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

District: The Russian Quarter

Occupation: Aspiring DJ and pimping AI sexbots on the fifth floor of a gentlemen’s club known as Love Bites.

Boriz is no Mr Big. However, he does work 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 or shooting him for fun if only he wasn’t protected by one of the most brutal gangs in Cyberia. Boriz 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 Commie apocalypse played at 300 bpm.

You will come to learn that 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, CEO Lawrence Cassidy, wasn’t in favour of having “political profit genocide” becoming a theme at all. According to an early memo, Cassidy believed that “our target audience is premium geeks who want to get as far away from that bullshit as humanly possible. It’s why they live in basements. They want to stock a year’s supply of nacho cheese doritos and have zero contact with the outside world”. We explore more of this profit genocide 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 completely for having “the personality of Chernobyl pondlife and the charisma of a gulag ration card” and the look of “Prince if Prince was big into cock and ball torture”. We personally can’t see the comparison.

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

Biodata: 52

Preferred Weapon: The Cvlt-XII.

Favourite hobby: Collecting bubblegum cards for the Screamer Arena death matches. Boriz is the number one fan of Soviet Stan and runs his unofficial fan club. The irony being Soviet Stan was really from somewhere in South Dakota and his attemp at a Russian accent was closer to someone living in the Netherlands.

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