Natasha_Chenkova

Being the best. For a long period in her life, Natasha knew nothing else than this. 2033, when Natasha was two years old, the first of the so called 'Eurowars' was still raging between Russia and its allies, against the remaining states in the European Union. America was too busy with internal turmoils and even civil wars to take too much note, and so the fighting went on for quite a while. A misguided rocket struck the city she lived in, Natasha being in nursery school at that moment.

Her family members were fatally wounded, making her an orphan who grew up all on her own. It was a major reason for Natasha's attitude of coldness, lonelyness and her having little problems solving conflicts with violence. From early on, it became obvious she was one of the so called 'homo nobilis', or more commonly called - and elf. They were still regarded with nervosity and distrust at that point, but somehow she muddled her way through school. Physical education was one of her favorite subjects, and she also developed a curiosity for guns and the like.

Someone higher up noticed it, and had the feeling that she might turn out to be a wonderful candidate for the special forces. Natasha happily accepted, she wanted to get stronger, better and able to take care of herself, no matter the situation. She passed the final tests with flying colors, and entered service, but soon after her organization was privatized. With 25, she became a member of the Knight Errant Security Services megacorporation, a well-known security provider focusing on high-end mercenaries and also a subsidiary of the AAA megacorp Ares Macrotechnology. It didn't lessen her vigor though, and in fact, the company used a lot of money and resources to give her the best equipment and upgrades possible, or better the best available for anyone who wasn't directly in the military.

When she was 30 years old, she was relocated to Britain after making an English course. One year later though, something happend. For the first time in her life, Natasha met someone who she really got along with well, and even slowly developed feelings for. Chrystal_Wynn, an elven mage who worked as lecturer in the local university. A terrorist attack was fearded, and thus Knight Errant was hired to protect the compound, which is how they met. They slowly became closer, getting attached and often hanging out, even going on dates. But then, Natasha should learn that quite a bit about the world she lived in was rotten and corrupted.

Ares had started a new project about magical research in one of their facilities. To do that, they needed 'test subjects'. As they could not get them based on the actual legislation, they did what megacorps often do in that case - hire someone externally to do the dirty job for them. The local chinese mafia, better known as the triads, was quite eager to help and send some of their folks - on the condition they could keep some of the subjects for themselves. Natasha had no idea what was going on when she and all her squadmembers, who normally had the job of securing the facility, were called together for a spontaneous 'fire alarm exercise'. Only later she found out that Chrystal, among others, had been abducted.

Disillusioned, Natasha quit her job. She used everything she had to try and get information about where the victims were kept, and in fact, got lucky. First, using insider info and carefully researched data, she brought the participation of Ares into the public, forcing them to release the captives (of course, the corporation claimed it was all a misunderstanding, and one corp exec had done wrong, promptly firing him as scapegoat). Then, she single handedly freed the rest from a building the triades used in disguise, also getting reunited with Chrystal. Both were really relieved and happy, especially Chrystal, who also started to regard Natasha not only as a lover, but also as her guardian and protector.

They moved to another city, because they feared revenge, even if they went into hiding and left no real traces. Inevitably, they had to find a way to make money though, and both hardly could just start with their old professions again. As they had started to hate 'the system', they figured they could just start shady mercenary business anyway. Some way, they got into contact with a fixer, and then picked up a *job* as shadowrunners. Due to her hair color, Natasha decided to take the nickname of 'White Russian', an innuende to a drink that had been popular some decades ago. Also, she and Chrystal officially became a couple, and while they are not engaged yet, this seems only like a question of time. A while later, the fixer brought them together with Ashlee and Matsu, and after a run gone well, they decided to form a more permanent group and do contracts together. Natasha, naturally, fills the task of weapon specialist and fighter in NaChAsMa.

Natasha is a tall, athletic and nevertheless pretty elven girl. As it's typical for her metatype to age slower than humans, she looks still young despite being in her end thirties. Even for an elf, she stands at an impressive height of several inches over six feet tall. The russian girl has relatively slim body, as elves are just a bit frail looking, and only modestly developed feminine assets. She is muscular, fit and trained though, although that is often hidden under her armor or clothes. Natasha has a quite pretty, genuine face, silvery colored hair that she wears in a short, bob-like style and the stereotypical elongated, pointy ears, which she pierced as decoration. Her eyebrows appear a bit darker.

She often wears a purplish lipstick, and her eyes appear in an orange hue - although that is merely a question of style and choice, as Natasha could easily change the color that her cybereyes seem to emit. Unless hidden under her attire, it also becomes obvious that both her arms have been replaced by high-grade cyberlimbs. In private, Natasha prefers comfy and rather casual, sporty clothes - on runs, she is almost always seen in high-end armor and equipment. Typically, she donns an impressive full body armor - customized to also look stylish and cool - and various other gear like military boots, several weapon holsters and gadgets, and a cloak which is able to mimick her surroundings, giving her better stealth options. Underneath, she further improves her defense with an additional layer of a form-fitted full body armor, below which she wears light and stretchy undergarments. She often carries a variety of weapons, the most typical ones being assault rifles, but depending on the situation it could also be blades, knifes, pistols, automatic pistols and so on.

