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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Anna
AGE: 24
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RETURNING: currently playing Kasumi Goto from Mass Effect
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Gabriella Teller
CHARACTER AGE: 25
SERIES: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
CHRONOLOGY: Post-movie
CLASS: Mostly the sit back and go with the flow type, but would instinctively be more heroic than not.
HOUSING: Random is fine!
BACKGROUND:
Gabriella “Gaby” Teller is a little chop shop girl from East Germany. She was born in Berlin in 1938, and has lived there all of her life, and became a resident of East Berlin after the Iron Curtain went up. She’s beauty, brains and a little bit of brawn--a good dancer, too, having at some point earned a first soloist spot at the State Ballet School of Berlin. But there’s more to her than that.
The story starts with Udo Teller, a Nazi rocket scientist who defected to the United States after World War II. More accurately, it starts with his disappearance two years prior, and the CIA’s hunt for him. They send one of their best agents, Napoleon Solo to extract one Gaby. While it seems helpful to question the missing scientist’s daughter, Gaby knows nothing of her estranged father’s current whereabouts. He walked out of her life eighteen years ago. But she knows who might know where Udo is--her mother’s brother, Uncle Rudi. Solo urges her to escape with him, as she would otherwise be abducted and questioned by America’s natural enemy: Russia.
Their escape over the Wall doesn’t go as smoothly as he might have hoped, as they are quick to be pursued by Illya Kuryakin, the KGB’s answer to Napoleon Solo, pretty much as soon as they depart the shop in Gaby’s car. Cue high speed car chase along the cobbled roads of East Berlin. Having worked with cars presumably for most of her life, Gaby proves herself to be quite proficient in what can only be described as reckless stunt driving in cute vintage cars. But Kuryakin is indestructible, and so it’s only after one car wedged into an alley, a few intruded homes, and one grappling hook-zipline over the Berlin Wall that Gaby and Napoleon retreat into West Berlin.
However, any info Gaby provides Solo, the CIA already knows. They already know that Uncle Rudi works for shipping company Vinciguerra. In fact, the next morning, they reveal they know much more than that. They also reveal, to the collective horror of everyone involved, that the CIA and the KGB have decided to team up to retrieve Udo Teller and his valuable knowledge. The Vinciguerra shipping company where Rudi works is a cover for an international crime organization of Nazi sympathizers run by Alexander and Victoria Vinciguerra, and that Udo Teller is very likely in their hands. On the surface, the team-up means to prevent a third party from gaining nuclear advantage, but really, whoever has Udo Teller’s research has the advantage.
And where does Gaby fit in? They can use her to get to Rudi and then Udo. And to do that, Gaby and Illya are made to assume cover identities as an engaged couple, and Napoleon a dealer of antiquities. Poor Gaby isn’t informed of this plan up until the moment that Illya walks up to her and calls her “his woman,” out of nowehre, but Napoleon is so kind enough to actually explain to her what is going on, and she begrudgingly accepts.
Gaby and Illya spend their first day in Rome acclimating to their cover, but it nearly ends with Napoleon and Illya bickering after a glaring display of subtlety (or lack thereof) on Illya’s part during a staged mugging, their bickering broken up only by Gaby threatening to leave if they don’t get themselves together because she is not there to babysit two grown men with ego problems. Later that night, Gaby and Illya get to know each other more intimately… which in their language apparently means Gaby slapping Illya while trying to get him to dance, and then wrestling the Russian giant to the ground.
They then attend a party hosted by the Vinciguerras to gather more information. Gaby and Illya meet with Rudi, who appears glad to see that his niece has gotten out of East Berlin but less glad that she is engaged to a Russian. Napoleon makes advances toward Victoria, and after a rather disastrous conversation with Rudi, Gaby moves on to charm Alexander by showing off her mechanical expertise on his racecar, while Illya takes his anger out on some silly jerks in the bathroom. The pair’s time at the party seems to be cut short by Illya’s escape, but not all is lost: he’d taken photos with a special film which reveals the Vinciguerras and Rudi have been exposed to gamma radiation. Both spies leave to infiltrate the Vinciguerra shipping yard, but their attempt turns disastrous. Gaby is invited to lunch with Rudi as his apology, which she then reports and confirms with an unknown entity. Napoleon and Illya make it back to the hotel after barely escaping the yard. Victoria is at the lobby when they arrive, but they manage to sneak past and make it back to their rooms, Napoleon just in time to evade Victoria’s suspicions.
