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[thespidergirl]

OOC Information:
Name: Mat
Age: 26
AIM: wakingsavior
Plurk: shaunmatthew
E-MAIL: thatlovingrainbow [at] gmail.com
current characters: n/a - but this character IS a reapp!

IC Information:
Name: Anya Sofia Corazon (alias Araña and Spider-Girl)
Fandom: Marvel Comics
Timeline: appx. 6 months after the events of Spider-Island
Age: 18
Appearance:

Petite and muscular. Pretty average Hispanic skin tone. Long, slightly unruly, reddish-brown hair. Tends to dress a little grunge/punky, and keeps her hair back in a ponytail. Her costume is a black one-piece leotard-like suit (think Spider-Man) which leaves only the lower half of her face and her hair uncovered. It has a large white stylized spider design on both the front and back.

Abilities:

After the events of Spider-Island, Anya is shown to have somehow either regained her own powers, or retained the Spider-Man-esque powers that she had gained (like so many other people) during the Spider-Island event, despite taking the antidote. As there is no further canon on her, aside from seeing her in the background of Avengers Academy afterwards, I have had to come to my own conclusions regarding this turn of events, and this is what I've come up with. (Please let me know if you'd prefer I deal with her abilities differently in some way.)

The Spider Virus, in her system, reawakened her dormant (and she thought completely lost) powers, though she was not initially aware of it. She has enhanced speed, strength, endurance, and (especially) agility; additionally she can summon a blue insectoid carapace armor, from the magically hidden tattoo on her right arm. Also (and this is 100% negotiable <3) as she seems to end her last proper appearance with abilities she did not previously have, I am assuming that in the process of reawakening her powers, the Spider Virus also mutated them somewhat, along the lines of itself (since they are spider-based in origin to begin with), to include wall-climbing. She can also be INFINITELY annoying by asking all sorts of prying questions, if she has a mind to. Plus some snark, as is all-but-required for superheroes of the spider persuasion.

Personality:

Anya is not an exceptionally complicated person. She's curious and loves to learn things, is generally cheerful, outgoing, and kind of dorky. She gets pretty much all of that from her dad, though she remembers her mother being a happy person as well. She's loyal to her friends and family. She helps people and does the superhero thing because it's the right thing to do, in her opinion. Even when she wasn't really sure about registering and being trained by SHIELD, she stuck it out partly because of Carol (who she'd already begun to look up to) and partly because she really did want to keep helping people. After she lost her powers, she couldn't stay away from being a hero - she was sort of dragged back into it, but she doesn't regret it a bit.

Anya hates bullies. She's got a temper, and if you really piss her off, she will try to make you regret it even if she's completely outclassed - before she was ever a hero or had any sort of combat training, she would pick fights with guys 2 or 3 times her size because they were being bullies and she wasn't going to put up with it. The easiest way to piss her off is to hurt or threaten someone she cares about - even when her mother was the only person she'd lost, she wasn't about to put up with anyone else she loved getting hurt, but after the loss of Miguel it just intensified. Since she's lost both her father and her best friend in close succession recently, she'll be even more hair-trigger with stuff like that. She tries to keep people at arms' length even while she's friendly, because people she loves keep getting hurt or killed, but she's very bad at it. If you become part of her family, you will NEVER get rid of her.

Her father and her best friend both died within a few weeks of each other, approximately six months ago, and Anya has been dealing with it as best she can. In the end, though, she's still an 18-year-old girl not even a year out from losing two of the three most important people in her life. She puts on a smile but she's still heartsick over it all.

