Casanova

> "Are you kitten me? That's purrfect!"
>
> One of Casanova's copious cat puns.

**Casanova Cat**, also known as **Bad Cat**, is a supporting character, and a founding member of New Heart City's **I.M.P**. Casanova is an unusual and mysterious feline that has the ability to speak, and somehow is able to use an Aspect. Generally a lesser known member of his gang, and often used as a spy due to his unsuspecting appearance, his strength comes from his strategic mind and tactical Aspect, rather than physical stats. Because of the simple fact that he is a talking animal, Casanova is seen as the comedic relief among the group.

## Biography

Casanova's past is largely a mystery, even to himself. In his own words, he just "woke up in the middle of the street one day". Sometime before the beginning of the story, Izaiah recruited him into I.M.P because of his unique biology as regular looking animal with effectively a human brain and an Aspect.

## Personality

Just by being a cat, Casanova by default has several generally negative traits about him. Nova has a superiority complex, and usually thinks that he is automatically better than everyone else around him. He subconsciously sees his peers as his 'minions', which he sometimes shows in his actions and words. He can be commonly described as an asshole, as he talks down to others unprovoked for no particular reason, and refuses to do even small favors for others without some kind of reward. He is also very sarcastic, and is extremely quick to frustration. Nova likes to talk himself up to those that he knows are gullible enough to believe him, but often fails to put his money where his mouth is without extreme luck on his side, as he is not built for physical strength, and is quick to flee when he thinks he'll lose. He even spontaneously and frantically makes up excuses to not do things that he does not want to do.

However, when it comes to non comedic lies, Nova is genuinely skilled in the art of deception. He knows how to lie without lying, and has mastered the necessary speech and body language skills to get anyone to believe what he needs them to believe. While he may not be the most trustworthy individuals, Nova would never use these skills on a trusted friend in a serious situation. As his gang's dedicated spy, Nova is also a master at acting like a normal everyday cat - although some of it is just involuntary. He chases lasers, plays with yarn, craves fish, hates water, and meows, yowls, hisses, and screeches, sometimes without even trying to. Also like a normal cat, Nova is relatively lazy if he already isn't in the heat of action, and usually needs some kind of persuasion to do what he's asked. He is rather cute, and he knows it - using this ability of his to his advantage, allowing him to get close to his enemies, and to get out of trouble with those that'll fall for it.

With the bad, comes the good. Nova is a lover of words - ironically, and considers himself a wordsmith. He loves alliteration and poetry, and most of his vocabulary consists of corny cat puts that he seamlessly adds on to his words. When he's not being rude, he can be genuinely funny and charming, a trait that shows itself more and more with time. Nova is very intelligent, mainly in streetsmarts. Though, he sometimes fails to see the obvious in some situations. He has a strategic mind that he uses to get by in combat rather than relying on strength. He is also shown to have a positive outlook on certain negative situations, mainly by refusing to act upset, but to be happy that something happened in the first place. This is perhaps due to his experience with bad luck.

## Appearance

Casanova's appearance is not much to speak on. He is a black cat with green eyes. His head has tufted fur on his cheeks, and he has a pink nose that stands out among the darkness of the rest of his body. His tail is somewhat bushy, and the tip of it has a curved, vaguely scythe-like extension. On both his forearms, there are two white patterns painted on that resemble a heart when his arms are together - like when he's sitting down. As his position as a spy, Nova can be fitted with certain devices (such as communicators, microphones/listening devices, etc), but they would have to be in the form of something inconspicuous to help his disguise as a normal cat - such as a collar or a cone.

Casanova's tail shape.Casanova trying to be cute.Casanova being stern.

## Powers and Abilities

### Bad Bad Luck

Casanova has the ability to wield the forces of luck. However, because his ability is an Area of Effect type, the medium in which he activates it rarely ever matters (aside from two instances), and is usually just for visuals. He refers to the effects of Bad Bad Luck as **curses**. These abilities of "Bad Luck" visually take the form of what looks like purple (or sometimes white) electricity, and purple haze-y gas. If Nova wants to curse a specific object or person, he needs to tag them with an electric-like projectile. The affected will glow and highlight in order to show others roughly what is about to happen, before the glow fades. If he wishes to affect a large area, Nova fires a condensed line of gas from his forehead or mouth that stops and expands when it's reached it's target area. If he wishes to curse the general area he is standing in (or anyone/thing too close to him), he can go about it with either method. Depending on what is cursed by Bad Bad Luck, any myriad of bad things could happen. The more unlikely it is to naturally happen, the more Karma Nova will have to use to see it through. An important thing to note about this Aspect is that he is only capable of making highly improbable things occur - not impossible things. Meaning that the probability of his curses are always somewhat grounded in reality.

