Post by Raven Darkhölme on Jul 10, 2016 4:37:00 GMT -5
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BASICS
Full Name • Raven Darkhölme
Nicknames • n/a
Alias • Mystique
Gender • Female
Age • Chronologically 39, physically in her late 20s
Face Claim • Jennifer Lawrence
Height & Weight • 5'9, 139 lbs
Sexual Orientation • Bisexual
Member Group • Marvel
Universe • X-Men, Alternate Timeline Movies
Organization • n/a
Nicknames • n/a
Alias • Mystique
Gender • Female
Age • Chronologically 39, physically in her late 20s
Face Claim • Jennifer Lawrence
Height & Weight • 5'9, 139 lbs
Sexual Orientation • Bisexual
Member Group • Marvel
Universe • X-Men, Alternate Timeline Movies
Organization • n/a
ABILITIES
Weapons • n/a
Skill Set •
Acrobatics / Martial Arts - Having trained with Azazel during her time with the Brotherhood of Mutants, Raven has notable skill in both acrobatics and martial arts, which she frequently employs alongside her shapeshifting during combat.
Acting - Through Raven is not an actress, she has learnt how to convincingly mimic the people she pretends to be and how to cover slip ups when she can't. Despite this, much of what she does when shifting is guesswork and she isn't perfect at it.
Multilingual - Fluent in English, German, French, Vietnamese, and Spanish.
Abilities & Powers •
Shapeshifting - Raven possesses the ability to manipulate her body mass at will, allowing her to take on the appearance of anyone she wishes. This includes height, weight, facial features, sex, voice, and other physical traits. Her transformation is made possible by a covering of scales which are visible in her natural form. Despite these abilities, Raven cannot recreate more extreme physical mutations, but she can create a mimicry of them out of flesh. (For example, Wolverine's adamantium claws -- she can make a flesh copy that look the same, but not recreate the metal.)
Low Healing Factor - Though it's not strong enough to be extremely noticeable, Raven can heal herself of minor wounds, and quicken the healing of larger ones.
Delayed Aging - Due to her shapeshifting ability and minimal healing factor, Raven is functionally near immortal. She ages at an extremely slow rate, making her physically far younger than she is chronologically. She will remain so for an indefinite period of time. The exact extent of this effect is unknown, and though she will eventually begin to grow old, it's far more likely for her to be killed by an external event before this would happen.
Superhuman Agility - Raven is far more flexible than a human due to her shifting ability. This is supplemented by her regenerative power, as if she goes too far and causes minor wounds (for example, pulled muscles) they'll heal relatively quickly.
Weaknesses •
Emotional Instability - Raven has a tendency to let her emotions cloud her judgement or cause her to act rashly and without thinking.
Power Limitations - Though Raven is a skilled shapeshifter, there is always the chance of accidentally dropping her form under extreme circumstances, nor can she keep it up indefinitely. Clothing can also limit her abilities, as she cannot shift over it and taking it off every time she needs to change shape uses up valuable time. Because of this, she prefers to simply shift a mimicry of clothes onto herself instead of actually wearing them when in a situation where her powers will likely be used.
Skill Set •
Acrobatics / Martial Arts - Having trained with Azazel during her time with the Brotherhood of Mutants, Raven has notable skill in both acrobatics and martial arts, which she frequently employs alongside her shapeshifting during combat.
Acting - Through Raven is not an actress, she has learnt how to convincingly mimic the people she pretends to be and how to cover slip ups when she can't. Despite this, much of what she does when shifting is guesswork and she isn't perfect at it.
Multilingual - Fluent in English, German, French, Vietnamese, and Spanish.
Abilities & Powers •
Shapeshifting - Raven possesses the ability to manipulate her body mass at will, allowing her to take on the appearance of anyone she wishes. This includes height, weight, facial features, sex, voice, and other physical traits. Her transformation is made possible by a covering of scales which are visible in her natural form. Despite these abilities, Raven cannot recreate more extreme physical mutations, but she can create a mimicry of them out of flesh. (For example, Wolverine's adamantium claws -- she can make a flesh copy that look the same, but not recreate the metal.)
