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Real Name: Raven Darkholme
Occupation: Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Planning Agency; government agent
Legal Status: United States citizen
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Rogue (unofficial foster daughter), Nightcrawler (son)
Base of Operations: Pentagon, Arlington, VA
Past Group Affiliations: Brother hood of Evil Mutants a.k.a. Freedom Force
Known Powers:
Imitation: Mystique has the Unearthly ability to transform herself into an exact duplicate of any humanoid creature. If she assumes the shape of a larger person, however, she must make an Endurance FEAT each turn. Each transformation takes 1 turn.
Equipment:
Costume: Mystique’s unstable costume bestows upon its wearer the following powers:
- The Amazing ability to absorb any incoming electrical attack and transform it into an energy blast of one rank lower Intensity with a 2-area range.
- Unearthly resistance to any form of unwanted teleportation.
- The costume can rearrange itself into any garment she imagines.
Psionic Scrambler: This device gives Mystique a Monstrous
resistance to any type of mental probe or telepathy.
Skull Grenades: Each of the nine skulls worn on her belt can be
used to create one of the following Incredible effects: fog, knock-out gas, tear
gas, flare, acid, and explosive.
Talents:
She has Excellent skills with knives, garrotes, and any form of handgun or machine pistol. She is proficient in Martial Arts (types B and C) and has Leadership and Espionage skills.
Contacts:
Mystique’s background gives her complete access to the United States Department of Defense.
Role-Playing Notes:
Mystique is a self-serving opportunist and master strategist. She wants to use her abilities to infiltrate the halls of power and take over from within. Curiously, she has a soft streak towards Rogue; despite the fact that they are now technically enemies, Mystique cannot allow her to be harmed. Mystique has a special love-hate relationship with Nightcrawler who, she once hinted, is related to her in some way.
History:
Little has been revealed about Mystique’s past life. Indeed, since she can eliminate the outward signs of aging with her shape-changing power, it is not known exactly how old she is. She apparently learned to use her shape-changing power at a very early age, for there is no evidence that Raven Darkholme ever looked like anything but a normal human being. Mystique has hinted at a possible relationship between herself and the mutant Nightcrawler, but it is not known if the two of them are indeed related. Mystique is known to be a longtime friend of the mutant Destiny. At some point in recent years, Mystique became the protector of the young mutant named Rogue, whom she looks upon as a surrogate daughter.
Mystique has concealed her superhuman powers and criminal intentions so well over the years that, as Darkholme, she has been able to rise rapidly through the United States Civil Service to the trusted position of Deputy Director of the Defense Advanced Research Plan ning Agency (DARPA) in the United States Department of Defense. This position gives her access to military secrets and to advanced weaponry, both of which she has used for her own criminal and subversive purposes.
To help her in her criminal activities, Mystique organized the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, which originally consisted of herself, Avalanche, the Blob, Destiny, and Pyro. Mystique named her group after the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, a subversive organization founded by Magneto in his criminal days. Magneto and Mystique chose that name ironically; if the public feared that superhuman mutants were “evil,” then that is what they would call themselves.
The second Brotherhood became notorious when it attempted to intimidate the public by assassinating Senator Robert Kelly, who was investigating what he perceived as the possible menace posed by the existence of superhuman mutants and other superhuman beings. The X-Men thwarted the assassination attempt, and the Brotherhood later clashed with the X-Men on other occasions, as well as with the Avengers and the Dazzler. Rogue was a member of the Brotherhood for a time, but finally left to join the X-Men, in order to find help in learning how to deal with her superhuman powers.
Recently, anti-mutant sentiment among normal human beings has greatly increased, and the federal government has launched its own covert anti-mutant program, Project Wideawake. Believing that the times had thus become too dangerous for the Brotherhood to continue its criminal activities, Mystique went to Dr. Valerie Cooper, special assistant to the head of the National Security Council, and offered the Brotherhood’s services to the government. Cooper agreed to convey the offer to the President, on condition that the Brotherhood pass a test she imposed: the capture of Magneto. The Brotherhood, now renamed Freedom Force, succeeded in bringing Magneto to the authorities (although, in fact, they did so only because he voluntarily surrendered to them), and soon afterwards officially entered the government’s employ.
Recently, the government had Freedom Force take the Avengers into custody after charges of treason were leveled against them. Mystique remains leader of Freedom Force, and the federal government is still unaware of her identity as Raven Darkholme. In return for entering the government’s employ as Freedom Force’s leader, Mystique has received a presidential pardon for all criminal charges against her, but the pardon will be revoked if any member of the Freedom Force is found committing a crime.