The Apex Predator

The Apex Predator

* Unmasked
* First Suit
* Second Suit

Full Name
Angela Strigiade

Aliases
New Face of FearWhite MirrorFallen Angel of DreadTigress

Affiliation
Herself

Occupation
* Adventurer
* Private Investigator

Biographical Information

Age
Unknown (Appears 25)

Race
American

Species
Homo Superior

Place of Birth
Hell's Kitchen, New York

Relationships
* Nico Strigidae - Father
* Tessa Strigidae - Mother

Relationship Status
Single

Physical Description

Gender
Female

Height
5'10

Weight
165 lbs

Hair Color
Black

Eye Color
Brown (Luminescent Red when senses activate)

Power Grid

Intelligence
Tier 4 (+) - Angela has an eidetic memory and the power to draw all the knowledge, strength, and every experience from every previous Apex Predator.

Strength
Tier 2 (+) - Angela has the power to draw all the knowledge, strength, and every experience from every previous Apex Predator.

Durability
Tier 4 (+) - With the Apex Suit, Angela is able to withstand most attacks.

Speed
Tier 3 (+) - The Amulet can increase Angela's speed even further.

Energy Projection
Tier 2 - The Amulet allows her to project the tiger god as an energy-based attack or shield.

Fighting Skills
Tier 3 (+) - Angela has the power to draw all the knowledge, strength, and every experience from every previous Apex Predator.

**Origins**
*Angela is the scion of a long line of fabled mutant warriors. The saga of her ancestors is a tail of blood, fire, and the mutant struggle.*
*Her father, Nico, was a legendary swordsman and a brilliant scientist who single-handedly defined an entire era for the Hand. In early life. he was swept up in the struggle for the soul of the Soviet Union. First as a warrior the Revolution, then later against the Nazi invaders of the Motherland. Caught up in the euphoria of victory he never saw Stalin's betrayal coming. His Arcani network in ruins, badly wounded and drained of his resources Dantagon retreated into the shadows where he met Angela's mother, Tessa, the renegade Arashikage. Blessed with perfect genetics and the ability to infuse sharp objects with tachyons, creating event horizon blades, Shirzad (named for the Shirzad of Arcani legend) was a devastating warrior and ruthless killer. She saw something of value in the wounded Dantagon and offered him shelter in her isolated island stronghold.*
*There, among the renegade Arashikage's hand-picked warriors Dantagon begin to see his earlier Marxist views as naive and misguided. Stalin's betrayal had shattered his dreams of a utopia where humans and mutants lived in peace. There, rebuilding his shattered body and mind, he turned to the writings of a mutant he once rejected as too extreme. Asteria.*
*It was this turn toward extremism that brought Shirzad and Dantagon together at last. Bound together by the depths of real and honest love their bond was only strengthened by their radical philosophies. With no outside voices to sway them and no access to modern communications such as the internet, the pair increasingly saw their own extreme views as rational, even logical, until their value system was warped beyond recognition.*
*The pair turned themselves to self-improvement, knowing that even their abilities and skills would not be enough. Dantagon's brilliant mind discovered a way to fuse Shirzad's bones with living zythium using a retrovirus modified to alter her DNA and give her claws. This transformed the genetic paragon into something more; an unstoppable killing machine. While dwelling in Shirzad's island fortress, located in the far east, Dantagon applied himself to mastering several styles of eastern swordsmanship and martial arts as well as mind-altering meditative practices.*
*Eventually, the duo turned their attention outward. At first, they focused their attention on the one thing mutant powers did not give them: Money. A string of bloody bank robberies in eastern Russia and Japan cemented their reputation as bloodthirsty and a few clashes with the American forces stationed in Japan drew the attention of their first nemesis.*
*In the more modern years, Tessa gave birth to Angela and she and Nico both trained her from a young age to be this lethal weapon, and once she got of age, she herself found the Apex Predator Amulet which channeled the powers of a Tiger God for Angela. Hand operative The White Shado ambushed Angela in her own home and stabbed her through the chest, killing her, but only to resurrect her as a new Hand vessel.*
*From this point onward, Angela aided The White Shado in her crusade to break Murdock alongside Black Tarantula, Carlos LaMuerto. Carlos, possessing a healing factor, was immune to Hand conditioning and posed as an operative to stop Lady Bullseye's agenda and subsequently cured Angela of her own conditioning. When White Shado was cast out of The Hand for being untrustworthy and Murdock assumed leadership, Angela and Carlos stood behind him as his top lieutenants, but as time went by Angela ended up leaving Matt's side and started a life of crimefighting.*

 **Camouflage**  | The Apex Predator Amulet allow Angela to blend in with her surroundings if she remains perfectly still. Whilst not rendering her completely invisible to keen-eyed beings, they nonetheless make her easier to miss by average observers.

 **Tactical Analysis**  | Angela can perceive the information of any situation and use the variables of that information to predict/perceive the paths that lead to certain outcomes will occur, based on what choices are made. She can then accelerate herself (with the help of her amulet) along the path of their desire, which causes her to reach the conclusion of the path taken.

 **Katana**  | Angela uses a traditional Japanese katana as her weapon of choice. She has been able to take down many of her adversaries, and fight higher skilled swordmasters on equal terms.