Hydracat

ALIAS(ES): Kat, Kitty, Project Poseidon
BIRTHDAY: September 3rd – She does not know the exact date of her 'birth' but this was the day she was taken from Cadmus and when her life truly began so that is the date Katt picked.
BIRTHPLACE: One of Cadmus secret faculties 
CURRENT: Harbor City, Washington
FAMILY:

None

ALLIANCE: The Team/Justice League 
RANK: none at the moment
WEAPON: n/a
POWER:

Atlantean DNA: Not exactly a power but thanks to the Cadmus scientist and their desire to create their own meta humans, Kat's DNA was spliced with Atlantean DNA, giving her some of their traits. Specifically their ability to breathe underwater, temperature resilience (heat and dry air will slow her down and weaken her) Durability (dense flesh, not invulnerable but it helps a great deal, especially in combat) and strength. 

*Hydrokinesis: Like the Atlanteans Kat has the ability to control water and its various forms but unlike them she did not learn it from sorcery. She can manipulate it in all its forms: liquid, solid, gas

*Flight: Thanks to the DNA from the meta with weather manipulation that she was spliced with. Not something she uses often, Kat likens this power to the idea of a fish having wings....its just odd to her but, she can not deny its uses.  

*Low level weather manipulation: Katherine has the ability to summon rain in a limited area, at first this was a highly unreliable power since it was tied to her emotions and the amount depended on how she felt at the time.  Sometimes it would start raining on a perfectly sunny day for no reason and it became such a hassle for her because people would automatically know that something was wrong with her and that she was upset.  It made it hard to keep to herself but after months of training and working on coming to terms with her own demons Kat's control over this has improved a great deal.  This power isn't one she uses often but if she finds herself in a area with no water source it comes in handy to be able to provide her own.  

(*)Cadmus's desire to create their own meta army, in this case a aqua powered navy lead to many experiments with various DNA from super powered donors. Her hydrokinesis comes from the real Katherine Spencer. A meta human girl that was abducted and taken by Cadmus scientist, since the scientist could not replicate the Atlanteans sorcery genetically at the time they had to have a predetermined skill as a jumping off point. Combining Katherine Spencers DNA with that of a Atlantean was the closest they had come to having a true Atlantean clone, she did not have to specialized skill that some of them had but it was a start.  Deciding that since their first attempts were a success that they needed to push the envelope more to keep their clone on par with true Atlanteans.

Combining the Katherine Spencer/Atlantean DNA with that of another meta with weather manipulation/flight the Cadmus scientist were able to create a genomorph with the abilities of all three. The first clones were failures, unable to preform as desired they were ultimately scrapped until experiment 452 was created. She was not the perfect clone but she was the closest they had achieved so far, one that had active abilities from all three donors...even if some of them were not to their full potential.


BLOOD TYPE: O-
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
MENTOR: She has learned most from the Atlanteans, specifically Aquaman and Aqualad
SCARS AND MARKINGS: Various scars from needle pricks from her time in the labs.
COLOR(S): Navy blue, light blue and black

UNIFORM:


As Hydracat she wears a navy blue catsuit made of a form fitting wetsuit like material. It does not provide much protection with it comes to normal means of battle but it does make for easy transition between the surface and the water. The suit is sleeveless, zipping up the back and stopping in a turtleneck like fashion. On her arms Katt wears fingerless, elbow length gloves in the same dark material.

Topping off the uniform is a pair of comfortable and durable, flat knee length boots in a lighter blue material, also with small fins on each side. Around her waist is a silver belt dotted with circular capsules, the capsules are filled with water in case of a emergency where water is not available.

here hero costume essential looks like this

In her civilian alter ego Kat has a particular style, described as being 'rocker chic' she favors wearing skinny jeans and boots, cropped jackets in black leather or other dark materials and shirts of varying styles in darker, cooler colors. Kat does enjoy jewelry and has a large collection of bangles and necklaces. While her style does have a niche she wears whatever she feels comfortable in and will 'bum around' in sweatshirts and yoga pants just as much...if not more.

DESCRIPTION:

Physically fit, with high endurance and stamina but not overly muscular Kat does not look like someone that could pummel you into the ground but she can hold her own well. A girl of average height she is thin and somewhat plain looking with a straight build but beautiful overall. With wavy chestnut brown hair that reaches just pass her shoulders, round green eyes, thin lips and a slight olive hint to her skin. Kat looks younger than her apparent age, thanks to the genetic tinkering she does not age as fast as regular humans and still looks to be in her late teens, something that has caused her many headaches when it comes to everyday things and extracurricular activities of the Harbor City nightlife. She has found that makeup helps her look her apparent age and she is never seen without kohl lined eyes, a staple to her wardrobe.

