Ava Ayala

Hector Ayala(Brother)

Awilda Ayala(Grandmother)

Angela Del Toro(Cousin)

## Superhero Info

### Powers

Enhanced Strength, Enhanced Speed, Enhanced Durability, Enhanced Agility, Enhanced Stamina, Heightened Animal-like Senses, Camouflage, Acceleration Recuperation, Psychic Resistance, Fear Inducement

## Overview

Ava Ayala, White Tiger a strong-willed teen who attempts to hold up to the legacy of her deceased brother, to pass on his legacy, one of honor that will not dies, to serve as the avatar of the Tiger God, a deity who has went by many names over years, Waghoba, Hu Ye, but to most is known as Tiger God. The Tiger God originally the Tiger God was among the first gods ever worshiped by humankind, representing people's primal fear of the dark, but it was actually much older than humanity, having existed long before even the dinosaurs. It contrasted with the blinding light of the Phoenix, a flame lit by humans to keep the dark away, and was one of the few forces strong enough to fight against it. It was then worshipped by the Cat Demons of Limbo for a short time before eventually being abandoned for their goddess Tigra. The Tiger God was then prayed to by Wakanda but they eventually abandoned it to become acolytes of the Panther Cult to worship the Orisha. It then gave its power to a Jade Tiger statue originating in K'un-Lun, whose head and claws were cut off to make three Amulets. These amulets ended up in the hands of a cult known as the Sons of the Tiger, the second paw however is currently in a museum dedicated to Indian Tribes, labeled under the exhibit of a Waghoba shrine, it is the only thing that is the real portion of that shrine, the rest being a copy. After the cult ended tragically, a man by the name of Lin Sun took two of these amulets and tossed them away in an alleyway before being gunned down by crooks who wanted to rob him, shortly afterwards, down on his luck anr rooting through garbage for something to eat, they ended up in the possession of Hector Ayala, the original White Tiger, which he used them in his war on crime in Harlem.

## History

### Early Life

Ava was born to Nestor and Maria Ayala in New York City. Her father was a hard-working individual who tried to support his struggling family, but he shortly passed away after an accident at work in which a collapsing building crushed him, this however was due to Nestor taking a loan from the local mafia, after refusing to pay, he was forcefully beaten to death, which they in turn blamed on a collapsing building. The Ayala family had to have a closed casket due to the corpse being an unpleasant sight.

Maria tried her hardest to support her family for a while, working as a prostitute, but she succumbed to drinking herself to death a few years afterward when Ava was only six years old. Hector then took care of his sister, working as a small time bartender by day, hero by night, sometimes just to make ends meet, doing something he regretted later in life. He ended up taking the blood money that the gangsters used, most of it was stolen...but he sadly couldn't support his sister alone, his family alienating away from him after finding out about his vigilantism. Hector supported his sister in her studies at school, being a supporting brother to her at all times, but he always left at night for odd hours. Ava, getting suspicious that her older brother was turning to drugs or gambling, questioned him about this, and he openly admitted to the young Ava about being the superhero “The White Tiger” revealing an amulet that he said he found while working at his construction job, which he of course lied, he didn't want to tell her how he found them at a murder scene, that would scare the poor girl.

Ava, of course, had questions but she was told that she’d learn the answers when she was older, he shortly afterward revealed his identity to the public in order to help his community better to actually raise money to help his community out, retiring from his vigilante crusade. Hector then left home to go visit friends to have a couple of drinks, out into that fateful night in which he lost his life. Hector while walking home was confronted by a man known as Kraven the Alpha, the son of a fairly famous hunter.

After a brutal amount of fighting, beating each other to a bloody pulp with their fists and blades, Hector lost his life when attempting to save some civilians who ended up walking down the back alley at the wrong time, which got him multiple large gashes across his back, but he ended up carrying himself not far from his home, as Kraven followed closely behind, injured, and bleeding out in a dirty alleyway, not far from his home, Ava looked outside her window, Ava watched her brothers final moments, blood gushed from the side of his face from where Kraven slashed him while he attempted to get away, tears rolling down his face as he accepted his fate and was promptly killed by Kraven’s knife, stabbing him into the back over a dozen times, removing Hector's clawed hand as a sick trophy, she was powerless at the moment, it was only hours until the body was called in. Kraven left Hector’s family alone after that.
From then on, Ava was bounced from therapist to therapist, trying to ease her through grief, to let go of Hector's memory, everyone practically forgot about Hector after a few months, regarding him as a disgrace.

### **Donning The Costume**

One day while returning home from school, Ava was bumped into by a seemingly random person, who at first, Ava didn't recognize until she looked closer at him, it was Hector's lawyer, he passed her a note from Hector, which stated that he entrusted two people to carry on his legacy, Ava's cousin, Angela Del Toro and Ava herself, giving Ava the task of keeping the Tiger God in check, entrusting her to take care of the Amulets of Power. Ava pondered that note for hours before deciding to head to Hector's home, taking up residence in his old home. While looking through some of Hector’s belongings, she discovered the amulet tucked away in a box, upon seeing the amulet and Hector’s old costume, Ava decided to take up Hector’s mantle to help keep her neighborhood safe as Hector did not long ago, in a way of trying to make up for not being able to save her brother on that fateful night, willing to sacrifice her body to be the vessel of the Tiger God to do it.