Post by Red Viper on May 9, 2011 17:22:19 GMT -5
Character General Info
Name: Natalya Petrova Orumov.
Gender: Female.
Birth Date: 13th of May
Age: 35
Age Looks: 33
Hair: Dark red, short.
Eyes: Blue.
Appearance:
Tall and willowy with short, well kept dark red hair and blue eyes, Nadya's most remarkable feature, however, is the scar running along the side of her face (earned while apprehending a criminal armed with a knife). Despite her willowy appearance, she is quite athletic due to regular physical exercise. She is always dressed soberly with a black greatcoat, dark grey trousers and a dark shirt as well as some tough boots.
As her alter-ego, the Red Viper, she looks entirely different. The Red Viper she wears a red metal face mask, a black bullet proof vest and a black and red shirt and army trousers.
Personality:
Natalya is passionate about her work, as it helps her forget her family-related problems. She also hates big time criminals, whom she views as a cancer within society that must be destroyed. She uses deadly force regularly as a vigilante, killing those she hunts down in what she believes to be the most efficient course of action in order to save society and law-abiding citizens from fear and death.
Despite her ruthless alter-ego, Natalya is still human. As a police investigator, she is also a mother alienated from her son, who lives an ocean away from her. She desperately wants to be reconciled with her son, who was turned against her by her late husband's brother, who views her as a money-grabbing, manipulative bitch who used her pregnancy in order to bind his brother to her.
Having an alter-ego as violent and well-known as the Red Viper is also not easy for Natalya, as she sometimes wonders who she really is. The passionate cop and estranged mother? Or the ruthless, crime-fighting Red Viper? She sometimes feels estranged from her alter-ego, as she herself is not a fundamentally violent person, using violence only when necessary in the course of her work. She feels like an entirely different person as the Red Viper, and the Viper's 'personality' sometimes intrudes on her own normal behaviour.
Family:
-Father: Petrov Orumov (deceased).
-Mother: Irina Orumov (maiden name Krilov, alive).
-Son: Alexei Orumov (alive).
-Brother: Piotr Orumov (alive).
Background:
Born in the USSR, the daughter of a school teacher and a police officer, Natalya was attracted by her father's work from a very early age and often expressed a desire to join the police force when she grew up. When she was 16, she got pregnant after a night spent with her boyfriend Sergei. She decided to keep the baby despite Sergei's reticence, and thus earned the hatred and suspicion of Sergei's brother.
With a child in her care and an increasingly alcoholic young husband, Natalya soldiered on. When she was conscripted, she chose the armed forces, and even applied to join the Vityaz (Russia's anti-terrorist force), although she was forced to drop out of training. Natalya later went on to study criminology, and eventually became part of Moscow's police force. However, soon after she joined the force, her father was brutally murdered, and it was revealed that he was an ex-KGB agent. Soon after her father's death, Sergei killed himself in a car crash. Badly shaken and aggrieved by the sudden deaths of her father and husband, Natalya had no idea that things were about to get worse. Sergei's brother took her to court, accusing her of being unfit to raise his brother's son. He won, and took her son with him to New York, leaving her alone in Moscow.
The next few years were terrible and tumultuous. Natalya dedicated herself entirely to her work, working day and night to solve some of the most gruesome murder cases of the city. Moscow was also hit by a sudden crime wave around that time, and Natalya witnessed first hand the corruption eating away at the force's core despite the many "clean hands" operations carried out before. After witnessing the murder of one of her friends and colleagues by the Mafiya and some corrupt members of the Militsiya, Natalya decided Moscow required far more than limp-handed police interventions to crush its criminal elements. Her first action as a vigilante was to go to a crime boss's home in the suburbs of Moscow and killing him and his bodyguards.
She killed two more top criminals, and after narrowly escaping death with the last one, she decided that an effective vigilante had to strike fear into the hearts of criminals. She turned to her brother, a brilliant engineer and inventor working at the Izhmash weapon factories and asked him to design and make special devices to help her fight crime. Reluctantly, he agreed, and Natalya soon acquired the gadgets she still uses regularly. Soon after obtaining her brother's help, Natalya took on a new identity to fight crime: the Red Viper. The Red Viper quickly made Russia's headlines and struck fear into the hearts of criminals all over Moscow, for the well-armed and trained vigilante showed no pity to those who violated the law.
After several years spent waging war on crime, both as a police investigator and a vigilante, Moscow's crime world became remarkably pacified, and the city entered a new period of prosperity and tranquillity. Natalya received several distinctions for her work in the police, and the Red Viper vanished altogether, much to the chagrin of the press. However, Natalya's battle against crime was not over yet. She was sent to Gotham to help Gotham police tackle the rising crime rate. She'd thought she would never have to take up her secret identity again, but Gotham proved her wrong. Soon enough, the Russian vigilante found herself in the dark streets of Gotham.
Character Info
Code Name: Red Viper.
Enemy Code Name: None.
Powers/abilities:
None! Natalya relies on sophisticated gadgets, guns and her own physical prowess and intelligence to hunt and eliminate Moscow's criminals.
Gadgets:
-Fire-proofed, isolated suit: Natalya's suit is made to resist fire, electricity and toxic chemicals.
-Viper Eyes: a special pair of goggles on her face mask that can switch between night-vision and infra-red, and can also auto-target nearby enemies during a fight.
-Wrist-mounted grappling hook gun: a device mounted on her wrist which shoots a small, highly resistant grappling hook at a target of her choice and enables her to scale most obstacles as well as perform some neat acrobatics.
-Ballistic wrist-knife: A knife mounted on her other wrist which can be used for close combat. The blade can also be fired at a nearby target in a pinch and can easily stab through most armour.
-Adhesive pads: A very sophisticated gadget that takes the form of small pads fitted onto her feet and hands. Those pads only react to solid, non-organic surfaces such as walls, and enable her to effectively climb up vertical surfaces. She doesn't use them all the time, and they have been known to fail.
-Various other gadgets: smoke grenades, flash-bang grenades and many other things.
-Weapons (other than her wrist knife and grenades): AK-105, PP-2000, two Beretta 92 pistols, VSS Vintorez (for some missions), two Beretta M93 machine-pistols (for some missions).
Strengths:
-Excellent combat skills due to her Vityaz training.
-Very agile and fast due to her skills in Parkour.
Weaknesses:
-Has no superhuman powers.
-Has to juggle her two very conflictual lives constantly.
-Has family problems.
Affiliation: Gotham City Department/neutral.
Other Info
Anything else you'd like to add: Nope.
Will you be active?: Derp.
Do you Agree should you become Inactive you will have your Character Removed from the Roleplay?: Herp.
Sample RP:
Moscow. People never saw that city much. It lacked the glamour of American and Western European cities and was still associated with the evils of Communism and the Soviet Union. This also applied to the city's criminal elements. Nobody ever saw a movie about Moscow's criminals, and yet the city's criminal underworld was one of the most active in the world.
Natalya was well placed to know that. She faced the fallout of the city's criminals almost every day in the form of murders, some innocuous, others spectacularly violent. After several years spent investigating murder cases, she was so desensitised to violence that seeing the decapitated body of a hooker who had also been raped and mutilated before said decapitation didn't even make her blink. One could also say that her alter-ego had further desensitised her to violence. After all, her other self was no pacifist.
With one finger she rubbed the tip of her nose and blinked. She was facing the telephone, black and ominous on the desk. Should she phone New York? Her hand advanced towards the phone before stopping and drawing back. She knew what awaited her if she phoned. Usually he'd hang up on her as soon as she said who she was, or the conversation would drag on for a little before abruptly ending in a one-sided argument and one of them hanging up.
Finally she made her mind up. She would never give up, even if it meant going through a million useless arguments. Natalya picked the phone up and dialled before waiting for someone to answer. One ring, two rings, three rings.
"Hello?", said a male voice on the other end.
"-Hello", said Natalya.
"-Who is it?"
"-It's Natalya..."
Clack. The bastard hung up. Natalya kept the phone to her ear for several minutes more before slowly putting it back down on its receiver. She took a deep breath before standing up and walking towards the window of her small apartment. Her apartment was located in a quiet part of Moscow's suburbs and was neither opulent nor modest. But she liked it. It suited her quite well.
She served herself a glass of vodka and leaned against one side of the window. Did anything ever go right in her life save for her job? She was working on a case at the moment. An old man found dead in his Mercedes near Red Square. He had been stabbed multiple times, but no prints were left in the car. It was a tough case with no witnesses or leads, and Natalya had a feeling that it would end unsolved.
Night fell, and Nadya stepped away from the window and put her empty glass down on a nearby table. It was time. She went towards a locked metal cupboard and opened it with a small set of keys she kept with her at all times. On the table next to her glass was a copy of the Moskva newspaper.
"Krasnaia Gadiuka strikes again", proclaimed the headlines, with a black and white picture of a red-clad figure swinging through Moscow's skyline on a metallic rope. Red Viper, Moscow's very own vigilante, the favourite subject of tabloids like Pravda and even big shot newspapers like Russia Today. A ruthless killer single-handedly waging a war against Moscow's biggest criminals, and, according to some, secretly receiving aid from the police.
Natalya opened the cupboard. In it was a red and black suit, and most notably, a metal face mask. Next to these were guns. An AK-105, a PP-2000, a Beretta 93, a PP-19 Bizon. There were also strange-looking gadgets and grenades, and even what seemed to be a ballistic knife with a long, dagger-like blade attached to a metal bracelet of sorts.
Natalya took the suit and the mask out. The Red Viper was her, a great secret indeed. Despite all the media attention she attracted, she still managed to retain her secret identity. Who would suspect Natalya Orumov, a member of Moscow's police force, to be Moscow's bloody vigilante?
Name: Natalya Petrova Orumov.
Gender: Female.
Birth Date: 13th of May
Age: 35
Age Looks: 33
Hair: Dark red, short.
Eyes: Blue.
Appearance:
Tall and willowy with short, well kept dark red hair and blue eyes, Nadya's most remarkable feature, however, is the scar running along the side of her face (earned while apprehending a criminal armed with a knife). Despite her willowy appearance, she is quite athletic due to regular physical exercise. She is always dressed soberly with a black greatcoat, dark grey trousers and a dark shirt as well as some tough boots.
As her alter-ego, the Red Viper, she looks entirely different. The Red Viper she wears a red metal face mask, a black bullet proof vest and a black and red shirt and army trousers.
Personality:
Natalya is passionate about her work, as it helps her forget her family-related problems. She also hates big time criminals, whom she views as a cancer within society that must be destroyed. She uses deadly force regularly as a vigilante, killing those she hunts down in what she believes to be the most efficient course of action in order to save society and law-abiding citizens from fear and death.
Despite her ruthless alter-ego, Natalya is still human. As a police investigator, she is also a mother alienated from her son, who lives an ocean away from her. She desperately wants to be reconciled with her son, who was turned against her by her late husband's brother, who views her as a money-grabbing, manipulative bitch who used her pregnancy in order to bind his brother to her.
Having an alter-ego as violent and well-known as the Red Viper is also not easy for Natalya, as she sometimes wonders who she really is. The passionate cop and estranged mother? Or the ruthless, crime-fighting Red Viper? She sometimes feels estranged from her alter-ego, as she herself is not a fundamentally violent person, using violence only when necessary in the course of her work. She feels like an entirely different person as the Red Viper, and the Viper's 'personality' sometimes intrudes on her own normal behaviour.
Family:
-Father: Petrov Orumov (deceased).
-Mother: Irina Orumov (maiden name Krilov, alive).
-Son: Alexei Orumov (alive).
