Cecilia "Dame" Perrin

Cecilia Perrin, also known as Dame, is a character featured in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in Season 4: Spurned & Burned Comics and was released as a playable character on July 9, 2021, during Season 5: In Deep Water as part of the Crimson Dame Draw. https://twitter.com/PlayCODMobile/status/1413181136486998021
==Biography==
Cecilia Perrin started her career as commanding officer under Templar, until she was dishonorably discharged. However, she apparently ended up developing a relationship with him, and eventually had a child, Sophia. She later became a part of the "Dark Covenant", where she received training in tactics, stealth, infiltration, and hand-to-hand combat. Later on she earned herself the name "Dame".
Dame assists Templar in defeating the members of the UAC, which consists of Price, Charly, Rosa, Mace and several spec ops soldiers. She singlehandedly engages Charly and Rosa, disarming both of them of their weapons and ultimately subduing them. After apparently defeating them, she says that she thought the "Americans" would've had harder heads, though Price tells her that he (and the rest of the group) isn't American.
As she looks over a seemingly unconscious Rosa, she expresses doubt that she's knocked out--and immediately gets her answer when Rosa spits at her. Although she showed no signs of being bothered by it, Templar is annoyed and punches Rosa in response. No sooner after that, Gabriel Rorke appears, telling the pair that Price and his crew haven't yet outlived their usefulness, and that she and Templar can have their "heartwarming reunion" after.
Later on, when Rorke fends off an attack by Mace and Rosa who had broken free of their binds, Dame is there to witness the arrival of Adler, who had brought reinforcements to confront him. However, he's also accompanied by an "old friend"--revealed to be a still alive Ghost, accompanied by the Ghosts' German Shepherd Riley, which leaves everyone, including Templar, in shock and denial. Ghost then says his famous line, "You can't kill a Ghost".
Ghost intends to settle his score with Templar, which leads to the merc throwing his knife at him, only for Ghost to simply throw it back, hitting Rorke in his arm. Dame is then ordered to escort Rorke who intends to exfil via helicopter in an underground bunker. Templar tells her to go with Rorke while he stays behind to deal with Ghost and his allies. She escorts Rorke to the bunker, but neither of them are aware that Adler is lying in wait for them there.
Before they can get on the helo, Rorke is grazed in the ear by Adler, so he orders to Dame to kill him, which she agrees to do so with pleasure. Adler taunts her before she moves in to attack. Unfortunately, she is forced to put her task on hold to rescue Templar, who apparently had been overpowered and is about to be killed by Ghost. She swoops in quickly, kicking Ghost away and then helping up her injured comrade before carrying him away. As Dame had kicked Ghost in the area in which Templar had previously wounded him, he is unable to recover in time to prevent them from leaving.
Later on, as the group arrives in Panama, Dame watches over Templar while he nearly stumbles over while attempting to walk by himself. They discuss about Rorke and Hidora--believing them as undeserving of leading the Five Knights, and suggesting that Templar should be their leader. Dame later ambushes Rosa when she attempts to make off with a briefcase, nearly impaling her with a sword, but Rosa reacts quickly and guns her down, before she is pursued by Rott and his men.
Some time later, Dame is shown to be encouraging Templar (who's reverting to wearing his old armor, which she remarked that she always liked that better) to kill Rorke and assume leadership of the Five Knights. Edouard insists that he's anything but a traitor, but Cecilia tells him that he should not think of it as betrayal, but as service to the soldiers who had to follow Rorke's bad decisions. Cecilia is revealed to have summoned the rest of the Dark Covenant, comprising of Dark Shepherd, Artery, Dark Rider, Witch Doctor and Stansfield. 
She later joins in the fight when Templar betrays Rorke and kills off all his mercenaries. Stansfield blows up Rorke's ship, preventing his escape. He attempts to resist them, but is ultimately overwhelmed and is at Dame's mercy--her holding a knife to his throat. Rorke taunts them for following the Dark Covenant, calling them "zealots" and "cultists", but Dame believes that it's their time to rule the world and step out of the shadows. In his final moments, Rorke provocatively asks if they're going to kill him, to which Dame responds by slitting his throat, killing him as "a new night falls".