PLAY-BY:Willa Holland

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Fear:


Claustrophobia: Spending most of her time in a pod Kat has a great fear of small and tight spaces and prolonged exposure to these can induce panic attacks.

Cadmus: Kat's biggest and most profound fear is being taken back to Cadmus and experimented on once more. While she actively fights to bring them down and expose what they are doing with their genetic experiments she knows she walks a fine line between fighting and capture but, on most occasions Kat is able to turn that fear into motivation. There have been a few close calls and she fears that eventually they will get her back...and she may not be wrong.

Desire:


To make it in the world on her own, to be her own person: Kat constantly struggles with trying to live the life the real Katherine Spencer would have wanted and the life she wants. Having felt like she had robbed the girl of that chance at a full life Kat juggles the two sides ineffectively and what Kat wants more than anything is to shed that guilt and become her own person and live a life she would enjoy.

HABITS:

Kat is a avid swimmer, naturally, and whenever she feels stressed/angry/scared she will swim laps or just submerge herself in water. It is relaxing to her and it is where she feels most at home.


PET PEEVE:


Lies: Kat has a hard time trusting people, given her background and her early interactions with the Cadmus scientist she is very mistrusting of the world and if you do get her trust do not break it because it is near impossible to get back.

STRENGTHS:

• Skilled in hand to hand combat: receiving training from agents working with The Light and later Kaldur and the rest of the team Kat, like the others is very skilled when it comes to physical fighting.

Determined: Kat is not one that easily gives up, she will always press on toward her goal.
* Focused: A very focused young woman, once she has her mind set on something she will complete it no matter what stands in her way.

* Kat was engendered to be the perfect solider, one that does not need much sleep or food to survive. In average she only needs to sleep 4 hours and can go for 30+ without sleep. Not to say that she does not get cranky however if she exceeds the 24 hour mark.  This makes her very good at stake outs and surveillance as she is able to sit for prolonged periods of time with little to no rest. 

WEAKNESSES:

• Excessive heat and dry air: Like the Atlanteans, Kat needs moisture and water to survive and being in areas with no moisture, or around anything that causes extreme heat like fire can make her weak and extended exposure could potentially kill her.

• Trouble expressing emotion: Since the Cadmus scientist were not able to find a way to suppress emotion genetically during her time there she was trained to believe that emotion has no value to a solider and it is something Kat still struggles with to this day. While the therapy she received from The League and interactions with The Team have helped her immensity and she is capable of freely expressing the range of human emotion it is sometimes still hard to do so.


TRAITS:

Katherine is a reserved girl, usually keeping her opinions to herself and following orders but if it is something she feels strongly about she will speak her mind and will often time cross lines she did not mean to cross. She has what has been described as a 'resting bitch face' and many people outside the Team/League avoid her but despite how she may look on the outside Kat is a friendly person, you just have to get passed the barriers she has put up to protect herself. To the disbelief of many she does have a sense of humor, a dry sense of humor but humor none the less. Being on her own these past few months has given her the opportunity to come more into her own and she is slowly starting to inch away from her protective shell.

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HISTORY:


Project Poseidon or Experiment 452 was created on May 3rd 2010 in one of the deepest levels of a Cadmus facility in the Atlantic ocean. She was the labor of many years of trial and error and was the closest genomorph developed to a true Atlantean. After her development was complete 452 was moved to a undisclosed location on June 15th, where she was to begin her military training. On September 3rd 2010, 452 was rescued by The League after rumors of The Light's activity reached them. Thinking they were simply going in for reconnaissance members of the League were surprised to find experiment 452 and learning what she could do. Knowing they couldn't leave her in the hands of The Light, 452 was taken back with the members of The League and placed into quarantine until they were certain of what they were dealing with. Taking samples of her DNA the members of the League ran it against the national databases, as well as their own to see if it came back with a match. This was when she learned about the real Katherine Spencer, thanks to a missing persons report made by the girls family.

When they asked her if she would like to pick her own name Katt decided to keep the name Katherine Spencer, feeling like she owed the girl that had unwillingly become her donor.

