[NorthernFallout]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Ahh, political intrigue. Is it really an accident? The work of a true enemy? Or did this come as... coincidentally good for Gregory?

Indeed the questions are many... but it has to wait with KoE's new format.

In other news, the Insanity Loli Squad, is getting an addition. Another crack/half-serious character sure to appear in KoE, but mostly in shorts.

Spoiler for The Interrogator:

“'Violence only serves to breed more violence'. That's what he said and I tried to follow it. When that didn't work out I choose my own path. Considering I got what I wanted from you, it's time to say goodnight."

Name: Winlaf Chorkina
Nickname: The Interrogator
Age: 13
Gender: Female

Spoiler for History:

Winlaf was found wandering the streets of Volgograd in Russia when she was nine years old. With no additional information, except her name, she was taken into the state’s care for about five months before Borotchov Yenskil came by and put her up for adoption.

This Borotchov was a sergeant in a private army, working for an unknown private military contractor. He took her into his care and trained her from a very young age in the ways of combat and survival, preparing her for a life in hell. The contractor he worked for, Yoklinks Associates, had a few years prior begun specializing in child soldiers and Winlaf was to be the fifty-sixth that they had recruited from various orphanages in Russia.

This went on for two years, Winlaf becoming more adept at her work, but also beginning to shut herself off from the outside world, until the Russian government completed their investigation. A joint operation was set into motion, led by the FSB supported by soldiers from the Spetznaz, to bring the leaders of Yoklinks Associates down and to court.

The operation itself was a success, but the casualties were far higher than anticipated. The contractor had decided to try and erase all its evidence when they were found out and hence began a “purge”. All child soldiers trained were to be executed by their respective caretakers and all their information burned. How the leaders were thinking still isn’t clear, but while they managed to kill almost forty-two of the child soldiers, the rest managed to be rescued; Winlaf being one of them.

From there on, Winlaf, now with life experience and knowledge a normal thirteen year old wouldn’t have, travelled around in Russia for a few months. Her mission, a goal she had set for herself, was to find her parents. With only her surname to go on, the task was a mighty one. However, she believed her parents – for some reason - lived in Moscow, which then became her next target.

Unfortunately, her leads resulted in nothing. She roamed Moscow for a while before figuring her life was maybe not worth anything. With thoughts of suicide now roaming in her head she found an abandoned apartment building and settled down. Her pistol, which she had owned ever since she was taken into the care of Borotchov, was put to her head and the trigger pulled.

The events afterwards is uncertain, but through some miracle the bullet had missed her brain; a miscalculation on her part. It had only knocked her out and when she came too she was in some kind of medical facility, but with technology she had never seen before. Not trusting the doctor that was taking care of her, she escaped the facility and came upon the streets of Cranagan.

Thrown into a new world she had never seen or dreamed about, she ran to the outskirts in a state of panic and made herself at home in an old, closed factory. From there she draws out her plans; both to find her parents and to rid the world of people like those who turned her into what she is. Her reasoning for doing so is unknown.

Spoiler for Personality:

Probably the hardest part of her to define, but she shows traits of paranoia and schizophrenia. She is ruthless in how she extracts information and couldn’t care less about human life, including herself, neutralizing anything that opposes her. She is a weak individual hiding behind a strong front, and she hurts herself to remind herself about it.

Winlaf would probably be classed as a masochist, as the pain she gives herself is often a response to what she did to someone else and the pain brings her a peace of mind or satisfaction. The different ranges by which she hurts herself by differ, but simply drawing a little blood doesn’t cut it. She has numerous stab and shot wounds that are self-inflicted on her body. Breaking a limb or twisting an ankle would also be remedies. She has been close to dying from her self-inflicted wounds several times, but always recovers by some strange procedure.

When she is not conducting information extraction or something else she needs to do, she is an avid lover of various electronic music and is essentially an audiophile. She wears her headphones almost every time of the day and will go into complete rage if they get damaged, as the music shuts all the horrible noise and stalking voices out. It has on occasion happened that she has done a job, blasting human skulls into pieces of meat, while listening to psychedelic trance or similar.

This is obviously a disadvantage, but trying to talk her out of it, for whatever reason, would probably end in another casualty.

Spoiler for Combat:

Winlaf doesn’t like hands-on approaches and depends on her pistol to resolve situations. This has made her an excellent shot, but a really lousy melee combatant, which is a paradox considering her training. Her skills lay mainly in stealth and marksmanship.

However, she also posses knowledge of certain interrogation techniques that wouldn’t be acceptable in today’s world and she has a good knowledge of anatomy. She, as most living beings, possesses a Linker Core, but its potential is undetermined. So far she has never used magic.

Spoiler for Weapon:

The Stalikov 70 has been in her hands for almost three years and is the only gun she has ever used. It’s a single-action, semi-automatic pistol firing 9 mm rounds and its clip holds fourteen of them. It comes with additional equipment, including a laser sight and a prototype silencer, which makes the noise it makes almost inaudible. Winlaf calls it Tanya.

Due to the lack of ammunition on Mid-Childa, considering the ban, she has to depend on black market businessmen to get a hold of her goods and additional supplies.

She also has a combat knife that she stole from Russian soldiers back on Earth. She rarely uses it in combat, except for emergencies, and prefers to use it on herself instead.

Spoiler for Miscellaneous:

- The headphones she wears are a pair of A8 K-Techs, connected to an MP3 (unknown brand) she carries on her waist.

- Her favorite DJs are Astral Projection, Andy Hunter, Fluke and Paul Oakenfold. She has not yet discovered the music on Mid-Childa.

- Her favorite song is Absurd by Fluke.

- Lacking proper schooling, her skills in foreign languages is severely lacking. Except for her native language, she only speaks English - the sole foreign language she knows somewhat - in a heavy Russian accent, but she does understand spoken English to some degree. She can neither read nor write in any foreign language however.

Spoiler for Appearance: