Irina Derevko

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The Mun

The Character

Defining Abilities and Attributes

She has skills consistent with KGB training on top of skills learned from clawing her way to the top of the criminal underworld- primarily this means she's a master of a couple of different martial arts, skilled with a variety of weapons (including sniper rifles), a certain amount of talent for hacking, and is brilliant when it comes to cyphers. Her math skills are top-notch and she's good at deception, which, you know, is sort of necessary, given... Spy (and she's better at than most considering she mentally screwed over one of the CIA's ranking assets for ten years). She has a businesswoman's sharp mind for details and an assassin's ruthlessness. Physically, she's tall (5'11) and very graceful, almost to the point of being cat-like with auburn hair. She's one of those people who doesn't blend into the crowd and tends to stand out.

Personality

Irina has that general "I want it all" attitude of someone who never had enough and intends to fix it by any means necessary. She's stubborn, occasionally ruthless, but not without a small spark of humanity- albeit it's a small spark. She's manipulative and such a brilliant liar than even her sincerity can smack of an untruth to people who know her well enough. She has a tendency to want to have her cake and eat it too (trying to keep up with her criminal organization, all while desperately loving her CIA agent ex-husband and daughters, for example), and generally has mixed results in the endeavor. At times she can seem fickle, because her fierce determination and drive tends to take precedence over all else, so she can claim to love someone deeply and then turn around do something they disapprove of that might potentially put them danger, although her love doesn't waver so much as her focus does. She's prone to getting caught up in things at the expense of everything else and sometimes fails to realize that losing those she loves isn't a necessary sacrifice to the pursuit of greater knowledge. Despite her constant wanting, she's not entirely material- she likes control, she likes being the one on top, and most of her criminal endeavors were more in the pursuit of that gain... The rest were in pursuit of artifacts created by a 16th Century inventor/prophet named Milo Rambaldi, as uncovering his endgame was one of her greatest passions and the one thing that's driven her further than anything else.

Background

Irina was born into a poor family in Moscow, the youngest of three daughters. From a young age, she was constantly wanting more than what she had and found the means to get it- by becoming an accomplished pickpocket when she was just a child. She'd spend her weekends hanging around tourist locations and would steal the money that they dropped and then go out and buy candy for her and her sisters. When her father caught her, rather than punishing her, he praised her, calling her "his little rebel." Irina took this as a sign of approval and it set a rather heavy precedent for what she felt she was permitted to do for the rest of her life.

When she was eighteen, Alexander Khasinau recruited her into the KGB, much to her shock, because it would open doors that she never thought possible. She quickly excelled to the rank of major and when General Cuvee, her superior, needed an agent for a deep-cover operation overseas to steal CIA secrets, Irina was the first person he chose. For the mission, Irina needed to seduce and marry a ranking officer in the CIA- specifically Jack Bristow- which she did by pretending to be a young English teacher named Laura and manipulating him by preying on every weakness that the KGB's files had on him, including his desire to start a family. When she became pregnant, she believed that she had taken things too far and considered killing her daughter (Sydney) shortly after birth, but couldn't bring herself to do it. At times after Sydney was born, there were moments where the illusion of her marriage to Jack seemed real, but it wasn't to last. Determined not to miss out on any more of Sydney's life, Jack confided in "Laura" that he was leaving the CIA and with that revelation came the need for Irina to get out. Unable to be extracted immediately and irritated at Jack for compromising her mission (partly because there was still more to learn and partly because she'd become too comfortable in this life), she visited Jack's best friend Arvin Sloane, a meeting which ended in a brief affair.

Eventually, she was extracted by the means of a staged car accident that was meant to frame Jack as a traitor to his country. The plan worked, but Irina was immediately taken into custody for treason and the belief that she might be somehow connected to Rambaldi, a name she had only heard in passing before that moment. During a cursory medical examaination at the prison where she was being held, she learned she was pregnant again and the infant (Nadia) was taken from her soon after her birth. Irina eventually escaped the prison and stayed underground for years until she eventually resurfaced as "The Man," the head of a criminal organization, dealing in the pursuit of Rambaldi's artifacts, now with her former superior Khasinau acting as her second-in-command. Her lieutenant, a young man she'd found and personally turned into her very own personal weapon named Julian Sark, led a raid on FTL headquarters that successfully established her organization as a viable threat, although the consecutive raid on SD-6 led by her operative McKenas Cole was a drastic failure and served only to turn SD-6 and the CIA against her. For months, however, she hid behind the moniker, even letting people believe that Khasinau was The Man. However, during a CIA mission to destroy the Mueller Device she'd had built from Rambaldi's instructions, her now adult daughter Sydney was captured. Due to Khasinau watching her conversation with her daughter, the reunion was forced to be strained and Irina shot Sydney in the shoulder, although she left her plenty of means to escape. Shortly after, Irina shot and killed Khasinau to secure her operations manual ("the Bible") and make sure the CIA didn't get it, hid it, and then promptly turned herself into the CIA, promising them valuable intel that she would only give to Sydney.

Months passed and tensions ran high as Irina proved herself to be a credible source of intel, much to her ex-husband's chagrin. At first Jack was openly hostile, going as far as to frame her in an attempt to lure Sydney away from getting too close to her, but the plan fell through, and eventually Jack was forced to accept that Irina was going to be an asset and that Sydney would continue to see her, although he still refused to trust her. By the time, he finally did come to believe that she'd truly turned herself in, however, she betrayed him a second time and made off with an important Rambaldi document, proving that she'd been conspiring with Sloane via Sark the entire time and that her defection was merely a means to an end, although her feelings for Sydney and Jack that had been rekindled were genuine- just not as important as her pursuit of Rambaldi.

At the end of a tumultuous alliance with Sloane, Irina began providing Sydney with intel that would help her bring Sloane down, including selling out her own agent to the CIA. At the climax of a confrontation with Sydney, Irina revealed that while she once believed that she was the one spoken of in Rambaldi's prophecies, it wasn't her at all, but her daughter. After that, she fell off the grid, although Jack tracked her down via a secure chat network when Sydney went missing for two years and the two of them kept in contact that way, up until Jack was discovered and hauled into custody for conspiring with a known terrorist. Jack would eventually contact her again in regards to The Passenger (in all actuality, her other daughter), but Irina terminated the conversation and refused to give him the information.

Shortly after, Irina was hunted down by her older sister Elena who was working to complete Rambaldi's endgame, herself. Irina was doubled as part of the Helix Protocol (a project that could turn a person into an exact duplicate of another person) and the double put a hit out on Sydney that led to Jack eventually assassinating her, beliving it to his ex-wife. Irina was horrifically tortured and eventually forced to give into Elena's demands. She was hidden away and remained Elena's prisoner until her two daughters (now working for a black-ops division of the CIA called APO) and Jack freed her and she was promptly brought into CIA custody. She eventually worked out another deal with them that would allow her to venture to Savgoda with an APO strike team and help take down Elena, after which she would be placed in custody. After successfully eliminating Elena (despite the zombies- yes, there were zombies in Savgoda), Jack let her go, claiming that he would tell APO that she escaped again, and Irina walked off into the night, a free agent once more.

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