Post by Felicia Hardy on Jun 20, 2008 7:41:27 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Canon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): Marvel
Characters civilian name: Felicia Hardy
Code names/Aliases: Black Cat
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Vigilante (?)
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Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Apparent Age: Early to mid 20's
Hair: Platinum blonde
Eyes: Green
Height and weight: 5'10", 120lbs
Appearance: Felicia is a slender but firm young woman, and notably tall for a female. She has light skin, and often wears a pale pink skirt, and a white long-sleeved button up shirt w/ a medium pink vest.
Picture [if available]:
(Would you believe this is the only decent sized pic of her not in costume I could find?)
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Super Powers: The Black Cat currently possesses no superhuman abilities, though she does uses various high tech equipment and inventions of the Tinkerer that do give her various augmented abilities.
* Peak Human Strength: The Black Cat's costume increases her physical strength to levels beyond the natural limits of a woman of her weight and physical build. In fact, her strength is increased to the maximum of human potential, enabling her to lift approximately 800 lbs with maximum effort.
* Superhuman Speed: The Black Cat's speed is similarly enhanced, though to levels that are slightly beyond the capabilities of the finest human athlete. Over short distances, she can sprint at a top speed of about 40 miles per hour.
* Superhuman Agility: The costume she wears also possesses various implants. Without these implants, she has the agility of an Olympic level gymnast. However, the implants augment her natural agility to levels that are beyond the capability and physical limits of the finest human athlete.
* Retractable Claws: The gloves of the Black Cat's costume contain retractable, metal claws at the tip of each finger. These claws are highly durable and razor sharp. They can also be fired from the gloves in the form of grappling hooks, with which she can scale large buildings with ease.
Learned Abilities: She is an Olympic level athlete and is a highly skilled, Olympic level gymnast. She is also trained and well versed in several martial arts styles and is an accomplished and experienced thief.
Equipment: Black Cat Costume: The costume she currently uses was designed by the Tinkerer and is designed to increase many of her natural physical attributes.
Weaknesses (Must Have): Can still be harmed like any other human.
Background: The Black Cat's father was a world renowned cat burglar who, before his arrest, encouraged her to never settle for second best. If she loved basketball, she should work to become a basketball player and not just a cheerleader. During her freshman year in college, Felicia was date raped by her boyfriend Ryan. Hating the idea of being a victim, she decided that despite the consequences she would murder her rapist. She put aside her studies and began training in various fighting styles and acrobatics. Finally, after months of preparing, she set out for revenge, but before she could find him, Ryan was killed in a drunk driving accident. Furious that she was denied the chance to steal the life of the man who had stolen hers, and feeling reckless, Hardy decided to utilize her new skills to follow in the footsteps of her father. After amassing a fortune in stolen items, Felicia chose to adopt a costume identity. She first donned the Black Cat costume in order to break her father out of prison. On the same night, she met Spider-Man. Despite her antipathy towards men, Felicia felt a kinship with this lone hero. Spider-Man was the first man she felt she could trust and she grew to love him. Felicia looked for a way to earn his trust and continued with the Black Cat persona as a misguided attempt to attract his affection. Seeing the good in Felicia, Spider-Man made every attempt to have her criminal record expunged.
The Black Cat finally found the opportunity to prove herself after learning the Kingpin controlled an incredibly powerful detonator. The Owl planned to use the weapon to hold New York City hostage. Doctor Octopus, however, planned to use the weapon to destroy the city altogether. But the Black Cat was able to use her abilities to steal the item first and protect it from all parties. She gave the detonator to Spider-man and became the target of Doc Ock's revenge. Although Spider-Man was able to tear off his mechanical appendages, Octopus was still able to mentally control them and hold the Black Cat still while his men opened fire. Spider-Man barely got her to the hospital in time and as they operated on the dozens of bullet and knife wounds, Peter realized just how much he cared for Felicia. After she recovered they began a relationship and soon Peter revealed his identity to her. But Felicia had great difficulty accepting the fact that Peter was just a man beneath the mask and couldn't understand his need for a civilian life. Peter was hurt, but continued the relationship since it was the first time he didn't need to hide his life as Spider-Man.
