Sorry for the wordy background here. I'll have more tidbits about the EXCAL organization in future bios.The WidowmakerIn her previous life she was known in some circles as the Black Widow.
Back then, Mia Logan was simply a young woman living in Southeast Asia
with her father (a government agent) and fiance (his protégé). Always a premier
athlete and gymnast, Mia took very quickly to the martial arts, and having few
friends in her adopted home, spent all of her time honing her skills. When the
Chinese mafia took obvious exception with the actions of her father and her fiance
in an attempted take-down a certain crimelord (later identified as Xixor the Khan)
the result was the bloody murder of Mia's father and fiance which she witnessed
first hand (Xixor's gang did not know Mia was watching from a neighbor's home
as the agents arrived home and were slaughtered).
Mia immediately went underground, having correctly suspected that the
complete extermination of her family's presence was sought, and that her omission
from the slayings would not go unnoticed. Temporarily re-locating to Japan,
Mia completed and enhanced her martial arts training, and adopted a pseudo
identity as the Black Widow. Secretly returning to the village
of her previous home, Mia, as the Black Widow, began to exact revenge for
the death of her father and of her future husband by identifying and assassinating
every important figure within the ranks of Xixor's gang - in order - successfully
exterminating every one but Xixor himself. Her exploits became famous throughout
China and SE Asia, as the "Black Widow" moniker and the death of her crime
organization victims became the fodder of news services on a daily basis.
Police organizations made efforts to track down the vigilante activities, but since
the victims were exclusively members of a menacing crime lord's operation,
the efforts were half-hearted at best.
Mia's campaign up the ranks stopped short of Xixor himself, as she had a change
of heart at the very moment when her blade could have easily finished a death stroke.
Xixor covers the scar this unfinished blow left by now wearing a mask, and he lives in
fear that the Black Widow will return to finish his fate, even as he rebuilds his
organization into an international crime syndicate, and searches in earnest for
TBW's true identidy so that he may exterminate the threat she poses.
After her change of heart - deciding she had too much unlawful blood on her
own hands (was she any different than her targets?) Mia re-channeled her skills
into more appropriate ventures, and was a target of the CIA, NSA, FBI, and other
more secretive international organizations. Ultimately, the secretive government-backed,
and Bruce Wayne/Oliver Queen funded EXCAL organization won her services.
She has adopted the code name of The Widowmaker, as an homage to her past
life, so that she remembers that each death she inflicts causes the potential for loss
of other unintended victims. She wields deadly power, with her martial arts skills
and the double draw shotguns which she has more recently become renowned for.
Mia is a high ranking agent within the EXCAL organization, and is serving as
a Paladin Knight - In Training (the Paladin Knight program being the jewel of EXCAL),
under the tutelage of Knighthawk, one of the most prominent Paladin Knights in the service.
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Recipe:
POTC Swan Head - I've added some "make-up" to the face since the photo
LJ Torso, upper arms, and upper legs
Order 66 Clone Trooper lower arms
Storm Shadow lower legs
Webgear a modified FF strap and Stormy sheath.
