𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 , 𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 , 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐘 , 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝑭𝑨𝑩𝑬𝑹𝑮𝑬 𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑮𝑹𝑬𝑵𝑨𝑫𝑬 .
> … name ⸺ artemisia fox . > … nickname(s) ⸺ misha . > … age ⸺ thirty - six . > … d.o.b. ⸺ december 20 , 1986 . > … category ⸺ three . > … alias ⸺ traviata . > … civilian occupation ⸺ art conservationist . > … specializations ⸺ forgery , close quarters / hand to hand combat , improvised weaponry , interrogation . > … secret ⸺ for the ruining of her life , artemisia intends to find and extract a fair price in recompense from the donahue family : death . it’s part of her deal with the newly formed contact she’s made at mi6 : while they may dismantle the legacy , she gets to cull the dynasty .
OPEN DOSSIER ? VIEW FILE SUMMARY ?
black and white films playing to an empty theatre. a nose tucked into fur collar and the flashing of camera bulbs white and relentless as the snow. a wine goblet purposefully overturned. the tremoring choreography of hands in an orchestra, awaiting the finale. a sleek black porsche careening down an isolated road covered in ice. the scream of a violin string as it breaks. a dark head of hair rising from the sea under moonlight. jewelry inlaid with family initials, irremovable as a brand. the head of a mounted stag set burning. the sensation of somebody watching you undress. static at the end of a record. a cherry soaked too long in brandy, all hard pit and bitterness. curtains moving when everyone is asleep. the sound of heels on church stone. driving with the top down at night. bare feet along the thin razor of the balcony railing. the motto on a family crest too far away for you to read. a note written on a fogged mirror, signed with a spiral.
TL;DR HISTORY with trigger warnings for: fire, death, suicide, mental/emotional abuse.
born anita salazar , only child to a single mother , in the staff quarters of a palatial english manor where her mother works as a maid . there is more love than prosperity to go around between them , but neither mind . the family her mother works for is kind , and they have a daughter of similar age that anita plays with .
at age seven , a fire claims both anita’s mother and the daughter of their employers . having spent her entire young life with the owners , they take her with them after the bodies are recovered and move to an isolated estate in sweden to heal from their losses .
sorrow and trauma do terrible things to a person , who in turn do terrible things to a child . wracked by grief and driven to instability with the desire to rectify the loss of her daughter, over the course of months anita is slowly treated as and “ made ” into their deceased daughter artemisia fox . it starts as simply as being given her old clothes to wear and ends as severely as being presented a birthday cake on the wrong day and called by the wrong name .
family friends the donahues enable this , altering legal records through their agency and promising to clean up any bumps that arise from the identity switch going forward . the cost is to share their property : when artemisia turns twenty - one , she will become numbers property . artemisia fox is reborn with dyed hair and a rhinoplasty at age nine to correct a “ deviated septum ” to further enhance her resemblance to a dead girl .
artemisia never believes she is the girl she is pretending to be , but a lost girl desperate for love and with no one else to look out for her will graft to what is given out of necessity . she is a wholly obedient child until her mid - late teenage years , within which she becomes unruly and rebellious in private , spurred by anger for what life has done to her .
finds a gift for forgery after learning to mimic her predecessor’s handwriting as a child , and after discovering she has a natural and incredible talent in fine arts at boarding school , this leads to producing and selling art forgeries by age eighteen .
at twenty - one , her father drops her off at the address given to him by the donahue patriarch nearly fifteen years ago . he does not look in her eyes as he does so . her mother has already died , but would have looked away if she could . upon entry , misha is blackmailed into joining numbers through threat of ( A ) the reveal of her true identity and ( B ) the threat of exposing her art fraud to both buyers and the law .
initially a very loyal dog to the agency , and preternaturally suited to the lifestyle given she has spent the last decade and a half falsifying her existence . [ little nina vc : ] you’re loyal to whoever holds the leash
father admits in a suicide note that he regrets what he allowed his wife to do to artemisia , as well as the bargain made with the donahues , but that he allowed it because she was always his daughter , even if she never knew it ⸺ the result of an affair committed in the estate . this is more or less her turning point , scrubbing from her eyes any remaining favourable colouring cast over her life and the agency . she sees them for what they are : the devil playing god , and a god that had still managed to mold her in their image .
PERSONALITY - WISE , very a burnt child loves the fire . magnetic but reckless , doesn’t respect her own life because of who she was forced to become as a little girl , w the bonus that she already assumes she won’t make it much longer due to both her vocation and what she plans to do . catch her walking along the edge of your hotel balcony’s railing , at a gala making caustic remarks at london’s 1% , telling the valet she’s your wife and taking the bugatti home , doing that thing from skyfall doing the tequila shot w a scorpion on her wrist , skinny dipping , etc .
FACTS .
her agent name is often shortened to vi or via .
has two dobermans named zeus and attila. they’re guard dogs but more importantly they are her sons. do not talk to them.
notably strong endurance. noted in her training days for finishing first in exercises or blacking out while trying. it’s perseverance rather than talent that’s taken her to the level she’s at.
great dancer and loves to do it... if you can get her out there
time with the agency currently amounts to 15 years , having begun her training shortly after her twenty-first birthday .
mentored under AGENT MALIBU as a category one / two and was slated for proper partnership upon graduation to category three . this was disrupted by the agency after they got too close , subsequently risking mission objectives .
has a particularly strong ( civilian ) working relationship with sotheby’s and the british museum . only works freelance / part - time but considered the top of her field .
WANTED RELATIONSHIPS .
the former category 3 or 4 that was responsible for training misha after the troublesome breakup with malibu , who as a result she was particularly difficult towards ( pipeline to jim hawkins and long john silver energy or still antagonistic to this day ?? up to you !! )
a category five that is somewhere between longstanding mentor and actual genuine parental figure ? like goodbye give it to me .
a rival , particularly one that is fiercely loyal to the agency . idk man but wouldn’t it be sexy for misha to know if she’s going to break all this apart , it’s going to mean a final showdown with this person
a friend or work partner that knows her intimately enough to know she’s up to something / planning something
the classic ‘ we argue until we fuck ’ dynamic or a john bender vc : sweets , you couldn’t ignore me if you tried sexual frustrationship energy
an instinctually protective friendship . neither know why they’re so raw about the safety of the other , but they become wolfish if they’re threatened
we always hook up on missions but ignore each other in real life - oh fuck there you are at the hotel bar
you ran recon on artemisia before she was brought into numbers , and still feel responsible for bringing her here
she was an innocent young throat - cutter throwback to training days energy and / or when the new kid showed up on your mission and promptly showed you up
whoever in cat 1 / 2 she’s responsible for training atm , but is doing so poorly - aka she wants to scare you away from a lifetime of this
idk but the scene in tdkr where bruce comes out and asks the valet where his car is and he says your wife took it . smashcut to misha in your luxury car on the way home while the panicked my wife ? is overheard
we accidentally ran into each other in our real lives and now it’s all banter and innuendo like a long waltz
also the scene in skyfall where moneypenny shaves bond . yoof
i don’t need you to take care of me or be concerned , i need you to come here and get fucked up with me
