Dr. Natalia Simonson

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 Bio

A genius scientist and the President of E-COM (Earth Communication, Offence, and Maintenance Force), Natalia is perhaps the party's greatest ally due to her position, her intellect, and her power. Having befriended several members of the player character brigade, she has a personal stake in several of the things they do, and thus offers them assistance wherever she is able to. Recent developments in the globalization efforts of E-COM, however, have forced her to take a more active effort in E-COM's matters, rendering her... not *completely*unable to help, but *less*able to help than before. Nonetheless, she does what she can, and can be summoned by the party if her assistance is required.

## Personality

Despite being a genius scientist, Natalia is a playful individual, often pulling pranks on her disgruntled Quartermaster. She has a friendly disposition and is very helpful to anyone and everyone, but that's not to say that she's naive. Natalia is simply a believer in friendship before foes, and so will offer an open welcome to anyone willing to come in peace. It's when people *don't* that there's a problem- Natalia is crafty and creative, coming up with all sorts of unexpected weaponry and creative uses for ordinary items or whatever resources she has on hand to be a damn effective E-COM president. She is quick to seek out help when she believes herself to be in over her head, and is unusually good at detecting when she's being deceived. Natalia is not foolish, however, and so will hesitate to take action unless she's certain she has backup or a way out of a potential bad situation. She can't help Earth if she's dead, after all.

## History

While Natalia's early history remains a mystery, it is a known fact that when she was a child, Homeless Joe was her babysitter, which might explain some of her more... *unique* tendencies.

When she was in college, perhaps because of her superhuman levels of intellect, Natalia was able to earn every major possible at the time, and keeps as up to date as possible on new developments in science. Why she decided to do this is unknown but it has left her with a stupidly high amount of knowledge-based trivia.

In her early adult life, Natalia decided to help her hometown of La Mancha the only way she knew how - by creating weapons for the police department. These weapons were not the sort she'd begin making later in life - they were highly effective weapons that she was able to use to both earn the favor of the La Mancha Police and earn enough money to live reasonably well on her own. She continued developing technology and weaponry for the police department, and eventually La Mancha's own government itself. She fell into a habit of dropping off the radar for a few years while she developed new tech and then resurfacing whenever she had perfected it to give it to her employers.

Shortly after The Monster's attack on La Mancha, Natalia was scouted out to become a scientist at E-COM. Natalia initially refused their offer, content with her life as it was, but they told her their doors would always be open to her, and after much deliberation on her part she changed her mind and accepted their offer. Natalia quickly rose through the ranks and was promoted to Head Scientist at E-COM, a position she took pride and pleasure in, doing all she could to help protect the Earth.

During and shortly after the Black Hole Gang's stint disguised as the Orion Partnership, Natalia became a public spokesperson for E-COM as well as its head scientist, sharing new developments with La Mancha and the world as a whole while also doing all that she could to keep E-COM an honest company - a feat which she accomplished by being as *transparent* as possible during press conferences and interviews. Natalia's policy of Honesty First quickly made her a popular figure in the public eye - when mistakes happened, she made no excuses and simply did all she could to fix them, and when successes happened, she shared them with the world and helped everyone have more faith in E-COM's ability to defend the Earth.

When The Courier's party vanished during a trip to Atlantis, and Prince Demifiend and Ra Ha Mut began dragging La Mancha into their all-out turf war, Natalia suddenly found her workload doubled. The public admired E-COM's - and her - dedication to keeping them safe, and so in an act of good faith and trust, La Mancha elected E-COM's president as their new mayor and Natalia was promoted to become E-COM's new president. Relieved of her duties as a scientist, Natalia took charge and made absolutely certain that E-COM was keeping collateral to a minimum. The increased workload from being President was a stressful thing, though, and perhaps in a bid to maintain her sanity, Natalia found herself drifting over to the science labs rather frequently, helping them develop new technology that, while rather silly, was astoundingly effective against the people who their agents were fighting against. She also got into the habit of pranking her Quartermaster, by regularly hacking into his reports, constantly changing his hair color in absurd ways, and overall messing with the man to help her vent pent-up stress from the fact that the lives of everyone in La Mancha - and possibly even the world - were resting on her shoulders, and her capability to fend off the threats.

Nonetheless, Demifiend, Ra Ha Mut, and The Monster were all defeated, in no small part thanks to her efforts, and Natalia could finally relax and focus on E-COM itself. The growing threat of aliens and even threats originating on Earth was too much to ignore, and so Natalia began reaching out to other countries across the world, slowly extending E-COM's reach and influence to a global scale so that, no matter where aliens appeared from, E-COM could protect its home world effectively.