This is a character sheet for the Russian visual novel Everlasting Summer!
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The Protagonist
Semyon
A thirty-something transported back in time and space from modern urban Russia to a Soviet-era Young Pioneers camp out in the distant countryside.
- Accidental Pervert: Olga? Yup. Alisa and Ulyana? Yup. Slavya? Now that's a surprise.
- Big Damn Kiss:
- Semyon and Alisa kiss in the latter's ending during the modern era's winter season.
- Happens in the good ending of Miku's route, with Semyon pulling her in for a surprise kiss. Naturally, Miku is initially shocked at this, but lets it slide as she also developed romantic feelings for him.
- Dream Weaver:
- Can potentially bring any of the girls into the real world at the end of his week at Sovyonok, including Yulya.
- In the Zhenya DLC, Semyon is able to return to Sovyonok, track down the real Zhenya, and get her to the last real incarnation of himself so she could help him escape at long last. He specifically refers to himself as the camp's leader, indicating that he has gotten control over his Dream Weaver powers.
- Eyes Out of Sight: His eyes are always covered by his bangs. Only averted in a CG at the start of the game, and in Lena's good ending, showing an adult Semyon and Lena living together as a family, with Semyon's aged hairstyle properly showing his eyes.
- Failed a Spot Check: Doesn't realize he's been de-aged to seventeen until the second day.
- Geek Physiques: Averted, Semyon looks totally average as an adult... and surprisingly fit as a teenager. Just check out his abs in the Slavya route. Seriously.
- Manchild: The whole point of this entire game is breaking Semyon and his iterations out of this. The irony of having to go to a teenage camp in Soviet Russia to learn to deal with adulthood in modern Russia is not lost on him either.
- Lap Pillow: Happens in Yulya's ending with Semyon. Mind you, this is not the typical example of the trope, as it's the girl who's resting her head on the boy's lap.
- Marry Them All: Arguably the canon ending, as the girls remember all their previous experiences, even full lifetimes spent loving and being loved by Semyon and decide to team up to save him from the never-ending cycles.
- Oblivious to Love: Inside of a week, he manages to get the attention of multiple teenage girls. Justified in that he is stuck in a bizarre situation and has never been good with people.
- Older Than They Look: A twenty-to-thirty-something note in the body of a seventeen-year-old boy. Not counting multiple cycles and, potentially, entire lifetimes spent in alternate universes.
- Otaku: Semyon makes anime references even in 1980s Soviet Russia. He spends an inordinate amount of time trolling imageboard threads and has never engaged with the world... until he's whisked off to Sovyonok.
- Save the Villain: In the Zhenya route, Semyon returns to Sovyonik to help Zhenya and his last trapped incarnation escape from the cycle. He finds Zhenya, helps her find the way back to her beloved version of Semyon, and leaves him with some parting advice to help his Heel–Face Turn. You'd never know it was him if his "Pioneer" speaking tag wasn't the protagonist shade of green, though.
- Sleep Cute: Semyon could do this with Lena in the latter's route, with both sleeping by resting their heads on each others' shoulders.
- This Loser Is You: In a visual novel originating from the Russian Image Boards Iichan and 2ch, the protagonist is a lonely thirtysomething otaku with no friends or prospects who spends his days traversing those same image boards.
- Two-Person Pool Party: In Yulya's route, she and Semyon spend time bathing in the lake, with the girl seductively hugging him from behind. It's also at that time when there's nobody else in the entire camp except for these two.
- Unreliable Narrator: So much so.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: This man wouldn't... But see his Alternate Self Pioneer.
Dateable Characters
Alisa Dvachevskaya
A rebellious Young Pioneer who'd rather be anywhere else but Sovyonok.
- Attention Whore: Unless you go through her route and realize she’s just lonely and jealous of Lena.
- Berserk Button: Never, ever, EVER call her Dva-cheh. Also, don’t mention or even look at Lena, until the Harem Ending.
- Big Damn Kiss: Semyon and Alisa kiss in the latter's ending during the modern era's winter season.
