| “ | I... I can't do it. I have so many new friends in Little Innsmouth! ...Terrible as it was, what happened happened, and made me who I am today. Changing that would be... wrong. | ” |
Ms. Fortune (JP: ミス・フォーチュン Misu Fōchun), also referred to by her full name, Nadia Fortune (JP: ナディア・フォーチュン Nadia Fōchun), is a feline Feral who belonged to the Fishbone Gang, she was rendered undying when she swallowed the Life Gem she stole.
General Information[]
Ms. Fortune is a playable character in Skullgirls, she is one of the original eight playable characters and is the only puppet character in the game. Her homestage is Little Innsmouth.
She underwent a serious character redesign from her initial concept after it was received poorly by the art team. Also, originally her power was that she was very lucky and was even capable of sucking luck away from others. There was some accident where her head would be chopped of which would render her "lucky" to survive but also unlucky to survive in such a way. The gods solved the paradox by bringing her back "different", thus she became able to detach her head. [3] According to an interview the power change, of evolving from just a detachable head to full detachable body, seems to have come along with her redesign gaining more scars to accommodate each other and show the full body element better.
At first, Alex Ahad couldn't decide which character universe to put her in as she was originally just a cat-girl character he came up on the spot. He says that catgirls aren't really his thing and it is rare to make catgirl characters but he admits they can be fun. At some point he decided on making her a Skullgirls character. When she first came about her name was originally "Miss Fortune" until it got changed to Ms. Fortune.
Personality[]
A rescue kitten who learned how to survive at an early age, Nadia Fortune is a crafty cat burglar who's a lighthearted mischievous scamp who fights for her friends.
Ms. Fortune puts on a light hearted persona and makes constant puns. However she's suffered as much as other members of the cast as she's looking to resurrect her friends. She frequents Yu-Wan's restaurant and she's friends with the people there, including Minette.
Character Basis[]
Name[]
Ms. Fortune's poster art
Her title is a play on the word "misfortune" and originally an indicator of her power to manipulate luck, although said ability has since been removed. The name Nadia means "hope" in a number of languages, although it is mainly cited as having Slavic origins.
Design[]
Nadia is a tan-skinned, lithe young woman with light blue eyes and white hair styled in a bob cut. Her Feral features include long dark cat ears, tail, clawed hands and feet and a prominent canine that usually shows over her lower lip. She has a clean scar on her left cheek, while those on her neck, biceps, forearms, thighs, legs and feet are larger and more jagged.
She wears a thick black collar with a stylized cat bell that resembles the Life Gem, a light blue striped crop top with the underside of her breasts showing, a gray utility belt, black fingerless gloves, black hot pants and the remnants of her pantlegs (adjusted to appear a little more fashionable). In Skullgirls Mobile, it reveals that she used to wear full-length pants.
Story[]
Backstory[]
A feline feral, Nadia Fortune is the last surviving member of the Fishbone Gang, a notorious band of otherwise Dagonian thieves. Their last mission ended in tragedy: a failed attempt to steal the mysterious Life Gem from Lorenzo Medici resulted in their grisly murders. Before meeting her own doom, Ms. Fortune swallowed the Life Gem and managed to digest it. The Gem’s power immortalized her entire body, making it truly undying even after being dismembered.
Now hiding in the shadows of Little Innsmouth, Ms. Fortune plots to avenge her fallen comrades.[4]
It's been stated by the devs that Fortune as a child was always with the gang. She was an orphan, and learned the art of thievery from them. She was always causing trouble.
Skullgirls 2nd Encore[]
After defeating the Skullgirl, Ms. Fortune obtains the Skull Heart. She could've wished for her old friends in the Fishbone gang to be brought back from the dead, but thinks that her new friends are enough for her so she destroys the Skull Heart.
When she returns she is informed that her friend Minette had been abducted along with other young girls in the Little Innsmouth area. She is told by Irvin, a local detective, that the Medici family was involved in the kidnappings. So the two decide to go after the Medici family and save the girls.
