“All my girls come in bubblegum flavour.” –Boriz

District: The Russian Quarter

Occupation: Pimping AI sexbots on the fifth floor of a gentlemen’s club known as Love Bites.

Boriz is no Mr Big. He works for the head of the Russian mafia, Count Maxim, who took pity on Boriz after learning he was born in the same post-Soviet baby farm in eastern Chernenkograd.

This gives Boriz some much needed protection from all the people who would enjoy bullying him if only he wasn’t protected by one of the most brutal gangs in Cyberia. He even has the top secret code which allows him to contact Count Maxim on his Skanna should he find himself in a tricky situation.

Boriz is also a bedroom DJ who constantly nags his boss to let him play for the Rasputin’s nightclub. His favourite genre is Trotsky techno which sounds like a Soviet apocalypse played at 300 bpm.

One of the background themes in the Cyberia Universe is the post-Soviet order which arose after the “Second Cold War,”–an event which at least sounds cool.

The top dog of Give Me Head Productions, Lawrence Cassidy, wasn’t in favour of having “political wankery” becoming a theme at all. According to an early memo, he believed that “our target audience is premium goons want to get as far away from that bullshit as humanly possible. It’s why they live in basements. They want zero contact with the outside world”. We explore more of this wankery here.

It’s also fairly clear that Boriz, although he’s collectors’ card #7, is the second character created by the Give Me Head team. In the minutes of later meetings, there were ferocious arguments about scrapping him for being “pigshit dressed up as horseshit” and “having the personality of fucking pondlife.”

Fortunately for us, it appears that enough team members had fought his corner and ultimately Boriz stayed. Truth is that he became what Bruce Brooks called “kindergarten glue”–he holds the whole Second Cold War story arc together and the creative team had a million other headaches to sort first.

Preferred Weapon: The Cvlt-XII.

Favourite hobby: Collecting bubblegum cards for the Screamer Arena death matches. He’s the number one fan of Joey Knuckles and runs his unofficial fan club.

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