<strong>== Character Bio ==</strong><br/><div class="floatright">(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Wildcat_grant.jpg)</div><br/><strong>== Personal Information ==</strong><br/><strong>Legal Name:</strong>Ted Grant<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Wildcat<br/><strong>Age:</strong>Physically in his late 20's, Chronologically he's actually almost 100.<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>Part of Gotham Residing In:</strong>The Road<br/><br/><strong>== Physical Description == </strong><br/>It probably would surprise nobody to learn that Ted Grant has a few Heavyweight Boxing titles too his name, though it might be a bit of a surprise to learn that they're mostly from the 1930's and 1940's. He puts a lot of work into pushing his body into peak physical condition and his powerful build shows. He's about as strong as someone can get without any sort of superhuman strength, and he jokes that the jury is out on that. His costume was made to add cat-like features to his appearance, to which he'll defend with "seemed like a good idea at the time". Caucasian with dark hair and blue eyes, Ted Grant currently lays low but sometimes someone finds him out like Batman did before the Apocalypse War.<br/><br/><strong>== Persona == </strong><br/>On the surface he seems to be a rowdy tough guy with a streak of male chauvinism, even going as far as to have been quoted as saying 'Fists are nature's problem solvers'. The tough guy part is to be expected as a street urchin turned champion heavyweight boxer. What comes out though is that he sees himself as 'in the corner' of the 'underdogs' of the world. Has been a guest trainer at several women's defense schools for example, and really doesn't like it when people abuse children - especially orphans. Amusingly, his powers may be magical in nature but he still prefers solving problems by punching them.<br/><br/><strong>== Key Skills ==</strong><br/><strong>Unarmed Combat</strong>- Ted Grant was considered one of the best hand-to-hand combatants alive back in the 30's and 40's and is always at least brought up as a possible candidate for the title of Best Boxer Ever, with few people realizing that he's actually still alive and throwing punches. He got the Olympic Gold in Boxing back in 1936, has Heavyweight Championship Belts from 1937 to 1941, and honestly he's only gotten better. Since dropping out of the spotlight he's confirmed to have mastered several other fighting styles including but not limited too Muay Thai, Capoeira, Krav Maga, and Hapkido.<br/><br/><strong>Driving</strong>- Ted Grant isn't just a pretty face with a solid left hook. He's also a world-class motorcyclist capable of at least keeping up with the best Hollywood stunt riders in the business.<br/><br/><strong>Training</strong>- A surprisingly talented teacher, Ted Grant has secretly been involved with the training of several other crime-fighters. He claims to have been one of Batman's original combat teachers for example, and that he was the only man alive that can see Batman's left cross coming. Rumor has it he's also been involved with the combat training of at least the original Batgirl, at least some of the Black/White Canaries, Catwoman, and even Superman is rumored to gotten a lesson or two from the Wildcat.<br/><br/><strong>Experience</strong>- Ted Grant lacks book smarts admittedly, but at this point he can make up for it with sheer experience, as despite his appearance he's actually almost 100 years old.<br/><br/><strong>== Advantages == </strong><br/><strong>Limited Immortality</strong>- What, you thought Ted Grant has kept up this caliber of combat skill just from diet and exercise? Chosen by the Egyptian Goddess Bast in 1945 as one of her elite Champions, Ted Grant has a limited form of immortality. Given 9 lives by the Cat Goddess, whenever Ted dies he instead is resurrected with his age reset back at 24. Only when he dies for his 9th time will his death finally be permanent. Some mystics however have made cryptic comments about how that's 9 deaths "per cycle", how long a cycle is he doesn't know but his 9 lives might reset when a cycle runs out.<br/><br/>Ted has died 5 times since the original spell was cast. Twice during WW2, once in the 1950's during "The HUAC Incident", he was paralyzed from a stroke in the 70's but didn't die of the stroke-related complications until the 90's, and once more during the Apokalips War. He believes he has 4 more deaths to go though that's really up to Bast.<br/><br/><strong>Enhanced Senses</strong>- Every time he dies he seems to come back with a bit of cat in him. At this point he can actually see in the dark like a cat does. He can't really explain it either.<br/><br/><strong>== Disadvantages ==  </strong><br/><strong>Streetwise</strong>- Ted Grant was an orphan that grew up in the 1920's, and as such has had next to nothing for an official education. In some ways he's incredibly talented, but in others he's lucky to have a GED.<br/><br/><strong>Magic Crap</strong>- As the Chosen Champion of a literal goddess, he can't help but have to occasionally deal with magical/supernatural stuff that he doesn't understand.<br/><br/><strong>Graves in my Shadow</strong>- Being semi-immortal, sometimes Ted gets lost in his past remembering those friends and lovers he's lost along the way.