Yeaboi, my creative writing class is requiring a historical piece of sorts that's set during the WWII. The 2 main characters are already given. The problem? I don't know a thing about the WWII so I need some ideas. It's due next week and I've just started researching about WWII (all I know is that Hitler killed off the Jews and that Japan attacked Pearl harbor because of Cuba, blah blah blah... and that there were two sides: the Allied and the Axis). So, uhm... it's 10k words (good luck to me!) in 1 week.
Joy.
It doesn't necessarily involve the WWII (yay!) but people's lives at that time are bound to be related somehow to the war... damn.
So uh, the two main characters are Pavel Dvor (Russian, 35 years old) and Gavrail Taragon (Irish? 80 years old).
I was planning on Gavrail being a priest or a librarian or something like that. Anyway, it's Pavel Dvor I'm having problems with... What occupations can he have? A spy with a traumatic past or something?
So yeah, can I have some Russian and other European names that can be used as relatives and the like for my story? I don't really know much of them since I'm from the Phils... Oh yeah, what's with the -evich thing in Russian names and how does it work? I mean, I know it means something like "son of" so if I say [first name] Dvorevich [last name], then is that person the son of Dvor [last name]?
Thanks!
PS: I also need some suggestions for character profiles--the typical hair color, eye color, gait, fave food and drinks... the likes. It's hard to write about people who have culture different from what you have!
Thanks again!
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