Real name: Maria Callasantos Other known aliases: None Occupation: Full time super terrorist, former hero and adventurer. Current group affiliation: Hellions III Past group affiliations: Mutant Liberation Front II, X-Force, Morlocks. Major enemies: X-Force, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants III. First appearance: New Mutants #99 Origin: Description: Feral is an attractive woman with feline features. She has orange fur with white stripes on her head. She has claws, fangs, pointed ears and a long tail. She stands 5'9'' tall and weighs 110 lbs. and has solid orange eyes. This may be her natural form or she may have been altered by Masque when she was a Morlock.
Characteristics
20 STR 10
24 DEX 42
23 CON 26
13 BODY 6
10 INT 0
13 EGO 6
14 PRE 4
14 COM 2
9 PD 5
10 ED 5
4 SPD 6
9 REC 0
46 END 0
35 STUN 0
Characteristics Cost: 112
Powers, Skills and Equipment
6 +0 STR Clinging,Gestures(-1/2),applies to constant power,
Only on surfaces that her claws can penetrate.(-1/4)
16 EC (16),"Cat powers."
16a) PKG,"Enhanced senses.",Discriminatory,Smell,+4 Enhanced PER,
with all senses,Tracking Scent,UV Vision
17b) 2D6 HKA,"Claws",vs physical defense,No Knockback(-1/4),1/2
END(+1/4) 1
5 1 Extra Limbs,"Tail"
28 20" Running 4
5 1" Stretching,Only with tail.(-1/4),No NCM.(-1/4),0 END
(+1/2) 0
5 9" Superleap 3
3 Acrobatics 14-
3 Breakfall 14-
3 Contortionist 14-
3 Flying Tackle,"Cat Pounce"
2 KS: Morlocks 11-
4 Martial Dodge
5 Off Strike
3 Shadowing 11-
3 Streetwise 12-
3 Survival 11-
3 Tracking 11-
5 4/4 Armor,"Protective costume.",OIF(-1/2),12- Activation
(-3/4)
Powers Cost: 138
Disadvantages
Base Points: 100
10 Distinctive,"Mutant",easily concealable,major
20 Distinctive,"Orange furred cat lady.",concealable,extreme
15 Hunted,"By super heroes and authorities.",as powerful,
non-combat influence,harsh,appear 8-
10 Psych Lim,"Lecherousness",common,moderate
10 Psych Lim,"Vengeful",uncommon,strong
15 Psych Lim,"Cat-like (lazy, possessive, inquisitive).",very
common,moderate
10 Public ID,"Maria Callasantos"
10 Rep,"Killer",occur 8-,extreme reputation
5 Rivalry,"With other women on her team.",romantic
10 Unluck,2D6
10 Vuln,"Sonics",uncommon,x2 stun
10 Vuln,"All types of Flashes.",common,x1 1/2 effect
15 Watched,"by King Bedlam.",more powerful,non-combat
influence,harsh,appear 14-
Disadvantages Total: 150
Experience Spent: 0
Total Points: 250
Explanation of the conversion: Having Enhanced Senses in a Power Framework requires special permission from the Game Master.
History: The mutant known as Feral grew up in a New York City
tenement as Maria Callasantos. She had an older sister, Lucia, who would
also prove to be a mutant, a younger brother, Matteo, and a younger sister,
Carolina. Their father beat his wife and abandoned the family after the
birth of Carolina, the youngest of the children. He was eventually found
dead from a drug overdose.
Maria blamed her two younger siblings for the fact that their father
deserted them. Carolina later fell down a staircase to her death while Maria
was babysitting her; it is unclear whether Carolina's death was an accident
or whether Maria killed her. Later, Matteo was chasing Maria's pet pigeons
on the tenement roof when he allegedly tripped over the ledge. He held onto
the ledge as long as he could, but soon fell to his death. Maria was a
witness, and, again, it is unclear if she had killed him.
Maria's mother had a boyfriend named Harry Bellinger, who was an alcoholic
and a cocaine addict who got Mrs. Callosantos addicted to drugs as well.
Lucia's mutations began to emerge, much more slowly than Maria's, and caused
her to start growing fur. When Lucia was seventeen, Bellinger tried to rape
her, but Maria, now fifteen, whose mutations had emerged much more quickly,
stopped Bellinger and killed him. Together Maria and Lucia hid the body.
Knowing that Maria had murdered Bellinger, Mrs. Callasantos killed Maria's
pet pigeons in revenge. Seized by hatred, Maria then killed her mother.
Maria and Lucia went to live among the underground community of mutants
known as the Morlocks. The two sisters came to resemble humanoid animals;
Maria took the name Feral, and Lucia became known as Thornn.
Eventually, Feral joined the team of mutant adventurers that became known as
X-Force; none of her teammates knew about her past. Thornn, on the other
hand, fell in with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants that was organized by the
Toad.
For a time Feral served well in X-Force, but then the team attempted to
rescue government official Henry Peter Gyrich from the terrorist Mutant
Liberation Front, led by Reignfire. Feral hated Gyrich, who was no friend to
mutants, and Reignfire persuaded her to join the Mutant Liberation Front and
to kill Gyrich. When Feral attacked Gyrich, X-Force's leader Cable shot her
with a non-lethal charge, but then Reignfire abducted her.
Feral emerged from hiding when the New York City police captured Thornn.
Feral confronted Thornn and X-Force member Cannonball II. Thornn revealed that
she had seen Feral kill Harry Bellinger, and Cannonball II provoked Feral into
admitting that she had murdered her mother. Cannonball II overpowered Feral,
and an old friend of Lucia's, police detective Jose Hidalgo, arrested her
for killing three members of her family and Bellinger.
Thornn went free, but Feral served a prison sentence for murder in the
Vault. She broke free and has recently joined up with the newest
incarnation of the Hellions under Bedlam II.
Powers: In addition to enhanced strength, speed, and
agility, Feral possesses superhumanly acute senses, especially sight and
smell.
Links to other Feral pages:
Character created by Marvel Comics.
Champions rules conversion by Mathew R. Ignash - mathewignash@comcast.net.
Last Updated - July, 2001
