Jade Jaguar

Rafi without disguise

His mother was born is Brazil, but her parents came into the USA before her 3rd birthday. They lived a relatively normal life, but were killed in a car-accident, when she was only 6 years old. She then was raised in a convent. After the high school she joined to the Greenpeace, and worked as an activist. His father studied archeology, and during that he worked as a security guard in a museum. After the thesis he switched, and worked for the museum as an archeology expert. They met an excavation, as opponents, but we all know how a really good relationship starts in the movies. And that happened here, too.

His mother calmed down a little, went into school, and now she is a journalist, who writes revealing articles about environmental insults. His father still an archeologist, but he does his work with greater care for the surroundings of the excavation. Their wedding happened 3 years after their meeting, 1 year later Virginia was born. 2 more years passed before Rafael born, and another 5 years later came Joana into the family nest.

Rafael was a very talented drawer even in his very youth, but as many other children; he wanted to be a stage magician first. He practiced to his 11th year, when he saw capoeira dancers for the 1st time. He dropped the mage’s cape instantly, and headed to the street. This obsession still lasts, and he is talented in this sport/dance/martial art, too. Sure, his family wasn’t so happy, but his grades were stable, so they didn’t put obstacles into his way.

At the beginning of his teens, roughly around his 13th year was the 1st time when his powers awakened, one o his drawings became alive, and chatted him. He thought that he might become insane, mainly because no one believed him. Later he noticed that isn’t a bad thing if no other person knows about his “specialty”, so he can achieve many things without notice. So he spied hearkened, frightened with his cartoon bugs, little animals, or later –when his power got stronger– bigger monsters.

He became interested in tattoos through the drawing. His buddy proposed him into a saloon as a talented and dexterous drawer, which are very handy if someone wants to work with tattoo-needles. First he had only drawn the patterns, but nowadays he chums the needles as well. On his own skin he has only 3 self-drawn designs, a jade green jaguar (on his chest), a griffin (on his back) and a dolphin (on his left calf). After he left high-school, he went into an art school, where he could develop his drawing skills.

He met with Carmilla during the years when he spent so many hours on the street with his friends from the capoeira club and the Silverfangs. First he was charmed by the girls’ hair and shape, but later by her personality, too. He helps her out wherever he could, cheers her up with his “special” home theater, and such things. They became friends at last.

Sometime later, around the winter of '83 she met with the Jade Jaguar again, just to be taken captive by HYDRA right after consummating their love. The young artist tried to reach her via SHIELD but met only walls after submitting his plea and hint about her capture. Fortunately for them, Spider-girl sought him out, they teamed up with some other young would-be heroes and rescued Carmilla. It took a good lawyer and more than a few papers signed to keep the operation under covers but at the end Scorpion II and Spider-girl were released from strict policies and now work freelance for SHIELD while living under the same roof with Jade Jaguar as a family.