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I'm finally done Goober's character-amalgam-challenge!
I got around to it finally today, and, though it's not very well written, I'm done.
It's an amalgam of Mystique and The Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena...li_%28comics%29
EDIT: Oh, and I used Leatherdemon, Martian's Batman/Daredevil amalgam in mine. Don't sue!
Helena Darkholme
A.K.A Shadow
While there is no positive date to mark her birth, Helena was suspected to have arrived in this world around the turn of the century. She has been a survivor since the beginning- born literally on the streets of Gotham city, it is a miracle she lived.
It was a hard life, to be homeless, and there was more then one instance in Helena’s early life where she was forced to go hungry for days. She learned to steal as early as was conceivable. Thievery served as a way of life, a way to survive, until she was fifteen. That’s when everything changed.
Helena always saw this as just another tragedy in her life. She is thought to have been one of the earliest mutants to ever exist on earth. Her skin turned blue, her hair turned red. At first that was al. But, soon enough she found out that the changes in her appearance didn’t matter. Because she could change it.
The next five to ten years were spent mastering her abilities. She could get close to people, hear things she wasn’t supposed to hear. It was through following this path that she learned about The Clan. An underground, covert group of mutants that sought to commit acts of questionable legality in the name of mutant kind. Tired of living under false identities, locating The Clan and becoming an operative became one of Helena’s main priorities.
Helena rose quickly through the ranks of The Clan. Her inherently deceitful mutant powers, combined with her natural talent for both martial arts and weaponry proved to be invaluable to the organization. Having lived a hard life, she had few moral qualms over assassinating those she saw as evil. Dubbing herself Vengeance, she spent the next third of her current life (for she does not age), as a prime agent for The Clan.
Then, one fateful day, she returned to headquarters to find the lead-filled corpses of her comrades. It was told to her by the surviving agents that, as a recourse for being victimized over one of their latest missions, The Gotham Mafia had caught them off guard and killed about half of the members. In a flurry of hate-filled tears, Helena left to return to Gotham, from where she had been absent for over thirty years.
Set on her deadly mission, Helena slowly picked off members of the criminal organization. But she knew it was not enough. The span of influence that the Gotham Mafia held was overwhelming, and just picking off the extra members was not enough. She began a deeper, undercover infiltration of the mob. It was through this action that she came face to face with Leatherdemon.
Leatherdemon turned her life around. She cut off any connection with the mob or The Clan, and worked as his partner. She struggled, but gained progress with him. Killing people was now unusual for her. She no longer sought revenge. And they became a famous crime fighting pair. She dropped the name Vengeance and became known as Shadow.
Then came what seemed to be the last horrible event in her life. Shadow got one last shot at killing the head of the Gotham Mafia. And, if it were not for Leatherdemon, she would have killed him. After that, Shadow and Leatherdemon split. But they both still kept Gotham’s streets safe.