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Diana Orlov profile
12 years ago
Full Name: Diana Orlov
Species: Snowy Egret
Gender: Female
Age and Place of Birth: 28; Pripyat, Ukraine
Appearance: Diana takes appropriate pride in her appearance, something much more suited to her species that her upbringing. Her plumage is always immaculately groomed, and she tends to wear flattering clothing that contrast with her white feathers, oftentimes black or red cocktail dresses. When on the job, she wears a black chef’s coat and slacks. Long-legged and rather tall at six feet in height, she carries herself with the poise of an aristocrat. Her presence screams femme-fatale, even if she is much more bookish in her demeanor around her superiors. Though dignified, she tends to shy away from authority somewhat, but rarely, if ever, loses her composure.
Family: Mother and father, both deceased.
Friends: Buyou
Other Allies: Naraskovian Intelligence Operatives worldwide
Rivals: The LeBlanc Gang, her up-and-coming sous-chef at the restaurant
Enemies: Surprisingly few; she is new enough to the job to have maintained only a single, continuous major cover
Love Life: Diana teases often, but rarely finds time for romance unless it is practical for furthering her cover
Likes: Fish, cooking, singing, music, art, learning, reading, high-class society, fashion
Hates: Bland food, unkempt persons, Muscovites
Fears: Being forced back into a peasant life, being revealed as a fraud
Strengths: Cunning; Intelligent; Calm under pressure; Speaks English, French, Russian, Mandarin, Italian and Czech
Weaknesses: Lingering self-consciousness, can get lost in minor details and miss the bigger picture
Weaponry:
Throwing Needles: Tucked easily between feathers on her arms and laced with a potent paralytic, Diana can fling these with deadly accuracy.
Abilities:
World-Class Sambo Practioner and Marksman
Passive Abilities:
Flight
History:
Character Biography
Diana has the lovely misfortune of being tied to a place of tragedy. Pripyat left scars on many families, but her parents were never the same. Her childhood was riddled with the antics of two broken parents in a home that they never wanted to have to move to. Her father’s alcoholism was commonplace in the era, and even as she grew older and indulged in the strong education provided by a drowned Soviet Union, she found herself in Cuba attending a top university, her broken home behind her.
It was here that she was ‘tapped’ for service in the NIA. Top level universities tended to be ripe with skilled potential agents. She was personally contacted by the then head of OC3, Deep Cover Projects, Buyou, who took her as a personal student. Unlike his colleagues, he made a point of informing her upfront that her performance was part of a wager with the other OC heads: who could select, train, and place the most effective operative in a three year period.
At first, Diana was somewhat off-put by someone so much younger than her giving the orders. She was used to having to mostly fend for herself; by the time her father drank himself to death and her mother merely withered away from years of abuse, she had been well into her career. Interestingly enough, despite focusing in world languages before being recruited, she was a rather competent cook. After a few years of intense training, Buyou gave Diana her first and current major assignment; work as a head chef in a restaurant used by the mob to launder money.
Of course, the dealings of the Russian mob were of little concern to the NIA; they were regular contacts of one another, but it was important to keep the underworld in its place, and she was to secure the leverage to do so. She did not, however, expect the restaurant to be employing another undercover agent, her sous-chef, who worked for the LeBlanc gang, an organization that had been wringing numerous underworld entities dry over the past decades with increasing ferocity. When they decided to ransack the restaurant, she fought off a number of attackers with whatever was handy in the kitchen before being subdued and left with a note for her handler, Buyou, who had moved on to work on classified materials well beyond her clearance. It was just a simple threat, of course, but the fact that they knew her real allegiance was troubling; the gang had been impervious to penetration by NIA operatives thus far.
So, as she helped re-establish the restaurant, Diana passed on the message to Buyou after he came to check on her. Every observant, she happened to notice that her dossier, which he tended to bring with him, had a stamp on the cover ‘Tagged for OC7’ which meant nothing to her at the time, especially since there were only 6 Operational Commands in the first place. She didn’t press the issue, and maintains her cover to this day, even after the restaurant was sold to a different mob as part of a deal. It seemed that her cooking had actually been earning them quite a customer base.
