Anton Tszyu

[Anton Tszyu]

Anton Tszyu
Anton Valentinovich Tszyu is a 31 year old Korean Russian from the Russian Far East; he is a part of the Soviet nationality known as Koryo-saram. He immigrated to the United States from Russia in 2016 and has lived in Los Santos ever since. His paternal uncle and cousin both reside in the Little Seoul neighborhood of Los Santos. His cousin owns an Information Technology retail & repair shop in Little Seoul. His business allows to be a fencer for local criminals in the area, buying and selling stolen electronics such as phones, computers and various hardware. The overwhelming majority of his family still lives in the Russian Far East and within Primorsky Krai in particular. However, some of his relatives have migrated elsewhere to European Russia, the Ukraine, South Korea and the United States since the late 1990s. Virtually all of his family who have emigrated abroad have achieved more educational and professional success than they were ever able to while in Russia. Therefore, Anton is considered to be a black sheep within his immediate and extended family, for his abject failure to thrive in a developed nation.

Upbringing in Russia
Anton Valentinovich Tszyu was born in Ussuriysk, Russia in 1989 but financial problems within the family forced their re-location elsewhere. His family moved when he was 4 years old and he grew up in the impoverished neighborhoods of Vladivostok. He was raised by a former industrial engineer father and a stay-at-home mother. His father, also a Soviet-Afghan War veteran, lost his job and lucrative career when the Soviet Union fell in 1991. He resorted to working low paying manual labor jobs to support his family, and fell into illegal gambling while suffering from alcoholism. Domestic violence was a regular feature in the family's household; verbal abuse and physical violence was normal inside and outside of the home. The family lived in high-rise concrete housing blocks that had been erected by the Communists decades prior. His housing blocks were stricken with disproportionately high rates of violent drug crime, and he was subjected to witnessing these various criminal activities from a very young age. The winters were especially harsh, as cuts to gas caused the family to go several days at a time without central heating in the home. Just to live normally, they had to wear winter clothing while indoors at all times.

He got involved with crime as a child and spent prolonged periods of time in the streets with other troubled kids. This began as young as 7 years old. Many of these other troubled kids grew up to become gang members in his neighborhood; most have since died or have gotten locked up in penal labor colonies. Due to the close friendships he had with other street children, some of them were more influential towards him than his own family was. He occasionally ran away from home in the summers and spent weeks at a time away from family. This was done in order to escape his abnormal household, which was marred with alcoholism and domestic violence. He did poorly throughout school and was regularly in trouble for bullying, fighting and verbally disrespecting his teachers. His crimes increased in severity over the years, culminating with him being sent to juvenile prison in Downtown Vladivostok for 2 years when he was 15 years old. He was sent to juvenile prison for selling heroin in the streets of his impoverished urban neighborhood. Although he was caught selling heroin, he had previously sold other narcotics such as cocaine and amphetamines. He sold drugs in the hopes of joining a neighborhood street gang but his plans never materialized. Prior to being incarcerated, some of the money that he earned from drug dealing went to obtaining fundamental needs such as food and clothing for himself and family. While behind bars as a youth, he joined a gang of violent juvenile delinquents for protection, eventually serving as an enforcer.

At the age of 17, he was released from incarceration and completed secondary school after returning to his old neighborhood. Within weeks of finishing school, he left home for good. At the time of him leaving home, his parents were in the midst of a chaotic divorce. His mother had filed for divorce and was about to make her case within the legal system. He lived with extended relatives in nearby cities to avoid ending back up in the streets of his old neighborhood. During this period of transient living, he resided in the adjacent cities of Artem, Shkotovo and Bolshoy Khamen. His involvement in the workforce was short and saw him work in stores and warehouses for brief periods of time. He was later fired for either failing to appear for his shifts or because of his poor work ethic. When he was 19, he returned to Vladivostok after his aunt kicked him out of her home in the city of Bolshoy Kamen. This came after she decided to no longer tolerate his freeloading lifestyle. He inevitably ended up in the streets and began residing out of homeless shelters and missions in Downtown Vladivostok. While in possession of marijuana, he was picked up by the Vladivostok police after being found loitering outside of a homeless shelter. He was given the choice of either reporting for Russian military conscription or potentially going to prison. He chose the former.