- But Liquor Is Quicker: Her idea, in a roundabout way, leading to the best hangover Semyon has ever had. Played for horror in the Zhenya DLC. In the harem ending, she implies that she got one of the Semyons drunk enough to let her in on the secret of the camp cycle as well.
- Driven to Suicide: Thought to be a victim of this in Miku's route... actually, not so much.
- Easily Forgiven: Tries to blow up the statue of Revolutionary Genda at the center of Sovyonok. Doesn’t even get detention! Of course, there were other things going on...
- Embarrassing Nickname: Well, she IS an obvious Expy of 2ch-tan (Dvach-tan)… but seriously, did she have to give Electronik a shiner for it?note
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Apparently. And the closer you get to actually breaking free of the camp cycle, the worse it gets—at one point Slavya stops Lena from stabbing Alisa because she wants to take a shot first. Given that Alisa has the most normal reactions to the world around them, as opposed to Lena's unnatural calm or Slavya's dedication to her chores, it may mean that Alisa was the girl most resistant to the camp cycle's script.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She gets better.
- Heroic Willpower: Implied to have this. Alisa is the most "normal" of the girls at the camp. Unlike Slavya or Lena, she never seems to be forced back into her role in the story. The closer you get to breaking the camp cycle completely, the more hostile the rest of the girls grow toward her. And during the Harem Ending, she was the first of the girls to break free from her camp and into one of theirs — to be specific, Masha's.
- Hidden Depths: That book you see her with? Turns out to be the exact same novel Lena was reading earlier.
- Leitmotif: "That's Our Madhouse"
- Love Triangle: Assumes Lena is after Semyon, who is, at least initially, completely oblivious.
- Nonuniform Uniform: She always ties the lower part of her uniform to resemble a tank top. Naturally, she gets called out on this by Olga Dmitrievna.
- Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Surreptitiously plays electric guitar when the rest of the camp is preparing a disco party. Has drunken sex with Semyon, near the end of her route, and comes back in the real world as a rock groupie.
- Tomboy: Shares this with Ulyana.
- Tsundere: Right down to calling Semyon “moron”.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: As you progress in her route, you could meet up and spend time alone with Alisa wearing just a bikini in the moonlit beach.
Lena
A shy wallflower who is awkward around large gatherings.
- Berserk Button: Just don’t mention or even look at Alisa, until the Harem Ending.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Lena is a silent-type, shy girl who mostly spends time reading books, but in her route's bad ending and some, she could go full Cute and Psycho.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Especially in her own route, the way she treats Alisa smacks heavily of this. "I always hated that bitch."
- Blade Enthusiast: Oh yeah. Lena always has a knife on her, and several times she pulls it out to attack, or she leaves an area quietly and Semyon notices a glint of metal in her hand.
- Bookworm: Your initial impression of Lena shows her busy reading a book, and it's the main focus on some of her dialogue choices.
- Cleavage Window: Done deliberately by Lena as her relationship with Semyon progresses. When they're sitting on a bench at night, she wears a chest-revealing outfit.
- Cute and Psycho: Adorable, with her big green eyes and her Girlish Pigtails. Also very happy to butcher people, and implies in the Harem Ending that she learned she was trapped in a dream world through Cold-Blooded Torture of a Semyon.
- Driven to Suicide: Oh lord, the Bad Ending, where she kills herself for fear that Semyon won't love her.
- Foreshadowing: Semyon has a brief mental image of Lena as Rena from Higurashi: When They Cry, hinting at Lena's yandere traits in certain bad endings involving her.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Leitmotif: "Let's Be Friends"
- Love Makes You Crazy: Especially in the Bad Ending.
- Love Triangle: Assumes Alisa is after Semyon, who is, at least initially, completely oblivious.
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl: Deconstructed, big time.
- Sleep Cute: Semyon could do this with Lena in the latter's route, with both sleeping by resting their heads on each others' shoulders.
- Yandere: In her route and in Miku's route, this actually happens to varying degrees.
