MAJOR DEEJ UNIVERSE

Piese Klasvinsky was once a gifted farmer from a successful collective farm in Ukraine. Raised beneath the full weight of Soviet propaganda, he believed deeply in the ideals of shared labor, sacrifice, duty, and collective survival. At eighteen, he enlisted in the Soviet Red Army, convinced he was serving something greater than himself.

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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Piese and many soldiers like him were abandoned. Their officers disappeared, pay stopped, food vanished, and military families began to starve. With no support from the newly forming Russian Federation, Piese helped turn old drill fields into farmland. Alongside other abandoned soldiers, including the man who would later become Molotok, he created a desperate military collective whose only real weapon was survival.

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For a brief time, Piese’s skill kept the soldiers and their families alive.

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That ended when corrupt Russian Federation officers returned and ordered the collective’s crops seized for “redistribution.” Piese initially believed the order served the people. Then he overheard the truth: the officers intended to steal the food for themselves and leave the soldiers’ families to freeze and starve through the winter.

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Enraged, Piese rallied the abandoned troops. With no guns or ammunition left, the men armed themselves with hand-held reaping scythes and killed seven officers. One escaped, and within hours the collective was surrounded. The soldiers were arrested, the food was taken, and the families left behind died through the winter.

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Piese survived prison, interrogation, starvation, and beatings. He kept the other prisoners alive in spirit by singing old Soviet songs until the guards silenced him with violence. During a planned jailbreak, Piese used his kitchen assignment to poison the guards’ food just enough to incapacitate them. He escaped with the others and was brought before the legendary Soviet warlord known as Generalissimus.

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Generalissimus immediately recognized Piese’s true value. Armies need weapons, commanders, and soldiers — but they also need food. Piese was offered a purpose: help feed the reborn Soviet cause and restore the strength of the fallen Union. He accepted without hesitation.

 

At the Soviet Guard’s secret Greenland base, Piese became indispensable. In a place where nothing should have grown beyond tundra grass, he engineered a massive underground agricultural network using caves, thermal vents, reflected light, and carefully managed soil. The base survived because of him. The annual harvest became known as Piese Day, a celebration where soldiers, families, and Soviet Guard operatives took up scythes and harvested the food that kept their hidden nation alive.

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During the Soltan Star Empire’s invasion of Earth in 2000, the Soviet Guard’s Greenland base was devastated. Many soldiers and civilians were killed, the crops were destroyed, and Piese was mortally wounded. Generalissimus could not afford to lose him. Mystyck performed a dangerous and ancient arcane ritual, using the unstable post-invasion ley-line energies to heal and empower him.

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The ritual nearly killed Mystyck, leaving her comatose for months. Piese, however, emerged transformed.

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He became stronger, tougher, faster, and more enduring than any normal man. Within two weeks of the ritual, he rebuilt enough of the underground farm to keep the survivors alive through winter. Using recovered Soltan technology, he improved crop growth and restored food security to the shattered base.

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At the next Piese Day celebration, Generalissimus honored him with a pair of golden scythes forged from Soltan alien armor-metal. Mystyck later enchanted the weapons, allowing Piese to summon, throw, and recall them through a pocket void. From that day forward, Piese Klasvinsky became Serp — “Scythe.”

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Over time, Serp discovered that his ceremonial tools were also devastating weapons. He trained with the Soviet Guard’s enhanced operatives and formed a close battlefield partnership with Molotok. Together, they became known as Molotok i Serp — Hammer and Sickle.

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Serp’s loyalty, however, has always been morally compromised. In 2010, during the Soviet Guard’s invasion of Lithuania, he was ordered to force civilians into agricultural labor and support the occupation’s food supply chain. Though he pitied the Lithuanians, he justified the cruelty by telling himself that his purpose was to feed those who depended on him. To Serp, hunger is the unforgivable enemy — and nearly any brutality can be excused if it prevents starvation among “his people.”

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When Lithuanian resistance fighters destroyed a food shipment bound for Greenland, killing seventy Soviet Guard personnel and destroying supplies meant to feed hundreds, Serp snapped. He rampaged through Vilnius for sixteen hours, cutting down landmarks, vehicles, aircraft, and resistance positions in a drunken storm of grief and rage. He was eventually wounded, evacuated, and sent back to Greenland.

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By the time he recovered, Lithuania had been lost.

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Generalissimus blamed Serp for not being present when the Soviet Guard needed him most. Crushed by shame, Serp spiraled into heavy drinking. Yet even at his lowest, he returned to the fields. Working brutal twenty-hour days, often drunk and half-mad with guilt, he kept the surviving Soviet Guard fed. For that, Generalissimus awarded him another Hero of the Soviet Union medal.

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Today, Serp remains one half of Hammer and Sickle and one of the Soviet Guard’s most valuable veteran operatives. He is a farmer, quartermaster, survivor, butcher, and battlefield reaper. He drinks too much, carries too much guilt, and still dreams of golden Ukrainian wheat fields under a restored Soviet banner.

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In battle, Serp is focused, ruthless, and terrifying — a man who sees every enemy as another crop to be cut down for the survival of the collective.

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