HARDY, FELICIA // Black Cat

DESCRIPTION:

Felicia is tall and athletic young woman with a fit and toned physique. She possesses just the right amount of curves to be considered alluring. Although a natural blonde, presently Felicia has cut her hair into a short Mod style bob with heavy thick bangs and died it to be more of a brunette to separate herself from her Black Cat persona. She has light green eyes and a pale complexion. Her clothing as Felicia is more demure, stylish but simple. She layers her clothing more as Felicia and is less inclined to be seductive in her attire. Classic Chic is the best way to describe her style when not rooftop hopping and breaking the law. As the Black Cat though, Felicia is more risque, flirtatious and seductive in her clothing opting for a more fitted form hugging cat suit with a deep plunging 'V' that fits her like a second skin. Her cat suit is trimmed with white fur. As the Black Cat her hair is white and falls in long wavy layered locks. A black mask, clawed gloves and long boots complete her thieving ensemble.

PERSONALITY:

Much like her Style and clothing, Felicia's personality differs as the Black Cat. Her Black Cat persona is bolder, dauntless and cavalier at times. She is playful and Flirtatious. she takes what she wants and PURSUES it with a focused determination. In her eyes she always gets what she wants and isn't accustomed to not achieving what she aspires to. She is cunning and witty with a lethal streak if you cross her. She is intelligent but likes to play games. she has a love for danger and is thrilled when teetering on the edge of death. As the Black Cat Felicia is able to let her inhibitions go and is more of a free spirit doing what ever it is that her whims take her. in essence, the Black Cat is Felicia's alter ego.

The Black Cat is a sensual person by nature and allows Felicia to explore her more primal side. The Black Cat persona is partial to the gratification of the senses, though not ruled by it she enjoys the stimulation of her senses; from the sight and scents of lush gardens and beautiful flowers or aromatic foods, to the feel of the breeze against her skin and the touch of silk or furs, the sound of her favorite song playing or the thrill and rush of adrenaline from doing a death defying feat or scoring a big heist. Every nuance of a given moment is taken in by her and not squandered. as is her nature, not one detail is missed as she enjoys the moment. She loves to 'feel' life, not just live it. This draw or desire for the sensual is also an indication of her free spirit.


This free SPIRITED part of her also leads her to be more impulsive. Both as Felicia and the Black Cat, follow a personal moral compass that does not adhere to the standard moral code society has. Felicia is guided by her own morality and skewed version of justice and fairness, acting accordingly. Felicia is a just and fair person (in her own way) and though her intentions are generally 'good' her methods sometimes blur the moral line.

As Felicia Hardy (her civilian persona), Felicia is more demure, quiet, seemingly introspective and reserved but still very driven. She will still have fun but is not as flirtatious or forward as the Black Cat and she's more inhibited in her civilian persona. There always seems a quiet calm about Felicia however that isn't to say she is a push over because she isn't. whether as the Black Cat or Felicia Hardy she is not one to wilt and cower away. She's strong willed, self-sufficient and independent with a chip on her shoulder against the rich and those seeking to prey on the weak. She is a sucker for the underdog or dark horse.


Felicia isn't one to blow up with a temper, in fact she’s a seether; keeping her negative emotions pent up and releasing it in rather vindictive ways. But keeping her temper in check DOESN'T mean she’s a door mat. Felicia will push back if she has to as she DOESN'T take crap from anyone, she just DOESN'T see the point in exploding in a fit of anger for every little thing; she chooses her battles and she makes one hell of an enemy if you cross her. Her temper will flare though if she’s been pushed too far. 

The tragedies in Felicia’s life have taught her to roll with the punches and always land on her two feet, which is exactly what she does. From the difficulties as a child going from a life of wealth to poverty or dealing with certain underworld crime lords Felicia has learned quickly how to adapt to any situation; life was ever transient for her so she takes nothing for granted. Even the traumatic event like the death of her father who she had the strongest connection with, Felicia refused to fall apart. She is not the type to fall into the role of a victim in any circumstance; her pride prevents her from it and instead she throws up a good front and will always work her way through any turmoil or personal pain gritting her teeth and bearing all but making sure all the while that when the dust settles she ends up on her feet.

