Raven "Mystique" Darkholme

[Raven "Mystique" Darkholme]

Raven Darkholme

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{drop me a line with a hook and some raw bleeding bait}

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Full Name: She has gone by the name of Raven Darkholme since the age of ten which was very many years ago.
Code Name: Mystique
Age: Unknown (Born mid-1800’s)
Date of Birth: Unknown
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Species: Mutant
Alliance: The Brotherhood
Citizenship: Marvel
Canon or Original?: Canon

"Victory is MINE Baldy!
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"

Hair: In her natural form Raven has thick, dark red hair that falls just below her shoulders.
Eyes: Naturally, Raven’s eyes are completely yellow in color.
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 120 lbs
Distinguishing Marks: As part of her mutation, she was born with blue, scaly skin that is cold to the touch.

Appearance: Raven’s natural physical appearance is the reason why she has been both feared and hated her entire life. Red hair, yellow eyes, and scaly blue skin gives her the appearance of the devil and has resulted in her being treated as such. Her shape-shifting abilities allow her to transform into any humanoid of either sex wearing any kind of clothing she wishes. She has become fond of one specific form that she has changed into over the years and aged to benefit herself at different times. The form is one of a young blonde woman who often appears between the ages of eighteen to twenty-five and is of similar height and weight as she is in her natural form. The form is often blonde though she has been experimenting with different hair colors as of late.

Face Claim: Jennifer Lawrence & Rebecca Romijn

"I’m not interested in making new friends,
I don’t even like the ones I have”

Likes: Sex, guns, shape-shifting, torture and killing, warm weather, most mutants, being feared.

Dislikes: Relationships, humans, politics, Professor Xavier, the X-men, disrespect, SHIELD.

Personality: Raven has been plagued by her constant yearning for love and acceptance. She built up defensive walls very early on in her life and those barriers have proven to stand the test of time. Regardless of how badly she craves human interaction and emotions, she simply cannot bring herself to experience them normally. This is where her loathing of humankind originates. She is an incredibly jealous creature build from solidarity. Being alone means that Raven cares for very little other than herself and her own agenda. In this aspect, she is very selfish and childish despite being over a hundred years old. She has been a mother several times but always abandons people, whether they are her children, friends, or lovers, because she finds the act of caring to be too great of an effort.<p>

She is a very skilled actress and is able to hide her true emotions behind the facade that she has created for herself. Raven is tormented by the fear and hate she has been met with by both humans and mutants alike and has learned what is considered to be normal by the ever changing standards. Although Raven Darkholme has been her name far longer than Mystique, Raven is the identity she has always assumed, not the one she has always been. Raven and Mystique are two separate entities living in one body constantly fighting for the spotlight. She has projected her hatred for herself onto anyone and everyone around her. Right now it just so happens to be the entire human race that will take the fall for the years of torture she has suffered.

"With great power comes great responsibility"

Powers: Raven can psionically shift into any humanoid of either gender wearing any type of clothing she wants. Because she can create clothing for herself, she is always naked in her natural form. Her shape-shifting is not limited to organic appearances: she can also create things like glasses, purses, and identity cards. Along with changing her physical appearance, she can also imitate another person’s retina pattern, fingerprints, and vocal cords. Along with shape-shifting, her powers also grant her age retardation, increased healing, and immunity to drugs and poisons.


Weapons She has access to an array of weaponry at the Department of Defense that she uses as needed.


Strengths/Abilities: Aside from shape-shifting, she is an expert actress, combatant, marksman, and strategist in terrorist operations. She is fluent in over ten different languages as well. She is also skilled at resisting telepathic intrusion.


Weaknesses: Though she can shift into any humanoid, she cannot assume their powers. If she is to be knocked unconscious then she will no longer be able to control her shifting and will revert back to her natural form.

