Aliases: Nat/Val | Gender: Female | Height: 5'4" (162cm) | Age: Appears 35~45 | Birthday: July 21

Race: Human/Novian(ish)/Any | Occupation: Bounter Hunter/Performing Artist | Orientation: Any

Home: Undertow/Novos | Affiliations: Hovel Bounty Hunter's Association

Natascha is a shorter, well endowed human with very long whiteish silver hair that has a pink patch on the underside. She tends to wear makeup on her eyes in a heavy fashion which often hides her tired eyes and wrinkled areas near and under them. She has irises in a very bright and deep pink color, but no pupils- and often just remarks that her contact lenses are what do it and that she 'cannot see well' because of this. Her skin is almost a sickly pale, as though she was afflicted with something, which can sometimes appear a bit translucent in some lighting. She wears heart shaped earrings and often dons a fluffy crop top jacket with long puffy sleeves. She has a crop tank in the same bright pink as her lipstick, a black choker and short skir as well as knee high black boots adorned with pink hearts and straps and a pair of torn leggings. Her teeth and nails are unnaturally shaped and sharp-looking, and wears a single glove on her right hand with open fingers on her thumb, index and middle finger.

The truthful reality is that Natascha is inhuman and a shapeshifting creature that chooses her visage based on her needs. Her preferred form is the human one that is seen by others the most, but also has taken the forms of a anthropomorphic dog, bat, various human females, males, and even just regular animals such as rats for espionage purposes. Her form is stuck however, to always have albinistic traits due to her origin form having those traits before getting her ability to shift, which makes her stick out too much to be perfect in the art.

Natascha is very much so the most emotive of her cohorts. Her emotions tend to be a bit explosive at times, especially when she is angry is or annoyed, but that's generally for good reason when it occurs- she tends to play up some of her feelings on purpose to gauge reactions for an unknown other reason. She tends to keep her intentions secret from everyone around her, or straight up lies about why. Otherwise, she tends to have an oddly positive outlook on things, but her smiles always seem a bit sinister in the back end- though most people think nothing of it since her best friends know and act as though this is nothing to be worried about. Natascha is very manipulative of the people around her otherwise that she hasn't deemed friends, purposfully so given her line of side-work that only as few know about. She has a way of weeding out the worst kind of people on purpose to expose them for what they are. She's very smart, conniving,and has a lot of ways of figuring out the best plans to get work done. As a bounty hunter she second to none and boasts about this frequently and can certainly put her money where her mouth is, even if her methods of taking down targets is a bit unorthodox.

Nat is very fond of messing around with her fasion and fits, mostly so she can build personas around them and use them to put on anything between shows for fun or for her Hunts. She likes to treat life like a runway where she's the star attraction, due to some personal grudges she carries. She almost has a mild obession with being adored by others, but she also has a single goal she also strives towards that kind of reels her back in from that overtaking her entire personality. She loves horror films and media, and it's her favorite thing to go off about if it's mentioned. She says a lot of directors are hit and miss on the vision of a real gore-fest, and will proceed to talk your ear off about how some could have dont x,y,z better, or how they nailed a,b,c in particular films. She's very particular about her lighting and vibes during her shows and the shows of others that go on in The Hovel and tends to take on the job of lead stage design herself to ensure the entire setup is going to run correctly and by her visions. Were it that she didn't detest working with most humans- she would have made an amazing film director.

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Natascha is a lab experiment deemed a failure by her 'creators'. She was a subspecies of olm-like creature that was transfused with Novian genomes in an attempt to test the longevity powers of Novian DNA in the local fauna, in an attempt to see if they could extend the life of other beings with Novian DNA, therefore trying to single out what genome it was that allowed them the eternal life promised to them by The Great Mother. However, she was discarded and used as a test subject for an inter-planatary tranportation device instead for being "too ugly and useless" with her lack of hind legs at the time. The reason for using her as a test for their device was because the ones working on her lost their ability of space flight long ago and sought a new solution to get them to other locations.

Of the people who had been transported to the Undertow, Natascha was the first one to arrive there... and a very long time ago. Due to the way time functions on the planet, she had been there and living in the Undertow before it had the Upstairs built on top of it- so she is very familiar with the way the place has changed and how things have worked up to current time. She started off in her original body, but had long since obtained sapience from the new genomes added to her. However, as a result her body was also unstable and struggled to take in the abilities of a regular Novian, and she spent most of her time in the desert alone trying to figure out how to morph herself into a set shape and fix her ever-changing form.

After a very long time (and creating new folklore about a ghostly entity that wails and haunts the southern desert) she finally managed to get her forms to work, watching from afar and taking the likeness of the humans around her, and used this opportunity to slowly integrate and learn their languages by taking books and listening to humans talk to try and figure out how their language worked. This got easier as she encountered a curious other species living in the area that knew both Novian, and the common tongue. Once she had it down, she moved into the Undertow

Upon settling down in the Undertow after mostly traveling about the area and learning more about the Outer Wastes (where the Undertow is situated) Natascha put a lot of her time and thought into seething to herself about the things that had transpired against her, and her potential plans about how to deal with this. She ended up taking on several personas all while living there, going so far as trying to steal identities to gain more information. This was worth it, as she ended up learning about a project going on to investigate the occasional strange appearances of the Vortices that kept randomly appearing around the area. This point is where during the final times of the Upstairs' construction the first of the the Brothers arrived and Natascha learnt of their work in causing all of this to happen. She has to slink back from working in the foreground to the back, getting an insider to keep an eye on things.

