Vixen(Amaya Jiwe)(1459)

**Amaya Jiwe** is a superhero known as **Vixen**

## Biography

### Early life

Amaya Jiwe was born in Africa in the Zambesi Village. As a child, Amaya wanted to be a police officer despite female law enforcement being generally unheard of. She also read about Chicago in the 1920s from several of her mother's magazines, and wished to see it.

In her adulthood, Amaya was given the Anansi Totem, which gave her the ability to channel the power of any animal in existence. This item had been previously used by her mother and her grandmother.

### World War II

In the 1940s, during World War II, Amaya was recruited into the Justice Society of America, a secret organization dedicated to opposing the Nazis and to join the Soviet Union and the United States. While serving, Amaya would grow very homesick and often worry about the safety of her village without her there to protect it.

Despite the JSA's discouragement to fraternize with teammates, Amaya and the teams' leader, Rex Tyler/Hourman, fell in love and planned to leave the JSA once the war was over. While on stakeouts, Kent Nelson AKA Doctor Fate would sing for the team and often tried to get Amaya to sing along, with no success. Amaya also became close with Alan Scott AKA Green Lantern and unlike most of civilization at the time, she didn't look down upon him for being homosexual.

In 1946 After the War, Amaya returned to Zambesi for good and went on to have a daughter, Esi, who then had two daughters, Kuasa and Mari, the latter of whom also becomes a superhero known as Vixen. Amaya was murdered in 1992 by Benatu Eshu along with her son-in-law so she wouldn't stand in his way of destroying Zambesi Village in search of the Anansi Totem.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

**Powers via Spirit Totem:** All of Amaya's powers come from her totem, which allow her to harness the life force of animals, in essence harnessing their abilities.

* **Animal empathy/communication:** By manifesting the spirit of the tyrannosaurus rex, Amaya can communicate with other t-rexes and understand their emotions and body language.
* **Avatar projections:** Amaya can manifest solid energy constructs of the various animals of nature that are able to physically intact with the world, acting as soldiers to aid her.
* **Night vision:** Through the spirit of a nighthawk, Amaya can see in the dark; this allowed her to spot Obsidian even after he used his powers to block out the light
* **Superhuman agility:** Through the spirit of the dolphin, Amaya becomes extremely fast and agile in water.
* **Superhuman strength:** Through the spirit of a gorilla, a rhinoceros, an elephant and a dinosaur, Amaya becomes incredibly strong; while harnessing the spirit of a lion, she is able to unleash powerful clawing-strikes that can launch an armored foe far away. Harnessing the spirit of the elephant allowed her to plow through things
* **Thermal insulation:** Through the spirit of the seal; Amaya is unfazed by freezing temperatures.
* **Underwater breathing:** Though the spirit of the dolphin, Amaya can breath underwater or at least hold her breath for an extended period, like a dolphin does.
* **Wallcrawling:** By manifesting the spirit of a spider, Amaya can defy gravity, and crawl along walls and ceilings.
* **Totem connection:** The totem connects to other totems when in the presence of them.

### Abilities

* **Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** Amaya is a fifth-degree black belt; this training has allowed her to easily defeat Nazis and even hold her own
	+ **Master knife wielder/Knife thrower:**
	+ **Expert markswoman:** Presumably taught during Amaya's time with the JSA, she is highly trained in the use of firearms; such as handguns,
	+ **Expert swordswoman:**
* **Stealth/Infiltration:** Amaya is proven to be very efficient in tracking and gathering intelligence on suspects without being detected.

### Weaknesses

* **Spirit Totem:** While Amaya's spiritual connection with the necklace prevents others from using the totem so long as her bond is stronger. Unlike her granddaughter, Mari, the necklace has not bonded with Amaya so it can be removed from her neck against her wishes, rendering her powerless.