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Real Name: Maria
Occupation: Former Morlock
Legal Status: American citizen
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Probably New York City
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Thornn (older sister, real name Lucia)
Base of Operations: Abandoned Sentinel base in the Adirondack Mountains
Past Group Affiliations: Morlocks, X-Force
Known Powers:
Feral’s powers stem from her mutant feline body which gives her catlike agility, animalistic sensory perceptions, and superior fighting instincts.
Claws and Teeth: Her claws are made of Good material, and inflict Good Edged Weapon damage. If Feral’s arms were restrained, she could still use her fangs to bite for Typical damage. Her claws also enable her to climb trees or cliffs with ease.
Enhanced Senses: Feral has animal-level sensory perceptions, giving her Amazing sight, hearing, and sense of smell.
Night Vision: Feral has the catlike ability to see clearly in anything but total darkness.
Leaping: She can leap with Incredible (40) ability.
Prehensile Tail: Feral can grapple an object or opponent with her tail at Good Strength.
Tracking Ability: Feral has Incredible tracking ability.
Talents:
Feral is skilled in Acrobatics and, like the proverbial cat, she always lands on her feet, giving her the Tumbling talent. She’s also practiced in Wrestling.
Contacts:
Besides X-Force, Feral has relatives and contacts among the Morlocks (possibly even some who don’t want to kill her).
Role-Playing Notes:
Feral’s nature is similar to a house cat: when she’s relaxed, Feral is playful and eager for affection and approval, but she’s also capable of hair-trigger violence when rubbed the wrong way.
In battle, it seems likely that her primeval mammal brain becomes dominant; Feral begins to operate totally on instinct, thinking of opponents as prey and imagining them as animals to be hunted rather than real people.
She has a slight inferiority complex as a result of being tormented and forced to hide from her older sister Thornn. She is eager to prove to herself that she isn’t a coward. As a result, Feral is the consummate berserker, lacking any of Wolverine’s civilizing Samurai code. She won’t always try to kill her enemies, but has a bloodthirsty sense of humor and is fond of nasty moves like ripping out her foe’s tongue (“Cat got your tongue?”) with her claws. In a “friendly game” of tag between her and Shatterstar, she nearly disemboweled her teammate Cannonball when he tried to calm her down. Sam should have know better, as any one who has interfered in a cat-fight knows, this is a sure way to get scratched!
Outside of battle, Feral likes to sneak around, watching her teammates, and flirting with any handsome male heroes who share her taste in mayhem, especially Shatterstar (who she affectionately refers to by derivative nicknames such as “Shaggybuns”). Unlike many mutants, Feral seems to revel in her inhuman nature and appearance: she’s proud of her looks and powers, and is fond of idioms like “in the fur” and “to the bone” that emphasize her feline nature.
History:
Feral is a former member of the Morlocks, outcast mutants living in the tunnels under New York city. Since she was a baby, Feral was pushed around by her sister Thornn, who carried a grudge against her. Her early years were an endless nightmare of running and hiding from her sister mixed with the harsh day-to-day realities of survival as an outcast mutant. Her entire life has been a constant fight for survival on the most basic level.
Feral survived the Mutant Massacre which was perpetrated by Mr. Sinister’s Marauders and the ouster of Callisto by the malevolent Masque. But when Masque attempted to form an army of mutant Morlocks to attack the surface dwellers, Feral demurred, believing this was asking for suicide. When she refused to join Masque’s “army,” Feral was marked for death by the Morlock leader.
She fled to X-Force seeking allies against the pursuing Morlocks. Arriving the same day as Warpath and Shatterstar, she spied on X-Force and decided she liked their style. Seeing how Cable accepted Warpath, she made a similar pitch for adoption into their “family.” In return for X-Force protecting her from the Morlocks, she would join Cable’s war. Cable agreed, and she became a member of X-Force.
Feral’s first mission took her against the Mutant Liberation Force, where she inflicted serious injury on Stryfe and other MLF members before being reigned-in by Cable. Soon after, she found herself battling Harness and Piecemeal, Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy. The constant fighting and Cable’s attempt to restrain her bloodlust finally resulted in Feral snapping: she eviscerated Cannonball during routine training maneuvers. Although Cable was inclined to forgive and forget, this led to increasing tensions between herself and the rest of the team, especially Boom-Boom.
When the Morlocks teamed up with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Feral faced her sister Thornn in what she hoped would be a chance to pay her back for her childhood torments. Instead, Thornn defeated her once again before Feral and X-Force defeated the Morlock/Brotherhood alliance by killing Sauron and Masque. Thornn was sent back to the Morlocks in defeat, and they pledged not to attack X-Force again.
Humiliated by her sister and distrusted by her fellow teammates, Feral’s life just doesn’t seem to be coming together very well. Her savage temper has driven a wedge between her and her comrades, and her time with the team may be short indeed.