The Koldunya

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**General Ksenia Abakumov**, known by her nickname **'The Koldunya'**, was a military general for the Cancezian government and the head of a military mining operation in the city of Arzoz. She is the woman responsible for the murder of Recons parents, and for raising him in an attempt to create the perfect, most subservient slave.

## History

### Childhood

From her birth, heavy expectations were set on Ksenia by her parents, Nadia and Alexei. They were politicians and members of the far right wing political party 'The Korz', known for their harsh and often times brutal views on how the world should operate.

They were hoping for a boy, but were disappointed to find out their child was a girl. From her birth, her parents had an air of contempt towards her, especially her father. They wanted their daughter to enter the political scene much like them, and as soon as her mental age developed enough, they began educating her on their beliefs and their politics. She would be quizzed constantly, and if she got a single thing incorrect she would suffer vigorous physical abuse.

In her teens she developed a fascination with insects. She would enjoy observing them, controlling their movements by placing objects in their way and of course killing them. She would also become close with a maid named Julie, who would help Ksenia with her studies and allow her to come out of her shell a bit more. Before hand, Ksenia would usually remain quiet and reserved.

This bond was short lived however, as Alexei would soon discover that Julie had been paid by an outside source to search for confidential information in his office. It came to a head when, during dinner, Alexei would unexpectedly call Julie to the table where she would sit next to Ksenia. After being questioned, Julie broke down and admitted to what she did and apologised profusely. However, her pleas fell on deaf ears when a federal agent who was present at the time, shot Julie in the head. This would serve as the first time that Ksenia would witness death.

At the time, Ksenia did not understand the reasoning behind Julie's execution and mistakenly believed that she was killed because she wasn't doing her job good enough. Either way, this would be the beginning of her new fascination with the idea of the perfect slave. She would imagine scenarios in her head as to what she would do in Julies situation, and how she would successfully avoid the same fate.

### Military

When she grew older, Ksenia would enlist in the Cancezian military. Her and her squad were sent to Lickzsmund to liberate the city of its ongoing terrorist operations. It was under control of The Green Hand, an extremist left wing group that aimed to take control of Canceze by force and rid the country of its corrupt ideals. Ksenia found that her comrades held zero respect for her, due to her being the only woman in the group.

One other soldier in particular, named Roman Germanovich, would verbally harass Ksenia and make several offensive comments about her. On their first assignment, the group would be tasked with storming an abandoned building that was believed to be a base of operations of the Green Hand. This is where Ksenia would demonstrate her ruthless nature, clearing the building almost entirely by herself and showing no mercy towards unarmed civilians that were also housed inside.

The other soldiers found her actions to be vile, despite also being there to commit the same act, and their distaste towards her grew. A more respected member of the group, Irving, confronted Ksenia after another assignment where they had ambushed a truck full of ammunition supply for the Green Hand. Irving found her lack of sympathy towards the unarmed drivers she had executed to be despicable, and the confrontation would soon turn into a fight with a crowd of spectators gathering to watch.

Ksenia beat Irving brutally, until the fight was broken up by Colonel Kulikov. The pair were reprimanded and Ksenia was given her first warning. She would later receive her second warning after a conversation with Roman that once more, escalated. Roman and her were playing a game of UNO, were he would constantly make the same belittling remarks as he always had. The game ended with Ksenia suddenly grabbing two of Romans fingers and cutting them off with a pair of pliers.

When questioned by Kulikov, she attempted to convince him that Roman was becoming a weak link, he was not taking any of their fight seriously and had been making minimal contributions. However, Kulikov didn't want to hear it and gave her another warning, with the third warning meaning she would be discharged. On one day in the groups settlement, a young boy approached the front gates and said that he was lost. Ksenia came to talk to the boy at first and asked where his parents were, and she would come to learn that his parents were Green Hand members that had gotten caught in a gun fight and told their son to flee.

Ksenia decided to kidnap the child and record a video of him having been beaten to send as a message to the Green Hand. A few hours later, Kulikov would come to learn of what she had done, and whilst she was sitting outside, he confronted her. He told her that this was the last straw, that once he informed his superiors of what she had done, she would be removed. After telling her to pack her things and walking away, Kulikov was unexpectedly shot in the head by a sniper 200 yards away.

