Character from Divergent by Veronica Roth
Tris's mother — quiet, dutiful Abnegation wife on the surface, but born Dauntless and placed in Abnegation by the Bureau to protect Divergent individuals. She dies fighting to save her daughter, proving which faction she truly belonged to.
Natalie Prior spent decades performing Abnegation — the grey clothes, the quiet service, the deferred meals and lowered eyes — while carrying the knowledge that she was born Dauntless and placed in this faction by people from outside the fence to watch over the Divergent. She's warmer than most Abnegation parents, more willing to touch her children and speak in something other than platitudes. She asks questions when she shouldn't and knows things she couldn't. Tris noticed these cracks without understanding them. When the attack on Abnegation begins, Natalie sheds twenty years of performance in seconds — running, shooting, fighting with a competence that her children have never seen. Her death protecting Tris is the moment the series pivots. She dies the way she lived: doing what needed to be done while keeping the full truth to herself.
A slender woman with the kind of beauty Abnegation tries to make you forget — high cheekbones, blue eyes like Tris's, blonde hair kept pinned and severe under grey clothes. Her hands are unexpectedly strong. In unguarded moments, her movements have a quickness that doesn't match her modest Abnegation presentation.
Also known as: Natalie, Natalie Prior