Elves are said to be charismatic, sociable and charming. And Natasha is the complete opposite of that stereotype. While her looks are more or less resembling what one would suspect, her demeanor is contrasting that. The girl has a short temper and often gets pissed or furious about what or whoever, and a common solution to vent her anger when she is mad is starting to punch things - desks, walls, or people in case they don't belong to her friends. She really likes a 'good fight', i.e. in bars and similar places (and even on runs), and the favorite *sport* that she watches is urban brawl. Natasha is very cynical and has a dark, sarcastic humor, and she can be a bit pessimistic at times. After loosing her family in very young years and growing up all on her own, she later witnessed how uncaring, brutal and despicable this world is, and how ruthless megacorps behave.

But Natasha is not the type to just give up, and so, she seeks to go against all this, and lead her life anyway. To survive and earn money, especially as a runner, in this society, she had to be without emotion, empathy or scruple quite often. The weak will perish, and so, she has to be strong and fight to take it on - do, or die. Despite this attitude in combat, Natasha is absolutely loyal to her friends and comrades, which she regards as a sort of substitute family, and wants to protect them. When she is with people she knows and likes, she can be more friendly, open minded and just have fun or enjoy a good time. Furthermore, her feelings for Chrystal never lessoned, she loves the fellow elf and often spends time with her, and they share intimate moments frequently. She is somewhat okay to try out things and let off steam by casual sex with others she finds likably, though - also, Natasha somehow likes to do it a bit rough. On one mission, she and her team developed vorish abilities after - and Natasha is the one from her group who has the biggest probability of using it.

Due to her mindset, she has absolutely no problems devouring enemies as a method of dealing with them, and that it feels nice is an added bonus. When strangers ask for it, piss her off or she gets hungry and 'feels like it', it may also happen that she decides to do that, although she still recognizes her friends and won't do it to them.

There is a reason why Natasha forms major parts of both the offense, and defense, of her group. Even her normal characteristics and physique would already be impressive, but it has also heavily been augmented and upgraded with the options that are available in the future she lives in. While only having about average intelligence, she excels in all physical abilities. Like the famous song goes, she strives to be better, faster, harder and stronger than normal humans can hope to be. She has quick reflexes, a great dexterity, is quite tough and also has a high amount of strength. That is even improved by bioware muscle upgrades, titanium bone lacing making her more sturdy, a more resilient yet still normal feeling and looking skin and of course her two cyberarms, high-end prostethics of a really fine grade. Her eyesight is artificially enhanced due to having cybereyes with various upgrades such as infrared vision, sight enhancements or optical zoom. And in combat, she can move and act at ludricrious speeds - the synaptic booster that she processes lets her leave normal human limits behind with easy.

Should anyone try to shoot or punch her, especially if she wears all of her combat gear, they will feel like having hit a solid steel wall. With all of the upgrades and advanced, high-end armor, she can shrug off anything short of bursts from automatic weapons, grenades or rocket launchers as if it is nothing, and of course normal blades or blunt weapons will not work either. Even automatic arms fire will have trouble stopping her in just one salvo, as Natasha has a natural high tolerance to pain which is even improved with the trauma damper bioware she got.

Besides all that, she also is quite skilled and talented, at least everything centered around weapons. She is an expert with assault rifles, and still quite good with pistols, heavy weapons and other kinds of armaments, including grenades. Natasha had training with explosives and melee weapons, especially those cyber-implanted ones she likes to use, as well. She has some basic knowledge in first aid and how to repair or maintain gear and firearms. The russian is not exactly a sweet talker, but she at least is, not surprisingly, rather good at intimidation.

Due to her liking of a nice brawl now and then, she has picked up a few tricks about unarmed combat too - and getting smacked with an artificial limb made out of steel, various metal parts and other composite materials kinda hurts. As she has worked as member of a special forces unit for several years, the elf learned quite a bit about combat tactics, security measures and how the force guarding a place usually operates. She also gained some knowledge about firearms, as she wanted to know how they operate and how their maintenance works.

Natasha has vorish abilities too, and as nothing of her digestive tract was replaced in any way, it works perfectly normal, as normal as vore can be. She has little troubles handling prey about her own size and weight, and in fact she is a quite good predator, since she also packs the strength and resistance to subdue an unwilling, thrashing one relatively easy.

Char done based on the rules of the 4th edition, using the additonal materials provided by 'augmentation' and 'arsenal'. 750 GP based character aka a 'superhuman prime runner' by the rules, compared to average starting chars. 'Chummer' was used to create the char more easily and without needing to manually scribble down everything. The datasheet was then saved, converted to pdf, and uploaded on imgur.