to his childish pursuit of Sharon, who transferred to the Bolshoi Opera. Because he apparently lost his ability to sing, Pavel quitted from the Bolshoi Theater and pursued his education in the national gymnasium at Moscow, where he met his brother and his best friend Pierre. Upon seeing Ivan after a long time, Pavel remained aloof and cold. Unlike his twin brother and his best friend Pierre, he wasn’t among the top of the class; instead, he was placed in the top 10%, proving that he was still an academically strong student. 
Because of his longtime achievements and seniority (he stayed for seven years), Pavel was offered an opportunity from the Bolshoi Ballet Company to be a mentor in their Summer Intensive Program at New York; however, he turned it down because of two reasons: (1) His father was going to teach as an interim professor in Boston University and he and Ivan will move with him; and (2) the one who recruited his father sent Pavel’s CV and video of his dancing expertise to a connection from the Boston Ballet and the connection was the Director of that company who offered Pavel a spot in the company. Pavel explained that he agreed on the offer because it’ll give him an opportunity to teach ballet to beginners and newcomers in the community like how the Bolshoi Ballet Academy taught him so. Just as he was elated to go to the United States, Pavel had mixed feelings with the possibility of being with his father and brother who he felt as complete strangers. 
== Life in America ==
=== Separation from Pierre ===
Due to a change in route and a flight delay that placed them temporarily in New York, Pavel witnessed Pierre’s arrest in the customs area. Unlike Ivan, who was preoccupied and worried about Pierre’s welfare, Pavel was more preoccupied with his future plans in Boston than with the welfare of Pierre out of sheer jealousy with the relationship of Ivan and Pierre, who he considered to be his brother’s best friend, not as his own. Despite being irritated with Ivan's anxiety and attention on Pierre, Pavel was at least concerned with his brother that he took him out to shopping in New York to cheer him up and said words of hope that he’ll see him again. When they went to Boston without Pierre, he didn’t mind on his brother’s worries about Pierre and his consequent loneliness because he wanted Ivan to feel the isolation he endured after their mother’s death and his induction in the Bolshoi Theater. 
=== Boston University ===
Unlike his brother who went to Harvard University with Pierre, Pavel studied in Boston University, where he majored in Psychology and Music. In Boston, he joined the Boston Ballet, while he practiced in the Boston University Orchestra and worked in the Muger Memorial Library part time. Sometime in the university, he managed to learn how to speak in French and Japanese that he managed to speak both of the languages fluently. 
==== Sex Addiction and Alcoholism ====
When Pavel was a freshman, he became roommates with a Russian student from Boston University, Vladimir Kravinoff, and hanged out with him and a community college student and his half-brother, Alyosha Kravinoff. At first glance, Vladimir once mistook him as Ivan, and Pavel didn't know about Ivan's history with Vladimir and Razumikhin Academy because he was in Moscow that time. Wanting Ivan to suffer in revenge for snitching on his plagiarism that cost his best friend, Vladimir regularly invited him at parties in Boston University, where he educated him in the ways of a ladies' man. After surpassing them in charm and skill, Pavel then started to have a reputation as a ladies’ man in the university that Ivan turned out to be mistaken for him and got a streak of bad luck when he got hurt by more than one of Pavel’s flings and one-night stands in the city, much to Pavel and Vladimir's amusement with the fact that in spite of Ivan being intelligent, he could be extremely clueless. Pavel also stole Ivan's ID and used it to get around campus and crash parties with Vladimir in his brother's name, and because Harvard students didn't know about Ivan and Pavel being identical twins, Ivan received multiple warnings and calls from the security, much to the amusement of Pavel and Vladimir. 
Pavel, as a womanizer, was also one with principles; he only pursued single women that he was not above to pursue and sleep a single TA from one of his advanced French classes in his sophomore year but never on anyone who was in a relationship. Sharon joked that she was lucky to be Pierre’s girlfriend that time because she would be like those “poor women who had to sacrifice their virginity to be with Pavel”, indicating Pavel to be a promiscuous heartbreaker with a fear of commitment. Pavel encountered Sharon once again when she got into Harvard, and he learned that Pierre was her childhood friend and eventual boyfriend, much to his bittersweet respect for her and eventual heartbreak and depression. He also received a message from his aunt Mila that his beloved uncle Ilya from Rostov had passed away, worsening his depression. He resorted to alcoholism that he secretly stole and drank whiskey from his father’s storage and brought vodka when he came to age. 
