Karen Daniels (Outlaw’s Saga)

Karen Daniels, formerly known by her fake name as Michelle, is a fictional undercover International Affairs Agency agent, who was assigned to watch and keep tabs on a Serbain immigrant and criminal named Niko Bellic to catch wind of any of their targets, under the guise of being his girlfriend. Five years after, she became a ruthless agent within the Los Santos Metropolitan Area of San Andreas. She will appear in Grand Theft Auto IV - The Rockstar Series as a supporting character, and a minor cameo in Grand Theft Auto V - The Rockstar Series.
== Biography ==
=== History ===
Karen’s true history is unknown as her information is practically unreliable due to her work as an undercover agent and her constant lying. However, if one considers her words possibly true, she was born in the Midwestern United States. Her age is unknown, but she appears to be in her late 20’s to early 30’s.
She likely became involved with crime at some point due to her future employer’s remark of “giving her life back,” but she was eventually given a job as an agent in the International Affairs Agency, a reliable one at that.
By 2008, Karen was stationed as an undercover agent named “Michelle” to investigate crime in Broker, Liberty City, on the East Coast, eventually befriending a young woman named Mallorie Bardas, who was in a relationship with a Serbian immigrant named Roman Bellic. Around this time, she began investigating the drug-related activities around Puerto Rican drug dealer Elizabeta Torres in Bohan.
Things became more interesting around the fall of 2008 when another certain Serbian immigrant arrived in Liberty City.
=== Meeting Niko, 2008 ===
Around September of 2008, Michelle was introduced to Niko Bellic, Roman’s cousin, who had recently arrived in the city a few days ago. She was going home to spend quality time with Mallorie from the Broker subway station, but Roman was unable to give them a lift due to an unforeseen incident at his office, asking Niko to drive them. Mallorie then pushed for the two to get together and try to go out together sometime, which Michelle agreed to.
Michelle eventually called Niko to ask him out on a date, which he agreed. He eventually met her at her apartment, where he took notice of everything being new, a sign of her double life as an agent, but she created a creative lie that she was obsessed with cleanliness, although it is likely that her apartment was set up by the IAA. The two spent time at the closed down carnival together, proceeding to go bowling. Michelle admitted to having a great time and the two expressed wanting to see one another again.
From time to time again, Niko took her on more dates and she began to genuinely feel affection for him. However, she knew that since she was a secret agent and he was a criminal, their relationship would come to a close sooner or later.
Oftentimes, she called and checked up on Niko when she received intel on his activities, notably with Elizabeth Torres and offered an ear to whatever he wanted to talk about, an act of deception on her part to try and convince him to talk more about his activities, but unbeknownst to him, he was successfully dodging her questions and inquiries.
=== Busting Elizabeta Torres & Betrayal ===
In early October, the heat around Elizabeta began to turn up due to someone ratting her out to the police and she lost her bag of cocaine to a gang at an old hospital in Colony Island. Michelle decided this was the best time to reveal herself to Niko as she knew that if he kept going on with these acts, she would be forced to bring him down too, which she didn’t want due to her feelings for him. She managed to arrange to have “Little” Jacob Hughes, Niko’s close friend, to meet him in an alleyway in Chase Point, still keeping her identity hidden until the right moment. After Niko managed to recover the cocaine and met up with Jacob, who was paranoid due to the amount of police watching Elizabeta and possibly Jacob, the two walked into the alley where Michelle was waiting.
Niko was confused by her presence and tried to tell her that she was not safe there, but she then revealed; albeit brokenheartedly, that she was working undercover and was using Niko to gather information and that he needed to give the bag of cocaine to her. Niko became infuriated to the point where he called her a “fucking bitch,” which made Michelle upset due to the fact that since she still had feelings for him, but now he would no longer want anything to do with her. She expressed the fact that if Niko had not be useful to her agency, he would have gone to prison with Elizabeta for the rest of his life, and offered that if he gave her the cocaine, both Niko and Jacob would be let go by the authorities and no one would come after them, but Niko would have to do some dirty work for the government, and directed him to their office in Algonquin. Niko begrudgingly agreed and gave the cocaine to her.