The next morning, Gaby and Napoleon head to their respective engagements: Gaby to her lunch with Rudi, which turns out to be a lunch with Alexander, and Napoleon to his meeting with Victoria at her office, which turns out to be something else entirely. Illya tails Gaby, and witnesses her betrayal. She reveals to Rudi and Alexander that she knows they have her father and then reveals Solo and Kuryakin's identities as secret agents. She’d spent the whole mission allowing the two to believe that they were using her to get to Teller, when really she was using them to get to her father. Illya escapes, while Napoleon is drugged and tortured by Rudi. Illya arrives and they turn the tables, getting Rudi to talk. Turns out that the Vinciguerras have more than enriched uranium; they have warheads at the family’s island. He dies by his own electrical chair before they get more info, but it’s clear what they have to do now: stop the Vinciguerras from delivering their warhead to remnant Nazis.
They receive aid from Alexander Waverly, whom they unwittingly ran into a few times at the Vinciguerra party, of the British intelligence, and the Royal Marines. Solo and Kuryakin are instructed by their respective superiors to stop the Vinciguerras, but more importantly to get their hands on Teller and the disk with his research on it… killing the other agent if necessary. They are then informed by Waverly of the strategy, and tacks on another objective: extracting his agent.
Who is Gabriella “double agent actually a triple agent” Teller.
Once Udo Teller disappeared, the British intelligence approached Gaby, figuring that the Nazis would be after her, and recruited her. They weren’t anticipating the CIA getting to Gaby first, but they rolled with it. It had also been Waverly who instructed Gaby to betray Solo and Kuryakin to the Vinciguerra to keep her own cover intact and get to Udo first since the two were quite close to being compromised in any case. So, there you go, the CIA and the KGB’s best, trolled by a little chop shop girl from East Berlin and rookie M16 spy.
On the Vinciguerra island, Gaby and her father reunite, and she continues with her objective, helping her father sabotage the nuclear warhead to prevent another world crisis. Unfortunately, Victoria holds Gaby hostage to force Udo to finish the bomb properly, killing him promptly thereafter. She and Alexander split, each with a warhead and a copy of Teller’s disk, and Alexander leaves with Gaby in tow. Solo and Kuryakin pursue him individually, killing him and saving Gaby only to find that they have the wrong warhead. Alexander had a decoy -- an active warhead but not nuclearized although Solo secretly has a hold of Alexander’s copy of Teller’s research.
To put a stop to Victoria, they need a bearing on her ship, and Gaby devises a plan to use the decoy warhead to blow it up, aiming it using the coupling devices she’d been told about while she was helping Udo. They contact the ship to get a bearing using the radio broadcast signal, and when initial smalltalk doesn’t work, Solo steps in and fabricates a story about how he killed Alexander pitifully, which Victoria finally responds to by threatening to slaughter his entire family. The navy gets a lock on the signal, giving them Victoria’s location, and the missile is launched -- from there it’s the coupling devices’ job to get accurate within ten feet. They succeed, blowing up the boat without detonating the nuclear warhead (as that would require fission), and destroying one of Udo Teller’s disks.
With the mission a success, the three prepare to return home: Solo to America, Illya to Russia, and Gaby… not to East Germany, but to Britain. The latter two share a tender farewell, but Gaby leaves after they’re interrupted and Illya receives a call informing him that the disks were not lost and that Solo has the only copy left. Illya is to be sent to Siberia if he fails to obtain it. He finds Solo to settle the score. Both are prepared to kill each other, but at the last moment, Solo returns Illya’s father’s watch, which he’d gotten back from its thief when they stormed Vinciguerra island. They decide to call it even, sharing a drink on the balcony together next to the comfy little bonfire that used to be Udo Teller’s disk. Gaby and Waverly join them, where Waverly informs them that the three intelligence agencies have decided to let Waverly keep the team together for another mission, much to the surprise of all three.
Their next destination? Istanbul. And they have a new codename: U.N.C.L.E.
PERSONALITY:
Gaby is fiercely independent, first and foremost, describing herself as “her own woman” even while under cover as Illya’s bride-to-be. She also proves herself to be quite clever, quick on her feet, and calculating, which of course allowed her to play three sides of a mission without ever compromising her own identity. Her cleverness and quick wit also allowed her to understand some of what was going on in Udo Teller's lab while being held hostage enough to use what she learned in that timeframe in their strategy to stop the Vinciguerra. She’s not afraid to use her looks and charm to manipulate people, which also makes her quite a great liar. And accomplished one, even, given that she was lying to everyone for 75% of the film. She has a presence of mind, a level head, and commands awareness of her situation so she knows when she can take advantage. For example, when she’s reunited with her father, she notices that Alexander is watching them, and she slaps Udo to make their reunion seem more dramatic and emotional than their exchange actually is -- after all, the man in front of her may have fathered her, but he hasn’t been a father to her for eighteen years.