Low Healing Factor - Though it's not strong enough to be extremely noticeable, Raven can heal herself of minor wounds, and quicken the healing of larger ones.
Delayed Aging - Due to her shapeshifting ability and minimal healing factor, Raven is functionally near immortal. She ages at an extremely slow rate, making her physically far younger than she is chronologically. She will remain so for an indefinite period of time. The exact extent of this effect is unknown, and though she will eventually begin to grow old, it's far more likely for her to be killed by an external event before this would happen.
Superhuman Agility - Raven is far more flexible than a human due to her shifting ability. This is supplemented by her regenerative power, as if she goes too far and causes minor wounds (for example, pulled muscles) they'll heal relatively quickly.
Weaknesses •
Emotional Instability - Raven has a tendency to let her emotions cloud her judgement or cause her to act rashly and without thinking.
Power Limitations - Though Raven is a skilled shapeshifter, there is always the chance of accidentally dropping her form under extreme circumstances, nor can she keep it up indefinitely. Clothing can also limit her abilities, as she cannot shift over it and taking it off every time she needs to change shape uses up valuable time. Because of this, she prefers to simply shift a mimicry of clothes onto herself instead of actually wearing them when in a situation where her powers will likely be used.
PERSONALITY
Likes •
Family, freedom, being able to protect those she cares about, feeling like she's making a difference.
Dislikes •
Telepaths getting in her head, most humans, being told how she should act or think, having opinions forced on her. Anything that embodies the idea of being controlled, really.
Dreams •
Freedom for all mutants and a world where they would never have to live in fear again.
Fears •
The enslavement of the mutant race and its subsequent extinction, along with being unable to protect those she cares about.
Overall Personality •
Raven is a very headstrong woman by nature, valuing her own opinions and beliefs, along with her freedoms, more than almost anything. She's been given a lot of very conflicting, strongly delivered messages in her life, and eventually learnt that the only person who's judgement she could trust is herself. When she takes up with a cause, she's either entirely for or entirely against something.
Devoted to her beliefs and morals, Raven has built herself around the fight for mutant freedom. As she has little desire to lead, despite the ability to, nor is she a true follower, she prefers to work as a lone agent, whether within a larger organization or not.
Despite this, she cares greatly for her friends and adoptive family, knowing well what it's like to be without any. She takes rejections and betrayals hard, the exception being if one of these people tries to tell her how to live her life, which causes her to recoil quickly.
Having lived quite a hard life, even for a mutant, Raven has developed an aggressive, hardened demeanor. She can even come across as heartless, though the opposite is true -- she simply knows that to protect what she loves, she has to take the hits for it and do what has to be done. She wants to be happy, but she can't be until the injustices done to mutants have ended.
Raven is prepared for a war, and she is done loosing.
Family, freedom, being able to protect those she cares about, feeling like she's making a difference.
Dislikes •
Telepaths getting in her head, most humans, being told how she should act or think, having opinions forced on her. Anything that embodies the idea of being controlled, really.
Dreams •
Freedom for all mutants and a world where they would never have to live in fear again.
Fears •
The enslavement of the mutant race and its subsequent extinction, along with being unable to protect those she cares about.
Overall Personality •
Raven is a very headstrong woman by nature, valuing her own opinions and beliefs, along with her freedoms, more than almost anything. She's been given a lot of very conflicting, strongly delivered messages in her life, and eventually learnt that the only person who's judgement she could trust is herself. When she takes up with a cause, she's either entirely for or entirely against something.
Devoted to her beliefs and morals, Raven has built herself around the fight for mutant freedom. As she has little desire to lead, despite the ability to, nor is she a true follower, she prefers to work as a lone agent, whether within a larger organization or not.
Despite this, she cares greatly for her friends and adoptive family, knowing well what it's like to be without any. She takes rejections and betrayals hard, the exception being if one of these people tries to tell her how to live her life, which causes her to recoil quickly.
Having lived quite a hard life, even for a mutant, Raven has developed an aggressive, hardened demeanor. She can even come across as heartless, though the opposite is true -- she simply knows that to protect what she loves, she has to take the hits for it and do what has to be done. She wants to be happy, but she can't be until the injustices done to mutants have ended.
Raven is prepared for a war, and she is done loosing.
