Tamara Volkova

***Tamara Volkova*** (***タマラ ヴォルコワ***) is a Magical Girl with the designation of ***Phoenix*** (***フェーニクス***) who works for the United Nations (formerly the Russian Military until Chapter 45) and is one of the surviving Magical Girls from the Distonian War, the 'Magical Five'.

### Affiliation

United NationsRussian army (former)

Magical Five (former)

## Personality

Tamara is one of the more calm, collected and serious Magical Girls; like Asuka and unlike Mia and Peipei she does not smile in the midst of battle but instead keeps a poker face at all times and her displays of genuine affection and emotion come when in privacy for with her good friends.

That said Tamara is not above displays of blunt emotion, such as sharing a mutual display aloof discontent with Mia, or embracing a group hug with her fellow magical girls.

However Tamara has a rather surprising attraction towards cute things: her room is filled with various stuffed animals, and she had to turn away in order to private fawn over Tabira's rather adorable fairy form, despite usually being off-put by the Spirit World's General's antics.

## Relationships

### Magical Girls

#### Ootorii Asuka

Tamara and Asuka have known each other for many years, while apparent numb to the news of her returning to the field, Tamara actually holds a sense of adoration towards Asuka: the first thing that she did after meeting her friend in years was return to her room and snuggle with stuffed animals while thinking of Asuka.

#### Mia Cyrus

Mia and Tamara have known each other for many years and it is implied that they have never been the best of friends with a passive aggressive streak between them often calling each other by "Texas Girl" and "Russian" instead of their real names. Nevertheless they work well with each other as comrades and their specific specialties allow them a good dynamic when in combat.

### Lau Peipei

Tamara and Peipei work together a lot, as suggested in the Ukraine and New York arcs.

### Family

#### "Sister"

Tamara has a sister whom she cares for a great deal. She prioritizes her above all else, and will sometimes remind herself that she is what matters most in her head. However in Episode 12 it is revealed that her "Sister" is in fact a Disas whom she only interprets as her 'sister'. Her sister was killed by terrorists when she was younger, and the Russian army brainwashed her so they could manipulate her into fighting until the day she died.

### Other

#### Tabira

Like the other Magical Girls Tamara generally finds Tabira to be annoying and her perverse comments to be a nuisance. However when reverted to a fairy Tamara couldn't help but find the creature to be cute and needed to turn away to privately swoon as a result.

## Abilities & Powers

As an Magical Girl, Tamara possesses magical perception blocking that allows no one she knows in real life to recognize her, a reactive magical shield to protect herself from attacks, and the finishing move 'Magical Calorie Roll-Up'.

Her weapon is a flamethrower, which she can summon to use 'Volshebeny Ognement', her finishing move. She also has a 'Magical Spetsnaz Knife' which she uses in combat.

## Chronology

### Distonian War

At some point during the Disas invasion Tamara became a Magical Girl, and was one of the nine Magical Girls who joined up under Chevalier Francine in France, who would later be replaced as leader with Asuka upon her death. Tamara would continue to survive through the battles until at last the remaining Magical Girls would face off against and defeat the King of the Disas.

### Babel Brigade Arc

Tamara killed the Oboroten executive, Kasyanov, who had escaped M-Squad. Unknowingly, she gave the braincell needed to complete Operation Sekhmet to the Russian army, which's Chief of General Staff gave to Francine.

### Okinawa Arc

While she originally came to Japan to protect the 6th Naha, she ended up working with Mia to defeat the Disas during the Babel Brigade invasion.

### Ukraine Arc

Along with Peipei, Tamara is brainwashed to work with Oboroten to fight the rest of the Magical Five. The Russian army brainwashes her with images of her sister in order to keep her in line, but little does she know that the Russian army is working with the Babel Brigade in exchange for the covering of magical experiments. Tamara loses the battle and retreats back to Russia.

### Saving Phoenix Arc

In this arc, Tamara's brainwashing machine is overtaken by Varvara and other Oboroten executives in order to commit a terrorist attack in Moscow (presumably to distract from the New York battle), and it causes her to fight against M-Squad. The brainwashing is finally undone by Asuka and Kurumi, and Tamara apologizes, officially leaving the Russian army for the United Nations.

### New York Arc

In this arc, Tamara stays in the UN building with Peipei in order to hold off an attack until Leyla Basticon shows her face and the Disas King returns. Tamara works with the rest of the Magical Five and M-Squad to save the world yet again.

#### Epilogue

In the epilogue chapter, it is seen that Tamara is leading magical girl operations with the United Nations and is working with Jade in Belgium.

## Kill Count

* Numerous Disas during and after the Disas Crisis
* King of the Disas
* Kasyanov

## Trivia

* Tamara's surname Volkova is the femenine form of the Russian "Volkov" which originates from the Russian word for Wolf: "Volk". Her first name Tamara is a common feminine given name in various Euro-Asian countries derived from the biblical word for Tamar, which refers to the Date Fruit.
* Tamara's designation of Phoenix Tamara has to do with her manipulation of fire.
* "Phoenix" can also be a reference to Makoto Fukami's first major light novel series, *Young Gun Carnaval,* where the antagonist organization is called the Phoenix Syndicate.
* Tamara likes plushies and cannot sleep without an oversized one.
* Tamara is voiced by Mao Ichimichi/M.A.O and dubbed by Katelyn Barr.