POWERS:


Probability Field Manipulation


Felicia has the ability to affect the probability fields around her to cause impossible or fluke events to happen. In essence Felicia is able to produce a 'bad luck' effect on those she deems a danger to her. This means that anyone within her immediate area that she perceives as a threat is susceptible to freak or strange occurances such as guns exploding or jamming, people tripping on objects or over themselves, things falling from the ceiling etc or something to come apart or collapse. Felicia's probability field manipulation is a type of aura that invisibly emanates from her, this means that there is a latent side effect of causing bad luck to befall anyone she spends long periods of time with.


ABILITIES:


Expert Thief: Felicia is a very skilled thief having mastered the various disciplines. She excels in sleight of hand, stealth, lock picking, escape artist, evading security systems/alarms, infiltration and cracking safes.


Olympic Level Athlete: Felicia has the speed, agility, stamina, physical endurance and reflexes of an Olympic level athlete.


Skilled Martial Artist: Felicia trained in martial arts notably Goju-ryu Karate and capable of taking on multiple assailants.


PARAPHENALIA:


Black Cat Costume: Felicia under the employ of the Kingpin has acquired some equipment, designed by the Tinker to aid in her criminal activities, all of which are designed to enhance many of her physical attributes far beyond human levels utilizing microservos
embedded within her catsuit.


    • Enhanced Human Strength - The Black Cat costume amplifies Felicia's physical strength to beyond her natural limits allowing her to lift a maximum of 800lbs with considerable effort

    • Enhanced Speed - The Black Cat suit amplifies Felicia's speed to beyond the abilities of a peak human athlete allowing her to sprint over short distances at a top speed of 40mph

    • Enhanced Agility - The Black Cat costume contains various micro servo implants allowing Felicia the agility to levels beyond the capacity and physical limit of an elite level athlete.

    • Retractable Claws - The gloves of Felicia's Black Cat suit contain steel micro-filaments that condense and polarize to form retractable claws. The claws are durable and razor sharp allowing Felicia the ability to rip through most substances and scale walls.


Equilibrium Earrings: Felicia's earrings affect the balance centers of her brain to give her enhanced agility and balance. It increases her natural equilibrium and allows her to successfully perform feats beyond the capabilities of an elite athlete.


Electromagnetic Contact Lenses: These lenses allow Felicia to see in the various ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum i.e. infrared, ultraviolet etc. When wearing the contact lenses Felicia's eyes look more blue than green which is her natural eye colour.


Grappling Hook: Hidden beneath the fur of her gloves is a grappling hook which enables her to swing from building to building in a manner similar to Daredevil or Spider Man minus the speed either of the two mentioned heroes can perform. Felicia is also known to use this cable as a tight rope, wall scaling device, a swing ling or as a combat weapon.

Born in Queens New York to a privileged family. Felicia at the beginning had the ideal life growing up having afforded all the luxuries in life as a child she grew up with the upper class. In high school she was a relatively popular cheerleader and respected athlete. At face value Felicia seemed to have the perfect life, but her family had a dark secret; their wealth was amassed through her father's thievery. The Hardy fortune it seemed was actually a result of her father's career as a world renown cat burglar. When finally apprehended and sentenced to jail, Felicia's world crumbled. Her family was disgraced, her friends turned on her, none of their former social contacts wanted to have anything to do with them. Ostracized by the rich elite and being cast off and ridiculed so quickly Felicia grew to dislike the upper class and ever since has held a certain contempt for them.


While her mother left New York to return to her family in DC, Felicia stayed in New York where her father was imprisoned visiting him and keeping his spirits up. Prison didn't agree with him and Felicia could not stand to see her father incarcerated and wanted to get him out. She was very close to her father and since his capture she had dedicated her life to following in his legacy. She lived with various friends of her father's learning from them what her what she could along with her father's tid bits of knowledge he passed on to her. She wanted to be like him and one day once she was capable enough she was going to perform the biggest heist in her life; stealing her father and getting him out of jail.


