After manifesting spider-powers from a spider bite, staying hidden from totem predators, the Inheritors, and training for 10 years in the use of her powers, Cindy Moon emerges from the bunker ready for anything. She takes the codename Silk and becomes a crime-fighting Spider-hero, replete with outdated references and a flip-phone.
Korean-American teenager Cindy Moon, born to Nari and Albert Moon Sr., grows up in Manhattan, New York. She uses her photographic memory to coast through classes, preferring to play hockey and spend time with her boyfriend, Hector Cervantez, much to parents’ disappointment. While attending a science demonstration with Hector for extra credit, she gets bitten by the same irradiated spider that had also bitten fellow attendee Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man.
In the days that followed, she develops strange, spider-like powers. Similarly spider-powered billionaire Ezekiel Sims approaches her, offering to keep her safe in a bunker that would prevent her from falling prey to the vampiric Inheritors. Initially reluctant, Cindy agrees after she realizes her powers made her brother, Albert Jr., fearful of her. She stays there for 10 years, receiving combat training from Ezekiel, watching recordings of the heroic Spider-Man and learning to control her powers.
At some point, Moon’s family mysteriously disappears. Eventually, Parker learns of her existence and frees her from the vault. Initially elated by her freedom, she creates a makeshift costume and dubs herself Silk. Almost immediately, their intermingling pheromones result in the two becoming uncontrollably attracted to each other. Together, they battle Max Dillon, AKA Electro, and Felicia Hardy, AKA Black Cat, all the while trying to resist each other.
Silk continues to act as a vigilante, and designs a new costume for herself. She becomes an intern at the Fact Channel TV station to use their resources in her search for her missing family. She quickly endears herself to news director John Jonah Jameson, AKA J. Jonah Jameson, who admires her old-fashioned research methods and inside information on Silk, nicknaming her “Analog.”
Cindy can generate organic webbing from glands in her fingertips, possibly limited by her body’s health and nutrition. These organic webs have a remarkable tensile strength and can be woven into clothing. She releases her organic webbing through her fingertips. The same ability and webbing material allows her to form claw-like extrusions from her fingertips. She is extremely skilled at manipulating this webbing, and can use it to form weblines and barbed hooks.
She also has superhuman strength, lifting approximately 5 tons. Her musculature is later augmented so she can lift (press) about 8 tons. The bite also grants Cindy superhuman speed, agility, and endurance. She can cling to walls, has perfect balance and equilibrium, and a spider-sense, or Silk-Sense, which alerts her to impending danger. Since she and Parker were bit by the same spider, Cindy can sense and track him anywhere across the Multiverse.
Cindy is also a trained hand-to-hand combatant, has a photographic memory, and is a capable researcher. She’s also an expert ice skater, specifically versed in ice hockey. Several colleges recruit her to play the sport but due to her time in the bunker, she was not able to fulfill that dream.
When Cindy first becomes a vigilante hero, she fights the likes of Electro and Black Cat. One of her earliest missions involved taking down the Goblin Nation gang, who her brother Albert gets involved with. To do so, she infiltrates Black Cat’s criminal organization, where she gathers information to pass off to the intelligence and protection agency S.H.I.E.L.D.
Cindy allies with S.H.I.E.L.D. under the tutelage of scientist and spy Bobbi Morse, AKA Mockingbird. While working with them, she infiltrates Black Cat’s operations and helps her steal things to get more information on her family’s whereabouts.
When Cindy first meets Peter Parker as Spider-Man, they experience an uncontrollable attraction to each other due to pheromones. On account that they were bitten by the same spider, she can track him anywhere, including the whole Multiverse. She occasionally teams up with him and other spider-people, such as Jessica Drew, AKA Spider-Woman, who becomes her mentor, as well as Gwen Stacy of Earth-65, AKA Ghost-Spider. Cindy is a founding member of the Order of the Web.
Cindy also teams up with Jimmy Woo’s Agents of Atlas, and works with Amadeus Cho, AKA Brawn, and a host of other heroes from the Pacific Rim to battle forces during the War of the Realms.
When she eventually reunites her family, she becomes close with her brother, Albert.
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5'6''
WEIGHT
130 lbs.
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Female
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
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After Silk left the vault, the Inheritors sensed her liberation and as she was their prophesied “Bride” they needed to sacrifice in order to stave off their own destruction, they began a Multiverse-spanning hunt for spider-powered individuals. Silk and Parker were soon drawn into the conflict, and evacuated to a safe zone on Earth-4, along with dozens of other Multiversal spider-heroes. As Inheritors took a particular interest in her, she recklessly struck off on her own to avoid endangering the others, fleeing from universe to universe before reaching Earth-3145, an irradiated wasteland lethal to the Inheritors.
