Elizabeth Jennings

NAME: Elizabeth Jennings
NICKNAMES: Cocaine Bear. I’m kidding.
AGE: mid-40’s
DATE OF BIRTH: unknown

MARITAL STATUS: married
SEXUALITY: whatever the mission requires

OCCUPATION: travel agent by day, kgb spy by night
HOMETOWN: Smolensk
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Washington, D.C.
PARENTS: redacted
SIBLINGS: redacted

QUIRKS: strong dislike for organized religion, potent jealous streak, and the protectiveness of a mother bear with claws to match
LIKES: caviar, vodka, Philip
DISLIKES: flakes, weakness, impromptu dentistry



NAME: rook
AGE: 25+
PLURK: rookiemonster
TIME ZONE: EST

Elizabeth can best be described as intelligent, driven, and chameleonic. She is not to be underestimated as the training she underwent to become a deep cover KGB spy was intense and grueling and now she finds herself at the top. While, for Elizabeth, the mission always comes first, she is intensely protective of her children and wants to see them grow up and be a part of the same machine she is.

Elizabeth stands at 5’4” without heels. She has a toned physique from rigorous physical training. Her natural hair color is a sandy brown and falls a little past her shoulders, but for her work as a spy she is often wearing a very convincing wig. She projects herself as the all-American mom, speaking without a hint of a Russian accent.

01. The mission comes first.
02. The mission comes first.
03. The mission comes first.
04. The mission comes first.
05. The mission comes first.
06. The mission comes first.
07. The mission comes first.
08. The mission comes first.
09. Protect your family at all costs.
10. The mission comes first.

Elizabeth was born as Nadezhda Borisovna Popova (Russian: Надежда Борисовна Попова) in Smolensk, Soviet Union, in 1940. Raised by her single mother, growing up in post-World War II Soviet Russia was so harsh that she never had a real childhood.
Elizabeth's mother was always very serious. She told Elizabeth that she should always rely on herself in their tough world. As a bookkeeper for their local party committee, she was very patriotic to the Soviet Union. Elizabeth's father was a coal miner, and she never knew him because he died during World War II when she was a baby. When she asked her mother why she never attended his memorial, her mother said that he was a deserter during the war and therefore the memorial was not for him.
Elizabeth and her mother lived in an apartment flat with three other families, and she often had trouble falling asleep due to the noise. When she was 14 years old, her mother was diagnosed with diphtheria; Elizabeth took care of her for 10 months without any help.
When she was 16 years old, the KGB approached her to join the organization and gave her a week to decide. Although she was not allowed to tell anyone about it, she told her mother everything, and her mother did not hesitate in encouraging her serve her country. By 17 years old, she officially joined the KGB.
While training in Gryazi, Soviet Union, in July, 1960, she was raped by her then Captain Nikolai Timoshev after he showed her some fighting moves.
Because she showed great promise, she was advanced to become a Directorate S Officer, an undercover Soviet operative hiding in plain sight in America. As a young cadet in training, she learned how to speak English with a flawless American accent, how to be an effective spy and how to think and act like a typical American. Her name was changed to Elizabeth Korman, a stolen American identity of a deceased female of the same name.
In Moscow, Soviet Union, in April, 1962, General Viktor Zhukov introduced Elizabeth to Philip, another Directorate S Officer in training, who was to be her husband in America solely as a cover story. They were instructed to never speak Russian again and to never discuss their former Russian lives. Gabriel later tells Philip that he was the second potential husband introduced to her; Elizabeth rejected the first. Still, Philip was not what Elizabeth expected, causing Zhukov to meet with her privately in 1964 to address her unhappiness, while defending The Center's pairing.
After several years of intensive training, Elizabeth and Philip arrived in America in August, 1965. In order to further their cover, they produced two children together, Paige in late 1967 and Henry in 1971. The Jennings became owners of a travel agency, Dupont Circle Travel, while continuing to pose as average middle-class citizens. Through the first fifteen years of living undercover in America, she strongly held on to her Soviet ideals.