Gusenitsa

Gusenitsa/Гусеница (Translated as Caterpillar) is a masked contestant on the fourth Russian season of Маска and the revamped version.
==Appearance==
Gusenitsa is a replica of American's Caterpillar, with it appearing to be a fuzzy caterpillar with yellow and purple coloured fur. This twelve-legged critter has a yellow and purple body, segmented with hot pink fringe, and adorned with cyan circular shapes on the sides. The Caterpillar mask itself, features a headset, a set of fuzzy antennae and toothy grin, with braces on the two front teeth. It is also trimmed with the same pink fur and cyan accents as the body. In week 8 he wore a white shirt, a black jacket, and black pants. In week 10 he wore six punk rock bracelets and had two guitars around two pairs of arms. In week 12 of the revamped version, he wore a butterfly headband.
==Songs==
Week	Song Selection 	Result
1 	"Букет" by Alexander Barykin 	SAFE
2 	"Песня Забавы" by Tatyana Shabelnikova 	SAFE
3 	"Le Temps des cathédrales" OST Notre-Dame De Paris	WIN
4 	"Трава у дома" by Zemlyane 	SAFE
5 	"Мой первый день" by Olga Kormukhina 	SAFE
6 	"Полёт на дельтаплане" by Valery Leontiev 	SAFE
7 	"Колыбельная" by Polina Gagarina 	WIN
8 	"Billie Jean" by Micheal Jackson 	BTM3
9 	"О чём ты думаешь" by Alexey Vorobyov 	WIN
10 	"Somebody to Love" by Queen 	BTM3
11 	"Аэропорты" by Leonid Agutin & Vladimir Presnyakov	ELIM
==Songs (Revamped)==
Week	Song Selection 	Result
1 	"Букет" by Alexander Barykin 	SAFE
2 	"Песня Забавы" by Tatyana Shabelnikova 	SAFE
3 	"Le Temps des cathédrales" OST Notre-Dame De Paris	WIN
4 	"Трава у дома" by Zemlyane 	SAFE
5 	"Мой первый день" by Olga Kormukhina 	SAFE
6 	"Полёт на дельтаплане" by Valery Leontiev 	SAFE
7 	"Колыбельная" by Polina Gagarina 	WIN
8 	"Billie Jean" by Micheal Jackson 	BTM3
9 	"О чём ты думаешь" by Alexey Vorobyov 	WIN
10 	"Somebody to Love" by Queen 	BTM3
11 	"Аэропорты" by Leonid Agutin & Vladimir Presnyakov	WIN
12 	"Я тебя люблю" by Nikolai Noskov 	SAFE
12 	"Flames Of Love" by Facy 	WINNER
==Specials ==
Episode 	Song Selection 	Partner
NYS 2024	"В лесу родилась ёлочка" by Raisa Kudasheva	Khomyak
==Final Guesses==
Week	Alexey's Guess	Valeria's Guess	Philipp's Guess 	Regina's Guess	Timur's Guess
11 	IVAN 	IVAN 	Vlad Sokolovskiy	Brutto 	Vitaliy Gogunskiy
==Other Guesses==
Week	Queen of Hearts' Guess	Robopine's Guess	Fox Cub's Guess	Phoenix's Guess	Raven's Guess	Skunk's Guess	Ermine's Guess	Hamster's Guess	Mandrill's Guess	Poodle's Guess	Scorpion's Guess	Mammoth Cub's Guess	Sea King's Guess	Cactus' Guess
11 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN
===First Impressions===
Queen of Hearts' First Impression	Robopine's First Impression	Fox Cub's First Impression	Phoenix's First Impression	Raven's First Impression	Skunk's First Impression	Ermine's First Impression	Hamster's First Impression	Mandrill's First Impression	Poodle's First Impression	Scorpion's First Impression	Mammoth Cub's First Impression
IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN 	IVAN
==Trivia==
*Gusenitsa currently holds the record of least amount of votes received during the competition, having gotten only 3% of the votes in week 3.
*Just like his american counterpart, they both finished in 5th place.
*When Philipp asked Gusenitsa who is his favorite singer of all, Gusenitsa named Seal, who was Leopard in the second American season. It also made Leopard know who he was.
**Both Gusenitsa and Leopard have performed "Somebody to Love" by Queen and were at risk after their performaces.
**Moreover, they both were eliminated in the semi-finals.
*In the finale of the show, Gusenitsa would have performed Nikolai Noskov's song "Я тебя люблю" and Fancy's song "Flames Of Love".
*One day after his unmasking episode aired, Маска released a talking, singing and dancing plush toy named Танцевальная Звезда Гусеница.
** In Tms Tml, a snippet from Gusenitsa's "Мой первый день" performance was played when Ptera Knights were crowned the winners of season 8.
** A shorter snippet of the same song was played again after Geisha and Scp-049 were crowned joint winners of season 9 after tying in the final vote.
*Previously, the song "Колыбельная" was performed by Zmeya in Season 2.
*Previously, the song "Трава у дома" was performed by Lvenok, a special guest from Season 1.
==Trivia (Revamped)==
*Gusenitsa is the first Russian contestant to have his performance postponed due to a medical incident.
*He's the first contestant in Маска history to suffer an accident and win the season.
*In the tenth episode, his performance was cut short due to a medical incident where Gusenitsa started choking and his dancers had to take him to the on-sight medical staff. After recovering from the incident, the performance was redone after Mandril's performance.
**After Gusenitsa chokes due to his chin getting caught on his mask, one of his dancers begins holding the bottom part of Gusenitsa's head with his hand to avoid the same happening again.
*In the revamped version, in the 12th episode, during the final voting, Gusenitsa and Gornostay playfully fought with each other, as a result, Gusenitsa almost tore off Gornostay's head.
==Gallery==
File:ГУСЕНИЦА ФАН-ПОСТЕР.jpg|Gusenitsa's full-length poster by official Russian fanclub.
File:ГУСЕНИЦА ФАН-ПОСТЕР 2.png|Gusenitsa's poster (dark ver.)
File:Gusenitsa valentine.jpg|Valentine card with Gusenitsa"The silk threads of our drstinies are connected"
File:Гусеница.jpg | Gusenitsa during his first performance
File:Гусеница2.jpg | Gusenitsa during his second performance
File:Гусеница3.jpg | Gusenitsa during his third performance
File:Гусеница4.jpg | Gusenitsa during his fourth performance
File:Гусеница5.jpg | Gusenitsa during his fifth performance
File:Гусеница7.jpg | Gusenitsa during his seventh performance
File:Гусеница8.jpg | Gusenitsa during his eighth performance
File:Гусеница9.jpg | Gusenitsa during his ninth performance
File:Гусеница10.jpg | Gusenitsa during his tenth performance
File:Гусеница11.jpg | Gusenitsa during his eleventh performance
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