*Danielle Moonstar was born into the Cheyenne Nation in Colorado, the daughter of William and Peg Lonestar.
*Her early childhood is nothing spectacular, though the manifesation of her powers that she finds difficult to control isolate her from her community.
*As a young teen her most intense vision is the death of her parents, who go missing a short time later. She goes to live with her grandfather Black Eagle, chief and shaman of her tribe.
*Black Eagle, friend of Professor X through Danielle's father, wants to send her to Xavier's school so she can learn to control her abilities.
*Danielle gets angry and her power manifests with a vision of Black Eagle's death. Like with her parent's shortly thereafter Black Eagle is killed by members of the Hellfire Club.
*She vows to get revenge on the Hellfire Club for the death of her grandfather. With no place left to go, when Prof X shows up and she explains what happened she decides to go with him so she can get her revenge. After the Hellfire Club is dealth with she decides to follow her grandfather's wishes and attends Xavier's School.
*Danielle spends several years at the school, training. During her training she is haunted by dreams of the Demon Bear, whom she eventually encounters again. She nearly dies in the encounter but is healed by the Morlock's healer.
*Danielle has many adventures with her team mates. One of these takes her to Asgard where she rescues Brightwind a winged horse. The rescue results in her being chosen as a Valkyrie. There is a huge battle in Asgard with Hela, nordic goddess of Death. Danielle and her team mates defeat Hela but Danielle decides to stay behind in Asgard to help repair the damage that the battle with Hela has wrought.
*Asgard back to normal Danielle begins to miss Earth and her friends there and decides to leave Asgard and return to Xavier's School.
*Devoted* Once Dani begins to consider someone her friend, there is very little she won't do to help or protect that person. No matter the cost to herself. She is slow to get close to anyone, but is fiercely protective of those few people. Dani is not the type to turn away from a friend in need, ever. She would, theoretically, battle Death itself to save a friend.
*Proud* Moonstar is a proud young woman. Proud of herself, her Native American heritage, and of being a mutant. Harsh comments, or anything meant to harm either of her people are quite likely to set her off. She isn't afraid to stick up for herself and anything she is. And she's more than willing to stick up for others if they can't or are afraid to do it themselves.
*Strong-Willed* Dani doesn't quit. She won't give up on herself, her friends, or any situation, no matter how dire it might seem. She will keep fighting, trying to help, or to find a way to fix or get away from whatever the problem is.
*Defiant* Moonstar isn't some teenage punk who fights authority for no reason, other than to just be an idiot. But if she feels it necessary, Dani has no issue with resisting authority and doing something contrary to what a superior or elder told her to do.
*Confident* Her time at Xavier's has helped grow Dani's confidence in herself. She knows what she can do, with her body as well as with her mind and her mutant power. She is not the type to turn away from a challenge, certain that if she applies herself, she can find a way to overcome it.
*Responsible* If Dani is given a task, or placed in a position or role where she is responsible for something or someone, she takes it very seriously. She will look after those she's responsible for, doing her best to protect and help them with any troubles they might have.
ILLUSION CASTING: Dani's mutant power is the ability to unconsciously reach into a target's subconscious and create a full size, threatening and completely realistic illusion of that person's greatest fear, or their greatest desire. If used against multiple targets, each person will see a different image. Moonstar isn't a telepath, and she doesn't know /what/ is going to be created until she sees it herself. All but the most powerful minds will be completely fooled by the illusion and instantly believe them real. The likes of Professor Xavier and Lady Mastermind may be able to resist this ability and recognize them for what they are, illusions, but it's nigh impossible that many others could do the same.
The three-dimensional images that Moonstar causes to appear are similar to holograms, although they are created by psionic energy rather than by lasers, and can be seen by anyone in the vicinity. However, only the people Moonstar made the images for would perceive them as "real," indistinguishable from the real persons or objects they portrayed. To other people, the images are recognizable as immaterial illusions.
Dani must have eyes on a target to use her ability. Even if she's looking at someone through binoculars from a ways off, she can use it. Yet if someone is five feet away behind a wall, she can't.
If someone were to be incapacitated, or 'killed' by their illusion, they would be rendered unconscious for a short time. If one were to 'defeat' their illusion, it would dissipate. The illusions will last until Dani herself is incapacitated, releases them, or they are dissipated by another means. It's possible that a strong telepath, or something along those lines could dissipate someone else's illusion, since it is spawned from that person's mind.