History:

Anya was born in Puerto Rico, though she spent a good deal of her childhood in Mexico City. Her father was an investigative journalist working to expose crime in the city. When Anya was six, her mother was murdered by an unknown culprit. After her mother's death, her father immigrated them to New York City, specifically Brooklyn, where Anya grew up. Her father improved his English and resumed working as an investigative journalist, and managed to become friends with the Fantastic Four over the years. Anya grew up into a curious (and kind of nosy) young woman with a blazing temper. Throughout middle school, she ended up picking fights with all sorts of bullies, and getting in trouble a little more than her father would've liked, though she was a solid B student (except in Math). Her very first day of high school started with some burly jock trying to threaten and intimidate her best friend, Lynn. Despite her size, she got in his face, and a proper fight would've broken out if teachers hadn't intervened. Anya impulsively told the jock she'd see him under a nearby park bridge that evening to "finish this", and he laughingly agreed.

While on her way to meet him, she accidentally got involved in a battle between the Mage of Webcorps (a man named Miguel) and some members of the Sisterhood of the Wasp. She got between the Sisterhood and Miguel to protect him, and was fatally stabbed. Miguel drove the Sisterhood off and performed a ritual to save Anya's life, giving her a spider tattoo and special powers, making her Webcorps' Hunter, the flip side (and needed partner) of the Mage. She took the name Araña for her work with them.

Though Anya spent months working with Webcorps, her career with them ended with Miguel dead and Anya releasing the power of the Hunter to the intended Hunter. She still retained her tattoo and her ability to form a magical carapace of sorts around her body, armoring her. She continued to patrol the city as Araña, while also working an after-school job and not informing her father about her activities.

After the Superhero Registration Act was passed, just before her 16th birthday, she was tracked down as an unregistered superhero by Wonderman and Ms. Marvel. Despite her father initially being against the idea of her registering and training, and using her powers at all (due to the danger), Anya convinced him that she couldn't sit by and let bad people do bad things if she could stop them, registered, and began training under Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers. Carol and Anya became very close throughout the mentoring, to the point that Anya considered Carol to be like a mother to her. After a particular fight where she dove in against Carol's orders to try to help and protect her mentor, her carapace was destroyed, nearly killing her and taking away the last of her super-human powers and leaving her as a non-powered human.

After recovering, Anya resumed hero work, and discovered another teenaged hero working in the same area called Nomad. After a bit of stalking reconnaissance, Anya attempted (badly) to help Nomad in a fight. Despite Nomad's insistence that she didn't want any help, Anya decided to make it up to her by assisting in Nomad's investigation. Eventually, Nomad both discovered Anya's secret identity and grew fond of the other girl, agreeing to partner again with Araña and transferring to Anya's school, revealing herself as Rikki Barnes.

Rikki and Anya became close friends and partners, and did a lot of crime fighting together. While working with Spider-man at some point, Anya came into possession of Arachne's (a retired hero) old costume - it was at this point that people started mistakenly calling her Spider-Girl, and eventually she just stopped trying to correct them, and while she still considers herself Araña, she has mostly adopted the Spider-Girl moniker. She and Rikki made some allies in the other young heroes Gravity, Firestar, and Toro; though they didn't form a team as Rikki had hoped.

A few weeks prior to her canon point, her father and the Red Hulk (General Ross) were poisoned while researching a group called Raven. The poison killed her father and drove the Red Hulk temporarily insane. The Fantastic Four responded to the commotion caused by the Red Hulk, and Anya eventually arrived only to find her father already dead, crushed (she thought) in the building collapse caused by the Red Hulk. She engaged him briefly in a poorly-thought-out fight, until the Fantastic Four helped get the situation under control.

Grieving, she confronted Ross and learned the truth about her father's death. Anya started an investigation, trying to track the group down and learn their purpose and get revenge for her father's death. While still in the midst of the investigation, Toro was kidnapped, and Rikki believed it was tied to a series of nightmares she'd been having. Steve Rogers took a team to Colombia to both try to find the source of Rikki's ominous nightmares and to hopefully rescue Toro, but forbid Rikki from coming. Rikki disagreed, and convinced Anya, Gravity, and Firestar to come help her rescue Toro. Though they found Toro, and the older heroes who'd already come down, Rikki's arrival was just what the being sending her the nightmares wanted. Rikki became possessed by Onslaught, who wanted to return to the reality he'd been banished from, so he could kill off humanity. Rikki managed to regain control long enough to tell them that the only way to stop him would be to completely destroy her, and asked Gravity to basically pull her apart into atoms. Left with no choice, Gravity did as she asked, as Anya watched, unable to save her.

