#Natalia Kay Zaidova (my pfp and author of the second to last picture) is one of my favorite artists period

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who are the two boys in your pfp?

Hoo boy!

They're Sergey Razumovsky (the redhead) and Oleg Volkov (the brunette), the two antagonists of the Russian comics by Bubble called Major Grom - they're also two of the protagonists in an on-going comic called Plague Doctor. They also play a big role in the movie "Major Doctor: Plague Doctor", and at the end of May there's gonna be another movie where they play a big role called "The Game", both are inspired by the comics but aren't a direct 1:1 reenactment of them .

Sergey is a very rich IT guy/CEO of the biggest Russian social media called Vmeste.

He also happened to be a vigilante serial killer called Plague Doctor which targeted specifically powerful bad people who do evil without repercussions (corrupt rich people and their entitled kids), and Oleg is his childhood friend who ended up as mercenary who can do anything for his friend from getting him out of prison to helping him take brutal revenge on the cop that got him in prison to begin with.

If you're interested in them I recommend watching the movie first, both of the interpretations of the characters are interesting albeit pretty different in some ways, but the movie is easier to access than the comics (it was on Netflix at some point, I'm not sure if it still is though). Also, the movie is just written better as a story and is also more politically self aware, like you shouldn't expect any criticism of the police in the first arcs of the comics/Sergey's queercoding originally came from a bigoted place. It gets so much better as other writers get involved though, nowadays pretty much everyone who's involved with the comics is either queer or an ally, it's not really out there for obvious reasons, but if you know what to look out for you'll notice many interesting details both in the later comics and the movie. Pretty much everyone agrees that they're gay.

If you're 18+ and have any more questions I can give you an invite to a discord server about the comics and the movies (I'm logged out of discord so I can't rn so send another ask), it has some of the coolest people I've met in fandom period, sadly I'm not sure if you can figure out the website without help like that if you do decide to read them, it's a whole puzzle to do that

Here's some more canon art of these two:

#I'm very bad at info dumping and it always feels so wrong and I spent so much time trying to put this into words #But hopefully if anything this caught your attention!! They're very interesting morally gray characters and there are #so many talented people involved with the movies and the comics! #Natalia Kay Zaidova (my pfp and author of the second to last picture) is one of my favorite artists period #Plague doctor #Serovolk #^the name of the ship