Gauri Narain

Agent Profile
"Narain? She's a classic." -Agent Rath Peterson, DoF

Backstory
Gauri Narain was born in the New York City of Marvel Comics' primary universe--a New York guarded by superheroes and at the focal point of catastrophes and crises far greater than even the planet it sat on. And none of these heroes held a place in the hearts of young girls across the city as central as that of Spider-Man.

Born in 1978, Narain grew up idolizing the web-slinger, and failed to grow out of it as she passed through school and into college. She became a fanatic, obsessed with gathering all the information and knowledge she could about him--even when that information was often skewed, both by the press in-universe and by Spidey's often schizophrenic writing. This encyclopediac knowledge gave her one advantage--it allowed her to spot something going wrong when a Sue set her eyes on Spidey on New Years' Eve, 1999. She attacked the Sue--mostly out of jealousy, and incidentally playing into the Sue's story--and nearly wound up losing her life at the hands of her hero before the Agent pair working the fic intervened. They killed the Sue, sent Spidey on his way, and--at her own repeated request--recruited Narain for training.

Narain was furious, developing a vendetta against Mary-Sues who could corrupt "her Spidey"--and, once she learned of just how the Marvel universe worked, against a good number of the authors employed by Marvel as well. Despite her irritation, however, she recognized that since she wasn't writing Spider-Man, he wasn't hers to have, and never would be--and so she turned her fury into her work, focusing it like a laser.

Appearance
Narain stands 6'3" tall and weighs 160 pounds, with long black hair and light brown eyes. She is a third-generation Indian-American, and was a member of the Manhattan High cross-country team before joining the PPC. Though her size makes hiding difficult, her build and practice--while making hand-to-hand combat impossible--make her an exceptionally fast runner, and her job has given her extremely sharp reflexes.

Personality
Narain is the textbook definition of a workaholic. Lacking a physical output for her frustrations (such as beating Sues to death) and having quite a few of those frustrations to deal with, she compensates by taking on a significant workload, including all the menial, mind-numbing tasks she can get her hands on. She is a vicarious completionist, refusing to put down or forget about a job until she's seen it through to the very end.

While this has made her a supremely useful member of the DoI, if a somewhat low-profile one, it has also put her on BOTH the Medical and FicPsych Departments' breakdown watchlists. Narain knows her limits, and takes caution not to go over them, but after six years of heavy work in Intelligence her limits are slipping. She has been hospitalized only once for overstressing herself, and has since been working within a hairsbreadth of her limits. It has gotten to the point of her being ordered to take a break from none less than the Sub Rosa, and it is hoped that her new partnership with Agent Snapshot will help dial her back somewhat--or at least split the workload so that Fitzgerald and Freedenberg can stop expecting her imminent collapse.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION