Natasha Cambridge

**Natasha Cambridge** is one of the humans Howard Philips Lovecraft wrote about in his book **The Hound**. She is one of the Thirteen Cursed Mortal Souls, alongside Dr. Bright, Dr. Clef, Howard Philips Lovecraft, Herbert West and her best friend and lover Sainte Jane. She is one of the last survivors of the **Golden Witch's Gambling Game**, which resulted in her gaining immense supernatural properties that allowed her to control her former arch-nemesis, the Bael hound of Cxaxukluth.

She joined the Neo Outer Gods Riege along with the other survivors of the **Golden Witch's Gambling Game**, because their fate was rewritten by the Deaf Genius Goddess, who made it so they faced each pillar of the Neo Outer Gods Riege, were defeated and were convinced to join them. Her opponent was Cthugha.

## Appearance

Not much is known about Natasha's original appearance, though she was once a normal human male by the name of **Nathaniel Bard**, she has taken on many appearances throughout her incarnations. In one of her incarnations, she was a crow and her lover was a vulture.

In her current and likely permanent incarnation, Natasha is a beautiful middle-aged lady of fine proportions. She wears a purple dress and green earrings. Her hair is brown and tied into a ponytail with a shade of red in it near the bottom. Like most of the cursed mortal women, Natasha has an imposing figure, being both very slender and rather voluptuous.

## Personality

Natasha is a very strict and serious woman who has been described as "stiff" by multiple characters. However, she hides a surprisingly short temper and tends to shout quite a bit. She is also very loyal and responsible, and tends to bottle up her feelings and write them down in her diaries so that she will forget about them rather than express herself.

As Nathaniel Bard, where most of her original personality is preserved in a half-torn notebook of sorts, it can be observed that at least one tenth of Natasha's habbits are a thing she inherited from her original self and not something she picked up during her new lives.

Like her partner-in-crime, "St. John", "Nathaniel Bard" was a man of sinful and soul-burning obsessions with questionable and abhorrent activities. Curious to sin, Nathaniel Bard engaged in homosexual relationship with his friend, that was rather a culmination of personal excitements than something romantic or sweet; he tore open the tombs and graves of men, women and creature that should have never been disturbed; he desecrated the sacred grounds of many of the Great Old Ones' temples and he toyed with the artifacts he and his friend found.

However, that was the only thing that made him similar to his partner. Otherwise, they were supposedly complete opposite and even to this day, after many reincarnations, they still are complete opposites. While St. John was unhealthily obssessed with finding such ugly secret treasures, Nathaniel was more moderate about it and often questioned their actions. He also had the conscience to pay respect to those ethereal forces of which most locals warn him about whenever he and John rob a very secluded graveyard.

In essence, Nathaniel and John were two sides of the same thieving coin, the light and the dark of a grave robber's life.

Natasha appears to be rather unfortunate, as she is disrespected by most of her fellow Cursed Humans, frequently suffers from headaches, and is very often criticized by her Sainte Jane, bordering on verbal abuse. However, if put under constant pressure in certain situations, she is more than capable of not letting herself be subdued psychologically and even takes the lead quickly.

In a normal setting, which for Natasha would be the daily life of a medieval wife, she can be calm, composed and imposing. She knows how to navigate the Mansion of Eldritch Nights expertly, though she is not as knowledgable as her rival and lover Sainte Jane, which leaves her at a severe disadventage whenever they play their 'games'.

Natasha is also very timid when it comes to sexual topics and is especially emberassed by her relationship with Sainte Jane, as to mostly everyone else they appear to absolute detest each other. She explodes into a panicked state even if Sainte Jane merely bites her ear or gropes her breasts.

## History

### Origin

Natasha and Sainte Jane have a deep history together. Once a prodigy student at the Cambridge University, Natasha decided to take on archaelogy-related jobs, even becoming a professor at her university at one point. She met Jane during an excursion to a less famous tomb and the two's common interest in finding artifacts in such places caused them to become best friends.

