PopClaw

Deborah Irvin (Aunt)

Madison Irvin (Cousin)

## **History**

### **Charlotte Irvin: 2001- 2011**

Charlotte Irvin never knew her father. Her mother told her he was a one night stand who got her pregnant. Charlotte had a pretty good life even though her mother would work late at her nursing job and she was left alone a lot by herself a lot.

Due to her less-than-stellar reputation and her behavior during her required school, Charlotte became known as Bad Betty. Rather than becoming insulted, Charlotte embraced it. Bad Betty was 10 years old when she accepted a post as a volunteer for her mother's hospital.

As a volunteer, Charlotte was responsible for folding up bedsheets and helping pass out food but was oversaw by her mother. Charlotte hangs out with patients who were said to be miscreants or troublemakers, but Charlotte came to think of them more as kindred spirits. During this time, Charlotte was recalled to another room without the supervision of her mother to clean up. But during the time some perverted patient was trying to get physical with her suddenly her powers emerge and she uses her claws to scratch him in the face. Hearing the screams of patient Abby soon saw her daughter and the bloody screaming man on the floor. Without thought, she got her daughter out of that room and called for help with that man. During the drive home, Charlotte's claws went back into her body.

After that incident, Charlotte's mother left her at her home so she would never get caught. But one day of these a top-secret program is known as The Farm kidnap her. Because they attempted to recreate the original Weapon V experiment that involved the feral mutant, Groundhog, they failed to secure a test subject who could survive the bonding process of the virtually unbreakable metal Titanium to their skeleton. Seeking to take the project in a new direction, the project's director, Dr. Melvin Stunner, recruited renowned super geneticist Doctor Sandra Kane and tasked her with creating a clone.

Using the only available genetic sample from Weapon V, which was damaged, they were unable to salvage the Y chromosome after twenty-two attempts. But when Doctor Kane discovered that she was the daughter of Groundhog she leaped at the opportunity of having Charlotte she convince Doctor Stunner to kidnap her. Despite resistance from his protégé Dr. Zane Reese, whom Stunner had raised after Reese's father had been killed by a bestial Groundhog at the original Weapon V Facility, Stunner allowed Irvin to proceed. They kidnapped Charlotte near the front of the hospital. Three years later, raised in captivity, V-23 was trained to be a weapon. Irvin did her best to ensure the child retained some semblance of humanity, but her efforts appeared to be in vain. Reese had V-23 subjected to radiation poisoning in order to accelerate the activation of her mutant gene, and forcibly extracted her claws and coated them with Titanium. Reese realized the child was growing soft, he blamed her sensei, one of the few people who treated her with kindness and tested a chemical compound called "trigger scent" on him. The "trigger scent" caused Charlotte to kill mercilessly anything in her path, and thus she murdered her best friend. Reese already had a replacement in the winds, a woman named Kagura. Kagura was harsh and strictly punished V-23 for the death of her sensei.

A few months later, V-23 was sent on her first field mission to kill Presidential candidate Greg Johnson. She was assigned the mission as somewhat of an "advertising" ploy. Numerous other missions followed as V-23's services were sold to the highest bidder. She was left emotionally stunted as a result. Her missions took her to locations all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, Las Vegas, Japan, Colombia, the Congo, and many others. For one mission she was assigned to pose as the Kingpin's niece and kill the ones who had captured her, bringing the head of their leader back. Reese, in an attempt to avenge his father's murder, abandoned V-23 on a particularly dangerous mission with A.I.M., but she survived against overwhelming odds and managed to return to the Facility. After her return to the facility, Kagura punished her for not coming back with Reese.

### **V-23: 2011 - 2016**

Ultimately, Reese persuaded Stunner to hand control of the program over to him, then secretly ordered V-23 to kill Sutter and his family. V-23 was able to kill Stunner and his wife but was unable to kill their son, Harold. Instead, she let him live. Later, Reese revealed to Irvin a chamber with dozens of incubation pods containing female clones before he fired her. Before fleeing the Facility with V-23, Kane gave her one last mission - destroy the pods and kill Reese. However, Reese was able to exact revenge on Kane from beyond the grave, as he had earlier exposed her to the trigger scent, sending V-23 into a rage that caused her to kill Sandra.

Charlotte and Sandra traveled to Queens, New York, and tracked down Madison and Deborah (her mother's sister). Charlotte as her daughter, she moved in with them as she was able to finally call her mother after three years. Although Charlotte experienced vivid nightmares of her abduction, her family believed these to be utter fantasies.

