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D3AD ST4RMARVEL KNIGHTS OF NEW YORK
ELEKTRA NATCHIOS
"So you love a little wild one, and she brings you only sorrow."
CHARACTER BIO:
Real Name: Elektra Natchios
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Powers, Abilities, and Gear: Various weapons, melee and otherwise. Premier martial artist, ninja, and assassin. Billionaire.
Origin:
The only daughter of an uber wealthy Greek gas and oil executive with more secrets than the EYP, unsurprising for a former EYP (Ethniki Ypiresia Pliroforion) field agent that operated heavily in the Cold War. Late in the 1990s her father, Hugo, is tabbed as the Greek Ambassador to the United Nations. While polarizing back home, Ambassador Hugo Natchios surprises even some of his friends and allies with the way in which he seemed to have put his own private pursuits on hold to serve his nation, and the new world that came soon after 9/11. Elektra follows him to New York, studying political science at New York's Columbia University for her pre-law.
Less than an hour after a meeting with an old contact of his from his EYP days, a man named Stick, Hugo and Elektra are taken hostage at their Manhattan penthouse by "terrorists." To this day, Elektra still isn't entirely certain who the men were. She knows only that they were incredibly well supplied and trained, and while they spoke mostly bad English she does recall a little Chechen spoken by one of them--the one she shoved through a broken 40th floor window to his death after a shootout broke out in the area of the penthouse the attackers had isolated her father in.
The gun fight was a Federal anti-terrorism task force deciding to end the hostage situation, because the United States refused to negotiate with terrorists. One of the American commandos shot her father in the chest on accident, yet somehow allowed one of the "terrorists" to escape. The incident created a series of diplomatic problems for the US, but the most embarrassing as they could offer no information on Hugo Natchios' daughter; she had simply disappeared. The NSA believed they found her the next day in grainy security camera footage on the Columbia University campus speaking to an unidentifiable student. Without being able to confirm it, the US was able to offer nothing of substance to the Greeks.
Elektra would later prove herself very much alive to claim her father's incredible estate. The case regarding the attackers remains open for both countries.
It was her father's old contact (and Elektra would later learn her father's old friend) Stick that got to Elektra before anyone else. Stick had his fears about something happening to Hugo (the meeting between the two men just an hour before the attack no accident) and he was determined to get his old friend's daughter out of harm's way. Elektra stayed with Stick for some time, continuing the martial training her father started her on early in her life by joining Stick's order. After a year Stick would tell Elektra to leave the order, because, in Stick's own words, "You're just too damn hateful and chaotic, girl."
To prove herself to Stick she gave herself the mission of infiltrating the enemy of Stick's order: The Hand. She would spend years with the Hand in the Asia-Pacific area of the world, training and working for the Hand, yet believing she was playing them. In truth the Hand was playing Elektra. By the time Elektra realized it, she no longer cared, because the Hand enabled her to track down the lone "terrorist" who escaped the American commandos so many years before, helping her more than anything or any else ever had in her personal quest. The man claimed a group known as HYDRA responsible before a sai was plunged into his heart. After the Hand forbid her from pursuing the HYDRA lead, Elektra left the Hand's service in incredibly violent fashion.
Elektra spends the next few years independently chasing HYDRA, occassionally teaming up with SHIELD because of their shared target. She spends time in everywhere from Afghanistan to Russia to New Zealand to Venezula during these years. It was Nick Fury who eventually gave Elektra intel on a HYDRA facility in the Aegean Sea. It's there Elektra learns that Fury, and HYDRA, believe the same bit of information about Elektra's past: that it was the Hand that was behind her father's dead, not HYDRA.
Fury gives her one more bit of information: she has a half-brother living in New York, the old spy and commando hoping the information would help Elektra humanize herself, Fury believing she's become sociopathic. It didn't work. Instead of New York, she went to Tokyo, waging a one woman war on the Hand there. They were hollow victories: the Hand had moved so much of their strength to New York, Elektra had no choice but to follow. In New York City she's currently gone underground, watching and infiltrating in secret, waiting for just the right opportunity.
Meanwhile, she has located her half-brother.
STORY INFO:
High Concept: Total War. Elektra wants the truth about her father's death, even if she has turn New York City streets red with blood to do it. No one, and nothing, will prevent her from achieving her goal. Will Elektra achieve victory, even if it means the total abandonment of her humanity?
Minnewaska, NY. Elektra locates her half-brother in the New York upscale suburb of Minnewaska. The discovery leads to confrontation and conflict; none of it the kind Elektra has prepared for.
Motivation and Conflict: Elektra wants the truth behind the event that radically changed her life. Along the way, Elektra has to decide what is to become of her humanity; can she come back from the darkness, or is her humanity just another kill on her already impressive list of kills?
Notes: Living relatives: Sophia Natchios (Mother), Giannis Kavadias (Half-Brother). Active NYC Contacts: Cameron Klein.
PLAYER INFO:
Player Name: Itsame! Ruby.
Preferred Contact Method: DM/PM/OOC/Smokesignals/whatever.
Why This Character?: A tragic femme fatale that needs a spotlight on her internal, emotional, struggle. What's not to like?
What Can You Bring to the RPG?: Uh. I can delete posts?