Miku
Miku / (Masha)
The only active member of the Music Club. Half-Japanese. Totally not based on Hatsune Miku. In her route, is actually an actress named Masha playing Miku, much to her consternation.
- Anachronism Stew: She obviously should not exist in 1980s Soviet Russia. And a strong hint that this is not, in fact, actual 1980s Soviet Russia.
- Big Damn Kiss: Happens in the good ending of her route, with Semyon pulling her in for a surprise kiss. Naturally, Miku is initially shocked at this, but lets it slide as she also developed romantic feelings for him.
- But Not Too Foreign: Half-Russian, half-Japanese.
- Captain Ersatz: As if it wasn't obvious enough already as mentioned above, she's this game's version of Hatsune Miku.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Very little of anything she says makes any sense at all. But only when in Miku persona, Masha is refreshingly normal.
- Dawson Casting: Invoked during her route, where all of the Young Pioneer characters are actually played by adult actors.
- The Ditz: Again, Miku, NOT Masha
- Leitmotif: "So Good To Be Careless"
- Motor Mouth: Has a totally normal speech affect as Masha.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Masha is largely and gleefully responsible for the utter Mindscrew that is her own route.
- Remember the New Guy?: Masha’s introduction when you jump to the “film” universe comes off as this, as suddenly, she’s Semyon’s ex-girlfriend.
Slavya
Slavya / Slavyana / Sasha
The first Pioneer Semyon meets at Sovyonok, Slavya is kind, helpful, and hard-working, kind of a Russian version of the Yamato Nadeshiko.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Is constantly cleaning camp or in the outdoors, but always has perfect hair. Horribly, terrifyingly subverted in the Miku route.
- Covert Pervert: Goes into the forest to skinny-dip, totally aware Semyon’s watching her. Up until this point everyone probably just thought she was a super helpful Extreme Doormat.
- The Ditz: As Sasha in the Miku route. Masha thinks their roles should have been switched.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: Semyon considers her a classic Russian beauty. Borderline Sensual Slavs, minus the Femme Fatale aspect.
- First Girl Wins: If you pick and succeed in her route.
- Girly Girl: Seems to be this, especially in comparison to Alisa and Ulyana. Actually secretly a nudist Outdoorsy Gal.
- In the Hood: When you meet Slavya in her ending, she's wearing a hooded fur jacket outside in the winter season.
- Kill the Cutie: Her death in Miku’s route is outright
Nightmare Fuel. - Leitmotif: "Forest Maiden"
- Occidental Otaku: Sasha, her actress in the Miku route, gives everyone Japanese honorifics and acts like a total weeaboo. Masha is NOT amused.
Ulyana
The youngest of the Pioneers in the main cast, her boundless energy is often channeled into pure childish mischief.
- Bratty Half-Pint: She's loud and bratty when you trigger her wrong tastes.
- Fiery Redhead: Sort of a younger version of this.
- Genki Girl:
- She's extremely energetic and spends time playing games even with the boys from the Robotics club.
- On the other hand, if you manage to endear her, she shares her playful and sporty attitude with you.
- Leitmotif: "I Want To Play"
- Little Miss Snarker: Hiding a Precocious Crush on Semyon. Thankfully, the creators decided to avert Squick in either iteration of her route.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Becomes this to Semyon in her route ending.
- Passionate Sports Girl: In one of the events that you could choose to spend time with her, Ulyana plays soccer on the field, energetically as always.
- She Is All Grown Up: In both her ending and the Harem Ending.
- Short Tank
- Token Mini-Moe: She's the youngest and shortest in the cast, and acts it.
- Tomboy: Even at a young age, Ulyana is already tomboyish. She also shares this trope with Alisa.
Spoiler Character
Yulya
A mysterious character who only appears for good near the very end of the game.
- Cat Girl: She has cat ears and tail. Her sprites and expressions also resemble that of a cat's.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Yep, she's the cat girl in the "quit game" prompt screen.
- Cloudcuckoolander: "Sugar makes the mushrooms grow!"
