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| - Amanda Reed was born in Queens, New York. Her mother died when she was still young. Her father was a substance abuser and was often violent towards Amanda. When she was seventeen years old, Amanda was a prostitute, living on the streets, until she was recruited for the Daemonite organisation known as the Cabal. She was bonded to a symbiote that could form a bio-metallic suit around her and became Taboo. The symbiote had vampiric tendencies though and often Taboo would found herself overcome with bloodlust in battle. She was framed for murder when she wanted to leave the organisation and sent to Purgatory Max, a special prison for super-powered beings in the Arctics.
Five years later, colonel Marc Slayton aka Backlash freed her, hoping to use her knowledge of the Cabal to help his girlfriend, Diane LaSalle, who had been left comatose after the Daemonite Lord S'Ryn had possessed her. Together they tracked S'Ryn down and fought him. S'Ryn managed to escape, but Taboo had proven herself to Backlash. They went for a few drinks, but ended up in bed. Once sobered up, Slayton felt guilty about betraying Diane and tried to keep Amanda at bay, but over time they grew closer.
Backlash and Taboo captured S'Ryn shortly afterwards and took him to the Halo Corporation, headquarters of the WildC.A.Ts. Their member Voodoo restored Diane LaSalle and S'Ryn died. Diane and Mark reunited, much to Amanda's displeasure. Diane broke up with Mark though, because of his actions during her coma. Meanwhile, Amanda was captured by superhuman mercenaries called the Chasers. She managed to escape with a little help from Backlash and a new friend, Dingo.
In their quest to clear Amanda's name, Taboo met Lilitu, a female vampire who knew about her symbiote's origins; eons ago the sire of her race, Calobis was allied with the Daemonite Helspont. Helspont would cure Calobis and his people of vampirism and in return Calobis provided host bodies to the Daemonites. Helspont failed, but used tissue samples of Calobis to a suit to hold his power. When Lilitu tried to resurrect Calobis from the suit though, Calobis appeared and told her that there were two suits. The ritual had a side-effect though and awoke a vampiric side inside the symbiote. From now on, the symbiote would take control at times.
Amanda and Marc started their relationship again, helped by the fact that Amanda was good friends with Marc's daughter, Jodie aka Crimson. The Chasers appeared again and told Amanda that she had been offered a pardon in exchange for her testimony against the Cabal. Mark and Amanda became part of the Department for Paranormal Search and Investigations , whose director, Antonio Giovanni, was an old friend of Marc's and had helped clear Amanda's name.
Department PSI later created Wildcore, a group of superhumans to battle the threat of the alien D'rahn. Backlash and Zealot became its leaders and Taboo was one of its members. After their battle with the D'rahn, Taboo became involved with an attempt to resurrect Calobis. Lilitu had enslaved the owner of the other suit, Samael. Taboo's and Samael's symbiotes were merged to recreate Calobis in order for Lilitu to take his power. Calobis, surprisingly, didn't want to be resurrected and gave all his power to Taboo to battle Lilitu. Taboo was victorious and now more powerful than ever before.
Some time later, Wildcore was sent to Purgatory Max, this time to arrest the Axis, a group of Nazi supervillains who had entered Purgatory Max and released its prisoners. Wildcore was wiped out, but Backlash and Taboo were both rescued by two prisoners; Hangman and Evo. Taboo hasn't appeared since, though Backlash has.
- Born in Queens, New York, Amanda Reed's mother died when she was still young. Her father was a substance abuser and was often violent towards Amanda. When she was seventeen years old, Amanda was a prostitute, living on the streets, until she was recruited for the daemonite organisation known as the Cabal. She was bonded to a symbiote that could form a bio-metallic suit around her and became Taboo. The symbiote had vampiric tendencies though and often Taboo would found herself overcome with bloodlust in battle. She was framed for murder when she wanted to leave the organisation and sent to Purgatory Max, a special prison for super-powered beings in the Arctics.
Five years later, colonel Mark Slayton aka Backlash freed her, hoping to use her knowledge of the Cabal to help his girlfriend, Diane Lasalle, who had been left comatose after the Daemonite Lord S'ryn had possessed her. Together they tracked S'ryn down and fought him. S'ryn managed to escape, but Taboo had proven herself to Backlash. They went for a few drinks, but ended up in bed. Once sobered up, Slayton felt guilty about betraying Diane and tried to keep Amanda at bay, but over time they grew closer.
Backlash and Taboo captured S'ryn shortly afterwards and took him to the Halo Corporation, headquarters of the WildC.A.Ts. Their member Voodoo restored Diana Lasalle and S'ryn died. Diane and Mark reunited, much to Amanda's displeasure. Diane broke up with Mark though, because of his actions during her coma. Meanwhile, Amanda was captured by superhuman mercenaries called the Chasers. She managed to escape with a little help from Backlash and a new friend, Dingo.