Later on, Dame is shown to be talking with Templar in Blackout. She asks why is Edouard still grim, to which he replies that he served the Dark Covenant for the sake of his daughter Sophia. Edouard is apparently wanting to leave the Covenant after he's done with his business, but Dame insists that Sophia has been well taken care of by them and that she belongs to the Covenant. Edouard insists that it no longer matters and that he's taking Sophia away. However, Cecilia mocks him for thinking Sophia would be handed over to Edouard so easily, as she tells him that his daughter is bound by blood to the Dark Covenant and that she'll grow to be an operator like them. Edouard doesn't believe it, but she tells him that Stansfield and the 5th Knight filled his head with lies and false promises--Sophia is an asset to the Covenant and will never be let go.
This ultimately proves to be Cecilia's undoing however, as it prompts Templar to slice her throat open with his wristblades, telling her that she has "cut his strings" and that he's nobody's puppet anymore. Cecilia could only let out a wail of pain before passing out.
She, however, survived by performing a on herself, and reappeared some time later, during Makarov’s heist at the Hacienda, revealed to be an arms seller for an unknown client. Although Dame is impressed by Makarov's plan, she reveals that she has rigged the Hacienda with a half-ton of plastic explosive, wired to a dead-man's switch. Makarov is confused by the turn of events, until Dame reveals that she intends to help him with his plans, as they are "many debts to be repaid".
Some time later, Dame sets a trap for Hidora Kai in the coast of the Caspian Sea, placing a decoy of Makarov in the event of an assassination attempt. The trap works as Hidora realizes that his target is a decoy, and Dame parachutes down with her troops with wingsuits. She relays to Makarov that the trap has been sprung, and he gives her the order to leave no one standing, which she obliges. Her troops proceed to open fire on Hidora and his group before they can react.
==== The Atlas Ascension Part 1 ====
She is later seen in Sophia’s dorm room, inspecting the Templar’s mask on the bed. Sophia demands she put down the mask and leave, but Dame chides her for speaking that way to her “mother”, but Sophia derides it. Dame goes on to say that she knows Sophia longs for a strong parental figure to make things right for her; in her desperation for vengeance, she allied herself with Makarov, whom Templar tried to kill, and also Dame herself. She advises Sophia to learn ‘tracheotomy’ as it might just save her life, but Sophia thinks Dame is as much her “mother” as Makarov is.
Dame knows that Sophia went back to the ice, and asks her about a 'body'. Sophia instead furiously demands that she leave, and threatens to gut her if she comes in her room again. Unfazed by this, Dame walks out while telling Sophia she will see her again, and advises her to turn on the news, which apparently features a report about Stitch and the "Eagle of the Steppes".
==== The Atlas Ascension Part 2 ====
Dame appears later at the cafe that Sophia is having a drink in, startling her while she’s watching the news. She mocks her “drowning her sorrows like a factory worker” and is almost attacked by Sophia, but she is unfazed and instead impressed by Sophia’s reflexes not being dulled by the vodka. Sophia isn’t happy, and says she doesn’t know what kind of game she’s playing, and that she left Makarov (& Dame) for a reason. 
Dame expresses concern as Sophia sped off on her motorcycle without saying goodbye, while simultaneously grabbing another bottle of vodka and pouring a glass for herself, much to the barman’s chagrin. She mockingly asks if Sophia is there to sneak into Stitch’s army, to find the Templar and cry to him, even making fun of her by saying "Oh Papa, why did you leave me?". Unimpressed, Sophia tells her off for lying to her and dumping her with the Five Knights and passing her around like a pawn, thinking she wouldn't notice. She says they're all worthless and that she's done with all of them.
