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[b][Female | 22 | (Pre-mutant) | Informant/Infiltrator][/b][/center]
[indent][b]Katerina "Sybila" Chavdarova[/b] joined H.A.N.D right after World War 1 ended. Among the high class of her hometown she was known as the Sybil of Chicago. A renowned fortune teller Katerina was famed but also feared for her incredible accuracy. Eventually H.A.N.D caught wind of her activities and send someone to test her authenticity. Convinced of her skills they asked her to join H.A.N.D as an informant, so they would always stay one step ahead of any potential mutant outbreaks. 
She is tough, independent, smart, vain and has an incredible sense of self-preservation. There is nothing she wouldn't do to ensure her own survival. She has been known to have a knack for creating elaborate plans and deceptions to get what she wants.
If a task needs doing, she'll find a way to accomplish it, usually through a combination of uncompromising will and skilled manipulation of people and circumstances. Her eyes always seem to be hiding something Her mannerisms are deliberate, her true feelings hidden, almost as though she is performing for an audience. She is such a skilled liar and actress that her "friends" are often left wondering. Did she really care about me or did she just use me? [/indent]
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[b]Traits and Abilities[/b]
[indent]Katerina is a Pre-mutant with the power of both retrocognition and precognition respectively. Both fall under the category of ESP (extrasensory perception). She is a descendant of a long line of mystics, seers and psychics from the Eastern European region, whom have counseled the upper class of their time, providing valuable insights and information. 
The specific gene which granted Katerina her power has been preserved in her family line for countless generations. Nobody alive today knows when and with whom the passing on of this gene began, but in time and with each new generation the gift changed slightly, evolving. In Katerina’s particular case it evolved into something more than merely receiving information. 

Precognition enables her to foresee possible futures and observe what may happen. As knowledge of the future invariably causes that future to change, visions of the future are subject to frequent shifting. While not being able to select futures her visions may assist in possible courses of action. She often doesn’t understand what she’s seeing. A lot of the time there is no context and she is merely a spectator. There are times when she doesn’t know what things mean until later, sometimes not until it’s too late. 

Retrocognition is the power to discern past events but with Katerina it is not simply that. She has taught herself to leave a psychic imprint on an object or person. The imprint would be something that she has seen which is then transferred to her target. If it's a person they would immediately see the vision she transferred, if it's an object it will linger there until somebody touches it. She has the same problems with retrocognition as she has with precognition. She can see into the past but doesn’t always know what it means. They are pieces of a puzzle. 

Her powers are tactile, so she has to be able to touch a person or object before it works. She would then either focus on the past or future along with the subject she needs information on. For example, future relationships or a past marriage. It could be applied to anything she wants to know. Even though she never knows if things will come through, thinking about them does help. She has taught herself to use a deck of playing cards as her focus point, the divinatory meanings she attached to them help her focus on a particular subject providing her with the right context to understand what she’ll be seeing. It’s important to note that she is not all knowing, the information she gets is all subjective to change. Nothing is set in stone. [/indent]
[b]H.A.N.D. Status[/b]
[indent]Katerina is a long time informant of H.A.N.D. She has also served as an undercover agent and infiltrator at times due to her talents of deception. [/indent]
[b]History[/b]
[indent] Katerina was born in America in a poor immigrant family from Bulgaria. She was their only child and while they didn’t have much they were happy. While she was an only child she did not spend her childhood alone. Most of her immediate family moved with her parents to America. They wanted to start a better life there. Everyone worked hard to support each other and she grew up in this tight knit family. They made a modest living and took on any job that came their way. 
When she was around fifteen years old the financial troubles the family had struggled with all their lives reached a boiling point. It wasn’t possible to care for the entire extended family, her grandmother and grandfather, her cousin and uncle. They all lived on the income of her parents who were the only ones who spoke proper English. So they had to return to Bulgaria, leaving Katerina with only her parents. 
Somehow they always managed to make ends meet, until one day when Katerina came home after she’d run some errands for her mother. What she saw that day in her living room changed her forever. It was a nightmarish sight, her parents were laying on the floor their hollow eyes looking up at the ceiling. Their blood was splattered across the entire room, holes more than she could count covered their bodies. Their faces were barely recognizable. They were murdered in cold blood and she didn’t know why or how.
At first she was shocked, then there was sadness but all this quickly turned into anger. She knew this wasn’t just a simple crime. There was more to it than that. All along this feeling of something being off had been nagging at her. She never questioned it before but it was nearly impossible to do the things her parents did with the money they made. If they murdered her parents what would they do to her?
So for the next years Katerina ran from an unseen enemy. When she needed money she began to work as a fortune teller. It came naturally to her as the art had been in her family for countless generations and people paid good money for it. She never stayed in the same place too long and when she moved to Chicago an agent of H.A.N.D discovered her. She didn’t know it at the time and when he came to her reading room inside a local jazz club he was there to test her. She was very insistent on the details of her contract but eventually she was convinced joining would be in her best interest. [/indent]
[b]Miscellaneous[/b]
[indent]She speaks fluent Bulgarian and has a barely detectable accent when speaking English. [/indent]