Deborah's boyfriend turned out to be an agent for the Farm who had been instructed to manipulate V-23 into killing Madison, and Deborah using the trigger scent; however, the agent fumbled the assignment and was killed by V-23. Facility agents stormed the house, led by Kagura. V-23 managed to get Madison and Deborah to safety by handcuffing Kagura to a radiator and then triggering an explosion in the house, buying some time. After V-23 and Madison parted, V-23 decided to confront the man who made her creation possible -- Groundhog.

### **PopClaw: 2016 - Present**

V-23 tracked Groundhog to Godokiln's mansion. One day after Lucas left the grounds, Charlotte confronted him, coming face-to-face with her biological father for the first time. She engaged him in a battle, defeating him via tactics and maneuverability, after which she told him she had come to kill him and then herself so no more mutant weapons like herself could be created. Lucas told her she could kill him if she wanted to, but he wouldn't let her kill herself. He also revealed that he was aware of V-23's ordeal, having received a detailed letter from her mother. The talk was interrupted when Solider Boy came to arrest Charlotte.

As a captive of O.M.E.G.A, Charlotte was interrogated by Solider Boy and Blindspot. Despite the mayhem in her past, Blindspot accepted V-23's innocence. Solider Boy wanted V-23 to atone for the murders she had committed. However, he ultimately freed V-23 in order to avoid O.M.E.G.A.'s exploitation of her as their own weapon.

She and her mother were put in witness protection by O.M.E.G.A. They resided in Yonkers, New York she went to Charles E. Gorton High School. With A-Train, Big Game, DogKnott, Gunpowder, and Shout Out. Still a teenager, PopClaw had two options to enter a team: either the Young Americans, a Christian-conservative team of moralists and do-gooders, or the Teenage Kix more rebellious and naughty. Obviously, PopClaw chose the second.  As a public figure, she appeared as a tormented and goth heroine, brutal with villains but caring with her teammates.

## **Appearance**

PopClaw is a voluptuous young woman, age-wise around Auntie Sis, who wears her black hair in a shave bob with bangs cut above her eyes. PopClaw wore a gothic-looking, overly revealing outfit matching the tomboyish personality she had at the time. She donned a dark, skimpy sleeveless shirt adorned, a pair of leather shorts held up by a studded belt with a demonic-looking buckle and thigh-high boots with stiletto heels, each bearing a skull adorned by a flower on their upper front parts. She also sported black arm warmers and dark nail polish. She's wearing a black lace choker and 2 chain necklaces attach with an ankh on it.

## **Personality**

PopClaw is a violent and arrogant young woman, a self-loathing teenager with too much rage in her to vent in healthy and appropriate ways. Even though she does have anger issues, Charlotte can be kind and heroic. After she shielded a little girl by taking several rounds from a machine gun to the chest and legs. She has a difficult relationship with her father which her teammates always jokes around calling them Daddy Issues.

## **Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Super Physiology:** Charlotte is a superhuman because she inherits her father's superhuman abilities.

* **Sciuromorpha** **Physiology:** Charlotte and her father Groundhog has abilities similar to the Marmota (Groundhog). This granted her superhuman strength, speed, toughened flesh, and numerous badger-like abilities.
	+ **Claw Retraction:** Popclaw is able to extend a claw from each of her wrists to act as weapons. She can retract them when not using them. The claws are naturally sharp and tougher than normal human bone, allowing PopClaw to cut through most types of flesh and natural materials.
	+ **Metal Bones:** PopClaw skeleton has been reinforced with Titanium.
	+ **Enhanced Athleticism:**PopClaw's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete. She is highly proficient in using parkour. Her agility is superior to Olympic-level athletes and other highly trained professionals in the field of gymnastics and acrobatics. She is able to move in any type of physical way flawlessly.
	+ **Enhanced Durability:**PopClaw her physical durability is extremely high, allowing them to take numerous blows of internal or external assaults before succumbing to the effects. She can withstand temperatures, pressures, punctures, and concussions without sustaining an injury.
	+ **Enhanced Reflexes:** PopClaw'shave drastically enhanced reaction speed, allowing her to dodge bullets, catch flies in mid-air, dodge and maneuver around complex attacks, catch falling objects, block detriments and react instantaneously to what others take more time to react to.
	+ **Enhanced Senses:** PopClaw has extremely accurate senses, allowing her to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel better than an average human. Her ears pick up every single sound, and can decipher layer upon layer of noise; has the ability to pick up a conversation from a mile away in a busy city. She can detect specific smells, and locate their origin. She's even been able to tell if someone is lying or sick by which smells they excrete. She has an extremely developed sense of taste and ability to detect poisons or other problems. She is able to taste all of their surroundings at once from a distance via air/water. She can feel so acutely that to rub the hand on a paper would be like reading the page, sensing every bump, ripple, or wave. She even is able to tell of distant occurrences felt through vibrations in the air, ground, and water. She has enhanced vision, allowing her to see with amazing clarity/detail, distance, or color, in the dark.
	+ **Enhanced Speed:**PopClaw can move much faster than the average human, beyond what can be emulated via natural training and with little to no maintaining. She is resistant to the effects of high-speed travel, including acceleration, friction, g-force, inertia, etc.
	+ **Enhanced Stamina:** PopClaw's muscles produce considerably fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than the muscles of an ordinary human. She can exert herself at peak capacity for about 24 hours before fatigue begins to impair her.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Popclaw is stronger than the average human. This allows her to lift objects on her own that would normally require multiple people, break thin chains or steel cuffs, bend metal bars, injure people/objects, and break down doors and walls with a single strike. She was able to squat-lift 900 pounds/408 kilograms (excluding the bar) on her shoulders.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Like her father Groundhog, PopClaw's primary superhuman power is an accelerated healing factor that enables her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human.  She is capable of fully healing injuries resulting in massive tissue damage and blood loss such as multiple bullet wounds, slash wounds, and puncture wounds within a matter of minutes. For example, unsheathing her claws causes her skin to tear and bleed, but the wounds are quickly dealt with by her healing factor.