Angered, Dame shouts at Sophia not to walk away from her and calls her a silly impudent girl. She goes on to say that Sophia is a pawn since she doesn't know anything, and there are forces at work there that she can't even begin to understand. Meanwhile, the barman asks them to pay for their drink and get out, but Dame silences him by pulling a gun him and chiding him for interrupting her 'private conversation' with her 'daughter'. Sophia however insists that she is not her mother and she will find the man next to Stitch; if it's not her father, she will kill him. Dame asks what if that man is her father, and Sophia says she will ask him why he abandoned her; if she doesn't like his answer, she will kill him too.
Dame laughs, calling Sophia her 'fierce little kitten' and mocks her for thinking she's a killer, and goes on to say she doesn't have what it takes for 'this life', something that she, Makarov and Templar knew. She adds on saying that any idiot can tell Sophia she's walking into a trap.
==== The Atlas Ascension Part 5 ====
Dame is seen in Sulyodansk Industrial City, playing chess with 'Grozny's chess champion two years running'. She tells him that she hopes he's better at killing than at chess, and he responds that she keep talking and he will show her how much better he is, which she provocatively asks if that is a promise. Just then, the alarm blares, causing Stitch's men to scramble. Dame chides them for getting out of paying their debts; but she soon realizes that Sophia has made her move, and decides it's 'time for mother to get involved', spying on a nearby cargo truck.
She then drives the truck to the compound where Édouard "Templar" Couteau and Templar's Shadow are fighting, as well as Sophia, Wraith and Stitch are in. Laughing manically, she crashes the truck into the wall, running over Stitch's men and knocking down the Templars, Sophia, Wraith and Stitch in the process. Dame pats herself on the back for the stunt, but is scolded by Sophia for almost killing her, yet Dame does not seem fazed in the slightest by it. When Sophia shoots Wraith dead for her betrayal, Dame compliments her, saying she is a killer after all, but Sophia screams that Wraith was her friend, before demanding to know where Edouard is; she reunites with and embraces him shortly after.
==== The Atlas Ascension Part 6 ====
During the embrace, Edouard pulls a gun on Dame, who responds in kind, telling Sophia to move out of the way. Sophia scolds them for trying to kill each other in less than 10 seconds of meeting each other in front of their daughter. However, the pair shift their aim to Stitch's approaching men, shooting them instead of each other, with Sophia following suit. Dame and Edouard continue to bicker, with Edouard telling Sophia that Dame handed her off to the enemy, and she retorts that Sophia was safe with them, safer than running about with Edouard when he couldn't even save himself from getting shot in the face.
Sophia tells them to shut up and they need to get out of there. Stitch, recovering, tells them that there is no escape; there are over ten thousand men in the city, every one of them loyal to him, and that they should surrender. Instead, the trio give him a sly look.
Stitch is tied to a cargo truck and driven out of the compound, into the road. His men pursue them, but Dame repels them with her Hades, apparently relishing in the act. Eventually, despite taking heavy fire from Stitch's troops, Dame, Sophia and Edouard successfully drive the truck out of the city.
She is later seen at the campfire in the forest where Edouard and Sophia are talking. At one point, their argument becomes loud, and Dame chides them for it, telling them they will bring Stitch's men right down on them. As Edouard tells Sophia about the Tontine, Sophia asks about the "prize" that the Tontine is seeking, and Dame tells her that it's the world, they are competing to see who gets to rule it all. However, they are then ambushed by Flamewing. After a skirmish, Sophia and Edouard manage to defeat Flamewing.
After Flamewing's defeat, Edouard decides to take Sophia to a place in the French Alps to prepare for the Tontine's hunt for them.
==== The Atlas Ascension Part 9 ====
Later on, Dame accompanies Edouard and Sophia to Turkey, along with a captive Stitch, not to find the 'treasure' that they're seeking, but to seek help from the 'other Couteaus'. She comments that Edouard is insane, as "she" is probably going to try and kill him. While she guards the entrance to a cave, the father and daughter duo venture inside to find Death Angel Alice.
