Carnival of Killers: Faire Maidenhair (Patreon)

Alright, next member of the Carnival of Killers serves as the bearded lady of the villainous team- Faire Maidenhair!

ORIGIN

The Carnival of Killer’s Heather Lockwood hadn’t been born with her powers nor had gotten them in a freak accident, more so it was her own desperation and vanity that became her undoing. Once one of the most recognizable supermodels in the fashion world known for her angelic-like locks, Heather’s career became jeopardized when she began developing a rare and extreme form of alopecia. Sinking her fortune into treatments and a potential cure, by the time a possible cure was being developed Heather had run out of funds for further development and as well as patience, and applied a massive dose of the experimental serum to herself. The results unlocked her latent neo-human gene but drove it insane, ironically granting her the ability to grow long prehensile hair that she could control but causing it to grow from every surface inch of her body.

When it was discovered what happened to Heather, she had become a laughing stock and was thought to have gone into seclusion. Instead, the incident drove her insane and she began using her powers to attack her fellow models who spurned her, killing them in cold blood and then robbing them of their own fortunes in hopes of funding another cure for her new condition. Heather was soon approached by the Think Tank with an offer for a cure, but instead was “saved” by an untimely international of Tora Fanner, who felt a kindred spirit in Heather and did not want her being kept on the leash of false promises by the Think Tank as she had been. Instead, Tora offered Heather a place on her own Carnival of Killers, offering her the means to continue crusade of theft and bloody revenge against the shallow world who once adored her but now shunned her.

Powers/Abilities:

Heather’s entire body is covered in long, unruly hair the she is able to grow and control mentally. With it, she is able to entangle opponents, create hair-based constructs, and strengthen her locks to extreme durability and sharpen the points to piercing needles.

So yeah, Fair Maidenhair was one of the original planned Sideshow members that I decided to revamp as a villain for the Carnival of Crime, and is meant to be the bearded lady of the circus aesthetic of the series, only in this case it is a much more extreme case. Her origins actually predate the Sideshow and Carnival actually- I had this idea for a story for a while now about how a famous model losses all her hair to a hair disease like alopecia, and in desperation to cure themselves the go to extremes and end up getting their hair back and more, allowing them to control their hair like extra limbs like Marvel's Medusa. I suppose I could have just gone the more traditional bearded lady root by just giving her hair back through facial hair, but to me there was something so cruelly ironic about someone wanting to regrow their hair back and ironically get hair all over their body like the Grinch. It's the kind of cruel irony found in horror stories I love, and I knew it would be perfect for a sideshow supervillain.

Hope you guys like this new Sideshow villain! Let us know what you think with a comment below!

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