Art and colours by Mel.

Written by Mel, August 2002.

Updated, December 2006

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Code Name: Kayo
Real Name: Cheyenne Mikayla Dreux-Mattie LeBeau

Nicknames: Chey, Keebler, Pup, Barker Girl
Occupations: Cheyenne's occupations have varies from freelance artist to co-assassin to dog groomer. She is currently unemployed., receiving a regular sum of cash for herself and her son from Victor Creed (Sabretooth). Chey has no qualms about hitting the man up for money either, and she often does, as he's rolling in it.
Legal Status: Cheyenne has been fortunate - most of her crimes have gone either unnoticed or uncaught, including the hit jobs she's side kicked with Sabretooth. She does, however, have a criminal record due to her actions with team Nexus. Her charges have included inciting a riot, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery care of a few random bar fights.
Identity: Kayo's identity is known by the authorities as well as, to a minor degree, by the media and general public, due to her association with Nexus.

Aliases: None.
Place of birth: The Central American Coercion compound.
Age: 23.
Marital Status: Unmarried, and currently involved with her long time on-again-off-again mate, mentor and thorn in her side Victor Creed, Sabretooth.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual. Kayo's attracted mainly to Feral men, and finds average human men spastically laughable.
Known Relatives: Remy LeBeau, Gambit (father). Alexandra DeVeaux- Tigris (mother, deceased). Marie LeBeau, Rogue (Stepmother). Jeanette LeBeau - Kismet and Cody LeBeau - Trump (half sister and brother, children of Gambit and Rogue). Jean-Luc LeBeau (grandfather). Tante Mattie (godmother) Riley Creed (Kayo and Sabretooth's son).
Group Affiliation: Nexus.
Base of Operations: The WolfsBaren Tavern- New York City, Xavier's School for Higher Learning- Westchester, New York. (Temporary) and occasionally the Creed Estates in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
First Appearance: Nexus issue 1, "Family Ties and Inevitable Uncertainties".
Origin: Kayo's entire origin has not yet been revealed in the Next X Universe.