**Ex**: *Nova uses this ability on a bucket of water on top of a ladder. It takes barely any karma, because it likely would've fell without his influence, anyway. On the other hand, an opponent's gun jamming just as he's about to shoot is extremely unlikely.*

These minor reality warping abilities even have the capabilities of influencing people to do certain things rather involuntarily, while they are none the wiser to what's actually going on. Such as causing someone to take a different route to a destination than they normally would, so that they run over Nova's opponent with their car. If the target's will is too strong, though (**Ex**: the person inside of the car needs to get to their destination faster, so they go the opposite way that Nova needs because that is the quicker way).

However, Nova's abilities do not only affect his adversaries. One's bad luck is someone else good luck, and Nova's bad luck affects both the enemy side, and his side, which grants both sides good and bad luck. Anything Nova casts onto the opponent will eventually be reflected back onto him, if not immediately.

**Ex**: *Nova makes a pipe burst near him to fill the room with steam in order to mask his team so they are less likely to be shot by the enemy side, granting THEM bad luck, which would technically be good luck for Nova. However, the steam now means that Nova's team cannot see where they are going, and have to just hope they don't get shot by the frantic opponents. Good luck for the opponents, bad luck for Nova.*

### Supercat Physiology

As a part of his mysterious origins, Nova seems to be a normal cat for the most part, except much more powerful than a regular feline, or a "Supercat" as he calls himself - akin to Superhumans. Nova would be about five times as strong as a normal cat, two times as strong as a normal human, but two times weaker than a Superhuman/Aspected. He is not only much physically stronger and faster than a normal cat, but he is also able to survive much larger falls, and can somehow imbue his claws with karma to lengthen, sharpen, and strengthen them to about the level of a high quality kitchen knife.

As a feline, Nova naturally has several non supernatural abilities that he can utilize as a part of his kit, starting with his ability to communicate with other animals. He is a predatorial animal, meaning that he has fearsome capacity to hunt down practically any species that he's gotten used to - thanks in part to his powerful sense of smell. Although, he may have trouble actually taking down anything that isn't smaller than him. By using his claws, he is able to quickly dig through dirt and sand to create tunnels for any supplementary use. Nova's entire body is covered in black fur, meaning that he is able to visually blend in with the coloration and form of his background to avoid sight. He's able to climb and otherwise move effortlessly and smoothly on angled or vertical surfaces - an ability that he is also able to use because of his claws. Finally, Nova is capable of using a "Nictitating Membrane", or a third eyelid, in order to protect his eyes while maintaining vision, because they are transparent. He also uses this as a form of intimidation in certain cases, as his eyes appear to go completely white when he does this. Another form of intimidation comes when he is in the dark, as because of the layers of Tapetum Lucidum in his eyes, they appear to be bioluminescent, which works very well alongside his ability to see in the dark.

### Slick Tongue

Casanova is a master of deceit. He is able to use anything at hand in order to make up a lie on the spot, and expertly uses the right deception skills, speech, and body language to send the right signals, and get his target to believe what he needs them to. He also uses the fact that he is a talking cat to sell his lies, commonly using the prospect that "If a talking cat like myself exists, is (blank lie) so hard to believe?". This grants him major leverage in his role at I.M.P's spy, and allows him to easily wrap anyone around his finger in a matter of moments.

### Tactician

Because of Casanova's awareness about his lack of physical power, he has developed a tactical mind in order to use his size and environmental aspect to his advantage, while not laying a single finger on his opponent. He can create strategies and plan several steps ahead of his opponents, and can elaborate complex plans and strategies that he can use not only in battle, but also in everyday activities such as games. He instinctively anticipates all possible obstacles and opportunities, and does his best to guess what the best course of action is to take in any situation. One of Nova's favorite strategies to pull off is ambush tactics. He utilizes this skill of his to maneuver around the battlefield while attempting to avoid damage.

## Weaknesses

Casanova's main weakness is that he can't target his Aspect on anyone specific, as it will eventually affect everyone on the battlefield simply because of it's nature. Depending on how bad the repercussions are, it could set Nova and his team back more than they expected, as it is almost impossible to anticipate what would happen - meaning those affected, including Nova himself - just have to guess what'll happen. Because of his size, Nova isn't meant to take many hits in combat. Meaning that his hit, run, and bad luck strategy has to work or else he'll be taken out of the fight.

## Relationships

### Izaiah Graham

Izaiah and Nova are relatively chill with each other. Izaiah finds it a little strange on the idea that he can speak and is weirdly intelligent, but finds him very useful regardless. The two tease each other sometimes, but it is usually in good faith, and is almost never genuinely malicious. Nova often affectionally refers to Izaiah as "Izzy".

### Jason Sunstar

Nova and Jason currently do not have much of a relationship, but it is noted on how badly their personalities meld with each other. For an unknown reason, Nova feels a weird sense of familiarity when around Jason, but he can't put a finger on it.

### Unit PXL

PXL finds Nova very cute, and often bothers him with things that a child would do with their pet cat, such as turning on a laser pointer and pointing it around everywhere. Nova finds this annoying most of the time, but it is starting to grow on him slowly. PXL is very gullible when it comes to Nova's fables about how powerful and famous he is.

## Trivia

* Nova comes up with cat pun based names for stray cats that he is friends with.