HISTORY
Family •
Forgotten / Unknown - Birth Parents
Xavier Family - Legal / Adoptive Family
Charles Xavier - Adoptive Brother
Kurt Wagner - Son (Unknown)
Raven's early childhood was not a pretty one. Though mutant powers don't often manifest before puberty, Raven's physical differences were obvious from the beginning -- imagine her parents' surprise when she born blue and scaly way back in 1934. Being born long before mutants came into the public view, she was an oddity -- an abomination, even -- in the eyes of her parents and nearly everyone else she came into contact with.
Much of her early childhood was spent hiding indoors, afraid to go outside for fear of what would be done to her. The one time she did leave -- only to the park on the streetcorner -- she was nearly mobbed. Staying in her house was no better, though, as her parents were convinced she was a monster and subjected her to frequent verbal abuse when they weren't pretending she didn't exist.
At the age of 9, Raven discovered something horrible: not only was she covered in scales, those scales could move. Frightened that her mutation was getting worse, she hid in the basement for nearly a week, surviving off the canned goods that were stored there and sneaking out only when she knew both of her parents were away. She knew after awhile though, even parents as terrible as hers would notice their daughter missing. So Raven planned an escape, stealing some money and food from the house, and, when her parents left for the night, she ran.
Unfortunately, Raven was only 9, and where she ran wasn't ideal: the park on the streetcorner. Despite her previous experience there, it was night, she figured she'd be alone and hidden, and it was the only place she has any familiarity with outside her own house. After she arrived and set up camp (which entailed curling up under a platform and pretending she knew what she was doing) it was only about an hour until a couple of well-meaning police officers came by on a call about a small child in the park.
When Raven saw the police approaching, she panicked, and in that moment wished so much to be a normal little girl that she triggered her shifting and changed her skin from blue to peach. She had little time to figure out what had happened before the police pulled her out and dragged her off towards their car, asking her where she lived. Raven refused to answer and started shrieking. A few people -- her parents among them -- came outside to see what was going on.
Raven's parents quickly claimed her from the police, as she hadn't thought to change her facial features as well. Both alarmed and relieved by her appearance, they commanded her to tell them how she'd become normal, and why she'd put them through so much by not doing so earlier. Raven, scared, shifted back to her natural form.
That was the night her parents tried to kill her.
It wasn't like they planned it, but nonetheless -- when Raven shifted back, her father grabbed a kitchen knife and, in a panic, stabbed her in the side, cursing her for being a demon. Before he had time to do anything more, though, Raven was gone.
She was running that night, and she was never coming back. Raven flew past the playground, as fast as a wounded 9 year old girl could, and kept going until she collapsed. Then she willed herself to repeat what she'd done earlier, and she did. Raven, now a small blonde girl, limped up to the nearest house and begged at the door for them to help her.
And they did, patched her up and drove her to the police station and then to the hospital as they would for any lost human child. When she ran from there a week later after accidentally dropping her shift, she simply took a new form and a new name and set out on her own.
Rinse and repeat: a lost human girl, a thief, their child's new friend at the park. Raven became everything but herself.
Forgotten / Unknown - Birth Parents
Xavier Family - Legal / Adoptive Family
Charles Xavier - Adoptive Brother
Kurt Wagner - Son (Unknown)
Raven's early childhood was not a pretty one. Though mutant powers don't often manifest before puberty, Raven's physical differences were obvious from the beginning -- imagine her parents' surprise when she born blue and scaly way back in 1934. Being born long before mutants came into the public view, she was an oddity -- an abomination, even -- in the eyes of her parents and nearly everyone else she came into contact with.
Much of her early childhood was spent hiding indoors, afraid to go outside for fear of what would be done to her. The one time she did leave -- only to the park on the streetcorner -- she was nearly mobbed. Staying in her house was no better, though, as her parents were convinced she was a monster and subjected her to frequent verbal abuse when they weren't pretending she didn't exist.
At the age of 9, Raven discovered something horrible: not only was she covered in scales, those scales could move. Frightened that her mutation was getting worse, she hid in the basement for nearly a week, surviving off the canned goods that were stored there and sneaking out only when she knew both of her parents were away. She knew after awhile though, even parents as terrible as hers would notice their daughter missing. So Raven planned an escape, stealing some money and food from the house, and, when her parents left for the night, she ran.