She also shows herself to be daring, modding her car to go fast, basically being a stunt driver, and it seems entirely likely that she probably enjoys the thrill of driving dangerously (but well!) and doesn’t even show much hesitation or fear as they’re pursued by Illya. Gaby is also not afraid to have a little fun, trying to dance with Illya and fixing up a racecar on the spot and settling into her new identity as glamorous mod gal after emerging as a little chop shop girl from East Germany.
She does, however, lack patience for bullshit, which balances her two partners' natural inclination towards it. And for all of her mystique and trickery and lies for a majority of the movie, she does hesitate now and then, and doubt herself. She had wanted to tell Illya about being a British spy, but she put her mission first. She also admitted to being afraid before meeting with Rudi again, which may have been part of the ruse to further cement her “innocent daughter” identity, but it could have very well had some grain of truth to it. After all, she was a spy, but she’s not nearly as experienced or trained as either of the other two, and yet she bears the biggest responsibility of playing all three sides and being thrown into the thick of it all as Udo Teller’s daughter.
POWER:
Gaby has no canon superpowers, but she’s stronger than she looks and she’s great with cars and things mechanical. In-game, her Porter-gifted powers would be:
1) Superstrength: building on her veiled, underlying strength, Gaby’s wrestling will surprise giant Russians even more as she will now be able to righteously tackle people with less expended effort. She may not be able to do something like pick up and throw a car right away (and why would she ever want to!), but she’ll pack a punch and in time and with more physical training, she would likely be able to do such a thing.
2) Mechanical morphing: as an extension of her mechanically-inclined abilities, the Porter would give her the ability to morph mechanical objects--turn a car into a giant robot, or a vaccuum cleaner into a flamethrower, for example. It would be limited by the scale and nature of the object she's manipulating and her knowledge of mechanics (so she couldn't turn, say, a corkscrew into a rocket ship without knowing some aerospace engineering and... more than just a corkscrew).
NAME: Anna
AGE: 24
JOURNAL:
spiraeaIM / EMAIL: heartsimpact (at) gmail (dot) com
PLURK:
RETURNING: currently playing Kasumi Goto from Mass Effect
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Gabriella Teller
CHARACTER AGE: 25
SERIES: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
CHRONOLOGY: Post-movie
CLASS: Mostly the sit back and go with the flow type, but would instinctively be more heroic than not.
HOUSING: Random is fine!
BACKGROUND:
Gabriella “Gaby” Teller is a little chop shop girl from East Germany. She was born in Berlin in 1938, and has lived there all of her life, and became a resident of East Berlin after the Iron Curtain went up. She’s beauty, brains and a little bit of brawn--a good dancer, too, having at some point earned a first soloist spot at the State Ballet School of Berlin. But there’s more to her than that.
The story starts with Udo Teller, a Nazi rocket scientist who defected to the United States after World War II. More accurately, it starts with his disappearance two years prior, and the CIA’s hunt for him. They send one of their best agents, Napoleon Solo to extract one Gaby. While it seems helpful to question the missing scientist’s daughter, Gaby knows nothing of her estranged father’s current whereabouts. He walked out of her life eighteen years ago. But she knows who might know where Udo is--her mother’s brother, Uncle Rudi. Solo urges her to escape with him, as she would otherwise be abducted and questioned by America’s natural enemy: Russia.
Their escape over the Wall doesn’t go as smoothly as he might have hoped, as they are quick to be pursued by Illya Kuryakin, the KGB’s answer to Napoleon Solo, pretty much as soon as they depart the shop in Gaby’s car. Cue high speed car chase along the cobbled roads of East Berlin. Having worked with cars presumably for most of her life, Gaby proves herself to be quite proficient in what can only be described as reckless stunt driving in cute vintage cars. But Kuryakin is indestructible, and so it’s only after one car wedged into an alley, a few intruded homes, and one grappling hook-zipline over the Berlin Wall that Gaby and Napoleon retreat into West Berlin.
