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Other Characters Played:ra_ra_razputin
Character Name: Viktoria. She has no last name so let's pretend it's something incredibly lame like Woods.
Character Series: Thief
Character Age: ~Ageless~ but she appears to be 20-something?
Background:
Links!
More links!
So many links!
Are you tired of links, yet?
((HELLO Unfortunately there is no neat, concise plot summary anywhere on the Internets so have some TL;DR to go with the links I am so sorry. Also this is your spoiler warning.))
Viktoria first appears in the series as an independent fence looking to hire Garrett for a job that involved stealing a magic sword from the manor of a nobleman named Constantine. Of course, Garrett, being the protagonist and generally awesome, had no trouble pulling it off. When he went to collect his payment, Viktoria explained to him that she was working with Constantine the whole time, and they were testing him to see if he was capable of a much more dangerous mission. What Constantine was truly after was a gemstone called the Eye, which was lost in a terrible cataclysm decades ago. Garrett accepted the job after the two of them promised more money than he knew what to do with as a reward.
In reality, Constantine was actually the Trickster, an ancient Pagan deity, and Viktoria was one of his most powerful servants. She had pretended to be human in order to build a reputation in the City as a fence and catch Garrett’s attention all in the hopes that she could trick him into getting the Eye for Constantine, who wanted to use it in a demonic ritual to destroy civilization and return the world to chaos. When Garrett handed it over, they incapacitated him and left him for dead, escaping into the Trickster’s realm to perform the ritual. Unfortunately for them, it would take more than a severe beating from a god of chaos to stop Garrett, and he followed them, sabotaged the ritual, and killed the Trickster.
Though devastated by the loss of her lord and master, Viktoria, as the second in command, rallied the remaining Pagan beasts and human worshippers, determined not to let her faction die along with their god. Preserving the Pagan way quickly became more important than ever, as a new faction arose in the City. They called themselves the Mechanists, and they worshipped gears and machines and reviled nature. Their leader, the charismatic monk Karras, considered the Pagans a threat to his cause, and bribed the City Watch into helping him exterminate them. However, a high-ranking official in the watch sympathized with the Pagans and contacted Viktoria to share information and help protect her followers living in the City. Through this contact, Viktoria learned that Karras had sent the City Watch after another threat to his master plan: Garrett. She didn’t have to reach out to him, though- while she was busy trying to undermine the Mechanist movement, he was putting the pieces of the puzzle together himself, and eventually he approached her in the Trickster’s realm.
Viktoria hated Garrett for killing her lord, and she knew that Garrett wasn’t terribly fond of her, either. However, she also realized that they were both being targeted by the Mechanists, and together they had much more of a chance of survival than alone. Reluctantly, they both agreed to take on the Mechanists together. It worked for a while, and they were able to uncover Karras' ultimate goal: that he was going to destroy all organic life in the City (and possibly beyond it) and create a new world populated only by machines... and himself, of course, as he was going to stay sealed in his airtight cathedral while the deadly toxic gas he invented killed everyone and everything else. Knowing that they didn't have much time left, Viktoria immediately began to make plans to storm Karras' stronghold and turn his invention back on him, but Garrett left in disgust, knowing that any assault on Karras was suicide at that point. Undeterred, Viktoria attacked Karras herself, but was overwhelmed by the evil monk's robots. Garrett reentered the picture one last time, having found out about her attack, and Viktoria convinced him to finish her plan to take down Karras. Then, she stood defiantly against the mechanical abominations bearing down on her, summoned all of her power, and turned herself into a twisted jungle of plant life that engulfed Karras' stronghold.
Garrett was able to carry out Viktoria's original plan of locking the toxic gas in Karras' cathedral, which, fueled by her vines, destroyed everything inside, including Karras himself. Though the peace that followed was short-lived (as is per the norm in the City), the Pagans did not forget their queen, or the sacrifice that saved them all.
Viktoria is being yoinked from right after her death. Yay trauma.
Personality: Viktoria is a poisonous flower: beautiful, exotic, but deadly. She is an agent of chaos and embodiment of nature, and goddamn does she hate industry and technology. As she draws her power from the natural world, you can only imagine how livid she gets just thinking about all of those pathetic manfools building up their cities over her precious earth and polluting her precious air with their smoke and stench. She saves her greatest loathing for worshippers of the Builder, a god that rules over order and construction and everything that is wrong with the world in her eyes.
