Yolanda Montez (Wildcat)

# Wildcat

## Yolanda Montez

Wildcat

*Description Here ~ Tara*

    Yolanda Montez was born to Juan and Maria Montez in Blue Valley, Nebraska, where she would also grow up and attend public school. Along with her parents, she also lived with her cousin, Alex Montez, and their grandmother. Yolanda grew up as the ideal daughter, avoiding the problematic crowds, respecting their religious beliefs, and always getting good grades at school. Her parents wanted her to focus on her studies and go to college when she was older to make the most of the opportunities they were not given in Mexico. And for many years, she was living up to that goal they had set for her.

   Unfortunately, Yolanda’s sophomore year of highschool was when her life took a drastic change for the worst. With her averaging an A in every class she was taking, Yolanda decided to run for the student body president to earn some extra marks for her college applications. Yolanda was by far the favorite to win the position, being extremely popular among her peers and dating the school quarterback, Henry King. Her opponent, Cindy Burman, was known as the typical cheerleading bully, and was willing to stoop to any level to push out anyone that stood in her way. And that included Yolanda.

   The night before the two opponents were set to give their speeches to the entire school in one final effort to sway votes, Yolanda had been making the final touches on her script when she received a text from Henry asking her for a naked picture. While Yolanda was hesitant to do something so risky, she had been dating Henry for six months. She perceived the relationship to be serious, and ultimately decided she could trust him. So minutes later, she took the photo and sent it to him.

   That lapse in judgement would prove to be her own undoing. The next day, the excited Henry was carelessly showing the photo to all his friends when Cindy had passed him and saw the photo. Immediately, Cindy had a dastardly plan developing inside her twisted head. Just two hours later when entering the school auditorium, Cindy pickpocketed Henry’s phone and unlocked the screen so she could access his contacts. She waited for the right moment, right when Yolanda was onstage and delivering her speech, to send a mass text to the entire student population and school staff alike that contained the nude photo Yolanda had taken the night before.

Shame and embarrassment flooded Yolanda’s entire being. The principal was quick to inform her parents of the incident which only made matters worse. Ashamed and disgraced by their daughter’s actions, Juan and Maria disowned their daughter and banished her to her bedroom, vowing that she would be sent out of their house the moment she turned eighteen. Despite her numerous attempts to plead for their love and forgiveness, they viewed her act as disrespectful of their entire family, and their religion, and would not forgive her.

At school, Yolanda went from the popular and loveable model student to a detached, hollow outcast that sat alone at lunch and didn’t pursue a social life. Instead, she wanted to invest her time in meaningful personal growth that wouldn’t require her to rely on anyone else like her now ex-boyfriend who she believed sent the photo to Cindy to use against her. That hunt led her to her father’s garage, where she came across a box of old combat sports tapes. Specifically, boxing tapes of an older fighter, Ted Grant (Wildcat). Yolanda snuck the dated tapes and the VCR up to her room where she’d watched them all and decided to try boxing as her new outlet, both to learn to protect herself and to blow off steam from the constant anger that swirled inside her.

   After three months of training and conditioning herself into a proper fighter, Yolanda had come face to face with the woman who had ruined her life. Cindy had been bullying a young woman, Beth Chapel, and Yolanda couldn’t sit idly by to watch it happen. She stood up for the quiet Beth, using her quick reflexes and speed to outmaneuver Cindy when a fight inevitably broke out between them. The rush Yolanda had gotten from standing up to the bully and protecting the defenseless underdog was addictive. A real taste of freedom for the first time in months.

That seeking of a thrill and desire to stand up for others led Yolanda down the path of trying out the life of a vigilante. She picked up a job at the local diner as a waitress, working part time after school to save money back to design and create her own vigilante suit with the help of Beth Chapel as a show of gratitude for helping against Cindy Burman. The job also doubled as an excuse to her parents so she could sneak out of the house from time to time, pretending to go to work or the school gym. In actuality, Yolanda had designed a cat-themed costume to honor her favorite boxer, Ted Grant. And with that suit, The Wildcat became a night time hero of Blue Valley, a nonlethal protector that kept the underdogs safe and left the unconscious criminals tied up for the police to find upon arrival. The Wildcat became Yolanda’s escape from her depressing life, allowing her to feel like she was making a difference and ignore the sanctions put on her real life persona. The Wildcat was her freedom, and now that she had a taste of it, she wasn’t willing to let it go.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Wildcat Suit**
* **Retractable Claws:** Sharpened claws on each finger that can cut through nearly anything. These claws also help her to scale walls and lock herself in place.
* **Stealth:** Silenced footsteps for stealth.
* **Perfect Equilibrium:** gives her perfect balance,
* **Superhuman speed**

### Skills

* **Martial Artist:** After training herself in the art of kickboxing to give herself a hobby after school and learn to defend herself, Yolanda became a skilled martial artist.
* **Resourceful:** Her training allowed her to become a resourceful fighter with impressive agility and reflexes.
* **Strategist:** She is also a cunning and quick-witted, able to think on her feet in the heat of the moment.