Pavel once got lost after getting drunk from a social he and Vladimir crashed in Harvard and went off alone that he stumbled near Harvard Square. Pierre found Pavel and nursed him back to health in his dorm. When Pierre prevented the security from coming into his dorm and kicking Pavel out, Pierre became close to Pavel and knew Pavel’s feelings of loneliness and inferiority that lingered since childhood, which explained his sexual experiences and his rebellious outlook in life. After learning about Pierre’s lonely childhood through Vladimir and how much Vladimir regretted for not treating him better in the past, Pavel figured Pierre to be a good friend and a brother from another mother. Pierre advised him that true happiness doesn’t come solely from anyone or anything in the world other than himself and questioned him whether he felt any better when he was not being good to his brother and father for his own want to be wanted. After being told to respect women and his own family as he did with his late mother, Pavel then realized his selfishness and decided to change for the better; however, Ivan caught up with what happened and lost his trust in Pavel for hurting his reputation. 
==== Ivan and Svetlana ====
When Pavel discovered Svetlana, who got into Harvard University, and Ivan feared for his dignity, he told Pierre about Ivan’s embarrassing moment and his feelings for Svetlana. Trying to be selfless to his brother for once, Pavel tried to convince Ivan to make his romantic move on her, but Svetlana didn’t react well when Ivan approached her. Pavel noticed that Svetlana was under depression when she stepped in Harvard. She didn’t do well in her government classes, while she did extremely well in her comparative literature classes. He met with her in the library during his working hours and found out that she still had feelings for Ivan but was forced to take government classes due to her arranged marriage to a governor’s son back in Russia. Feeling similar with his loneliness because of his differences in his family and wanting to do something good for his brother for once, Pavel insisted her to go out with Ivan after telling her about Ivan’s secret feelings of her. 
When Pavel tried to arrange Svetlana and Ivan on a date in Cambridge Queen’s Head, he waited for Ivan in the rendezvous place (not knowing that after initially agreeing to the arrangement, he couldn’t make to the date because of shyness), ending up being mistaken for Ivan by Svetlana and having to act like Ivan most of the time. Unknown of Pavel’s date with Svetlana, Ivan was asked about his absence and told him that he was going to office hours with his economics professor. After learning that Ivan was in their apartment the entire time when Sharon told him that Ivan didn’t take office hours with the professor because he was one of the best students in the class, Pavel got fed up with such terrible embarrassment from playing second fiddle to Ivan and decided to horrify Ivan with a video recording of him having sex with a Russian Harvard student who resembled Svetlana. Ivan snapped and snuck a cocktail mix of vodka and stimulants in Pavel's hydroflask. Pavel got intoxicated throughout his performance and collapsed in the middle of the performance, becoming pale. Pavel saw an apparition of his dead uncle and apologized to him for not being able to come home. Ivan was shell-shocked for what he had done to his brother and Anton went to the stage to take Pavel to the hospital. Thinking that he was going to die, Pavel told his father to stay with Ivan like he always did and apologized to his father for being mean to both Ivan and him. 
Vladimir met up with Pavel and told him his history with Ivan and his true intentions on settling the score with Ivan. Vladimir knew that both of them went overboard, and he only meant to get even with Ivan, not to hurt anyone. After telling Vladimir about his resentment toward Ivan because of his losses, Pavel told him that what both of them did was selfish and irresponsible, and when it comes to responsibility, he was no saint. Pavel forgave Vladimir. Vladimir revealed that he was going to study abroad in the Netherlands and France in the next two years before going to Africa and returning to New York after graduating. They parted ways, not before Vladimir told Pavel, "Tell Pierre that I said 'hi'." Pavel realized that Vladimir was enlightened by Pierre, just as he was. 
