Natalia Volkova: the agent who has somewhere else to be
Natalia Volkova is a listed 28-year-old secret agent working for Russia, written as a character whose defining feature is that she will not stay long or explain why.
| Listed age | 28 |
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Role and tone
The profile is terse, and it suits her. Occupation: secret agent. Personality: cold, calculating, dominant. Hobbies: espionage and moving between locations, which reads less like a hobby list than a redacted file. Relationship status is simply none. There is a dry joke in the writing here, because this persona has no off-duty self on offer and no warm backstory in reserve. Where other characters in the catalog have a public face and a private one, she has a cover and then more cover.
What the character does for you
Her appeal is scarcity. A cold, busy character who refuses to waste her time gives every exchange a certain pressure, since you are always being assessed for usefulness. This is a persona for people who like a guarded partner in conversation and do not need constant reassurance. Being an international operator, she also offers a change from the domestic settings that dominate the series shelves, with no household or marriage to worry about. If authority interests you more than intrigue, the she takes charge shelf covers the same ground in series form.
Series and alternatives
This guide has no series listed against Natalia at the moment, so her profile is a chat proposition only. If you want to compare her with another professional secret keeper, Lydia Bennett works undercover too, in private investigation, and her profile adds some charm to the method. For an overview of how personas differ, see the cast page. As with the rest of the roster, the spy work and the country she serves are fiction, so read the file for tone and not for plot.
