Name: Anne Karnes

Supervillain name: Chroma Cat

DOB: September 18th, 1975

POB: Long Beach, California

Age: 45

Gender: Female

Species: Domestic Housecat Maine Coon

Nationality: American

Height: 5’11”

Weight: 140lbs

Eye color: Yellow

Hair Color: Honey Brown

Physical Appearance: Fluffy furred maine coon feline, often naked, though her thick fur covers her enough to achieve a sense of modesty. Her fur in normal day to day life is that of a grey tabby, but if spotted her default colors are a pale green with light blue swirling strips. These colors frequently move and shift over her body.

Outfits: Usually naked

Occupation: Former Marine Biologist, Currently Thief/Spy/Informant for hire.

Weapons/items:
No weapons, doesn’t like using them.
Doesn’t carry much if anything as it makes it hard for her to be fully invisible.

Personal Transport:
1986 Volkswagen Jetta

Powers/abilities:

Camouflage: Chroma Cat can as her name suggests manipulate the chromatophores in her fur, skin, hair and eyes to take on the appearance of any surface she presses against. Making her nearly invisible.

Ink: At close range she is also capable of spitting a thick glob ink at her opponents to blind them.

Bioluminescence: Chroma Cat can alter the color, patterns, and light intensity of her fur, creating painfully bright, blinding and disorienting patterns, or can use it to send signals to allies over a long distance (like using a flashlight to send morse code) She can also use her bioluminescence to see in extreme darkness.

Venomous: Her teeth and claws carry a powerful tetrodotoxin equal to a blue ringed octopus, and her tail fur is packed with jellyfish like stingers loaded with venom similar to a box jellyfish.

Venom Immunity: Chroma Cat is immune to jellyfish and octopus venom, and is highly resistant to the effects of other venoms.

Strengths:
Resistant to hypothermia due to her body’s makeup and thick insulating fur

Extremely knowledgeable about the flora and fauna of the world’s ocean

Very strong swimmer

Weaknesses:
No real combat training

No special endurances or resistances except for cold salt water.

Can’t hide her body heat

Not committed to a life of crime, sees it as a ‘temporary’ thing.

She doesn’t wear makeup unless she’s showing off, as both makeup and clothing interfere with her camouflage abilities.

Bio:
Anne Karnes, was a promising marine biologist, studying the biology and especially the venom of several ocean dwelling invertebrates such as certain species of octopus, and jellyfish. Researching antidotes as well as potential medical and drug treatments using these animals.

One night though in the Long Beach Marine Research Lab, the lab was raided by the animal rights protest group, AFF (Animal Freedom Front) seeking to free all of the lab’s aquatic specimens. As the heavily armed protestors forced scientists and researchers out of the lab. Refusing to let these ‘uneducated lunatics’ handle venomous and dangerous sea life, Anne stood up to the protestors and got into a scuffle with their leader. In the struggle the man stabbed Anne in the neck with a needle, carrying an experimental drug the lab was pioneering, thinking to give her a ‘taste’ of her own medicine. Within seconds Anne went rigid as her muscles locked up. She was conscious even as the AFF leader dumped her paralyzed body in a nearby salt water tank full of box jellyfish to drown, while he grabbed several files and notes off her desk. Anne blacked out, fully believing she was going to die.

When Anne woke up, it was in the dark of the night, she was on the beach, nude, and her fur was bright green and glowing. She drew the attention of a group of old beachcombers, who took her to a nearby sea shack and let her warm and dry off by a fire. As she did, the glowing stopped but her fur was still a wild mix of green and purple. With the radio going the beachcombers called the police to get her help. That’s when the music stopped and a news report came through.

The police were looking for an arsonist, and AFF supporter Anne Karnes! Her jaw dropped and she couldn’t believe what she heard! With the beachcombers assuring her that the police were on their way to help her, Anne almost instinctively knew that they’d arrest her instead. And with a head full of questions and no answers, Anne ran. She ran from the beach, clutching just a long towel the beachcombers had given her.

She at first tried to get her bearings when three men tried to pull her into an alley. Thinking her a strange, but easy lay, with her only clothed in a towel they tried to have their way with her. Fearful, she fought back, when one of the men tried to grab her tail, he recoiled and screamed in horror, dropping to the ground. The others tried to cut her, but were soon blinded as her fur strobbed brightly, she kicked each of them in the groin and raked her claws on their faces, making them scream in agony. This gave her a moment to check on the first one that had grabbed her tail. He was dead from a heart attack.

Terrified but needing to get some ‘covering’ she stole the man’s clothes while his friends went into anaphylactic shock. She found the man had keys to a beat up Volkswagen, and she left them to die and made her way to the car. As she caught her reflection in the car's rear view mirror she discovered if she tried hard enough she could manipulate the color and patterns on her fur to look ‘normal’ If she pressed her hand hard enough to the steering wheel, or body against the seat covers, it would become the same color as well. All it took was a very little bit of thought.

She made her way back to the lab and discovered it had in fact been burned down. Her car had long since been impounded so she fled to her house to find it too was covered by cops and reporters.

Using the cash from the wallet of her would-be rapist she filled up the Volkswagen and fled east to piece together what was going on. She rented a hotel room and stayed up watching the news throughout the night. The bodies of the men were found, and to her surprise she was also blamed for them. Now she was labelled a murderer too. The biggest financial backer of the lab’s research, Franklin Godwynn appeared on TV to remark on how she apparently had fallen in with the animal rights group, and went rogue stealing millions of dollars of research on venom that could save countless lives.

Anne Karnes gritted her teeth and sought out her co-workers. With her growing understanding of her body’s power it was easy to sneak into the house of a lowly lab technician. Held at tail point she learned from the technician that she had indeed got out of the tank as they were coming back in, and she had indeed set the fire before fleeing down the nearby dock and jumping into the ocean.

She didn’t have time to figure out if he was lying or not, part of her wanted to believe he’d been bribed off, but she heard sirens and made herself ‘vanish’ from the technician’s house. By the time the cops arrived she was long gone.

Anne Karnes has now decided that if the law is after her, and thinks her a wild and dangerous criminal… or worse a terrorist, she can’t just waltz into the nearest police station and profess her innocence. So now, she has turned to crime, and uses her powers, first to make a name for herself, as the villainess Chroma Cat. The second is to get enough money to begin finding out what really happened when that needle injected her and what was inside it that gave her the camouflage and venom of some of the ocean’s most dangerous creatures.

Personality:
While she has the potential to be extremely lethal and certainly will threaten it, she only uses her venoms in dire circumstances, where she fears for her own life.

Cynical to a fault, including her own opinions of herself.

Likes to swim, and prefers to swim alone.

With her near brush with death, Anne is now terrified of needles.