However, any info Gaby provides Solo, the CIA already knows. They already know that Uncle Rudi works for shipping company Vinciguerra. In fact, the next morning, they reveal they know much more than that. They also reveal, to the collective horror of everyone involved, that the CIA and the KGB have decided to team up to retrieve Udo Teller and his valuable knowledge. The Vinciguerra shipping company where Rudi works is a cover for an international crime organization of Nazi sympathizers run by Alexander and Victoria Vinciguerra, and that Udo Teller is very likely in their hands. On the surface, the team-up means to prevent a third party from gaining nuclear advantage, but really, whoever has Udo Teller’s research has the advantage.
And where does Gaby fit in? They can use her to get to Rudi and then Udo. And to do that, Gaby and Illya are made to assume cover identities as an engaged couple, and Napoleon a dealer of antiquities. Poor Gaby isn’t informed of this plan up until the moment that Illya walks up to her and calls her “his woman,” out of nowehre, but Napoleon is so kind enough to actually explain to her what is going on, and she begrudgingly accepts.
Gaby and Illya spend their first day in Rome acclimating to their cover, but it nearly ends with Napoleon and Illya bickering after a glaring display of subtlety (or lack thereof) on Illya’s part during a staged mugging, their bickering broken up only by Gaby threatening to leave if they don’t get themselves together because she is not there to babysit two grown men with ego problems. Later that night, Gaby and Illya get to know each other more intimately… which in their language apparently means Gaby slapping Illya while trying to get him to dance, and then wrestling the Russian giant to the ground.
They then attend a party hosted by the Vinciguerras to gather more information. Gaby and Illya meet with Rudi, who appears glad to see that his niece has gotten out of East Berlin but less glad that she is engaged to a Russian. Napoleon makes advances toward Victoria, and after a rather disastrous conversation with Rudi, Gaby moves on to charm Alexander by showing off her mechanical expertise on his racecar, while Illya takes his anger out on some silly jerks in the bathroom. The pair’s time at the party seems to be cut short by Illya’s escape, but not all is lost: he’d taken photos with a special film which reveals the Vinciguerras and Rudi have been exposed to gamma radiation. Both spies leave to infiltrate the Vinciguerra shipping yard, but their attempt turns disastrous. Gaby is invited to lunch with Rudi as his apology, which she then reports and confirms with an unknown entity. Napoleon and Illya make it back to the hotel after barely escaping the yard. Victoria is at the lobby when they arrive, but they manage to sneak past and make it back to their rooms, Napoleon just in time to evade Victoria’s suspicions.
The next morning, Gaby and Napoleon head to their respective engagements: Gaby to her lunch with Rudi, which turns out to be a lunch with Alexander, and Napoleon to his meeting with Victoria at her office, which turns out to be something else entirely. Illya tails Gaby, and witnesses her betrayal. She reveals to Rudi and Alexander that she knows they have her father and then reveals Solo and Kuryakin's identities as secret agents. She’d spent the whole mission allowing the two to believe that they were using her to get to Teller, when really she was using them to get to her father. Illya escapes, while Napoleon is drugged and tortured by Rudi. Illya arrives and they turn the tables, getting Rudi to talk. Turns out that the Vinciguerras have more than enriched uranium; they have warheads at the family’s island. He dies by his own electrical chair before they get more info, but it’s clear what they have to do now: stop the Vinciguerras from delivering their warhead to remnant Nazis.
They receive aid from Alexander Waverly, whom they unwittingly ran into a few times at the Vinciguerra party, of the British intelligence, and the Royal Marines. Solo and Kuryakin are instructed by their respective superiors to stop the Vinciguerras, but more importantly to get their hands on Teller and the disk with his research on it… killing the other agent if necessary. They are then informed by Waverly of the strategy, and tacks on another objective: extracting his agent.
Who is Gabriella “double agent actually a triple agent” Teller.
Once Udo Teller disappeared, the British intelligence approached Gaby, figuring that the Nazis would be after her, and recruited her. They weren’t anticipating the CIA getting to Gaby first, but they rolled with it. It had also been Waverly who instructed Gaby to betray Solo and Kuryakin to the Vinciguerra to keep her own cover intact and get to Udo first since the two were quite close to being compromised in any case. So, there you go, the CIA and the KGB’s best, trolled by a little chop shop girl from East Berlin and rookie M16 spy.
On the Vinciguerra island, Gaby and her father reunite, and she continues with her objective, helping her father sabotage the nuclear warhead to prevent another world crisis. Unfortunately, Victoria holds Gaby hostage to force Udo to finish the bomb properly, killing him promptly thereafter. She and Alexander split, each with a warhead and a copy of Teller’s disk, and Alexander leaves with Gaby in tow. Solo and Kuryakin pursue him individually, killing him and saving Gaby only to find that they have the wrong warhead. Alexander had a decoy -- an active warhead but not nuclearized although Solo secretly has a hold of Alexander’s copy of Teller’s research.
