Donovan ➴ Heaven's Secret: Requiem

Name: Donovan, Professor

Gender: Female

Occupation: Head of the Adam Military Research Base, Head of the Siberia Military Research Base (formerly), Professor

Age: 45

Appearance: Donovan is an older woman with completely gray hair, which she wears in a short bob; it has been noted that she once had luxurious hair. Donovan has blue eyes and wears makeup that emphasizes her striking beauty. A large scar on her neck indicates an encounter with abominations or infected, which she managed to fight off.

Personality: Donovan has a rather difficult personality and is unwilling to establish good relationships with people. She shows little concern for others, viewing them as subordinates or means to achieve various goals required by Adam. One might assume that this is her leadership function, but Donovan also possesses certain sadistic tendencies and derives pleasure from driving others to despair, resentment, or fear. For example, she's quite vindictive and doesn't forget information that could be useful for manipulation, while preferring to feign indifference the rest of the time. According to Lane, Donovan always waits for the moment when someone is most vulnerable to strike. Donovan can be characterized as a skeptic, as she tends to explain events and people's actions from a materialistic perspective, seeking a logical and obvious root cause. Based on this perspective, she considers various variables when assessing the ability of her subordinates to complete certain tasks. For example, she views feelings as a tool: a stronger motivation that obliges one to achieve higher results. According to her, the feelings between Ada and Pileon should have compelled the girl to survive at any cost and complete the mission, and Pileon to return quickly with the result. Therefore, in her view, their future fate is no longer her responsibility, but a consequence of their own weakness. Donovan also comments on Dmitry's feelings for Lane (if the Intimate Relationship stat was leveled): Donovan approves of these feelings, believing it wise for Lane to secure the loyalty of a high-ranking general and a strong man.

Accompanying Smell: Cigarettes with lemon balm

Voice: Low, calm, with a slight hoarseness, like that of a man who rarely raises his voice, but when he speaks, everyone listens. There is no fuss in him, only firmness and a cool, rational quality. Her intonation is clear and measured, sometimes with a hint of irony or hidden pressure, like someone accustomed to commanding and getting her way not by shouting, but with words spoken evenly and precisely.

Personality: Professor Donovan is known as an unpleasant, rude, and eccentric woman with a steely character. It is known that she oversaw both "Siberia" and "Adam" bases, likely overseeing their scientific research, while General Lloyd oversaw military support. According to those who knew them personally, they may have had some kind of relationship, the nature of which is unknown. Donovan had been considered the sole survivor of the "Siberia" base staff for three years when the collapse occurred. She had abandoned the base just the day before, so the collapse caught her on a mountain road, where she found herself buried in snow. Trying to escape, she found herself in extremely harsh conditions, and as she later frankly admitted, she froze her reproductive organs, losing all sensation in that area. However, she survived and reached civilization. Donovan is the head of the new Adam base, where she continued her activities, collaborating with the new General Lloyd Jr., Dmitry. To address the research needs, which also touched on the Book of Apocalypse in Siberia, Donovan dispatched a special unit led by Dmitry to Siberia, whose mission was to recover the Book from the rubble and deliver it to Oxford.