Full Name: Doctor Oren Dariya Kovalenko
Nicknames/Aliases: Dr K, The Robot, The Bitch, The Russian Chick (Oren is not, in fact, russian, it's just people have realized it angers her when people get her nationality wrong, and so have been calling her that specifically to irritate her.)
Age: 89 (Was bitten around age 21, and has remained there.)
Gender: Female
Species: European Vampire
Post/Rank: Head of Wyrm's Moon, Cryptobiological Research at SCION HQ.
Description: Oren stands at about 5'7, an angular-looking woman with blue-black hair, grey eyes and the pallid skin one might attribute to a vampire, if the sharpened canines were not already an indication. Oren tends to be seen in her white lab coat, replacing it with a dark blue duster when she ventures outside...which, admittedly, is not all that often. She often wears black fingerless gloves when outside of lab work, and prefers sturdy boots to anything prettier. Oren is usually seen wearing black eyeliner, and a look of general humourless disdain.
Personality:
A lot of people who know Oren have compared her to a robot. Except she is a robot programmed to hate you. The researcher is antisocial, unempathetic, and has very little sense of humour. She holds everyone, including herself, to unreachable standards and is quick to express her contempt for people due to their inability to meet them. She either has no sense of tact, or has chosen never to express it, as she has no issues with insulting others.
Oren is a workaholic, to the point that people have grown to question whether she ever actually sleeps. Any hour people call into the research block Dr Kovalenko seems to be there, drinking coffee or looking discontented or dissecting something, sometimes all three at once. She is extremely dedicated to her work, and her work is very good. Oren seems to be in possession of an amazing degree of intelligence, and puts it to good use.
Oren and Kora have a rather...antagonistic relationship with one another. Oren thinks that Kora is an uncivilized, uneducated moron. Kora thinks that Oren is a soulless reptile. Neither is totally wrong in their assertions.
Skills: Oren is incredibly intelligent, possesses an eidetic memory and can recall near anything in enormous detail. She can also calculate complex sums in her head, and is able to speak a number of languages. Oren is also a very fast runner, and well-trained in using firearms. She nearly always has a gun on hand and can draw more quickly than most people can formulate a hostile thought.
Weaknesses: Oren hates physical contact and tends to panic when she is grabbed, she also has a long history of issues with blood, and as a result avoids contact with fresh blood if she can. Oren's speed comes at the sacrifice of durability, and compared to more resilient creatures like werewolves, she is easily harmed.
Brief History: SCION is an organization that is not averse to offering a hand to those who are determined to reform, regardless of perhaps...shady instances in their background.
Oren is probably one of the shadier ones, a young hungarian woman turned in 1945, at the close of the second world war, Oren became a member of The Exsanguis, one of the most influential, and ruthless vampiric clans of Europe. With SCION's first incarnation officially going dark at some point in the 1950's, The Exsanguis was allowed to expand undetected, and while their presence maintained some form of order within Europe, it was order at the cost of deaths. The Exsanguis infilitrated positions of authority, police, local government, coroners, hospitals, and would callously eliminate any mortal who was considered a threat to their secrecy.
Oren has now, for the most part, left all f this behind her. She works for the good guys. That doesn't necessarily mean she's become a pleasant individual.
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