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Real Name: Medusalith Amaquelin
Occupation: Royal interpreter of Attilan
Legal Status: Citizen of Attilan
Identity: Medusa does not use a dual identity. The general public is unaware that she is an Inhuman
Place of Birth: Island of Attilan, Atlantic Ocean
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Quelin (father), Ambur (mother), Crystal (sister), Karnak, Gorgon, Triton (second cousins), Black Bolt (husband), Luna (niece), Pietro Maximoff (brother-in-law)
Base of Operations: Attilan, Blue Area of Earth’s moon
Past Group Affiliations: Royal family of the Inhumans; former Member of the Fantastic Four and Frightful Four.
Known Powers:
Prehensile Hair: Medusa has the Remarkable rank ability to use her hair like a series of tiny tentacles. Her power is telekinetic in nature; despite its ability to move, her hair is almost identical to normal human hair. However, it is 12 feet long and more resilient than normal (Incredible Material Strength). She can per form the following stunts at no cost:
• Handle objects with Incredible Strength and Agility.
• Perform up to three actions simultaneously using her hair alone. However, Medusa is unable to perform any concur rent non-hair actions.
• Attack her opponents up to one area away at Incredible rank, with Remarkable damage.
• Move along the ground 3 areas per round, or Climb at a speed of 2 stories per round.
• Rotate her hair like a propeller to create Excellent intensity winds.
Weakness:
Pollution: Like all Inhumans, Medusa is susceptible to the air pollution of the modern world. She must make an Endurance FEAT each week or become Incredibly ill. Reed Richards has invented a serum that negates this weakness.
Talents:
Medusa has Martial Arts C when she uses her hair in combat. She is the only one who can read Black Bolt’s body language well enough to understand him; she is his interpreter (there is a 1-round delay when Black Bolt speaks through her to another character).
Contacts:
Medusa is the queen of the Inhuman Royal Family, and a former member of the Fantastic Four. Also a former member of the Frightful Four, she has cut off all ties with that organization.
Role-Playing Notes:
Medusa is a fiercely loyal Inhuman, a true warrior queen. She is proud to the point of arrogance, and has viewed life as a series of simple conflicts, black against white. She believes that people have used that world-view to trick her in the past. She is absolutely devoted to her husband, Black Bolt, and to the traditions of the Inhumans, even to the point of fighting her closest friends to protect them.
History:
Medusa was the first of two children born to the Inhuman nutritionists Quelin and Ambur. Her father Quelin was the brother of Rynda, wife of Agon, king of the Inhumans, and as such she has been considered part of the Royal Family. Medusa’s parents elected to expose her to the mutagenic Terrigen Mist when she was an infant, and the process endowed her with hair that she could animate like added appendages. While still in adolescence, she began to make frequent visits to the isolation cell of her second cousin, Black Bolt, and learned to communicate with him in a special sign language. Medusa and Black Bolt developed a special bond between them that blossomed into love when Black Bolt was first allowed out of his cell at the age of eighteen.
In the aftermath of the first coming of the Trikon, Medusa left the Inhumans’ Great Refuge. Afflicted with amnesia sustained in an air crash, the Inhuman wandered Europe, committing petty thefts to get food to survive. Her animated hair soon brought her unwanted attention and eventually the American criminal called the Wizard heard rumors of her. Locating Medusa in Paris, the Wizard brought her to America and enlisted her in the Frightful Four, a band of criminals he had organized. Grateful to the Wizard, Medusa went along with the criminal activities of the Frightful Four. When the group battled the Fantastic Four, all but Medusa were captured. Medusa’s public exploits enabled Black Bolt and the other members of the Royal Family to locate her. Seeing them again restored her memory, and they were all taken back to the Great Ref uge by the Seeker, an agent of Maxi mus.
When Black Bolt regained the throne, Medusa renewed her betrothal to him and served as his royal interpreter. She has remained at his side seeing the Inhumans through one of their most tumultuous periods in history. Medusa has taken short journeys from the Inhumans’ base Attilan without Black Bolt, once when she engaged Spider-Man in battle, another time to thwart the reunion of the Frightful Four. Other wise she has only left his side for a period of months only twice. The first time she joined the Fantastic Four to take the Invisible Girl’s place on the team during her estrangement from her husband. The second time, she was taken captive by the criminal Enclave, who sought to conquer AttiIan.
Medusa has recently wed Black Bolt, after the customary several year royal engagement period was over. She and Black Bolt are expecting a child.