And then she was in Fac briefly. But she doesn't actually know that because clones and so forth.

After Rikki's death, she threw herself even more into getting justice for her father. The day she finally tracked them down and meant to take them down, she discovered that she'd somehow developed powers quite akin to Spider-Man's, which was... odd, to say the least. Nevertheless, she simply used them to her advantage in fighting the group who had killed her father. Spider-man (who she called for backup) helped her capture them all, and she got her justice. And then almost immediately was thrust into trying to help deal with the Spider Virus stuff, specifically fighting the Sisterhood of the Wasp who blamed her and WebCorp for all the spider people running around and thought it was an attack on them. She teams up briefly with villains Kingpin and Hobgoblin (thinking that she has to in order to help save the city), deals with the Wasps, gets the antidote for the Spider Virus, tells Kingpin to shove his offers of employment (basically), and goes back to being Spider-Girl, albeit with powers she hasn't had since before she even met Rikki. She throws herself into heroing, work, and school, and doesn't really let herself do anything else.

After a couple months, Carol suggests she go to the Avengers Academy to get some distance from everything. Though she's not keen to leave New York, pretty much everywhere she goes has some memory of Rikki or her father, and she decides that Carol's probably right, and relocates to the west coast temporarily to try to heal a bit. Aaaaand then she ends up in the facility again. :3

Roleplay Sample - Log:

Anya hated patrolling in the rain. It was wet, cold, and meant she'd have to be drinking tea and cocoa and coffee all day tomorrow just to get rid of the chill. Even worse was patrolling in the rain by herself. Rikki had met her on their normal rooftop and Anya had immediately told the other girl to get her ass back home and sleep, because when you have a fever, a cough, and look like death warmed over? So not the time to be fighting crime in the rain and 65 degree weather. Anya was no stranger to crime fighting with a cold, and it was not her best night, all told.

She settled near the edge of a roof, under a small outcropping from the taller building bumped up against it that blocked most of the rain, scanning the streets below her before pulling out her cell phone to shoot off a quick tweet to her adoring fans. Or, y'know, to stave off boredom. Halfway through typing it, though, the phone started vibrating as she got a call - Caller ID said "MM", and Anya smiled a little before answering.

"Hey Carol," she said - quietly, so her voice wouldn't carry into the apartments whose windows she was perched over. "What's up?"

Roleplay Sample - Journal:

Woah, okay, so I know weird stuff happens, y'know, a lot these days. Believe me, I've seen weird stuff. But this is just a little weirder than I think I'm ready to deal with. I mean, come on, cloning? Cross-universal cloning? You guys are skeeved out by that, right?

I'm Spider-Girl, by the way. Or Araña if you want to be culturally sensitive which nobody is these days, jeeze. It's not like it's hard to remember, but people see the costume and they're all "Oh, your name must be Spider-Girl!". It's cool, though, honestly, everybody calls me Spider-Girl these days. It's easier.

Okay, so uuuuh, I guess the question is who's in charge. Is it too much to hope for that there are some Avengers up in here? ...Is that something people actually say in other universes? "Up in here", I mean. 'Cause now that I think about it, it's kind of weird.

This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function?

Well, I expect that there will be plenty of tears. And a lot of telling herself that she's a superhero and should act like one, and trying to bottle up scared and angry and hurting until it explodes, probably over someone she loves. Any instances of not being able to protect people (especially the people she cares about) will make her feel guilty and useless, especially since she has her powers back so she should be able to do something.

It'll help to have Carol Danvers around, though, as Carol was very very dear to her back home, acting as a mother figure. Also Rikki Barnes (he beloved dearly departed girlfriend) and Rikki's sort-of-grandfather Bucky.

Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here.

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