Name: Laughing
Real Name: Unknown
Eye Color: Black
Hair Color: Black
Skin Color: White
Partner: BB Corps
Team Name: Majestic
Attitude: Unstable
Personality: Because of her traumatic past, Mantis frequently had an uncontrollable urge to scream. In addition, because she was partially fused with nervous cells containing portions of Psychos' psyche, which also included Mantis' memories, she also interacted with Wolfpack as if she had encountered them before.
Bio: Screaming Mantis was the leader and psychological warfare specialist of the Beauty and the Beast Unit. She, along with the other members, suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, alongside emotional instability as well as experiencing uncontrollable emotional fits. In her case, she frequently had uncontrollable urges to scream.
Screaming Mantis was born in a war torn village in South America. When she was just a child, her village was attacked and eventually burned to the ground. Hunted by enemy death squads, she was separated from her family. She took haven inside the basement of a building, which she would soon discover was actually a makeshift torture chamber. However, given the constant military presence outside in the village, she wasn't able to leave the corpse-littered room, and to make things worse, she was eventually locked into the basement. The constant screams of tortured villagers haunted her every day and night. After weeks locked in the cellar, keeping herself hydrated by drinking the dirty water that had pooled up on the floor, she began to hallucinate. She saw a single black praying mantis, who would teach her how to block her ears from the screams. She learned from the mantis that to survive, she would have to eat the corpses that littered the floor, however, she only ate the male corpses, much like the female mantis devours her mates. The starvation and dehydration had done irreparable damage to her mind. She survived for several weeks and somehow got back to the surface.
Skills and Abilities: As their leader, Screaming Mantis was the most powerful of the Beauty and the Beast Corps. Using Psycho 's mind control, she was able to keep the other members of the Unit under control, as well as regulate their bodies and abilities. She possessed a level of telekinesis similar to Psycho, being able to hover and manipulate the trajectory of thrown knives, and also had the ability to rapidly transport in combination with melee attacks. Her primary arsenal of powers came from the dolls held by her synthetic arms, modelled after Psycho and The Sorrow. The Psycho doll allowed her to manipulate the living, and The Sorrow doll allowed her to control the dead (according to Liz, the manner in which she controlled the dead soldiers is similar to how a frog's corpse can still react to electricity). However, both require the target to have nervous cells. The dolls allowed for an unprecedented degree of control over the victim, as demonstrated in the Middle East when Screaming Mantis was able to cause a soldier's head and arms to contort backwards and break.
Real Name: Unknown
Eye Color: Black
Hair Color: Black
Skin Color: White
Partner: BB Corps
Team Name: Majestic
Attitude: Unstable
Personality: Because of her traumatic past, Mantis frequently had an uncontrollable urge to scream. In addition, because she was partially fused with nervous cells containing portions of Psychos' psyche, which also included Mantis' memories, she also interacted with Wolfpack as if she had encountered them before.
Bio: Screaming Mantis was the leader and psychological warfare specialist of the Beauty and the Beast Unit. She, along with the other members, suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, alongside emotional instability as well as experiencing uncontrollable emotional fits. In her case, she frequently had uncontrollable urges to scream.
Screaming Mantis was born in a war torn village in South America. When she was just a child, her village was attacked and eventually burned to the ground. Hunted by enemy death squads, she was separated from her family. She took haven inside the basement of a building, which she would soon discover was actually a makeshift torture chamber. However, given the constant military presence outside in the village, she wasn't able to leave the corpse-littered room, and to make things worse, she was eventually locked into the basement. The constant screams of tortured villagers haunted her every day and night. After weeks locked in the cellar, keeping herself hydrated by drinking the dirty water that had pooled up on the floor, she began to hallucinate. She saw a single black praying mantis, who would teach her how to block her ears from the screams. She learned from the mantis that to survive, she would have to eat the corpses that littered the floor, however, she only ate the male corpses, much like the female mantis devours her mates. The starvation and dehydration had done irreparable damage to her mind. She survived for several weeks and somehow got back to the surface.
Skills and Abilities: As their leader, Screaming Mantis was the most powerful of the Beauty and the Beast Corps. Using Psycho 's mind control, she was able to keep the other members of the Unit under control, as well as regulate their bodies and abilities. She possessed a level of telekinesis similar to Psycho, being able to hover and manipulate the trajectory of thrown knives, and also had the ability to rapidly transport in combination with melee attacks. Her primary arsenal of powers came from the dolls held by her synthetic arms, modelled after Psycho and The Sorrow. The Psycho doll allowed her to manipulate the living, and The Sorrow doll allowed her to control the dead (according to Liz, the manner in which she controlled the dead soldiers is similar to how a frog's corpse can still react to electricity). However, both require the target to have nervous cells. The dolls allowed for an unprecedented degree of control over the victim, as demonstrated in the Middle East when Screaming Mantis was able to cause a soldier's head and arms to contort backwards and break.