In their quest to clear Amanda's name, Taboo met Lilitu, a female vampire who knew about her symbiote's origins; eons ago the sire of her race, Calobis was allied with the Daemonite Helspont. Helspont would cure Calobis and his people of vampirism and in return Calobis provided host bodies to the Daemonites. Helspont failed, but used tissue samples of Calobis to a suit to hold his power. When Lilitu tried to resurrect Calobis from the suit though, Calobis appeared and told her that there were two suits. The ritual had a side-effect though and awoke a vampiric side inside the symbiote. From now on, the symbiote would take control at times.
Amanda and Marc started their relationship again, helped by the fact that Amanda was good friends with Marc's daughter, Jodie aka Crimson. The Chasers appeared again and told Amanda that she had been offered a pardon in exchange for her testimony against the Cabal. Mark and Amanda became part of the Department for Paranormal Search and Investigations , whose director, Antonio Giovanni, was an old friend of Mark's and had helped clear Amanda's name.
Department PSI later created Wildcore, a group of superhumans to battle the threat of the alien D'rahn. Backlash and Zealot became its leaders and Taboo was one of its members. After their battle with the D'rahn, Taboo became involved with an attempt to resurrect Calobis. Lilith had enslaved the owner of the other suit, Samael. Taboo's and Samael's symbiotes were merged to recreate Calobis in order for Lilitu to take his power. Calobois, surprisingly, didn't want to be resurrected and gave all his power to Taboo to battle Lilitu. Taboo was victorious and now more powerful than ever before.
Some time later, Wildcore was sent to Purgatory Max, this time to arrest the Axis, a group of Nazi supervillains who had entered Purgatory Max and released its prisoners. Wildcore was wiped out, but Backlash and Taboo were both rescued by two prisoners; Hangman and Evo. Taboo hasn't appeared since, though Backlash has.
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| Powers
| - Taboo's powers are the result of a vampiric symbiote being bonded to her. The symbiote can manifest itself as a bio-metallic suit. When the suit manifests, it drains Amanda of small amounts of her blood to power itself, giving her a pale-white complexion. It also gives her green eyeballs with no visible pupils. The suit has claws and a tail attached to it, all fully functional. The suit can adapt to its environment; it can grow wings to fly or a fish-tail and gills to move and breath underwater.
In the suit Taboo's strength and durability are enhanced. She also receives hypnotic powers allowing her to control others as well as produce a bio-electric shock. She also once used the suit to give Backlash another appearance; she formed the symbiote over his face and retreated, leaving him with a different appearance.
As member of Wildcore, she absorbed Samael's symbiote as well, resurrecting Calobois. Calobois chose Taboo as the vessel for his power, increasing her powers dramatically.
- * : Taboo's powers are the result of a vampiric symbiote being bonded to her. The symbiote can manifest itself as a bio-metallic suit. When the suit manifests, it drains Amanda of small amounts of her blood to power itself, giving her a pale-white complexion. It also gives her green eyeballs with no visible pupils.
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** : The suit has claws and a tail attached to it, all fully functional.
** : The suit can adapt to its environment; it can grow wings to fly
** : or a fish-tail and gills to move and breath underwater.
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** : She also once used the suit to give Backlash another appearance; she formed the symbiote over his face and retreated, leaving him with a different appearance.
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*** : She also receives hypnotic powers allowing her to control others.
As member of Wildcore, she absorbed Samael's symbiote as well, resurrecting Calobis. Calobois chose Taboo as the vessel for his power, increasing her powers dramatically.
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| abstract
| - Amanda Reed/Hamilton Voss was a woman who was once a man by the name of Hamilton Voss, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy who was suspected of being involved in a credit card scam as well as stealing money from the Navy. In order to avoid being arrested, he contacted his old school classmate, Joshua Lurie and had him help stage his own death. To this end, Voss burned a man to death to make him unidentifiable other than DNA which Joshua used to purposely misidentify the victim as Voss by switching their DNA to fool the local authorities. Voss then killed Joshua and staged it as another car accident to cover his tracks. This helped take the heat off Voss for a short while yet fearing that someone would come back to look for him, Voss underwent gender assignment surgery a couple of years later in Bankgok and after becoming a woman, later assumed the name Amanda Reed, settling into life in Washington D.C. Eventually, at some point, Reed's own fears came true when NCIS Special Agent Christopher Pacci discovered the truth about her past along with her real identity. Fearing that her secret would get exposed, Reed followed Pacci in a building and shot him just as he was leaving a stairway, the bullet entering through his neck and leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Pacci eventually succumbed to his injuries in a lift and died with a desperate Reed attempting to get a memory stick that Pacci had swallowed. But due to the alarms going off, she fled the scene, retreating to her flat. Pacci's NCIS colleagues, the NCIS Major Case Response Team eventually took over the investigation and began staking out her home, believing she had connections to the one responsible for Pacci's murder, not realizing that Reed/Voss had personally committed the crime. Anthony DiNozzo later fell for Reed and the two began going out together but the relationship hit a very sour note and came to an abrupt and permanent end when Abigail Sciuto informed Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Caitlin Todd that Lt. Commander Voss and Reed were the same person. This later triggered a standoff in a bar when Reed attempted to kill DiNozzo to keep her secret safe but Gibbs who had gotten there first, shooting Reed in revenge for Pacci's murder which resulted in her death.
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