Moonstar still has yet to fully master her power, and it's quite possible that with further training or age she will find new uses for it.
ANIMAL TELEPATHY: Dani is a powerful telepath. When it comes to animals, or shapeshifters in an animal-like form. She can communicate with all sorts of animals. Horses, dogs, cats, birds. Granted, communicating with animals is a little odd. She doesn't get words from them, she gets images of what they're seeing, what they're feeling, images of things they are thinking about/etc. She can tap into an animal's senses, seeing what a bird sees, smelling what a dog smells, as a couple of examples. She can, using images and other things, occasionally direct an animal to do something. An added side affect of this is that Dani is very much an animal-person. And they tend to positively love her.
When it comes to shape-shifters, like Wolfsbane, it is a little more complicated. Since Wolfsbane retains her human mind, even when in full wolf form or her in-between form it is far more difficult for Moonstar then dealing with a normal wolf. Sorting out the mental impressions of Rahne's wolfen side from her human side (the same goes for any other shapeshifter) can not only be difficult, but sometimes painful for Dani.
PSYCHIC ARROWS: While in the Savage Land on a rescue mission, X-Factor encountered the enslaved Fallen People, a tribe quite like that of ancient native Americans. After Freeing the Fallen People during the rescue of X-Force, Dani was approached by the tribe's shaman and as a thank you to her, used his magic to send her into the spirit realm where she was taught to harness another aspect of her powers, in the form of Psychic Arrows. These psychic arrows disrupt the neural pathways of the central nervous system of the target which stuns the target. The arrows are less effective against those persons who have any mental shielding or a higher psyche or willpower. She is capable of manifesting multiple arrows at the same time and hitting multiple targets, but no more than ten at any given time. The more arrows she fires the less effective the arrows are.
GHOST STAFF: As part of her Valkyrie powers, Dani can channel her psychic energies into a cheyennesque Ghost Staff. This staff does damage to any god that is a aspect of evil or death, or even Death himself.
ARCHERY: Danielle is an accomplished archer, having trained many years in its use. She is skilled in the use and maintance of both long and compound bows. While certainly not skilled enough to outshoot a person who does archery competitively, she is no Hawkeye certainly, nor much for trick shots, she is fully capable of hitting a moving target accuratly and taking it down if necessary.
RANGER: Moonstar, Texas Ranger….but seriously. Danielle has spent a lot of time living in the way back of nowhere and has learned many skills necessary to backwoods living. Thanks to her grandfather and sometimes necessity she has learned how to successfully track animals and other living creatures through the woods, how to trap and snare and make a lean to, and all of those other necessary skills needed to survive indefinatly out in the wilderness, up to and including hunting, fishing, sneaking silently and foraging for edible plants.
BILINGUAL: Besides the standard english, Danielle is fully fluent in her ancestors native tongue, Cheyenne. The big problem with that is she rarely gets to use it outside of cursing at her teammates.
FIGHTING: Danielle has been off and on with the X-groups for years now. They have trained her in variety of hand to hand techniques which allow her to defend herself against a majority of non-powered attackers that have some training. She is not a black belt, but is willing to fight dirty if necessary.
FIREARMS: Danille is trained in the use of most of your everyday firearms, mostly rifles and shotguns. Her skill at shooting with a firearm is only slightly less then her skill with bows, which really only matters with a rifle. She can shoot most static targets accurately, moving targets are harder for her to hit, usually missing her exact target six out of ten times, but getting close on those other four tries.
EQUISTRIAN: To say Danielle is good with horses, would be a bit of an understatement. She is great with horses. She has ridden since a little girl and add her animal empathy into the equation there is not much that she can't get a horse to do.
XAVIER'S: Dani spent a good deal of time at Xavier's school, as a student, and a member of the New Mutants. Her father knew Xavier and they were actually blood brothers, having bonded during their time with the Army. She knows a lot of the people from the school and considers most, if not all of them her friends. If she ever needed somewhere to go, Xavier's is probably at the top of the list, and she could likely expect help if she were in trouble.
NEW MUTANTS: The New Mutants may have scattered when the explosion at the school happened, but it's very unlikely that broke the bond of friendship they share. It's very likely she could call on one of them for help, and she would certainly come running if any of the others needed her help. Or if she thought they could use her help.