A couple of days later, Niko met with Michelle outside of the United Liberty Paper merchant office, a disguised building for the IAA to use, where she smoked a cigarette, expressing sincere apologies for her betrayal and that Niko was a nice guy, better than “the creeps [she] normally date(s),” but claimed he was “damaged goods,” meaning that he would not have a suitable place in society, let alone be with her any longer. The two then went inside to meet with her boss, Bernard. Before entering the office, she revealed that her name was Karen to Niko. After introducing him to Bernard, she closed the door and left, never seeing Niko again.
=== Aftermath ===
Karen did not appear in Liberty City or in Niko’s life ever again, but she was implied to be the author of the ULP emails that were sent to Niko, likely as a secret way to communicate with him. In unused phone calls, she called Niko one last time to sincerely apologize further while also wishing him luck in his life as “Michelle was dead” and that she was staying out of his life forever.
Before 2013, she was transferred to Los Santos, San Andreas on the West Coast, likely to avoid further exposure in Liberty City. She became a reliable but ruthless agent with a mean streak, but she was willing to still work with criminals to get results.
=== The Humane Lab Raid ===
In late June of 2013, the IAA enlisted the help of another criminal, Joel Wallace and a small rag-tag team of hired guns to raid the Humane Labs & Research to lift precious cargo out. She met up with Joel in a lot in Pillbox Hill to hand over access codes, while asking if he was responsible for “the Fleeca Job,” implying that the IAA knew about Joel’s involvement in the Fleeca Bank robbery on the Grand Ocean Highway a few weeks back, but she simply said that what he was getting into was a whole different game. However, the crew is attacked by an FIB ambush and Karen hid while Joel and his crew killed the opposing agents.
She appeared again after the job was done in the lab and she claimed that they could get anyone to “do their dirty work” by offering money, possibly alluding to Niko Bellic and his tenure in helping the IAA in Liberty City. She then handed Joel and his crew a grenade to get rid of the evidence to ensure absolute discretion.
=== The Kerimov Interrogation ===
In mid July of 2013, she was assigned to interrogate a cinema equipment operator and installer, Ferdinand Kerimov, who knew about Tahir Javon, their target. Karen and her small team kidnapped and brought Mr. K to the IAA tower in Pillbox Hill to torture and get information out of him, with Karen threatening to sodomize him with a flashlight should he refuse to talk. Around this time, master bank robber and hired FIB helper Michael De Santa, was descending and rappelling alongside the building to reach Kerimov for his extraction.
Right before Karen could prepare to “dry dock” Mr. K with the flashlight, she noticed Michael in the window and he smashed the glass just in time, holding Mr. K hostage. Karen rushed away and called for backup while Michael was able to extract with Mr. K thanks to the help of fellow criminals Franklin Clinton & Trevor Philips. Karen was not seen again, but she did survive the shooting in IAA Headquarters and she was likely not very happy with the fact that the FIB managed to snag Kerimov away for their own gain.
== Appearance ==
== Personality ==
== Relationships ==
=== Niko Bellic ===
=== Bernard ===
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* Karen has met a total of three different protagonists: Niko Bellic, Joel Wallace, and Michael De Santa, all of whom she harbored some form of aggression towards.
** However, she had romantic feelings for Niko after dating him enough times, but had to coerce him into working for her employers under the threat of an arrest.
** She held disdain towards Joel for being a dangerous criminal, but went along with his involvement as he was necessary for their evils.
** She was hostile with Michael as he broke into the IAA HQ to extract Kerimov in the middle of their investigation and she ordered her agents to shoot and kill him.
* Karen’s suspicious behavior can be picked up by subtle cues of her trying to learn more about what Niko was doing.