To put a stop to Victoria, they need a bearing on her ship, and Gaby devises a plan to use the decoy warhead to blow it up, aiming it using the coupling devices she’d been told about while she was helping Udo. They contact the ship to get a bearing using the radio broadcast signal, and when initial smalltalk doesn’t work, Solo steps in and fabricates a story about how he killed Alexander pitifully, which Victoria finally responds to by threatening to slaughter his entire family. The navy gets a lock on the signal, giving them Victoria’s location, and the missile is launched -- from there it’s the coupling devices’ job to get accurate within ten feet. They succeed, blowing up the boat without detonating the nuclear warhead (as that would require fission), and destroying one of Udo Teller’s disks.
With the mission a success, the three prepare to return home: Solo to America, Illya to Russia, and Gaby… not to East Germany, but to Britain. The latter two share a tender farewell, but Gaby leaves after they’re interrupted and Illya receives a call informing him that the disks were not lost and that Solo has the only copy left. Illya is to be sent to Siberia if he fails to obtain it. He finds Solo to settle the score. Both are prepared to kill each other, but at the last moment, Solo returns Illya’s father’s watch, which he’d gotten back from its thief when they stormed Vinciguerra island. They decide to call it even, sharing a drink on the balcony together next to the comfy little bonfire that used to be Udo Teller’s disk. Gaby and Waverly join them, where Waverly informs them that the three intelligence agencies have decided to let Waverly keep the team together for another mission, much to the surprise of all three.
Their next destination? Istanbul. And they have a new codename: U.N.C.L.E.
PERSONALITY:
Gaby is fiercely independent, first and foremost, describing herself as “her own woman” even while under cover as Illya’s bride-to-be. She also proves herself to be quite clever, quick on her feet, and calculating, which of course allowed her to play three sides of a mission without ever compromising her own identity. Her cleverness and quick wit also allowed her to understand some of what was going on in Udo Teller's lab while being held hostage enough to use what she learned in that timeframe in their strategy to stop the Vinciguerra. She’s not afraid to use her looks and charm to manipulate people, which also makes her quite a great liar. And accomplished one, even, given that she was lying to everyone for 75% of the film. She has a presence of mind, a level head, and commands awareness of her situation so she knows when she can take advantage. For example, when she’s reunited with her father, she notices that Alexander is watching them, and she slaps Udo to make their reunion seem more dramatic and emotional than their exchange actually is -- after all, the man in front of her may have fathered her, but he hasn’t been a father to her for eighteen years.
She also shows herself to be daring, modding her car to go fast, basically being a stunt driver, and it seems entirely likely that she probably enjoys the thrill of driving dangerously (but well!) and doesn’t even show much hesitation or fear as they’re pursued by Illya. Gaby is also not afraid to have a little fun, trying to dance with Illya and fixing up a racecar on the spot and settling into her new identity as glamorous mod gal after emerging as a little chop shop girl from East Germany.
She does, however, lack patience for bullshit, which balances her two partners' natural inclination towards it. And for all of her mystique and trickery and lies for a majority of the movie, she does hesitate now and then, and doubt herself. She had wanted to tell Illya about being a British spy, but she put her mission first. She also admitted to being afraid before meeting with Rudi again, which may have been part of the ruse to further cement her “innocent daughter” identity, but it could have very well had some grain of truth to it. After all, she was a spy, but she’s not nearly as experienced or trained as either of the other two, and yet she bears the biggest responsibility of playing all three sides and being thrown into the thick of it all as Udo Teller’s daughter.
POWER:
Gaby has no canon superpowers, but she’s stronger than she looks and she’s great with cars and things mechanical. In-game, her Porter-gifted powers would be:
1) Superstrength: building on her veiled, underlying strength, Gaby’s wrestling will surprise giant Russians even more as she will now be able to righteously tackle people with less expended effort. She may not be able to do something like pick up and throw a car right away (and why would she ever want to!), but she’ll pack a punch and in time and with more physical training, she would likely be able to do such a thing.
2) Mechanical morphing: as an extension of her mechanically-inclined abilities, the Porter would give her the ability to morph mechanical objects--turn a car into a giant robot, or a vaccuum cleaner into a flamethrower, for example. It would be limited by the scale and nature of the object she's manipulating and her knowledge of mechanics (so she couldn't turn, say, a corkscrew into a rocket ship without knowing some aerospace engineering and... more than just a corkscrew).