Unfortunately, Raven was only 9, and where she ran wasn't ideal: the park on the streetcorner. Despite her previous experience there, it was night, she figured she'd be alone and hidden, and it was the only place she has any familiarity with outside her own house. After she arrived and set up camp (which entailed curling up under a platform and pretending she knew what she was doing) it was only about an hour until a couple of well-meaning police officers came by on a call about a small child in the park.
When Raven saw the police approaching, she panicked, and in that moment wished so much to be a normal little girl that she triggered her shifting and changed her skin from blue to peach. She had little time to figure out what had happened before the police pulled her out and dragged her off towards their car, asking her where she lived. Raven refused to answer and started shrieking. A few people -- her parents among them -- came outside to see what was going on.
Raven's parents quickly claimed her from the police, as she hadn't thought to change her facial features as well. Both alarmed and relieved by her appearance, they commanded her to tell them how she'd become normal, and why she'd put them through so much by not doing so earlier. Raven, scared, shifted back to her natural form.
That was the night her parents tried to kill her.
It wasn't like they planned it, but nonetheless -- when Raven shifted back, her father grabbed a kitchen knife and, in a panic, stabbed her in the side, cursing her for being a demon. Before he had time to do anything more, though, Raven was gone.
She was running that night, and she was never coming back. Raven flew past the playground, as fast as a wounded 9 year old girl could, and kept going until she collapsed. Then she willed herself to repeat what she'd done earlier, and she did. Raven, now a small blonde girl, limped up to the nearest house and begged at the door for them to help her.
And they did, patched her up and drove her to the police station and then to the hospital as they would for any lost human child. When she ran from there a week later after accidentally dropping her shift, she simply took a new form and a new name and set out on her own.
Rinse and repeat: a lost human girl, a thief, their child's new friend at the park. Raven became everything but herself.
In 1944, at the age of 11, Raven slipped into a mansion and set to work thieving through their kitchen. When a boy, about her own age, came into the kitchen, she became his mother. When the boy saw through it, when he saw what she was and told her she wasn't alone, she became herself again -- Raven, blue and scaled.
The boy, Charles Xavier, told her she could stay for as long as she wished, and she did. Though she was eventually adopted into the family (via Charles' mind tricks) her new mother never really loved her, but that was okay. She never really loved anyone, and there was food and toys and a childhood, however brief.
After a few painful years of playing catch-up at school and living in the mansion, Raven had more or less come out of it all okay. She accompanied Charles at Oxford, and although she never did get into collage herself, got a job in town waitressing, and everything was fine. She was, as far as the world was concerned, an unsuspecting human woman, and her biggest problems became the issue of why she couldn't walk around blue, and Charles treating her like she was younger than she was.
That was until the government recruited them for a mutant task force, anyway. Raven, after following Charles to the CIA building, displayed her ability to the board to prove the existence of mutants. Comforted by this, the board went ahead with forming a mutant division to counter the threat of Sebastian Shaw. They later discovered another mutant by the name of Erik Lehnsherr during an attempt to capture Shaw, confirming what Charles had told her about them not being alone in their uniqueness.
Returning to the CIA compound, Raven met a young scientist, Hank McCoy, who she later discovered to be a mutant with a similarly physical mutation. Drawn to each other perhaps because of their similar differences and desire to be normal, they were instantly smitten, and Hank made her a proposition: to use her blood and DNA to complete a serum he was developing that would allow them a normal appearance, while still retaining their powers.
After Charles left with Erik to recruit more mutants to the newly formed Division X, Raven was left alongside the rest of the recruits to stay on the compound. During this time, they came up with the idea of "secret names" for the division, Raven deciding her own to be Mystique.
Shortly after, the compound was attacked by Shaw and his followers, Azazel and Riptide. Many government workers were killed along with Darwin, one of Division X's members, and Angel, another recruit, left to join Shaw.
