Lady Vila

Katyana Fedorovna Krasiva

As a young girl, Katyana Fedorovna Krasiva wanted two things: to be a great athlete and to be loved. She dreamed of the Olympics, or perhaps a career as a ballerina, but Katyana’s potential took her in a different direction. Routine medical testing for her athletic pursuits raised some important flags and brought her to the attention of certain powerful men. That was not necessarily a problem, as Katyana enjoyed the attention of powerful men.
She also found that she enjoyed the work they wanted her to do. They sought to improve upon the age-old “honey pot” with the creation of an agent who would be literally irresistible. They were successful, but did not get the opportunity to replicate their success because they made the same mistake as their targets: underestimating a beautiful woman. Records of the creation of “Lady Vila” vanished, and her with them as her homeland underwent political turmoil and upheaval.
For years, Lady Vila put her talents to use as a spy-for-hire but eventually even her enhanced physiology began to show the passage of time. What’s more, while “Lady” always had friends, she needed to keep them close in order to keep them at all, while the ranks of her enemies grew year after year, many of them former “friends” who’d come to their senses. Lady Vila knew well there were few old spies, and so she needed to look to her future and devote her talents elsewhere.
Fate handed her an opportunity when gathering information on recent happenings in Emerald City. There Lady Vila met Trey Keller and learned of his unique talents. She quickly won him over and their new “partnership” has focused on finding Lady some new friends, powerful friends, who can help secure her future.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Genetic and hormonal treatments enhanced Lady Vila’s natural pheromones, giving her an aura of attractiveness and a powerful presence. What is more, long term exposure to her presence causes a deep and irrational affection to set in. Vila’s newfound friends or paramours become willing to do anything for her, just for the opportunity to spend more time basking in her presence. She needs to periodically renew her influence but that is not difficult, given how her victims seek her out in order to be with her again. It takes some time for someone removed from Lady Vila’s presence to completely recover.
Although she is a highly-trained espionage agent and combatant, Lady Vila prefers to avoid physical confrontations whenever possible. She uses her influence and Treker’s “cloaking” abilities to have her allies run interference while she disappears.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

The enthusiastic young athlete Katyana has given way to the cynical and manipulative Lady Vila, who has nothing in the world now save her power and the “love” it brings her. She has seen enough of the harsh truths of the world to believe the only happiness lies in wealth, influence, and enough security to enjoy both. She has also come to enjoy her role as “mistress” and the game of manipulating her adoring followers to get what she wants. She feels something like actual affection for Treker, but still wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice him—or anyone—to save herself.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Once the pawn of the State, Lady Vila now makes her own allies with her powers. With Treker’s help, she finds suitable recruits and “wins them over” using her considerable wiles. Once they have spent enough time with her, their resistance crumbles and their loyalty is utterly assured. Their focus is naturally on the types of superhumans Treker can find for her, like hunter and hound. He sniffs out their prey (and lures or flushes them out, as need be) then she moves in for the kill.
Lady Vila has made many enemies over the years, from the spies she initially betrayed when she fled her homeland to various targets she has “burned” or former “friends” she manipulated. A large number of people would be happy to see her dead, happier still to ensure the process was long and drawn out. Others simply want to secret of her power, and would be willing to take it from her corpse. Protection from her various enemies is one reason way Lady Vila wants to surround herself with new friends.

Treker

If ignorance is bliss, then having superhuman sensory abilities must be hell. It certainly was for Trey Keller, in many regards. Everyone wondered what made him such a nervous and withdrawn young man, but he knew everything everyone was saying about him behind his back and he discovered a talent for going unnoticed when he wanted. All he really wanted was some peace, and understanding. He found both when he first caught scent of Lady Vila, literally. To his enhanced senses she was like a beacon and drew him in to a safe harbor, giving Trey understanding, direction, and love, even his new name: Treker. He is Lady Vila’s faithful bloodhound, her watchdog, and her constant companion, and his time spent with her combined with his susceptibility to her “charms” has made him utterly loyal. There is nothing he would not do for his mistress and savior.