ANIMAL EMPATHY: Due to her animal telepathy, Dani tends to quickly form bonds with any and all animals. She tends to care very deeply for most animals too, though she is aware of the way the world and nature works. She has no problem with hunting or eating meat or whatever, but she won't stand for pointless cruelty or poor treatment of an animal.
VALKYRIE: During one of her many adventures with the X-Peeps Danielle went to Asgard. While there she rescued a winged horse which she quickly bonded with and in doing so chose her to be a Valkyrie. Once she dies, or is slain, she will be resurrected as a true Valkyrie and she would go to Asgard to be at the side of her Valkyrie sisters.
DEATH SIGHT: Not being a 'true' Valkyrie at the moment (she would have to die or go back to Asgard to get full power benefits) this is the only power that being a Valkyrie grants her. With this ability she is able to see an aura around those people that are at death's door, no matter the cause of death. She is also able to communicate and even fight the anthromorphic personification of Death (does he have a horse named Binky?)
BRIGHTWIND: Brightwind is her Valkyrie steed. She has a very close bond with Brightwind and her ability to communicate with him exceeds her animal empathy due to the fact that Brightwind is a magical creature. Because of the closeness between Danielle and Brightwind, any personality changes that affect Danille will affect Brightwind as well. Danielle can summon Brightwind at will.
RAPPORT: Because of her animal empathy being effective on shapeshifters, Danielle has developed a tight bond with her team mate Wolfsbane. This rapport allows Danielle to be able to communicate with her when she is in her animal forms.
DEMON BEAR: The only time Dani has ever managed to use her power on herself, she saw an image of a large demon bear standing over the bodies of a horse and eagle, representing her parents. Though she doesn't know it, the bear transformed her parents' souls and would have come for her, but was unknowingly kept away by her grandfather's spells and rituals. It is very possible that the bear is still hunting her and may show up some time in the future.
TEMPER: Dani is a proud and strong-willed woman. Insulting her, her heritage, her friends, or any mutant is generally a good way to set off her pretty quickly. Hurting any of her friends is a guaranteed way to do it. And she will do everything she can to find a way to get back at someone if she feels they deserve it.
PROTECTIVE: During her time at Xavier's, Dani has kind of taken on a 'big sister' role with just about everyone there. She goes out of her way to look out for and to help the younger kids. Kids meaning practically everybody, really. She's not exactly the strongest mutant around physically, but she's more than willing to put herself in harm's way if she thinks it will help one of her friends or somebody she considers family.
UNTAPPED POTENTIAL: While Dani has learned a great deal of control over her powers, she still has a bit of untapped potential that she hasn't touched yet. She's no omega-level mutant or anything, but she does still have some growing to do with her abilties.
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Danielle Moonstar - public
Affiliations:
Solo: d8
Buddy: d6
Team: d10
Distinctions:
Cheyenne Warrior
Valkyrie
Mutant Fear Monger
Power Set: Who’s Afraid Of…
Mind Control: d8
Psychic Blast: d10
Animal Control: d6
SFX: Emotional Illusions. When using Mind Control to create fear or desire illusion-based Assets, add a D6 and
step up the Effect die.
SFX: Area Attack. Target multiple opponents. For every additional target, add D6 to your pool and keep +1
effect die.
SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma, or complications from psychic attack.
Limit: Mutant. Earn 1 PP when affected by mutant-specific complications and tech.
Limit: Overwhelmed by Fear. Earn 1 PP and either change Mind Control into a complication or shutdown Mind
Control. Take an action vs the doom pool to recover.
Power Set: Honorary Valkyrie
Death Sense: d6
Ghost Staff: d12
Subsonic Flight: d8
SFX: Battling Death. When another character has D12 physical trauma, spend 1 PP to step back that trauma to
D10. If the other character has D12+ physical trauma, step the physical trauma back to D12.
Limit: Dismounted. Shutdown Flight and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs the doom pool to remount.
Limit: Death Only. Weapon only affects Death or deities who are an aspect of death or evil.
Specialties:
Acrobatics Novice: d6
Vehicle Expert: d8
Combat Expert: d8
Covert Expert d8
Tech Expert d8
Psych Expert: d8
Mystic Expert: d8
Nature Master: d10
