Black Maiden

Emily Grace Maiden aka Black Maiden is a female mercenary who was first hired by the supergroup the Patriots, but after an argument she decided to work for an unknown time for the military organization Shield Global. She was one of the first to join.

Black Maiden can easily be noticed by her black clothing. Sometimes she wears a black coat, decorated with crimson red dragons. For her missions for Shield Global she usually wears a rubber jumpsuit with a nightvision mask.

History
Emily Grace Maiden was born in 1988, and spent her entire youth living with her mother in an appartment in Millenium City.

When Emily's father left after the birth of his daughter, her mother quickly went downhill and lost her job. Not long after, she had to feed three hungry mouths with only the small money she made of doing some jobs here and there.

Emily lived in one of the most criminal neighbourhoods of Millenium City, and she had to fight and steal to stay alive. She had to grow up real fast.

When she was eighteen years old, a new casino opened in town. It was one of the famous casino's of billionaire Nicholas Rimsley. With only the ten bucks she earned from washing a few cars, she went to the casino to take her chance. She immediately won the jackpot and came home with $200 instead of ten. Her mother and sister were so happy, and Emily decided that their fates were now in her hands.

That night, she went to the casino again with the $200. She wasn't as fortunate this time. She lost over and over again, until she owed the casino $50,000. She knew her and her family's life would be over. Desperately seeking for help, she turned to Nicholas Rimsley himself and begged him to forget about her debt. Instead of that, Rimsley made her an offer. If she would participate in some pharmaceutical experiments, he would drop her debt.

Emily knew she had no choice and agreed with Rimsley's offer. An hour later she was put in a truck that headed for a secret base somewhere in the wilderness. It turned out to be an corporation that was run by NEGA and PowerCorp.

So instead of 'pharmaceutical experiments', she was injected every day with experimental drugs to see what effect they had on her. The results were astonishing. Her sight increased five times, and her body was more nimble than ever before.

However, the drugs had almost merely downsides. Her hair turned black with small traces of blood red. She couldn't sleep for weeks and she started to hear voices in her head.

The supervillain Vladimir 'Killshot' Vezjrenov was a person without shame. He assaulted her and raped her whenever he wanted to.

The only light in her life was the villain Purple Sun. He felt sorry for Emily and every night he went to her prison cell. He would talk for hours with her, even if she didn't say anything back. Not very soon after, they fell in love, but Emily knew this love was doomed to die, as Purple Sun was truly an evil-doer in his heart.

Six years later. Maurice 'Psycho' Fontaine gives the order to shut the facility down and kill all test subjects, because the MCPD was very close of finding out about the base. The guards mercilessly kill almost every civilian inside, but as it was a game of fate, someone attacks the base. It is the superhero Blue Fox, who seeks revenge for his fellow teammember Nightskye, who was captured, tortured and murdered by NEGA. The hero slays almost every single member of NEGA and frees Emily, who joins him in his massacre. Among the dead are Killshot and Purple Sun.

There is a final showdown between Blue Fox and Nicholas Rimsley in his powered armor 'Iron Wrath' on the roof of the facility. Blue Fox cleaves the skull of Rimsley with his axe, and with that the reign of terror of NEGA ends.

Blue Fox is amazed by Emily's abilities and asks her to join The Patriots. She accepts the offer.

A few days later the newspapers tell of a new member of The Patriots, a woman wearing a black coat, who they dramatically call 'Black Maiden'.

Abilities
Due to the drugs that were given to her in the six years of captivity in NEGA's facility, Emily has gained an amazing sight, which allows her to see grass move in the wind from a mile away. Also her body mutated and is now more nimble than ever, making her flexible, fast and extremely acrobatic.

She uses these two abilities to take down her foes with an extended array of weapons, varying from single handguns to automatic rifles and shotguns.

Characteristics
Emily is a sarcastic woman. She likes to give her colleagues nicknames like 'Muscles' or 'Horns'. Some members jokingly call her a man, mostly because she dresses like one and talks like one. She doesn't take anything from anyone and she is not afraid to fight after a little argument.

But inside, she can show love and compassion to other people. She is always friendly to children for example.

But she is also in a relationship with Timothy LaRouge aka Blue Fox.