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10 -50 as Leviathan |
Real Name: Marrina Smallwood
Alias: Leviathan
Occupation: Former adventurer, former queen of Deluvia
Legal Status: Citizen of Canada with no criminal record; citizen of Deluvia, now deceased
Identity: Although she has no dual identity, her existence is not known to the general public. She was publicly known in Deluvia
Place of Hatching: Newfoundland, Canada
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Thomas (foster father), Gladys (foster mother), Dan iel (foster parents’ grandson), Namor (husband), a number of children (identity unknown)
Base of Operations: Formerly Deluvia, Atlantic Ocean
Past Group Affiliations: Former member of Gamma Flight, Beta Flight, and Alpha Flight, former associate of the Avengers
Known Powers:
Amphibious Nature: Marrina could swim with Monstrous speed. One established power stunt was to swim quickly and create a vortex with a Shift-Z range that inflicted Unearthly damage. When in the water, Marrina’s Intuition increased to Amazing, as her skin could detect movement in the water.
Blinding Touch: The Plodex can secrete an oil through their skin that causes temporary blindness. The oil is of Monstrous rank and blinds for 1-10 rounds. This does not affect characters with protected vision (such as Iron Man).
Bestial Nature: Marrina could, through means known only to the Master, become a savage, bestial killer, a Plodex warrior. In this form, her fingers became claws (Excellent Edged weapon damage).
Leviathan Form: Marrina, through unknown means, vastly increased her size to Shift-Z growth, becoming a serpent several hundred meters long. Her abilities in this form were:
| F | A | S | E | R | I | P | |
| Mn | Rm | ShX | ShY | Fe | Am | Pr | |
| Health: 455 |
Karma: 56 |
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| Body Armor: Ex Hyper-Swimming: Shift-X |
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Talents:
None
Contacts:
Marrina had contacts with the original Alpha Flight, and no doubt could rely on Heather Hudson (Vindicator) if she requested her aid. Marrina was an associate of the Avengers, and knew Susan Richards of the Fantastic Four.
Role-Playing Notes:
Marrina had two diametrically opposed dispositions. As Marrina, she was a sweet and gentle woman; this was the product of her upbringing. Her Plodex nature, however, transformed her into a virtually mindless savage. The Marrina-self was almost always dominant, and fought the transformation, usually not successfully. As Leviathan, Marrina’s instincts were to protect her progeny. She claimed a large territory as her own, and sank fleets of ships to protect it.
History:
At least tens of thousands of years ago, an extraterrestrial race called the Plodex, having exhausted their own planet, set out to find new space. Starships containing Plodex eggs were sent to worlds whose dominant life forms were still in the early stages of their cultural development. A starship would land and rebuild itself into a vast colonization complex that was rooted into the planet. A hypnotic signal would induce representatives of each mobile form of life on the planet to come to the complex. The complex would then capture, dissect, and thoroughly analyze the physical and genetic structure of the most intelligent life form. That genetic structure would be imprinted upon the chromosomes of the cells of each of the Plodex eggs. The virtually indestructible eggs would then be fired out across the planet. According to Plodex biology, each egg is part of a pair, and the creatures which hatch from the pair of eggs grow up to be each other’s mates.
In addition, each hatchling has been genetically programmed for conquest.
One of these colony ships crashed in northern Asia on Earth during the Ice Age. Damaged by the crash, the starship fired off its supply of eggs before they had received their genetic programming to enable them to survive on this planet. One of the eggs landed in the ocean and drifted across its floor for 40,000 years. In order to survive, the egg became water permeable, and the adaptable creature within the egg became amphibious. The egg was finally discovered twenty years ago by fisherman Thomas Smallwood. His wife Gladys forced the egg open. The creature within the egg, still primed for genetic conditioning, instantly took on humanoid form as soon as it made contact with the cells of Gladys Smallwood’s body. Thus, Gladys Smallwood saw a humanoid infant hatch from the egg. They adopted the infant, whom they named Marrina. Marrina had been “damaged” in her hatching, and therefore had no conscious drive to conquer, nor was she dominated by savage instincts. Instead, she had a normal Earth girl’s personality.
When Marrina seemed to reach maturity, Thomas Smallwood’s grandson Daniel told James McDonald Hudson of the Canadian government’s Department H about her superhuman abilities. Marrina agreed to join Gamma Flight as a trainee. She worked her way up to Alpha Flight, the team of active agents, just as the program lost its federal funding. She joined Alpha Flight when it became an independently operated team of adventurers. It was not until after she joined Alpha Flight that she learned of her true origin through encounters with the Master.
Prime Namor of Atlantis invited Marrina to accompany him to Atlantis, and the two soon became lovers. In an encounter with the alien Collector, Marrina saw inhuman-looking, savage Plodex that he had collected on other planets and kept on his star ship. Marrina was disturbed to see these other Plodex.
The Master found the other surviving member of the Plodex on Earth, which had a monstrous form and was fully given over to its instincts to kill. The Master permitted the creature to commit a series of murders which the Alpha Flight member named Puck summoned Marrina to investigate. As she approached the creature, the chemical stimuli it gave off triggered her savage instincts once more. She returned to attack Puck, and then battled the Sub Mariner, who had followed her to Canada. The Master captured Marrina, Namor, and Puck and took them to his submarine. There the still-savage Marrina confronted the other surviving Plodex and came to believe it was her intended mate. When the Master’s submarine exploded, Marrina allowed Namor to think she had disappeared, and per haps been killed in the blast. The human part of her was overcome with shame over her savage instincts and the way she had wanted to give in to them. Believing herself to be a monster, Marrina left Puck to lead a solitary life at sea.
Having apparently overcome her savage tendencies, Marrina married Sub-Mariner and became queen of his new undersea kingdom of Belu via. Her happiness was not to last, however, as she transformed into a huge savage sea-creature called Leviathan. After sinking several fleets of ships and ravaging Atlantis, the Avengers hunted her down, and Sub-Mariner mortally wounded her with the Black Knight’s Ebony Blade. The Avengers uncovered a nest of eggs, which had already hatched, and an unknown number of offspring had fled into the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean. Marrina, whose body had changed back into its nor mal form, was then buried by the Sub-Mariner with the honor fitting one who had been his mate and an associate of the Avengers.