〘 valentina zenere. female. she/her. 〙 from the marvel universe FELICIA HARDY’S spotify wrapped says they’ve listened to hot girl by CHARLI XCX over a hundred times. figures, THE TWENTY-THREE YEAR OLD is a ANTI-HERO. in order to pay the bills, they are a SOCIALITE/THIEF. those who know them well enough say that the LEO is fun-loving and deceptive. they are often seen ALONE.
THE BASICS
FULL NAME: FELICIA SARA HARDY
ALIAS, IF ANY: BLACK CAT
CLASSIFICATION: ENHANCED HUMAN
NATIONALITY: AMERICAN
AGE: 23 YEARS OLD
DATE OF BIRTH: 28TH AUGUST
HOMETOWN: NEW YORK
CURRENT LOCATION: NEW YORK, NEW YORK
GENDER: CIS FEMALE
PRONOUNS: SHE/HER
OCCUPATION(S): SOCIALITE, THIEF (SECRET)
AFFILIATIONS, IF ANY: N/A
THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
FACECLAIM: VALENTINA ZENERE
HAIR TYPE: WAVY
HAIR COLOR: BLONDE; DYED WHITE
EYE COLOR: BLUE
HEIGHT: 5′4"
WEIGHT: SHE SAYS IT’S A SECRET
BUILD: SLENDER
THE STORY BEHIND HER
Felicia Hardy was born in New York to Walter and Lydia Hardy. The Hardy family was a respectable and well-known family in the city. Walter was a highly successful traveling salesman and Lydia was a socialite who knew who was who and who had what. However, things changed when her father was arrested after it was discovered he wasn’t a salesman but actually a world-renowned thief who went by the name Black Cat. Before his arrest, Walter encouraged Felicia to do whatever she desired while her mother often drilled into her she should never come second to none.
TW; ASSAULT MENTIONED IN THIS SECTION. In school and college, Felicia Hardy was a very popular girl. She was a successful athlete, head cheerleader, played on the basketball team, and knew how to party, earning her the nickname Party Hardy. She got into university on a gymnastics scholarship. However, Felicia was a dedicated and smart student who just so happened to be a free spirit. She had it all until her relationship with her boyfriend at the time, Ryan, took a nasty turn, resulting in her being date raped.
From there, Felicia seemed the same but something deep down changed in her. She was full of anger and frustration for being victimized. Seeing the videos of people like the Avengers, she saw them as people who would never allow themselves to be a victim. Felicia dedicated herself to learning how to fight, using her already talented gymnastic skills, intent on crafting herself into a weapon of revenge so that when she faced him, he could feel every ounce of her anger with every hit she gave him. After months of preparation, Felicia was ready to get revenge but she would never get it. She discovered while trying to find him that Ryan passed away due to his drunk driving. This did nothing to quell her anger or frustration. Feeling like everything was being taken away from her, Felicia wanted her father back and began following in his footsteps, seeking out his teacher, the Black Fox. Through some petty thefts here and there, she grew confident and finally donned her very own Black Cat costume albeit homemade.
Her first big mission was to break her dying father out of prison and to let him spend his final moments with his family. Though she succeeded, her father died the same night. Seeing more footage of the superheroes in the world, Felicia found herself envious and wishing she had powers herself, especially after coming to blows with Spider-Man. Though a thief, she tried her hand at heroics but she couldn’t stray away from her stealing ways. Her envy eventually pushed her to pay a large sum of money to Kingpin who put her through a life-threatening procedure that altered her very DNA. Though she was in a critical condition for weeks, she believed it to be a failure until she noticed she could react to things far faster and do more than the average person.
Felicia had built a notorious reputation for her thieving ways as Black Cat and was an urban legend to New York while Felicia’s public identity was of a carefree party socialite, often seen enjoying nightlife and even being a DJ at certain events, being popular on social media.
SKILLS AND POWER
Felicia wanted powers and made a deal with the Kingpin to undergo a DNA-altering experiment to get them. As such, she discovered she has peak human physiology. She has superhuman reflexes, agility, and durability as well as night vision. Her eyesight and sense of hearing and smell are also higher than a regular human. Notably, Felicia developed faster than normal reflexes. Felicia is noted for being able to dodge several hits with ease, knife strikes, react swift enough to catch people/items, and famously able to react swift enough that she always lands on her feet to name a few feats as well as dodge gunfire. Felicia has always naturally been extraordinarily agile which was only enhanced after her experiment. Even as a child, she was able to execute mid-air somersaults and cartwheels. Her agility improved with age, and her party trick was walking around in a head stance on her fingers. She later developed remarkable acrobatic abilities, which allowed her to perform high-wire acts with balance and grace. Because of this, Felicia is fast and agile in battle, able to outmaneuver almost any opponent she comes across and jump exceptionally high and far, even from a stationary position. Her abilities allowed her to dodge many attacks and gunfire, unable to land a hit on her. She is also limber; able to twist, bend, and contort herself into positions nearly impossible for an ordinary person to achieve. These abilities also granted her impressive parkour and free-running skills, allowing her to scale almost any surface or terrain quickly and squeeze through most barriers and small spaces with noticeable ease. Felicia also has enhanced durability. Like her namesake, she can always land on her feet and absorb the shock impact of high falls and recover quickly from attacks. She can also take hits from moderately strong superhumans without injury or much need of recovery. However, her durability does not make her bulletproof as she can still be shot, stabbed, crushed, etc. She can also not take hits from powerful beings such as Thor or Hulk for example. She is an expert thief and as such, she is an expert in the arts of stealth, intelligence gathering, lock picking, hacking, safe cracking, escapology, and evading alarms, and disguises. Felicia is considered a master when it comes to gymnastics and acrobatics. Combined with her enhanced agility and reflexes, she can often make people think she causes them bad luck. Felicia has mastered several martial arts such as Goju-ryu Karate, Judo, Jiu-jutsu, Krav Maga, Capoeria, Boxing, Muay Thai, and Sambo. She is also an accomplished street fighter. She can take on several armed foes without sustaining an injury. Felicia has a unique style of using her agility and flexibility in combat, making her unpredictable and she isn’t above fighting dirty.