- First Girl Wins: Technically, she's the first girl Semyon ever meets. Whether or not he remembers is another story, strangely intertwining this trope with Last Girl Wins.
- Foreshadowing: When you first meet Shurik and Electronik in the Robotics Club, they are trying to build a robotic Cat Girl. And if you're wondering why the quit menu shows an image of a cat girl, she's actually Yulya, someone who plays an important role in the story, or at least the final playthrough. She's also related to Semyon in one way or another.
- Lap Pillow: Happens in Yulya's ending with Semyon. Mind you, this is not the typical example of the trope, as it's the girl who's resting her head on the boy's lap.
- Last Girl Wins: In order to unlock her route, the player must have unlocked the Good Endings for the other girls beforehand, including Miku's. So from a gameplay perspective, Yulya is the last girl that Semyon could end up with. Although this trope overlaps with First Girl Wins because Yulya is technically the first girl that he meets, it's just that Semyon remembering the details of their first meeting is another thing.
- Leitmotif: "Mystery Girl"
- Pygmalion Plot: Formed from Semyon's own consciousness. So what do they end up doing in her route? Take a wild guess. And she can ultimately can end up in his bed in the real world ... at the expense of every other girl in Sovyonok.
- Screw Yourself: Not just in Sovyonok, but in her ending, she can come back and join Semyon in the real world, first appearing in his bed.
- Ship Tease: Out of all the common examples of the trope, and a subversion to how Relationship Values work in Dating Sim visual novels, Yulya's route doesn't have any "bad endings" per se, nor can you intentionally break her heart. Therefore, Yulya has a lot of ship teasing going on with Semyon. It quite helps that her route is the path to the True Ending, and that she's the manifestation of Semyon's consciousness, so it's natural that Yulya is friendly with him.
- Two-Person Pool Party: In Yulya's route, she and Semyon spend time bathing in the lake, with the girl seductively hugging him from behind. It's also at that time when there's nobody else in the entire camp except for these two.
- Walking Spoiler: You do notice how little of this isn't spoiler-tagged, right?
Zhenya
The librarian of Camp Sovyonok, featured in the post-script DLC "A Lone Pioneer's Story". Not actually a traditional VN "date route" as no decisions are involved in this storyline.
- A Day in the Limelight: Zhenya gets a lot more characterizations and backstory in the "A Lone Pioneer's Story" DLC.
- Bookworm: Obviously, as she spends most of her time in the library, she is mostly seen reading books.
- Deadpan Snarker: Is quite abrasive and serious to Semyon everytime he visits the library.
- Idiot Hair: There's a strand of hair sticking out from the top of her head.
- The One That Got Away: To Red Pioneer in her route, until The Bus Came Back. Literally, for Electronik, in all routes.
- Out of Focus: Barely plays much of a role until the DLC where you finally get to meet the real Zhenya and not a “bot”.
- Pair the Spares: The real Zhenya falls in love with Red Pioneer.
- Put on a Bus: Literally, driving Red Pioneer insane. Fortunately, The Bus Came Back almost entirely due to The Power of Love.
- The Stoic: She has a no-nonsense attitude mostly to everyone, especially to Semyon. That is, the version of Semyon that we get to play as for most of the base game's plot, and subverted in the "A Lone Pioneer's Story" DLC since Zhenya is revealed to have fallen in love with the Red Pioneer version of Semyon.
- Sudden Name Change: In the early version, her name was Tanya, but she was finally renamed Zhenya.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: One of the feistier examples of this.
Non-Dateable Characters
Olga Dmitrievna
The camp leader of the Sovyonok Young Pioneers camp, she attempts to assert authority and run the camp according to strict Communist guidelines with rather minimal success.
- Adults Are Useless: Constantly talking about duties and lineups. Can't properly answer any of Semyon's simple questions, or be bothered to look for missing pioneers in the forest.
- Brainless Beauty: Downplayed, in that she's not a bimbo, but she is attractive enough for Semyon to comment approvingly on her figure and features yet not very helpful or responsible despite being in charge.
- Full-Name Basis: No one calls her just Olga, and neither should you.
