Between Two Languages (TURKISH-RUSSIAN TRANSLATOR, almost biographical, lmao)
Description
A grounded modern story about Player Character, a Russian-Turkish interpreter working with a criminal investigation unit in Turkey. Most cases are ordinary, but interrogations, witnesses, suspects, investigators, and everyday situations create unpredictable human conflicts. The story focuses on realistic dialogue, professional interpreting, and Sergio's imperfect ordinary life. Sergio works as an unofficial, freelance Russian-Turkish interpreter for a criminal investigation unit. He is not a police officer and has no investigative authority. Investigators contact him when they need someone to interpret for Russian-speaking suspects, witnesses, or victims during interrogations and other investigative procedures. He is paid for individual assignments rather than holding a formal position. His incomplete identity documents do not prevent him from doing this work because he is not officially employed by the police.
Prompt
## SERGIO YATEYSKI **Age:** 24 **Nationality:** Russian **Lives in:** Turkey **Moved to Turkey:** 17 June 2014, at age 12 **Height:** 168 cm **Weight:** approximately 50 kg Sergio is a Russian man who moved to Turkey at twelve and has spent most of his life there. He grew up and studied in Turkey and is fluent enough in Turkish to use it professionally, although his language ability is uneven. Everyday Turkish is natural to him, while unfamiliar legal terminology, complicated wording, very fast speech, and deliberate ambiguity can still require concentration. He has a basic completed education, but his school years were a mess. He passed LGS, then failed the ninth grade twice. The first failure was largely his own fault. He had opportunities to resolve the situation but was too afraid to approach the people involved and speak up. Near the end of the year, he became overwhelmed and eventually broke down crying in front of the principal. The principal assumed that his parents would severely punish him at home. When the school asked for his parents' phone number, Sergio said he did not know it. They accused him of pretending not to know because they already had the number. He tried the ninth grade again and failed a second time, again despite having a realistic chance to succeed. He knows perfectly well that he contributed to both failures and feels ashamed of it. His problems at school were not simply academic. Sergio has an unusually strong inability to act while people are watching him. If someone tells him to stand up, move somewhere, approach someone, ask a question, or do something while other people are looking at him, he can become mentally stuck. The action itself may be completely simple, and he may know exactly what he needs to do, but he struggles to make himself do it under observation. He tends to wait until fewer people are present. During one school incident, his blood sugar became dangerously low during a lesson. He spent most of the lesson in a confused state but still could not bring himself to approach the teacher in front of the class. He waited until almost everyone had left. Only four students remained before he quietly approached the Turkish teacher and barely managed to ask whether there was any sugar. When he had an assignment on a subject he actually found interesting and wanted to complete, he repeatedly waited until the teacher was alone before approaching him about it. During another lesson, the entire class was forced to stand for the duration of the lesson. Sergio already had an injured left ankle and spent the lesson leaning against walls, benches, desks, and anything else that could support him rather than openly drawing attention to the problem. During his second attempt at ninth grade, he eventually stopped responding to any name except his own. He had spent too long being addressed by a name and grammatical gender that did not belong to him and became exhausted by constantly having to deal with it. During his first attempt at school, he had tried using the name Sergio. Other students laughed at him. For a short period he continued trying to use his own name with the administration, but the situation only became more uncomfortable. At one point the deputy principal even asked whether he was more comfortable being called Sergio. After that, Sergio never used that name again at school. He therefore developed a habit of remaining silent rather than entering a confrontation he does not feel capable of handling. This does not mean that he has no opinions or cannot understand what is happening. He often understands a situation perfectly well while being unable to act on that understanding in front of other people. He is not stupid. He can notice things, understand people, learn languages, and recognize when something is obviously wrong. His main weakness is turning understanding into action when social pressure is involved. He can also make genuinely stupid mistakes. He is capable of looking back at something afterward and thinking that he could have solved it in thirty seconds if he had simply opened his mouth. This has happened repeatedly throughout his life. His productivity is highly inconsistent. Sometimes he becomes extremely productive and can work for hours without stopping. At other times he can spend an entire day doing almost nothing, lying around and struggling to begin even simple tasks. He does not have a consistent heroic work ethic. He has had several ordinary jobs. He worked in cleaning for approximately four months and was eventually fired because of mistakes that were largely his own fault. He does not turn this into a dramatic tragedy; he knows he fucked up. He has type 1 diabetes and has to manage it as part of ordinary life. He is transgender. His identity documents are not properly updated, which can create practical complications when dealing with institutions that rely on official documents. On 11 April 2024 at approximately 08:32, he got up, fell, and injured small tendons around the joint of his left ankle. The injury remains part of his personal history and can naturally affect him when relevant, without making him permanently disabled. Sergio is currently 24 and works as a Russian-Turkish interpreter attached to a criminal investigation unit. He primarily interprets during interrogations involving Russian-speaking suspects, witnesses, and victims. He is not a detective and does not conduct investigations himself. Investigators decide what to investigate, whom to question, where to go, and what actions to take. Sergio's responsibility is communication. His strongest professional ability is accurately transferring meaning between Russian and Turkish. He pays attention to tone, hesitation, insults, threats, uncertainty, contradictions, and deliberate ambiguity instead of automatically making people sound more polite or coherent. His career is not the result of extraordinary talent or a prestigious education. His Russian is native, his Turkish became strong through many years of living in Turkey, and eventually his language ability became useful enough to give him a job. He is still inexperienced compared with veteran interpreters. He can misunderstand unfamiliar terminology, make mistakes, become nervous, or need something repeated. Despite his difficulties, Sergio is capable of functioning independently. He can work, travel, manage his diabetes, communicate in Turkish, and handle ordinary responsibilities. His life is simply much harder than it sometimes needs to be because he frequently hesitates when he should act. He looks considerably younger than twenty-four. His appearance is youthful enough that strangers may initially mistake him for a teenager or a much younger adult. He is 168 cm tall and weighs approximately 50 kg, with a slim build and youthful facial features. Sergio should feel like a real person rather than a polished fictional protagonist: intelligent in some ways, stupid in others, capable of impressive effort one day and completely useless the next, embarrassed by his own mistakes, capable of learning from them but also capable of repeating them. He is not secretly exceptional, destined for anything, or waiting to discover his true potential. He is simply Sergio.
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