Yevdokiya Skachkova (Russian: Евдокия Скачкова; Japanese: エヴドキヤ・スカチコヴァ Evudokiya Sukachikova), also known by her diminutive name Duša (Russian: Душа; Japanese: ドゥーシャ Dūsha), is an FSB agent and the daughter of Vasili Skachkov and Tatiana Novikova. When her father defected from the Soviet Union, she and her mother were distraught and furious, causing her to seek revenge on Vasili for abandoning them.
Appearance[]
Yevdokiya is a young Russian woman with a skinny build, pale skin, long blond hair, and light-colored eyes. She wears a black sweater dress, a leather coat, and black heels.
Personality[]
Yevdokiya tends to be a serious and quiet person but was very ecstatic as a child. Due to her KGB training, she is greatly skilled in both hand-to-hand combat and firearms. Nonetheless, she prefers to avoid killing people when unnecessary. Additionally, Yevdokiya speaks both Russian and English.
Eda Initial Stage history[]

A young Yevdokiya begging her father to buy a Barbie doll for her.
She was born on October 5, 1973 in Moscow to Vasili Skachkov and Tatiana Novikova, being in her 20s. As a young girl, her parents frequently called her by her diminutive name Duša, and her father frequently went on business trips as a Soviet embassy security officer. One day in 1985, Vasili had to go on another business trip, so Yevdokiya begged him twice to bring her a souvenir, causing her mother to warn her not to be selfish. Smiling, her father asked her what she wanted, prompting his wife to try and discourage him from spoiling her. The young girl asked for a doll, so he in turn asked if she wanted a stuffed one. Excitedly saying that she did not want just any doll, Yevdokiya requested a Barbie doll. Giving her one last hug, Vasili promised to do so. Before leaving, he reciprocated love for his daughter and declared his leave.[1]
Unknown to Yevdokiya, Vasili had fled the Soviet Union to start a new life in the United States because he could not tolerate the pressure thrust onto him by Tatiana's nomenklatura family. As a result, the KGB wanted to know where Vasili went, so Tatiana let them ask her daughter if she knew anything about his disappearance. Being interrogated by several men, Yevdokiya was scared and repeated that she genuinely knew nothing of her father's disappearance or motives. Leaving the interrogation room, she ran to her mother and cried that the men acted scary, but Tatiana demanded that she tell them everything she knew since everyone was looking for Vasili.[2] As a result of the scandal, Yevdokiya's maternal grandfather was removed from his KGB deputy chairman position, bringing the once renowned Novikov family into ruin. This humiliation caused her mother to despise her husband enough to seek revenge against him.[3]
In her teenage years, Yevdokiya was prodded into fulfilling her mother's revenge scheme, later remarking that her mother became coldhearted in pursuit of her goal. As Yevdokiya became an adult, Tatiana worked hard to get her daughter into the FSB, the Russian Federation's successor to the KGB.[2] While working for the KGB, the young woman became trained in hand-to-hand combat in firearms, though she was officially employed as a desk worker.[1]
The Spy Who Came in from Cold[]
In the early 1990s, her mother became sick and bedridden, so she visited her in the hospital. Listening to her mother, Yevdokiya heard Tatiana plead with her to get revenge on Vasili by killing him before she died of her illness. Claiming that Vasili was responsible for bringing the Novikov family into ruin, her mother ordered her to make him suffer first by, if he had any, killing his wife and child in front of him. Because of her mother's little time left living, Yevdokiya agreed to get revenge not only for her mother but for herself because Vasili essentially abandoned her as a child.[4]
Accordingly, she found out that her father defected to the United States but could not find anything about his whereabouts. Contacting the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Yevdokiya offered to give them information about the FSB in exchange for asylum, using her defector status and alleged desire to live in the "land of the free" as pretext to enter the United States. Leaving Europe, she was escorted to the U.S. via airplane by Bill and another CIA agent. On the way to North Carolina, Yevdokiya slept most of the way and remembered the day that her father left her. She also frequently asked her escorts about her father. When she woke up, she and the CIA agents soon arrived at Johnston Regional Airport, where Eda was assigned to verify her identity by examining her in a private room. Eda nonchalantly told her that she needed to undress as part of the identity verification, particularly her physical description.
