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Backstory

Nadia is a clone from a group of 6 (and just 1 group among many others) created to become agents of the Sundown Directive. During their childhood at the ages of 7, Nadia and her 5 sisters were presented with an opportunity during a training exercise to escape their facility when it was breached and attacked by a large group of raiders, who uncharacteristically attempted a coordinated siege on the hidden building for unknown reasons. Nadia and her group were successfully able to escape the confines of the facility into the wasteland without being seen amid the chaos. The facility sustained only minor damages and no losses other than the escape of Nadia and her group.

During her childhood life within her facility, Nadia (or "Two" before she received the name Nadia) was very competitive and sometimes rather hostile towards her sisters, especially Five. The 2 of them had a performance rivalry that complicated their relationship with each other. If Nadia was ever outperformed by Five during independent survival or combat training exercises, it would only fuel her spite and drive to beat her. Being bested by her in sparring exercises steamed her the most of all. On the other hand, Five enjoyed the rivalry between them and respectfully saw it as an added challenge to push the both of them to improve, even embracing the idea of Nadia outperforming her. Her capability and resourcefulness in lone combat and physical trials were exceptional, but her capacity for effective cooperation was hindered by her competitive nature, reflected in the squabbles that she and her typically assigned field partner Aries (or "Four" at the time) would get into outside and during team training exercises.

Prior to her escape from the facility, Nadia and Aries shared a strong fixation on the idea of freedom out in the world, though not quite for the same reasons. Nadia was more interested in taking on the cruelty of the wasteland as it challenged her, beating it and everything it had to throw at her into submission as she did to solve all her problems. This made making the decision of going through with escaping the facility when presented with the opportunity very easy for her, even knowing the grave consequences that would be in store for her if she were ever caught. When Nadia and her sisters made their escape, the group agreed to split up and go separate ways to keep a low profile and avoid being captured. Nadia eagerly headed Northwest and braved the wasteland that she so desired to freely test her mettle against. But her overconfidence in her strength and resilliance waned as growing hardships in securing proper food and drinkable water for herself began to remind her of her incomplete survival training (and lack of care to retain most of anything during the training). As she came to succumb more and more to dehydration and malnutrition over the next couple months, her outlook on this new life of freedom grew equally grim. While taking a treacherous path to avoid being seen by a nearby settlement, she tripped down an incline from her weakened state and fell into a small ravine, where she would begrudgingly pass out from exhaustion.

When she awoke in the evening, she found herself sitting across from a comforting campfire in the company of a rugged old man with a striking yellow rucksack sat next to him. The old man introduced himself as Bill, reassuring her that he's no threat. Bill admits to have been following her from a distance for a few days, wondering why a little girl like her was travelling alone around such a dangerous part of the wasteland, when he saw her take a tumble into the ravine. Nadia met his story and all of his attempts at probing for information or small-talk with silence or untrusting replies. Yet despite her persistent hostility, the old man remained outwardly friendly. He even offered to travel together to see her off to wherever she needed to go safely, which she would have undoubtedly refused, if not for the food that he generously shared with her being the most delicious meal she had ever tasted in her entire life. Instead, she took advantage of this promise of a steady food and water supply, and feigned a vague destination that he could escort her to, while she would use the opportunity to build her strength back up and figure out what to do with herself next. Though her deep lack of trust would prove to be a hearty hurdle during their journey together, Nadia eventually became accustomed to speaking more openly with the old man, eventually confessing that she had and still has absolutely no idea where she wants or needs to go. He reassures her that he's in a similar kind of predicament, and that he simply goes wherever the path ahead in his life takes him. Just when she had anticipated hostility from admitting to deceiving him, he continued to only show generosity and the desire to keep travelling together until she figured out what to do with herself. Though it would take much more time for her to fully warm up to the old man, this was the first time in her life that Nadia truly began to trust someone.

The two travel together across the wasteland over the next 6 years. In that time, Bill teaches her effective survival skills that she missed out on and valuable general life lessons like a parent to a child. Though reluctant to follow directions from the old man early on, she came to trust and respect him more and more as she grew up. The places that they travel to and from, and the different kinds of people they meet and interact with on the way expose Nadia to all the different ways and walks of life found throughout the world. Their journey and life together broadens her perspective of the wasteland in what she originally thought was just a huge, hostile hellscape to challenge and conquer. The two come to learn more about each other as well, though she always chose to never speak about her origin and escape from the facility that she was created and trained in. He still eventually realizes from her accelerated growth and maturation that she's wasn't just some ordinary abandoned girl after all, but silently respected her judgement to remain secretive about it. It never did impact his drive to raise her like his own daughter, even offering her the name "Nadia" early on when she continuously failed to provide anything for him to call her by. And just like with the old man's unwavering care and hospitality, she eventually came to embrace this name he kindly offered to her as well.

After those 6 years together when Nadia reaches the age of 13 (around 21~23 biologically), she comes to a long-thought decision to go off on her own and carve her own path in life. The old man agrees, admitting that he's getting on in his age and would only slow her down in reaching whatever ambition she finds out in the world. The two have a bittersweet farewell after camping out one last time together at their favorite cliff overlook in the mountains that the two had visited numerous times in the past, and agree to ocassionally return there in the future to etch messages for each other to find into an unmistakable boulder nearby. Nadia parts ways with the old man and sets out on her own to find her purpose in life.

Current Story

Following her departure from travelling with the old man, Nadia continues to roam around the wasteland on her own, seeking any inspiration for a purpose that she can call her own. After making it a habit to visit the boulder atop the cliffside twice a year to check for messages left by the old man and respond with updates on her adventures of her own, the old man's replies mysteriously discontinue after 2 years, with no clues of why indicated in any of his previous messages. Nadia becomes increasingly concerned for the old man with every return she makes to the boulder, only to still find no responses to her or any signs of any activity from him whatsoever. Over the next 2 years and onward, she makes it her goal to keep an eye out for the old man during her travels in hopes of finding him or anyone who may have seen him.

Trivia

• Despite her temper and brutal tendencies in combat, she refuses to kill in a fight no matter what, a principle instilled on her by the old man. If her beatings, persistence, and intimidation don't work, the worst she'll ever resort to is maiming her opponent to ensure they'll never be a problem again.

• Early on in their travels when Nadia was still young, the old man taught her about his hobbies of wood carving and collecting bottle caps, and encouraged her to find a fulfilling hobby of her own. She decided to take up stealing people's keys. When the old man found out, he got her to compromise to just collecting keys she finds out in the wasteland instead. She still has a keyring from her childhood full of them that she continues to add on to today.