Mandy Karkofsky

**Mandy Karkofsky** a.k.a as **Nighthuntress** a.k.a **Calico** is the wife of Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciless they both dated after the end of both serious relationships and got married and live in Falconcrest City. She was transformed into a vampire after an impromptu resurrection and now serves as both hero as well as villain.

**Appearance**

Mandy is a lovely Eurasian woman of mixed European and Korean descent. She has long black hair, pale skin, and sculpted cheekbones with a athletic well-muscled frame. As a vampire, these qualities have become even more pronounced.

As both Night Huntress and Calico, Mandy prefers dressing in tight black leathers and a long trench coat to cover her form. She wears a domino mask in both cases to conceal her identity.

**Powers**

As a human being, Mandy was trained from near-birth to be an agent for the Foundation for World Harmony. As such, she has a genius-level IQ, computer-hacking skills, shooting, acrobatics, tactical, and martial arts training. These qualities atrophied a bit when she was convicted of a felony and lived a civilian life for years.

As a vampire created by *The Book of Midnight*, Mandy possesses the ability to transform into a wolf or bat as well as mist. She has enhanced strength, speed, and agility. She can create claws that can harm superatural beings as well. As a first generation vampire, she also does not die from sunlight but is merely weakened. Mandy does, however, loathe holy symbols as well as requires the soil of her homeland. She also no longer shows up in mirrors.

While possessed by Spellbinder, she was able to use magic but lost this ability when the spirit was exorcised.

**Pre-Superhero History**

Mandy was born the daughter of Colt Colton, Agent of the Foundation. Trained to follow in his footsteps, she had a rebellious streak that seriously irritated him. Her first major disappointment of him was when she got pregnant on his assignment to Londonium and gave birth to a child that was promptly put up for adoption. Mandy would later attend Falconcrest City University where she would become lovers with The Black Witch as well as lead singer in The Black Furies.

After being convicted of a felony while aiding The Black Witch, Mandy was restricted from ever becoming a Foundation Agent and eventually become lovers with fellow student, Gary Karkofsky. Mandy settled into a life of mundanity until he received The Reaper's Cloak in the mail. This was actually meant for her as superhero, Sunlight, determined she was the Falconcrest City citizen best suited to become the next Nightwalker. Inspired by Gary's antics, she decided to become a non-powered superhero.

**Superhero History**

Working with Ultrgoddess and her team of ex-supervillains, Mandy attempted to protect the citizens of Falconcrest City from a zombie apocalypse started by the Brotherhood of Infamy. Unfortunately, she was killed fighting a dragon and promptly resurrected by Gary using the Book of Midnight. The process stripped her of the positive elements of her soul and Gary became obsessed with recovering her spirit.

Merciful: The Superhero with MercyTM eventually bound deceased superheroine Spellbinder to her body and said spirit impersonated her for years, gradually developing her own infatuation with Gary. Gary did not reciporcate, though, and eventually sent her to Hell. Mandy was aware during Spellbinder's possession of her and experienced much of the rebooting of the world under Merciful's direction. Her body also aged out of the "terrible first century" of unlife and she regained control of her hunger.

While still hungry for blood, she no longer had to kill during feeding and soon returned to living with Gary as his lover. Their marriage somewhat strained by Mandy's own questions of self-loathing, Gary's children with other women during her "death", and the differences in their lives since then.