Once taking off her jacket and turtleneck dress down to her undergarments, Yevdokiya wondered if the CIA checked on her father, but the American woman clarified that she was only called in to aid in transporting her. Eda then ordered her to raise her hands, and she examined Yevdokiya's body. When she checked out the back of Yevdokiya's pelvis, she became surprised, so she asked for her hand. Eda put down Yevdokiya's arm, causing the latter to ask what was wrong. Brushing it off, the CIA agent sternly denied any abnormality. Putting her clothes back on, Yevdokiya asked for her name, but Eda in turn rhetorically asked who knew. Being politely prodded, she stated her name, causing the Russian woman to smile and respond that she would remember it. Preparing to leave the airport, Yevdokiya waited in a car as Eda confirmed to the guiding agent that she had verified the defector's identity, but not before warning Bill that Yevdokiya was more than a mere desk worker.
As she sat in the backseat during the ride, Yevdokiya asked where they were going. The skinny agent answered that she was going to a facility for asylum seekers, elaborating that she would be subject to a full-scale interrogation. Yevdokiya responded by reminding them that she had already been subject to several interrogations. Pointing at her head, Bill clarified that the real work would be inquiring about all of the information inside of her mind. Advising her not to worry, he rubbed his hand on her thigh and assured her that she would be treated better depending on her attitude. Annoyed by his colleague's behavior, the skinny man warned him to stop it, reminding him that she is a defector. Calmly retorting that he should not be so harsh, Bill claimed that he was only trying to persuade her to cooperate. Yevdokiya feigned attraction by crossing her legs and leaning next to him, asking if he knew anything about her father.
He then mentioned that he would attain more info on that after she exchanged her info, so she innocently asked if he could tell her a little bit about him. To his pleasure, Yevdokiya grabbed his hand and put it on her thigh, flirtingly claiming that only a name or address would do. Letting his guard down, Bill told the woman that her father's new name was Maynard Sears. Adding that he lived on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, he asserted that she would need to divulge her info from then on. Kissing his cheek, Yevdokiya thanked him and promised to see him again. To Bill's shock, she suddenly elbowed the skinny man in the face and immediately subdued the two men as well as their driver. In a nearby alleyway, Yevdokiya tied up and dropped off the three men there and then used their car to find another vehicle to steal for driving to Baltimore. Finding Maynard's house, she rang the doorbell and was greeted by his wife at the door.
Yevdokiya asked if she was at the Sears residence, which the mother confirmed and in turn asked how she could help the stranger. As the Russian woman hesitated to introduce herself, Maynard's second daughter Lottie arrived and called for her mother. Seeing Yevdokiya, the child sternly asked who the visitor was. Embarrassed, her mother warned her not to be rude, apologizing to Yevdokiya for her daughter's impoliteness. As she advised her daughter to avoid such behavior, two criminals exited their car near the house. As she listened to the mother and daughter talk, Yevdokiya tried to introduce herself, but one of the two criminals pointed his gun at Lottie's head. Shocked, Yevdokiya stood there as the child was dragged into the men's car, with the bearded man warning Lottie's mother that if she called the police, then Lottie would suffer the consequences.[1]
Leaving the scene, Yevdokiya disappeared and eventually tracked down the men a few hours later at a motel. When one of the two men left their motel room to buy some food, she waited in the car and thought about her next decision. Though she heard her conscience remind her that she was after her father and should have waited by his house, Yevdokiya retorted that the CIA would have caught up to her if she stayed behind. She told herself that she did not care about the abducted child. Suddenly, she remembered how her younger self was surrounded by several men interrogating her, imagining them as tall, thin, pale white apparitions who inquire about her father being on a long trip. When the beings asked her if she knew any secret places that Vasili been to, she jolted up and recalled how she was very frightened as a child.

Yevdokiya in a shootout with one of the kidnappers.
Exiting the car, she noticed that Lottie had escaped the room on her own and was running in her direction. As the abductor tried to chase after her, Yevdokiya appeared and kicked him in the head, then shouting at Lottie to follow her. As soon as Lottie got into the passenger seat of her car, the two drove off. In front of them, having returned from the diner, the other criminal saw the two, infuriating him. He yelled that the women would not escape, intentionally crashing his car into theirs.[3] Warning Lottie to stay down, Yevdokiya briefly exchanged gunfire with the man until she managed to shoot him in the arm. She advised the child to follow her, but when they exited the car, the other abductor confronted them. Lottie slid toward him and kicked him in the groin, momentarily immobilizing him. As the two women ran away on the street, another car blocked their path and Ives, the man who planned Lottie's abduction, stepped out and glared at them. Yevdokiya ordered Lottie to follow her in another direction, taking her elsewhere in the Baltimore suburbs.
