TATIANA CABAN 
Real Name: Tatiana Caban
Identity/Class: Human mutant
Occupation: Runaway; former grocery clerk,
volunteer at a free animal clinic, waitress, and worker at a fish market
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Felon (Bobby
Soul), Keisha, Kiden
Nixon, Cameron
Palmer, X-23
formerly Barretta
(her pet bird), Mister Ferrara,
Dr. Cecilia Reyes, Skeeter (her
pet cat), Senora
Ventura, Wolverine (Logan/James Howlett)
Enemies: Alice
(surgeon who called the police on Tatiana), Chester
(boy at school), Diesel,
D’Sean (gangster), Gutierrez,
Louise
(nurse convinced Tatiana was a criminal), Reuben
(mother's boyfriend), SHIELD Cape Killers, Sniper Chick, Zebra Daddy
Known Relatives: Laurie
(sister), unidentifed mother
Aliases: Catiana, "Tat"
Base of Operations: Mobile throughout New York; formerly
The Bronx, New York
First Appearance: NYX#4 (July, 2004)
Powers/Abilities: Tatiana could transform into a
duplicate of anything that she touches the blood of. For example, if she
touched the blood of a cat, she could assume the form of a humanoid cat. If she
touched the blood of a person, she would assume the form of that person and
could access their memories.
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 126 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark brown
History: (NYX#4) - After finishing a day at three different
jobs, Tatiana Caban walked home and stopped to feed a group of stray animals.
When she arrived home, her sister explained that their mom was out on a date.
Their mother soon arrived home as well, bringing her boyfriend Reuben home with
her. One of Tatiana's birds named Barretta flew at Reuben, who knocked the bird
to the ground. Tatiana's mother made her apologize to Reuben and then slammed
the door to her bedroom.
(NYX#5) - On her way to school, Tatiana
witnessed a dog getting hit by a car. She quickly grabbed the bleeding animal
and asked the driver to take her to the free animal clinic a few blocks down
the street. After getting the animal to the hospital, Tatiana made it to the
Bronx Vocational High School covered in blood. She soon began to pick up nearby
scents and easily overheard her schoolmates whispering about her. After
throwing up, Tatiana transformed into a dog-like creature with brown and white
fur. She was immediately attacked by an anti-mutant mob at her school, who chased
her into an alleyway. In order to better defend herself, Tatiana killed an
alleycat and touched its blood, transforming into a black, cat-like creature
and scaring away the mob. She was calmed down by X-23, who had arrived on the
scene with Kiden Nixon and Cameron Palmer.
(NYX#6) - After
transforming back to her normal form, Kiden Nixon explained to Tatiana that she
had been seeing visions of her dead father who told her where to go at key
moments. Tatiana claimed to believe her, but opted to return home instead of
staying with Kiden and company. She soon returned home to find her mother in
bed with Reuben. As her mother started to argue with her, Tatiana was attacked
by Barretta and then her cat, Skeeter. Terrified, Tatiana ran outside to find
that Kiden Nixon had followed her. Kiden told her that her powers were not a
dream and Tatiana agreed to join them. While staying with Kiden, Cameron
Palmer, and X-23, Tatiana complained about what they planned on doing next.
(NYX#7) - Kiden soon
received another vision of her father, telling them to go back to Cameron
Palmer's apartment. When Tatiana complained, Ms. Palmer told her that if she
had a problem with things, then she could go back home to her family. After
thinking about how awful things were at home, Tatiana opted to stay with the
group. Upon arriving at Ms. Palmer's apartment, Cameron told the girls to wait
behind and call the cops if her light did not come on. When it never came on,
Kiden saw a vision of her father telling them to run away. Before they could do
so, Kiden, Tatiana, and X-23 were confronted by the pimp Zebra Daddy and his
men, who had been searching for X-23. X-23 jumped into battle, severing Zebra
Daddy hand and Tatiana, calling herself Catiana, licked the dried blood on her
clothes and transformed back into a cat-like form. While X-23 and Kiden battled
Zebra Daddy and his men, Tatiana used her newfound claws to scale the side of
Ms. Palmer's apartment to save her, all the while thinking about how silly the
name "Catiana" sounded. When Ms. Palmer's attacker threw her from the
building, Catiana managed to grab her hand. Ms. Palmer soon slipped from
Catiana's grasp and fell, but was saved by Kiden, who froze time and placed a
mattress under her. Tatiana jumped down to the ground in time to see X-23 stab
Zebra Daddy through the heart. With the cops arriving on the scene, Tatiana,
Kiden, X-23, and Cameron Palmer all left the scene of the crime with their
newest ally Felon, who had been brought into the battle by a vision of Kiden's
father as well.