Ksenia would take it upon herself to chase after the sniper and apprehend them. The group tied the soldier to a chair and questioned him. The sniper turned out to be Faddei Ilin, who was not only the father of the boy that was kidnapped, but was also formerly a gardener who worked for Ksenias family when she was a child. Ksenia interrogated Faddei on the location of Green Hand hideouts, as well as the location of their leader, and Faddei initially refused.

Ksenia then hatched a plan, and had other soldiers prepare a cauldron of boiling hot water. The water was brought before Faddei alongside his son, and when interrogated once more, and Faddei continued to refuse an answer, Ksenia had the other soldiers grab Faddeis son and progressively dip him into the cauldron. As half of the boys body was being burned by the water, with his father helplessly watching, he gave in and revealed the locations of six secret hide outs, although he claimed to truly not know the location of the Green Hands leader.

Later that night, Ksenia had two of the other soldiers dig a large grave and execute both Faddei and the boy before burying them within it. After all of this, it became apparent that Ksenia was taking charge in wake of Kulikovs death, although this struck a nerve with some of the other soldiers who didn't like her, especially Irving. It would appear that the group was split between wanting to take orders from Irving or Ksenia, who by this point had earned her nickname 'The Koldunya'.

After Ksenia informed her superiors of Kulikovs death, as well as the location of the hideouts, she was formally placed in charge of the group for the time being and back-up would arrive to take charge on one of the hideouts. At some point however, Irving decided to betray his cause and communicated with the Green Hand directly, informing them of what was to come. Irving would take his supporters, one of which being Roman, and flee to meet with members of the Green Hand to potentially discuss an allegiance. However, instead Irving, Roman and the other soldiers were shot dead by the Green Hand members.

### Promotion

By the end of the war, the Green Hands leader; Syuzanna Nikolaeva, was finally located, captured and killed. Ksenia was formally promoted to Colonel, and was commended by several government officials for her work. At some point, Ksenia would come to meet the man who killed Julia all those years ago in front of her, Gavriil Karnov, a wildcard who was now the right hand man of her father. She would become a primary member of The Korz alongside her parents, and the party had joined the election of the countries new president.

During this point, her father would suffer a fatal heart attack and was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Ksenia would discover that the cause of this heart attack was that he had just been informed of some distressing news, and so she took it upon herself to discover what had caused this. She would find that, not only were The Korz losing the election, but that it was being rigged by none other than her own mother. Ksenia chose not to confront her mother until a later date, and at some point, her father would pass away in the hospital.

At some point, Gavriil would enter his vehicle after attending a press conference and was surprised to find Ksenia in the back seat with a gun pointed to his head. He asked if it was revenge for killing Julia, but she stated that Gavriil was becoming a burden and was creating too many messes for The Korz to clean up. And with her father gone, Gavriil no longer served a purpose. She executes him there and then.

Then, she would go on to confront her mother, who revealed that she did what she did because she didn't believe that Igor Zukov (the Korz member running for president) was even good enough to run the country. Ksenia saw her mother as a threat, and although she pleaded with her daughter, Ksenia would soon execute her as well. After this, the election ran smoothly, and Igor was successfully appointed as the new president of Canceze.

Once Igor was in charge, a dictatorship would be established and Ksenia was promoted to general.

### Arzoz & Recons creation

Ksenia would be appointed by a high ranking government official named Boris to lead an army to take over Arzoz and set up a mining operation, as it was believed to be a hot spot for a valuable fuel source named 'Ice Oil'. The mayor of Arzoz refused to allow a mining operation of any kind as he knew it would likely require the residents to leave with nowhere else to go. So, Ksenia gathered an army to travel to Arzoz and take the entire city hostage.

After searching through the mayors office, Ksenia would discover documentation referring to a couple that lived on the outskirts of the city. A pair of travelling Americans from Earth named Paul and Irene Micaleff. She would pay them a visit herself to inform them of what was going on, and she was actually willing to allow them to leave or stay and serve The Korz. As Irene and Paul discussed amongst themselves on what they should do, Ksenia would hear the sound of their infant son, Lyle, making noises in his crib.

