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“ You've got a scrupulous eye for detail... you're meticulous... you look. ”
 
— Artie, "Pilot"

Myka Ophelia[1] Bering is an agent of the United States Secret Service stationed at Warehouse 13 in Univille, South Dakota.

She is the professional and romantic partner of Pete Lattimer.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Myka was born around the 1970s or 1980s[2] in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the daughter of Warren and Jeannie Bering, and sister to Tracy Bering.[3] Her parents, being fans of literature, gave her the middle name "Ophelia" after the character from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.[1]

While she was young, Myka's parents opened a bookstore called "Bering and Sons," even though she has no brothers; the 'and Sons' was only added to make the establishment sound classier.[4] Unlike her sister, Tracy, Myka was a tomboy. Instead of growing up playing with Barbies, she was a member of Girl Scouts of the USA.[5] When she was a child, her family once took a vacation to Manhattan and visited Sheep Meadow, and she was disappointed to learn that sheep no longer grazed there.[6] She was an avid fan of Anthony Bishop's hardboiled crime novels since she was around the age of 12.[7][8]

She attended Lincoln High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and graduated in 2000.[9] As a teenager, one of her hobbies was fencing.[3]

At some point in her life, Myka had a dog.[10]

She then attended the University of Colorado.[5] While there, she initially pursued a medical degree as an undergraduate ("pre-med") before switching to pursue a law degree ("pre-law"), before ultimately deciding to join the Secret Service.[11]

Secret Service Career[]

Myka served as a Shift Lead (GS-14) in the Presidential Protective Division of the USSS. On August 8, 2009, an order was sent to Assistant Director Daniel Dickinson, Myka's boss, ordering her immediate transfer to an undisclosed location from her division in presidential security. The transfer was classified as Top Secret-SCI, and the authorization came from a single name, "Frederic."

Warehouse 13[]

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Relationships[]

Arthur Nielsen[]

When Myka originally met Artie she considered him untrustworthy and was very suspicious of him. This worsened when Artie's past was inadvertently revealed. Over time, Myka began to trust Artie and accept his mysterious ways. The relationship eventually became mentor-men-tee like.

Claudia Donovan[]

Myka & Claudia share a sisterly relationship. The two have gone on multiple Artifact retrieval missions together.

Images

Helena G. Wells[]

In season 2 episode 7, just as Helena and Myka are to be run over by a car, Helena pulls out a grappling hook of her own design and whisks Myka to safety.

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Season 2 finale

Season 2 concludes with Myka learning of Helena’s betrayal, she states “she played us; she played me,” visibly upset over Helena’s actions. She later talks Helena out of destroying the world, telling her that she (H.G.) wanted to be found and talked down. She forces Helena to place a gun to her (Myka's) head and asks her to end her life there and then, if her plans are truly to end the world. “Kill me…" Myka says, "I want you to look me in the eyes and take my life.” Helena, however, cannot do it and surrenders. 

In season 3, Sykes utilizes Helena’s affection for Myka to carry out his plans as he put her life in Helena’s hands to open a portal to the Warehouse: “I am not going to die…because you are going to save my life.” The season concludes with Helena sacrificing her own life to save Myka, Pete, and Artie’s. 

In season 4, Helena calls Myka because Helena spotted an artifact's influence in the police station where she worked. The artifact, which turned out to be prehistoric and therefore extremely powerful, triggered an extreme primal fear in people (enough to potentially cause a heart attack), and temporarily transformed their features into those of primitive hominins as a side effect.

Irene Frederic[]

Myka respects Ms. Frederic. While not particularly close, Myka cares about her well-being.

Leena[]

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Pete Lattimer[]

Throughout the series, Pete and Myka are partners at the Warehouse. They form a strong friendship which, for many years, was platonic.  She even named the ferret that she got from Howard Carter's Coffee Pot after him because of some similarities between the two.

In the Season 2 finale, "Reset", Myka looks visibly upset while listening to a conversation between Pete and his girlfriend Kelly Hernandez in which he tells her that he loves her, although she hides this from Pete when he enters the car.

In "Secret Services", Pete and Myka's former colleagues suggest that the chemistry between Pete and Myka is obvious, though both deny it. Later, in Savage Seduction, Pete's ex-girlfriend Kelly Hernandez tells Pete that their relationship never would have worked because Pete is in love with Myka. Pete contemplates this, and in "Cangku Shisi", he tells Steve that he is in love with Myka in order to find out whether or not this is the truth. Steve confirms that Pete is not lying.

In "Endless", Myka believes her defining moment is only about her being able to use her knowledge, deductive skills, and fighting moves, but Steve says the moment suggests she has a "love thing" for Pete based on how she was looking at Pete. At first, she denies this, but then she acknowledges the look on her face, admits that she is in love with Pete, but also claims that she hates herself for it. 

Myka then goes to Pete, intending to tell him that she is in love with him, but when he is too busy fretting over losing the Warehouse to listen to her, she just kisses him. At first Pete doesn't believe this (he believes she was really Steve using Harriet Tubman's Thimble, that she has a fever, and that she may have been affected by an artifact before thinking it might be "for realsies"), but then he accepts it and they agree to start dating.

Sam Martino[]

As a Secret Service agent, Myka was partnered with Sam Martino. He called her "Bunny," and she was having a romantic affair with him while he was still married; however, he was separated from his wife at the time. Myka felt for a long time that she let Sam die because she was too slow. She was stricken with guilt and grief over Sam's death until she acknowledged to herself that she had not been responsible, and that Sam had been at fault for not following their plan to corner a criminal. Later, she finds out that she nor Sam were responsible as an artifact had been used to stop time, making Myka late.