(X-Men: The 198 Files -
BTS) - Following the events of "M-Day," Tatiana Caban was one of the
mutants who retained her mutant abilities. She was cataloged by the Office of
National Emergency, who saw her as a general threat in a possible war between
mutants and humans.
(Civil War: Battle Damage Report)
- Tony Stark considered Catiana as a potential Initiative recruit.
(NYX: No Way Home #1) – Tatiana
accompanied Kiden Nixon as she dumpster-dove in an attempt to find a birthday
present for Bobby Soul. Once Kiden had found a broken snowglobe, Tatiana went
back to their apartment both her & Kiden shared with Bobby. Tatiana then
sat at the kitchen table while Bobby tried to feed his younger brother. Cameron
Palmer soon arrived to bring them all groceries and remind them all that they
should be in school. A terrified Tatiana reminded Ms. Palmer that she couldn’t
go back to her old school, as they all knew she was a mutant and with the
Purifiers out in the world, she just could not return. Tatiana, Bobby and his
L’il Bro later met up with Kiden after Kiden’s work shift had ended and they
all prepared to meet Ms. Palmer for dinner. As they arrived at Ms. Palmer’s
apartment, Tatiana & the others were shocked to find Ms. Palmer’s apartment
ransacked and Palmer gone.
(NYX: No Way Home #2) – As
Tatiana once again felt like the world was crushing her, Kiden examined the
area and decided they needed to get out of there before the police arrived. On
their way out, Tatiana stopped to vomit. Upon arriving at Bobby’s apartment,
Tatiana and the others found it surrounded by police. As Kiden used her powers
to sneak into the apartment and gather their belongings, Tatiana asked Bobby if
he would leave them and received no response. An hour later, Tatiana joined the
others at a diner, where Kiden tried to talk the others into finding Ms.
Palmer. Bobby opted not to help, in favor of taking care of his little brother,
& asked Tatiana what she thought. Tatiana replied that she had no other
friends & agreed to help Kiden find Ms. Palmer. Finally agreeing to help
them too & showing the girls a hat he found in Ms. Palmer’s apartment,
Bobby took the girls to an old acquaintance’s apartment, D’Sean, whom he
thought to own the hat. Once inside, a gunman grabbed Tatiana & asked her
at gunpoint why she was there. When L’il Bro distracted the gunman with a
psychic projection, Tatiana bit the man, causing him to let her go and
inadvertedly causing her to transform into the gunman’s form. Terrified at
Tatiana taking his form, the gunman shot her.
(NYX: No Way Home #3) – Confused,
the gunman warned Kiden to stay away. As Kiden tried to stop Tatiana’s
bleeding, Bobby took down the gunman. Kiden then interrogated the gunman as
Tatiana returned to normal. D’Sean and his fellow gangsters soon returned to
the apartment to find Bobby & the girls standing over a friend of theirs.
Instinctively using her powers, Kiden froze time around them all, allowing them
to escape the gangsters and get Tatiana to a hospital. As the doctors performed
surgery on Tatiana to remove the bullet, the blood transfusion they gave her
caused Tatiana to transform into the woman who donated the blood, prompting the
doctors to call the police.
(NYX: No Way Home #4) – Returning
to the hospital to find armed gunmen surrounding Tatiana’s hospital bed, Kiden,
Bobby & L’il Bro managed to grab Tatiana and escape via Kiden’s powers.
Bobby eventually remembered a doctor that volunteered at shelters who worked on
the sly and the group soon after took Tatiana to visit Dr. Cecilia Reyes in
Chinatown. Dr. Reyes finished the surgery, successfully removing the bullet
from Tatiana’s shoulder. She then told the group they could stay in her
apartment for the night to rest.