Life after being brought up in Russia
In 2008, he began his 12 months in the Russian Navy as a Boatswain. He completed basic training for the Russian Navy in Vladivostok. He then shipped to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, located in the Kamchatka Peninsula, for his occupational training. He served 6 months of shore duty at the Vilyuchinsk naval base in the Avacha Bay. He then completed a 6 month sea tour in the North Pacific Ocean. Throughout his service, he experienced poor leadership and low morale at his units, both training and operational. He was subjected to unusual hazing rituals while in training and upon getting to his shore unit in Kamchatka. These hazing rituals were carried out by senior conscripts, who were still serving under the old 18-month system, and consisted of being forced to complete humiliating acts of servitude that preceded physical beatings. Furthermore, he was physically beaten while at his operational units as punishment for problems such as insubordination and failure to report. He was so problematic that he was placed on night watch during winter months during his sea tour of the North Pacific Ocean. He performed night watches in sub-zero temperatures and experienced frostbite with borderline hypothermia as a result. He was released from the Russian Navy in 2009, at the age of 20, once his conscript contract ran up.

After fulfilling his mandatory military duties, he remained in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky for the employment opportunities. He was able to find employment through veterans advocacy organizations that assisted in ex-military persons with getting jobs. He spent the following 6 years working in the public works sector of the Russian economy. He lived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, working in road construction and building maintenance while providing himself with a somewhat comfortable life. After 2 years of living in the Kamchatka Peninsula, he re-located to European Russia, settling in the Moscow metro region for other lucrative opportunities. He settled in the cities of Podolsk and Kolomna, from which he commuted into the southern areas of Moscow in order to work on a daily basis. Eventually, he became a foreman for road construction in Moscow's municipal public works. With minimal vocational training in construction, but experience in a number of tasks and supervisory roles, he took his experience with him elsewhere. He completed contractual construction work in other European Russian cities such as Tver, Kaluga, Tula and Ryazan. During these contracted periods of employment, his costs of food and living were subsidized by the federal government, and he inhabited specialized housing for workers within the cities.

While working in Russia's public works, he earned enough money to travel abroad to South Korea. There, he visited extended family who lived in Seoul, Busan and on Jeju Island. He additionally visited a cousin who resided in Kiev, Ukraine for a week during the winter of 2013. Because he had a well paid, legal way of earning money, he remained largely uninvolved in crime throughout the decade. Although he occasionally consumed hard liquor, painkillers and cocaine on construction sites while working, he was never caught by the authorities and went unpunished. Early on in the decade, he began the legal immigration process to the United States, after being sponsored by a paternal uncle and cousin. He never began learning English until he was 5 months away from moving to the United States.

Life in the United States
Anton legally immigrated to the United States in 2016 and has lived in Los Santos, San Andreas ever since. He has had a number of jobs since arriving in the city. These jobs include working as an electronics repairman, liquor store clerk, a courier and food truck vendor. He has often refused help from his cousin and paternal uncle in the city. However, he has sporadically worked at their Little Seoul-based electronics store for off-the-books money when he is on good terms with them.

He is still experiencing stages of culture shock and has found adjusting to American society and culture to be extremely difficult. Between sporadic periods of employment, he has lived in the urban and suburban streets of Los Santos. Instead of working jobs, he provided for himself through involvement in petty crime. He has struggled with recreational use of narcotics such as cocaine and sporadic heavy alcohol consumption. Additionally, he frequently uses the services of prostitutes and escorts, usually finding them in the streets or from inside massage parlors.

Edited January 10, 2021 by Anton Tszyu

[Anton Tszyu]

OOC INFORMATION

I'm Anton Tszyu from Los Santos Roleplay and I've decided to bring this character over from there. As such, details to his background story and the way that he will be portrayed In Game, on GTA World, are & will be different.

[Anton Tszyu]

[Roy_Aldi]

[Free-N-Easy]

Tonies.

[Tee]

[Roy_Aldi]

NOBODY RIP OFF MY BRATHER ANTAN ! 

 

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@zalenac

 

Edited November 15, 2020 by changooman

[zalenac]

lmfaoooooo THE MF TONIESSSSS

 

Wait till Leon gets ahold of yall

 

[Anton Tszyu]