Felicity / Nimbus II

Created by Roger Slifer & Keith Giffen

NAME + ALIASES:
Felicity of Karna

KNOWN RELATIVES:
Tigorr (husband)

GROUP AFFILIATIONS:
Omega Men

FIRST APPEARANCE:
Omega Men #4 (July 1983)

Felicity was a female of Tigorr's species. They were romantically involved. She died during the Dominator's Invasion Alliance (Invasion #1).

Tigorr's sexual relationship with Felicity is revealed. (#4)

Felicity succumbs to a powerful vision and lapses into a coma. This vision is actually a distress signal from a nearby asteroid. Doc extracts the asteroids location from her mind and the Omegans pursue the call. What they do not realize is that the call is a trap set long ago by the Psions. Its design is based on the Velorpian ability (of which Lobo is the last) to duplicate. The signal lures sentients in and automatically sends a duplicate back to the Psion base for experimentation. When Tigorr enters this "Replicave," it immediately begins producing an endless stream of Tigorrs. Kalista banishes Alonzo Dulak from Euphorix. A spy alerts Harry Hokum of her decision fate and Hokum ponders an alliance with Dulak. (OM 17)

Lobo prevents Euphorix's ship from decimating the Omega Men and then vaporizes the asteroid along with the clones. He recounts the Velorpians' fate: the Psions had introduced a virus into their world, rendering all sterile. On the Psion Homeworld, Primus destroys the replicating machine and its master. Nimbus guides Felicity's conscience back to her own body, out of Tigorr's. This is the first time his touch conveys anything but death. (OM 20)

The Omegans answer a call from Nimbus on the gutter world of Dredfahl. Since the Replicave incident, Tigorr and Felicity have grown closer together; he has become more docile, perhaps due to Felicity's psychic residue in his mind. Nimbus finds himself embroiled in a brawl and is forced to perform a mercy killing. This enrages the locals, and Nimbus, in shock of his actions, retreats inside his nebulous self. Primus, Doc and Broot decide to venture into his dark form to try to help. On Raggashoon, Mama Madame has a mysterious conversation in which she suggests that Harpis' memories of her "past" on that planet are false. (OM 22)

In light of Tigorr and Harpis' blooming relationship, Felicity leaves the Omega Men and returns to Karna. Her comrades, attempting to hold back the Spider Guild, receive the aid the Omega Men encounter Green Lantern of Sector 2828 near Raggashoon. He helps them in defiance of the Guardians' noninterference agreement. (OMANN 2)

In the city of Ghaa'Tu, Felicity is finding life on Karna nothing like she'd expected. (Shortly after she was born, she and her mother were captured by Gordanians slave traders and sold off-planet.) Tigorr was the first other Karnan feline she'd ever met. She makes a modest living as an exotic dancer and hooks up with a man named "Mung." In truth, Mung is the bounty hunter Bedlam, who'd been stranded on Karna earlier. During the time that Felicity is with Mung, a rash of serial killings occurs. Victims appear to have been gored by cat's claws. In truth, Felicity was the killer. Like Tigorr, she is a "regressor," one of the last Karnans who can change their shape. During these transformations, she commits murder yet retains no memories of her actions. Ultimately, Captain Grynt pegs Mung as the killer and intervenes just in time to prevent him from killing Felicity. She decides to leave Karna and return to the Omega Men. (OM 32)

Excitement brews throughout Vega as its citizens begin to see the advertisements from the Omega Men heralding a major announcement on Tweener Network. Artin has freed himself from the symbiotic relationship with Primus and transfers his conscience to a robot body. He uses "holoderm" to simulate a humanoid appearance. Finally free from the Citadel and the Spiders, Doc's ship intercepts Artin's. It's followed by a Citadel ship, which is in turn attacked by the returning Felicity. On Kuraq, Tigorr prepares for the arrival of Vegan refugees as the Tweeners begin their broadcast. The Omega Men explain to the Vegans that they have the opportunity to come and live on Kuraq, the Omegan colony, but they must forsake their former homes, as the planet's location location is a secret. At first, the Psions are concerned that this may interrupt their Vegan experiements, but they soon discover that because of the departure of the Guardians of the Universe (Green Lantern #200), they are no longer confined to Vegan space. Harry Hokum is left on his own, as the Psions suggest that he, too has been a part of one of their experiments. Finally, Artin initiates the Psion teleportational circuits which can transport anyone to Kuraq simply by placing the image of Primus' hand. The teleporters then relay people to satellites above each world, on to Refuge, and then to Kuraq. Doc, Shlagen, Rynoc, Zirral, Uhlan, Ynda, Harpis and Tigorr remain on Kuraq to help guide the new colony. Felicity, Elu and Artin decide to venture to Okaara and find Ryand'r. Primus and Kalista descend into the depths of Euphorix, seeking the aid of the planet's Old Ones to defeat the Spiders. (OM 38)

When the Dominators and Khunds began forming an Alliance for the invasion Earth, several Vegan races (the Okaarans, Gordanians, Psions and New Citadel) join them. This powerful Alliance imprisons many of the universe's greatest heroes on the Starlag. The Starlag is based in the Vegan system and run by the Citadel. By this time, the Spider Guild are working simply as "independent contractors" to the Alliance instead of joining it. The Dominion sends a fake distress call from Primus and Kalista which lures Tigorr and the other Omegans into a Durlan trap. In this hopeless battle, three Omega Men are killed: Ynda, Felicity and the Green Man. All the others, including Broot, Harpis, Doc, Shlagen, Oho Besh, Ryand'r and Tigorr are captured. (INV 1) (See also the L.E.G.I.O.N. Chronology)

Felicity first uses her shape-changing ability (like Tigorr's) here. Her abililty to "regress" was revealed in the letters column of Omega Men #36. (Teen Titans Spotlight #15

Tigorr found Feclicity unconscious, a prisoner of the Spiders and Lady Styx. She awoke immediately upon hearing his call. She told him that she'd refused to become one of Styx's thralls, and so she remained in her dead underworld, a place much like the Hades of Earth legend. Tigorr refused to leave her behind and so she agreed to show him the way out.

 

This my own painting of Felicity:

 

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