<div class="floatleft">(http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1928/greerk.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Student Name:</strong></span>Greer Grant<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Avenger Name:</strong></span>Tigra<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Apparent Age:</strong></span>17<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Appearance:</strong>  </span><br/>Height:<br/>5'10"<br/>Weight:<br/>180 lbs.<br/>Eyes:<br/>Green (in cat form) Blue (in human form)<br/>Hair:<br/>Red (in cat form) Black (In human form)<br/><br/>When in her human form Greer tends to dress for comfort, usually in a pair of worn blue jeans and a tshirt or tank top. She wears sandals or running shoes depending on the need but most often is seen in the tower barefoot. She almost always leaves her long black hair down as it helps her to hide from the world while getting lost in her books and journals.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Avenger Appearance:</strong> </span><br/>Her physical appearance is distinctly cat-like. A thick, sleek coat of orange fur with black stripes covers her entire body. She has pointed ears, sharper-than-normal teeth with pronounced upper and lower canines, eyes with enlarged irises and vertically-slitted pupils, and retractable claws on her feet and hands instead of nails. Her claws and teeth are sufficiently strong to puncture sheet steel, such as that found in a car body. Tigra also has a long semi-prehensile tail, and can willfully contact (but not grasp and lift) objects with it.<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2236/avengersacademyvol13pag.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Marvel Character:</strong></span>Tigra<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>History/Significant Events:</strong></span><br/>Greer was born to a History Major and an Archeologist in the windy city of Chicago Illinois.  She had a rather normal life for a girl whose father liked to travel and often drug her as well as her mother along on expeditions in far off lands. Her life was always an adventure, at least during summer months. When she was fifteen she went out on a date with an older student at high school and on their walk home a mugger came out of a side alley. Upon having a gun drawn on them, the boy ran away leaving her alone to deal with the strung out drug addict. When he found out she had no money or any belongings of worth he decided to take what he wanted out in her flesh. Before he could get her into a position of use she was rescued by none other than Johnny Storm. After the heroic rescue he walked her home and made sure she was okay. She saw him a couple other times after and was so into infatuation with the hero that it was nearing on obsession. Within a few weeks her father had told her they were moving to South America where he was to study a mythological group of cat people. She didn't even get to see Johnny again, whether it was a good thing to him or not. So packing up her belongings they were off and she was to be home schooled for her two years of high school. Unbeknownst to her father but Hydra had plans on learning more about these cat people as well and after some research done by Doctor Grant, they came in and slaughtered her family taking what information they could. Greer, who did not know these cat people actually existed, was spirited away by them and saved by their mystical magicks, which turned her into a being similar to their own likeness. Given a talisman, Greer would have the ability to transform herself back and forth between human and catgirl.  She stayed with these people for nearly a year, learning how to defend herself, how to fight and how to use what skills she had obtained in the transformation. Some of her abilities were natural instinct and came easily to her with use, others took some more training. After this time the cat people told her she needed to go out into the world to face her fears and make the world a better place by using her gifts they gave her. After finding her way to a civilized town she found a place to sleep and when she woke up was face to face with Nick Fury. When asked how they found her, he would say "We have our ways."  He then asked her to come back with him where she was tested and trained further. For six months she was held by SHIELD and there in she collected news clippings and anything she could find on Johnny, storing them all in a scrapbook of sorts with dates and other doodling art. Later Greer was sent onward upon initial training completion to meet with Dr Strange at the Avengers Tower. She was to become the next New Avenger and would need to complete enhanced training both in the field and with a team.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Personality:</strong> </span><br/>Tigra is a very flirty and outgoing person when in her tiger persona. She can be very affectionate and loves attention. Her temper can come at odd times with a fiery personality that befits most redheads.<br/>When in her human form Greer is more reserved and conservative. She likes to talk to people and make friends but given her trials and tribulations with her a damaged psyche she doesn't get close to anyone too quickly. She can be introverted so much as it could be called the exact opposite of her Tigra persona, who is very much an extrovert.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Powers:</strong></span><br/><strong>Superhuman strength, Super Speed, Enhanced Senses, Enhanced Agility</strong><br/><br/>Tigra's powers are the result of a combination of science, magic, and mental energy utilized by Dr. Joeanne Marie Tumulo and other Cat People. Tigra's feline physiology grants her various superhuman attributes including superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes, and resistance to physical injury. If she is injured, her physiology enables her to heal much faster and more extensively than an ordinary human is capable of.<br/><br/>Tigra's senses of sight, smell, and hearing extend far into the superhuman range and are also superior to those of ordinary cats. Tigra can see farther, and with much greater clarity, than an ordinary human. She has this same level of clarity at night, and her vision also extends slightly into the infrared spectrum, allowing her to see in complete darkness.<br/><br/>Her hearing is similarly enhanced, allowing her to hear a wider range of frequencies than a normal human as well as clearly hear sounds that would be far too faint for a human to detect. Exposure to intense, high-frequency sound is far more painful for Tigra than a normal human, however.<br/><br/>Tigra's sense of smell is developed to the point that she can recognize a person by scent alone, and track an individual across great distances and through complex environments. She can also sense changes in a person's mood through changes in scent.<br/><br/>Like all cats, the interconnective tissues of Tigra's skeleton are unusually resilient. On at least one occasion this allowed her to shift her bones to slip out of mechanical restraints that would have effectively held a normal human, though doing so was quite painful. This resiliency also contributes to many of her other super-powered abilities, such as her body's resistance to injury.<br/><br/>Greer received a form of empathic ability when she became The Cat. She retains this ability as Tigra. With careful concentration, she can sense the emotions of others within her immediate proximity. She appears to prefer to achieve this same effect through her enhanced feline senses.<br/><br/>Tigra is an experienced and formidable hand to hand combatant, with a unique fighting style that exploits her feline speed, agility, senses, and instincts. She is a superhumanly adept athlete and gymnast.<br/><br/><strong>Limited mystical abilities</strong><br/>Tigra possesses a mystical talisman that allows her to change her appearance from feline to human at will. She rarely uses it and only appears in her human form when circumstances require it. She regards her feline body as her natural form.<br/>Tigra possesses mystical abilities that have largely gone unexplored. In addition to using her mystic talisman to change her appearance from feline to human and back, she has been shown magically summoning the Balkatar, the cat-people's designated emissary to the Earthly plane.<br/><br/><strong>Retractable Claws</strong><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Fears and Weaknesses:</strong> </span><br/>Being alone and more importantly alone in the dark.<br/><br/>Tigra suffers from conflicts between her human nature and her feline aspects. Occasionally, she becomes violently hostile or over-amorous.<br/><br/>Due to her enhanced hearing Tigra is far more vulnerable to attacks of high decibel sound.<br/><br/>Despite her enhanced durability and accelerated healing Tigra could be killed if a powerful enough force was directed against her.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Desires and Aversions:</strong></span><br/>To find her obsession - Johnny Storm<br/>To locate those who killed her parents and bring them to justice.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>Controllable?</strong></span><br/>Somewhat Resistant-<br/>The unusual feline-human hybrid configuration of her brain makes her somewhat resistant to telepathic assaults. Though Tigra is not immune to such tactics, attackers have been forced to focus their powers carefully in order to use them effectively against her.