Full Name: Danya Maximovich Kapitsa Aliases: Bell, Dani, Kieran Cohen, Kid, The Subject, Comrade, The New One, Adler's Protégé, and various other aliases he conjures Gender and Pronouns: Cis Male; He/Him Place of Birth: Novomoskovsk, Tula Oblast, Russia Heritage: White Russian Date of Birth: March 15th, 1951 Age: Unknown; 30s Parents:
Allergies: N/A Addictions: Nicotine, Alcohol Mental Conditions/Disorders: C-PTSD with Paranoid Tendencies, Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder Physical Conditions/Disorders: Near-Monocular Vision (Legally Blind Left Eye; Includes Lack of Focus and Permanent Black Spots)
Features: Strong, defined features, with a square jaw, deep set eyes, and a smaller, though prominent, nose. Bell has some facial hair, as well as a collection of varying scars across his body, including two smaller ones above his eyebrows. Voice Claim: Nikolai Orelov (Assassin's Creed) Eye Color: Dark Grey Hair Color: Dark Brown Hairstyle: Shorter, straight hair worn in a grown-in crew cut. Build: Broad and athletic, with wide shoulders, a sturdy torso, and notable inverted triangle shape. Height: 6 feet and 3 inches (approx. 191 cm) Weight: 211 pounds (approx. 96 kg)
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Relationship Status: Single Sexuality: Gay (Closeted)
Bell, as a result of the betrayal by Adler and the CIA, has an incredibly difficult time trusting people. He often uses aliases when interacting with people, and keeps most at an arm's length.
If Bell hears the phrase "We've got a job to do", or similar enough phrases, in reference to him, he will experience a momentary lapse. He will grow anxious, and immediately do what he can to distance himself from the person who's said it.
Though Bell strays away from drug usage, he has taken on both smoking and drinking as ways to combat the withdrawal of being pulled away from the project, as well as an unhealthy coping mechanism from the traumas everything has caused.
AGENT OF PERSEUS
During the 1980s, Danya was an agent and close associate of Perseus, present during the meeting with Arash Kadivar, Anton Volkov, Vladimir Rudnik and Robert Aldrich where Perseus exposed his fears about the United States' power slowly consuming the Soviet Union, and the Soviet leaders doing nothing about it. He revealed to the group his plan to steal an American nuclear bomb which could unlock the Greenlight nuclear arsenals based throughout Europe. From there, Perseus planned to detonate all the bombs so he could alter the balance of power in the Cold War in the Soviet Union's favor and create a Greater Russia.
On January 13, 1981, Danya accompanied Kadivar to the Trabzon airfield in Turkey. Kadivar revealed to him that they were supposed to transport weapons in a plane to Duga before shipping them to Volkov. Kadivar, however, jealous of the individuals' status in Perseus' ring, had other plans and shot Bell inside the car, leaving him for dead. After, CIA operatives Alex Mason, Frank Woods, and Russell Adler prevented Kadivar from leaving the country, they swept the tarmac for survivors and found Danya still alive with a dossier related to Perseus. They opted to take him in for interrogation.
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BECOMING "BELL"
After Danya recovered from his injuries, the CIA tried traditional interrogation for days, to no avail. It was then decided to brainwash him through the CIA's MKUltra Program, so that he would give up Perseus' location. During several weeks, through painful psychological torture, neuroactive drugs and hypnosis, the CIA, with the help of MI6 agent, Helen Park, used Adler's experience in Vietnam to create a bond with Danya, implanting fake memories of the war and his background into his mind and altering his personality and identity to make him believe he knew Adler for years. Once the training was completed, Adler gave him his nickname, "Bell". Adler also used the phrase "We've got a job to do" whenever he wanted Bell to remember their fake memories and being kept in check. Jason Hudson, however, wasn't so keen on having Bell as a member of Adler's team to hunt Perseus.
Now part of Adler's team, Bell arrived in the CIA Safehouse E9 in West Berlin on February 23rd. The team was composed of Adler, Bell, Park as well as Lawrence Sims and Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay. The team made Bell relive his implanted memories to decrypt the dossier found in Trabzon, which gave several names including Anton Volkov. Adler and Park would continue injecting Bell drugs without his knowledge during the following weeks to ensure the brainwash was still effective.
