Felicia Hardy

* Black Cat
* Felicia Hardy

## Background

### 1985 - 2004: Felicia Hardy

Felicia was born to world renowned cat burglar, Walter Hardy & his wife Lydia. Growing up, he constantly instilled in her the idea to never settle for second best. If Felicia decided that she loved basketball then she should work to become a basketball player & not become a cheerleader.

Although he was largely retired, he still committed a few burglaries here & there. He lied to his family & tell them that he was a traveling salesman. The money Walter was making wasn't much though it kept the family afloat. But he wasn't in it for the money, he was addicted to the thrill of crime. When Felicia was eleven, she was led to believe that her father had died in a plane crash. She would learn in high school that it was a lie & he was in jail after being arrested.

After high school, Felicia went on to attend the local Empire State University. During her freshman year of college, she was nearly raped at a party by a drunken student in a bathroom. Luckily, she was saved by another student named Ryan. Felicia became close to Ryan, spending a lot of her time with him as she began to feel safe around them. After a few months, Ryan demanded that it was time for their relationship to become physical. Though Felicia protested, it would be in vain.

Refusing to be a victim, she decided that she was going to kill Ryan as her act of revenge & didn't care about the consequences that followed. For the following months, Felicia's studies came second to her constant training of various fighting styles & acrobatics. When she was finished, she was ready to commit the act but before she could, Ryan was killed in a drunk driving accident.

### 2004 - 2008: Black Cat

Felicia became furious that she had been robbed of her act of justice against her rapist. Feeling angry & reckless, she followed in the footsteps of her father & utilized her new skills. She eventually was taken under the wing of Black Fox, her father's mentor. The two went on to amass a fortune in stolen items.

With her new skills, Felicia decided that she would break her father out of prison as she had become aware of his severe illness. She decided to don a costume & go by Black Cat, in order to hide her identity. After freeing her father, she brought him to safe house where she decided to stay. After leaving him there for some hours, she met the friendly neighborhood Spiderman for the first time. She immediately attacked him due to her dislike of men but after he subdued her, they began talking. The two went go on to bond with one another as they both felt they were alone. Felicia returned back to safe house to see her father, now throwing up blood. Knowing his time was near, she brought him back to the house to see her mother, where the two had a brief reunion before he succumbed to his illness.

Felicia decided to earn Spiderman's trust & continued with the Black Cat persona to attract his affection, though failed miserably. However, she did still dibble & dabble in some theft but was cunning enough to fake mental instability when captured & then escaped before they could realize her identity.

She finally got her opportunity when she learned the Kingpin controlled an incredibly powerful detonator that he would use to destroy the city. Using her abilities, she was able to steal the item & give it to Spiderman, though she now ended up the the target of Kingpin's revenge. Although Spiderman was able to subdue Kingpin, his men were still able to open fire at Felicia. Spiderman barely got her to the hospital in time but despite the dozens of bullet & knife wounds, they were able to save her. Itt was there Spiderman admitted that he cared for Felicia, maybe even loving her.

After her recovery, the two began their relationship & would reveal their identities to each other. He was ecstatic, finally having someone to relate to both sides of his life. But Felicia began feeling upset as she felt her lack of powers made her a liability. So when Peter was off fighting crime, she underwent a process that gave her super powers. After the process was finished, she learned that her newfound power of came from Kingpin.

Felicia learned to deal with her new power of "bad luck," but decided to keep it a secret from Peter. But her powers began to affect him as her bad luck spread & permanently jinxed Spiderman, which she believed was Kingpin's intent. Still not revealing her new powers, Peter broke up with Felicia as felt there was too many secrets between them. She was infuriated as she was also about to break up with him to protect him. She soon lost her powers after Spiderman went Doctor Strange about his bad luck & discovered that there was a connection to Felicia. Doctor Strange removed the jinx which not only cause Felicia to lose her bad luck but also granted her enhanced strength, agility, balance & retractable claws.

With her new found powers & unresolved feelings towards Peter, she decided to return back to her life of crime as she no longer had anything keeping her from it. She went to Europe for a new adventure & eventually fell in with the Foreigner, becoming his partner & lover. Despite her anger & now distance from Peter, she found herself still in love with her ex boyfriend. She left Foreigner in Europe to return to New York, only to find Peter was now dating his classmate Gwen Stacy. Angry & jealous, she began secretly harassing Gwen & openly taunting Peter by dating Flash Thompson, though it only pushed the couple closer. Though she began to care for Flash, he broke up with her when he found out he was just a pawn in her scheme to make Peter jealous.

Felicia began to shift her focus on school & getting her art degree, though she did occasionally team up with Spiderman. The team ups led to a little bit more sometime depending on Peter's relationship status at the time. Felicia was fine with the arrangement as she enjoyed Peter's company, even just as a friend.

### 2008 - 2010: Black Cat

After college, Felicia opened her own private detective & security consultants' firm using the money from her various stolen items over the year. She gained a new romantic interest when she began dating Puma but still kept her close relationship with Peter, something he desperately needed after Gwen's death. He even tried to renew their relationship though she could see he was just acting out through his trauma.

