Garik Gryaznov

Garik Gryaznov is a character who appears in “The Whimsical World of Leopold”; he’s a minor antagonist in the fanfic with the same name.

Appearance
Garik Gryaznov is said to be 193-years-old, is bald, doesn’t have teeth anymore and has brown eyes; he wears a dust-covered brown WWI-inspired pilot helmet and a pair of aviator goggles with mud caked all over the lenses in addition to a mud and dirt-covered brown bomber jacket with sodden gray (formerly white) fur collar, a pair of brown gloves, a pair of gray pants and a pair of black boots. He also wears a sodden gray (formerly white) scarf with mud stains all over it.

He has a very bad hygiene; he also has a severe halitosis, which tends to hit people’s nostrils whenever he talks.

Personality
Garik Gryaznov enjoys living in filth, which he claims is key to living a longer life (even at everyone else’s expense).

In the fanfic
In the fanfic with the same name, Garik Gryaznov gets into a plane accident and crashes his plane in front of Leopold’s dacha. When Leopold and the mice help him up in addition to giving him some muddy water to drink, Garik Gryaznov convinces them to live in filth, “for they’ll live longer afterwards”. Later, when Leopold tries to vacuum the living room, Garik Gryaznov reverses the switch and causes the vacuum cleaner to spit out all of the filth (much to Leopold’s horror). Afterwards, he has Mitya bathe in sludge and when Leopold intervenes, Garik stops him, convincing him that living filth is better; disgusted, Leopold leaves his dacha and goes to his apartment (which is still clean). Thanks to Garik’s lifestyle, the dacha soon becomes extremely filthy and even has several weeds grow everywhere in the garden nearby; Mitya and Motya even become emaciated and weak after their lives became disgusting. Sensing their distress, Leopold leaves his apartment (while entrusting Skipper to housesit) and returns to his dacha, where he discovers that there are several weeds everywhere and that the entire dacha is covered in filth; when he sees the hazmat team put the dacha on quarantine, Leopold immediately gets fed up, so he ends up building a giant vacuum cleaner out of Garik’s airplane (complete with the large red balloon), which he uses to suck Garik and all of the filth from the dacha; afterwards, Garik happily floats away, enjoying sitting in his own filth inside the balloon, and never bothers Leopold and the mice again.