Viktoria is a fanatic. If she lived in modern times she would be the kind of person who chains herself to a tree in protest to keep a fatcat logging company from chopping the forest down. Although while she is extremely loyal to the Trickster and his domain, she realizes that not even the ultimate power of nature is enough to wipe out the pitiful manfools, even though their weak strongholds are built from the dead wood of trees cruelly felled by their cold, hammered steel. Like a weed growing through a crack in the concrete, Viktoria dreams of breaking down the world of man from the inside, wrecking it and tearing it until it can no longer stand, whereupon it will crumble into dust to rejoin the natural world. So, she infiltrates. Manipulates. She became a part of the seedy underbelly of the City, adhering to its laws (or lack thereof) and living as a human simply for the sake of the Trickster's plot to return the world to primordial darkness. She is also not above working alongside humans if it means furthering her own goals, as shown in her alliance with Garrett. Of course, these alliances will typically be on her terms.
With all of her fanaticism, self-sacrifice and determination, it's easy to assume that Viktoria is... a little insane. She, however, would be quick to argue that your idea of “insane” is quite off-the-mark, and that everything she does is for the good of the natural world. And while she revels in chaos, she is hardly a fool. She is fully capable of civility when the situation calls for it. As a human, Viktoria gives off an air of quiet confidence, and in her true form, where she can fully demonstrate her power, she is a commanding presence. Without these traits she could not have infiltrated the City as thoroughly as she did, nor could she have taken command of the remains of the Pagan faction after the death of the Trickster. Her sacrifice in Karras' cathedral was an act of desperation, but one that she was prepared to face if necessary.
She is deceptive. She does not drop her pretense unless she is taken completely by surprise (this doesn't happen often), or if someone has incurred her unholy wrath. She keeps her true feelings and motives hidden well, only revealing them when absolutely necessary, which is usually when someone has outlived their usefulness and it's time to dispose of them. She lures in unsuspecting victims like a black widow lying in wait. She is very, very good at her job- you’ll think she’s your best friend right up until you feel the knife (or, in her case, the razor-sharp thorn) in your back.
Mayfield, however, will be a huge shock to her. A place where everything is uniform and artificial? Oh hale naw. It's entirely likely that other people will see her crazy Pagan demon side more often than she would like, but regardless, she will try her hardest to keep up her air of cool civility, despite that Mayfield will wear on her and everything she believes in.
Abilities: Viktoria is something akin to a wood nymph or nature spirit. In her natural form, she is humanoid in appearance, but her skin is a rich green color and looks like tree bark. When invoking her powers, or when she is extremely pissed off, her voice takes on a frightening, otherworldly tone, and her eyes glow red. She can manipulate plants, making them grow and move how she likes and typically uses them as weapons or a means of ensnaring an enemy. As she herself is plantlike, this ability extends to her own body as well- she can morph her arms into long vines for ensnaring or branches for impaling. Her shape shifting abilities also allow her to take on a human form. The strength of her powers depends greatly on her location- she is much more powerful when surrounded by nature, and less so in the dense, manmade sprawl of the City. Here is a cutscene where you can see her using her powers and talking in her creepy voice.
Sample Entry:
[There is a very angry, very crazy looking woman on the front lawn. Her long, dark hair is frazzled, as if she has been tearing at it, the lovely, conservative nightgown that she woke up in is also disheveled, and several buttons are missing from the front when she tore at that, too. She has an almost desperate look in her eyes, which are darting from side to side as she tries to take in her surroundings]
What hell is this? Who has trappers me in this wretched shell of flesh? I feels nothing from the grass and the limbs of the tree… I am deaf and numb!
[She falls to her knees and grasps at the perfectly manicured lawn in disgust.]
I see now… this is my punishment! I am failed the Woodsie Lord and made to suffer evermore! Suffer evermore!
[She studies the grass she’s plucked in her hands, then slowly lets it fall to the ground.]
So be it, then. I have earned this. I will bear it.
[And as she kneels on the lawn she begins to smooth out her hair and clothes, as if nothing had happened.]
BUT WHAT DOES VIKTORIA LOOK/SOUND LIKE? Here's some cutscenes from the games to answer that very question!
This is Viki's literally only human appearance in the series (at least, the only one that's not a spoiler of colossal proportions). She doesn't do much here but you can see her being totally not at all shifty-eyed and suspicious. >_>
Here is a wild Viktoria in its natural habitat. This is only cutscene (again, that's not an Xbawks hueg spoiler) that shows her using her powers and generally bein' in charge.
SOME MORE LINKS FOR YOU:
Thief series on TV Tropes (Disclaimer: I cannot be held accountable if you fall into any pot holes.)
Thief: The Dark Wiki (This is kind of disorganized but it's the only wiki on the series soooo...)
FUN FACT: Viki is played by the same voice actress who played SHODAN. Think of that what you will.
Personal LJ:
wefeelgrooveContact Info: You can catch me at wefeelgroove@gmail.com or on AIM at wefeelgroove.