Using intel from the MI6, the team learned that Volkov is an arms dealer and head of the Russian mob that moved into East Berlin after 1961. They also identified one of his couriers, Franz Kraus, who had a meeting with Volkov the next day.
Using the U-Bahn, Adler and Bell infiltrated East Berlin via a ghost station. They followed Kraus to a bar near one of the Berlin checkpoints and Bell met with one of Hudson's contacts, Greta Keller. Realizing that Kraus was followed, Volkov sent Stasi soldiers into the bar forcing Bell to escape through the restrooms. They regrouped with Lazar and Park who were observing Kraus' appartement after he went back to his home. Bell was sent to enter the apartment and find the briefcase Kraus was keeping. He found a hidden room with the briefcase which contained documents and photos of a nuclear bomb. After Bell put a tracker in the suitcase, he heard a noise coming from a closet. Once opened, it was revealed that Keller was taken prisoner after a colleague of her, Lukas Richter, reported her to the Stasi. Bell didn't have time to react before Kraus knocked him out.
Kraus brought Bell and Keller to Volkov's warehouse, both of them being tied to chairs. Volkov noted that Perseus was looking for Bell and that he had a large bounty on his head before starting to interrogate him.
Bell chose to insult Volkov, who in return ordered one of his men to kill Greta by crushing her neck.
Not receiving the answers he wanted, Volkov pushed Bell to the ground ready to kill him while noting that Bell was "damaged goods". The team arrived through the roof just before Volkov pulled the trigger and fled. During the initial fight, Kraus is killed, and Park untied Bell, ordering him to pursue Volkov while she secured the briefcase. Fighting through the warehouse, Bell found Volkov stuck in front of a door.
Bell captured Volkov, and Park thanked him on behalf of the MI6 while Adler noted that it was "more than he deserved".
OPERATION GREENLIGHT
Looking through the documents found in the briefcase, the team learned that Perseus smuggled a nuclear bomb through East Berlin. The team also found encrypted geocoordinates which pointed to an unpopulated region within the Ukraine Republic. After an aerial recon run, the location revealed a massive military base hidden within the Ukrainian forest.
On February 27, Bell and Frank Woods were sent to infiltrate the base to uncover what was inside. After making their way inside the building, they realized it was a giant Spetsnaz training ground made to look like an American town, featuring arcades, shops, and restaurants, including a Burger Town restaurant. They reached the central computer and Bell managed to enter the system.
They learned that Perseus infiltrated a secret CIA nuke program called Operation Greenlight which involved Jason Hudson. An alarm soon triggered in the entire base, Woods called Park to have their exfil ready and the two operatives fought their way to an exit. They found an APC and used it to storm out the facility.
Following a mission carried by Woods and Mason in an abandoned base in Mount Yamantau to recover its mainframe, the team learned that Perseus was looking for the names of the sleeper agents used by Nikita Dragovich in 1968. However, Perseus managed to erase the names before the mainframe was retrieved. This left only one option for the team, infiltrating the Lubyanka, the KGB headquarters in Moscow to get the names.
On March 9, the team arrived in Moscow and with the help of Dimitri Belikov, a double agent in the KGB working with the CIA, they acquired a key belonging to Anton Charkov to access the bunker located 100 feet below the building. Belikov lured two soldiers while Bell and Adler hid in the room with a bag filled with weapons. Using the uniforms as disguises, they entered the building but were stopped at a checkpoint and had to hand over their bag. The duo was saved at the last second by Belikov who replaced the guard that was supposed to inspect the bag. They reached the elevator while the building was in full lockdown with guards and soldiers interrogating people. Just before the doors closed, Imran Zakhaev took the elevator with them. Not recognizing their faces, Zakhaev asked when the two arrived and to whom they were reporting to.
Bell informed Zakhaev that they and their comrade answered to Commander Sobol, to which Zakhaev lightheartedly said that he would give him their regards, as he was just heading to a meeting with Sobol. Bell and Adler retrieved their weapons before leaving the elevator. They eliminated the first few soldiers but triggered an alarm. They fought their way throughout the bunker and hid a remote gas grenade in the ventilation in case they needed a plan to leave before reaching the archives door. They entered the room using the key and locked the door behind them. Bell used the computer to access the list of Dragovich's sleeper agents and copied it into a floppy disk. During the copy, soldiers and Spetsnaz operatives stormed the room, but the duo managed to hold them off. They tried to find a way to escape but found that Belikov was captured and was about to be executed if the team didn't surrender. They put on gas mask and detonated the grenade, filling the entire bunker. Bell rushed to Belikov to give him a gas mask. The trio fought all the way back to the elevator where they acquired heavy weapons and gear.
