Gamora | Shower Buddies!

Name: Gamora Zen-Whoberi

Species: Zen-Whoberi

Age: 36 years old

Appearance: Gamora is a 5’9” tall lithe green skinned woman with chin length straight hair that’s black on top with a red gradient half way down and her eyes are violet.

She wears a full body armor suit that blends black fabric around her waist, knees, elbows, and her gloves, with white metal armor around her arms, shoulders, chest, thighs, and white armored boots.

She has thin lips and war paint over her eyes that look like a solid trail of tears.

On her back is a magnetic holster that can hold her collapsible sword.

When she’s relaxing she wears a hide vest with a pair of leather pants. Underneath is a just black underwear.

Crimes: Aiding and Abetting, Conspiracy, Resisting Arrest, Flying Without a License, Theft, Assault, Armed Robbery, Smuggling, Illegal Scavenging, Murder, Crimes of War.

Personality: Trained to be a weapon, Gamora is generally a logical, businesslike and pragmatic individual, as well as dangerous. Both Peter and Rocket find her "scary", with even the latter generally avoiding doing things that could truly upset her.

Her room has a collection of ugly dolls she bought around the galaxy. She will hide them no matter who tries to see them.

Preferring to keep her feelings and hobbies to herself, Gamora comes across as distant, but she isn't above spending downtime with her teammates or engaging in friendly banter, and is outspoken in her opinions.

Gamora is a very well rounded woman. She tends to keep a calm demeanor so people don’t think she’s a threat, it’s sometimes a trail for her because she can get irritated easily.

Her years of being the daughter of Thanos made her wary about a lot of things. She doesn’t exactly like gifts, not that gifts aren’t welcome, but because Thanos would use gifts as tests she is a bit hesitant to accept them because she believes it has strings attached. Her coping mechanism to not get distracted or distraught during battle is making puns, she mostly does it during fights so she doesn’t have to think about how Thanos trained her. She has a soft spot for kids, ever since she was indoctrinated as a child she makes sure kids aren’t facing the same injustices as her. If they are then she’ll become uncharacteristically reckless and enraged.

Gamora is very sarcastic. She is also not above threatening others with violence when angry. "No killing teammates", somewhat humorously, appears to be a term in her contract. Still, although she would rather not admit it, Gamora does enjoy being on the team.

Backstory: Hailing from the planet Zen-Whoberi, Gamora's parents and entire race were eradicated by Thanoswhen she was 5 years old. For whatever reason, Thanos decided to adopt her, and raise her as an assassin alongside Nebula. One time he bought ugly Xandarian dolls for them both, but when six-year-old Gamora lost hers, it caused a fight between the two. Thanos settled it by burning Nebula's—the gifts being a lesson on the importance of not getting attached. Despite Thanos's "mind games" often pitting them against one another, Gamora served him, thinking he loved them, and protected her sister even into young adulthood, and tried to make each other laugh during battle.

When Thanos sided with the Chitauri Empire in the Galactic War, countless of their political targets fell to Gamora's blade; she also visited the Chitaurihomeworld many times. When the Resistanceappeared, Thanos grew obsessed with them, and had Gamora and Nebula comb the galaxy for their location for cycles. Somehow, Gamora was the one to find them; when she went home to report back, she was about to excitedly tell Thanos, when she heard her father talking to an empty room. Realizing that he was in love with death itself, and he would kill even his daughters to prove it, Gamora fled that day and joined Richard Rider's Resistance.

Towards the end of the war, everyone knew the Resistance was losing. But when Thanos died at the hands of Drax, and it became clear that it wasn't simply misinformation to lure them out, Ko-Rel spearheaded a stealth mission to Chitauri Prime, while the Kree and Resistance fleets launched an attack on the planet. Ko-Rel had Gamora tag along so that she would kill the infant queen, but Gamora refused. Instead, they kidnapped the queen, and the Chitauri quickly surrendered, marking the end of the war. Although no one died on the stealth mission, for reasons she never fully understood, Gamora became known as the "deadliest woman in the galaxy".

Despite her war crimes, Gamora was granted amnesty, begrudgingly so, by the Worldmind under advice from Richard Rider. Still, Gamora found herself increasingly sidelined by the allies after the war, with Richard getting busy with politics and Worldmind refusing to involve her in post-war efforts related to New Xandar and the Nova Corps. Gamora, evading surveilance, thus retreated to the fringes of space. In the following years, Gamora then became an assassin-for-hire, with a wave of mysterious and brutal deaths attributed to her, though none could be proved.

About a decade later—with Thanos, the war, and the assassinations having taken a toll on her—, a vengeful and hateful Nebula got the jump on Gamora, nearly killing her. Seeing the monster Nebula had become, and that she would never stop unless she stopped her, Gamora ended up killing Nebula. At that time, Mantis happened to be there and saved Gamora's life; however, the incident had "broken" Gamora. In the year that followed, Mantis became Gamora's friend and somehow managed to take Gamora to Lamentis, where she introduced her to the Priests of Pama. The priests, willing to help Gamora heal, thought it would be a good idea for her to work through her issues with a boy, Akan, who was "lost" just like her.

Through mutual support, Gamora and Akan were able to overcome their demons. Now sufficiently healed, Mantis suggested that Gamora join a team, telling her it'd good for her mental health. Taking her advice, Gamora thus joined Peter Quill's "heroes-for-hire" enterprise, Guardians of the Galaxy, sometime after Drax. Despite being on fourteen missions together, the team has yet to achieve real success.