Patricia Walker

Patricia Baxter, Patricia Hellstrom (Former Aliases)

Penelope Lovelight (Alias)

Bea Walker (Stepmother)

Mickey Walker (Brother)

Barry Dugan (Stepbrother)

### Marital Status

Separated (Daimon Helstrom, Estranged Husband)Divorced (Robert "Buzz" Baxter, Ex Husband)

### Affiliation

Defenders (Former Member)The Initiative (Former Member)

## Biographical Information

### Residence

Patsy's Apartment23 Mill Road

Brooklyn, New York City, NY

### Occupation

Small Business OwnerOccult Investigator (formerly)

### Employer

The Patsy Walker Temp AgencySelf-Employed (formerly)

## Background

### 1983 - 2006: Patricia Walker

Patricia Walker was born & raised in the dull town of Centerville as the only daughter of Joshua & Dorothy Walker, a comic book artist & writer respectively. While she was still a child her mother acted as her agent, helping her at modeling & commercial work. Dorothy always said her greatest successes in her life were daughter & her comic books. She even created a comic book named after her young daughter, featuring adventures of Patsy & her real-life best friend, Robert "Buzz" Baxter. The Patsy Walker comic book was very popular & continued for over a decade as Patsy grew into & out of her teens.

Patsy felt very strange about her mother's fictionalized exploitation of her & was relieved when the series ceased publication. Constantly exposed to comic books, Walker grew up to idolize the heroes her mother wrote about & even developing crushes on them. However, she ceased daydreaming soon after high school & marrying her childhood friend turned lover, Buzz when she was just eighteen. Instead of going to college like the other people her age, Patsy spent the years of her life on a number of military bases as her husband worked in the officers training program of the Air Force.

While her husband was assigned to a security post at the heavily government-subsidized Brand Corporation in New Jersey, Patsy witnessed a robbery. Stemming from her long idolization of superheroes, Patsy wished she could of did something to stop it. After her marriage eventually came to a bitter end, she decided to make her dream come true. She created her own costume, dubbing herself "Hellcat" & used her natural athletic abilities to fight crime.

### 2006 - 2008: Hellcat

Although she initially was going to join the Avengers, she met the Defenders & accepted their offer of membership. Hellcat became a core member of the loosely organized Defenders over the years. Through them, she met Daimon Helstrom, who joined the Defenders for a short time. They were long distance for a time when the Superhuman Registration Act was passed. Encouraged by She-Hulk, she became a registered hero & was dispatched to Alaska to serve as a member of The Initiative. After the Initiatuve was disbanded, Patsy returned home & she continued her relationship with Daimon until the two decided to get married. The two were married in Greentown, Ohio, where her father had moved to after her mother's death. The wedding was interrupted by her ex-husband Buzz but Helstrom easily subdued him. Together, they moved to San Francisco where they established themselves as occult investigators. In this capacity, they helped several superheroes in mystical problems.

Due to the separation from his Darksoul, Daimon grew increasingly weak & his demonic powers diminished. As he laid near death, Hellcat desperately used an ancient, dark spell book in order to summon Helstrom's father. Marduk agreed to restore Daimon's Darksoul but made Patsy break the protective pentagram to do so. Without the protection of the magic circle, Patsy was driven mad at the sight of the Darksoul reasserting itself in Daimon. Due to her insanity, Hellcat was placed in a death-like state.

Helstrom began battling his father and demonic agents to help Patricia. During this time, Helstrom's friend Jaine Cutter had remained by his side, hoping that her presence would "bring out the best" in him. Though still married to Patricia, he & Jaine became lovers for a short time. Meanwhile, Hellcat's soul was fighting an eternal battle in the so-called Arena of Tainted Souls. Helstrom was able to use his connections to go to Hell & was able to restore Patricia's body to Earth.

### 2008 - 2010: Hellcat

Pasty remained despondent & depressed due to her perceived failures in life & time spent in Hell. She nevertheless presented a good front, wrote an autobiography & began a book tour. She eventually returned to Centerville to find her high school rival Hedy Wolfe had joined with the corporation that was built upon the Patsy comics fortune & turned Centerville into a tourist attraction.

