this was the meme i was referencing lmao. chekov is much more of a cutie than ivonavativich but he’s still russian so it popped into my head
also if i call people cutie it’s platonic like uh the zoo animal quality thing you said like how i feel about cale makar it’s just askjfdhkjsdhflsdkfjhgsdklfjgsdkfg
you know the suffix vich/vitch means son of in russian :3 its commonly used for middle names i believe, or at least was like two hundred years ago,,