Once inside, the group waits for Alice to arrive. They soon hear gunshots ringing from outside, prompting Dame to ready her weapon, but Templar reassures her that Alice will take care of Stitch's recovery team swiftly. Although Dame is concerned about Alice coming for them after she's done, he once again reassures her she'll be safe so long as she stays in the light.
Dame is present when Alice meets with Templar and Sophia, and during their discussion about meeting with the rest of the Couteau family.
==Gallery==
Dame in-game CODM.png|Dame in default uniform in-game.
Dame Captain's Quip in-game CODM.jpg|Dame's "Captain's Quip" uniform in-game.
Dame Toxic Claws in-game CODM.jpg|Dame's "Toxic Claws" uniform in-game.
Dame Comics CODM.jpg|Dame in the Comics.
CODM Templar and Dame.png|Templar and Dame.
CODM Templar with Sword.jpeg|Templar tells Dame to escort Rorke as he holds off Ghost.
Templar Sliced Dame's Throat CODM.jpg|Dame was sliced by Templar that nearly got her killed.
Sophie Dame Comics CODM.jpg|Dame talking to Sophia.
Dame Explains her Survival to Sophia CODM.jpg|Dame explaining to Sophia why she survived through Tracheostomy.
Sophie Dame Comics2 CODM.jpg|Ditto.
Sophie Nearly Attacks Dame Comics CODM.jpg|Dame is nearly attacked by Sophia when she suddenly startles her.
Dame Grabs Vodka Bottle Comics CODM.jpg|Dame grabs a bottle of vodka while talking, to the barman's chagrin.
Dame Laughs at Sophia Comics CODM.jpg|Dame laughs at Sophia for thinking she's a killer.
Sophie Leaves Upset While Dame Laughs Comics CODM.jpg|Ditto.
Sophie Walks Off Wraith Watches Comics CODM.jpg|As she continues, Wraith watches from outside.
Dame playing chess CODM.jpg|Dame playing chess with one of Stitch's men, who is apparently a chess champion.
Dame playing chess 2 CODM.jpg|Ditto.
Dame realizes Sophia has made her move CODM.jpg|Dame realizes Sophia has made her move.
Dame spies nearby cargo truck CODM.jpg|She sets her eyes on a nearby truck.
Dame laughing manically while driving truck CODM.jpg|Dame laughs maniacally just before crashing her truck into the building.
Dame crashes truck knocking everyone over CODM.jpg|She crashes the truck into the building, knocking everyone over.
Edouard points gun at Dame CODM.jpg|Edouard points a gun at Dame, to Sophia's chagrin.
Dame responds by pointing gun at Edouard too CODM.jpg|She responds in kind.
Sophia scolds them for trying to kill each other CODM.jpg|Sophia scolds the two of them for trying to kill each other.
Dame argues with Edouard while fighting Stitch's men CODM.jpg|Dame argues with Edouard while fighting Stitch's men.
Dame about to open fire on Stitch's men CODM.jpg|Dame prepares to open fire on Stitch's men in the truck.
Dame fires at Stitch's men CODM.jpg|She lets loose with her weapon.
Dame chides Sophia and Edouard for arguing loudly CODM.jpg|Dame chiding Edouard and Sophia for arguing loudly.
Dame in Turkey with Edouard and Sophia CODM.jpg|Dame in Turkey with Sophia and Edouard.
The Couteaus and Dame waiting for Alice CODM.jpg|Dame in the cave waiting for Alice with the Couteaus.
Dame becoming anxious of Alice CODM.jpg|Ditto, she becomes anxious when the gunfire draws near.
Dame 5th Anniversary Letter CODM.png|Dame's Anniversary letter.
Dame 5th Anniversary Letter 2 CODM.png|Dame's second Anniversary letter.
==References==
Category:Call of Duty: Mobile Characters