==== Last Two Years in Boston ====
When his father knew about his previous sexual escapades and shenanigans, Pavel, like his brother, wore a “Hello, my name is” badge with his name on it every day as a punishment and to prevent any mix-up with Ivan, and he received a lot of retaliation from his ex-girlfriends but felt that it was “worth it” and felt like it’s time for closure and conclude his sexual activity for some time. Pavel was laughing so hard at how Svetlana took advantage of the punishment by putting the name “Pomme-Pomme” on all of Ivan’s name tags. He dyed his hair dirty blonde to differentiate him from his brother. 
On his last year in Boston University, Pavel finished his studies early so he could continue on performing full time in the ballet company and attending rehab for his alcoholism. When Svetlana’s family and her fiancé came to take her away, Svetlana stood up for her current relationship with Ivan, who was then beaten up by the arrogant fiancé after Ivan defended her. After hearing him disgracing his father’s name, Pavel came in behind and beat up the jerk. While her strict father disowned her, Svetlana’s mother Evegenia and older sister Xenia fully offered her a substantial amount of money to help her live on her own, but Svetlana declined the money for she wanted to earn on her own with the support of her new family. Once Ivan and Svetlana got their full time jobs in New York Times, Ivan and Svetlana got married. Pavel later became an uncle to Ivan’s first son, Valentin, and daughter, Valerie. 
=== Heading Back to New York ===
==== Life as a Surrogate Father in Julliard ====
After his graduation from Boston University, Pavel got accepted into Julliard School for his MFA in Music. Outside his graduate studies in Julliard, Pavel eventually returned with the Bolshoi Ballet Company as a full-time senior mentor for the Summer Intensive Program in New York, and after every season, he performed with the New York Philharmonic. After many years of dedication in the ballet arts, Pavel eventually received the Prix Benois de la Danse, one of the most prestigious awards in the ballet world. 
While studying, he came to know Shizuka Kawai, who was looking for an apartment to stay in his apartment complex. Initially trying to hit on her, Pavel drew back once seeing that she was pregnant and instead decided to invite her to stay in his apartment with the initial intention to develop a relationship with her in the future. Pregnant from a former relationship before coming back to New York for her MBA studies, Shizuka walked off from her mother who convinced her to abort her baby, which she adamantly objected. Pavel then questioned her about her ex and whether or not he knew about her pregnancy; Shizuka replied, "It's complicated." Despite her short answer, Pavel could tell that Shizuka was still faithful to her ex-boyfriend, and he remembered Pierre's advice to respect women. In spite of not having experience like his brother, Pavel took care of Shizuka during her pregnancy until her baby son, Shinji, was born. 
He then raised Shinji for five years as a surrogate father. When Shinji was still a few months old, Pavel took him to his rehearsals and performances that Shinji grew up loving classical music and ballet after watching backstage. When Shinji was old enough, Pavel taught him how to speak, read, and write in English, Russian, and Japanese with the same method his late mother used. Because of Pavel's close relationship with Shinji, Ivan and his father considered Pavel to formally marry Shizuka and adopt him. Pavel initially had feelings for Shizuka, but his feelings toned down to a close friendship with Shizuka. 
==== Meeting Mokuba for the First Time ====
After one of his winter performances with the New York Philharmonic, there was a social gathering in the Lincoln Center. Pavel encountered Shizuka with Mokuba Kaiba. While Shizuka was talking with Svetlana and Ivan, Pavel spoke with Mokuba. In spite of being strangers, Pavel and Mokuba talked in friendly terms until Pavel asked Mokuba about his relationship with Shizuka. Mokuba revealed that Shizuka was never his girlfriend; she was his brother's ex-girlfriend. Knowing the means of being with women, Pavel questioned Mokuba why he came to New York, instead of his brother. Mokuba replied that his brother was extremely busy with his business, revealing that his brother was actually Seto Kaiba, the CEO and President of Kaiba Corporation, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate in Japan. Initially not knowing about Kaiba Corporation, Pavel sarcastically expressed his ignorance before apologizing and letting Mokuba finish his thoughts. Mokuba said that he already knew about Shinji and wanted to check on him. Pavel asked him whether or not his brother knew about Shinji, with Mokuba replying with a resounding no. When Pavel asked him why, Mokuba reasoned that he didn't pressure Shinji to be involved in the corporate world like his father. Before Shinji was born, Seto and Mokuba were in a power struggle to take over the company, and Mokuba was planning to take over so the company would be out of Seto's mind and he could prioritize more on Shizuka and Shinji. Shizuka and Seto broke up because Seto knew that he couldn't support Shizuka in a long-distance relationship with his company that he worked most of his life for, despite the fact that Mokuba was preparing himself to take over. Realizing that Mokuba had noble intentions to keep up the secrecy for the best of Shinji, Pavel suggested Mokuba to go to college and grow his network so he could gain education and leverage as he takes over, and he gave Mokuba his contact information for further correspondence that extended for almost a year. 
