Sabretooth

* Present
* Pre-Mutation

## Overview

Vicious 'animal' and international terrorist, Kriti Mallali; the mutant otherwise known as **Sabretooth;** is a founding member of the Brotherhood of Mutants and one of Magneto's most loyal acolytes. Currently, she remains working with the Brotherhood but has a relationship with The Kingpin that calls her elsewhere if needed.

She has a strong dislike of men, and has it extra for Wolverine as he's one of the few to survive her attacks. She takes that kind of disrespect very personally.

## History

#### Early Life

Sabretooth was born into a family of wandering salespeople, deeply Christian and very traditional, who quickly turned against their darling daughter when she began developing her mutation during her preteens. Locking Kriti up in a cage for most of her days and starving her, shaving her thick fur, pulling her 'demon' teeth and claws out, and loudly mourning their loss of their child and cursing the monster that took her place. She spent many years kept in the back of a truck in a box and crying, the deformities that would've took shape from being trapped in a confined space for so long quickly healed before they could appear. Soon enough the hurt turned to rage and Kriti broke free, running off aimlessly to just get out of there.

Having been starved for years, Sabre was sickly (as sickly as she could be, anyway) and unprepared for life out in the rough-- but she adapted, hiding from hikers or bears, scavenging off of half-eaten prey. She met another mutant, a young girl called Vesna, and they banded together to make a decent living for themselves in the wilderness. Vesna and Sabre hopped from country to country, using their mutations to get by.

#### Dabova

Sabre and Vesna catch the attention of Bulgarian hunters, as Sabre looks like a giant tiger and Vesna is more bird than human. As Sabre returned from catching deer one day, she finds Vesna trapped in a snare and being inspected by the hunters-- expectedly, she goes ballistic and gets her friend out of there, but not without being marked as The Big Catch by the particularly eager hunters. After being stalked across the Balkans for months and a few near-misses with rifles, the hunters finally take Vesna off-guard and shoot her dead. Sabre, again, goes ballistic. She snaps entirely and kills the hunters first, then when the anger doesn't subside, starts tearing their bodies apart and eating them. During the mauling one of the hunter's jacket label leads her to his village, Dabova, which she takes Vesna's body to in an attempt to get them to apologise-- but then people start screaming and shooting, so Sabre proceeded to go ham on the entire village and left no more than five people alive. With Vesna suitably avenged, Sabre is struck with the need to brutalise anyone who ever wronged her. Returning home, she mauls her parents and leaves just enough of them to bury in front of her toddler brother, Leo. Once her work was done, Kriti left, back into the wilderness with a taste for blood.

#### Meeting Adir & The Brotherhood

Sabre spends a considerable amount of time in the wilderness, only to be ambushed and captured by a paramilitary group working for researchers who studied the X-Gene. Sabre was kept in the facility for an indefinite amount of time with a prototype power-dampening collar on her neck until Magneto set her free during an attack on the facility. Feeling like she owed him her freedom, Sabre followed Adir out, and then refused to leave his side. She didn't care much for mutant rights-- as far as she cared, if you won't fight for yourself then you don't deserve them-- and didn't believe most of the heart behind the cause, but she stayed with the Brotherhood for the violence. Meeting Jubilee, Sabre bonded with her, feeling the girl was like Vesna way back when; on her own with nowhere to turn. During the raid that resulted in Nick Fury's death, Sabre tore apart many a soldier and uncovered Project Phoenix with Adir and Carrie.

#### The Cleansing

Outraged by the Cleansing and the weakness of American mutants, (wip)

#### New Management

Adir was captured, which made Sabre livid, and Freyja channelled that anger by convincing her that it was Carrie that caused his capture. At some point after freeing Adir, Sabre and Freyja entered a friends with benefits relationship. Sabre was present at the X-men's raid on Blackstone Mount, hauling her old friend out of the rubble when Avalanche brought it all crashing down.