Family[]

Jeannie and Warren Bering[]

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Tracy Bering[]

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Skills[]

  • Combat
    • Firearms: Myka is adept at the use of both conventional firearms (showing exceptional aim, such as successfully firing at a small lightswitch several feet away[12]) and Teslas.
    • Martial Arts: Myka is shown to be very competent at hand-to-hand combat.[13][14]
    • Swordsmanship: As she took fencing lessons when she was young, Myka is adept at swordfighting.[3]
  • Eidetic Memory: Myka has photographic, or eidetic, memory. She can perfectly recall anything she has heard or seen, even if only for a brief time.[15][16]
  • Extensive Knowledge: Myka has a vast range of knowledge on various subjects, ranging from language to history to literature to science. However, she lacks basic knowledge on things relating to pop culture, such as popular comic book characters.[1]
  • Multilingualism: Aside from English, Myka is fluent in at least six other languages: Chinese,[17][18][19] French,[5] Japanese,[20] Latin,[21][22] Portuguese,[23] and Russian.[3] She also has at least a rudimentary familiarity with Arabic[24] and Farsi,[20] and can read Greek.[25]

Personality[]

Myka likes puzzles[21] and skating because it helps her think.[5] She does not eat sugar except under stress, which likely stems from her strong desire to do things by the book and retain a considerable amount of control over every aspect of her life. Her compulsivity and need for control likely stem from Sam's influence and subsequent death, and what she felt was her part in it. She used to be emotional, impulsive and quick to action,

"Twizzler Obsession"

"Twizzler Obsession"

but has changed since she worked within that particular Secret Service office. Myka has also begun to relax after working at the Warehouse indicating she may have found a balance between who she is and who she was. She also has a fear of heights (as mentioned in "The 40th Floor") and a fear of creatures that have tentacles such as jellyfish and octopi.[26][27] Myka also seems to have a soft spot for animals since she took in the ferret Pete and, acording to Pete in The Greatest Gift, "can't watch a movie where an animal dies." In the first two seasons, she also has a strange obsession with "Twizzlers".

Trivia[]

  • The name "Bering" is a name for a strait between Alaska and Siberia, named for Vitus Bering, who worked for Peter the Great and led the first European expedition to sight Alaska in 1741.
  • Her right ankle bears a tattoo of an infinity symbol.[28]
  • Her left ankle bears a tattoo that reads "Simply the things I am shall make me live", under the date 03/09/04 (March 9th, 2004).[29] is a quote by the character Parolles in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. [30]
    • Interestingly, the play's protagonist is named Helena.
  • Myka's favorite coffee is a "large Americano with an extra shot and room."[31]
  • She cried when the Gooery "barfed" on her for the first time when flushing it out.[32]
  • Coincidentally, Myka's ex-lover (Sam Martino) and Pete's ex-wife (Amanda Martin) share nearly-identical surnames.
  • A warren, her father's name, is a term for both a network of wild rabbit burrows and, when artificial, an enclosed establishment for the purposes of raising rabbits for their meat and fur. Sam's nickname for Myka is "Bunny".[13][33][34]

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mild Mannered
  2. ↑ As shown in "Merge With Caution" Myka is part of her high school's graduating class of 2000. As students are 17-18 when they graduate high school, this would make her birth year 1982 or 1983. Further, by the third season, characters' ages would be retconned to be similar to those of their actors; Joanne Kelly was born in 1978 (which, if applied exactly to Myka, would make her 22 by 2000). Going by the show's uncontested established age, Myka would be 26-27 by 2009 (the first season) and 30-31 by 2013 (the fifth season). Going by her actress's age, Myka would be 31 by 2009 and 35 by 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Age Before Beauty
  4. ↑ Nevermore
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Magnetism
  6. ↑ "Myka remembered visiting the meadow as a child during a vacation to Manhattan. She had been disappointed to discover that sheep no longer grazed there." Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever, Chapter 20
  7. ↑ Myka: "I loved Anthony Bishop. He was a '40s crime novelist, hardboiled. I read every single one of his books when I was a kid!" (The Big Snag)
  8. ↑ Pete Lattimer: "You have been dying to play that role, haven't you?" Myka: "Since I was twelve!" (The Big Snag)
  9. ↑ Merge With Caution
  10. ↑ The Big Snag
  11. ↑ Myka: "Yeah. I was pre-med before I was pre-law before I joined the Secret Service." ("No Pain, No Gain")
  12. ↑ Trials
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Pilot
  14. ↑ Endless
  15. ↑ Beyond Our Control
  16. ↑ Lost & Found
  17. ↑ Stand
  18. ↑ Parks and Rehabilitation
  19. ↑ Cangku Shisi
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Warehouse 13 (Comic Book): Volume 1
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Claudia
  22. ↑ Endless Terror
  23. ↑ A New Hope
  24. ↑ The Greatest Gift
  25. ↑ Endless Wonder
  26. ↑ An Evil Within
  27. ↑ "Joanne Kelly Q&A - Part 1" (Comicon video), Hulu
  28. ↑ Duped
  29. ↑ File:Myka Ankle Tattoo Shakespeare.jpg
  30. ↑ http://www.fandomisinthedetails.com/joanne-kelly.html
  31. ↑ Buried
  32. ↑ What Matters Most
  33. ↑ Regrets
  34. ↑ Past Imperfect
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