Tatiana Van Der Polk

## Tatiana Karina Van Der Polk

### Aliases

Tati; Tatia; Tattle Van Der Polk; Tina; Edelweiss; Tomboy; Swiss Mountain Queen; Miss Swiss Mountain Queen

### Relatives

Nicholas Van Der Polk (Father); Alexandra Steinbrenner-Van Der Polk (Mother); Marie Daryovetsky-Van Der Polk (Grandmother); Maria Van Der Polk (Little Sister); Anya Van Der Polk (Little Sister); Alexei Van Der Polk (Little Brother); Olga Van Der Polk (Little Sister)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Amber

Tatiana Van Der Polk is the minor supporting protagonist of "Donkey Kong Country Escapades," an ally to Team DK, and Anya’s other older sister.

## Voices

* Sumire Uesaka (Japanese; Teenager)
* Rumi Ochiai (Japanese; Adult)
* Sarah Bolger (English; Teenager)
* Natalie Dormer (English; Adult)
* Mireya Mendoza (Latin American Spanish; Teenager)
* Rossy Aguirre (Latin American Spanish; Adult; As Rosanelda López Aguirre)
* Adelaida López (Castilian Spanish; Teenager)
* Isabel Valls (Castilian Spanish; Adult)
* Meritxell Calvo (Catalan; Teenager)
* Isabel Valls (Catalan; Adult)
* Naïké Fauveau (French; Teenager)
* Julie Turin (French; Adult)
* Magalie Lépine Blondeau (Canadian French; Teenager)
* Geneviève Désilets (Canadian French; Adult)
* Ann Vielhaben (German; Teenager)
* Esther Schweins (German; Adult)
* Maria Letizia Scifoni (Italian; Teenager; As Letizia Scifoni)
* Monica Ward (Italian; Adult)
* Maria Camões (Portuguese; Teenager)
* Cristina Cavalinhos (Portuguese; Adult)
* Jennifer Gouveia (Brazilian Portuguese; Teenager)
* Angélica Borges (Brazilian Portuguese; Adult)
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## Descriptions

Tatiana is a 15 year old girl with long, wavy, dark red velvet-colored hip-length hair, amber eyes, and wearing a lime green head bandana with pink flower designs on it, a lavender short-sleeved shirt with poofy sleeves, a purple lederhosen-like dress, violet socks, and black clog-styled slippers

At age 27, Tatiana wears a lavender long-sleeved button-up shirt, a purple sleeveless maxi dress, a violet apron around her waist, and black ballet slippers, but retains her dark red velvet-colored hair and amber eyes; Plus, she doesn't wear the head bandana anymore.

Her expedition outfit is a purple long-sleeved safari shirt with the sleeves rolled up over a lavender cropped tanktop, a lime green neckerchief, a purple safari hat with a lavender band in place of her head bandana, a pink fannypack-like pouch around her hips, purple safari shorts, lavender socks, and black cargo boots.

During the summer season, she wears a N/A.

During the fall season, her outerwear is a N/A.

In both fall and winter, her outfit is a N/A.

Her winter outerwear is a N/A.

When going out in the rain, she wears a lavender long-sleeved raincoat, a lavender rain hat, and lavender boots.

At night, she wears a peach-colored short-sleeved nightgown with poofy sleeves in both the spring and the summer.

Her pajamas are an orange long-sleeved flannel pajama jacket with buttons and orange long flannel pajama pants, and sometimes wears orange slippers in both the fall and the winter.

Her party outfit is a N/A.

At a royal ball, she wears a N/A.

When going swimming, she wears a peach-colored two piece bikini.

When going to church, she wears a N/A.

Her Halloween costume is famous British mountain climber Lucy Walker, consisting a white ladies’ hat with a dark green band and a red flower, a pale blue long-sleeved shirt with poofy shoulder sleeves and white lacy neck and sleeve rims, a white foot-length petticoat with white frills on the bottom, a navy blue floor-length skirt, white fleece-lined stockings, black snow boots, and a white long-sleeved padded coat, and carried a brown climbing staff and a red mountain climber’s backpack, who became the first female mountain climber to completely climb the Matterhorn in July 1871.

## Relationships

**Anya Van Der Polk**

Anya is Tatiana's little sister.

**Olga Van Der Polk**

Olga is Tatiana's other little sister.

**Maria Van Der Polk**

Maria is Tatiana's older sister.

**Alexei Van Der Polk**

Alexei is Tatiana's little brother.

**Nicholas Van Der Polk**

Nicholas is Tatiana's father.

**Alexandra Steinbrenner-Van Der Polk**

Alexandra is Tatiana's mother.

**Marie Daryovetsky-Van Der Polk**

Marie is Tatiana's grandmother.

## Christmas Specials

* Donkey Kong Country Escapades: A Christmas Special

## Movies

* Donkey Kong Country Escapades: The Movie

## Trivia

* Tatiana's name is based on Tatiana Romanov, one of Anastasia's older sisters from Don Bluth's 1997 film "Anastasia."
* Her full name is "Tatiana Karina Van Der Polk."
* Tatiana is in high school and in 9th grade.
* She is also a talented baker like her family's lineage of bakers back in Stockholm, Sweden.
* In Seasons 1-3, Tatiana starts out as a teenager. Yet, in Season 3’s last episode, Season 4’s first episode and the very beginning and very end of the movie, she is an adult, while in the rest of Season 4 and the movie, she is a teenager.
* She even enjoys mountain climbing since she was 7 years old, and that Lucy Walker, the famous British mountain climber who was the first female mountain climber to scale the Matterhorn, inspired her to become this, as well as conquer her former fear of heights.
* Tatiana is also very good with speaking American and British accents due to overseas studying in Washington D.C. and London when she was 10 years old, and she even taught Anya on how to speak the accents really well.
* Tatiana is also teased by her friends, old and new, about being a mama's little girl, much to her chagrin, due to the fact that she, besides her sisters and brother, is extremely close to their mother, Alexandra.
* As mentioned above, she formally had acrophobia, meaning fear of heights, due to falling from a high tree and hurting herself when she was 4 years old, until she developed a passion for mountain climbing when she was 7 years old, thanks to her father, Nicholas, under her family's encouragement, teaching her how to "[Climb a] great challenge[s] to greater heights" against her fears in order to face them, which then lead to her saving Nicholas' life when, himself, got injured, breaking his leg, on the Swiss Alps during their mountain climbing trip to teach her how to climb mountains, and thanks to her father's teachings, she was able to face her fear of heights and climb mountains, as well as "Against [her] fears," right in order to get herself and him to a nearby hospital since they lacked a phone to call for an emergency. And then eventually in Season 2, this foreshadow lead to her mountain climbing expertise with her brother, Alexei, and sisters that led to them and their group assisting them to survive their climb on Mount Everest and successfully get the fourth piece of the Crystal Coconut before Green Kroc, Ba-Boom, and their Kremling and Snowmad Armies did.