Viydy Pritzykyzkowyzk

Viydy, in some sense

Viydy Pritzykyzkowyzk was an Alusian architect who became the Empire of Alusia's first Minister of Beauty in 529 AU.

## Personality

Viydy is an obsessive, closed, curt, and extremely neurotic perfectionist. He works nearly ceaselessly, mutters to himself constantly, sleeps rarely, and holds the unofficial Alusian national record for most caffeine consumed (both weekly and annually). He has major insomnia and some degree of undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder. He was once detained by capitol security as a suspected mind-virus carrier (he wasn't).

Viydy categorically refuses to work with interns, secretaries, and other assistants. He reports directly to Darko Koraksic, but otherwise talks with practically nobody.

#### The Pritzykyzkowyzk Office

Viydy has a large office in a side wing of the Alusian Capitol which he allows almost no-one into (though Darko Koraksic's security searches it routinely). Inside he has covered the walls and windows with black paper on which he scrawls architectural designs, sticky note reminders, and pins blueprints and research papers. The only light comes from the light on his swivel drawing desk in the center of the room.

Viydy often stays multiple nights in his office, and has food and coffee delivered on a regular schedule.

## History

### Early Life

Viydy was a human born in 485 AU to an upper-class family in Ahlam. Viydy was an obsessive, quiet, and extremely perfectionist child, excelling in the formal schooling his parents paid for but developing few friends. He attended a prestigious arts and engineering university, excelled, and emerged from his 20s with both an architectural degree and an Alusian art history degree.

### Pre-Government Career

Viydy made a solitary living as an architect in the Alusian capital, eventually gaining notoriety for both his unorthodox designs and prolific working speed (nearly doubly fast that of competitors). He practically forcibly inserted himself into many smaller projects *pro bono*, and was known for sending criticism to the architects of buildings he disliked. He especially favored hospitals, schools, museums, and prisons.

### Minister of Beauty

In 529 AU. the Prince Regent of Alusia appointed Viydy Pritzykyzkowyk to the head of a new office, the Ministry of Beauty, as part of a revitalized public-works program in Alusia. Viydy immediately began revising and tightening zoning laws, public and private building regulations, and demanded all major construction and repair projects be approved by him personally. Surprisingly this didn't have much of an impact on economic development but did begin to give Alusian cities a more unified appearance and organization.

Each year Viydy travels to the capitol world of an Alusian territory, spend two months researching the art history of the local cultures and the city design, and finally deliver a set of stringent custom city design "guidelines" tailored to the local history and culture. He releases a long written statement explaining each change, though it is so dense most people don't read it.

Viydy personally directed the design of the surface of the artificial Alusian planet Kyrashvell, including most of the notable geographic features such as the crystal canyon, fractal deltas and fjords, and the planetary weather control system (the implementation, not the science).