Tiny Tigress

[Leichenengel]

⫷◍Name◍⫸
Tiny Tigress

⫷◍Alignment◍⫸
Heroine
(Vigilante to-be)

⫷◍Personality traits◍⫸
fierce | strong-willed | vivacious | resentful | opportunistic

⫷◍Title◍⫸
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⫷◍Sub-Title◍⫸
Vigilant

⫷◍Weakness (Kryptonite)◍⫸
Catnip



⫷◍Race◍⫸
Anthromorph

⫷◍Special Ability◍⫸
Shapeshifter

⫷◍Race for Day Jobs◍⫸
Human

⫷◍Diet◍⫸
(Raw) Meat with bones (except for poultry)
(Raw) Fish and seafood
Lactose free milk
Non-sparkling water



⫷◍Real Name (also used for Day Jobs)◍⫸
Tezra Chaturo

⫷◍Current Residence◍⫸
Paragon City

⫷◍Former Residence◍⫸
Cavastria-Tribe Village/Myrenjia/Scantha/Vondroa



⫷◍Origin◍⫸
Nature

⫷◍Archetype◍⫸
Brute

⫷◍Powers◍⫸
Claws
Super Reflexes
Leaping

⫷◍Battle Cry◍⫸
Shredding Time, rawr!

⫷◍Super Group◍⫸
Hilariously Mental

Tezra comes from a world named "Vondroa", a world similar to Primal Earth in many regards but still not quite the same. The world was mainly, approximately up to 58,6%, populated by anthromorphic animals, feral looks but human demeanour. 38,4% were regular humans. Both main species were living peacefully among each other - well, as peaceful as modern societies tend to be. The remaining populace of 3% consists of a peaceful alien race called Vhazeire whose spaceship crashed on Vondroa while they were evacuating the remaining survivors of their planet that was on the brink of destruction caused by their sworn enemies the Arox. The continent "Dreal" where the ship crashed had the highest standard of technical development since the Aliens were willing to share their technology if the society of Vondroa granted them shelter and a place to live in peace until their ship was repaired and they could search for a new planet to live on. In the end the Aliens were given an uninhabited island far off the coast of Dreal that mainly featured a sleeping volcano, jungle and a sandy beach surrounding the jungle. Since the island resembled their original home planet in certain ways the aliens decided to stay and disassemble the ship using the still intact parts for their buildings and contraptions on the island they called "Cirhkis" which in their language was the word for "Hope". The technology invented with the help of the Vhazeire-aliens raised the standards for living on Dreal and later also on other continents to a certain degree.

However not all continents developed in the same speed and there was one who decided to not pursue technological development like the other continents: Scantha. Tezra and her family stem from a jungle tribe in the country Myrenjia on Scantha. The tribe was well known for not only retaining the rather feral demeanours of their species and rather savage way of life but for also being very small compared to other anthromorphs or humans on Vondroa. They lived very connected to nature and natural spirits, learned to hunt or collect or cultivate food. Their villages were built in proximity to clean water sources and fertile soil. Depending on their species they learned to use their natural inherent abilities to fight for and defend the tribe. Every decade a newborn child of the tribe would be blessed by their main goddess Cavastria with a special ability. Tezra was the one in her decade of birth who was blessed with such an ability. When growing up she noticed she was able to shapeshift to a small variant of another race. While that was practically useless on Vondroa, because the mere size would have given away that she was actually a member of the Cavastria-Tribe on Scantha, this ability would become useful in her not yet written future.

Since the Vhazeire-aliens had decided to stay and start a new life on their island on Vondroa, the Arox found them several decades later, because they had traced back a signal from a beacon on the island that was supposed to contact other survivors of Vhazeire-aliens to come to Vondroa to start over. When the Arox invaded Vondroa they destroyed the remaining Vhazeire populace with a quick strike before aiming their forces at the highly developed continents. Scantha would have been mostly safe due to being very poorly developed compared to the other continents, if they hadn't decided to support the other continents in their war against the evil Arox. Due to the decisions and actions of the Scantha authorities the Cavastria-Tribe also got mixed up in the war against the Arox. Tezras parents and most of the other tribe members were killed when the Arox began to tear a swath of destruction through their jungle habitat.

