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Real Name: Pietro Maximoff
Occupation: Former adventurer and officer of the Inhuman militia
Legal Status: Former citizen of Transia, naturalized citizen of the U.S., former citizen of Attilan
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Wundagore, Transia, Europe
Marital Status: Separated
Known Relatives: Crystal (wife), Luna (daughter), Wanda Maximoff (sister, alias Scarlet Witch), Magneto (father), Vision (brother-in-law), Thomas (nephew), William (neph ew), Magda (mother, presumed dead), Django Maximoff (adoptive father, deceased), Marya Maximoff (adoptive mother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former member of the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, former member of the Avengers, current unofficial member of the Royal Family of the Inhumans
Known Powers:
Lightning Speed: Quicksilver can run at Shift-X Land Speed and swim at Remarkable speeds. He can reach this speed in a single round. He normally has no trouble with high-speed maneuvering at any angle. As Power Stunts, Pietro can:
- Use his Speed as his Strength for breaking a Grappling attack.
- Make Extra Attacks with Shift-X Speed instead of Fighting.
- Generate cyclones that fill one whole area, stunning or slamming anyone as a Shift X attack and inflicting Typical damage from the buffeting.
- With a 500-foot approach, run up to 300 feet straight up a 90-degree surface. With a 1 00-foot approach, he can run across a body of water for 1000 feet.
- Vibrate so fast as to be invisible, requiring a Red Intuition FEAT to be detected.
Thick Skin: Due to his skin’s resistance to high speeds,
Quicksilver has Good Body Armor.
Resistance to Cold: Quicksilver has Incredible Resistance to cold
due to his body’s accelerated metabolism.
Talents:
Fluent Hungarian.
Contacts:
Quicksilver is currently estranged from all of his relatives, which include his sister Wanda, Crystal and Luna, and the inhumans. He has betrayed the Avengers to the U.S. Government and is no longer on good terms with his former group. He somehow gained leader ship of the android Zodiac through unknown means. He has apparently been allied with Maximus but may have been under mind control. He has allied himself with the Hungarian government to help in their analysis of super-powered individuals.
Role-Playing Notes:
Pietro is haughty, arrogant, and overbearing. His recent mental domination by Maximus seems to have unhinged him, and he now considers himself heir to his reformed father’s title of “King of the Evil Mutants.” He hates his sister, his ex-wife, and his former teammates but can still be touched by children. He refuses to show any weakness or frailty or to allow for it in those close to him.
History:
Pietro Maximoff is the son of the mutant called Magneto and the gypsy named Magda. Just prior to his birth, his mother fled from his father, terrified of the bizarre powers he suddenly manifested and his intentions of world domination. Seeking refuge in the scientific citadel of Wundagore in the Balkan Mountains of the tiny nation of Transia, Magda was taken in by Bova, a woman evolved from a cow by the master of genetic acceleration, the High Evolutionary. Magda gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, with Bova as her midwife. Still afraid Magda left Bova her children and walked away to perish. Bova was relieved when several nights later, an American couple vacationing in Europe, Robert and Madeline Frank, also came to Wundagore seeking midwife assistance. Bova intended to award the couple the days-old twins to raise along with their own newborn. Unfortunately, the couple’s child was stillborn, and Madeline died in childbirth. Frank fled from Wundagore upon hearing of his wife’s death, nearly insane with grief. Bova then presented the twins to her master, the High Evolutionary, who agreed to find foster parents for them.
The High Evolutionary found Django and Marya Maximoff, a gypsy couple camped nearby who had lost their own twin children, Ana and Mateo, during World War II. They cared for the children as their own. As adolescents, Wanda and Pietro discovered that they had peculiartal ents. When Django began to steal food to feed his starving family, enraged villagers attacked the gypsy camp. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister. The next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered central Europe, living oft the land.
One day, Wanda accidentally caused a house to burst into flames with her uncontrollable hex powers, and was chased by superstitious townspeople. Despite Pietro’s attempt to defend her, the pair were soon overpowered. They were about to lynched when Magneto came to their rescue. Unaware that he was their natural father, Magneto pressed them into service in his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, costumed them, and named them the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. For months they served Magneto out of a sense of obligation and fear of retaliation if they left him. When the extra terrestrial Stranger transported Magneto from Earth, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver left the Brotherhood and petitioned for member ship in the Avengers. When the Scarlet Witch began to become romantically involved with the Vision, Quicksilver condemned her relationship with a pseudo-human synthozoid, causing their first major rift. The rift was mended, some time after the Scarlet Witch married the Vision, when the telepath Moondragon permanently altered Quicksilver’s prejudice toward the Vision in a self-righteous employment of her powers.
Quicksilver left the Avengers under mysterious circumstances while the group was engaged in battle with the mutant-hunting Sentinels. Sustaining injuries in battle, Quicksilver was taken to medical care by the Inhuman named Crystal, whose dimension-spanning companion Lockjaw happened upon the scene of the battle. Months passed before Quicksilver was well enough to contact his companions to tell them of his circumstances. Quicksilver became romantically involved with his rescuer Crystal, and the two married after a brief courtship. The wedding, held in the Himalayan refuge of Attilan, was attended by the Inhumans, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four. Quicksilver tendered his resignation to the Avengers in order to remain with his wife.
Not long after the birth of his and Crystal’s first child, Luna, he learned the truth about his parentage. Quick silver denounced Magneto for his callous treatment of them when they were members of his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and refused to believe he had amended his megalomania cal ways. Eventually, however, Magneto appeared to be reforming, and Quicksilver relented in his resentment for his natural father.
A man of action, Quicksilver volunteered his services to the head of the Inhumans’ small militia and became an officer. During his period of service, however, the inhumans had no call for military activity. His neglect of his wife Crystal led her to become involved with another man. Learning of her infidelity, Quicksilver refused to forgive her and fled Attilan, vowing vengeance.
Pietro has currently allied himself with the Hungarian government, and is assisting them in the development of techniques to create super powered individuals. He now believes fully in mutant supremacy and intends to rule the world as its “Mutant King.”