VENOM
Secret Identity: Mara San Ruiz

Calling: Protector

Strength: 8X
Intelligence: 4D
Agility: 9C
Willpower: 8D
Edge/Hand: 1/3

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Personal History:

In the projects in the worse part of East St. Louis, in the apartment at the end of a particular hall -- the one that reeks of old dead things -- lives the Spider Man. At least, that's the name the kids of the building have given him because the few who glimpsed in through the cracked door saw only spider webs and glass aquariums full of specimiens. No one ever talks to him, and he never leaves his apartment that anyone has ever noticed.
So, what's the Spider Man's secret? Marta San Ruiz, a hard-working child prodigy who was forced to drop out of high school, is naturally curious about the old man. She sneaks into his apartment one night, and he catches her and he tells her his story.
Spiders are ancient -- far more so than even modern science could conceive of. In the billions of years that they've thrived on and under the earth, they'd evolved in ways we could not possibly know. Their intellect is impossibly keen, and they communicate in ways that beggar human description. Humans can hear this if they only allow themselves to.
The key is in the webs. Its tensile strength is not the only amazing thing that comes about from the composition of the strands and the patterns its weaved into. Each web is but a piece of a global communications link through which all spiders communicate. A person trained to hear can know anything at any time, if he or she so desired.
The Spider Man took the girl under his wing, and in the hours she doesn't work, he trains her in the arts of listening and expanding her perception. Without her knowledge, he even drugs her, dosing her with trace amounts of a special sappho derived from certain spider venoms. As a result, she finds that she is gaining amazing strength, agility and keener senses.
More amazing than that, as the Spider Man reveals to her when she discovers what he's been doing, it seems she's developed an immunity to death. The venom extract was a part of an ancient ceremony. She may not have the strength and speed of a spider--she's just approaching physical perfection as a human being.
At any rate, this girl found herself getting her boyfriend out of trouble with local gang, the JayJayz. But to keep the gang from retaliating against her mother and little sister, she disguises herself, using the name Venom.
Now, Marta's head is screwed on as straight as possible, being raised in a traditional Latino catholic family. She doesn't want to ruin her life any worse by sinking into the mire her friends have. Unfortunately, confused by these new abilities and riding high on adreneline after the fight with the JayJayz, she and her boyfriend succumb to a moment of passion. After three glorious weeks of fighting crime in her neighborhood, she's just found out that she's pregnant. Will she choose to give up the kid to keep on fighting crime and helping people? Will she give it up to be a good catholic mommy?