Character Spotlight: Silk
MARVEL SNAP’s newest initiate is the incredibly agile spider-hero — Cindy “Silk” Moon!
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Cindy Moon was born to Nari and Albert Moon Sr. in Manhattan, New York, where she grew up as a Korean-American teen coasting through her classes on her keen photographic memory. While her parents preached prioritizing her studies, Cindy preferred spending her time playing hockey and hanging out with her boyfriend, Hector Cervantez.
That is, until one day, when she attended a science demonstration for extra credit, where she was bitten by the same irradiated spider which bit fellow attendee Peter Parker. Peter Parker’s life changed forever when he was bitten by the radioactive spider — but unbeknownst to Peter for over a decade, the spider had also bitten his classmate, Cindy Moon. This one tiny bite completely shifted their lives and identities, as they discovered strange, superhuman spider-like abilities forming.
When her powers were revealed, Cindy was promptly taken from her family and handed over to Ezekiel Sims, a billionaire who had discovered certain people have powers that mystically connect them to animals. Sims held Cindy in a bunker where they honed her newfound abilities and hid her from Morlun — a member of a group called the Inheritors, who hunted down people who were also animal totems.
Cindy spends 10 years in Ezekiel’s bunker, receiving combat training and watching recordings of the heroic Spider-Man in order to better understand and control her powers. During this time, Cindy’s family mysteriously disappears and she consequently gains a much stronger motive toward crimefighting justice.
When Peter Parker learns of Cindy’s situation, he breaks her out from the vault and they instantly discover an irresistible attraction to one another due to their intermingling spidey pheromones.
With Cindy Moon back out on the streets, she adopted the vigilante superhero identity “Silk” and joined forces with Peter in battling Morlun. She also landed a job at the Fact Channel, where she used the news company’s resources to track down her parents’ whereabouts. Being locked away for so long certainly took its toll on Cindy, but her inner strength is undeniable, as is her determination to take back control of her life and fight evil as Silk.
Silk is one of the most agile heroes in the Multiverse, able to generate organic webbing from her fingertips to form weblines, barbed hooks, and even clothing. She exhibits superhuman strength, speed, endurance, and is able to cling to walls with perfect balance and equilibrium.
Silk’s ability to nimbly jump all over the place is represented in MARVEL SNAP by her effect:
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Her Spidey abilities make her a particularly potent addition to Move-based strategies. You can bounce her from location to location to buff your Kraven, or sneak her into hard-to-reach locations like Sanctum Sanctorum. If you’d like to keep her 5 Power in one place, try filling your other locations with cards to make her a simple but strong 2/5 play.
Let’s help Cindy Moon in her search for her family by honing her combat abilities and fighting off the baddies of New York together — Welcome, Silk, to MARVEL SNAP!!
