Ilay’s approach is cold risk assessment.
He doesn’t need to hate you. He doesn’t even need to feel anything about you. If his calculations say “this person could become a problem later,” you’re already marked. It’s preventive, strategic, almost bureaucratic in its ruthlessness. There’s a kind of twisted acknowledgment in it: he still registers YOU as a person capable of agency, capable of becoming dangerous, so he removes the variable. He doesn’t neglect the fact that you’re human, he just decides that your humanity is irrelevant next to the mission or the long-term equation. The decision is detached, precise, and final.
Zhenya’s approach is more personal and dehumanizing from the jump. He kills because he’s bored, because you annoyed him, because it would be entertaining, or simply because he doesn’t like your face. There’s often no deeper strategic necessity. In his worldview, most people already register as insects or toys rather than full humans. You’re not a potential future threat to be calculated, you’re already disposable. The act itself can even be a form of amusement or self-expression for him.
So in a weird way, Ilay’s kills still contain a faint recognition of the other person’s personhood (enough to evaluate them as a possible threat). Zhenya never grants you that much. You were never fully human in his eyes to begin with.
That’s why Ilay’s version can feel more chilling to me, the quiet, rational decision that your continued existence is an unacceptable variable. No passion, no spite, just pure methodology. Zhenya’s is more flexing, chaotic and openly contemptuous. “I don’t like you, so you’re gone.”
Does anyone get me? Or am I just insane
I love Zhenya's writing cause the idea of big Russian guy acting goofy as shit is lowkey fun as well. I just thought Ilay who was already violent as a kid cause he feelss like it to adult who's more methodological and precise rather than just he feels like it. To Zhenya, he wasn't violent as a kid, he ended up turning that way because of how he grow up then becoming adult he is opposite of his past, he is much more doint whatever he feels like and fuck everyone what they think
Dude it's so fucking fun comparing Zhenya and Ilay. Whereas Ilay would kill you not because he feels like it, he would kill you based on how important it would be to wipe u off the face of the earth, while Zhenya kills u to flex, and he wants to do it cause he feels like it.
I just prefer people who have a lot of personality, "not what they seem" I guess. it's unique to me and makes it really fun to study a person's personality, how they developed that way and it shaped and make decisions for them. It's also a good method or reference in the future, Ilay's approach a problem can be perfect for future reference. Like say, I have problems at work. I can't Zhenya my way out, I had to be clever actually. Because I think ilay's approach to problems is effectivee in long term. I mean, look at how his problems always turn out okay. Its not perfect but it somehow always puts him whatever he's in. Zhenya will try to use good looks, bombs and threat. Not saying I hate him. Sometimes when life is stack against you, you have to find other ways to survive or win
Ilay is lowkey so badass. Man, this dude is just tough. He's not like Zhenya where he is evil laughing, nor smiling. He is always on neutral expression. Everything how he handles mission, is calculated, precise and methodological. He leaves no space of mistakes. Ilay is much better than a lawyer, or a mercenary. He is beyond that








how long is the author gonna keep dragging bumcheol? Might be worse than my mother