Both soon grew impatient and began freely robbing all kinds of graveyards, churchyards, tombs and resting places, half of which had yet to be properly discovered by any branch of the governments of the world. These expeditions and misadventures gave them the richest of any collection of 'unmentionable horrific treasures' in the whole wide world.

What they did not realize was that these 'treasures' were the personal belongings of followers and prophets of the Old Ones and their ancestors Outer Gods, so by robbing their graves, Natasha and Jane were essentially insulting the Outer Gods themselves. Thus, on the day of the reversed-probability clock, Cxaxukluth send Bael and his children to torment them after they took one of his more valueable possessions - his 96th amulet.

For about two months, the hounds of Cxaxukluth tormented the two immoral men with eerie noises and nightmares until one night, on November 18, Jane was attacked by one of the hounds and was mutilated to death, only being able to pass a few faint words to her partner before dying.

A bit later, after Natasha attempted to return the amulet to the place from which they had stolen it, she was encountered by the Bael itself which cruelly mocked and tormented her mind till she committed suicide via a shotgun to the head.

However, this was not the end for Natasha, nor Jane as Cxaxukluth had something much worse in store for the two mortals who offended him.

## Powers & Abilities

**Expert Martial Artist**: Despite appearing quite frail and vulnerable, Natasha is a very dexterous person in combat. Although not quite as well-versed in martial arts as her lover Sainte Jane, Natasha is still capable of manhandling low-level threats without much trouble. Thanks to Sainte Jane forcing her into prolonged training sessions, Natasha knows the basics of up to three styles that focus on self-defense. Her skills are said to be on par with any veteran police officer.

**Expert Gunslinger**: Both Natasha and Sainte Jane can skillfully use any portable firearm, though they mostly prefer using a shotgun. According to Sainte Jane, the shotgun proved to be the most effective and easy to obtain weapon when they were dealing with their usual escepades of dark horrors in their original lives.

**Expert Magician**: Natasha is adept in the arts of Magic, though she mostly exceeds at limited Chrono-Magia or Reverse Curse
Inducement.

* **Chrono-Magia**: **Chrono-Magia** or **Time Magic** is the magic art that prioritizes manipulating the flow of time over any other aspect of power. But to wield it to its full extend requires unfathomable amount of mana, which Natasha lacks. As such, she can only alternate time to a very limited extend. This power is very useful in some typically-observed situation, such as forgetting to turn off the toaster before the bread slices turn into coal. Normal people would usually throw these in the trash. But Natasha, using her Chrono-Magia, can manipulate the "flow variables" of the slices and return them to a state where they were perfectly cooked.
* **Umbra-Magia**: **Umbra-Magia** or **Darkness Magic** is the magic art that prioritizes manipulating the shape of the shadows around the user. It's another ultimate-class Magic Art in the Miskatonic University, it requires a large mana pool, which once again - she lacks. Natasha can control the naturally occuring shadows to camoflouge herself and others or use them as teleporting waypoints in short distances.
* **Summoning**: This is the magic art where Natasha truly shines. While her own magic is only strong enough to strong ordinary humans, she is capable of forming contracts with a vast number of eldritch entities and then summoning them in the heat of battle. Her record of familiars from her previous life was up to 300 in total and currently she has about five times that amount.

**Keen Intellect**: Natasha is often naive and easily fooled by others, but she does like researching ancient lore about Old Ones and is quite the expert regarding some metaphysical and cosmic topics. She is also virtually a genius when it comes to architecture, which should come as no surprise as her original self had scored some of the highest scores in that field. With decades of experience under her belt, Natasha can easily find the quickest and safest ways to uncover all manner of hidden secrets, almost as if she possesses a power specialized on collecting information.

**Flight**: Natasha can fly by summoning the wings of a Cthulhi. She cannot muster the strength to control them though, so she can only use them to glide across and smoothen her fall. Most of the time she doesn't need to use Flight herself as she can just summon airborne familiars or familiars strong enough to fly without wings.