(NYX: No Way Home #5) – Following
a run-in with the enigmatic Sniper Chick, Kiden returned to Dr. Reyes’
apartment with a black eye. When a recovering Tatiana and Bobby Soul asked what
happened to her. Kiden gathered her things and prepared to leave, claiming it
wasn’t safe. By the time Dr. Reyes had returned to her apartment, the group was
gone and Tatiana had left a note thanking her for taking care of them, assuring
her that they did not steal anything (except clothes & some food). Hiding
out in an alley, Tatiana’s bleeding was stopped by Bobby Soul, who was fed up with
living on the run. When Tatiana somewhat agreed and stated that they weren’t
fighters, Kiden left them, walking out in front of a train and using her powers
to avoid getting hit. All Tatiana and Bobby saw was Kiden disappear. L’il Bro
(secretly manipulated by the spirit of Kiden’s deceased father) shortly
thereafter projected an image of Kiden in trouble at Empire State University,
prompting Tatiana and Bobby to find Kiden. Captured in the effort of trying to
locate Kiden, Tatiana awoke to find herself facing the enigmatic Sniper Chick,
who revealed herself as the kidnapper of Cameron Palmer. Sniper Chick then
revealed that her job was to prepare others to ultimately live comfortably by
preparing them for the harshness of reality. She then left Tatiana with the
knowledge that Tatiana would have a choice to make soon.
(NYX: No Way Home #6) – Sniper
Chick returned to check on Tatiana and played a voice message threatening her
and her friends. Taunting Tatiana, the Sniper Chick then told Tatiana she could
choose to live or die, firing a gun at the ground to scare Tatiana. She then
handed Tatiana the gun and told her choose. A terrified Tatiana fired the gun
at Sniper Chick, hallucinating that she had killed the Sniper Chick due to the
drugged drink Sniper Chick had given her. The Sniper Chick then informed
Tatiana that actually killing would get easier over time, especially now that
Tatiana had brought herself to pull the trigger. She then taunted Tatiana,
claiming that Tatiana enjoyed bloood and then left Tatiana alone once more to
look at Sniper Chick’s blood on the ground from an earlier cut to her face.
Using the blood on the ground, Tatiana transformed into a duplicate of Sniper
Chick and managed to free Bobby and L’il Bro. The trio then attacked Sniper
Chick as she was torturting Kiden. After L’il Bro killed Sniper Chick with a
psychic projection, Tatiana and Bobby freed Kiden and Ms. Palmer, who was
delirious from her torture. Dropping Ms. Palmer at the door of Memorial
Hospital, Tatiana, Kiden, Bobby and L’il Bro went on their way.
(X-23 II#1) – While under psychic
attack by the Gamesmaster, X-23 found the homeless Tatiana, Kiden, Bobby and
L’il Bro talking about how they could continue living on the streets. L’il Bro
soon projected a trail of images, prompting Kiden to freeze time and follow
them to X-23, leaving Tatiana and Bobby to wonder where Kiden had went. After
talking to X-23, Kiden brought her back to the group for a while. Still under
psychic attack, X-23 warned Kiden and the others to stay away from her. While
Bobby suggested they leave X-23 be, Tatiana claimed X-23 needed help. Their
discussion was interrupted when X-23 leapt off the roof to be alone. When Kiden
left to find X-23, Tatiana and the others followed, running into Wolverine.
X-23 then decided to return to the X-Men, leaving Tatiana and the others to
continue their lives while she continued hers.
(Heroic Age: X-Men#1 – BTS) – In
an effort to be ready for any new mutant activity, Steve Rogers wrote a brief
dossier on Tatiana, referencing her file with the Office of National Emergency
to determine whether she could be a possible threat or ally.
Comments: Created by Joe Quesada and Joshua
Middleton.
One thing of note: In NYX#4,
Tatiana's bird, Barretta was green but in NYX#6, the bird was colored white.
Tatiana's last name was revealed
in X-Men: 198 Files.
Clarifications:
Catiana has no known connections
to
- any other "Cat" characters
Alice was a surgeon who operated on Tatiana after she had been shot by a gunman. When the surgeons started a blood tranfusion for Tatiana and Tatiana unconsciously transformed into the form of the woman whose blood she had received, Alice phoned the police to report an unregistered superhuman.
--NYX: No Way Home#3
Barretta was Tatiana's pet bird, who first attacked her mother's boyfriend Reuben and later attacked Tatiana herself when she returned home after her mutant powers manifested.
--NYX#4 (6
Laurie was Tatiana's sister who
lived with her and her mother. When Tatiana returned home after a long day at
three jobs, Laurie informed her that their mother was out on a date in the
middle of the afternoon.
--NYX#4
Chester was a boy in one of
Tatiana's classes at school who picked on her. The day that her powers
manifested, Tatiana had warned Chester not to start with her. After she had transformed
into a dog-like state, Chester taunted her.
--NYX#5
Mister Ferrara was Tatiana's boss
at Ferrara's fish market, the third job that she went to after school. He offered
Tatiana some fish to take home with her after her day at three jobs.
