Felicia (フェリシア) is a fighting game character from the Darkstalkers series. She is a catwoman with dreams of becoming a musical star.
Biography
Appearance
Felicia is a catwoman with tan skin, green eyes, long thick blue hair, white fur and pink claws. Although her fur preserves her modesty, Felicia is fully naked and wears no clothing, making her the most revealing playable female in the Darkstalkers series. But in the animated cartoon of Darkstalkers, she wears a white bra top.
Personality
She is an energetic and optimistic catgirl who enjoys singing, dancing and making friends with people. She is also pacifistic in nature and is a strong advocate for peace between Darkstalkers and humans. She also loves children.
Concept
Felicia's design is inspired by the bakeneko (化け猫, "changed cat"), a yōkai of Japanese mythology that start their lives as normal cats but grow up to possess supernatural powers, like the ability to assume the appearance of a human being. It is also inspired by Edward Field's 1967 poem "The Curse Of The Catwoman". Felicia was originally going to be designed as a werepanther.
Story
Felicia was raised by a Catholic nun named Rose. When Rose died, Felicia left her town hoping to be a musical star. During her travels, she met many other catgirls of her kind. With her newfound friends, she set out for her dream of being on stage. Eventually, she and her friends started a musical with Felicia being the main star. In the events of Darkstalkers 3, she wondered about how she could make others happy. In her ending, Felicia founded an orphanage named "Felicity House."
Gameplay
Powers and abilities
Felicia is very agile in combat with her techniques, being athletic and gymnastic in nature. She can roll like a ball in a manner similar to Sonic the Hedgehog and tackle her enemies. Her tail seems to be quite durable, as she can balance on it while delivering a double kick and even jab foes with it. She can also kick up sand for quick attacks, but due to the bluish color appearing in it, it is possible she can channel ki into her feet and expel it out through the kick. She has been seen tossing orange balls spontaneously that pop once they come in contact with something. She also displays, in her intro and the Darkstalkers OVA, the ability to morph in and out of a smaller housecat form.
Moveset
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Comics
In the Udon Comics version of Darkstalkers, Felicia is still looking for her big break into stardom; unfortunately being a catgirl proves to be a very large roadblock on the path to fame. Along the way, she runs into the werewolf, Jon Talbain who believes that humans are treacherous and vile, while she thinks that the current hatred between humans and Darkstalkers are just a few "bumps in the road." Despite the fact that his interference costs her a potential gig, Felicia asks Jon to accompany her, so that she can try to prove to him that humanity is not all bad. Eventually, they end up at the Catholic orphanage where Felicia grew up. Felicia's origins are much the same as well. One notable exception is the character of the nun who raised her. Here her foster mother is named Sister Cecillia and is still alive and active in her beloved foster daughter's life.
Crossover appearances
Felicia is a playable character in Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Pocket Fighter, SNK vs. Capcom, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Capcom Fighting Evolution, Namco x Capcom, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds/Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Cross Edge.
She also appears in Project X Zone 2.
Trivia
- The aspect of the monster Kit Cat of the game Makai Senki Disgaea is based on her.
- Her UMvC3 DLC has her play as Yellow Iris from Battle Circuit.
- Compared to other characters in her series, Felicia has appeared in the second-most amount of titles aside from Darkstalkers, with Morrigan being in first.
- She had once referenced Blanka in her Darkstalkers ending, most likely a reference to the fact that Felicia's play-style was designed off of Blanka.
- Felicia's eyes are sometimes colored blue in artwork or in-game still shots, which can sometimes cause confusion.
- Felicia makes an appearance on the MAD show by Cartoon Network. She is seen in Gaming's Next Top Princess.
- Nick Ramos cosplays as Felicia in downloadable content for Dead Rising 3.
- In the French version of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, a GBA game developed by Capcom, a citizen of Hyrule Town is called Felicia. She has a cat as a pet and loves her neighbor who has a dog.
- In older art, Felicia was originally tan, muscular and had green eyes. Later on she would become skinnier, paler and have sometimes have blue eyes.
- The catwoman race age twice as slow as humans.[1] All of Felicia’s friends have an age that is half the age of their chronological age. For example her friend Pico is chronologically 14 but is actually meant to be a 7 year old in catwoman years while her friend Lucy is 36 but is an 18 year old in her catwoman years. In the first Darkstalkers game, Felicia aged this way too but with how Darkstalkers 1 is retconned with lots of changed lore and most of the playable Darkstalkers may have unique traits from the rest of their species and have started out with some lore differences in the first game compared to the other games, it is unknown if this still applies to Felicia in later lore. This aging system still applies canonically to her friends.
- The age she became a Catwoman was at six.
- In an interview[2] it is stated she eats the same things as normal people and prefers fresh foods over processed foods.
- In the same interview, when asked if she ever were to get into a relationship (with Jon Talbain) Capcom replied that they don’t think she would limit herself to other Darkstalkers and that “she’s probably a bit immature to be thinking about relationships.“
- Felicia doesn’t think about her fighting to deeply and enjoys doing what she’s good at.
- She had a world tour called “The World Is Mine” where she visited every major city in the world.
- According to Alex Jimenez, he wanted Felicia to stay as an African werepanther until the very end, but someone on the Japanese side of Capcom drew her as what he described as a “white neko girl” and Capcom made him go with that despite the fact he really wanted to keep her the other way instead.[3]
- The “white neko girl” drawing Alex was talking about is presumably referring to the sketch in concept art where she looks just like her final design but with pink hair, black fur and extremely pale skin. This is right before Felicia’s actual final design which uses the same design but with changed colors. Since the final design of Felicia is tan and much more racially ambiguous it is assumed by some that this is a call back to her conceptual origins as a person of color.
Gallery
For more images of this character, see their Gallery.
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