Height: 4'9 (human form). 5'2 (Feral form). Wolfen heights vary.
Weight: 120lbs (8 stones and 8 pounds) in human form. 135lbs (9 stones and 9 pounds) in Feral form. Wolfen weights vary.
Eyes: Black with glowing red irises.
Hair: Blood red, long and straight.
Distinguishing Marks: Feral attributes such as sharp canine teeth, black claws on her hands and feet, and pointed ears. Kayo also has various small tattoos and an array of scars down her back from near-fatal knife-inflicted wounds she acquired as a child.
Strength Level: Kayo possesses the normal strength of a human her age who engages in intense regular exercise.
Known Superhuman Powers: Kayo has Lupine Theriomorphic capabilities. She is a metamorph, able to transform herself into a wide range of canine-like creatures that may vary from a wolf pup to a vicious werebeast. Chey is NOT a ‘werewolf’, however.... her shifts are triggered mentally, having absolutely nothing to do with being regulated by the presence of a full moon. Kayo can take on six primary forms: Human, Feral, Wolfen, Crinos, Wolf, and wolf pup.
In her human form, outside of black eyes with red, glowing irises and a shocking mane of knee-length blood red hair, Cheyenne looks entirely normal. In her Feral form, her body increases in size, stamina and some appearance. Her height increases from 4'9 to around 5'2. Her senses become heightened in every respect and her agility, acuteness and stamina increase dramatically. She gains pointed ears, razor sharp canine teeth and black claws on her fingers and toes. Kayo's Feral form is her preferred state of being and will most often be seen this way. In Wolfen form, Kayo becomes a massive blood red werewolf type creature that is nearly two and a half times her natural Human form size and dexterity. The Wolfen form is capable of walking on its hind legs or on all fours. Her Crinos form is a wolfen shape that lies between her werewolf like Wolfen form and her completely average red timber wolf form. The Crinos form, in all is simply a larger more powerful form of her Wolf form. The Wolf form and Lupin Pup (wolf puppy) form appear to be normal canines, only with shocking, deep red fur.
Kayo is part of the mutant subspecies known as Ferals - she has inherited mutant characteristics of a non-primate animal species. Like all Ferals, she is afflicted with a genetic side effect known as the Blood Rage. During a fit of this Rage a combination of spiked adrenaline, seretonin and Feral pheromones causes her to spin off into an animalistic fit of berserker fury in which she is both completely out of control of her own actions and incredibly dangerous. More often then not these Blood Rage fits trigger involuntary shifts into her most dangerous canid form - a massive wolfen form reminiscent of a quadruped werewolf. As is possible for most Ferals, with the onset of intense acquired skill, it is possible to gain control over such Rages - however, it can take years to gain the posterity needed to do so. Kayo in in the midst of learning to conquer the beast within - when she manages to do so entirely, this aspect of her mutations will make her a truly lethal force to reckon with.
Besides having heightened senses, Kayo's mutation has granted her with a tolerance to physical detriment- a both nulled and delayed neurological reaction to physical injuries. She also has acquired the ability to, in her human form, dispense Pyro-kinetic blasts. Her ability to control the blasts is dangerously underdeveloped. Thus far, the blasts are triggered by heightened emotional strain, though when they are created, she is able to direct them and trigger them mentally- though they’ve lurched out of control often, causing unwarranted damage. Cheyenne cannot dispense her pyrokinetic blasts whilst in any other form accept her Human and Feral forms. Thus, despite their power, they are fairly limited in their usefulness, and if anything, are little more then a hazardous pain in the ass. Chey tries to avoid the use of the energy blasts, fearing their power and her lack of dominance over it. The blasts can be dispensed through her arms or her entire body as a whole, and are immensely powerful.
Abilities/Special Skills: Kayo has a special rapport with canines - through her own Feral instincts she can pretty much read the mannerisms that makes up the animals' speech, and can communicate with them likewise. What Kayo lacks in martial arts skills she makes up for in her ability to simply tear the life out of an opponent, claws and fangs flying. She's quick, agile, and her small stature often aids her in slinking out of trouble. Kayo also has the rather acute ability to attract the human male species, mock them, and then send them off with their tail ducked between their legs.
Weapons Used: Kayo, more often then not, prefers to fight weapons free. However, she'll sometimes utilize a spear-tipped adamantium bo staff she received from Toad as a birthday gift some 5 years ago.
Personality: Kayo is tremendously independent in her own right. She follows her heart and her instincts and rarely takes 'no' for an answer. She refuses to be bossed around or to take any flack from the many prejudice humans out there, and she remains bold and proud of who she is despite the society around her that has no qualms about dejecting her. Kayo is also highly dependant in certain areas of her life as well- she depends on the closeness of family, of friends and, often to her greatest detriment, of Sabretooth, someone she's grown quite attached to over the years, despite the man's psychocia. This presence of both highly dependent and independent aspects of Chey's personality often leaves her a mess of emotions.
Kayo relies heavily on her wolf-like Feral instincts to get her through life in an other wise very human, generically industrial world, yet another combination within her psyche that often leaves her at war with both herself and the drastic differences between her human and animalistic morals. She often feels tense and restricted around large numbers of human or mutant norms, while she feels completely at home around other Ferals, close friends or out on her own at one with nature.
Kayo is simply a complex woman - dangerous yet caring, badass but bemusing, cynical yet insightful. While she often comes off as sly and laid-back when around those she cares about most, she's more often then not troubled by inner turmoil and a lifetime of hardship and abuse.
Kayo is en route along a long-time recovery from depression due to pass trauma, and yet, manages to remain a fairly strong, determined young woman. She often finds herself fighting her in-bred hate for authority and humanity, and yet is tremendously loving and loyal to the selected few that she trusts. She’s a life-experienced character who fears what may lie ahead, but tackles everything that comes at her full-force. Cheyenne LeBeau’s life is based around the fusion of drastic contradictions, and while it make life for herself and those closest to her a challenge, she takes everything in stride.

Personal Interests: Comics, Art of any kind, Rock & Techno music, goth\punk fashion, testing her own physical endurance, pulling pranks, clubbing with the Nexus gals, and hopping in the sack with Sabretooth. Kayo has a love for and an interest in extreme sports as well, often tagging along with Inferno during his skydiving and wakeboarding escapades. She adores animals of almost any sort, including her father Gambit's rather obnoxious pet parrots, Craps and Poker. One of Kayo's greatest recent loves is her son Riley Cole, whom she adores caring for and is very protective of.
History: -