Other Characters Played:
ra_ra_razputinCharacter Name: Viktoria. She has no last name so let's pretend it's something incredibly lame like Woods.
Character Series: Thief
Character Age: ~Ageless~ but she appears to be 20-something?
Background:
Links!
More links!
So many links!
Are you tired of links, yet?
((HELLO Unfortunately there is no neat, concise plot summary anywhere on the Internets so have some TL;DR to go with the links I am so sorry. Also this is your spoiler warning.))
Viktoria first appears in the series as an independent fence looking to hire Garrett for a job that involved stealing a magic sword from the manor of a nobleman named Constantine. Of course, Garrett, being the protagonist and generally awesome, had no trouble pulling it off. When he went to collect his payment, Viktoria explained to him that she was working with Constantine the whole time, and they were testing him to see if he was capable of a much more dangerous mission. What Constantine was truly after was a gemstone called the Eye, which was lost in a terrible cataclysm decades ago. Garrett accepted the job after the two of them promised more money than he knew what to do with as a reward.
In reality, Constantine was actually the Trickster, an ancient Pagan deity, and Viktoria was one of his most powerful servants. She had pretended to be human in order to build a reputation in the City as a fence and catch Garrett’s attention all in the hopes that she could trick him into getting the Eye for Constantine, who wanted to use it in a demonic ritual to destroy civilization and return the world to chaos. When Garrett handed it over, they incapacitated him and left him for dead, escaping into the Trickster’s realm to perform the ritual. Unfortunately for them, it would take more than a severe beating from a god of chaos to stop Garrett, and he followed them, sabotaged the ritual, and killed the Trickster.
Though devastated by the loss of her lord and master, Viktoria, as the second in command, rallied the remaining Pagan beasts and human worshippers, determined not to let her faction die along with their god. Preserving the Pagan way quickly became more important than ever, as a new faction arose in the City. They called themselves the Mechanists, and they worshipped gears and machines and reviled nature. Their leader, the charismatic monk Karras, considered the Pagans a threat to his cause, and bribed the City Watch into helping him exterminate them. However, a high-ranking official in the watch sympathized with the Pagans and contacted Viktoria to share information and help protect her followers living in the City. Through this contact, Viktoria learned that Karras had sent the City Watch after another threat to his master plan: Garrett. She didn’t have to reach out to him, though- while she was busy trying to undermine the Mechanist movement, he was putting the pieces of the puzzle together himself, and eventually he approached her in the Trickster’s realm.
Viktoria hated Garrett for killing her lord, and she knew that Garrett wasn’t terribly fond of her, either. However, she also realized that they were both being targeted by the Mechanists, and together they had much more of a chance of survival than alone. Reluctantly, they both agreed to take on the Mechanists together. It worked for a while, and they were able to uncover Karras' ultimate goal: that he was going to destroy all organic life in the City (and possibly beyond it) and create a new world populated only by machines... and himself, of course, as he was going to stay sealed in his airtight cathedral while the deadly toxic gas he invented killed everyone and everything else. Knowing that they didn't have much time left, Viktoria immediately began to make plans to storm Karras' stronghold and turn his invention back on him, but Garrett left in disgust, knowing that any assault on Karras was suicide at that point. Undeterred, Viktoria attacked Karras herself, but was overwhelmed by the evil monk's robots. Garrett reentered the picture one last time, having found out about her attack, and Viktoria convinced him to finish her plan to take down Karras. Then, she stood defiantly against the mechanical abominations bearing down on her, summoned all of her power, and turned herself into a twisted jungle of plant life that engulfed Karras' stronghold.
Garrett was able to carry out Viktoria's original plan of locking the toxic gas in Karras' cathedral, which, fueled by her vines, destroyed everything inside, including Karras himself. Though the peace that followed was short-lived (as is per the norm in the City), the Pagans did not forget their queen, or the sacrifice that saved them all.
Viktoria is being yoinked from right after her death. Yay trauma.
Personality: Viktoria is a poisonous flower: beautiful, exotic, but deadly. She is an agent of chaos and embodiment of nature, and goddamn does she hate industry and technology. As she draws her power from the natural world, you can only imagine how livid she gets just thinking about all of those pathetic manfools building up their cities over her precious earth and polluting her precious air with their smoke and stench. She saves her greatest loathing for worshippers of the Builder, a god that rules over order and construction and everything that is wrong with the world in her eyes.
