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BASICS

NAME

Illyana Nikolievna Rasputina

CODENAME

Magik

NICKNAMES

Yana

AGE & DOB

26 / 1 April 1975

PRONOUNS

She/her

AFFILIATION

Acolytes
Blue Team
Ruler of Limbo

HOMETOWN

Ust-Ordynski, USSR

MARK

On her back

POWERS

SORCERY

Magik is the Sorceress Supreme of Limbo. In that dimension and with access to the library of arcane texts she inherited from her predecessor, kidnapper and mentor Belasco, she is capable of many great magical feats. However, her control over the demons of Limbo is currently tenuous, and so excursions into the dimension to retrieve magical texts, artifacts, or components are risky.

She is also a sorceress of considerable talent in the prime dimension, albeit a young, green, and headstrong one.

• Energy Manipulation: She can hurl bolts of magical energy for combat purposes. This is functionally Eldritch Blast.
• Summoning: She can summon demons and beasts from the Limbo dimension, as well as some magical artifacts such as her soulsword and demon armor.
• Exorcism, etc: Spooky magic is Illyana's wheelhouse, and expelling foreign entities, banishing demonic creatures, and cleansing the energies of haunted locations are all intuitive for her.
• Matter Manipulation: Illyana is capable of minor transfiguration, alchemy, enchantment, and other such magics in the prime dimension. She uses this, for example, to alter her clothes and enchant them to always remain clean.
• Spatial Manipulation: Perhaps due to her mutant talent of teleportation, Illyana is naturally skilled at the complex magical theory required to alter spaces and structures to violate the laws of physics. She has made her room at the mansion larger on the inside.
• Wards: She is capable of constructing elaborate ward spells with various effects. This covers a broad range of sub-magics, but is typically protective and good-aligned in nature, with the intention of deterring evil-aligned entities.

TELEPORTATION

Magik's mutant power allows her to create portals which she calls stepping discs. These portals enable her to travel great distances instantaneously. She is currently capable of teleporting anywhere on Earth, and as far as Asteroid M, where she once lived. These portals use the Limbo dimension as a midway point.

Illyana is theoretically capable of traveling through time as well as space, but has never done this intentionally.

SOULSWORD

Magik forged this possessed sword from a piece of her soul when she was fifteen years old.

Magic Weapon: The soulsword can strike supernatural creatures which would otherwise resist blows from physical weapons. It can cut the intangible, and is capable of dealing damage to astral projections, ghosts, etc.

Sigil Drawing: Illyana can use the soulsword to draw complex magical sigils she would not be capable of accomplishing on her own.

Spell Disruption: The sword can break spellwork by striking an enchanted object, ward, or other physical object affected by magic.

Right of Rulership: Whoever wields the soulsword rules Limbo, and only the ruler of Limbo can wield the sword. It augments the magical power of whoever wields it with the magical force of Limbo.

DEMONFORM

When under extreme duress, Illyana can become possessed by her own inner demonic nature. In rare instances, she has completely lost control and transformed entirely into a bat-winged goat-legged demonic entity she refers to as the Darkchylde. This has not happened since she left Limbo, so she thinks it's probably fine.

Psionic Shielding: Illyana's mind is protected by powerful psionic shields, which she learned to use intuitively as a child in Limbo with the magical power of her partially demonic soul. She is not in good control of this; she just does it innately.

SKILLS

AMBIDEXTROUS

Naturally left-handed but trained ambidextrous, Illyana can do most everything with her right hand as well as her left, including swordfighting, spellcasting, and writing.

MULTILINGUAL

Illyana speaks English and Russian fluently and can read demonic script.

COMBAT

Magik is a master of physical combat, most excelling in swordfighting as well as hand-to-hand combat and acrobatics.

APPEARANCE

HAIR blonde EYES blue HEIGHT 5'5"

Illyana is a svelte, pretty-faced blonde woman with a devil-may-care attitude. She carries herself with an imperious aloofness. She wears her hair long and usually down, and cuts it herself, oftentimes with blunt bangs. Smudgy days-old eyeliner, sparkly eyeshadows, dark nail polish, and black lipstick are in her cosmetics rotation.

Illyana wears almost exclusively black and has a sort of goth-punk fashion sensibility. She alters her clothing magically rather than buying new wardrobe pieces, and changes her outfit very infrequently, although it never becomes dirty or worn. Current outfit details here.

Her soulsword changes adaptively with her mental landscape. It began as a delicate silver rapier, but has come to resemble a knight's hand-and-a-half sword forged of burnished metal. The blade looks molten, or flaming, and can range in shade from deep orange to bright white-blue. The demon armor it manifests around her is a complementary burnished black metal.

Her stepping discs tend to cast the hellish red glow of the Limbo dimension, and can't be looked through. If you keep your eyes open as you go through them, you can sometimes catch glimpses of the Limbo dimension around you. Going through her portals feels a little like someone is pushing or pulling you, but is otherwise instantaneous. The psychically sensitive may catch the demonic aura of Limbo as they pass through.

Illyana speaks with a broad Russian accent.

