Strength 10x

Agility 7x

Intellect 5d

Willpower 10x

Hand Size: Edge:

4 (25) 2

Powers:

Dimensional Travel: Claire has the ability to cross from one plane of existence to another, and does so often. She can wield this power at intensity 10, and typically uses it to transport herself between earth and Hell. However, she's not limited to this particular path, and can likely appear in any dimension where her particular skills are needed.

Fire Control: one of Claire's new, demonic powers is the ability to generate and control vast waves of fire and heat. Working at intensity 12, this allows her to either fire blasts of flame or dampen existing flames by her power intensity. She hasn't demonstrated any power stunts with this ability as of yet, but since she no longer ages, it's only a matter of time before she does so.

Invulnerability to Fire, Heat, and Aging: Claire's demonic power over flames includes an inherent immunity to such energies. She can now ignore flames of any intensity. Furthermore, she seems to be effectively immortal, as long as she's not physically slain (again), so the aging process is likely a non-issue for Claire now.

Life Drain / Psychic Vampirism: as a demonic entity, Claire now has the ability to feed upon the life essence of others, effectively consuming their souls. She does this at intensity 8, and each successful attack against a target's Willpower score will drain an amount of points from said target's Willpower equal to this power intensity minus their current willpower score.

Enhanced Senses / Philosophical Awareness: though Claire lacks enhanced senses, per se, she does wield the extrasensory power of philosophical awareness. Essentially, this sensory ability grants her the power to look at a body and determine their primary philosophical bent (good, evil, order, chaos, or balance). She wields this power at intensity 14.

Hindrances:

Monstrous: though she wears rather slinky clothing most of the time, and apparently has the physique to do so, Claire's visage is inherently demonic, in that she has arched eyebrows and facial skin that appears slightly too tight. Should she show her face to mere humans, Claire has zero (0) Willpower for the purposes of keeping Edge zero (0) folks from fleeing instantly.

Skills:

Occult: as a 'psychic' before her untimely demise, and now as an extraplanar entity, Claire can be considered a natural with this skill, which represents her knowledge of the supernatural, including folks that walk in magical circles, forgotten lore, and artifacts of great power. If something occult is occurring, it's quite likely Claire knows what's behind it.

Calling:

Demolisher: after she was reborn as Satan's custom soul collector, Claire quickly evolved into a woman that delighted in the deaths of others, especially evil folks that she slays in the service of Satan. She doesn't do this to protect innocents or to destroy evil - she simply does it because she can - and because she likes to!!

Costume:

As the Black Widow, Claire wears a red form-fitting shirt with a black widow on it, rather short shorts, and boots with a flaming yellow fringe on the top. Oh, and a red cape. Not much, of course, but it works...

Personality:

Claire Voyant was an okay person before her death. However, once she was in Hell with Satan, she became a particularly sadistic and hateful being, not at all like other 'heroines' of her time. She positively delighted in the death of evil mortals, not to stop the advance of evil, mind you, but because she could kill and get away with it. She was quite an interesting character for her day and age...

Real Name: Claire Voyant
Occupation: minion of Satan (really)
Legal Status: American citizen who is legally dead
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: Madame Claire
Group Affiliation: none

Height: 5' 8"
Hair: blond
Eyes: ?
Weight: ?
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: she had a definitely diabolical look about her, with those arched eyebrows and the skin on her skull, which looked too tight. Oh, and don't forget the skulls that appear in her pupils when she kills folks.

Story:

The Black Widow's story began with the clairvoyant Claire Voyant (really), a psychic medium that is in the process of helping a family 'talk' to their dead father. Instead of manifesting his spirit (or a reasonable guess therein), Claire changed. Her eyebrows arched. Her skin got tighter on her skull.

Oh, and Satan was hovering over her shoulder. Really.

Speaking in the voice of Evil, Claire channeled a curse against the family that she was formerly trying to 'help'. Freaked out by all this weirdness, the family left, though the evil that is Satan blew their car off the road, killing all but one member of this family.

Believing Claire to be an evil witch, this last guy vowed to kill her, with subtle prompting by evil Satan himself, who watched as the homicidal man returned to Madame Claire's abode and abruptly gunned her down in a murderous rage.

As Claire died, Satan manifested himself in her home, frightening her murderer away. He then collected Claire's remains and took them through a 'path of eternal fire', a path that ended on a great ziggurat in Hell, where Satan raised Claire anew as the Black Widow!

After this, Satan gave the new Black Widow a tour of his house of pain, which included views of the souls of the damned, lots of fire, and other stereotypically hellish things. Claire then left Hell under her own power, in order to get revenge upon the man that killed her.

Manifesting upon the earthly plane behind her killer, who was himself mourning his dead family, the Black Widow slew her murderer by branding a black widow onto his forehead with her fearsome powers of fire. She then returned to Hell, her revenge complete.

Her next adventure placed the Black Widow on the trail of some crime boss, who she met in a costume ball. When he asked her for a kiss, she removed her mask so he could see what was coming to him, and then branded her trademark Black Widow burn into his forehead as well.

The Black Widow's final published appearance saw her taking down several evil munitions dealers, whose crime was selling arms to both the Allies and the Axis powers. Like her other victims, these two fools were dealt with easily, especially since Claire was much more poweful than they.

Using the Black Widow in other stories:

As a demoness, Claire doesn't have to worry about aging, and as such, unless somebody decides to kill her off, well, she'll essentially be around forever. This makes it easy to plug the Black Queen into any stories, set in either the past or present.

In her role as Satan's personal collecter of evil souls, she can appear in many different stories revolving around a hero group -- especially if she chooses to go after one of their villains, who promptly asks them to protect him or her from her death sentence.

That's not the only way she can appear, of course, especially with some heroes that aren't inclined to care about their foes meeting such a fate. However, it is a place to start from, if it is needed. And only one possibility, after all. Have a ball with the Black Queen -- she's a hoot!