Zoey Taylor

## Origin and Living Status

### Origin

Mutant Neanderthal; resurrected by celestial beings, Zoey was given the ability to control energy, and was kept in a dormant state underground until she could be unearthed.

## Personal Information

### Base of Operations

Guardians HQ, underneath Greene Foundation HQ, Green City, MN

**Zoey Taylor**, is the public identity of **Zo-eiya Tayala**, better known as the superhero **Spirit Walker.** She is a Neanderthal shaman woman who was re-awakened after an attack left her in a dormant state for the past 150,000 years. She is an adept wielder of ancient Wild Magic which allows her to summon the spirits of ancient animals, communicate with nature and project herself as a ghost.

## History

Zo-eiya was born around 150,000 BCE, to a modestly sized tribe in what would become modern day Germany. Her childhood was normal for the time, nomadically following herds of Mammoths and Rhinos, which the men in her tribe would hunt. She spent most of her time with the other women, gathering plants and berries, hunting smaller creatures such as birds and rodents and learning how to treat wounds, care for the sick, pregnant and infants.

She would also spend much time with her father, who despite his hulking appearance and fearsome demeanor was always kind and gentle to her. He taught Zo-eiya how to work with wood, stone and bone, a craft she became quite talented with, often making toys and trinkets for the tribes children and wonderful sounding musical instruments to be played around the campfires. At these campfires, the tribe told hundred of stories and sang many songs, all of which she cemented into her memory. Unofficially becoming the tribes scribe, being able to remember everything from mythical epics, religious rituals and even simple hunting stories.

By the time Zo-eiya was twenty-one years old she had become the tribes shaman and medicine woman, as a part of her graduation to such a holy and important role in the community she had covered herself in elaborate tattoos of the all animals and mythical creatures that she knew of, as to bring her closer to the Star Spirits who the tribe worshipped. But it was also around this time when tragedy struck, while hunting young mammoths, the hunting party was itself ambushed by a huge, and infamous Eurasian Cave Lion. The cat mauled her father, nearly to death, before the rest of the party could drive the predator away. They brought him to their settlement and laid him before Zo-eiya, who immediately rushed to save his life. She did everything she could, and it seemed as though he was going to recover. But alas it was not meant to be and the man she loved most in the world died in her care, telling her how much he loved her and how proud he was before passing.

In a fit of grief Zo-eiya ran off into a nearby cavern where the tribe often painted stories and legends to be alone. As she grieved in the depths of the cave, the same Cave Lion attacked again, this time sending the mammoth herd from before stampeding into the village, destroying it all, and sending a rockslide down into the cave similarly crushing Zo-eiya and blocking the cave entrance from the outside world.

But it seemed that the Spirits took notice of her plight, as that night they descended to the Earth to repair her broken body, and imbued her with great spiritual power and life energy. But they could not interfere with the living world to move the boulders, so there she sat in a dormant state. Waiting to be unearthed

When she was reawakened she fell in with the wrong crowd, Louis Holmes’ gang, they commited petty crimes using her powers until they convinced her to give them their own powers. Once she granted them powers they began commiting greater crimes. Eventually Zoey learned the gang was just using her, and she ran away. Eventually becoming friends with several heros including Avril Bylilly and Nora Steele.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Ghost Abilities** - Including levitation, intangibility, invisibility, possesion and shape changing. Along with the added bonus of being able to scare enemies who fear ghosts or the supernatural
* **Life Energy Projection** - Zoey is able to control Life Energy with great skill, often firing it in solid beams or throwing it as fist sized orbs. She can also summon the spirits of creatures that have been tattooed on her body and craft constructs of pure life energy for them to inhabit for short periods of time.
* **Nature Communication and Florokinesis** - Zoey can commune with animals, and speak with intelligent species. She can also commune with and (to a limited extent) control plant-life.