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Raven Darkholme || Mystique || looks 18 || Mutant || Rank 1 || Jennifer Lawrence

✘ Mystique is OPEN.

“ I’m not sorry I sent you to hell, you know. I hope it was awful. I hope you suffered. I hope it broke something inside you that can never be fixed. It makes me happy to think that. You deserved it, every bit of it. You’ve murdered. You’ve betrayed your friends. You may not wanna remember it anymore, but that’s who you are. You’re no better than me.”

BIOGRAPHY:

As her name implies, very little is known about the life of Mystique. Being a shape-shifter and a deceiver, it isn’t even clear what her real name is. In her “normal” form, she goes by the name Raven Darkholme. However, this too may be an alias and Mystique’s real name may be something entirely different.

Mystique’s life and upbringing are completely unknown. The earliest records of someone by the name Mystique can be traced to shortly after World War II. During this time she appears to have mastered her shape-shifting abilities. With her powers she began impersonating and conning people. It doesn’t appear to have been out of greed or malice. Mystique was always in need of money and a stable life. She did not have that on her own so her only way was to steal it from someone else. She often took the identity of someone who had recently died of natural causes or forged identities of people from distant towns. Most of her activity was in America and Canada. However, her cons often were exposed. Sometimes others found out. Other times she got bored and sought something different.

Eventually, Mystique began employing her talents in the criminal underworld. Under the name Raven Darkholme, she began her life as a spy and saboteur for various organizations. She eventually graduated to assassinations, theft, and extortion. Her skills were on par with that of military training. It isn’t clear where she received this training, but it made her a force to be reckoned with. These skills along with her shape-shifting abilities allowed her to become one of the most feared names in the criminal underworld. Her services commanded enormous sums of money. Yet despite this wealth, she was unable to forge a life for herself. So when allowed herself to fall into one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s “traps”, she knew the choice they would give her. Jail or their facility.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies

Natasha Romanoff || Black Widow || looks 20 || Superhuman || Rank 2 || Jane Levy

✘ Black Widow is OPEN.

“My name is… Madame Natasha… but you… can call me The Black Widow!”

BIOGRAPHY:

There are varying accounts of Natalia Romanova’s early life. One account states that in 1928, Nazis set the building in Stalingrad that Natasha and her mother were living in on fire, her mother threw her out the window to a Russian soldier before dying in the fire. The soldier’s name was Ivan Petrovitch, and he watched over Natasha for her entire life, remaining by her side as her “foster father”. When Natasha hit puberty, she was taken to Department X, where she and a group of 28 other orphaned females trained in multiple forms of combat and espionage at the “Red Room” facility.

 Over the years she was bio-technologically and psycho-technologically enhanced: an accounting that provides a rationale for her unusually long and youthful lifespan. Memories of training ballet in the Bolshoi Theatre were implanted in her brain as artificial memories and she was ready to be sent on her first mission. Infiltrate Novus Academy. However, the agents at Novus knew of Natasha’s affiliation with the KGB and thought it would be best to have the girl closely under their surveillance. With that, Novus sent the girl an official invite to join their ranks.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Agent Training/General Studies

Wanda Wilson || Lady Deadpool || 18 || Mutant || Rank 1 || Jennette McCurdy

✘ Lady Deadpool is OPEN.

“I love this gun. I mean I like shooting things generally, but this gun I want to marry.”

BIOGRAPHY:

Not much is known about Wanda’s past and what is known has been classified. She was born into the opposite of the ‘ideal family’ in the outskirts of a small town in Ohio, where she spent most of her time being the problem child. Making friends with only the voices inside her head, children stayed away from the girl and the ones who did approach the girl, soon found out why she was always alone. At age 17, her family moved to Washington D.C. where she got mixed in with the wrong crowd and soon dropped out of school and ran away from home to travel the country and make a living with her natural talent of firearms and swords.

Turning 18, she joined the military and though she was one of the more physically superior recruits, there was only one fault; her mouth was almost never closed, which constantly caused her to get into trouble and eventually blindly volunteer for the Weapon-X program. Surprisingly, Wanda was one of the few, more successful volunteers managing to escape with only a broken mind and a newfound regeneration power. After a month of living on the streets, she was approached by representatives of Novus. Wanda was willing to fight the agents but she was quickly outnumbered and disarmed and taken to Novus where she stayed until she willingly agreed to behave and join Novus’ ranks.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Agent Training/General Studies

Leslie Willis || Livewire || 19 || Superhuman || Rank 1 || Saoirse Ronan

✘ Livewire is OPEN.

