Origin

Stacy Palumbo's parents died before the age of ten. Her uncle, Barry, would adopt her an raise her. Barry was a real estate mogul that had some rather seedy dealings. It was through Barry that young Stacy met Argent the Wolf. Barry had contacted Argent claiming to be able to set up the masked criminal known as Grendel. Stacy walked in on their meeting and, despite Argent's terrible form, was smitten with the great Wolf. Stacy and Argent's relationship would continue to blossom over time. Argent would make regular trips to the Palumbo's estate to visit and play with Stacy.

It was also through Barry that Stacy had met Hunter Rose, who she was also quite fond of. Stacy considered both Rose and Argent family members, referring to both of them as "Uncle". Rose, who was secretly the masked crime lord Grednel, poisoned Barry at a party, most likely knowing that Barry was planning to double cross him. What he did not plan for was Stacy first finding the body. When Stacy first found her Uncle's body she screamed. When Rose got to her she was in a state of shock. Rose cared for Stacy, and had to do something to help her. With Stacy unconscious he changed into Grendel and attempted to leave the estate with her. In the Palumbo's gardens he was met by Argent the Wolf, who was coming after Barry himself because Barry had ordered a botched attempt on Argent's life. Seeing Grendel kidnapping Stacy enraged Argent and the two did battle.

While Argent and Grendel were fighting, Stacy was grabbed by a local pedophile who happened across her body. He ran back to his apartment with her. When Grendel finished the fight and caught up with the man he quickly ended his life, and brought Stacy back to the party. He left her sleeping in the gardens where she would be found unharmed.

Hunter Rose applied for custody of Stacy, and adopted her. Her relationship with Argent was not terminated at this point. Rose and Argent had become bitter enemies, and Rose wanted to keep the Wolf close to him. Argent would visit Stacy regularly, particularly when Rose was out of the house. Rose would occasionally interrupt these visits to drop subtle hints about their upcoming social engagements in order to ensure that Argent would also attend.

At one such engagement, Rose had maneuvered Argent in a way that he would be publicly humiliated in front of the media as well as Stacy. Argent attacked what he thought was Grendel, and fell through a skylight, plummeting multiple stories. Stacy was never able to get over this image, and her relationship with Argent wained and then disappeared. Rose tried to keep Stacy engaged, teaching her chess and strategy, but she would go through depression without Argent.

Rose continued to conduct his Grendel affairs at home, mostly after he had put Stacy to bed. One evening when he and Larry Stohler were enacting a plan to take over crime across the entire seaboard, Stacy would overhear Rose as Grendel. The name didn't mean much at the time, but she knew when she heard him speak as Grendel that he was a different person, the softness in his voice replaced with a colder, darker tone.

Later, after doing her own research, Stacy would begin to realize what Grendel truly was. She followed Rose's actions more carefully, and eventually learned where his safe was located. After much study and work she located a device that would help her crack his safe, providing her access to the darkest corners or Rose's life. It was her in Rose's journals that she would come to realize that it was her "uncle Rose" that had murdered her father. This left Stacy in a state of depression yet again, something that Rose assumed was still due to the loss of Argent. He hired a nanny to watch after Stacy, but she wanted to remain close to Rose. While they were out for a stroll one day Stacy pushed her nanny off a pier. The nanny could not swim and drowned.

Stacy used her access to her Uncle's notebooks to plot against him. Because, in her eyes, Argent was still something she abhorred she decided that she would use Argent as a tool of revenge in Hunter Rose's destruction. She would phone in anonymous tips to Argent at the police station. Argent, seemingly able to predict Grendel's every move, carved through Grendel's criminal empire. This caused rose to become bitter and paranoid, not understanding how Argent could seemingly predict his moves before he even made them.

Her plans came to fruition when one day, as Stacy and not the informant, she called Argent's private line screaming and crying that Grendel was kidnapping her. She gave Argent the location of one of Grendel's places of business as where Grendel had taken her. Argent massacred everyone that was there and left a note for Grendel to contact him. Grendel furiously answered the call once he relieved it, and the two decided to meet once and for all on the roof of the Masonic lodge. On that fateful evening Stacy made herself a glass of hot coco before putting herself to bed.

Rose was there waiting when Argent arrived. What happened on the rooftops remains somewhat of a mystery, however the police found Argent after the battle, badly wounded and with his spine damaged, paralyzing him. They also found the dead and unmasked body of Grendel: Hunter Rose.

Argent went into seclusion. The police knew that something was wrong with Stacy and she was institutionalized. Stacy would eventually come out of her institutionalization, and married her Therapist. What transpired then is not entirely known, but on their wedding night the doctor raped Stacy, then took his own life. Back in the institution Stacy decided that she would have the baby, and managed to cling to some semblance of sanity until it was delivered. This baby was Christine Spar, and would eventually take up the mantle of Grendel herself.

After the delivery Stacy's grip on reality began to fade. Her daughter would visit her, but Stacy would eventually die in the institution alone.