Jaguar
aka Maria de Guzman
Prowess 5
Coordination 6
Strength 7
Intellect 4
Awareness 6
Willpower 5
Stamina 12
Powers
All of Maria’s powers are only available to her in her Jaguar form. When she is in her ‘normal’ identity, her physical stats are reduced to: Prowess 3, Coordination 3, Strength 3, and her Stamina drops to 8. In addition, her Awareness is reduced to 3.
*Damage Resistance 4
*Claws – Strike 7 (Extra: Wall-Crawling)
*Super-Senses 3 – Smell, Hearing, Vision
*Super-Speed 3 (Limit: Running Only)
Specialties
Art – Lace Making, Athletics (Expert +2 bonus), Science – Math (Expert +2 bonus)
Qualities
*Split-Personality
*Struggles with bloodlust
*Protector of Nature
Background
During her youth, Maria lived with her aunt Luiza. Luiza secretly was a Brazilian jungle warrior and protector of the land. She once took Maria with her and performed a ritual. It was meant to channel certain mystical powers that passed down intermittently through the family line.
However, seeing Luiza turn into a werejaguar, Maria panicked and fled. Maria was found by her father who, believing that Luiza was badly caring for her, took her home. Maria has since studied maths and science, in order to avoid the merest hint of magic and mysticism.
Meanwhile, Luiza was becoming more and more predatory. She killed many government men in order to protect the rain forest. The Brazilian military finally caught up with her and killed her. But young Maria, who had been sent to study in the US the day before, inherited her powers.
She also received a costume as a last gift from Luiza. From there Maria discovered she could become the super-powerful Jaguar, a fierce, feral avenger of evil.
Maria Concepcion de Guzman is a shy and insecure young Brazilian girl. She has been given by her father the responsibility of someday inheriting and controlling the considerable de Guzman fortune. Consequently, despite her protests, she has been sent to study business and mathematics at Elm Harbor University in America. The poor girl is a stranger in a strange land.
The cool Maria finds herself excited by the fire that the Jaguar lights in her soul. She is enticed by the animalism her new alter ego. Nevertheless, she has yet to find a satisfying balance between time spent as The Jaguar and time spent pursuing her academic studies.
Since acting as the Jaguar is exhausting, she must learn not to let her super-heroics affect her study habits. Later, she ended up forming a close relationship with The Fly, marrying him at the end of the event known as The Crucible.
Barry Reese - Writer of Badass heroes 