* **Feral Mind:** On **Royal Blue**, PopClawtap into a primal instinctive state of mind, which can release an unstoppable rage that allows her to perform in vastly increased capacity, taking and inflicting damage that she couldn't or wouldn't in her normal state. She is more than wild animals. As she attacks Starlight because of this.
* **Pheromone Manipulation:** On **Royal Blue**, PopClaw possesses empathic pherokinetic abilities as well as an ability to mask her own scent to such a degree that even DogKnott senses are unable to track her. She can use her pheromones to manipulate the emotional state and sensory perceptions of other beings and has been known to use this power to instill intense fear, happiness, depression, fascination, and a false sense of security.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** On **Royal Blue**, PopClaw's healing factor was enhanced as she has also proven capable of regrowing half of her face on her own. Repairing both of her broken arms.
* **Superhuman Durability:** On **Royal Blue**, PopClaw's durability was enhanced as her body-tissue, skin, muscles, bones, etc. were extremely dense/solid, allowing her to withstand harmful forces on the body such as crushing weights, impacts, pressures, changes in temperature, etc.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** On **Royal Blue**, PopClaw's stamina was enhanced as her body is highly resistant to the build-up of lactic acid in their muscles, allowing her to be physically active for considerably longer periods of time than the average human. She can endure physical stresses beyond the capabilities of the greatest humans enabling her to do things such as operating on a "low power setting" (being able to operate efficiently for extended amounts of time), holding her breath for large periods of time, remain calm through stressful or painful situations, tolerate extreme hunger, unbearable thirst, and strong urges to sleep.
* **Superhuman Strength:** On **Royal Blue**, PopClaw's strength was enhanced as she accidentally crushed Alek, her landlord's skull between her thighs when he was performing oral sex on her (which requires a force of 520 lbs/235 kg/2,300 N). Her strength allowed her to defeat Big Game who's stronger than her naturally and hold her own with The Female of The Species for a while.

### **Abilities**

**Performance Arts Skill:** Charlotte possesses immense, skills in the performing arts (acting, sculpting, etc.). She possesses immense, if not natural, skills in acting. Her acting skills are so flawless that they can impersonate anyone, conceal her true nature from others, and can control her own emotions till the right time. She possesses great knowledge and skill in the art, such as painting a picture without any education.

**Superhuman Combat:** PopClaw possesses immense combat skills, both offensive and defensive, that far surpass other humans. Her skills are innate and honed. She encompasses claws, speed, strength, precision, reflexes, technique, analysis, control, adaptation, and all aspects of in her fighting.

### **Weaknesses**

**Hearing:** Due to PopClaw's enhanced senses, she is very sensitive to loud noises as she became temporarily deaf after a Shout Out use his powers on her because she was annoying him.

## **Trivia**

* PopClaw is based on Ravenger (DC Comics) & X-23 (Marvel Comics)
* Charlotte is openly bisexual but she only dates men and having only one night stands with women.
* A-Train and PopClaw have on/off a relationship.
* PopClaw got an Art scholarship for Columbia University
* PopClaw is studying to be an actress
* Charlotte is was in Rehab after Royal Blue
* Charlotte found appropriate ways to vent about her problems such as performing such as singing, acting, and sculpting
* She finally dumped A-Train after he didn't see her in Rehab