There, she survived by weaving an anti-radiation webbing suit, and found that Earth’s Spider-Man, the Earth-3145 counterpart of Parker’s Uncle Ben, who had survived in Ezekiel’s bunker while the rest of humanity perished. Silk summoned the other spider-heroes and joined them in taking the fight to the Inheritors’ homeworld, Earth-001. She was captured during the final assault, only to be rescued before the sacrifice was complete; meanwhile, Parker planned to strand himself on Earth-3145 to also trap Inheritor Morlun there, but Silk, able to sense Peter, saved him.
Returning to Earth-616, Silk soon realized that her grasp of modern culture was a decade out of date, and learned Hector was now engaged to another woman. She came into conflict with the Black Cat’s organization after she defeated Hardy’s superhuman operative Harris Porter, AKA Dragonclaw; however, she befriended the hapless Porter. Sensing that Cindy was troubled, Parker had the Fantastic Four set her up with a psychiatrist. Though upset with Peter for meddling, she went on a date with Parker’s friendly rival, FF member Johnny Storm, AKA Human Torch.
After the multiverse was restored, so was Cindy and her family. She allied with S.H.I.E.L.D., who arranged to get her brother therapy, and infiltrated the Black Cat’s organization. She soon became one of the Black Cat’s most trusted operatives, but even after a staged battle with her S.H.I.E.L.D. handler Mockingbird, Jameson refused to believe Silk had become a criminal, and continued to give her positive coverage on the Fact Channel. Nevertheless, Silk relished the chance to take on the Black Cat’s rival Goblin Nation gang to get revenge on them for victimizing her brother.
When the War of the Realms came to Earth, Cindy joined Jimmy Woo’s New Agents of Atlas to protect the Pacific Rim from Sindr, the Queen of Msupelheim and her minions, the Fire Goblins. She helped Brawn in South Korea liberate their captured comrade Seol Hee, AKA Luna Snow. When they went up against Sindr and her forces for the final battle, they lost their teammate Pele and the Monkey King, but she was finally defeated.
Cindy then received an offer from Mike Nguyen from Wyverns to join the protectors of the city of Pan but refused along with her Agents’ members. They discovered that Mike had intended to use a captured sea serpent’s scales to create portals. Cindy and the team tried to save the serpent but a furious Namor McKenzie, AKA Namor the Sub-Mariner, came onto the scene. Silk and the team learned that Mike recruited the Sirenas, longtime enemies of the Atlanteans. Ultimately ending up between the Atlanteans and the Sirenas, Silk decided to protect Pan. A brawl followed and after Nguyen transformed Amadeus into the Hulk with a tech implant, his out of control behavior caused shockwaves and a massive tsunami headed toward Pan. Namor and the Agents freed Amadeus from the implant and Silk helped the citizens to shelter. Amadeus and Namor worked together to save pan from the tsunami, but Mike perished while helping a Madripoorian refugee and her son. A month afterward, Atlantis and their former enemies the Sirenas signed a non-aggression pact recognizing Pan as a nation. Amadeus quit the team but informed Cindy that his comms would stay open for her.
After Cindy had a vision of Peter Parker dying, and Julia Carpenter, AKA Arachne, revealed that Spider-Man had a conflict with Stanley Carter, AKA Sin-Eater, Cindy joined the Order of the Web. She then saved Peter from Norman Osborn, AKA Green Goblin. When the Sin-Eater’s efforts abated but then she witnessed Peter sacrifice Norman to the Sin-Eater, a deal he made with Kindred to get rid of Norman, who had always plagued him. As a result, Cindy became possessed by a demon sent by Kindred. The demonic Cindy attacked the city’s innocent and battled the New Warriors. Though she was eventually freed, she was soon captured by Kindred alongside ally Dr. Stephen Strange, AKA Doctor Strange, and the Order. Mary Jane Watson then saved her and the others, liberating them.
Meanwhile, Cindy started crushing on her therapist, Max. Later, during her interview with Saya, Saya revealed that she knew Cindy’s secret identity as Silk. Cindy retreated but received an anonymous note requesting a meeting. At the rendezvous point, she discovered the sender was the notorious crime boss and spider-foe Silvio Manfredi, AKA Silvermane, who was also Saya’s father.