Jaguar

Maria de Guzman is the daughter of the Brazilian Ambassador to the UN and a student at Empire State University.

Jaguar is currently unknown.

Background
Maria de Guzman, for all intents and purposes, is a normal girl. She was born in Brazil to an ambassador father and a quiet, dutiful mother, and grew up as a pampered, yet isolated, young girl. Her life, as she knew it, normal.

But there is a secret, a secret Mr. de Guzman's wife never told him.

Maria learned it when she was only 12, during one Halloween, when her mother revealed her secret life--that her family was the possessor of what they called the "Jaguar Spirit," a primitive force that imbued the women with special powers. Touched by the divine, her mother used this power to hunt down and destroy the enemies of their family without her husband's knowledge. She changed before her daughter's eyes, the meek wife becoming a powerful predator, tall and muscled and savage.

Maria no longer celebrates Halloween.

Maria did not see much of her mother for the next six years. Her mother, sensing how badly she had frightened her daughter, moved to the country home and had resolved to patch her relationship with Maria later. After an attack on the family home in town, her father decided to send Maria to America, as he had accepted a post at the embassy in New York City, enrolling her in Empire State University.

At least there, she could be safe.

(Special Note--Maria does not begin with the Jaguar Spirit. That will be transferred to her by the death of her mother in a terrorist attack about three weeks into her creation.)

Personality
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