Nicole Braithwaite

Roundabout is a woman of Filipino ancestry. She has long black hair tied in a low bun that is graying at the temple and often wears round glasses, a suit, a bow tie, A pair of round, green glasses, a walking cane to appear more professional and a black, bowler hat.

She is a woman who speaks in proper English, such as when she spoke to Professor Maelstrom. Much like her codename, Nicole speaks in a roundabout way with people and only implies a certain subject without fully mentioning it, she is also capable of making people tell her what she wants to know without making them suspicious.

As a member of the British Secret Service, she is also a highly intelligent woman who portrays herself to be a pleasant and well liked lady, such as when she asked Stanley, a guard, how his wife was doing and claimed she was pleased that Stanley's wife had recovered from her cold and when she thanked another guard during when Carmen tried foiling her plan, unaware he already knew the risks of what he was doing, she then still remained loyal to V.I.L.E and the faculty.

Having an elitist background, Nicole also gains further intelligence on matters such as allowing to be gained access to V.I.L.E's locked up operatives before the police can do anything, due to her status as a member of the Secret Service, she also prefers to remain in her local area of London, because of this, she was not present physically when the faculty voted for a decision.

As one of the five masterminds of V.I.L.E., Roundabout had near supreme authority in the organization, and with her position in British Intelligence, she was perhaps Carmen's most formidable adversary. As a high position agent of MI6, Roundabout was able to access and monitor information not easily accessible to others.

She made use of her position to gain intelligence on when authorities arrive and keep track of both V.I.L.E. and A.C.M.E. movements and coordinate V.I.L.E. operatives to stay one step ahead of A.C.M.E. upon learning of Carmen's "alliance" with them.

Appropriately, for someone filling the position held by Shadowsan and Dexter Wolfe, she too is a master of stealth, but her stealth expertise is by avoiding detection through diversionary tactics, diverting attention away from herself rather than avoiding it altogether.

In combat, Roundabout is shown to be a highly capable and skilled fencer, claiming she was previously the captain of the Oxford fencing team and was skilled enough to overwhelm Shadowsan, a skilled swordsman in her own right.

BIOGRAPHY: Roundabout was a V.I.L.E. agent and then Faculty instructor who had infiltrated Her Majesty's secret service. She frequently used her position to pull strings and get any captured operatives released from custody, and was running an illegal diamond mining operation in Botswana.

Unlike all the other candidates, she didn't participate in her operation hands-on, due to her "day job", and due to receiving advance notice of the police finding out, she was smart enough to close shop before A.C.M.E. could bust it wide open. These factors were what convinced the other Faculty members that she was the ideal choice to succeed Shadowsan as their fifth member.

She later used her connections to covertly have V.I.L.E. Academy moved to a new location in an abandoned castle in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. She primarily communicated with her fellow Faculty members by video chat, due to her position at MI6.