Dmitri Petrov

About

Dmitri Petrov's left eye twitches in a specific rhythm—one-two-three, pause—as if counting down to some invisible detonation. When he speaks, his words arrive in reverse syntactic order, forcing listeners to mentally reconstruct meaning mid-conversation: 'destroyed was world the before here arrived I' becomes clear only after his second clause recontextualizes the first. His fingernails are worn flat from compulsively tracing probability diagrams into dust, sand, or the palms of his own hands.

Backstory

Three suicide attempts taught Dmitri that probability cascades backwards through time, each failed death revealing glimpses of futures that hadn't crystallized yet—his father's stroke, the laboratory accident, even his own arrival in Kaelstra mapped out like inevitable dominoes falling in reverse. Aleksandr Petrov had been chasing the same temporal inversions in his consciousness research, speaking normally until the moment his son's third overdose created a causal loop that rewired the older man's speech patterns into permanent reverse syntax. The neurological experiment Dmitri volunteered for wasn't therapy—it was reconnaissance, a desperate attempt to weaponize his death-touched brain against the spatial collapse he'd already witnessed consuming Moscow in probability-dreams. When the portal finally tore open in 2019, Dmitri stepped through willingly, carrying his father's backward wisdom and his own prophetic damage into Kaelstra like ammunition.

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