==== Rebound in His Sex Addiction ====
When Shizuka and Shinji left for Japan and Pavel came to know about Sharon’s engagement to Pierre, his dormant feelings for Sharon became unwelcome thoughts in his mind, but Pavel attempted multiple times to suppress them because of his close friendship with Pierre. Afraid of confronting his feelings and breaking his friendship with them, Pavel tried to move on by dating some girls in the city, only to be more jaded and uninspired in his work that he retired from the performing arts. 
Knowing the cautious tale of their ancestor, Ivan Karamazov, and his demons that he had to fight due to his lack of closure with his grievances with God and the world, Anton told Pavel the tale and the fact that Karamazov would had seen himself more in him than Ivan. Being sick of his brother's reluctance of getting closure from the past, Ivan, who became a senior NYT editor, caught up with his rebound that he assigned Pavel to travel to Japan and interview Oskar Razumikhin, a employee of Trifonov Corporation and a father of a victim in the Chechnya anti-gay purges. Pavel decided to go to Japan to obtain closure for his feelings for Sharon and move on. 
== Assigned to Japan ==
When he went to Japan, he realized that his image of the romance between Sharon and Pierre was not as romantic as it used to be back during the Harvard days. Pierre was working for Kaiba Corporation and Sharon worked for her family business, Trifonov Corporation. Because of the long distance between Osaka and Nagoya, they couldn’t be together all the time, which left them to a long distance relationship between the two. Sharon was struggling to catch up with her father Stefan Trifonov, who was known to be one of the most powerful people in Russia. He recalled of him and Ivan looking up to Stefan and his brother Vasily in their childhood, but he started to lose respect for Stefan due to his coldness to Sharon and disrespect to Pierre. 
=== Meeting Mo Again ===
Pavel stayed in the residence of Oskar Razumikhin in Nagoya. Meanwhile, Pavel met Mokuba, who he addressed as "Mo" throughout their correspondence, at Kyoto Station on his way to Kyoto University. Pavel and Mokuba went to Kurasu and discussed about the things going on since their last conversation. 
From their shared correspondence over the years, Mokuba knew about Pavel’s situation with his rebounding depression and his lingering feelings for Sharon, while Pavel knew about Mokuba’s strained relationship with his brother and his illness. Mokuba shared that Seto made this nasty rumor that he was gay as a means of persecution and prevention from Mokuba being his competition for control of the company. When Mokuba was introduced to the Church by his high school friend and he was caught with him one time after attending an evening bible study, Seto assumed that Mokuba was sick due to a homosexual relationship with his friend, but in reality, Mokuba was actually HIV positive due to routine sexual abuse from his stepfather. When Mokuba stated his decision to take over the company, the major shareholders of the company and their investors grew skeptic in Mokuba's capability in managing the corporation and its competitive reputation due to rumors of his illness and sexuality, preventing Mokuba from gaining shares of the company. After managing to get high scores in the Center, Mokuba secretly enrolled in Kyoto University with a scholarship and savings that he managed to get hold from part-time jobs he secretly took on while in high school. 
Pavel actually shared the card that Ivan gave him, and Mokuba revealed that he actually knew about the Church through his high school friend but lagged in attending bible studies due to his job and his college classes in the evening. Mokuba revealed that Pierre came to know about his plight because Pierre was an active officer in the Church, and he decided to converse with the resident minister in the nearest local congregation about Mokuba's issue and see if the minister can help Mokuba resume in his bible studies by doing them during Mokuba's lunch hour. Knowing how he was once to Ivan, Pavel was sickened by Seto's treatment of his own brother. Pavel accompanied Mokuba in his bible study, and over time, he grew interested when the studies hit home about depression and became a bible student. 