<br/><br/><strong>== Background == </strong><br/>His father went off to fight in WW1 before he was born and his mother died in childbirth. A street orphan, Ted was brought in off the streets by Henry Grant - a boxer and gym owner with more heart then talent. Ted though, Ted was a natural who was determined to make the old man proud - and he did when he took the Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics for Boxing and his first World Heavyweight Championship Belt in 1937. He'd hold onto the title until 1941 when the Mob tried to make him throw a fight. When he refused, they first tried to kill him but Ted Grant ain't an easy man to kill - so they cleverly went for Plan B and rigged a fight so that it looked like Ted murdered his opponent in cold blood. Between clearing his own name and the coming war with Germany, Ted Grant decided to don a costume to help on both fronts. Seemed like a good idea at the time.<br/><br/>What nobody knew at the time was that at one point during his early superhero days he took down a doctor who was tricking pregnant women into taking experimental drugs - leaving behind a string of miscarriages and bloodthirsty mutants. Taking down this criminal that preyed on pregnant women somehow got the attention of Bast - the Egyptian Goddess of Cats, Warfare, the Sun, and Motherhood. In 1942, on a mission in Egypt with the allied war effort Bast made her move. Revealing an ancient rite among her priests, Bast made him her first Chosen Champion since the time of the Pharaohs. Now he's charged with protecting orphans and mothers as the Goddess wants and in exchange when he dies he'll always reconstitute and resurrect as long as he dies less then 9 times a 'cycle', and 'cycles' seem to be however long Bast says they are.<br/><br/>He's kept it on the downlow but he's been an active superhero ever since, or tried to be. He was paralyzed from a stroke back in the 70's, and was found wheelchair-bound when Batman found him. The old boxer trained him to fight. He may just be a guy with a solid right hook, but he's also the only man who could of seen Batman's left hook coming even in the Bat's prime.  He stood up for Orphans and Mothers in other ways though, and he sometimes wonders if the stroke was from Bast to teach him a lesson. Finally dying again from stroke-related complications in the 90's, he's back to using his fists and died in the Apokolips War right there with the JLA if in a lesser role. He's fought 'in the corner of the underdog' for over coming up on a century now. And now, the Wildcat is going to put up his dukes some more.<br/><br/><strong>== Character Extras ==</strong><br/><br/>==Face Claim== Jon Bernthal<br/>(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/09/00/6d/09006d5099ffb9ae47a77724febb226a.jpg)<br/><br/>Ons: Women, especially 'Spitfires'. He likes the ones with some fire in their bellies and some fight in their eyes. He likes a pretty lady, but to really get him going she's got to be able to put up a fight on her own.<br/><br/>It's worth noting that this has led to a bit of a secret shame within Ted. Between his long life and possible manipulation of events by Bast, Ted will sometimes admit that he's actually fathered children with several women. He's not proud of this and is actually said to be a decent Dad when he has the opportunity to be.<br/><br/>Offs: Ted is old enough to have seen the sexual revolutions first hand, but he's still not gay. Nothin' against it - just doesn't work for him. Also thinks poop and pee stuff is disgusting, and treads lightly around BDSM stuff.<br/><br/><strong>=== Some Offspring of Note ===</strong><br/><br/>Jake Grant - son by his first wife Irma Grant, was later murdered by the supervillain known as the Killer Wasp.<br/><br/>Yolanda Montez - daughter by Maria Montez, wife of a sparring partner with whom he had an affair. Believed to have been the daughter of "Mauler" Montez until a DNA test when Yolanda was an adult. Interestingly, Yolanda had cat-themed metahuman abilities, originally thought to have been the product of experimentation but now he's not so sure. Briefly served as Wildcat 2 until murdered by Eclipso.<br/><br/>Tom Bronson - son by Paula Brooks, the first villainous Huntress. At the time she was a were-panther, since cured, also giving Tom cat themed powers. The product of a one-night stand, Ted was honestly unaware of Tom's existence until Tom's were-panther abilities surfaced. Tom was for a time known as Wildcat 3, but had decided to establish his own identity is Tomcat instead. Tom is technically retired but he's been known to get into metahuman related issues before.<br/><br/>[Rumored Amazons] - More a rumor then an actual known statement of fact but an Amazonian political scandal revealed that the original Wonder Woman, Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons back in WW2, and Ted Grant actually had an on-again-off-again romantic relationship. Amazonian traditions say that Amazons are reincarnated souls of women throughout history who have died because of mistreatment by men they should of been able to trust - whether or not this is true is an entirely different question. However since then there are rumors that refuse to die around Paradise Island that at least a couple of the Amazons are actually daughters of Hippolyta and Ted, secretly conceived and birthed the old fashioned way.<br/><br/>How true these rumors are is unknown, though it is well known on Themyscira that Ted was the only man who could get away with calling the Queen of the Amazons "Polly" without getting stabbed.