Afterwords, Raven returned to her childhood home at the mansion, where the mutants had decided to train. Raven still spent most of her time looking human, and was beginning to become uncomfortable with her natural form. Worried by this, she found validation from Erik, and following such refused Hank's serum to normalize her appearance. Hank took the serum anyway, but it failed and caused him to look even more mutated. Raven declared it a success aside from the fact.
The team set out to confront Shaw, ending in a battle to end the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which Magneto killed him. The humans, in response, set their missiles on the mutants, and in the panic Magneto accidentally shot Charles, causing a rift between the mutants who believed peace could be achieved and those who wished for more drastic measures. Raven, despite her worry for her surrogate brother, sided with the later, joining the Brotherhood of Mutants.
During the early days of the Brotherhood, much of Raven's -- now Mystique's -- time was spent training and honing her powers. Finding herself suddenly in an environment where mutants weren't considered even just equal to humans, but superior, Mystique's abilities flourished, as she no longer had any subconscious restraints on them.
She began to train in combat alongside Azazel, who she found especially fascinating as he was the most mutant mutant she'd encountered aside from herself. They grew close, eventually entering a relationship, and after some time Mystique became pregnant with his son.
Before the baby was born, though, the Brotherhood hatched a plan that would station several of it's inner members around the President, as Magneto wanted him protected. In 1973, the scheme was put into motion -- Mystique sidelined as she was late into her pregnancy. Though she protested, it turned out to be the thing that saved her: Magneto was taken into custody, charged with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and all members of the Brotherhood present vanished, including Azazel.
Mystique, now on her own, was forced to abandon her son, who had been born just as mutated as both herself and Azazel. Still, she had no real means to protect him, and she was on a mission: liberate as many mutants as possible, and kill the man behind her teammates' murders.
In her travels -- which took her as far as Vietnam and back -- Mystique discovered that man was Bolivar Trask of Trask Industries, and after sneaking into Trask Industries by disguising as him, she discovered files documenting experiments performed on mutants, including Azazel and other members of the Brotherhood. Furious and saddened, Mystique vowed to kill him.
She gained access to an early demonstration of Trask's X-Gene Detector by pretending to be a Vietnamese General, and after knocking everyone present but Trask out, pulled a gun on him.
Before she had a chance to pull the trigger, though, she was interrupted by Charles, Magneto, Logan and Hank. Trask tased Mystique, but Erik turned it back onto Trask and then attempted to shoot Mystique for being a danger to the mutant race. She yelled for Charles to freeze him, but his powers were suppressed, resulting in Mystique trying to escape by jumping out the window.
Magneto managed to shoot her in the leg regardless, and attempted to pull her back in with the bullet. Mystique fought back, and after a confrontation on the plaza outside, escaped and limped off into the crowd.
Mystique headed towards the hospital, her leg severely wounded from having the bullet pulled through it. Disoriented from the ordeal and confused by the sudden reappearance -- and betrayal -- of her former friends, she made the mistake of letting her guard down and stopped in an alleyway for just a minute.
Unfortunately, as if she hadn't had enough hardship in her life, she managed to pick the one alleyway that happened to lead into another dimension. At least, that's how she's explained it -- she went in, in the beginnings of a mutant war, and came out in the middle of another.
Well. She was prepared for a fight, anyway.
The boy, Charles Xavier, told her she could stay for as long as she wished, and she did. Though she was eventually adopted into the family (via Charles' mind tricks) her new mother never really loved her, but that was okay. She never really loved anyone, and there was food and toys and a childhood, however brief.
After a few painful years of playing catch-up at school and living in the mansion, Raven had more or less come out of it all okay. She accompanied Charles at Oxford, and although she never did get into collage herself, got a job in town waitressing, and everything was fine. She was, as far as the world was concerned, an unsuspecting human woman, and her biggest problems became the issue of why she couldn't walk around blue, and Charles treating her like she was younger than she was.
That was until the government recruited them for a mutant task force, anyway. Raven, after following Charles to the CIA building, displayed her ability to the board to prove the existence of mutants. Comforted by this, the board went ahead with forming a mutant division to counter the threat of Sebastian Shaw. They later discovered another mutant by the name of Erik Lehnsherr during an attempt to capture Shaw, confirming what Charles had told her about them not being alone in their uniqueness.
