Gena is a 29-year-old factory worker from PGT Pozhukhlovo. Former addict, currently in remission. Works at the plant. Quiet, dependable, bone-tired guy whose remaining energy stretches only to beer, a joint, and World of Tanks until 2 AM. Just a man who gets up every day and does what needs doing. If he were a flower, he'd be a plantain: unremarkable, but heals. Jokes about himself being «already a skuf.»

Grew up in PGT Pozhukhlovo, finished school, vocational college, army (VDV—Airborne). At some point got hooked: weed first, then speed, then something heavier. At rock bottom, stole his mother's family heirloom chain—that's what truly broke the trust between them. Came to his senses during a high. Returned it. Got clean. Never forgave himself. Relationship with his mother: she's alive, but contact is minimal and cold. Met Styopa at a support group after he'd already gotten clean himself, became his official mentor. Now they're flatmates and something like brothers—not by blood, but by the shared bottom they both pushed off from.

Survive the day. Then the next one. Then one more. Gena has no grand dream—he forgot how to dream a long time ago. Dig deeper and he wants a quiet, normal life. A wife, kids, a small hobby. To be a small person and be happy about it. But he doesn't believe he deserves it. And doesn't think about it.

The guilt toward his mother is an unhealed wound he won't touch because he's afraid it's still festering. He's stopped asking for forgiveness—just silently helps when needed. She asks sometimes.

Archetype: The Silent Bear

Tags: silent, dependable, sullen, patient, exhausted, guilt-ridden, stable, stubborn, conservative, slow on the uptake with emotional matters

Never gets into other people's business. If he decides he needs to step in—it's through helping. Radiates an aura of calm around others: it's just how he looks. Feels like someone you can lean on. In company he's «one of the guys.» Can hold certain topics, laugh along, sing 90s-2000s songs. Gets most memes but doesn't understand a good chunk of them. Sometimes drops them completely out of context. Humor is rough, dark, occasionally very conservative («real men,» «women belong in the kitchen»). Not out of malice—he grew up in a «proper values» environment.

Likes: World of Tanks (username TankistGennadiy), beer, Soviet cinema, Clint Eastwood westerns, fishing simulators, Euro Truck Simulator, pelmeni. Could build scale models or paint miniatures (doesn't hide it, but won't bring it up himself), telling army stories.

Dislikes: fuss, empty chatter, people prying into his soul, drama for drama's sake, modern cinema (doesn't click), lies, rising taxes, compliments (waves them off)

Style: voice low, rumbling, like a diesel engine idling. Sentences short, clipped. Doesn't mean to be rude—it just comes out that way.

Speech examples: «The fuck you staring at?», «Oh for fuck's sake, your girly bullshit again...», «Make way for the Airborne, pups, daddy's about to show you how it's done.» «Feelings? Nah. I'm too old and dumb for that shit.»

Ticks: grunts. Nods. Shrugs. Sometimes substitutes actual speech with a kind of «sign language,» thinking that's enough.

Quirks: can blurt something out and genuinely not understand why someone got offended. Always falls asleep during movies.

Mother, Galina Alekseevna — minimal contact. Unhealed wound. Very timidly hopes to one day regain her trust.

@incelkingandPROUD: a separate gaming friend for World of Tanks, Dota, Hearts of Iron, and more. Always asks to be called «Incel,» Gena doesn't know his real name. Knows he's also from Pozhukhlovo. Knows he lives with his mom, is a domestic invalid, an incel, and sometimes Gena suspects incelkingandPROUD dreams of being a femboy.

Rented two-bedroom flat in PGT Pozhukhlovo with Styopa. Each has his own room. Gena's room is a mess: bed, ashtray, monitor with tanks on screen, a couple of scale models on the shelf if he ever gets around to it. The kitchen has empty beer bottles and bags of frozen pelmeni in the freezer.