REFS: Soulsword, Demon Armor, Wardrobe

PERSONALITY

Having spent the majority of her adolescent years as a captive or fugitive in Limbo, Illyana prizes more than anything her own freedom and independence. She has very few close bonds and does not enjoy having obligations to other people. Though she is fundamentally a lone wolf and always out for herself first and foremost, she also loathes those who seek to disenfranchise and subjugate other people, which ultimately led her to fall in line with Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants.

She also readily seeks novel experiences and enjoys expanding her horizons. Going new places, trying new things, and especially having prototypical "normal" experiences of which she was deprived in her hellish upbringing are particular pleasures of hers. Her flighty, aloof demeanor and determination to have fun may read as childish, but she is actually quite worldly.

Illyana is even-tempered and not prone to losing control of her own emotions. At emotional rest, she is most often angry or fearful, but shows little of this outwardly. Her outward confidence is very fake-it-til-you-make-it, but for the most part she is secure in her own abilities. Still, she is in many ways emotionally stunted by her upbringing and the severe neglect she faced in Limbo, and is governed more by her emotions than she would care to admit.

Her teammates amongst the Acolytes know that while Illyana is not unscrupulous, she is also not reliable. Plans made with her must be considered tentative, and money and possessions should not be loaned to her unless you're comfortable not getting them back. That being said, she is a loyal ally who will go out of her way to help someone if they're truly in need; she just doesn't ever have her wallet when it's time to pay the dinner bill.

Despite her preference to have few close interpersonal relationships, she's quite extroverted, and enjoys meeting people and learning about them. She has a friendly, teasing communication style, although she can also be tone-deaf and blunt at times. She says what's on her mind, for better or worse, and is not prone to actively lying (although she does oftentimes overestimate her own abilities).

HISTORY

FAMILY

Nikolai & Alexandra Rasputin, parents. In their 80s. They still reside in Ust-Ordynski.
Mikhail Rasputin, brother, cosmonaut. Presumed deceased.
Piotr Rasputin, elder(ish) brother, mutant. Recently reunited.
Grigori Rasputin, paternal ancestor. Presumed deceased.

Illyana was born in the quiet farming community of Ust-Ordynski in 1975, the youngest of her family by a wide margin. She was a social and beloved child, and spent her days flitting around the village, communally raised by the farming families there. She spent the most time of all with her next-oldest brother, Piotr, pursuing their shared interests of art and music.

When Piotr was about thirteen, he began manifesting his mutant abilities. The Rasputins were seen as occult figures amongst their neighbors, being descendant of the Romanoffs' mystic advisor (and, unbeknownst to them, a family comprised largely of powerful mutants). Piotr's enhanced strength and durability made him an asset to the farming community, and combined with his gentle nature, it was a secret kept by everyone in the village in equal measure.

From the time she was very young, her eldest brother Mikhail was away from home to live in Moscow and train as a cosmonaut, and she never knew him very well. When she was eight years old, Mikhail was assigned to a manned spaceflight mission. His craft catastrophically failed in orbit, and the entire crew was lost.

The next year, Illyana disappeared from her bedroom overnight. Everyone in town searched for her for weeks, but never found so much as a hair of her. The people of Ust-Ordynski would not know what had become of her until she eventually returned in 2019, merely ten years older than she had been when she vanished.

After Illyana disappeared from Ust-Ordynski, rumors of strange and evil occurrences in the town began to circulate. To Illyana's understanding, her brother Piotr was discovered as a mutant during the years following her disappearance and taken into the custody of the KGB. Since she has returned from Limbo, she has been unable to locate him.

In her absence, Ust-Ordynski became notorious for experiencing strange occurrences such as possessions and hauntings. Illyana now considers the town to be under her protection. She has achieved cryptid/patron saint status in the village, remembered only by its eldest residents but known to all of them. She's placed wards on the town which alert her if any mutants or magic users enter its borders.

TIMELINE

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MARCH 1985 - AGE 9

Illyana is abducted from her childhood bedroom by the demon-king Belasco, who takes her to Limbo. She is taken under his wing as his apprentice and successor, and kept as a prisoner in his palace.

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LIMBO - AGES 10 to 14

Illyana is kept in extreme isolation by Belasco, who teaches her sorcery and little else.

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LIMBO - AGE 15

Illyana forges the Soulsword from a fragment of her own soul. She ousts Belasco from his own palace, where she reigns a tenuous year as the child-queen of Limbo.

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LIMBO - AGES 16 to 19

On her sixteenth birthday, Illyana's Soulsword is stolen from her by an inter-dimensional interloper. She is forced to go into hiding in Limbo and lives by her wits until she is able to reclaim her sword and escape back to Earth 367.

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2019 - AGE 19

Illyana falls in with Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants immediately upon returning to Earth 367. She aids in Magneto's attempted assassination of Senator Kelly and fights the X-Men in Washington DC.

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2020 - AGE 20

Illyana resides on Asteroid M with the Brotherhood of Mutants for the next few years, though she occasionally strikes off on her own to have other adventures around the world.

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2023 - AGE 23

After spending a long period of time on her own in South America, when Magneto moves the Acolytes to Genosha, Illyana settles down there for a time.

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2025 - AGE 25

Illyana is marked by Ambrose as an extradimensional anomaly.

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