Inside the elevator, Adler contacted Lazar to inform that Belikov was coming with them. Bell armed a C4 and threw it to the soldiers waiting outside as the doors of the elevator opened before eliminating the remaining soldiers. The team reached the exit and entered the car driven by Lazar before escaping the city.
The team discovered the name of Theodore Hastings in the list of sleeper agents. Hastings was a nuclear engineer tied to Operation Greenlight. The CIA tracked Hastings movements from Salt Lake City which led them to Cuba. They discovered a vacant government facility south of Havana which has become a hub of activity for Perseus and believed to be the location of the stolen nuke.
On March 13, the team launched an assault against the compound before separating in two teams with Bell, Park, and Lazar. Using security cameras, Bell discovered the location of the lab inside the building but witnessed a man executing all the scientists. Once the team reached the room, they found the dismantled nuke and a dying Hastings on the floor. Hastings revealed that Perseus forced them to reverse-engineer the detonation codes, giving him access to the entire Greenlight arsenal which could wipe out half of Europe. Perseus managed to flee the compound as Bell, Park and Lazar fought their way to the rooftop. They fought off Cuban reinforcement while they wait for the Skyhook plane. The pilot warned them that the plane only had enough fuel for one pass, so they began to harness up starting with Bell. However, an RPG rocket hit the team which prevented Park and Lazar from reaching the rope. and with the plane flying over them, Bell had to make a decision.
Bell secured Park but could not reach Lazar's hand before the plane lift them off. Lazar was executed by Cuban soldiers. Back at the safehouse, she expressed her gratitude for saving her life, telling Bell she felt like she owed them. She asked him to help the team one more time as they could lose more than Lazar if they fail.
LEARNING THE TRUTH
The next day, Adler returned to the safehouse with Bell, and asked Sims to help him by putting Bell on a gurney. Hudson argued that it was a wasted of time and Bell was of no use for them anymore. Adler reassured Bell saying he was the key to find Perseus. The team was now desperate, and Adler injected the drugs directly into the brain through Bell's eye socket. During this process, as more and more dosages were given to attempt protesting any stray thoughts, Bell had at least one seizure.
Adler made Bell go through a series of different scenarios they created, focusing on the mission in Vietnam where Bell encountered Perseus inside a Soviet bunker. Bell's subconscious fought back against the drugs, which made him hear Perseus telling them to not listen to Adler as he was lying to them. Ultimately, Bell remembered taking part of the Perseus meeting with Kadivar, Volkov, Rudnik, Aldrich, and Perseus himself where he announced that they would detonate the Greenlight arsenal from the Solovetsky Islands and then blame the Americans for it, shifting the power balance towards the Soviet Union.
Adler admitted that they used the MK-Ultra program to create Danya's false identity so he could give them the location of Perseus and his plans. While still confused about what happened and who he really was, Danya was asked by Adler to reveal where Perseus was.
Knowing the truth about what the CIA did to him, Danya had a choice. Either remaining loyal to the CIA and his new team by revealing the location of Perseus, or lying to them and betraying the CIA to achieve Perseus' goals. Realizing how intense things have gotten, and that his hands were ultimately tied one way or the other, Danya chose to reveal where Perseus was, and told Adler about Solovetsky Islands and the monastery, the site where Perseus planned to detonate the nukes.
On March 15, Danya, Adler, Woods and Mason as well as several squads of soldiers stormed the monastery and fought off waves of Soviet soldiers while trying to disable the anti-air guns so that their air support could destroy the radar array and prevented the nukes from being set off.
After this mission, Adler took Danya out to a cliff side and told him that they were a hero for the sacrifices he has made. He then revealed that Danya had to make one last sacrifice, and that it wasn't personal before they both drew their pistol. Adler survived the encounter, though wounded, and neglected to ensure that Danya had been killed. Crawling to safety and using what resources he had to stabilize himself, Danya managed to evade patrolling assets and find somewhere to recover.
Knowing that both the Soviets and CIA would have a price on his head, Danya opted to become a lone wolf acting in his own interests. Eventually, he fell in with a private military group, and became a mercenary.
TRANSITORY YEARS
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