Sonika
Natasha Castaneda Burkova
Alias: Sonika
Age: 27
Alignment: Villain
Loyalty: Independent
Appearance: Natasha is on noticeably tall for a woman, standing at 1.76m (5'8.5"). This is further offset by the fact she often wears high heels, adding several more inches to her height. Though she is Slavic by blood her features are quite Aryan, sporting short blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She is in very good shape, hiding toned muscles underneath her clothing, and with her soft facial features she is actually quite attractive in contrast to her personality. Natasha often dresses appropriately for whatever occasion she may be at, but her "standard" set of clothes are formal wear business suits. Despite this she wears her costume underneath her clothes. Her supervillain costume is a white leotard made from a strong, heat resistant fiber cloth that features several blue streaks underneath her ribs that stretch to her lower back. It has no emblem or insignia of any kind. She also keeps a white eye mask and a white with blue stripes bandana to cover her face with, to further protect her identity for when she is out "working".
History: Natasha Castaneda Burkova was born in Spain to an immigrant family that had fled the Soviet Union. She was raised to speak Spanish, Russian, French, German, and English, having quite the capability for all sorts of learning from even an early age. It wasn't until February 23rd of 1986, when Natasha was eight years old, that her trigger event occurred. With the ongoing Basque Conflict in Spain at the time her family was accidentally identified by counter-terrorist forces as being allied with the ETA rebellion. Natasha was wrestled to the ground and both her parents were executed before her very eyes following a brief struggle. The young girl lashed out at the soldiers, collapsing the wooden house on top of them. Nobody was killed by the awakening of her powers, but Natasha herself was hospitalized by the falling debris.
The Spanish government knew they hit the jackpot with Natasha, as Capes were still a rare and very recent phenomenon at the time. However it wouldn't be the Spanish that would keep her. The CIA from the United States abducted her with the intention of both researching her powers and training her to serve the US. This would bear no fruit as Natasha was unable to replicate her powers while in their custody. She would eventually be traded with the USSR's KGB, being traded to them for another Cape that the US found more promising. It was under the watch of the KGB that Natasha was able to draw her powers again. Leading up to the USSR's collapse, the KGB monitored and trained Natasha to serve them. She was hardly a teenager when the Soviet Union collapsed, but she was already a trained soldier and an experienced Cape. She was moved into the FSK and eventually into the FSB, serving the Russian Federation as one of their premier Cape assets.
However, around the turn of the century, Natasha was given a semblance of her own free agency. It didn't take long for the young woman with little social understanding to find herself confronted with mobsters on her way to her new home. After apprehending the thugs and turning them in, the FSB decided that her next task would be to infiltrate the Russian Mafia and serve as a planted agent. After using another Cape to brainwash the captured mobsters into thinking they found Natasha and recruited her, she was integrated into the Russian Mafia to serve as one of their Cape soldiers. Over the next few years she sold her role quite well, serving them to her fullest as an enforcer and working her way up the chain of command. Now, in 2005, she has been tasked by the Mafia to replace a recently deceased Captain who was operating in the United States. Her duties would be to take command of the Colorado branch and oversee the smuggling of arms, drugs, and people through the Rocky Mountains. While the Russian Mafia has no shortage of Capes of their own and has been in the area for a long time, Natasha herself has only been in Denver for several months. She has already learned of the geopolitical landscape and represents the Russians among The Community. While she will report to the Patriarch, above him she reports to many others that outrank her within the mafia. And, when the occasion calls for it, she reports to the FSB.
To better remain hidden from law enforcement and the PRT, Natasha has donned a supervillain alter-ego. Whenever she uses her powers she changes into costume and goes by the name of "Sonika", keeping her identity secret. While those in the criminal underworld know that Natasha Castaneda (as she goes by) is the top of the chain of command for the Russian mafia in the area, it is believed that Sonika is an entirely different person. This effort to keep a distinction between her Cape activities and her mob activities separate protects herself, her assets, and ultimately the FSB. The supervillain known as Sonika is not attached to the Russian Mafia, though some suspect that she is despite a lack of evidence. Only Natasha's lieutenants and the other leaders of The Community know that she is a Cape, and Natasha intends to keep it that way.
Motivations: Natasha is very straightforward with her goals. Ultimately she seeks to serve the FSB to the fullest extent, meaning that her motivation is to follow her orders to the best of her ability. Presently this translates into maintaining the operations of the Russian Mafia in Denver, Colorado. To this end she seeks to dominate the smuggling business of the the Rocky Mountain regions, at any cost.
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Likes: - Organizing
- Opera
- Cigars
- Assassinations
- Fantasy Novels
- American Fast Foods
- Cleanliness
Dislikes: - Insubordination
- American Television Programs
- Obnoxious People
- Spain
- Insolence
- Her own voice
- Others talking about her voice
Derangement: The effect of her derangement is incredibly small, almost negligible, but ever since her trigger event she has had an aversion to compassion. While she can still feel the entire range of emotion, she is largely incapable of sympathy. It is easily masked by her cold demeanor, but there is no "deep down inside she actually cares" mentality. Natasha is just as ice-cold as she looks.
Skills: Natasha has been trained in espionage, martial arts (Systema Spetsnaz), firearms, explosives, and operating aircraft. She is also multilingual, speaking five languages fluently and capable of transitioning between them flawlessly. Aside from the skills related to her years of training, Natasha is also a capable cook, has impeccable handwriting, can type at 97 words per minute consistently, and she can even sing as a Dramatic Soprano.
Classification: Shaker, Mover, Blaster, Thinker
Details: The fundamental core of Natasha's powers is the ability to manipulate the air in the atmosphere. This can be done in many various, creative ways. She can change air pressure to the extreme, being able to create compartmentalized vacuums or conversely creating high-pressure explosions. She can manipulate the flow of air, to create projectile attacks of varying scale or to increase her own mobility and speed. By reducing the air pressure around her to eliminate resistance and using controlled bursts of high air pressure she can propel herself to incredible speeds (though this feat requires her to hold her breath for the duration of it and also requires both time and distance to accelerate), though flying in this manner isn't often practical and instead she will use quick bursts to "hop" quickly as a means of fast movement. Natasha can even create vortexes of fast-moving wind, able to surround herself to form a protective barrier that deflects most projectiles and physical attacks or just plain creating a small tornado to trap specific targets or objects. On a more subtle level she can detect the air currents and retain passive knowledge of her surroundings within the range of her abilities. Her training has allowed her to become creative and she knows how to exploit her powers for maximum utility, both in combat and out. The power of her air and wind manipulations are nothing to be trifled with, making her very powerful on top of being versatile.
Limitations: Natasha's powers are bound by the Manton Effect, but she also has a limited range for all of her various ways of manipulating air. Even her projectile attacks cannot extend beyond this range, which is approximately 100m. While she is immune to direct effects from her powers herself, she can still be affected by indirect consequences such as suffocating in a vacuum or coming to a complete stop from high speed crushing her. Her expertise and control is great, and she knows the ways she may hurt herself, but that doesn't mean those limitations don't exist just because she doesn't make many mistakes.
Equipment: While Natasha has access to many advanced technologies and weaponry, she doesn't keep hardly any on her persona. She keeps a cellphone, a Blackberry, a notepad and pen, and a 9mm handgun on her person at all times. All of these are stored in a purse that she carries with her. However when she decides to go into costume and use her powers she often leaves her purse somewhere hidden so she could retrieve it later.
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