Viktoria is a fanatic. If she lived in modern times she would be the kind of person who chains herself to a tree in protest to keep a fatcat logging company from chopping the forest down. Although while she is extremely loyal to the Trickster and his domain, she realizes that not even the ultimate power of nature is enough to wipe out the pitiful manfools, even though their weak strongholds are built from the dead wood of trees cruelly felled by their cold, hammered steel. Like a weed growing through a crack in the concrete, Viktoria dreams of breaking down the world of man from the inside, wrecking it and tearing it until it can no longer stand, whereupon it will crumble into dust to rejoin the natural world. So, she infiltrates. Manipulates. She became a part of the seedy underbelly of the City, adhering to its laws (or lack thereof) and living as a human simply for the sake of the Trickster's plot to return the world to primordial darkness. She is also not above working alongside humans if it means furthering her own goals, as shown in her alliance with Garrett. Of course, these alliances will typically be on her terms.
With all of her fanaticism, self-sacrifice and determination, it's easy to assume that Viktoria is... a little insane. She, however, would be quick to argue that your idea of “insane” is quite off-the-mark, and that everything she does is for the good of the natural world. And while she revels in chaos, she is hardly a fool. She is fully capable of civility when the situation calls for it. As a human, Viktoria gives off an air of quiet confidence, and in her true form, where she can fully demonstrate her power, she is a commanding presence. Without these traits she could not have infiltrated the City as thoroughly as she did, nor could she have taken command of the remains of the Pagan faction after the death of the Trickster. Her sacrifice in Karras' cathedral was an act of desperation, but one that she was prepared to face if necessary.
She is deceptive. She does not drop her pretense unless she is taken completely by surprise (this doesn't happen often), or if someone has incurred her unholy wrath. She keeps her true feelings and motives hidden well, only revealing them when absolutely necessary, which is usually when someone has outlived their usefulness and it's time to dispose of them. She lures in unsuspecting victims like a black widow lying in wait. She is very, very good at her job- you’ll think she’s your best friend right up until you feel the knife (or, in her case, the razor-sharp thorn) in your back.
Mayfield, however, will be a huge shock to her. A place where everything is uniform and artificial? Oh hale naw. It's entirely likely that other people will see her crazy Pagan demon side more often than she would like, but regardless, she will try her hardest to keep up her air of cool civility, despite that Mayfield will wear on her and everything she believes in.
Abilities: Viktoria is something akin to a wood nymph or nature spirit. In her natural form, she is humanoid in appearance, but her skin is a rich green color and looks like tree bark. When invoking her powers, or when she is extremely pissed off, her voice takes on a frightening, otherworldly tone, and her eyes glow red. She can manipulate plants, making them grow and move how she likes and typically uses them as weapons or a means of ensnaring an enemy. As she herself is plantlike, this ability extends to her own body as well- she can morph her arms into long vines for ensnaring or branches for impaling. Her shape shifting abilities also allow her to take on a human form. The strength of her powers depends greatly on her location- she is much more powerful when surrounded by nature, and less so in the dense, manmade sprawl of the City. Here is a cutscene where you can see her using her powers and talking in her creepy voice.
Sample Entry:
[There is a very angry, very crazy looking woman on the front lawn. Her long, dark hair is frazzled, as if she has been tearing at it, the lovely, conservative nightgown that she woke up in is also disheveled, and several buttons are missing from the front when she tore at that, too. She has an almost desperate look in her eyes, which are darting from side to side as she tries to take in her surroundings]
What hell is this? Who has trappers me in this wretched shell of flesh? I feels nothing from the grass and the limbs of the tree… I am deaf and numb!
[She falls to her knees and grasps at the perfectly manicured lawn in disgust.]
I see now… this is my punishment! I am failed the Woodsie Lord and made to suffer evermore! Suffer evermore!
[She studies the grass she’s plucked in her hands, then slowly lets it fall to the ground.]
So be it, then. I have earned this. I will bear it.
[And as she kneels on the lawn she begins to smooth out her hair and clothes, as if nothing had happened.]
BUT WHAT DOES VIKTORIA LOOK/SOUND LIKE? Here's some cutscenes from the games to answer that very question!
This is Viki's literally only human appearance in the series (at least, the only one that's not a spoiler of colossal proportions). She doesn't do much here but you can see her being totally not at all shifty-eyed and suspicious. >_>
Here is a wild Viktoria in its natural habitat. This is only cutscene (again, that's not an Xbawks hueg spoiler) that shows her using her powers and generally bein' in charge.
SOME MORE LINKS FOR YOU:
Thief series on TV Tropes (Disclaimer: I cannot be held accountable if you fall into any pot holes.)
Thief: The Dark Wiki (This is kind of disorganized but it's the only wiki on the series soooo...)
FUN FACT: Viki is played by the same voice actress who played SHODAN. Think of that what you will.
