Real name: Giselle Lewis
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Identity: Secret
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Place of birth: Washington D.C.
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Marital status: single
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Group affiliation: Peacemakers since 2014
Base of operations: Houston, TX
Height: 9’ 6"
Weight: 600 lbs
Eyes: gold
Hair: black
Unusual features: hugely muscled yet unquestionably a woman
Strength level: 100+ tons
Known superhuman powers: Shakti is is inhabited by a female warrior spirit which has inspired female warriors throughout history. She has flashbacks, wisdom and skills from these previous incarnations. Previous incarnations include; Artemesia I of Caria, Joan of Arc, Trieu Thi Trinh, Nakano Takeko, Tomoe Gozen, Queen Boudicca, Grace O'Malley, Lozen, Zenobia. She is one of the most powerful superhumans on the planet in both physical power and strategic know how. Shakti is virtually indestructible able to resist both physical and energy attacks as well as magical effects.
Weapons: Shakti is proficient with all hand to hand weapons.
History: Giselle Lewis grew up in poverty among the rough and tumble neighborhoods of South Chicago, Illinois. She was raised by a single mother along with her three siblings in poverty and every day was a struggle to find enough food and pay the bills. When Giselle was 14 years old her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and quickly became unable to hold down a job to support her children. Giselle was forced to quit school and take care of her younger siblings. The family continued to fall into hard times over the course of the next two years eventually resulting in the death of their mother and child services placing each of the younger children in separate foster homes. Giselle was left to fend for herself and eventually gave in to the pressures of criminal influence and the lure of money. Always a physically tall and powerful young woman she quickly became known for her ability to compete with equal viciousness in encounters with her male peers. In time she was fighting for money, finally able to afford a stable residence and even bring one of her brothers into her care from the foster system. One evening during an arranges fight, Giselle was beaten severely by a man who was secretly superhuman. The trauma he body and brain underwent resulted in irreversible brain damage and Giselle was pronounced to be in a vegetative state permanently by the medical staff of the hospital she had been dropped off at. While Giselle slowly faded away her mind entered a place of mist. She was surrounded by hundreds of women from different eras of time. Some of them in armor, more of them in simple robes or everyday clothing. From among the gathered women one stepped forward, it was her mother, asking, “Giselle, honey. You’re going to die my sweetheart. It’s ok. Don’t be afraid. You’ve fought hard, baby girl. We’re here to give you a choice now. You don’t have to say yes if you don’t want to. If you want to live, if you want to help this world, if you want to fight some more, baby, you can keep on livin’.”
The spirits talked to her about threats to the world, about how they’d all been warriors through time, fighting in their own ways, but now the world needed all of them together. They needed a warrior woman who was strong enough to face the evils unlike anything they had seen before. They promised to be with her at all times, giving her wisdom and power when she needed it, but she needed to fight for something more than money if she agreed, she would need to fight for Love. For love of humanity. For love of life. For love of truth.
Giselle embraced the gift of continued life and purpose becoming Shakti, champion of all women, hero for the world. Joining the Peacemakers soon after her transformation, Giselle moved to Houston and took her siblings with her, finally together again as a family.