Ms. Fortune

info

Birthday: November 24 Blood type: B Height: 5' 8" Weight: 127 lbs. Likes: Making friends, sunlit naps, volleyball, bowling, golf, parkour, subjecting others to terrible puns, Yu-Wan's restaurant, dim sum, the Fishbone Gang, robbing from rich, giving to poor, potato chips Dislikes: The Medici Mafia, Black Dahlia, sushi, cops, bullies, marsupials, loud noises, lemonade Real name: Nadia Fortune Age: 20 Measurements: 32B-23-34 Occupation: Thief (formerly) Previous affiliation(s): The Fishbone Gang

design

Nadia is a tan-skinned, lithe young woman with light blue eyes and white hair styled in a bob cut. Her Feral features include long dark cat ears, tail, clawed hands and feet and a prominent canine that usually shows over her lower lip. She has a clean scar on her left cheek, while those on her neck, biceps, forearms, thighs, legs and feet are larger and more jagged. She wears a thick black collar with a stylized cat bell that resembles the Life Gem, a light blue striped crop top with the underside of her breasts showing, a gray utility belt, black fingerless gloves, black hot pants and the remnants of her pantlegs (adjusted to appear a little more fashionable). In Skullgirls Mobile, it reveals that she used to wear full-length pants.

personality

A rescue kitten who learned how to survive at an early age, Nadia Fortune is a crafty cat burglar who's a lighthearted mischievous scamp who fights for her friends. Ms. Fortune puts on a light hearted persona and makes constant puns. However she's still suffered as much as other members of the cast, and she's looking to resurrect her friends after they were killed by Black Dahlia. She frequents Yu-Wan's restaurant and she's friends with the people there, including Minette.

story

A feline feral, Nadia Fortune is the last surviving member of the Fishbone Gang, a notorious band of otherwise Dagonian thieves. Their last mission ended in tragedy: a failed attempt to steal the mysterious Life Gem from Lorenzo Medici resulted in their grisly murders. Before meeting her own doom, Ms. Fortune swallowed the Life Gem and managed to digest it. The Gem’s power immortalized her entire body, making it truly undying even after being dismembered. Now hiding in the shadows of Little Innsmouth, Ms. Fortune plots to avenge her fallen comrades. It's been stated by the devs that Fortune as a child was always with the gang. She was an orphan, and learned the art of thievery from them. She was always causing trouble. Sometime before the events of the game, Ms. Fortune stole and ate the prized Life Gem of the Medici, chasing Lorenzo to order Dahlia to kill her and the others. The gang were all brutally slaughtered by the hitwoman, with only Nadia surviving thanks to her bonding with the gem. Now she seeks to avenge her friends from the mafia. After defeating the Skullgirl, Ms. Fortune obtains the Skull Heart. While she considered wishing for her old friends in the Fishbone gang to be brought back from the dead, she thinks that her new friends are enough for her, so she destroys the Skull Heart. When she returns she is informed that her friend Minette had been abducted along with other young girls in the Little Innsmouth area. She is told by Irvin, a local detective, that the Medici family was involved in the kidnappings. So the two decide to go after the Medici family and save the girls.

abilities

Befitting her feline traits, Ms. Fortune is an agile fighter with sharp senses and sharper claws. Her true strength, however, is drawn from the Life Gem that she swallowed prior to her "death". The gem gave her nearly-unlimited regenerative abilities, allowing her to recover from numerous injuries that would kill normal beings (such as decapitation and dismemberment). When she was a young orphan, she learned the art of thievery from the Fishbone Gang. In addition to her regenerative powers, Ms. Fortune also has precise control over her own body parts, an ability that figures heavily into her fighting style. She can extend her muscles and tendons to add force to her blows or give her attacks greater reach, release jets of blood from her legs to propel herself on the ground and in the air, and even detach her limbs completely to strike opponents and set up surprise attacks. One of her signature tactics even uses her own head as a projectile or bludgeon before leaving it on the ground to act as a secondary attacker. She also has the ability to stiffen her tail for use as a katana-like blade, either attached or detached from her body. She can also harden her body parts such as her ears and tail to use as weapons. which is actually a Feral special ability.

trivia

Her ethnicity is meant to be the Skullgirls universe-equivalent of Latina. It's been stated that she likes small dogs, which is ironic given that she is a cat person. As shown in both Cerebella's and Black Dahlia's stories, if one compresses Ms. Fortune hard enough, she will become the Life Gem.