Tezra sneaked into a war camp of the Arox to find out more about them. She shapeshifted into a small animal to not be noticed by the Arox and witnessed how the Arox used a strange crystal framed by a contraption of foreign, shiny metal, to summon backup forces to the camp. The crystal was activated and controlled by a small console near the crystal. The crystal and its control console were guarded by two Arox soldiers. If she was able to use the console she might be able to get to the source of this evil and maybe cause some destruction there before eventually being caught and killed. She waited until most of the Arox had left the camp to fight against the remainders of the tribe. The area where the crystal was located was a bit away from the actual campsite within a small enclosure at the base of the inactive volcano in the centre of the habitat. She shifted back to her natural form and killed the guards to be able to access the console. She however had no idea how to use it. There were a lot of buttons, displays and regulators and a keyboard with foreign symbols. Hearing other Arox soldiers approach because the fight with the guards was quite noisy, she hastily operated the buttons and regulators and pressed some of the keys with the foreign symbols causing the console to give off an alarming sound. She leaped forward to the crystal not knowing, that it was apparently malfunctioning and on the verge of destructing itself. She touched it and immediately got sucked into it to then just feel as if she was squeezed through a very narrow cavern. She wasn't able to see where she was headed and lost consciousness soon. When she woke up she felt worn out, dizzy and nauseous. Upon looking around she found herself in the room of a decrepit, half destroyed building. From the outside she heard sounds of fighting – similar to what she had been hearing in the jungle before deciding to sneak into the war camp. Still feeling dizzy and worn out she decided to sneak towards one of the holes in the wall and peek out of it to only see a bunch of dark armoured soldiers fight against some kind of alien race that looked similar to the Arox she knew but also a bit different. She withdrew from the hole and decided to seek a safe way out of the building. Since she was hungry, thirsty, dizzy and worn out she wasn't able to shapeshift and got captured by a patrol of those foreign aliens when she was trying to move away from the scene of the fight.

Tezra was brought to a cavern full of alien technology which resembled that of the Arox. She would have died there or ended up as a research specimen for them if it wouldn't have been for those dark armoured soldiers with the red spider emblems on their chests or capes. Soon after she had been brought to the cavern they stormed in there and started fighting the aliens accompanied by large mechanical spiders and hovering guys bound in red bandages but the aliens fought fiercely and three of them took her deep into the cavern each of them accompanied by two other aliens. An hour of interrogation went by in which she could hear the ongoing fight between the Spider Soldiers and the aliens who called themselves "Rikti". Since she was barely able to understand the Rikti that was trying to interrogate her and she also wasn't sure if it was smart to tell them anything she tried to play for time hoping that those Spider Soldiers would gain the upper hand and save her. But instead she soon heard more sounds echoing from the caverns and saw how some of the Rikti summoned greenish portals to call in backup soldiers. The fighting sounds in the cavern tunnels subsided quickly and not long afterwards a raid party consisting of funny looking humans in red and white costumes and those knights in strange dark armour she had seen earlier entered the room she was held captive in. They were accompanied by two other costumed fighters with superpowers. The knights in the dark armour were very capable fighters and equipped with multiple weapons. The party dispatched the remaining Rikti and their backup quickly.

After defeating the Rikti who had been trying to interrogate her, the leaders of each group started a heated discussion about who of them would be taking that anthro-tigress for interrogation, research and experimentation. She picked up words like "Longbow", "Vanguard" and "Arachnos" but as they were discussing who would be taking her she stepped forward in a fierce manner letting out a savage roar of displeasure. The Vanguard Raid Leader and the Longbow Agent were caught a bit dumbfounded and fell silent immediately. She stated that she wasn't keen on becoming a research specimen at all and that she would shred them to pieces if they dared to lay a finger on her. She then demanded to be told where she was, what those "Rikti" were and if there was something she could do to not end up as a research specimen or having to shred them to pieces. Not quite sure what to make of her and surprised, that she was able to understand them the Vanguard Raid Leader ordered the two superpowered fighters to guard and protect her from a possible Rikti-ambush and sent his remaining forces to spread out in the cavern to intercept any Rikti that tried to get to their base that way. The Longbow Agent did the same.

The two raid leaders went to an adjacent area to talk about that tiny savage mutant they were both apparently here for. The Vanguard had intercepted a Rikti communication that mentioned a foreign mutant animal captive. The captive was supposed to be researched and turned into one of them or killed if that wasn't possible. The discussion became quite heated again, when the Longbow Agent said that they were here to rescue the captive before Arachnos got their filthy hands on her and stated further, that the savage demeanour of that anthro-tigress and her strong will could be useful for their cause. They both agreed on that she apparently wasn't from Primal Earth since the exotic accent she featured when talking was nothing they had ever heard. For not being from Primal Earth and being a foreign "manimal" mutant she was actually under Vanguard jurisdiction. After more heated discussion about the aims of Longbow and aims of Vanguard the Vanguard Raid Leader finally decided, that the headquarters had more pressing matters at hand than to also occupy themselves with a foreign savage creature. So the Longbow Agent took the chance to get his hands on her.