Naturally, things went south once the other sibling arrived, and she had to regroup and rethink her plans. She now works from the Hovel in the Undertow, and does side-work at the bar or hunting to stay afloat and to keep in the loop via her contacts who meet there.

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Natascha's biggest secret however, is one that she needs to keep on the down low due to the fact that she is a highly-wanted serial killer. Needing to move around the city as silently as possible, her range is unlimited from above and below. She's been near caught a few times- but due to her shapeshifting prowess she's yet to be actually captured for her crimes.

Due to her nature of being partially but not fully Novian, she needs to sustain her body with excessive quantities of irons, electrolytes, and massive quantities of energy from electricity or electromagnetic discharges. This is due to the fact her current base form is not truly Novian, and struggles to maintain it's forms when weak- and Novians are known to manipulate and generate electricity on a highly massive scale at all times due to draining the energy of things around them (willingly) to sustain themselves. Since she burns through her calories so quickly being unable to draw energy from the world around her normally, she finds that the things that sustain her most efficiently is fresh kills and high quantities of meats and electrolyte drinks. She tends to hunt down the ones most like her tormentors to consume, as she deems them unworthy of life anyway as it is. Some of the people in her life are aware of this, many disapprove, but she also doesn't exactly wish to be dead either. While a good jolt of electricity will sustain her for a while, it wears off quickly in comparison to the most efficient manner which is slow release digestion.

While she could hunt animals or potentially the Vortex creatures, she already has a disdain for most humans to the point that she doesn't particularly care unless it is brought up for her to ease off a bit from request of friends.

This is updated with the most important relevant persons for now, and will have more characters later.

Cy

[Boss/Best Friend]

Natascha and Cy met a long time before anyone else started to appear in the Undertow from the vortexes- and she immediately became good friends with them after hearing about their encounter with Jameson and Emerson. She is very close to Cy and is frequently seen scheming with them and chattering about things that the two of them don't tend to let others hear. Nat and Cy seem to be quite inseperable and are both very interesting in the things going on in the Upstairs, and doing what they can to find a way to eliminate the two Novian brothers.

Nat doesn't go into details about what exactly the two of them do or how they get the information they do. She gets along with Cy the best out of almost everyone in the Undertow with Maria being the only competition for the 'best friend' title. That being said it is frequent enough that Cy, Nat and Maria tend to go out together or group up around the bar at their workplace and chat between meals and breaks, even going out to other places to hang out when no one is working. She would kill anyone for Cy if they asked, and if anyone was to harm them she would stop at nothing to hunt them down.

Sachiel

[Co-worker/'Friend']

Natascha sees Sachiel more as a plaything than anything. She finds its fun to bother him, but also finds the fact that he lacks any kind of interest or response to her intial advances as she always does piqued her interest. While she does tend to bully him, she does actually respect the fact that he can actually do his job and do it well. She isn't used to dealing with co-hunters that can actually do their job almost on par to her abilities. She's definitely not hesitant to drag him along on hunts as backup.

...However, despite her outward emotions seeming as though she really likes him, she actually is incredibly wary of him. She seems to have a distrust towards Novians in general, given her reactions to Emerson, Jameson and Berwick. Something about Sachiel makes her nervous, but she doesn't seem keen to elaborate on what to just anyone. It's probably related to her history with the Brothers. It's just another part of her outward persona that hides and masks her true feelings on the people around her.

Viktor

[Co-worker/Friend]

Natascha initially was uncertain of Viktor, mostly due to the fact it was the first time she'd encountered a living human that had survived coming out of a vortex (due to them usually spawning just below the Upstair's underside. She has grown to enjoy him as her own personal little jester, she doesn't tend to take him too seriously which clearly does irritate him, but she doesn't overly care all that much otherwise. She has flirted with him on many occasions but has also always afterwards immediately shot him down if shown any interest.

She does get along with him when the two team up to harass Sachi into being less of a grumpy prick, and it's clear she does care about him and Sachiel in her own way... but it's also very clear that she is keeping him at arms length, only letting him see the persona she puts on and not her real self.

Emerson & Jameson

[Beloathed]

Natascha despises the Novian Brothers. She does not talk about it further than the fact that she will stop at nothing to see the two of them dead. Somehow it seems that she is very familiar with the two of them, but she is very secretive of the specifics for whatever reason. She will actively avoid letting them see her where possible, she tries her best to throw on a new disguise/face so that she is never seen the same way near them, and this leads to more questions than answers. Her sole goal it seems is to personally rip them to shreds.