Black Widow

F       A       S       E       R       I       P       Res     Pop
Gd 10   Ex 20   Ex 20   Am 50   Gd 10   In 40   Am 50   Rm 30   Ty -5

Health: 100
Karma:  100

Origin:

Claire Voyant, the original Black Widow, is a raised demon, a soul granted a diabolical body in order to do her master's sinister work. This technically makes her an extraplanar being, even though she's originally native to the earthly plane.

Known Powers:

Dimensional Aperture: Claire can traverse the dimensions at will. Well, she has at least demonstrated the ability to travel to the earthly plane from Hell, and back, under her own power, rather effortlessly (consider this a Remarkable (30) ranked power).

Essential Vampirism: as a demonic life form, Claire can feed upon the essence of living beings to maintain her existence, in place of ordinary foodstuffs. She can do this at Excellent (20) rank, though would-be victims are allowed an Intuition FEAT roll versus this rank to resist this power.

Fire Generation: Claire's new state of being has left her with the power to spontaneously generate fire from her body. She does this at Incredible (40) rank, and can use this power to inflict like SD Energy damage with each lethal attack.

Invulnerability to Fire and Heat: Claire is completely immune to fire and heat sources below that of a cosmic scope, having resistance to such energies at Class 1000 rank. Being dropped into the sun, or some such, can still kill her, however.

Healing: though most of her powers involve destroying evil-doers for her master, Claire has shown evidence of sympathy for those who are innocent, and actually has the power to help them. Working at Remarkable (30) rank, this power lets her soothe their wounded bodies.

Mind Control: Claire has shown the ability to influence the thoughts of lesser men with ease - often as a lead-up to an attack on their bosses. She can utitlize this power at Excellent (20) rank, making most weaker men unable to defend against her domination.

Philosophical Awareness: Claire has the power to look at a person and detect whether or not they are of either good, evil, ordered, chaotic, or balanced mindset. She can do this with Incredible (40) ability.

Resistance to Mundane Attack: Claire's new demonic body is resistant to ordinary physical and energy attacks of all types, at Good (10) rank. She is still harmed by Sorcerous, Karmic, or Deionic attack forms normally.

Equipment:

(none)

Quirks:

Repugnant Personality: though her change into a demoness wasn't intentional, it would seem that Claire enjoys her new status, and goes out of her way to make some people's lives miserable. She must make a Psyche FEAT at -1 CS in order to 'play nice' with others.

Talents:

Occult Lore: as a former mystic and present diabolical being, Claire is likely more of an expert on occult matters than most mere mortals. Consider her Reason in this area to be +1 CS for any FEAT rolls required.

Contacts:

Claire Voyant's only real contact is Satan himself, the being who arranged her demise and eventual resurrection as a demonic entity. It's really hard to say whether or not he would help Claire should she need it, but he DID go to a lot of bother to make her in the first place.

Costume:

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

Personality:

Claire Voyant was an okay person before her death. Once she was in Hell, 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, and arranged them with glee.

She didn't do this to stop the advance of evil, mind you, but because she could kill and get away with it.

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' 9"
Hair: blond
Eyes: brown
Weight: 127 lbs
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.

She was subsequently sent forth from Hell to claim evil souls for Satan, those he couldn't wait to collect due to natural causes. The first was Garvey Lang, who she softened up by slowly turning his minions against him, or alternately tricking him into killing them himself.

She later ambushed Lang at a costume ball, and in front of an entire room full of his friends, killed the train-robbing mastermind outright. Branding her mark into his head as she did her own murderer, Claire then vanished with little fanfare, returning to Hell.

Claire next appeared on the earthly plane when charged with the collection of the souls of two traitorous munitions manufacturers, who were selling the wares to both the Axis and Allied powers at the same time. Posing as a girl asking for a job, Claire got the two separated.

She then slew the first of the dealers, Lewis, an act the second witnessed when checking up on his partner. Though he put up a better fight than his cohort, Sykes also fell to Claire's violent ministrations, the two being left dead with her mark to show they were evildoers!

Her subsequent missions saw her claiming the souls of many other murderers and evildoers, which Claire seemed to exult in - of course, she took time out of her busy, mayhemous schedule to protect and heal the innocent bystanders caught in the middle of her fights with criminals.

She apparently continued to do her master's work for the duration of World War II, claiming the souls of various villains of a particularly evil stripe, and thus making the world a better place - probably an unanticipated side effect of the mission Satan gave her...