Felicia trained for years and by the time she finished her senior year, she was on her way to become the ultimate thief. With her growing track record, her cunning and seductive allure Felicia managed to slowly grow her contacts and edge over competition to land her in criminal circles even her father had not yet BREACHED. And after the three years of consistently brilliant heists and managing to elude authorities she caught the attention of Kingpin who had the young teen doing the odd heist for him here and there; slowly gaining a reputation as a capable young thief.


As all this with Fisk was going on Felicia was still trying to be that girl her mother and father wanted her to be so while she did heists at night, she still went to College. During her freshmen year in College she had gone to a party, was assaulted and nearly raped by a drunken student. She was aided by a young man named Ryan, but the drunken boy was of an affluent family who managed to prevent any charges from sticking. Ryan as well was from a well off family but didn't seem to care about Felicia's family history. They became good friends then started dating but the traumatic events of that Frat party freshman year made Felicia initially uneasy with that kind of intimacy however Ryan was more determined and one night slipped something into Felicia's drink making her unable to really fight back and her protests were in vain. She didn't even bother going to the authorities knowing her word against Ryan's would end up much like that drunken student the year prior, so rather than go to the authorities and be a victim, Felicia decided to murder Ryan regardless of consequence. She put aside her academic studies and concentrated on training in various fighting styles.


As she trained and plotted to kill Ryan, Fisk decides to hold a contest of sorts the Kingpin offered a prize to the winner of enhanced superhuman abilities to the one who could perform this 'ultimate heist'. Seeing this as her opportunity to gain abilities that could finally help her get her father out of prison and kill Ryan, Felicia entered into this unconventional competition in an effort to secure the only chance in attaining superhuman abilities. With it though it also meant she would have to work for Fisk in return which in Felicia's eyes was a small price to pay so long as she could get her father out of prison and kill Ryan. She won the competition and underwent the grueling process similar to that used to create the Scorpion and the Fly and became Black Cat. Unfortunately for Felicia it didn't give her enhanced strength or anything like that but rather she gained the ability to 'jinx' people i.e. Probability manipulation. The enhanced abilities she attained in the form of the Tinker's creations. He had created for her a specialized cat suit, earrings, gloves and contact lenses to aid Felicia in her burglaries as she stole for Fisk.


After months of preparation Felicia finally was going to kill Ryan, stalking him and deciding to take him out just as he was going home from the club. As she followed him from the shadows waiting for the best time to strike Ryan was hit by a drunk driver that swerved off the road. The fluke accident killed Ryan and robbed Felicia of her ability to kill the young man, though unknown to Felicia it was her probability manipulation heightened by her loathing of the boy that caused the drunk driver's car to swerve off the road and hit Ryan.


Robbed of her ability for revenge she concentrated on getting her father out of prison. As the Black Cat Felicia attempted a prison break getting her father out and as they were escaping and her anxiety heightened by the gun fire all around them, her probability manipulation triggered and while it saved Felicia from being struck, the ricocheted bullet struck her father, killing him. Filled with grief Felicia wanted her 'jinx' ability removed but Fisk was neither able to nor did he want to. He made good with his end of the bargain and made very sure Felicia kept up hers.


Not wanting to be under Fisk's fat thumb, and partially blaming him for her father's freak accident, Felicia plotted to get even with Fisk. Wanting revenge and to be free of Fisk once and for all, Felicia decided to steal a priceless tablet and relic that Fisk was going to use on his comatose wife. Felicia was trying to use it as leverage to bet free of the man once and for all, but had no real intention of giving him the real artifacts. Felicia's negotiations with Fisk fell apart and the man sent his best Assassin to retrieve the artifacts at all costs and in a desperate act to get away, Felicia leaped out into the harbor with the tablet and Zodiac key. Elektra threw one of her sais as Felicia leaped and it broke the tablet and pierced her chest, sending the thief over the edge with the mystical tablet and all Felicia remembered after that was the stabbing pain, flashes of light as she fell into the water and then waking up in this dimension.


