Carmilla Black (Earth-616)

Carmilla is a genetically engineered human, created by Advanced Idea Mechanics. Though AIM Scientist Supreme Monica Rappaccini considers her a daughter, she grew up with adoptive parents (also agents of AIM), never knowing of her or their involvement with the organization.

Carmilla considered herself a normal teen until her powers kicked in the night of her prom. Her mutated arm--which she has taken to calling her "stinger" -- discharged a highly concentrated dosage of toxins, killing her boyfriend. Scared of the social and legal backlash she would suffer, she fled her small home town. She lived on the streets, surviving however she could, living a nomadic life. When she learned her adoptive parents had been murdered, she returned home once more.

At this point, she comes to believe that SHIELD may have killed her parents, and finds a birth certificate suggesting she is a princess of the Madripoor Royal Family. After she was captured by SHIELD, she learns that her parents were actually AIM agents, and she herself becomes an agent of SHIELD.

Following information leading to her birth mother, Carmilla learned her mother is 'Scientist Supreme' of AIM, Monica Rappaccini. Carmilla infiltrated the organization, learning that she was engineered to survive disease and nuclear fallout, and that there were others like her.

These teens were designed to survive any situation they may encounter, from a global plague intended to collapse industrial society to nuclear fallout. While the other teens are chemically-induced to be completely loyal to AIM, Carmilla discovers the mutation which gave her her "stinger" also makes her immune. Carmilla lost her cover in the organization when she stopped an assassination attempt on the Vice President.

Carmilla became the lover of Hardball and co-leader of a HYDRA training camp in Madripoor. The Shadow Initiative was sent to bring in the latter but Komodo was disabled by HYDRA's upgraded S.P.I.N. Tech darts. However, Carmilla could tell that Hardball held no true loyalty to HYDRA and only wanted Komodo to be safe. She also revealed herself as a double agent for an unknown group, giving Hardball one last kiss, while stealing his S.P.I.N. Tech dart, which he noticed after he destroyed the rest.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Carmilla's body is designed to filter out all manner of poisons, toxins, and even nuclear waste. A mutation causes these toxins to become concentrated in her left arm -- her "Stinger" -- allowing Carmilla to transmit them on contact. Carmilla can control the concentration of toxins, killing her target outright or simply making them ill. Carmilla's stinger takes effort to control, and even when she is subduing its affects to the best of her ability, prolonged exposure can sicken most people.

Abilities

Carmilla has apparently developed a formidable set of fighting and acrobatic skills in her life as a runaway. The extent of any additional SHIELD training remains unclear.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Carmilla wears a SHIELD issued gauntlet on her left arm, which can be retracted to appears as a small, innocuous bracelet, or expand to armor her arm. The gauntlet allows her to better control her stinger, and SHIELD R&D has suggested future versions may even allow her to convert her stinger into a formidable ranged attack.

Trivia

The last name of Rappaccini is probably a reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Rappaccini's Daughter. The title character of that story is a beautiful young woman whose breath and touch have been rendered poisonous by the experiments of her father.

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