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"

History:
xRaven was born to a devout Christian family in southern Alabama in the mid-eighteen hundreds. Her mother suffered from severe complications throughout labor and, when Raven finally was delivered, it was quickly evident why. She had blue, scaly skin, bright yellow eyes, and a full head of crimson hair. Though her mother died shortly after her birth, it was her father’s idea to kill the child. Members of their small Alabama town carried Raven, still sticky from her mother’s womb, to a well and left her to drown. She would have, too, if it hadn’t been for a young farmer’s wife that saved her from death. The young woman cleaned Raven up, swaddled her in cloth, and left her on the steps of the convent in the next town. The nuns raised Raven out of Christian duty but considered her a demon nonetheless. As Raven grew older her patience wore thin. All she wanted was to be loved and praised yet she was only met with hate. The nuns kept Raven locked in a small room under the chapel and only let her out to do her chores each day with required supervision. By the age of twelve Raven had discovered her ability to shift-shape and had assumed the form of a young blonde child. When the nuns found her they screamed that she was doing the devil’s work and sought to perform an exorcism. She broke free from the convent and fled Alabama, never to look back.<p>

She did what she had to in order to survive. Her goal was to head as north as possible. North meant safety, or so the books had said. All she knew was that her place was not in the south and she needed to get as far from Alabama as possible. Raven assumed the form of that same blonde child for most of her journey, often playing off the guilt of those she encountered for food or shelter. When she did shift back to her natural form, though, she was always met with terror and hostility. When others would flee at the sight of her blue, scaly skin, Raven would steal whatever she could from their homes be it money, food, or items she could easily sell. In this way she honed her thievery skills while ensuring survival. Her favorite thing to steal had no monetary value but was worth more than she could carry. The young mutant would carefully choose a book or two to take with her on her journeys. She read and read until her eyes were so heavy that she could hardly keep them open. She sought to teach herself as much as she could. She learned about cultures, language, and religions. If she could prove her intelligence, she could prove that she was <i>not</i> subhuman.<p>

Raven bounced around quite a bit over the years. She eventually made it as north as Chicago then worked her way west, committing petty crimes along the way. As she aged so did her human form; however, she didn’t seem to be aging at the . Raven still didn’t quite understand the extent of her abilities but she used it to her advantage. She began conning men, sleeping with them then robbing them blind, in order to fund her travels. It wasn’t until the nineteen-twenties that Raven met someone like her, someone with special abilities. She was captured by a group of men that had caught her in her blue form, transported to the desert in Arizona, and tied up to a stake to be shot to death. Though she was blindfolded, she heard a man next to her. After being riddled with bullets, though, the man still lived. She freed herself as the sound of chaos filled her ears and by the time she removed the blindfold, the man who had just been shot stood over the bodies of twenty or so guards. His name was Logan and he, too, was a mutant.<p>

The next mutant she met was Irene Adler, a young woman with precognitive powers that allowed her to produce near-future predictions. Many of the prophecies were terrifying and left Irene blind and haunted by the disturbing images that she couldn’t seem to figure out. Raven agreed to help Irene find out the meaning of the many prophecies and to help prevent the most disturbing of them from happening. They spent nearly twenty years together as friends and lovers before they decided that their mission was simply one they could not achieve. They were forced to travel across the world in order to stop some of the events that Irene foresaw from happening and along the way they met others like them. They had even attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler to prevent him from murdering over six million people. Raven and Irene eventually lost contact when they accepted their failures.