Sitting down and laying against a fence, the two women rested while the child asked who she was. Yevdokiya answered that she was an acquaintance of her father who asked her to rescue the girl. Smiling, Lottie confidently claimed that her father certainly cared about her given that she had not been kidnapped for long. Knowing that Lottie was Maynard's daughter, Yevdokiya asked about him, to which she said that her father had taught her many things, particularly self-defense. The Russian woman pointed out that she and her family were quite close, confusing Lottie. Omitting the fact that they shared the same father, Yevdokiya confessed that, in contrast, her own father left her and her mother a long time ago. She elaborated that it was just her and her mother except that the latter was in the hospital with little time left. Although she affirmed that she was ready to accept her mother's passing, Yevdokiya sternly mentioned that she still had one thing left to do concerning "that man," hence she came to the United States. Curious, Lottie asked if she meant meeting her father, which Yevdokiya confirmed in hesitancy.
At that point, Ives suddenly kicked through the wooden fence, knocking Yevdokiya onto her front. As he walked toward her, she kicked her left foot at his head, but he grabbed it. She then swung her right leg toward him and freed herself. Yevdokiya punched him in the face and kicked him in the abdomen but to her surprise, he grabbed her foot. Smirking, Ives commended her skills but retorted that hers did not match his own. He thrust her onto the ground and grabbed her hair to throw her against the fence, injuring and incapacitating her. Lottie called for her, but Ives ignored the girl and wondered if Yevdokiya was the accomplice of "Vasili." That night, before going to Patterson Park, he put the tied-up woman in the trunk of his Chevrolet and taunted that he promised that he would "take good care of [her]" once he was finished.[5]
Close to midnight when the ransom deal was to occur between Maynard and Ives, Yevdokiya heard someone nearby, so she thrashed around to make some noise. Hearing her, Eda's partner opened the trunk with a crowbar. Wolf whistling upon seeing the tied-up Yevdokiya, he confessed that he thought he would find the kidnapped daughter but was glad to see her again. Stating that he did not want any trouble, he expressed his lack of interest in her story and opined that the CIA is results-oriented. Taking off the duct tape across her mouth, he requested that she come with him. Yevdokiya agreed to accompany him but pointed out that she could not walk well with her legs bound and asked for the leg restraints to be removed. She suggested that he do so since there was adjacent traffic, and it would be a hassle to carry her. Hesitantly agreeing, the agent cut off the binds around her ankles, but as soon as he did so, Yevdokiya immediately wrapped her legs around his neck and thrust his head onto the car, knocking him unconscious.
Moving herself up, she used his knife to remove her arm restraints and put the man into the trunk, but not before pilfering his pistol and ammunition. Up ahead, she saw the Patterson Park Observatory and assumed that the captors were in the park, so she ran there. While she ran, Yevdokiya remembered her mother's last wishes of wanting Maynard and his new family killed. At the same time, Eda shot one of the abductors, starting a firefight. Although Ives's two henchmen were defeated, he shot Maynard in the shoulder, disarming him. Before he could kill him and Lottie, Yevdokiya yelled at him to leave her "prey" alone. Though she shot at his upper body several times, Ives was unharmed due to his bulletproof suit. The two briefly exchanged gunfire until Yevdokiya moved faster and shot him in his exposed abdomen, knocking him onto the ground. Walking up to Maynard, she pointed her gun at him while Lottie grabbed a stray gun and pointed it at her in turn.[4]

Yevdokiya finally confronts her father Maynard.
Shocked that she was the woman from before, Lottie asked her half-sister what she was doing. Claiming that the grudge was toward him, Maynard advised his younger daughter to put the gun down. Yevdokiya sternly joked that she finally caught him, to which he admitted that he knew the day would come but expected that Tatiana would instead be the one to chase him down. Hearing her state that she came because her mother was sick, he apologized that she could not escape her mother's spell. Rebuffing him, Yevdokiya relayed her mother's message to him about how she ordered for his wife and child to be killed in front of him and to plunge him into lament. Recalling the time immediately after he had defected, Yevdokiya claimed that her mother turned into Pannochka from then on due to her resentment.
