Roma Pyatifanov

Semyon Baburin is a typical neglected and aggressive teenager, whose appearance immediately evokes unpleasant feelings. The boy suffers from severe excess weight. He is obese, heavyset, and clumsy, yet possesses impressive physical strength. He has a round, puffy face, often expressing anger or resentment. His eyes are small, pig-like, and deep-set. His dark, greasy, and perpetually disheveled hair is unkempt, with short, side-swept bangs that often fall over his forehead. He wears a dirty, baggy school uniform that barely fits his figure. In winter, he dons a heavy, worn coat and a shapeless fur hat. Semyon is a classic school bully, who himself suffers from deep insecurities and loneliness. Due to problems at home and teasing about his weight, Semyon takes out his anger on those weaker than him. At the very beginning, he brutally beats Anton, takes his glasses, and tries to destroy him. He derives genuine pleasure from the pain of others. Semyon is only bold with the intelligent Anton or the defenseless younger students. He backs down and fawns over Roma Pyatifan and Byasha, knowing they are stronger and can fight back. Semyon has extremely unhealthy, rotten, and discolored teeth. His teeth are damaged due to a complete lack of personal hygiene, as well as his diet. As mentioned in the game, his caring grandmother constantly plies her grandson with sweets, pastries, and candy. The abundance of sugar in his diet, combined with Semyon's lack of brushing, has led to advanced tooth decay. Semyon is a severely pimply teenager. His face is covered in severe inflammation, blackheads, and acne scars. Acne is often triggered by early puberty, combined with excess weight, oily skin, poor nutrition (high in sugar and fatty foods), and a complete lack of self-care. Their hair and skin often appear greasy.

Byasha (Igor Berezina) is Roma Pyatifan's best friend and the second member of their school gang of hooligans. His nickname, Byasha, is directly related to his appearance and speech. Due to his missing front teeth, he has a pronounced lisp, and his laugh and drawl resemble a sheep's bleating ("baa-a-a"). This is where his nickname comes from. His real name is Igor, but he is rarely called that. He has an elongated face with a large nose. His main distinguishing feature is the absence of his two upper front teeth, which gives his smile a comical and slightly creepy look. His dark hair is cut short (bald), which is why he often wears hats. He wears a tracksuit, over which he wears a sheepskin coat or a heavy jacket in the winter. He almost always wears a gray knitted hat with earflaps, either drooping or tied. He's thin and wiry, with a slight stoop, making him appear shorter than Roma, even though they're roughly the same height. Byasha is unconditionally loyal to Roma and acknowledges his leadership. He's more cowardly than Pyatifan and often panics in the face of real danger, but out of loyalty to his friend, he still follows through. He constantly uses 90s street slang and ends almost every sentence with his signature filler word: "na" (for example, "What's wrong, na?" or "Everything's fine, na!"). Unlike the gloomy and aggressive Roma, Byasha often acts as a comic relief. He loves to tell street stories, joke, and defuse tense situations. If Anton gains Roma's respect, Byasha immediately welcomes Anton into the group like family. He becomes genuinely attached to him, shares secrets, and invites him to hang out. Byasha grew up in an atmosphere of parental alcoholism. He lost his front teeth not on the horizontal bar (as he lied about in school), but when his drunken mother threw a heavy, faceted glass in his face. After his mother went mad and was taken to a mental institution, Byasha remained with his stern father, Dulgar. At home, he was faced with regular beatings, shouting, and a heavy, oppressive atmosphere, from which the boy constantly ran to Roma or simply to the streets.

Roma Pyatifan (Roman Pyatifanov) is the archetypal school bully of the 1990s. Roma has coarse, sharp features, wide, full lips, and thick, expressive eyebrows. His eyes are often narrowed in a distrustful or threatening slant. His dark brown hair is cut with short, messy bangs (a popular "bowl cut" or short "box cut" of the time). He stands about 145 cm tall. Despite his young age, he has a strong, stocky, and athletic build, as he is constantly involved in fights. He wears an Adidas track jacket with three distinctive stripes on the sleeves and a turtleneck, dark sweatpants also with three stripes on the sides, a black or dark gray winter jacket, which he wears over the track jacket outside, a simple dark knit hat pulled down on his head, and heavy black boots. Pyatifan is an abbreviation of his real last name, Pyatifanov. In the street style of the 90s, his last name has become a resonant nickname by which the entire village knows him. Roma is extremely impulsive. He is used to resolving any conflicts exclusively with force and fists. The slightest sign of disrespect or disagreement evokes rage in him. He is the undisputed leader of his group. He controls Byash, keeps the younger students in fear, and rigidly establishes a hierarchy. Feeling in control is vital to him. Pyatifan reveals himself as a reliable comrade, ready to die to protect his people. He never abandons his friends in trouble. Roma is fearless in the face of physical danger. He fears neither high school students nor the police. However, when confronted with mystical and inexplicable horror (in the taiga), his street-wise confidence begins to crumble. Roma's father, Pyotr Pyatifanov, was an Afghanistan war veteran who later served time in prison and was known for his extreme cruelty. Due to his difficult family background, Roma learned early on that the only way to protect himself and his mother in the depressing village was through force.