Amanda Reed

## Background

### 1986 - 2008: Amanda Reed

Amanda lived a somewhat normal life. Nothing extraordinary happened in her life. She went to school, got passing grades & was part of a few clubs through high school. Things didn't really change for her until her mother died when she was sixteen, shortly after her the school year ended. The circumstances of her death were unknown at the time (and still are).

After her mother's death, her father became increasingly abusive towards her. He had picked up a bad drug habit & became an alcoholic to cope with his wife being gone. Amanda picked up more random jobs to keep her away from the house but they mostly all ended by nightfall so after that, she was stuck with her father. As a last resort, Amanda became a prostitute to keep money in her pocket & keep herself away from her father.

She was on the streets for nearly half a decade when she was kidnapped by Daemonites. She became their test subject, forced to go under various experiments for the next two years. She was constantly injected, probed & cut open in the name of their research. Her final experiment would be the Cabal combining an ancient symbiote to Amanda to test the reaction it would have on her body & physiology.

The symbiote would take the form of a bio-metallic suit that granted her various powers. The powers were mostly vampiric in nature. Now with more power than her captors, Amanda killed multiple members as a revenge for her suffering of the last two years. Leaving the compound, she decided her name was no longer Amanda & took on the name Taboo.

### 2008 - 2011: Taboo

She then went on the run, doing her best to avoid Daemonites & strangers in general. In addition, she struggled controlling her bloodlust when around large amounts of people. She eventually landed in the Midwest, bought a cabin under an alias & did her best to live in seclusion. For almost a year, she succeeded before the Daemonites found her again & brought her to one of their compounds in the Arctic. They placed her in a chamber specifically made for super-powered beings & she remained incapacitated for most of her time there.

### 2011 - Present: Taboo

Amanda was eventually freed after the compound was infiltrated by the WildCATs, a team of Kherubims & metahumans working to take down the Daemonites. Amanda remainded with the team as they helped to nursed her back to health. She also worked with Zannah to help control her bloodlust. On her last day with them, she encountered a friend of the team named Marc Slayton. She was quite taken by the man & ended up spending the night with him. Though they both went their seperate ways in the morning, the two continued to rendezvous over the laste decade.

Outside of her personal life, Taboo has become a one man team in taking down Daemonite cells, though she does frequently work with the WildCATs when they cross paths.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Vampiric Symbiote**: Her powers are the result of a vampiric symbiote being bonded to her. The symbiote can manifest itself as a bio-metallic suit. When the suit manifests, it drains Amanda of small amounts of her blood to power itself, giving her a pale-white complexion. It also gives her green eyeballs with no visible pupils.
	+ ***Claws***
	+ ***Hypnosis***
	+ ***Enhanced Durability***
	+ ***Enhanced Strength***
	+ ***Longevity?***

### Weaknesses

* **Power Instability**: Because the symbiote is powered by blood, the suit normally drains her & leaves her with porcelain-white skin.
* **Blood Lust:** In the presence of people bleeding, the symbiote can take over & try to kill them by draining their blood.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* She's been arrested for prostitution before.