Returning to the CIA compound, Raven met a young scientist, Hank McCoy, who she later discovered to be a mutant with a similarly physical mutation. Drawn to each other perhaps because of their similar differences and desire to be normal, they were instantly smitten, and Hank made her a proposition: to use her blood and DNA to complete a serum he was developing that would allow them a normal appearance, while still retaining their powers.
After Charles left with Erik to recruit more mutants to the newly formed Division X, Raven was left alongside the rest of the recruits to stay on the compound. During this time, they came up with the idea of "secret names" for the division, Raven deciding her own to be Mystique.
Shortly after, the compound was attacked by Shaw and his followers, Azazel and Riptide. Many government workers were killed along with Darwin, one of Division X's members, and Angel, another recruit, left to join Shaw.
Afterwords, Raven returned to her childhood home at the mansion, where the mutants had decided to train. Raven still spent most of her time looking human, and was beginning to become uncomfortable with her natural form. Worried by this, she found validation from Erik, and following such refused Hank's serum to normalize her appearance. Hank took the serum anyway, but it failed and caused him to look even more mutated. Raven declared it a success aside from the fact.
The team set out to confront Shaw, ending in a battle to end the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which Magneto killed him. The humans, in response, set their missiles on the mutants, and in the panic Magneto accidentally shot Charles, causing a rift between the mutants who believed peace could be achieved and those who wished for more drastic measures. Raven, despite her worry for her surrogate brother, sided with the later, joining the Brotherhood of Mutants.
During the early days of the Brotherhood, much of Raven's -- now Mystique's -- time was spent training and honing her powers. Finding herself suddenly in an environment where mutants weren't considered even just equal to humans, but superior, Mystique's abilities flourished, as she no longer had any subconscious restraints on them.
She began to train in combat alongside Azazel, who she found especially fascinating as he was the most mutant mutant she'd encountered aside from herself. They grew close, eventually entering a relationship, and after some time Mystique became pregnant with his son.
Before the baby was born, though, the Brotherhood hatched a plan that would station several of it's inner members around the President, as Magneto wanted him protected. In 1973, the scheme was put into motion -- Mystique sidelined as she was late into her pregnancy. Though she protested, it turned out to be the thing that saved her: Magneto was taken into custody, charged with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and all members of the Brotherhood present vanished, including Azazel.
Mystique, now on her own, was forced to abandon her son, who had been born just as mutated as both herself and Azazel. Still, she had no real means to protect him, and she was on a mission: liberate as many mutants as possible, and kill the man behind her teammates' murders.
In her travels -- which took her as far as Vietnam and back -- Mystique discovered that man was Bolivar Trask of Trask Industries, and after sneaking into Trask Industries by disguising as him, she discovered files documenting experiments performed on mutants, including Azazel and other members of the Brotherhood. Furious and saddened, Mystique vowed to kill him.
She gained access to an early demonstration of Trask's X-Gene Detector by pretending to be a Vietnamese General, and after knocking everyone present but Trask out, pulled a gun on him.
Before she had a chance to pull the trigger, though, she was interrupted by Charles, Magneto, Logan and Hank. Trask tased Mystique, but Erik turned it back onto Trask and then attempted to shoot Mystique for being a danger to the mutant race. She yelled for Charles to freeze him, but his powers were suppressed, resulting in Mystique trying to escape by jumping out the window.
Magneto managed to shoot her in the leg regardless, and attempted to pull her back in with the bullet. Mystique fought back, and after a confrontation on the plaza outside, escaped and limped off into the crowd.
Mystique headed towards the hospital, her leg severely wounded from having the bullet pulled through it. Disoriented from the ordeal and confused by the sudden reappearance -- and betrayal -- of her former friends, she made the mistake of letting her guard down and stopped in an alleyway for just a minute.
Unfortunately, as if she hadn't had enough hardship in her life, she managed to pick the one alleyway that happened to lead into another dimension. At least, that's how she's explained it -- she went in, in the beginnings of a mutant war, and came out in the middle of another.
Well. She was prepared for a fight, anyway.
Raven Darkhölme
MYSTIQUE | 39 | MARVEL
MYSTIQUE | 39 | MARVEL
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