#zimov

[comradezimovsmurdermysteries]

Recently I watched the finale of The Amazing Digital Circus and got so inspired to do a crossover art piece of the characters from my story as the cast of the show.

I have been writing my story since 2018 and even from back then I have written Shlyapin to be VERY Kinger coded. That was way before Kinger even existed on our screens! Shlyapin is spaced out, easily startled and tends to be in his own head almost all the time. He also...may or may not...be grieving the loss of someone significant...and that is a big plot point in the story.... 👀 When I first saw Kinger's character in the show, I was so shocked at the similarities!

As for the others, there aren't as similar as Shlyapin and Kinger, however there are some traits that they share, like Pomni and Zimov being big problem solvers, Ragatha and Papirosna being the kind-hearted "moms" of the group, Zooble and Petrov being sassy and argumentative.

Now...for Caine and Tumanich...well, I would say that Tumanich does have the outward theatricality and the charisma of our favorite ringmaster, but deep down, Tumanich may be more similar to Caine's inspiration - AM. 👀👀👀 Take that information as you will...😏

You can also watch this short on my YouTube channel - DrasCOOL, in which I share some of my thoughts on the finale along side a SpeedPaint of this exact drawing. 👀

I might make a full review video in the future, so if you are interested, stay tuned for that.

[vranelartbg]

Recently I watched the finale of The Amazing Digital Circus and got inspired to do a crossover art piece of the characters from my WIP project as the cast of the show. I will share the whole piece on my project's blog - @comradezimovsmurdermysteries tomorrow at 8 PM EET along side a short on my YouTube channel - DrasCOOL, in which I will also share some of my thoughts on the finale. 👀

I might make a full review video in the future, so if you are interested, stay tuned for that.

[inconspicuous-raven]

Fan art for @comradezimovsmurdermysteries / @vranelartbg !! Zimov is definitely my favourite character from their story, Comrade Zimov's Murder Mysteries, which I'm finding incredibly interesting so far! I'm excited to see where they take it in the future! 🫶

[relikalovesstories]

CZMM incorrect quotes

(inspired by @comradezimovsmurdermysteries' latest post )

Tumanich: If you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee~ (In his usual "I am threatening you and at the same time flirting with you to both intimidate and annoy you" type of way)

Zimov: If I was your husband, I'd drink it!

[artemusica]

Nickie ZImov, The kiss (2018) - Almafuerte, Debes saberlo

https://youtu.be/BH2qe1eDaKc

[comradezimovsmurdermysteries]

Zimov has such interesting design. He looks kind of Aisan to me (I am sorry if I got it wrong), but you say he comes from Siberia. Can you say more about his background?

Thank you so much for the interest in Zimov! He is honestly my most favorite character in the story (I mean, obviously, I made him the main character after all).

Zimov does have Asian roots. While researching the USSR, I got really invested in the indigenous people of the Siberian region. The Itelmen and the Chukchi people were especially interesting to me, because of their ties to nature, their spirituality and mythologies.

I took the images from Google.

As I said it in my main profile - my favorite animals are crows and ravens. Well, it turns out that in the mythology of the Itelmens there is a Raven spirit named Kutkh. Kutkh is a very intriguing character with appearances in many contradictory myths. He is often portrait as the creator of the world and yet also a laughing-stock and a trickster. He immediately became one of my favorite mythology figures and a new hyper focus.

The images are from Google. The first is the cover of the book "Raven Kutkh" by Publishing house "Malysh" ("Ворон Кутх" Издательства "Малыш"). The middle one is an illustration from the book "Fairy tales of the peoples of the North" compiled by V. Vinokurova, Yu. Sem ("Сказки народов Севера" Составители: В. Винокурова, Ю. Сем). The last one is an illustration from the book by Georgy Menovshchikov - "Travels of the Raven Kutkh in the Northern Countries" (Георгий Меновщиков - "Путешествия ворона Кутха по северным странам").

Because of that, I wanted Zimov to have roots that tie him to this Raven spirit. For the purposes of my story, I made up a Siberian tribe that is inspired by the Itelmen and the Chukchi people. Zimov’s mother comes from that tribe and has passed down the ties to the mystical world and her more spiritual nature to her son.

I hope that answers your question.

Thank you once again!

[comradezimovsmurdermysteries]

✨Happy Ivan's day to all my fellow Bulgarians! ✨

And Merry Christmas to all the Russians!

This was....chaos. I wanted to do something fun for Tumanich today, since his first name is Ivan, but I did it last moment yesterday and it kept evolving into madness. You can thank this wonderful YouTuber for making a short about this scene in Chicken Little and getting it stuck in my head for days!

Anyway, Happy Name Day, Tumanich! You menace-

[comradezimovsmurdermysteries]

CZMM Pilot episode - Chapter 3 Highlights

After questioning the village babushkas, Papirosna and Zimov go to find "the witcher". On the way there Papirosna has a crazy theory about the situation. Papirosna thinks that the babushkas have a strong intuition and they probably call the person "the witcher", because he is some lazy hooligan, a scoundrel, who came to the village because he couldn't find a job in the city. When he found out that foreigners had come to the village, he decided to rob and kill one of them for easy money. He knew that there is a pioneer camp and a lake nearby. The lake is the perfect hiding place for a corpse, and in the camp he can find something that would help him with his plan. He realized that Dolgiy carries the keys to the camp's shack with him, and one evening, while he was visiting friends and they got drunk, the "witcher" tricked him and stole his keys. He carried out his evil plan and returned them to Dolgiy, without him noticing. This is what Zimov has to say about the theory:

We find out that this is Comrade Shishichkov. He is from Bulgaria. (because of course! 🇧🇬) They ask him is he knows about Tomas Lyington from the USA. He doesn't. But he does confirm what the babushkas say about Luzhlyov, Zaetskaya and that mysterious foreign lady. He even gives her a proper description.

Papirosna and Zimov ask Shishichkov about the situation with Dolgiy. He begins to tell them what happened on the evening between May 21st and 22nd.

Zimov and Papirosna look back at Zimov's notes to confirm a suspicion:

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