Powers (aka, the things that can be once per week)
Shapeshifter - She can take the form of a domestic cat once a week, and takes on the form of a house cat
Shadow cloak Once a week, she can blend into the shadows. Like right into them, so she can use them as passage.
Cat Attack- Like cats, this is done from concealmeant, striking into unprotected areas or weak points when they are known. Once again, this is only useful one day a week.
Underhanded tactics Dirty fighting to turn things to her favour. Dirt in the eye, and dirty fighting in general, usually used with the limited mystic abilities granted to her by the cursed collar.
Masterkey It occasionally helps her slip into the dimension where her collar came from. Or have it used against her to get orders to collect more mundane things by those that created it (like milk and things like that).
Yuliya Silin was born to Russian Immigrants who helped with the rebuilding of Thunder Bay. Her father was a plumber, while her mother tutored Russian language.
From a young age, she was a trouble maker. Always getting into and out of mischief with her spirit and bright smile or sneaking away and hopefully not getting caught. She was slightly below average in her grades, all the way through school. Not due to slacking, but due to being easily distracted by everything going on around her. She enjoyed gymnastics and running.
In her first year of High School, she fell in with the wrong crowd. Once a respectable girl, she started to get into trouble. She would be brought back home by the police in the middle of the night, often after causing a public disturbance or being drunk under-age.
This continued up until she and her friends broke into an allegedly abandoned house, which was actually home to a reclusive artifact collector that was also a super villian that was laying low. As the house got creepier, her friends lost her nerve and left her behind, as she was curious to find out more about the house.
This proved to be her downfall.
She was cornered by the super villian, who questioned her and interrogated her to find out why she was there. She didn't want to anger the super villian any more than she already had. Strangely, they found a common ground, which they bonded over. The super villain convinced her that she was actually a rather understood super hero, and she started to run errands for them.
At first it was just doing laundry at a laundromat for them, which then saw her delivering messages around the city for a bit of pay, as well as a few lessons in martial arts. Life was good, she had money and could buy anything she wanted, and her new BFF taught her things to protect herself, while trying to corrupt her more at the same time.
Everything was going smoothly in her mind, and when her BFF told her to wear a collar that would lead to her protection if she was to be harmed, she gladly wore it, though at the time she didn't know that her new friend simply wanted to find out what it did. Sure the bell was cute, and she didn't try to take it off at first and hid it under a scarf, but she noticed that she became more agile and a bit stronger. Also any injury would heal quicker.
The collar made her very unfortunate most days of the week, apart from the one day she willed for luck. It also gave her strange dreams, and the occasional strange visit from a conspiracy of cats that seemed to speak English and requested that she do certain tasks for their favour, or whisked away to stand in front of the conspiracy. However she never told her 'friend' what was happening, expect that she couldn't remove the collar.
Though when she tried to remove the collar, she found that it was firmly attached around her neck and stuck firmly to her skin. Life went from great to horrible in a few days. From just running errands for her 'friend', she found her new duties a bit darker. Having to steal from people, and her training fights getting harder and more intense. Even being able to shift into a cat once a week made life more complicated.
The person she thought was going to be her BFF, became more a handler who continued to give false promises of discovering a way to remove the cursed collar. The friendly banter also vanished, and she founds herself spending less and less time at school as she run errands and other jobs. However it all came to an end one day when a prospect of the Global League of Decency followed her back to her handler's lair.
She fought back at first, and then realised that she was easily outclassed, which saw her quickly surrender and provide information. She was given countless lectures as she waiting for law enforcement to arrive, and each time she apologised as each comment hit home.
From being a girl who thought she could survive on the streets with her new found ability, to easily being grounded by true super heroes, found her left in tears. She vowed that she wouldn't try to escape, and she stuck by her word. Sure, she could have slipped though the bars as a cat, but she was scared of what would happen. During that time, she was taken for a guided tour of a facility that housed Super Villains, including seeing her imprisoned 'mentor' again in an awkward situation. Many apologies were given during the brief exchange, as well as some accusations by her.
She's seen inside of a normal jail cell, and has even been provided a visit to a prison that holds super villains. She's vowed to change her way, despite how shiny things can be tempting. She doesn't want to face down the Global League of Decency again, and so she plans to use her recently granted curse to benefit the 'good guys' instead of herself, so she's been throwing herself at her second chance that is Coral Springs.