-Brother: Piotr Orumov (alive).
Background:
Born in the USSR, the daughter of a school teacher and a police officer, Natalya was attracted by her father's work from a very early age and often expressed a desire to join the police force when she grew up. When she was 16, she got pregnant after a night spent with her boyfriend Sergei. She decided to keep the baby despite Sergei's reticence, and thus earned the hatred and suspicion of Sergei's brother.
With a child in her care and an increasingly alcoholic young husband, Natalya soldiered on. When she was conscripted, she chose the armed forces, and even applied to join the Vityaz (Russia's anti-terrorist force), although she was forced to drop out of training. Natalya later went on to study criminology, and eventually became part of Moscow's police force. However, soon after she joined the force, her father was brutally murdered, and it was revealed that he was an ex-KGB agent. Soon after her father's death, Sergei killed himself in a car crash. Badly shaken and aggrieved by the sudden deaths of her father and husband, Natalya had no idea that things were about to get worse. Sergei's brother took her to court, accusing her of being unfit to raise his brother's son. He won, and took her son with him to New York, leaving her alone in Moscow.
The next few years were terrible and tumultuous. Natalya dedicated herself entirely to her work, working day and night to solve some of the most gruesome murder cases of the city. Moscow was also hit by a sudden crime wave around that time, and Natalya witnessed first hand the corruption eating away at the force's core despite the many "clean hands" operations carried out before. After witnessing the murder of one of her friends and colleagues by the Mafiya and some corrupt members of the Militsiya, Natalya decided Moscow required far more than limp-handed police interventions to crush its criminal elements. Her first action as a vigilante was to go to a crime boss's home in the suburbs of Moscow and killing him and his bodyguards.
She killed two more top criminals, and after narrowly escaping death with the last one, she decided that an effective vigilante had to strike fear into the hearts of criminals. She turned to her brother, a brilliant engineer and inventor working at the Izhmash weapon factories and asked him to design and make special devices to help her fight crime. Reluctantly, he agreed, and Natalya soon acquired the gadgets she still uses regularly. Soon after obtaining her brother's help, Natalya took on a new identity to fight crime: the Red Viper. The Red Viper quickly made Russia's headlines and struck fear into the hearts of criminals all over Moscow, for the well-armed and trained vigilante showed no pity to those who violated the law.
After several years spent waging war on crime, both as a police investigator and a vigilante, Moscow's crime world became remarkably pacified, and the city entered a new period of prosperity and tranquillity. Natalya received several distinctions for her work in the police, and the Red Viper vanished altogether, much to the chagrin of the press. However, Natalya's battle against crime was not over yet. She was sent to Gotham to help Gotham police tackle the rising crime rate. She'd thought she would never have to take up her secret identity again, but Gotham proved her wrong. Soon enough, the Russian vigilante found herself in the dark streets of Gotham.
Character Info
Code Name: Red Viper.
Enemy Code Name: None.
Powers/abilities:
None! Natalya relies on sophisticated gadgets, guns and her own physical prowess and intelligence to hunt and eliminate Moscow's criminals.
Gadgets:
-Fire-proofed, isolated suit: Natalya's suit is made to resist fire, electricity and toxic chemicals.
-Viper Eyes: a special pair of goggles on her face mask that can switch between night-vision and infra-red, and can also auto-target nearby enemies during a fight.
-Wrist-mounted grappling hook gun: a device mounted on her wrist which shoots a small, highly resistant grappling hook at a target of her choice and enables her to scale most obstacles as well as perform some neat acrobatics.
-Ballistic wrist-knife: A knife mounted on her other wrist which can be used for close combat. The blade can also be fired at a nearby target in a pinch and can easily stab through most armour.
-Adhesive pads: A very sophisticated gadget that takes the form of small pads fitted onto her feet and hands. Those pads only react to solid, non-organic surfaces such as walls, and enable her to effectively climb up vertical surfaces. She doesn't use them all the time, and they have been known to fail.