--NYX#4
LOUISELouise was a nurse who, when
Kiden and Bobby brought in the gunshot-wounded Tatiana, was convinced Tatiana
was a criminal. When Louise saw on television that Tatiana, Kiden and Bobby
were wanted for questioning in the kidnapping case of Cameron Palmer, Louise
was about to question them when she noticed they were gone, unaware Kiden and
Bobby had escaped using Kiden’s time-manipulating abilities.
--NYX: No Way Home#3
Reuben was the boyfriend of
Tatiana's mother. When he first visited their house, he was attacked by
Tatiana's bird, Barretta. He quickly knocked Barretta to the ground, calling
the bird dirty and getting angry about it. When Tatiana's mother asked if he
was ok, he replied that he needed a little TLC. The couple soon went into the
mother's bedroom and slammed the door. After Tatiana manifested mutant
abilities and returned home, she found Reuben in bed with her mother.
--NYX#4 (6
Skeeter was the pet cat of
Tatiana who attacked her when she returned home after manifesting her mutant
abilities.
--NYX#4 (6 (named)
Senora Ventura was Tatiana's boss
at Panaderia Ventura, a restaurant. Senora Ventura offered Tatiana some bread
to take home with her in thanks for the work.
--NYX#4
images:
NYX#4, p1, pan2 (Senora
Ventura)
p1, pan6 (Mr. Ferrara)
p2, pan5 (Catiana headshot, normal form)
p17, pan1 (Reuben)
p17, pan2 (Laurie Caban)
p17, pan3 (Barretta)
NYX#5, p14, pan2 (Ms. Parker)
p16, pan4 (Chester)
p17, splash page (Catiana fullbody, dog-like form)
NYX#6, p11, pan7 (Skeeter)
NYX#7, p25, pan7 (Catiana fullbody shot, in cat-like form)
NYX: No Way Home#2, p21, pan2 (Catiana in gunman’s form)
NYX: No Way Home#3, p14, pan2 (Louise)
NYX: No Way Home#3, p17, pan5 (Alice)
NYX#4 (July, 2004) - Joe Quesada
(story), Joshua Middleton (art)
NYX#5 (September, 2004) - Joe Quesada (story), Robert Teranishi (pencils),
Nelson, Chris Sotomayor (inks)
NYX#6 (September, 2005) - Joe Quesada (story), Robert Teranishi (pencils),
Chris Sotomayor (inks)
NYX#7 (October, 2005) - Joe Quesada (story), Robert Teranishi (pencils),
Nelson, Chris Sotomayor (inks)
X-Men: The 198 Files (2006) - Eric J. Moreels, Marc-Oliver Frisch, Brian E.
Wilkinson (writers)
Civil War: Battle Damage Report (2007)
NYX: No Way Home #1 (October, 2008) – Marjorie Liu (writer), Kalman
Andrasofszky (art), John Barber (editor)
NYX: No Way Home #2 (November, 2008) – Marjorie Liu (writer), Kalman
Andrasofszky (pencils), Ramon Perez (inks), John Barber (editor)
NYX: No Way Home #3 (December, 2008) – Marjorie Liu (writer), Kalman
Andrasofszky (pencils), Sara Pichelli (pencils, inks), Ramon Perez (inks), John
Barber (editor)
NYX: No Way Home #4 (February, 2009) – Marjorie Liu (writer), Kalman
Andrasofszky (pencils), Sara Pichelli (pencils, inks), Ramon Perez (inks), John
Barber (editor)
NYX: No Way Home #5 (March, 2009) – Marjorie Liu (writer), Kalman Andrasofszky
(pencils), Ramon Perez (inks), John Barber (editor)
NYX: No Way Home #6 (April, 2009) – Marjorie Liu (writer), Kalman Andrasofszky
(pencils), Sara Pichelli (pencils, inks), Ramon Perez (inks), John Barber
(editor)
X-23 #1 (May, 2010) – Marjorie Liu (writer), Filipe Andrade, Nuno Alves (pencils),
Jay Leisten, Nuno Alves, Sandu Florea (inks), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
The Heroic Age: X-Men#1 (February, 2011) – Michael Hoskin (head writer,
coordinator), Chad Anderson, Mike O’Sullivan, Peter Sanderson, Markus Raymond,
Anthony Flamini, Kevin Garcia, Stuart Vandal, Jacob Rougemont, Madison Carter
(writers), Jeff Youngquist (editor)
Last updated: 08/05/14
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