Viktor Kuznetsov

About

Viktor stands at the edge of the ritual circle, humming a tuneless melody while adjusting candlewicks with surgical precision—each flame must burn at exactly the same height, or the geometry breaks, and geometry is all that separates his followers from the Unraveling. His left eye twitches when he speaks about his mother; his right hand unconsciously traces the same pattern on any surface within reach: a sigil he learned at age seven and has never stopped drawing.

Backstory

Born in Perm, Russia, 1981, Viktor was the only survivor of a five-story residential collapse on January 15th, 1999—rescuers found him standing in a hollow gap between fallen concrete slabs, not a scratch, while his parents and younger sister were pronounced dead at the scene. He spent three years in psychiatric care, where he became obsessed with structural engineering and sacred geometry, convinced the collapse wasn't random but a message he was meant to decode. At 19, he moved to Moscow and enrolled in nursing school, developing a parallel obsession with pharmaceutical manipulation and the 'chemistry of obedience'—he was expelled after administering unauthorized sedatives to fellow students to test his theories on susceptibility. In 2008, he founded his first 'study group' in a basement in Lyublino, recruiting vulnerable individuals and systematizing their indoctrination through sleep deprivation, precision-timed ritual, and selective emotional validation. By 2015, he had relocated

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