about ALIEN STAGE

Webseries by VIVINOS avaiable on her Youtube channel (other official links: Twitter/X & Website). It is set in a world where aliens have taken control and humans are seen as pets, rather than important beings. During the course of the series we see the 50th edition of the Alien Stage "death match audition", where pet-humans who came from the ANAKT Garden compete against each other in a singing battle, resulting in the loser's death.

about IVAN

Contestant in the 50th edition of ALNST, which sings in Round 3 and Round 6. He is voiced by PARK BYEONG HOON.
LIKES: classical literature. || HATES: ignorance and disrespect.
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK SONGS: Black Sorrow, CURE
SUB SONGS: Nowhere, Paratise
COVERS: My Clematis (with Till), Wiege
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Ivan grew up in the slums and was adopted by his guardian, Unsha, as a gift for his wife on Valentine's Day (in fact, Ivan doesn't have a birthday, but an adoption day - and it's 14th Feb). As much as he might look bright on the outside, Ivan hides a very complex mix of sorrows in his heart, mainly for his belief that he's unlovable and destined to live like that for the rest of his life - feelings that emerge pretty well in two of his solo songs: Black Sorrow and Nowhere.
During his time in ANAKT Garden, he was described as a quiet kid that later on managed to make friends [X]; however, such connections were never really that deep and many of his classmates saw him as too perfect or unreachable/hard to approach [X], resulting in the formation of a strong one-sided attachment to Till. His love for Till follows his pessimistic view of the world: he's aware of Till's love for Mizi, yet he doesn't seem to mind, because he's convinced nothing he'll ever do will change that; even when they tried to escape the Garden together, once Till let go of his hand because he didn't want to leave Mizi behind, he did not react at all. Rather, he smiled, like he had been practicing at the pond to appear more normal amongst the other kids.
Up until his very last moments, he was fully convinced that Till wouldn't have even cared if he died [X] - and that's why he decided to take such a drastic decision.

His feelings for Till have also been shown to be unhealthy and twisted, with Ivan wishing to be a "parasite" that could live inside the boy, who would then become his "private paradise", as we can see in his sub song Paratise. This somewhat became reality, however, once he died - Ivan's memory haunted Till for a while after the events of Round 6 happened: first it was Luka's manipulation during Round 7 [X], then his hallucinations once Till got rescued by the rebellion after the events of KARMA [X].
In the end, gladly, Till was able to clear his head and gain some peace of mind, "shutting down" Ivan's ghost [X].

webgirl's comment

beware - long long yapping: i love him too much ( -w-)

Words cannot explain how much I love Ivan's character.
When I first started Alien Stage, I didn't really know what it was about nor remembered any of the characters - I had seen a few edits on Tiktok of characters like Luka or Till, but I didn't even know their names. This means that, for me, it was a completely unbiased watch.
It took me a whole day to process what I had just seen (it was January 2025, so I was able to watch up to Round 7/Final) + a good old Fandom Wikia read-through to finally settle on a favorite - and it was clearly him.

As weird as it could sound coming from me (ahem, a very avid IvanTill enjoyer), one of the things I've enjoyed the most of Ivan's character was his one-sided attachment. Gladly, Alien Stage isn't that type of media where everything ends with an "happily ever after", so pretty much all of the characters have their own vices and virtues, as well as the three main relationships being far from "healthy" and ideal. For such reasons, I found it very interesting to see how his feelings were potrayed and acknowledge that such a relationship was what you'd call a "wrong place, wrong time" situation.

As we can also deduct from the KARMA MV (I'm too lazy to get a screenshot but I'm referring to the "hearts" scenes, where we see the three main couples and these crystal hearts are a recurring theme), Ivan "forced" his love on Till: it started with his persistence during the Anakt Garden times and it culminated with that final, forceful kiss he imposed on Till during his last moments alive.
Such actions clearly had an impact on Till, as I mentioned above, with him experiencing several hallucinations of his late friend and feeling this mixture of anger, guilt and sadness, along with the physical trauma of losing his voice and the emotional one of losing his dear friends.
However, in multiple artbooks, official contents and such, we can see that their intimacy statuses are high, that they spent a lot of time together in the Garden and that, generally, Till did not dislike Ivan - he just found him annoying at times.

All of this was not my attempt to force a ship on whoever is reading this (long live the freedom of choice, guys!), it was meant to show Ivan's wrongdoings that clearly affected his own character and the ones around him: I firmly believe that Alien Stage's characterization is mainly shown through the main three relationships, so I find it a bit hard to mention Ivan's flaws without connecting them to Till, somehow (obviously, one can acknowledge his flaws and disklike the pairing). This is why - like any other character in this amazing series - he is not "perfect", but rather potrayed as a human being with human flaws, only aggravated by an environment that did not allow him to live like a normal person would.

Speaking on a lighter and less-analyzing note (my fault... I love yapping about this dude!!!), I like his design very much. He perfectly passes of as the composed, beautiful model-like man that his owner, Unsha, wants him to be, while in reality we know that he hides several deep emotions under that facade of his (and they occasionally slip out... Round 3's ending during the flashback, anyone?). I also enjoy drawing him because something about his hair satisfies me, lol.

I love his songs very much (Black Sorrow is definitely my #1 on an eventual personal Alien Stage songs ranking), both because of the nice music/nice vocals (we all love Park Byeong Hoon!!!) and the meaning behind each of them: through his lyrics we can get a perfect picture of his thoughts and feelings, and I think that's very cool!!

And, to go even more lightly on the topic, I LOVE every single variation of Modern AU Ivan. I'm generally a sucker for Modern AUs on, like... every single fandom I'm in. But I felt like adding this here just because.

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