==== Arrangements ====
A few days later, Mokuba proceeded with the testing of a product of Pierre’s making, which resulted a fiasco in the lab when Seto secretly hacked into the computer that controlled the Virtual Visors and altered the photosensitive settings that hurt Shinji’s eyes (Shinji was diagnosed with acute glaucoma). It resulted Pierre’s further revocation from his lab privileges and halted the project’s progress. Understanding the grand scheme of things and settling things with Pierre, Mokuba decided to buy some of Seto’s shares that he took from Pierre and a bit more for himself. 
When Seto came to know about Mokuba’s insubordination and argued with Mokuba about that, Mokuba fainted during an argument with his brother due to lack of sleep and food for the past few hours. When Pierre invited Mokuba into his rented condominium for his tutorials on self-care and adult responsibilities, Pavel coincidentally met Pierre inside and told him that he should have said goodbye before leaving New York. Pavel revealed that he and Mokuba had been pen pals and he was the one who was calling Mokuba in his office. A laughing Pierre told Pavel that Seto thought that Mokuba had a boyfriend, and Pavel told him that he knew that and Seto was doing this just to get Mokuba out of the competition. Pierre also told Mokuba that the minister replied to Pierre's call, saying that he can arrange an individual bible study in midday hours so Mokuba could attend bible studies without compromising his work schedule and college classes, as long as he would not miss a worship service. Pavel informed Pierre that he came to know about the Church through Ivan and asked Pierre if it's okay to attend the bible study with Mokuba. Pierre was elated and agreed to make the proper arrangements. 
In private from Mokuba learning how to cook with Dmitri, Pierre severely discussed with Pavel separately about his knowledge of Pavel’s depression and prior living with Shizuka from Ivan. Pavel told him that he wanted to change his life for the better and said that this rebound happened because of his lingering feelings for Sharon. Pierre informed him that depression can not disappear overnight and encouraged him to tell Sharon his feelings so he can gain closure from these unwanted feelings and move past them, especially if that would be in the way of living a new life. In the matter of Shizuka and Shinji, Pierre warned Pavel that he could be Seto's next victim because of his possessiveness and his prior relationship with Shizuka. Pavel revealed that Mokuba already told him who Shinji's real father was because he had no relation with Kaiba Corporation, and Seto would be considered an idiot for assuming that Shinji was someone else's child while Shizuka was actually faithful to Seto. Pierre told Pavel about Shinji's diagnosis with acute glaucoma and accident when Seto hacked Pierre's prototype that gave Shinji headaches to degrade Pierre's credibility. Pavel was abhorred with Seto for hurting the child he raised to degrade the credibility of his friend. 
While Pierre scheduled an operation for Shinji's eyes, Shizuka contacted Pavel to take care of Shinji every day during his after-school hours, which actually took longer when Shizuka would come in the middle of the night. When Shizuka asked him to join Shinji in Parent's Day in her place, Pavel wholeheartedly agreed. His brother Ivan, who learned it from Pierre, reprimanded for taking unnecessary responsibility and how far it became. Pavel nevertheless took care of Shinji like he had done before. In spite the fact that Shinji was not his son, Pavel raised him like his own. Ever since his phone conversation with his brother, Pavel started to ponder on what to do in his future. 
==== Bible Students ====
Pierre arranged both Mokuba and Pavel to attend a midday bible study in the Church. Every lunch hour, Mokuba would leave the office in incognito for his bible study, and Pavel would meet Mokuba at the Church, which was a few blocks away from Kaiba Corporation. Since Pavel was fluent in Japanese and the lessons would be in Nihongo, Pavel was able to understand the lessons without needing a translator. Pavel and Mokuba also attended midweek worship services in Kyoto due to its proximity to Kyoto University and weekend worship services in Osaka. As they became probationers, or candidates for baptism, they made new friends in both Kyoto and Osaka that the brethren in the Church became their second family. 