September 3rd was when Kat's life truly began and she learned more about herself in those few short weeks spent with The League than she ever had in her months at Cadmus. She received counseling and therapy at the hands of Black Canary to help her accept the fact that she was a clone, and to adapt and assimilate to life outside the laboratory walls. Katt also learned how to properly interact with people and many other useful mundane things. Once the members of the League were certain that she was not being used by Cadmus as a spy and that she was stable enough she was introduced to The Team and became a junior member in 2011.

Kat did not do much in regards to crime fighting, mostly out of fear of being found by Cadmus once again, instead she remained in Mount Justice and trained with the others and learned more about her powers and her new heritage. She became quick friends with the Atlanteans and was friendly with the rest of the team but her closest relationship was with Tula and Kaldur'ahm and over time she started to develop feelings for the older Atlantean boy, but kept those feelings to herself and hidden from the rest of the group unaware if those feelings were mutual or not and finding that team relationships complicate things too much.

Over the years Kat would aid the team on small missions and used the rest of her time to run logistics at HQ and to further integrate into normal society. She enrolled in Happy Harbor High with Conner and the others as a Junior with the apparent age of 17. After graduation Kat stayed with The Team and continued with her current path and enrolled in the local university with a plan to major in Marine Science.

February 18th 2015 was when everything changed for her with the death of Tula, or Aquagirl. Tula's death hit Kat piratically hard, she had never experienced a loss like this before and it left a large hole in her heart. Tula had been one of her closest friends and it was hard to let her go, it was even harder to accept the role as the new Aquagirl. After a acceptable amount of time had passed Kat was approached by Nightwing and asked to take up the mantle, something Kat accepted with a heavy heart as a way to honor her fallen friend. With the acceptance of the position Kat became a full member of the team.

The months following were some of the hardest for her, even her time at the Cadmus labs did not compare.
Learning of Aqualads betrayal nearly brought her world down around her. Her small, adoptive family was quickly falling apart and she did not know how to handle what was happening and with the preceieved loss of Artemis, Kat completely shut down, unable to comprehend the emotions she was feeling and not knowing how to deal with so many losses in such a short period of time she reverted back to the solider she was meant to be and bringing down Kaldhur was her primary goal. She worked with The Team and inadvertently came close to ruining Aqualads mission with her desire to bring him down.

When Nightwings plan had been revealed and Artemis and Aqualad returned to the team Kat, like the rest of the team felt betrayed. They had lied, had caused so much pain and suffering among the team and that betrayal left a sour taste in her mouth that would never leave and Kat made the decision to leave the team then. Once The Light and The Reach were taken down and the new threat brought on by Darkseid Kat made up her mind and left the Team for good.

Nearly a year later Kat has struck it out on her own as a solo act under the new guise of Hydracat, having moved to Harbor City and set up shop there (primarily picking this city for its weather. The constant rain easily hides any caused by her sporadic emotions.) and because of reports of missing meta teens disappearing from the streets, something that has Cadmus written all over it. With the large population of runaways in Harbor City the project has easy pickins when it comes to test subjects.  Kat has dedicated her time to bringing down Cadmus and all of their subsidiaries, not wanting others to experience what she and those that had come before her had to experience.


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NAME: Summer
EXPERIENCE: 7-8 years
CONTACT: PM is easiest but Skype and YIM work just as well
CHARACTERS: Batgirl
ANYTHING ELSE?

After Tulas death Kat took up the mantle of 'Aquagirl' and remained as so for nearly two years.

Even after leaving the team Kat still remains in close contact with many of its members, offering tips and whatnot when she can. She is particically close to M'gann and Artemis (having forgave the latter, reasoning that she had lost Wally as that it would be wrong to hold a grudge against her after having lost so much already)

While she has forgiven Artemis and to a lesser extent Nightwing, Kat can not find it in her heart to forgive Kaldur. He had been her advisor and friend and she still to this day carries a large flame for him (despite her better judgment) and that made everything he did that much worse...even if she knew what he did he did for the greater good.

Still attends college and is close to earning her degree

Has a hard time holding a job because of the hero lifestyle but thanks to the account set up for her by The League (something they do for all its members) she is able to support herself and her hero activities

Is a vegetarian

while she may call herself 22 years of age, given that is how old the real Katherine Spencer would be, in reality Katt is only 7

Has rejoined the team as a full member

After many ups and downs and awkward exchanges Katherine and Kaldur'ahm were able to rebuild their friendship and after a few months the two have started dating.