It was at this moment that Ksenia would gain an idea, and so she changed her mind on what she was there to do. She shot both Paul and Irene dead, before taking Lyle from his crib and bringing him back to her own quarters. After taking him, she would inform her superiors and was allowed permission to work on her 'pet project' whilst she was there. She would utilise a codename generator on a government website to change Lyles name to Reconnaissance Redown, and would decide to raise him to be the perfect slave.

Initially, Ksenia would raise Recon as if he were her own, however when Recon reached an old enough age, she would have him working in the mines alongside the other citizens that were taken hostage. She would treat Recon differently to the other prisoners, giving him his own comfortable room and regular health checks as she wanted to keep him in the best conditions at all time. She would also employ various amateur brainwashing techniques in order to indoctrinate Recon into The Korz belief system, such as strapping him to a chair, locking him in a dark room with a propaganda video playing for days straight.

When the former mayor of Arzoz was found dead after being struck in the head with a pickaxe by another prisoner, Ksenia would utilise this as an opportunity to teach Recon about death, what happens when you don't work effectively, and how to dispose of a body. However, despite her attempts to indoctrinate Recon, it seemed that none of it was working as he still disliked the work he was forced to do and shared the sentiments of the other workers.

At some point, Recon and some of the other workers would refuse to work at all, under the basis that they believed Ksenia would not harm Recon and would adhere to his demands. However later that night, they were proven wrong. When Recon was asleep in bed, Ksenia had awoken him and proceeded to violently beat him before dragging him outside and forcing him to witness the execution of the other workers.

However Ksenias control of Recon wouldn't last, as the mining base would soon see an attack from a rebellion force known as 'The Returners', who were joined by an Overlook Dispatch unit. They were notified by one of her own soldiers, Ira, who had also secretly befriended Recon and had reverted every single one of Ksenias brainwashing attempts. As the base was under attack, and she would discover that Ira had sold them out, she would brutally murder him by repeatedly chopping into his head with a hatchet.

Recon would take his opportunity to escape, and although she attempted to chase after him, he proved to be too quick and was able to outsmart her and escape her clutches.

## Disappearance

After the attack on the mining base, Ksenia was never seen or heard from again. Her body was never recovered from the remains of the site and it is completely unknown what became of her. Initially, it was believed that The Returners may have captured her and held her hostage in an attempt to gain some kind of upper hand over The Korz. And so, the government retaliated, locating the rebels who were present during the attack, capturing them and torturing them.

However, Ksenia was still never discovered and the rebels knew nothing of her location despite the torture they were put through (although the government did not believe them). It was officially ruled that The Returners may have captured her, tortured her and then executed her before she was buried in a place where she was never found. However, some suggest that she may have fled during the attack and gave up everything to go in search of her 'pet project'; Recon. It was also suggested by some that she decided to betray The Korz and ended up working with The Returners, although most consider this to be unlikely.

## Appearance

Ksenia was a 5'7 Caucasian woman with long, curly ginger hair and freckles dotted around her face and other areas of her body. Due to her mostly neglecting her physical appearance, her hair is often times frizzy and her hairline (although hidden by the amount of hair she has) is receding. Although once being somewhat thin during her military service due to scarce resources and rationing, she has put on a considerable amount of weight since then and as such, possesses a chubby yet still relatively skinny build.

She dresses in her generals uniform, a long dark green coat with two golden floral symbols on her collar, service ribbons on her chest and two shoulder straps with golden stars illustrated onto them. Underneath this coat, she wears a white button up shirt tucked into a pair of black pants, with a black tie neatly fastened around her neck and black rubber boots on her feet.

## Personality

Earning her nickname, Ksenia was perceived as a cruel and horrifically disturbed woman who was willing to employ the most brutal tactics possible to achieve her goals. She was known to be completely unforgiving and merciless, with any single mistake made being a death sentence in her eyes. It is clear that her early childhood belief of Julie being killed because she wasn't good enough, or because she made a mistake, has stuck with her ever since and affects the way she handles situations.

She is also, at times, emotionally unpredictable. She may seem calm one minute, before becoming extremely violent in the next. The expectations that her and her parents had for herself have been set upon the rest of the world, and a single error can cause a violent outburst.

## Transcripts

* Excerpt of a Conversation Between Ksenia and Julie
* Execution of Julie
* Clearing of the Abandoned Hospital Wing Under Green Hand Control