Victoria Hand

Victoria Hand is a generally cold, calculating woman with glasses, heels, killer hair and even deadlier verbal skills.

Background
Growing up in a family rich in law enforcement history, Victoria always knew she'd be a civil servant in some capacity. Her father was a police officer and her mother was a lawyer, her family lived and breathed the law. As she grew, however, she realized that she had a knack for numbers that was coupled with organizational skills that were top notch.

After graduating high-school, Victoria veered away from her family's path of civil service and went to college earning an MBA in accounting. It wasn't until a terrorist attack that wiped out the precinct her father worked at, that Victoria's plans changed. She had already been offered a government job with S.H.I.E.L.D., declining the position to work closer to home, but the death of many family friends changed her mind and she gladly took up with S.H.I.E.L.D, determined to help stymie the war on terror.

While in S.H.I.E.L.D., Victoria worked in business affairs having done very well in a more remote location she is swiftly transferred to New York City. As time went on, Victoria began to feel that the way S.H.I.E.L.D handled things made them no better than the terrorists they hunted down. No one would hear her opinions on the matter so she does something brash, she writes an open letter to Nick Fury ripping apart his strategies for the war on terror.

Nick did not take kindly to this, as anyone could imagine, but he still felt Victoria was an asset and transferred her to Portland. This did not sit well with Victoria, not well at all, she promptly quits S.H.I.E.L.D and goes into the private sector, hoping there she can make a difference, a real difference.

She was picked up and hired as a planner and fundraiser for the Kelly/Osborn campaign, there she finds and, through her own digging and knowledge of accounting, reports financial misdeeds to Osborn -- that he uses for political propaganda, albeit unsuccessfully. Thoroughly impressed with Victoria's wherewithal and penchant for political rhetoric, he looks into her background and finds that she used to work with S.H.I.E.L.D, and the letter she so infamously wrote, only impressing Norman Osborn further.

Norman loses the election, but he keeps Victoria on as his personal assistant and she becomes his right hand in OsCorp, the person he goes to when he wants things done.

While Osborn runs for mayor, Victoria is given control of the New Avengers project, requiring her to liaise with the SecDef as well as have a hand in selecting the team members.

Following Norman's loss, Norman takes full control of the New Avengers program and becomes chairperson, Victoria is made his second-in-command and takes on the role of government liaison, as well as operations chief and primary PR person. Victoria answers to no one, now, the only people she needs to are Norman himself and his son, Harry. The raise that comes with it is substantial and is meant to commensurate with the new duties, so too are the promises for the future. Victoria believes in the cause she works for, as well as the man, she's content with her current arrangement and placement in the organization.

Personality
Victoria is a hard individual, she takes zero lip from anyone, and her bearing projects this with every word she says and every move she makes. Often said to be a bit cold, when Victoria speaks it is often to the point and in a tone that accepts no argument. Some would find her a 'know-it-all;' others, a great asset to be had when times got tough. She is known to think and rethink a situation and come up with multiple solutions to a problem, some would call her a micromanager because of this, as she is quick to tell people where they should be and what they should be doing. Her calculating gaze and stoic demeanor commands attention when she walks into a room, expects it, even. When she speaks it is with an air of authority and surety that few can claim to top and even less can argue against.