Balalaika

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Balalaika is a former captain-lieutenant of the Soviet army, who participated in the Afghan war and received numerous wounds and scars on her face and body. After the collapse of the USSR, she was unable to adapt to peaceful life and gathered a group of former soldiers under her command, who became her loyal subordinates and friends. Balalaika is a cold, cruel and calculating woman who does not spare her enemies and competitors. Balalaika is also very intelligent, educated and charismatic, which allows her to run her organization and negotiate with other factions. Balalaika respects strong and honorable people, regardless of their nationality or background. She also displays a sense of humor and irony in some situations.

Balalaika has a complicated relationship with the Black Lagoon crew, who often work for or with her. Balalaika appreciates Rock for his intelligence and diplomacy, Dutch for his professionalism and loyalty, Benny for his technical skills, and Revy for her fighting abilities. However, she also doesn't trust them completely and is willing to kill them if they betray her or interfere with her plans.As she is often involved in various conflicts and intrigues related to Roanapur or other countries.

Balalaika also has her personal revenge against the Japanese Yakuza who killed her army friend. Balalaika is a strong and powerful character who evokes different emotions in viewers and readers, from fear and disgust to respect and admiration.

Balalaika is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman of slim build, with pale skin, a mole under her left eye, and scars on the right side of her body, including her face, neck, chest, and leg, for which she has been derogatorily nicknamed "Frowny Face". She is 180 centimeters tall and her hair is very long and gathered in a huge ponytail that goes down to the base of her spine. She can usually be seen wearing a wine-colored skirt suit, black stockings, and black shoes with heels 1 inch high. Balalaika has long fingernails painted pink and also wears pink lipstick. When traveling, she wears a Russian military jacket slung over her shoulders, with the insignia of a captain in the Soviet Airborne Forces. However, she takes it off when it is considered polite to do so. She usually smokes a thin Russian cigar.

Due to Balalaika's leadership during the hellish fighting in Afghanistan, her men look up to her as their superior and will do almost anything on her orders, and Boris is her right-hand man. Balalaika always addresses Boris by the title "Sergeant" and often refers to her other men by their military rank. As a combat officer, she is a skilled strategist and well-rounded fighter, able to take care of herself despite the fact that all of her men, including Boris, often worry about her. Although she sometimes shows herself to be quite cynical, she is also a pragmatic, enterprising and professional businesswoman. She often hires Dutch and the Lagoon company because they share a mutual respect, and Balalaika trusts Dutch as a discreet and decent person.

Balalaika is also utterly ruthless, willing to use any means to achieve what she wants. As the leader of the Mafia, she has claimed that trust and profit is her concern, also once noting that her motivation is to maximize her group's profits and eliminate anyone in the way by any means necessary. Balalaika even once admitted that she lives only to bring destruction and dance as long as she can "at the bottom of the cauldron of hell". Balalaika kills children without remorse, although she used to hesitate to do so during the Soviet-Afghan war because of the Afghan children she and her men fought in Punisher.

Balalaika views herself and her men as soldiers who missed their chance to die in Afghanistan. While some of her actions could be construed as attempts to achieve an honorable death in combat for her men, Balalaika's status as a military figure is mitigated by her role in the criminal underground. She refused to engage Shane Caxton's American soldiers after Mr. Chang reminded her of their unfinished battle. Balalaika preferred a future battle with Chang to the current opportunity to engage the American unit, which she saw as an obstacle to her own disgraced Soviet unit, because she wanted to preserve their shared interest in preserving the city of Roanapur.

Because of the fact that Balalaika personal military force is made up entirely of former Airborne Troops, she and Balalaika have a serious advantage over other criminal organizations. In particular, Balalaika, like her men, has military training, combat experience and discipline that is unprecedented among the rest of the Roanapur underworld.

Balalaika is also one of the few who have earned the respect of Revi, who calls her "Sis". For her part, Balalaika also seems to hold Rock in high esteem, sometimes relying on his knowledge and business acumen, as well as hiring him as a translator and even once teasing him by calling him a "good villain". Balalaika is able to speak Russian and English.

Balalaika was raised by her uncle, a general in the USSR Red Army. Balalaika's father was supposedly either convicted by the USSR or fled the country. Because of her father's conviction, she felt she had to restore Balalaika family's honor. Instead of competing in the shooting competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Balalaika joined the Soviet Airborne Troops (Vozdushno-dessantnye troi; Russian for "airborne troops"), also known as the VDV.During her service, she was a paratrooper and a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. An excellent marksman and sniper, she earned the nickname "Balalaika" (one of the Soviet army's slang terms for the Dragunov sniper rifle). Balalaika can be easily identified by the various burn scars on her body, which she received from torture for defending refugees in Afghanistan, as stated by her former soldier in the first light novel.

During the Soviet invasion, Balalaika was recalled from the war by Balalaika superiors when she was a lieutenant. Balalaika was later re-called in 1987 to return to fight in Afghanistan with her fellow paratroopers and was promoted to captain in the Soviet Airborne Forces. In addition to participating in combat, Balalaika also interrogated prisoners of war during her service. Balalaika and her men were eventually discharged just after the war ended in 1989, with Balalaika being fired for violating an international agreement to cross the border to save a child.

After she and her unit were thrown back by the Soviets, they had no group to fight for. In a cemetery at the funeral of a soldier who died because of "dirty money", Balalaika, in her Airborne Troops uniform, met her men there and proudly announced that they could fight under her leadership again, the men saluted and enthusiastically agreed. Balalaika and her men then joined the global crime syndicate Hotel Moscow, eventually settling in Roanapur and becoming the leader of the Thai branch. In her first year in Roanapur in 1993, there was a large-scale conflict with the already established Hong Kong Triad led by Mr. Chang, and in November 1993, there was a shootout between Balalaika and Chang that left them both wounded. Before the two could destroy the city further, Dutch made peace between rival criminal organizations which also saved Balalaika.

Accordingly, Balalaika uses the Bougainvillea Trading Company as a front for Hotel Moscow in Roanapur. When conducting overseas operations from Thailand, she uses the Russian cargo ship "Marya Zaleska" as a legal cover from the police and various law enforcement agencies, and utilizes Hotel Moscow's connections with Russian Federation embassies. In addition, she uses the alias V.V. Vladilena, also abbreviated to Ms. Vladilena, as a legal company name and embassy cover. In one case.