“This thing is my whole life. All righty, if I can’t stay in the game by playing by the rules… Then I’m sure as hell gonna burn the game board. In fact, you know what I think? I think I need a bigger venue.”

BIOGRAPHY:

Though born a simple human, Leslie Willis was always in her own way shocking. After graduating high school at the top of her class, Leslie attended a popular university in Metropolis, Kansas, though her only reason for going there was their radio opportunities. Soon her internship at the local college radio station turned into a full-time job where she had her own late show. Leslie used her time to address controversial topics no one else would touch on. No one was immune to the shock jock’s venomous words, not even Superman. She took cynical joy in bashing on the Man of Steel during her broadcasts.

One evening during a severe thunderstorm warning, Leslie was hosting a rock concert in honor of her first year anniversary working at the radio station. Ignoring her producer’s warnings about the coming storms, she demanded the show go on. As the show started, a huge bolt of lightning struck the stage and it caught fire, trapping the DJ. Another bolt was headed right for the stage, but she was saved by none other than Superman who pushed her to safety and took the shock. The lightning ran through one of the wires and electrocuted Willis.

When the girl woke, she saw that her skin had turned ghostly white and her hair turned blue. On the television in her hospital room, they spoke of the incident. One live reporter, a co-worker of hers, insinuated that Superman, fed up with her criticism against him, may have pushed her into harm’s way to punish her for her arrogance. She blamed Superman for her transformation caused from the freak accident, refusing to take the fact that she should have shut down the concert that caused her transformation in the first place. Angered by the thought, Leslie ripped the alarm clock from the wall. She was about to whip the clock at the television when it suddenly turned on. There was no power to it and no batteries in it. She discovered she could manipulate electricity, but she wasn’t the first to know this.

Soon after her waking up, two people representing a government agency were in her room. They detected strange electromagnetic frequencies that traced back to her and insisted she come with them to a place called Novus Academy where she could train and learn to become a hero. More vigilante justice was the last thing she wanted. That’s what got her into this mess in her mind so at first, she declined the offer but soon enough, their insisting sounded more like she had no other choice.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies

Elizabeth Ross || Betty Ross || 21 || Human ||  Rank 1 || Margaret Qualley

✘ Betty Ross is OPEN.

“I’m… I’m just saying… frogs start falling from the sky… who do they come to? We’ll be world renowned.”

BIOGRAPHY:

Born in California, Betty Ross is the only child of General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross and Karen Lee. Thunderbolt Ross had always hoped for a son to follow in his footsteps, and his adversity at having a daughter was reflected in the way that he raised her and since Betty’s mother had died from unknown causes when she was 14, her youth was spent under her father’s strict army hand. He quickly decided that an army base was no environment for a girl, so he sent her away to boarding school.

After graduation, she returned to her father’s side on the base. By then Thunderbolt Ross was in charge of a top-secret project to create a new type of weapon involving gamma radiation. The agents of Novus was already at the site of the project observing another possible student and saw possibility in Ross and asked her to join their ranks.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Agent Training/General Studies

Jean Grey || Phoenix || 18 || Mutant || Rank 1 || Sophie Turner

✘ Phoenix is OPEN.

“Mutants are not the ones mankind should fear.”

BIOGRAPHY:

Jean Grey was born the youngest of two daughters to John and Elaine Grey. Her father was a professor at Bard College History Department in Annandale-on-Hudson. Jean grew up a normal girl born and raised in New York; but while playing with her friend Annie Richardson, Annie was struck by a car. The high emotional stress of the accident caused Jean’s mutant powers to manifest well before she reached even pre-pubescence. This is rarely the case for most mutants, whose gifts typically surface in their early teens. This sudden surge in telepathic power linked Jean with her friend causing her to experience Annie’s death first hand. She was so traumatized by this event that she slipped into catatonia for the next three years.

When Jean reached age eleven, a psychiatrist referred her parents to S.H.I.E.L.D., an expert organization on mutation, where they trained her to control her abilities. For years she worked with these agents until news came to her of a school. One that would continue to train her, among other students like herself. Excited by the opportunity she was enrolled in the school.

SPECIALTY PROGRAM: Power Training/General Studies