Knowing that she wasn’t alone in being different didn’t necessarily help Raven sleep at night. Rather, she became obsessed with finding others like herself. There was little she could do on her own as a young woman with no history. Armed with a unique set of skills, Raven made she she used them to the best of her ability. She saved up enough money from her con missions to buy herself a plane ticket to Europe and she found herself settling in Berlin. For the first time in a long while life seemed to be fair to the blue creature. She was caught stealing from a woman’s home and it was kill or be killed. The woman had put up a good fight. A blow to Raven’s head caused her to transform into her natural blue self and that’s when she was able to catch the woman off guard. It was her first kill and it felt good. There was something about watching the life drain from a person’s eyes that ignited something within her. And that’s how it all started.<p>

It wasn’t difficult to assume the woman’s physical form. She sifted around the house for information to help her pick up right where Leni Zauber left off but found very little. It wasn’t until a large blonde man knocked on Leni’s door that she had any idea what to do. The man was Victor Creed and they were working together on a mission, a mission to assassinate a scientist in East Berlin. Raven went along with everything as best she could. This included making love to Creed, apparently Zauber’s love interest, while they were in hiding after completing the mission. She felt conflicting emotions, maybe even guilt, as she lived Leni Zauber’s life for her. It wasn’t until she found out that she was pregnant that she debated leaving. The easiest way to do so was to fake her own death and she did just that. Leni Zauber perished for the second time and Raven was back to her blonde-haired facade with a baby growing inside her. She stayed in Berlin until Graydon reached adolescence. He was put up for adoption and spent most of his childhood in German boarding schools; however, Raven was never too far away. She hoped that he would show signs of mutation but, when he didn’t, she abandoned him and made her way east to Russia.<p>

But Graydon wasn’t her only son. She later married Baron Christian Wagner, an affluent German nobleman. She kept her mutation secret from her husband which turned out for the best. When Christian revealed his infertility, Raven began to sleep around. All she wanted was to give birth to a mutant, someone like her that would love her for what she was. Of the many extramarital encounters Raven had, a young man by the name of Azazel was perhaps the most promising. When she finally did become pregnant, her husband became suspicious and Raven was forced to kill him. She stabbed him to death then buried the body off a highway where no one would ever find him. Her son was born a few short months after and looked just like his mother in her own natural form. With black hair, yellow eyes, blue skin, and a pointed tail (inherited from his father, Azazel) there was no way she could deny the son as her own. Raven couldn’t have been happier with her new family until locals deemed both mother and son demons. Though she could shift into any other human being, her young son did not have that ability and she was filled with hatred. Raven abandoned her second son and fled back to the States never to speak to him again. That son was found and raised by a Gypsy sorceress and given the name Kurt Wagner.

Perhaps a small part of the woman felt guilt for leaving not one but two sons on their own in the cruel world. She had abandoned her first because he was not a mutant and her second son because he was. Raven was filled with mixed emotions: could she ever love at all? Her hatred for humankind began to swell through her as she travelled through the southern states in America just as she had done after running away from the convent so many years ago. She found a young girl alone in the woods of Mississippi and immediately Raven knew that the girl had been one of Irene’s prophecies. Raven gained the young girl’s trust and took her in as her own. The girl, Rogue, became the first being that Raven had ever truly loved and cared for. When the opportunity presented itself, Raven assumed the identity of the wife of a U.S. Senator and climbed through the ranks of the Civil Service. She eventually became the Deputy Directory of DARPA in the Department of Defense which gave her access to military secrets and weaponry. She used these for her own criminal purposes.

Raven began to organize the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants using her new sources from the Department of Defense under the name of Mystique. She trained Rogue and recruited other powerful mutants to assert mutants’ superiority over humans. After a mission in which Rogue fought Ms. Marvel, Raven watched her foster daughter struggle as she absorbed the hero’s memories and powers. When Rogue ran away to seek the help of Professor Xavier and his X-Men, Raven led an attack on the mansion that was only stopped by Rogue’s admittance to having left on her on free will. Raven begrudgingly agreed to let Rogue stay but came to resent Xavier for stealing her daughter from her. 

She has since devoted her time to continuing the strengthen the Brotherhood. She still serves as Deputy Director and is working each and every day to gain more power within the U.S. government. She loathes the human race and will not stop her war on terror until she gets Rogue back and helps mutants rise to power.

"Next time guys, we should just
rebuild this place outta Lego."

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"I'm through talking, get out of my cave,"

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