-Various other gadgets: smoke grenades, flash-bang grenades and many other things.
-Weapons (other than her wrist knife and grenades): AK-105, PP-2000, two Beretta 92 pistols, VSS Vintorez (for some missions), two Beretta M93 machine-pistols (for some missions).
Strengths:
-Excellent combat skills due to her Vityaz training.
-Very agile and fast due to her skills in Parkour.
Weaknesses:
-Has no superhuman powers.
-Has to juggle her two very conflictual lives constantly.
-Has family problems.
Affiliation: Gotham City Department/neutral.
Other Info
Anything else you'd like to add: Nope.
Will you be active?: Derp.
Do you Agree should you become Inactive you will have your Character Removed from the Roleplay?: Herp.
Sample RP:
Moscow. People never saw that city much. It lacked the glamour of American and Western European cities and was still associated with the evils of Communism and the Soviet Union. This also applied to the city's criminal elements. Nobody ever saw a movie about Moscow's criminals, and yet the city's criminal underworld was one of the most active in the world.
Natalya was well placed to know that. She faced the fallout of the city's criminals almost every day in the form of murders, some innocuous, others spectacularly violent. After several years spent investigating murder cases, she was so desensitised to violence that seeing the decapitated body of a hooker who had also been raped and mutilated before said decapitation didn't even make her blink. One could also say that her alter-ego had further desensitised her to violence. After all, her other self was no pacifist.
With one finger she rubbed the tip of her nose and blinked. She was facing the telephone, black and ominous on the desk. Should she phone New York? Her hand advanced towards the phone before stopping and drawing back. She knew what awaited her if she phoned. Usually he'd hang up on her as soon as she said who she was, or the conversation would drag on for a little before abruptly ending in a one-sided argument and one of them hanging up.
Finally she made her mind up. She would never give up, even if it meant going through a million useless arguments. Natalya picked the phone up and dialled before waiting for someone to answer. One ring, two rings, three rings.
"Hello?", said a male voice on the other end.
"-Hello", said Natalya.
"-Who is it?"
"-It's Natalya..."
Clack. The bastard hung up. Natalya kept the phone to her ear for several minutes more before slowly putting it back down on its receiver. She took a deep breath before standing up and walking towards the window of her small apartment. Her apartment was located in a quiet part of Moscow's suburbs and was neither opulent nor modest. But she liked it. It suited her quite well.
She served herself a glass of vodka and leaned against one side of the window. Did anything ever go right in her life save for her job? She was working on a case at the moment. An old man found dead in his Mercedes near Red Square. He had been stabbed multiple times, but no prints were left in the car. It was a tough case with no witnesses or leads, and Natalya had a feeling that it would end unsolved.
Night fell, and Nadya stepped away from the window and put her empty glass down on a nearby table. It was time. She went towards a locked metal cupboard and opened it with a small set of keys she kept with her at all times. On the table next to her glass was a copy of the Moskva newspaper.
"Krasnaia Gadiuka strikes again", proclaimed the headlines, with a black and white picture of a red-clad figure swinging through Moscow's skyline on a metallic rope. Red Viper, Moscow's very own vigilante, the favourite subject of tabloids like Pravda and even big shot newspapers like Russia Today. A ruthless killer single-handedly waging a war against Moscow's biggest criminals, and, according to some, secretly receiving aid from the police.
Natalya opened the cupboard. In it was a red and black suit, and most notably, a metal face mask. Next to these were guns. An AK-105, a PP-2000, a Beretta 93, a PP-19 Bizon. There were also strange-looking gadgets and grenades, and even what seemed to be a ballistic knife with a long, dagger-like blade attached to a metal bracelet of sorts.
Natalya took the suit and the mask out. The Red Viper was her, a great secret indeed. Despite all the media attention she attracted, she still managed to retain her secret identity. Who would suspect Natalya Orumov, a member of Moscow's police force, to be Moscow's bloody vigilante?