Still living a relatively normal life, Patricia continued writing some autobiographical novels instead. She formed a close friendship with other part-time heroines Angelica Jones, Felicia Hardy & Monica Rambeau. When Angel revealed she got cancer, Patsy was accosted by ex-husband Helstrom, who offered to remove her disease in exchange for having Patsy spend one more night with him. She grudgingly accepted, not knowing he would do so in Hell, where "one night lasts forever." A healed Angelica found Patsy's request for help in her computer & went with Felicia & Monica to Hell to rescue their friend. Helstrom only accepted to let Patsy go after she confessed she was not over him.

When attending a bookshop to finish her autobiography, Patsy saw that the old Patsy comics had been re-printed. The reissues had become wildly successful, leading to Patsy attracting undesired attention. She then decided to create a job agency for superhumans, running a few temporary jobs to get the money for it while pursuing legal action for the comics' rights. With the help of She-Hulk & Jessica Jones, Patsy recovered the rights for the comic by proving that the corporation got signature while Mrs. Walker was too medicated to properly process the request.

As of recently, Patsy does occasionally put on her costume but leaves most of the crimefighting to the full-time players.

## Romantic Relationships

* Robert "Buzz" Bactor: Boyfriend (1996 - 2001); Husband (2001 - 2005)
* Daimon Helstrom: Boyfriend (2006 - 2008); Husband (2008 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Acrobatics**: She is shown to be a highly skilled acrobat, being able to perform backflips off of walls, front flip into chairs & even use her acrobatics in combat. Due to her agility, acrobatics come naturally to her & thus make her a highly mobile combatant, which grants her a high edge in combat.
* **Firearms**: Hellcat is proficiently skilled in using firearms.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts:** As a child, Patsy began training in the self-defense techniques of Krav Maga. When she began crimefighting, she began training in boxing & incorporated her self-defense tactics into her fighting style.
* **Knives**: Hellcat is capable of using a knife in combat.
* **Magical Resistance:** Having spent time in the realms of Hell, she's learned about magic from repeated torturous exposure & was able to 'twist & slide free of it, like a cat' demonstrating the ability to tear free of magical bonds & cause magic to glance off her aura.
* **Magical Sight:** She also possesses a 'magical sight' which allows her to see through certain glamours & illusions caused by demons or demonic magic that even demons can't see. It also warns her of magical based danger & increases her sensitivity to magic which allows her to sense its location even at a distance.
* **Multilingualism**: Patsy is fluent in English & French.
* **Cat Suit:** As Hellcat, Patsy Walker at first wore a costumed outfitted with retractable case hardened, steel alloy claws on both the gloves and boots, enabling her to rend brick or stone potentially owned by Cat. She later replaced them with conventional gloves & boots. Hellcat occasionally employed her cable-claw, which straps to her wrist and uses a compressed-gas firing mechanism to propel a four-clawed grappling hook connected to a 30-foot length of steel-niobium alloy memory-cable (that coils itself back into its spool upon rewinding), which she used for swinging or tightrope walking.
* **Cable Claws:** Patsy could employ her cable-claws, which strapped to her wrists & used four-clawed grappling hooks connected to a 30-foot length of cables, for swinging or tightrope walking.
* **Hellcatmobile:** During her tenure as a Defender, Patsy also owned a sports car.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Strength:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Speed:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Occult:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Weapons:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Energy Projection:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Strategy:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Fighting Ability:** 5 - Learned / Exceptional

## Trivia

* She is best friends with Jennifer Walters & Jessica Jones. She is also close with Felicia Hardy, Monica Rambeau & Angelica Jones.
* She & Daimon are technically still married as neither has filed for divorce.
* Hellcat has a power ranking of 78, classifying her as Power Level 2 / Low Threat.

## Notes

* The original character of Hellcat belongs to the Marvel Universe.