Natalia Kassle

## Background

### 1986 - 2014: Natalia Kassle

Natalia Kassle was in fact born as Nadezhda Knyazev in Moscow. She is the younger sister & sibling of Anatoli Knyazev, better known as KGBeast. According to public record, Nadezhda was born in Moscow & would've been raised there as well but her parents were killed in the bombings that left many children, including her, an orphan. She entered the foster care system & was bounced around from foster home to foster home until reaching the age of eighteen. She joined the Russian military & eventually became a member of the Russian special forces, where she received espionage training.

Though all those statements are true, some details are missing from her biography. While a member of the special forces on paper, she was part of a black ops unit that was frequently freelanced to the highest bidder. This is how she came into association with the notorious terrorist organization Cobra. In time, she became one of their highest ranking operatives & committed assassinations for them while on missions with her unit.

With a stellar recommendation on paper, she was eventually recruited to the United States government agency, Department of Extranormal Operations, by Director Bones. When coming to the United States, she took on an Americanized version of her name & began going by Natalia Kassle. For years, she gathered information & fed it all back to Cobra. Due to her stellar work as an agent, Bones contacted her & two other agents (Sydney Rojas & Valerie Evans) to form a specialized group to target Cobra, making Natalia's task much easier.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Above Average Human Condition**
	+ ***Acrobatics***
	+ ***Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts*:** Natalia has spent her childhood training in combat with the KGB. She then furthered skills with the Russian special forces & DEO.
* **Firearms:** She is highly skilled in the use of firearms.
* **Knife Throwing:** Though she is excellent hand-to-hand combatant, she relies on knives in battle.
* **High Level Intellect:** Natalia is a conniving & methodical woman. Though she never went to a traditional school, she is highly knowledgeable in various subjects.
	+ ***Deception*:** She is incredibly deceptive, able to convince everyone that she was not a double agent for several years.
	+ ***Demolition*:** Natalia is an expert in explosives, though not as skilled as her brother.
	+ ***Interrogation/Torture*:** Due to her time with various agencies & organizations, she is an effective interrogator. Though unable to during her time with DEO, she is well skilled in using torture.
	+ ***Leadership*:** She was the field commander of Danger Girl.
	+ ***Multilingualism*:** She is fluent in English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic & Japanese.
	+ ***Seduction*:** Natalia will use her more obvious outstanding attributes to complete a mission when needed & has no shame in doing so.
	+ ***Tactical Analysis*:** As the field commander, Natalia formed most of their plans. She is able to quickly analyze the situation, form a plan on the spot & exploit her opponents' weaknesses.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Her specialty is knives & other bladed weapons.
* Sydney considered Natalia to be her best friend & trusted her with her life. Natalia's betrayal greatly affected her. Rumor has it that there was a romantic element to their relationship.
* She received the same training as her brother.
* After Cobra kidnapped members of the Joes & stole some missiles, the Joes reached out to Danger Girl to help them with taking the terrorist group down. They sent two teams of three to go after the missiles & were successful. But they soon discovered there was another missile heading towards a Navy aircraft carrier. Natalia left her team behind to stop the missile & was believed to have died in the process. In reality, she faked her death.

## Notes

* Natalie Kassle is an original character of the *Danger Girl* series. She was a member of the Hammer Empire, which is modeled after Cobra.
* Her family structure is unique to Earth-44.
* Her codename & alias, Ann Conda, is a nod to the Cobra member of the same name.