Initially, the "accidents" which seemed to befall those who crossed the Black Cat's path were merely well-planned stunts and traps. After her near-death experience in Spectacular Spider-Man #75, Felicia feared her lack of superpowers made her a liability for Spider-Man. She was terrified that his overwhelming need to protect her would eventually kill him. So when Spider-Man disappeared during the "Secret Wars", Felicia sought out a way to make herself Spider-man's equal. After being rejected by the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, Felicia was offered an opportunity to undergo a process similar to that used to create the Scorpion and the Fly. After learning the machine only had enough power to alter one more human, the Kingpin chose to use it on the thief who had stolen from him. Scared and ashamed, she kept her new abilities secret from Peter. Her newly-gained 'bad luck' power was infectious and began to permanently jinx Spider-Man, which was exactly the Kingpin's intent.
Feeling a wall of secrets growing between them, Spider-Man broke up with Felicia. He soon realized something was amiss with his own luck and enlisted the aid of Doctor Strange to remove the "hex" on him. But doing so altered the hex's source and changed the Black Cat's powers in the process. She soon found a heightened strength, agility, balance, vision, and retractable claws.
The Black Cat updated her look and her attitude and rekindled her relationship with Spider-Man. She made peace with his need for a normal life as Peter Parker and stood by him while he was being accused of murder as Spider-Man. Together they tracked down the source of the elaborate scheme to frame him and fought the mercenary known as the Foreigner. Eventually, just as his life seemed to be falling apart, Spider-Man came home to discover Black Cat discussing her plans to ruin his life. He followed her to find she had never forgiven him for breaking up with her and in revenge became the Foreigner's lover. Yet during her ruse and despite her anger, Felicia began to fall back in love with Peter. In the end, the Black Cat double crossed the Foreigner and left for Europe to find a new life, which unexpectedly pushed Peter to find support and a new relationship with Mary Jane Watson.
Years later, the Black Cat returned to America to seek out Peter Parker and was devastated when informed by Venom that Peter had married Mary Jane Watson. Angry and jealous, Felicia began harassing the couple, physically threatening Mary Jane and taunting Peter as she dated his friend Flash Thompson. She began to sincerely care for Thompson but he eventually broke up with her when he found out her secret. The Black Cat eventually moved past her feelings of anger and jealousy, and became friends with both Spider-Man and Mary Jane. After Spider-Man used a device to remove his superhuman abilities, the Black Cat aided him in finding the device again in order to restore them. But in the process, the Black Cat's cat-like abilities were completely erased. She subsequently purchased equipment from the Tinkerer to incorporate into her costume in order to compensate for her lost abilities, and occasionally teams up with Spider-Man.
At some point after this, Black Cat - along with the mutant Wolverine - was kidnapped and forced to survive against multiple assailants on an uninhabited island. They managed to survive many traps, including the volcano in the middle of the island errupting, and tracked down the one who kidnapped them, Arcade. They easily tracked him down and left him tied up on in the Savage Land.
When WW III came about Black Cat, though no longer a super human, left to join The Untouchables. Before the war was over she had lost many people she had come to know as friends.
Felicia returned home to New York, and went about her usual ways as a vigilante and occasional partner to the wall-crawler.
Personality: Felicia is a kind person, and also a bit fragile with certain people. As Black Cat she's rather different; she's a little racy, more daring, and more violent.
Other: Spotworld is still your master
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Brief Sample Roleplay
Felicia Hardy sat on her bed in her notably large, upper-class NYC apartment in nothing but her bathrobe. She had just taken a shower after a brawl with an old enemy--The Spot. Last time she fought that guy she had Spider-Man by her side, and she still lost. Things hadn't changed much between now and then. Spot was still able to defeat her, and he got away with a huge diamond.
"Stupid Spot." She muttered as she rubbed her sore cheek, and then walked over to her closet. She opened up the doors to the walk-in, and looked inside to try and find something to wear when all of the sudden she heard sirens not far away. She had purchased a police radio a while back, so when the cops went by reporting to the Station she heard something she really wished she hadn't.
"We're in pursuit of the suspect, now. He's...Riding on the back of the car in front of us. He's a freaky-lookin' one, too. White with black spots all over him." The radio sounded.
"Stupid Spot." She muttered once again, and then quickly got into her costume. ~Okay portal boy, let's rock.~ She thought to herself as she jumped from her window, and then shot a grappling device from her right glove, which stuck into the ledge of a near by building allowing her to swing after the thief.
