Orphan X
DC/Marvel Characters Used: X23 and Cassandra Cain
Name: Laura Wayne
née Cain
Alias: Orphan X
Age: 25
Powers: Laura possesses an accelerated healing factor, not quite on par with Dark Claw's, but not far off either. This is expected to reach full capacity by the time she is 30. She also posseses superhumanly enhanced senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes. Her main form of offence are her bone claws, two of which she has on either hand and either foot.
She was also trained in multiple martial arts and stealth techniques by both Benjamin Cain and Dark Claw and excells at stealth and assassination techniques.
Weaknesses: While her healing factor is exceptional, it still takes time to kick in and she can be incapacitated by heavy enough attacks. Energy based attacks in particular are tricky to heal from. She also has a "trigger scent" implanted within her DNA from a young age which induces a berserker state in which she turns into a remorseless and unstoppable hunter who won’t rest until she’s killed her target. Unfortunately she does not independently decide who this target is, and this could potentially be used by villains to her detriment.
Team Affiliation: Titan X
Personality: Hot-headed, Sarky, Confident, Relentless, Resourceful
Appearance: Laura stands at approximately 5'4" with a lean, athletic build that emphasizes both strength and agility. She has dark brown hair that only looks darker when contrasted with her pale skin and green eyes.
Her costume consists of a sleek, black leather jacket that fits snugly, made from high-tech material to provide both flexibility and protection. The jacket has armored sections on the shoulders and forearms, offering additional protection while allowing for a full range of motion. Her legs are covered by fitted black pants made from a durable, flexible fabric, enabling her to move swiftly and efficiently .Her hands are covered by black gloves that extend slightly past the wrists, featuring reinforced knuckles for added striking power, while her feet are shod in sturdy black combat boots that rise to her mid-calf.
BRIEF Bio: Laura Cain was a clone of Dark Claw created by Benjamin Cain (David Cain + Bullseye). From a young age, she was trained to be an expert assassin with the sole purpose of one day finding and killing Dark Claw himself. Her youth was stunted, as she was cut off from the outside world by Cain, who only allowed her to meet others when absolutely necessary. She completed her first assassination at the age of eight and continued to work with and for her father until her teenage years, when Cain decided she was ready to go after Dark Claw.
The assassination attempt did not go as planned, and she was subdued by Dark Claw with minimal difficulty. Seeing that she was almost feral and resisted any methods he tried to use to calm her or extract information, Dark Claw placed her in Arkham Asylum for holding. Having been trained for this potential eventuality, Laura escaped with relative ease and set about her second assassination attempt. She skulked in the shadows, doing her best to track Dark Claw and contact her father, who had been surprisingly radio silent since her incarceration.
After a tough fight with Dark Claw, she discovered that her father had been left for dead in a rundown sewer and had gone into hiding to avoid capture. The feeling of being on her own for the first time in her life was as scary as it was liberating, but she couldn't help but feel a sense of loss and sadness after realizing her "father" did not care enough to ensure her safety.
Nevertheless, she was trained with one purpose, and subconsciously everything was telling her to fulfill it. Using expert tracking techniques, she managed to follow Dark Claw back to his manor, where she took him by surprise and attacked him, but was again defeated. After seeing the noticeable similarities in their innate powers, along with receiving encouragement from his butler, Logan realized there was more to Laura than met the eye and trapped her within his manor.
What followed was a great deal of time spent de-conditioning her from the psychological trauma and training Cain had put her through. It took a while, but eventually, Laura began to warm to the hodge-podge family that had formed under Dark Claw's watch. Sparrow was instrumental in this, being another girl around the same age as her. During this time, Laura also began to uncover memories of her early childhood, realizing that there was a part of her that longed for family and belonging, something she had never been allowed to experience under Cain's control.
Eventually, Laura felt she was old enough to go out on her own. Dark Claw, of course, kept tabs on her, but she was well and truly changed for the better and wanted to do good in the world...at least in her own strange way. This led to a few run-ins with another former student of Claw, Night Vision. They butted heads on a few occasions, disagreeing completely in their methods and even coming to blows at one point. Nevertheless, with encouragement from Claw, Night Vision persisted in attempting to get her to stop going at it completely lone wolf and join the Titan X team. She refused vehemently until Night Vision was instrumental in helping her take down the Hyena's girlfriend, Wild Thing. She realized his worth as a leader and grew a level of respect for him, tentatively joining Titan X for the time being.
Supporting cast/characters:
Dark Claw
Night Vision
Sparrow
Amalgam Universe Notes:
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