Lol Well one thing I can say for myself, I'm relatively good at coming up with plot ideas. I'm terrible at following through with them or fleshing out the details, but I can sure as heck get them started. And I'm pretty decent at making characters (I think), but then don't know what to do with them. D: Poor things end up homeless.

All the things you mentioned sound good to me, except I don't think Nikolai can be the final target. Well, unless we change the original plot around a bit. Cause I was originally planning on having Aleks get what he wanted (the Bratva is dead/ disbanded) but he's still indebted to Lilith. So while he's trying to piece together a new life she's stalking and harassing him and that's when his mental decline starts because he has to just pick random targets that won't raise too much suspicion and there's also the stress of him not being as free as he had anticipated once Nikolai was out of the picture. But I'm okay with us reworking the initial plan if you want.