Pleading with "Duša" to stop, Maynard urged her to leave Lottie out of her revenge scheme and asked that only he be shot. Despite this, Yevdokiya sternly replied that she was using her own method to fulfill her revenge. Extending her arms in front of her father, Lottie pleaded with Yevdokiya not to harm her father. Suddenly, the Russian woman saw her younger self in Lottie. Being taken off guard by the gesture, Yevdokiya was restrained by Ives, who sneaked up behind her. Angrily confused, she then realized that the criminal was also wearing a bulletproof vest that made him survive. As she remained in a headlock, Ives ordered Maynard to toss the duffel bag of money to him or else he would break Yevdokiya's neck. Glaring at him, Ives licked her neck and ask her father if he even cared about the daughter he left behind in his former country. Immediately tossing the duffel bag to him, Maynard urged him to let go of his first daughter.
Surprised, Yevdokiya called for her "dad" but quickly had her gun taken from her. Pointing the gun to her head, Ives joked that it made him cry to see that Maynard still had feelings for her. Pushing Yevdokiya away, he shot around her feet and grabbed the duffel bag. As Ives tried to run away, Eda shot him in the head at close range, instantly killing him. Grabbing the duffel bag, the CIA agent stated that their mourning period was over and ordered the three to stay down, asserting that Yevdokiya was coming with her. The Russian woman retorted that her business was not finished, prompting the frustrated Eda to warn her and insult her as a nuisance. Without hesitation, Yevdokiya kicked at the left side of her ribcage, but the CIA agent blocked her leg with her arm. The Russian woman recalled that her name was "Eva," causing Eda to angrily correct her own name and insult Yevdokiya's memory and FSB training.
She swung the duffel bag at Yevdokiya, who took the blow and quickly pushed Eda's arm out of the way and grabbed it. The FSB defector slammed her palm into Eda's chest and then elbowed her in the face. Angered and injured, Eda fired a few shots, and the casings flew into Yevdokiya's eyes, so the former grabbed her collar and flipped her onto her back. As Yevdokiya laid on the ground, Eda pointed her pistol at her and ordered her to give up and stop giving her more trouble. To the Russian woman's surprise, her father tossed a pistol to her and told her to shoot Eda so that she could run away and gain her freedom. For a few seconds, the two women shot at each other until Eda managed to shoot and graze the defector's left elbow, disarming her, but not Yevdokiya grazed her in the left shoulder.
Grasping her own arm, Yevdokiya quietly called out for her "dad," prompting Eda to clarify that she had something to tell her. Elaborating that the information she received earlier that day was from the FSB, Eda informed her that her mother Tatiana passed away three days ago, saddening Yevdokiya. Calmed down, Yevdokiya asked Maynard why he did not take her with him when he left the Soviet Union. Maynard answered that he did not have the courage to bring her with him because she knew nothing about the foreign land. Interrupting them, Eda bluntly opined that Maynard merely thought of himself and no one else, which Lottie ardently disagreed with. Some day later, Yevdokiya went to Dulles International Airport, Virginia with CIA agents to be returned to the FSB. Sitting next to her, Eda said that her father asked her to give something to her, handing the Russian woman a wrapped present.
Opening it and seeing a Barbie doll, Yevdokiya was shocked and briefly imagined a different timeline where she actually received the doll from her father as a child. Getting up, she walked to a trash container and threw the doll away. Stating that was an unnecessary thing to do, Eda claimed she took the effort to bring it to her and asked if she still wanted the gift a decade later. Responding that the item would probably be confiscated anyway before she boarded the plane, Yevdokiya reasoned that it was better that she threw it away herself. Smiling, she additionally affirmed that she was not a kid anymore. Smoking a cigarette, the tired Eda retorted that she still looked like a child with her happy expression. At that point, the Russian agents had arrived to pick Yevdokiya up, and Eda claimed that it would be a thorny road for her. Smiling again, Yevdokiya bid farewell to Eda, departing from the United States and returning to the Russian Federation.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eda Initial Stage Chapter 16: The Spy Who Came in from Cold Part 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eda Initial Stage Chapter 20: The Spy Who Came in from Cold Part 5
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eda Initial Stage Chapter 17: The Spy Who Came in from Cold Part 2
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eda Initial Stage Chapter 19: The Spy Who Came in from Cold Part 4
- ↑ Eda Initial Stage Chapter 18: The Spy Who Came in from Cold Part 3