Species: Snowy Egret
Gender: Female
Age and Place of Birth: 28; Pripyat, Ukraine
Appearance: Diana takes appropriate pride in her appearance, something much more suited to her species that her upbringing. Her plumage is always immaculately groomed, and she tends to wear flattering clothing that contrast with her white feathers, oftentimes black or red cocktail dresses. When on the job, she wears a black chef’s coat and slacks. Long-legged and rather tall at six feet in height, she carries herself with the poise of an aristocrat. Her presence screams femme-fatale, even if she is much more bookish in her demeanor around her superiors. Though dignified, she tends to shy away from authority somewhat, but rarely, if ever, loses her composure.
Family: Mother and father, both deceased.
Friends: Buyou
Other Allies: Naraskovian Intelligence Operatives worldwide
Rivals: The LeBlanc Gang, her up-and-coming sous-chef at the restaurant
Enemies: Surprisingly few; she is new enough to the job to have maintained only a single, continuous major cover
Love Life: Diana teases often, but rarely finds time for romance unless it is practical for furthering her cover
Likes: Fish, cooking, singing, music, art, learning, reading, high-class society, fashion
Hates: Bland food, unkempt persons, Muscovites
Fears: Being forced back into a peasant life, being revealed as a fraud
Strengths: Cunning; Intelligent; Calm under pressure; Speaks English, French, Russian, Mandarin, Italian and Czech
Weaknesses: Lingering self-consciousness, can get lost in minor details and miss the bigger picture
Weaponry:
Throwing Needles: Tucked easily between feathers on her arms and laced with a potent paralytic, Diana can fling these with deadly accuracy.
Abilities:
World-Class Sambo Practioner and Marksman
Passive Abilities:
Flight
History:
Character Biography
Diana has the lovely misfortune of being tied to a place of tragedy. Pripyat left scars on many families, but her parents were never the same. Her childhood was riddled with the antics of two broken parents in a home that they never wanted to have to move to. Her father’s alcoholism was commonplace in the era, and even as she grew older and indulged in the strong education provided by a drowned Soviet Union, she found herself in Cuba attending a top university, her broken home behind her.
It was here that she was ‘tapped’ for service in the NIA. Top level universities tended to be ripe with skilled potential agents. She was personally contacted by the then head of OC3, Deep Cover Projects, Buyou, who took her as a personal student. Unlike his colleagues, he made a point of informing her upfront that her performance was part of a wager with the other OC heads: who could select, train, and place the most effective operative in a three year period.
At first, Diana was somewhat off-put by someone so much younger than her giving the orders. She was used to having to mostly fend for herself; by the time her father drank himself to death and her mother merely withered away from years of abuse, she had been well into her career. Interestingly enough, despite focusing in world languages before being recruited, she was a rather competent cook. After a few years of intense training, Buyou gave Diana her first and current major assignment; work as a head chef in a restaurant used by the mob to launder money.
Of course, the dealings of the Russian mob were of little concern to the NIA; they were regular contacts of one another, but it was important to keep the underworld in its place, and she was to secure the leverage to do so. She did not, however, expect the restaurant to be employing another undercover agent, her sous-chef, who worked for the LeBlanc gang, an organization that had been wringing numerous underworld entities dry over the past decades with increasing ferocity. When they decided to ransack the restaurant, she fought off a number of attackers with whatever was handy in the kitchen before being subdued and left with a note for her handler, Buyou, who had moved on to work on classified materials well beyond her clearance. It was just a simple threat, of course, but the fact that they knew her real allegiance was troubling; the gang had been impervious to penetration by NIA operatives thus far.
So, as she helped re-establish the restaurant, Diana passed on the message to Buyou after he came to check on her. Every observant, she happened to notice that her dossier, which he tended to bring with him, had a stamp on the cover ‘Tagged for OC7’ which meant nothing to her at the time, especially since there were only 6 Operational Commands in the first place. She didn’t press the issue, and maintains her cover to this day, even after the restaurant was sold to a different mob as part of a deal. It seemed that her cooking had actually been earning them quite a customer base.
