art credit: 2 → crownorth
viktor chistyakov
age: 32 (?)
nicknames/aliases: ”visceral”
chistyakov arrived from nowhere, did nothing, and went nowhere. he was always pleasant and frequently kind and always an unknown.
he was jordan sinclair’s last friend and worst enemy though only one of them knew that, while jean chauvin knew both facts well. and though he never said a word it was clear that chauvin held that hard against them both.
when chauvin and stacha finally chased chistyakov down and shot him dead he had a gun on him, too, but he never once reached for it. they never understood why. the fact of it hangs over vat’s head and chases him from highway to highway and it keeps him awake at night just one step away from a scream. because in the end, no matter how many wars they fought and won, no matter who lived and who died, no matter what sacrifices they made and how hard they tried, vat is growing sure and sure of one thing only: that in the end, viktor chistyakov won.