==== Probationer in Persecution ====
In response to the negative press about Seto from the power struggles in both Trifonov Corporation and Kaiba Corporation, Seto's fervent fanbase, the "Kaisers", scapegoated Mokuba and altered photos of Mokuba and Pavel as homosexuals. Because of the press, the resident District denied both Mokuba and Pavel due to the allegations of homosexuality. While Pavel was outraged with the altered photos, Mokuba was devastated that he cried that time, and the resident minister and the brethren who knew them during their bible studies knew that these allegations were false. Knowing how the press can be brutal to people like Mokuba due to being a journalist himself, Pavel decided to help Mokuba into getting baptized by helping him take over the company. 
==== Oskar Razumikhin ====
Pavel went on their assignment to interview Oskar Razumikhin in his residence in Nagoya. Knowing that the NYT could help with the publicity that Vasily needed to decrease support for Stefan and his loyalist Boris (Oskar’s conservative younger brother), Oskar told them the bitter truths about the Chechnya riots and how his son died. In Russia, there were conservative policies that condemn homosexuality, and in Chechnya, the government took them as far to torturing gay citizens and killing them. Oskar lived with his son Kolya, and one day, Kolya was reported missing art school for two weeks. Oskar found Kolya beaten to a pulp and starved for days, and one Chechen police officer suspected Oskar to be Kolya’s father and gave him a gun to kill his son. Oskar refused to kill his son and struggled with the police officer. A weakened Kolya went in between of the struggle and died protecting his father by taking the shot himself. While Pavel was appalled by the brutal nature of Kolya’s death and disgusted with the way his country treated people like Kolya, Oskar cried for the recall of this personal tragedy. By coincidence, Oskar actually housed Viktor Nikiforov, a famous figure skater in the RSF and an acquaintance of Pavel in the Bolshoi Ballet. Viktor offered to give Pavel more information about Kolya. 
==== Refuge in Razumikhin ====
Since the business gala, Mokuba had an incredible amount of investors planning to invest in him, and some of the major shareholders started to give their shares to Mokuba in favor of putting Seto out of business. Mokuba made a video recording of himself stating his petition of no confidence in Seto’s leadership, so the rest of the major shareholders will make their final decisions on the day of the Championship, where Mokuba predicted that Seto would lose his confidence and faith from his investors after researching about the contestants’ odds of winning, especially Stefan Trifonov, who was actually a veteran Duel Monsters player and the former World Champion before Seto. He sent the original recording to Pavel. 
Overhearing Oskar’s recall of the tragic death of Kolya the other day, Viktor volunteered to talk to Pavel about his personal account of Kolya who died in the Chechnya anti-gay purges. It was revealed that Kolya was his first boyfriend before Yuri Katsuki, a figure skater representing Japan. Viktor said that Kolya was a developing artist who was a skilled painter and a skilled violinist like Pavel back then. Kolya was the one who advised Viktor to treat his skating as an art, and that was how Viktor became famous. He was a composer for many of the scores that Viktor skated in his junior years. After Viktor left for the Junior World Prix a couple weeks later, Kolya was declared missing, and when Viktor came back to Russia with a gold medal, Oskar told him that Kolya was dead. Kolya’s artistic perception and imagination were of great inspiration in Viktor’s life. Kolya died before his senior debut of his skating career, which left Viktor alone for many years later until he met Yuri. Viktor never thought that he would love someone else after Kolya died, but Kolya’s love lived in him. 
Viktor ended his story that even though he lost his first means of love, love will always come to you in strange, different ways. While writing his notes down, Pavel started to consider his feelings and realized that he found his strength to love again like what Viktor did but in a different form. After that interview, Pavel thought about his feelings for Sharon, which were overshadowed by his genuine fatherly love for Shinji. When he had to take care of Shinji during his operation for his glaucoma, Shinji asked him if he could call him "papa" once he took his bandages off. Pavel said that he would think about it. 
