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IAN BAST

Real Name: Ian Bast

Identity: Secret (Known to Captain Amazing and Night Scorpion)

Known Relatives: Fiorella Bast, Mother. Mateo Bast, Father. Katrina Bast, older sister.

Powers & Abilities: None.

History: Ian Bast was born in Peru, but his family moved to the United States when he was three months old. He has an older sister, Katrina, who he has grown very jealous of. He was never very successful and tended to make poor life choices and bows to pressure from his "friends". His family settled in Miami Florida, and he was a D student and did just the minimum to get by. He graduated near the bottom of his class and worked several food service and janitorial positions until his sister, Katrina, now a world famous supermodel, uses her newfound wealth to open the Bast Foundation, which operates no-kill animal shelters, veterinary clinics, and research into curing several major pet illnesses such as FIP (Feline infectious peritonitis). She hired Ian to be her proxy at the Bast Foundation while she was away on shoots, feeling it would give her directionless sibling a chance to find himself. While life was going well for Katrina, things were about to take a fateful turn when Ian goes missing. 

    She receives a phone call from a mysterious person, using a voice changer, claiming to have her brother, and that they will kill him if she does not pay a ten-million-dollar ransom. Fearing that her brother would still be killed if she paid the ransom, she decided to take matters into her own hands. She enlists the help of a friend on her staff that handles her social media and tech-based issues. They manage to trace the GPS of her brother's phone to its current location. To hide her identity, she makes a costume, using skills she learned from helping her friend and former college roommate Cindy Sommers with fashion projects back in college. She arms herself with a taser she used for personal protection, as well as pepper spray. Taking some compact climbing gear, she sets out to rescue Ian.

    Katrina, now garbed as the Feline Fatale, breaks into the building where her brother's phone is located. She takes out several henchmen and manages to find Ian... free and commanding the criminals. Angry at her brother's betrayal, she vents her rage by taking out the remaining criminals. She unmasks and confronts Ian. She tells him they are done. She won't turn him in to the police, but he is fired, and she never wants to see or speak to him again.

     A few years have passed, and Katrina is still working successfully as a model and the Bast Foundation is doing well. She has not returned to Empire City, though has learned from a private investigator she has on an indefinite retainer to follow Ian, who has relocated there, that he has drifted through the underworld ever since being fired for faking his own kidnapping. He has been a henchman for several different supervillains over the years and has recently gone to work for Radion, a radiation-powered hero. Radion's henchmen tend to have short lives as prolonged exposure to his powers causes cancer. Despite their differences, she cannot let her brother die a slow painful death, so she decides to go back to Empire City and save her brother by taking down Radion, but to do that she's going to need some Amazing help.