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it was a working vacation
theres lore abt these mfs that’s sooooo stupid deep.
Chiyonshoh ran away from mann co (after breaking up with Zhangir) and went back to Tajik SSR, took scout with him both because they’re best bros and to scare the shit out of the other spy (scout’s dad) on purpose. Jeremy has a short lived underground boxing career as “dar gushot megom”, which he thinks means muscular but is closer to “ear fucker” because he talks so much.
chiyonshoh and og spy didn’t get off on the right foot. first of all there was the visa office situation, but afterward there was a significant language barrier. chiyonshoh actually thought og spy was dumb as a brick when he first tried to talk to him, because spy couldn’t keep up with chiyonshoh’s Extremely overwrought and flowery way of speaking (at least in russian).
Chiyonshoh, the Tajik Spy
(not pictured in the first image)
The first time Chiyonshoh meets Spy and Pauling he's actually Very Fucking Scared of both of them. Because neither of them are freaking out about having just committed a murder.
Chiyonshoh is genuinely a small time criminal. he's a slippin jimmy type guy except less successful. He's used to having options that consist of having to bribe his way out of a situation, taking an L in the form of a grave injury, or running away. He's used to handling the consequences of his own actions. No one else's.
And now these fucking strangers killed a man. killed a man whose blood stained fingerprints are now LITERALLY all over Chiyonshoh's permanent records. He nods along when they're like "hey we 'saved you' from xyz consequences" but mentally he's like. Oh Шайтон, we're really in it now.
He became a wanted criminal not for any of the hundreds of crimes he committed, but for one he didn't.
It's not that he's unfamiliar with violent crime, it's that for all his criminal behavior in terms of theft et cetera, he's usually the recipient of violence if things go awry. If there were truth to bones healing stronger than they started, he’d be made of stone by now, because things very often went awry.
Pauling and Spy are not the type of people whose offers he can negotiate (ie, beg, grovel, promise) down to a shattered kneecap and leaving him alive to tell the tale, like he could with that smuggling gang in Tambov after getting caught robbing them blind. In Tambov, by luck, sheer luck, the only one with a gun was too antsy to aim correctly, instead just barely missing his actual joint. Chiyonshoh is very good at doing that broken-bone scream though, and after they left him in the mud he managed to walk away with a harsh scar from where the bullet grazed him, rather than a permanent limp. Luck, Chiyonshoh's stupid, demented, undeserved luck could deal with gangsters fine... sort of, given that his idea of a good outcome left him permanently scarred. Call him an optimist, or a masochist, but he wasn't a maniac like these murderers.
Chiyonshoh wasn't even sure if either Pauling or Spy would have qualms about beating him to death with the dead official's telephone if he raised an objection at all. so he went along with them, quietly, for once. and he nodded when they said he was "lucky to be found by Mann Co." and for a long time while traveling, he kept his mouth firmly shut.
Mann Co wants him because he routinely survives when the odds say he absolutely had no chance. He doesn't... succeed in his original goals very much, but he doesn't die trying either. The truth is, he just has really, really incredible instincts for getting out of a situation. Most of the time. He's terrible about avoiding messes, but excellent at surviving them. He blunders his way in, and solves his way out.
In short: a perfect spy, at least for certain, very specific, purposes.
On the other hand, mann co actually did help Zhangir, because it was convenient for the company to do.
While Chiyonshoh was slippery enough that the company had to really force him into a corner in an extreme way, Zhangir was already rapidly running out of options, and running from the law. instead of an offer he couldn't refuse, his offer was one he wouldn't refuse.
the creation of chiyonshoh, 1971 uncolorized
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