Back where Tezra was guarded by a hero and a villain the Longbow Agent used the psionic powers of the hero to render Tezra unconscious again to not run the risk of being shredded to pieces and took her to a small Base within the Rikti War Zone and with a helicopter to one of the Longbow bases in Atlas Park. On his way from the helicopter to the compound Tezra regained consciousness again while the Agent was talking to another Longbow who had come to pick him up. He was telling him he should get a research lab and a cell ready and sent him off. Even though she was hungry, thirsty and dizzy from the psionic attack she was able to leap from the stretcher she had been laid on. She injured the Longbow Agent severely in a fit of rage before using the remaining adrenaline to flee also injuring a couple of other Longbow soldiers that were trying to get a hold of her. Still hungry, thirsty and wounded from the Longbow attacks she strayed through the streets of Atlas Park while trying to avoid the thugs that littered them and threatening citizens. She had no idea where she was and how to deal with all this technology. She knew that Vondroa had continents that were most likely developed in a similar way, but she never left the security of the tribe to see the other continents.

In the end she collapsed in proximity to the town hall and was rescued by a hero in training from becoming a victim of a Hellion thug. He carried her to Ms. Liberty for further assistance. Tezra wound up in a hospital in a one-bed room that was guarded by two heroes outside the door who rushed inside to calm her down, when she shredded and mauled the medical equipment and the bed to piles of scrap. The experienced heroes were able to deal with her easily and fought her with only half their power to wear her out so she had no other options left than to back down. In the meantime Ms. Liberty had called Mynx for assistance since she believed another cat would be a better asset in her quest to convince the anthro-tigress to become a heroine. Since Tezras current level of power wasn't enough to seriously harm the two heroes, one of them left the room to call in Mynx who found her grumping on the pile of textile scraps and fillings of what had been the pillow, blanket and mattress of the hospital bed. She felt too tired to put up a fight and listened to what Mynx had to say. She finally was told where she was, what the name of this world and this city was, who the Rikti and those Spider Soldiers were and how she had been found and rescued by a hero in training after collapsing near the town hall. The relaxed and informal way Mynx talked to her and the fact that she also seemed to be a cat-woman convinced her to give away some information about herself and her journey. In the end she and Mynx agreed on that Tezra should be taken to a special facility that would examine her for the good of herself. There she would be prepared to become a heroine in training so she was able to contribute to the fate of this world and this city, to do good deeds and use her strength and savage ferociousness for justice.

Since she hadn't been able to do much to help her tribe against the Arox she decided it was a good idea to dedicate this new life to follow the path of justice and help the people of this city and world in any way possible. The personnel at the facility examined her and documented her special ability to shapeshift into other beings. She was proposed to use her real identity as her heroic identity and use her shapeshifting ability to create a secret identity when moving around the city off-duty. Due to being so small and a tiger anthromorph she chose her heroine name to be Tiny Tigress. Her human identity would use her original name "Tezra Chaturo". She received basic training in how to use and advance her powers and since she was a stranger to technology they also taught her how to use and deal with modern technology, for example the devices she was given to keep in contact with people, access a map and monitor other useful things. She spent a long time in the facility due to her issues of getting into all this technology talk and the gadgetry. But in the end she was able to understand the basics and use the devices given to her. So after connecting her to the medi-porter system they brought her to a precinct to help with the threat of a new drug and some very aggressive thugs. They said it was the ideal way to put her training to the test and to learn more about how to advance her powers and use certain technologies on her journey to become a heroine.

After successfully dealing with the threat of the outbreak in that precinct she was send back to Atlas Park and to talk to Ms. Liberty and a guy called "Mathew Habashy". She decided it was for the best, if she thoroughly explored this world, its history and each part of the city and to accept every assignment to be able to get a good grip of how to fit into this new society and contribute her part to make it a better place...

⫷◍Theme Song◍⫸
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger

⫷◍PSpecial Thanks◍⫸
3 Miles Isle - for again helping me to finalize this background story and weed out some misinterpretations and complicated wording. There may however be typos left ^^