Abilities & Fighting Style[]
Befitting her feline traits, Ms. Fortune is an agile fighter with sharp senses and sharper claws. Her true strength, however, is drawn from the Life Gem that she swallowed prior to her "death". The gem gave her nearly-unlimited regenerative abilities, allowing her to recover from numerous injuries that would kill normal beings (such as decapitation and dismemberment). When she was a young orphan, she learned the art of thievery from the Fishbone Gang.
In addition to her regenerative powers, Ms. Fortune also has precise control over her own body parts, an ability that figures heavily into her fighting style. She can extend her muscles and tendons to add force to her blows or give her attacks greater reach, release jets of blood from her legs to propel herself on the ground and in the air, and even detach her limbs completely to strike opponents and set up surprise attacks. One of her signature tactics even uses her own head as a projectile or bludgeon before leaving it on the ground to act as a secondary attacker. She also has the ability to stiffen her tail for use as a katana-like blade, either attached or detached from her body.
She can also harden her body parts such as her ears and tail to use as weapons which is a Feral special ability.
Trailer[]
Color Palettes[]
- "Just Kitten" - Default colors
- Original colors
- Reiko Hinomoto (Rumble Roses)
- "Hellcat" - Early Ms. Fortune design
- "Feline Lucky" - Original colors
- Frankenstein's Monster (Frankenstein)
- Celty Sturluson (Durarara!!)
- Black★Rock Shooter (Black★Rock Shooter)
- "Wind Stalker" - Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers series)
- "Purrfect Dark" - Fran (Final Fantasy XII)
- "Claw & Order" - Original Xbox 360
- "Hack n' Splash" - PlayStation 3
- Blue Mary (Fatal Fury, King of Fighters series)
- Leona Heidern (King of Fighters series)
- Pussycat (Takena Nagao)
- "Rogue Agent" - Moriah the Thief (Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara)
- Etna (Disgaea series)
- Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
- Black Orchid (Killer Instinct series) - Indiegogo backer color
- Original colors - Indiegogo backer color
- "Ms. Trial" - She-Hulk (Marvel Comics, The Sensational She-Hulk) - Indiegogo backer color
- Jack "Trades" Rye (Skullgirls fan character) - Indiegogo backer color
- "Furry Fury" - Makoto Nanaya (BlazBlue series)
- Felicia's 6th Color Palette (Marvel vs. Capcom 2)
- "Meow & Furever" - Elena (Street Fighter III: New Generation)
- Mashu Kyrielight (Fate/Grand Order)
- "Time Thief" - Tracer (Overwatch)
- Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper series)
- Ms. Fortune's webtoon outfit
- "Foot Soldier" - Juri Han (Street Fighter series, SF6 design)
Trivia[]
- Her ethnicity is meant to be the Skullgirls universe-equivalent of Latina.[2]
- It's been stated that she likes small dogs.
- Her pre-fight animation is a reference to that of Cammy's in Street Fighter Alpha.
- In an unused alternate ending, Ms. Fortune ignores Marie's warning about making a wish to restore dead friends and asks the Skull Heart to revive the rest of the Fishbone Gang. The Skull Heart grants this by transforming Ms. Fortune into the new Skullgirl, with the former Fishbone Gang as the first members of her undead army.
- In early lore, Ms. Fortune and Filia were intended to be partners (presumably partners in crime?) as they are seen together in some early art. They have no direct relationship as of now and seem to be total strangers.
- Coincidentally, both of their clones (Robo-Fortune and Fukua, respectively) were created by Brain Drain.
References[]
- ↑ Reverge Labs. Skullgirls - Show Me Your Moves: Character Movelist. skullgirls.com. Retrieved on 2021 July 9.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Ms. Fortune « Skullgirls. skullgirls.com. Archived from the original on 2012-04-16. Retrieved on 2021 July 9.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Ms. Fortune's Biography.