## Equipment

**Bael, Hound of the Illimitable**: Bael is the Hound of Cxaxukluth. Among his many creations and/or descendants, Bael stands as one the hundred "Eradication"-Class monsters, ranked 76th between his fellow monsters. Though there exists no genetic correlation to the Hounds of Tindalos, Bael does share a few analogical traits with them. The Dog of the Desolate Church itself was named after the 1st Pillar Gnostic Demon Emperor - Zekram Bael, the Great King, due to being literally modelled after him and also sharing his DNA after devouring him. This allows it to bring out the Bael Clan's Power of Destruction in its most raw and primal state, destroying all it attacks. The Bael's power can topple gods and it is virtually indestructible, capable of regenerating its entire form after two days even after being erased from space-time by Dr. Clef's B-Rank Anti-Relativity Crossbow. It is extremely resiliant to any elemental-type attacks, as Cthugha was unable to destroy it without exerting effort and her power is **Ultimate Flame**.

**Mysterious Objects**: The thing she and Sainte Jane are most profoundly known for and the very cause of their suffering. As the Ultimate Grave Robbers, she and her partner had unearthed a myriad of hidden treasures, stock-piled in places few sane would people dare to venture to. They stole many objects and a large quantity of them possessed a perverse and unholy nature. These items they called "Mysterious Objects". Each Mysterious Object has at least one supernatural function, though there exist some who can fulfill multiple roles. Unfortunately, in their many encounters with the Bael and Ara Devi, Natasha and Jane lost most of their treasuries, with only a scant few remaining.

* **Mysterious Object: Spirit Mirror**: Natasha has a silver mirror that can ward off spirits and non-corporeal entities. The Spirit Mirror more or less functions as a "Scarecrow" for the supernatural demons that may attack her. It has no actual defensive or offensive capabilities.
* **Mysterious Object: White Counters**: Natasha possesses a set of twenty white counters. These counters were created by Hastur in the past while he was gambling with Cthulhu, who created the black variation wielded by Sainte Jane. They work on the principal of creation, recreation and equivelant exchange. The White Counters can restore virtually anything in exchange for something else being sacrificed to the void, essentially allowing the users to play masters of the universe for the duration of the exchange. The formula used for the exchange is: *(Energy Output + Mass) x Essence Value / 2 x Potential Defects*. Let's say the user wanted to bring a person. They would require something of very similar structure and value to do so. However, the White Counters' true power isn't in it's ability to restore life, but rather utilize life-force in a beneficial way. Because of their complex value output, it's far easier to assign humans and other such beings to "Input" rather than "Output".
* **Mysterious Object: Spiral Hairbrush**: Natasha possesses the hairbrush of Yidhra which she used to straighten her endlessly long dark hairs with. This hairbrush can suck in limitless amounts of physical mass and warp it around itself, essentially acting as some kind of miniscule singularity. It is not very useful in battle against beings who surpass third-dimensional boundaries, as it only affects physical matter.

## Gallery

*Natasha taunts Ara Devi**Natasha is emberassed by Dr. Clef**Natasha vs Ara Devi**Natasha gives a promise to Ara Devi**Natasha wants to know where Sainte Jane is**Natasha had a nightmare**Natasha is swarmed by the Golden Butterflies**Natasha uses Dr. Clef's shotgun**Natasha is a closet case**Natasha is shocked by Sainte Jane's revelations**Badass Natasha**Natasha is accused of killing the 3rd Domain Host**Natasha and Sainte Jane have a 'minor disagreement'* *Natasha and Sainte Jane hold hands**Natasha and Sainte Jane reigniting their love for one another**Natasha gets teased by Jane*
## Trivia

* Natasha's appearance is based on Natsuhi Ushiromiya from *Umineko: When They Cry*.
* Natasha dislikes butterflies, because she associates them with Ara Devi.
* Natasha is Sainte Jane-sexual.