- Irony: Generally speaking, she's portrayed as a silly, incompetent leader whose ability to contribute anything to the story other than hindering Semyon's progress is scarce. In Miku's universe where she's the director of the movie they're making, Olga is instead portrayed as good at her job and in fact the sanest, most responsible person on the set, with her inability to get things done happening more because everyone else is being lazy, nutty and irresponsible.
- The Leader: She's the camp leader of Sovyonok Youth Pioneers.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Zig-zagged. She is seldom portrayed as actually good at her job, which is the main reason Semyon doesn't like her, and often delegates tasks to him that she could at least help him do. That said, she does acknowledge his good deeds, have moments of kindness towards him and at one point makes the valid argument that Semyon is a loafer and the only one at camp not usually engaged in a more useful activity.
Viola
The nurse, found sporadically in the infirmary.
- Adults Are Useless: Often absent from the infirmary, to the point that you see Semyon running it more than you see her do her actual job. Also completely fails to notice the replacement of a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka with tap water.
- Hospital Hottie: Makes "auscultate" sound super hot.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Tries to invoke this on Semyon. Works at least once.
Sergei "Electronik" Cheesekov
- Butt-Monkey: Gets socked in the face by Alisa, and then rejected by Zhenya. And then decapitated by the horde of zombie Ulyanas in the Miku route.
- In-Series Nickname: "Electronik"
- Shirtless Scene: Played for laughs.
- Those Two Guys: Hangs out in the Cybernetics Club with Shurik.
Shurik
- Insufferable Genius: Comes off as this. Dismisses everything outside his realm of understanding as “unscientific”.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Has no memory of the time between his disappearance and his return. It’s for the best.
- Those Two Guys: Hangs out in the Cybernetics Club with Electronik.
Spoiler Character
Pioneer / Red Pioneer
A mysterious, faceless Young Pioneer who is actually one of many iterations of Semyon himself.
- Alternate Self: He's a version of Semyon who has been trapped in the looping time in the camp.
- Death Seeker: Tried this multiple times. It doesn’t stick.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!
- Earn Your Happy Ending: With the real Zhenya.
- Eyes Out of Sight: Just like the original Semyon, his eyes are always covered by his bangs.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Obsessed with this until falling for Zhenya snaps him out of it.
- The Faceless: How the Red Pioneer initially presents himself, until he reveals that he is an alternate iteration of Semyon.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Is the “last of the Semyons” to be trapped in Sovyonok. Gets worse when real Zhenya is literally Put on a Bus. Fortunately for him, The Bus Came Back.
- Heel–Face Turn: Questionably in the Yulya ending. Undoubtedly in the Zhenya ending.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Seemingly his entire role in the main storyline.
- Lack of Empathy: Which tends to happen when most of the people around you aren’t real.
- Really 700 Years Old: Thanks to a nasty case of "Groundhog Day" Loop. It takes Zhenya to break him out of the cycle for good, and he still remembers everything once he’s gone home.
- Sanity Slippage: The times being spent in the Groundhug Day Loop made him abrasive against the Semyon we're currently playing as.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Remember in your first encounter with this guy as the evil Semyon, during the "Semyon" storyline? Remember how there was another one pleading with you not to listen to the evil Semyon? Yeah, that was the same 'evil' Semyon. After the original protagonist comes back to help him escape, one of his last acts is to try to help the "original" Semyon so he doesn't trust the earlier "evil" version of himself.
- Slasher Smile: His most common facial expression, which differentiates him from the real Semyon.
- Walking Spoiler: Gee, ya think?
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: At least he thinks he's this, anyway.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Subverted. He’s done things to the girls in Sovyonok that you don’t want to think about, just out of sheer boredom out of dealing with years of “bots”. The Harem Ending implies that he occasionally crossed paths with the real girls as well, and didn't realize they weren't dolls. And they remember what he did when they return to the real world.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: In one of the good endings, thinks Semyon’s ultimate escape from Sovyonok will free all the other Pioneers... and finds himself the only one still trapped in the camp next cycle.