Now the Black Cat, without a leash is free to roam the streets at night, but then the question is, what's a cat like her to do in a large city like this?


NOTE: This history is a mixture of some 616, the ASM2 bio for Black Cat, Ultimate Marvel and a few others. Here be the Reference Links:


FELICIA HARDY WIKI-LINK
FELICIA HARDY (EARTH-616)
FELICIA HARDY ASM2 GAME
BLACK CAT WIKI 

She had bypassed his security yet again and managed entrance not only to his building but into his private office where she sat upon his desk in a less than demure pose. To say he was shocked would have been an understatement, no one ever dared break in to Wilson Fisk’s private office mostly because it was near impossible to do so and was pretty much equivalent to a death sentence, successful or not. But then again she was the daughter of Walter ‘The Cat’ Hardy, one of the best cat burglars in the world what did anyone really expect, for her to use the front door? And the way she lounged languidly along his expensive desk in a promiscuous pose with what most certainly was the much sought after ancient tablet Fisk was after and the Zodiac Key twirling about her finger provocatively before a backdrop of the deep ‘V’ of her suit that Felicia figured would have made her break and enter forgivable. Well almost forgivable at least he didn't kill her out right, first he 'suggested' she hand over the tablet and Zodiac Key, then resorted to some banter and negotiations which her feminine allures did not work (at least on fisk) so surprise surprise Felicia was left with the short end of the stick and forced under the thumb of the Kingpin once again. That was when things went from bad to worse because Felicia had just about enough of working for Fisk and wanted out, but thing about working for one of the most powerful criminal masterminds in New York; there was no 'out' unless he said so and that 'out' usually entailed you ending up washed up in the harbor somewhere or in pieces in a dumpster.


~Yeah...just 'my' luck.~ Felicia thought as the resounding unified clicks of semi-automatic guns pointed her way. She had to admit, it gave her a moment's pause to sit up and arc an eyebrow at the powerful man known amongst the criminal underworld as the Kingpin. Yeah flaunting that she had the tablet he so coveted was probably a bad idea in hind sight Felicia mused as she crashed through the glass window of Fisk's office while Fisk's men dealt with jammed or misfired guns.

~Yup, just my luck.~ she smiled this time at the men all fiddling with their guns or cursing at the misfire of their weapons. She had just enough time to wink at fisk and cast him a sassy smirk before she leaped out of the man's office window sending shards of glass spraying out into the streets glittering like sequence beads in the night sky. Thunder rumbled and roared as lightning flashed, the rain pelting the leather gear she wore and making the rooftops just that little bit more precarious and slippery.


Still with fleet of foot and balance Felicia ran across the roof tops deftly flipping and leaping over obstacles and on occasion using her grappling hook to swing herself onto a hear by roof top that otherwise would have been a difficult leap to. She looked back through a mass of white hair to check behind and maybe she shouldn't have as she witnessed a flash of red flitting through the rooftop shadows.


A cold sense of dread chilled her realization struck that Fisk had unleashed his death hound after her. ~Elektra!~


That was the last thought she had as the lightning flared and crimson and silver flashed before her just as Felicia tried to make a break for the harbor. Her ability must have somehow worked its magic because the deadly assassin's sai did not strike true with the killing shot and the crimson assassin slipped and fell on a loose edge but the weapon broke through the ancient tablet and impaled itself into Felicia's flesh and the tablet splashed into the dark cold harbor water just as Felica's body followed suit. There was a bright and vibrant flicker of lights and a loud roaring crackle in the sky that felt and looked to Felicia that the heavens were being torn asunder.


Cold, ice cold water prickled her skin and filled her lungs causing Felicia to panic and sprawl for the water's surface. Breaking out of the water Felicia gasped frantically for air and when the sputtering panic subsided managed to pull herself out of the water and fall upon the harbor front drenched, trembling and exhausted but alive. Bloody, cold and wet but alive but where was Elektra to finish her off and why was it sunny all of a sudden and not dark and rainy like it was a few seconds ago?

USER NAME: Nat

YEARS RPING: 6+ yrs

REFERRED TO BY: MTS I think

OTHER: Black Widow