Though her business, Felicia became close friends with Misty Knight & Colleen Wing, the owners of the bail enforcement agency called Knightwing Restorations Inc. She even accepted their offer to join Heroes for Hire, despite normally bring against hero teams.

Felicia eventually grew tired of her life so she left Puma & resumed to crime. During one of her break-ins, she came across Spiderman. The two rekindled their old friendship, with Felicia easing back from thievery. When Peter & Mary Jane break up, they become more but this relationship would be no strings attached. Now in semi-retirement because of Spidey, Felicia became friends with Firestar, Hellcat, & Spectrum. The girls became what Felicia needed, as they all went shopping, got lunch & enjoyed spa treatments in New York. One day, Angelica revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Her friends rallied around her as much as they could to help & accompanied her during medical consultations. They each reached out to their contacts to find a solution but only Patsy would succeed by making a deal with her ex-husband Daimon Helstrom. When they realized this, the three friends went to Hell & saved Hellcat.

Upon her return, Peter & Felicia continued their relationship for some months, though it would become more serious at one point. However, Felicia denied it so Peter began dating Carlie Cooper to prove a point. After dating for a week, Peter end it when Felicia admitted they were dating. The two decided to part ways when Peter began dating Cindy Moon, something Felicia was not happy about. Nonetheless, she helped Cindy after Mary Jane informed them that Spiderman was captured. After rescuing him, she went out for lunch with Mary Jane & the two became fast friends.

As of recently, Felicia has grown tired of both the superhero & villain activities. She began saving money so she could retire but instead, she bought the Bar with No Name. She's also resumed her relationship with Parker for the upteenth time.

## Romantic Relationships

* Foreigner: Lover (2005)
* Flash Thompson: Dated (2006)
* Puma: Dated (2008)
* Peter Parker: On & Off (2006 - 2009); Boyfriend (2004 - 2005), (2009), (2010 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Enhanced Physiology:** When Doctor Strange removed the Felicia's power of tychokinesis, she was granted enhanced abilities.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength*:** Her peak physical strength can reach levels beyond the natural limits of a woman of her weight & physical build. In fact, her strength is increased to the maximum of human potential, enabling her to lift approximately 800 lbs with maximum effort.
	+ ***Enhanced Speed*:** Her speed is similarly enhanced. Over short distances, she can sprint at a top speed of about 40 miles per hour.
	+ ***Enhanced Agility*:** She naturally has an enhanced balance, increasing her natural bodily equilibrium & allowing her to accomplish feats beyond the capabilities of the finest human athlete.
	+ ***Retractable Claws*:** She can extend her nails into sharp claws. These claws are highly durable & razor sharp, allowing her to tear through most substances and to easily scale walls.
* **Acrobatics:** Black Cat is a very skilled acrobat and is capable of completing many difficult stunts and feats that a normal person would not be able to do.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts:** She has been trained in several martial arts, most notably Okinawa Goju-ryu Karate & Judo. Felicia is capable of taking on several armed assailants & incapacitating them without being injured herself.
* **Seduction:** Felicia is an attractive woman with an athletic yet highly voluptuous figure, assets she uses to her advantage by constantly wearing the zipper of her skin tight leather one piece costume down exposing a large amount of her equally large breasts framed by white fur. This is meant to draw the eyes of her opponents to her assets & leave them vulnerable.
* **Thievery:** Felicia is a skilled (and sometimes reformed) thief skilled in stealth, picking locks, escapology, evading alarms & cracking safes.
* **Electromagnetic Contact Lenses:** Felicia wears contact lenses that allows her to see in various ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as infrared & ultraviolet light. When wearing these contacts, Felicia's eyes appear to have blue irises as opposed to the green irises that Felicia naturally possesses.
* ***Tychokinesis (formerly):** She had the power to subliminally affect probability fields, which caused improbable, though not impossible, events of "bad luck" to occur to enemies within her line of sight.*

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Might:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Quickness:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Gadgets:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Projection:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Tactics:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Battle:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **TOTAL:** 120 - Power Level 3 / General Threat

## Trivia

#### General

* She does not consider herself to be a hero. The only label she uses is a thief.
* Felicia graduated college a year late due to her many missed classes & assignments.
* When pushed too far, her strength & ferocity in battle can be overwhelming enough for her to defeat Sabretooth.
* She finds Wolverine attractive & has expressed an interest in him.
* Felicia is considered promiscuous by most. It seems to be rooted from her relationship with her father & his absence from her life. She always feel that she can turn to Spiderman because he tends to "always be there."

#### Relationships

* Felicia has been involved with Peter since the summer of 2004. Their relationship has ranged from one nights stands to flings of convenience to deep intimate relationships. He is the first man she felt she could trust & the first man she loved.
* She considers Silver Sablinova be her closest female friend.
* She is also friends with Misty Knight, Colleen Wing, Angelica Jones, Patricia Walker & Monica Rambeau.

## Notes

* The original character of Felicia Hardy belongs to the Marvel Universe.
* Her friendship with Silver Sable is a nod to their yet to be produced joint film, *Silver & Black*.