Silver Swan

Nessie (Nickname)

Patient #87171-M (Alias)

Valerie Beaudry (Aunt)

Helen Deneiros (Aunt)

## **History**

### **Vanessa Kapatelis: 2002 - 2016**

Vanessa is the daughter of Greek anthropologist, Julia Kapatelis and her late half-Scottish/half-Greek husband, David. Vanessa was born while her parents were working in Scotland, near Loch Ness. In honor of the fabled lake monster (which considering all the other crazy stuff in this world, I wouldn’t be surprised if “Nessie” turned out to be real), Julia wanted to name her daughter “Nessie”, but compromised with David and named her Vanessa instead.

While Julia and newborn Vanessa remained in Scotland, David soon left for Africa on a last-minute expedition with a number of colleagues to investigate the Urzkatagan tribe. David would never return, having died in the African wilderness and was buried there.

Shortly after losing her husband, Julia Kapatelis took her young child with her across the Atlantic and immigrated to the United States, settling in Gateway City where Julia took a job at Gateway University as a professor of anthropology in addition to a role as a consultant at the Gateway Museum of Antiquities.

It was through her mother’s friend, and a former colleague of her father’s, that Vanessa met Cassandra Sandsmark who was the daughter of Helena Sandsmark, the curator of the museum. Cassandra was a few months older than Vanessa and the two became good childhood friends, despite their odd pairing. Where Cassandra was athletic and beautiful, Vanessa was more academic and bookish. As teens, their friendship waned.

Of course, as fate would have it. Vanessa made friends with another daughter of Zeus. In 2010, when Diana of Themyscira had become aware of an amulet that the god of war, Ares was seeking, she turned to Vanessa’s mother for help several times, and eventually, Vanessa became well-acquainted with the amazon princess, as Wonder Woman, and as DEO Agent Prince. The two became sisters of sorts, with Diana taking an invested interest in Vanessa’s life.

Eventually, Vanessa learned that Cassandra was Diana’s half-sister and the two reconciled over their shared relationship with Diana, with Vanessa becoming Cassie’s confidant and closest friend. Then, in 2016, when the girls were starting their freshman year of High School, Nessie vanished.

### **Silver Swan: 2016 - Present**

In the fall of 2016, Vanessa was abducted and her whereabouts were unknown for months. Unbeknownst to us, Vanessa was kept imprisoned in a secret location and was subjected to mind-altering drugs, forced steroid injections, hypnotic brainwashing, and cybernetic augmentation. All of this added up to transform Vanessa from meek college girl to the Silver Swan.

In midst of the Reach Invasion, Sivana Industries announced the creation of a new corporate crimefighting team due to the Justice League's strong disdain for the Reach at a time when the aliens seemed universally praised. Part of this Everyman Project (Infinity Inc. was Silver Swan. None of us recognized Vanessa immediately, but Diana was left with an unshakable feeling about this new "heroine" and when she made a point to confront the winged beauty personally, she realized it was Vanessa... but bringing Vanessa in would not be easy.

The brainwashing and nanites had done a good job of making her convincingly seem to be enjoying this new identity for herself. When pressed into questioning about what had caused this, Vanessa pushed back, at first just by saying hurtful things about Diana or her own mother, but eventually, she became violent. Still, even after Vanessa sonic blasted Diana halfway through a bank vault door, Diana did not give up on her and continued to pursue her... and when the Infinity Inc. revealed themselves to be more like the Sinster Inc., Diana doubled her efforts.

Finally, Diana was able to find a way to defeat Silver Swan. Disabling Vanessa's wings, Diana refused to fight back, instead taking whatever blow Vanessa could deal, all the while telling stories about what made Vanessa Kapatelis a remarkable young woman. Silver Swan then finally hit Diana with a sonic scream which causing Wonder Woman to collapsed from exhaustion. Yet, before Vanessa delivered a fatal blow, Cassandra came and fought Vanessa. Eventually, Cassandra entangles Silver Swan into her lasso delivering a powerful bolt that severally fried her somehow causing a system reboot in Vanessa's cybernetic body. Vanessa's conscience found a way to bypass the coding and brainwashing. Helping up a battered Diana along with Cassandra. Vanessa stayed her clawed hand and picked up the inhibitor collar Diana had brought.

Turning herself in, Vanessa is now a patient at Arkham Asylum, where doctors are hopeful that they can find a way to remove all the nanites and subvert the brainwashing.

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

### **Powers**

**Technoorganic Physiology:** Vanessa was force subjected to mind-altering drugs, forced steroid injections, hypnotic brainwashing, and cybernetic augmentation. Silver Swan possesses nanite enhancements that provide her superhuman strength, endurance, wings, and durability. Silver Swan can also interface with computers. Built into her body-armor were a computer generator, sound amplifier/white noise cannon, and special programming adapters that allowed him to interface with other body extensions.

* **Nanite Manipulation:** Using the nanites injected into her blood, Silver Swan is able to give herself a variety of abilities by manipulating the tiny robots into performing tasks. Her bloodstream is primed with nanites, which can often enhance her physical performance allow her to manifest special abilities. The techno-active bodily fluids flushed throughout Fantomex's system program his conscious mind to believe in absolutely nothing greater than himself.[24] Not love, not god, not teamwork; making him the dysfunctional epitome of strength for the sake of strength. This makes him to the godly influence and most conceivable forms of mind control out there giving him the depth of will needed to push through with his mission.