In the Eve Party of the Championship of Legends, Mokuba had no choice but to go to Tokyo from hiding and encounter his brother, in spite of the eminent danger of getting abuse from him. When Seto met Stefan again that night after knowing Stefan’s superiority in Duel Monsters and feared the worst of losing the competition and thus the popularity of the public and the faith of his investors from a possible loss to Stefan, Seto encountered Mokuba and questioned his choices into reconsideration. After gaslighting Mokuba about his religion and his involvement in Seto's crimes as an accessory for giving him the precise locations of the rare cards, Seto threatened Mokuba to stall the proxy battle and null his petition. Trying to maintain his sanity and innocence, Mokuba denied his involvement and argued that it was Isono who gave him the precise locations and he gave them to Seto, while not knowing about his criminal intention to coerce and kill. Seto assured him that if Mokuba would return to his side and yield his substantial shares that he had gained already to him as he had done years ago, he would save himself and at least one life as they did years ago when they prevented Gozaburo’s crime against humanity, which was something that Mokuba couldn’t refuse. A resolute Mokuba walked away from Seto. 
Unknown to Seto, Boris Razumikhin of Trifonov Corporation, who was known for his torture of many homosexuals in Russia, tortured Mokuba to prevent a concession or compromise from Stefan. Horrified of what Mokuba was going through, Yugi, a competitor and the Head of the Gaming Department in Kaiba Corporation, texted Pavel to send the go signal to Kyoya to spread the video to the major shareholders. 
==== Finding Closure ====
When Pavel witnessed Sharon’s loss at the quarterfinals to Seto Kaiba in live television, Pavel immediately expressed his disgust for Seto for humiliating Sharon to a level that Sharon got far too vulnerable to lose the duel and his hate for Stefan for disowning Sharon when she needed his comfort the most. A few moments later, Pavel saw Shinji feeling distressed after hearing the mean words that Seto said to Sharon and thinking that Seto was talking to him. Pavel turned the TV off and comforted Shinji. Hours later, Pavel received a call from Shizuka that Pierre was shot but saved via a blood transfusion. 
When Sharon was on her own after breaking up with Pierre and almost losing him, she went with Shizuka to see Shinji after a long time. Giving Shizuka some time with Shinji, Pavel privately consoled Sharon for what happened to Pierre. He finally told her his suppressed love for Sharon, and just as he expected, Sharon was about to turn his feelings down. Pavel told her that he expected Sharon to turn him down and he just needed closure. When he was about to leave her, Sharon was into tears because she couldn’t afford to lose another friend after what happened. Pavel, feeling sorry for Sharon, gave up his suppressed feelings by giving her his compassion and finally getting the closure he needed. 
=== Living Life Anew ===
==== Future Plans ====
Shizuka informed Pavel that Mokuba successfully recovered from his injuries and won the proxy war as the majority shareholder and new CEO. Because she was elected as the new Vice President of Kaiba Corporation, Mokuba added Shizuka in the koseki of the Kaiba family, so her son Shinji can decide whether he would live as a Kaiba or not. Shizuka revealed that Shinji told her that he wanted to live with Pavel, but a sympathetic Pavel responded with a resounding "no" because next to a second chance, Seto needed his family more than ever. Pavel bade Shinji and Shizuka farewell. 
== Epilogue ==
After Ivan covered the takeovers of both Kaiba Corporation and Trifonov Corporation, Pavel returned to New York with his brother right afterwards. He retired from journalism after writing his articles about the Chechnya anti-gay purges in memoriam to Oskar Razumikhin’s son Kolya who died in the purges that got critical acclaim. He supported his brother's discussion panel series with many of his NYT colleagues. 
Remembering the last conversation he had with Viktor, he rekindled his passion for the arts that he returned to the Julliard School as an full-time instructor in Music Studies for Dance and became a composer in his spare time. During his tenure, he revived two of Kolya’s original music scores for Yuri Katsuki’s short and long programs, much to Oskar and Viktor’s surprise. 
Pavel had a flexible schedule that he finally got baptized and became an active member in the Church, helping out in humanitarian projects and being a choir member and eventual organist. A few months later, Pavel became a groomsman for Pierre and Sharon’s spring wedding, while his brother became Pierre’s best man. Pavel found this as the final phase of his closure from his feelings for Sharon. 
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