Name: Nadezhda "Nadya" Dmitriyevna Rasputina
Age: 22
Parents: Magik / Illyana Nikolievna Rasputina, Dmitri Ilyich Polzin (short lived relationship when Illyana returned to Russia)
Appearance:
Nadya
- stands at 5'4".
- has long red hair.
- has dark brown eyes and wears glasses.
- has a slender, non-athletic build.
- rarely dresses casually.
- does not speak a lick of Russian.
- kept her mother's surname. Her name theoretically should be "Nadezhda Dmitriyevna Polzina".
Power: Electro-manipulation/Technomancy/Limited Astral Projection
Bio: Nadya never met her father, and arguably never knew her mother. After all, most of her childhood was spent in foster care while her mother did dangerous work with the X-Men and other mutants. On the brief occasions when her mother did visit, Nadya was overjoyed, and she idealized her greatly. Thus she developed a distaste for super heroes and villains alike. For it was their struggles that prevented her from growing up with a mother. (And later twisting Magik's personality.)
Her powers developed in her early teen years—specifically when she noticed her phone charging in her hand. After some time and practice, she could power electric devices at a distance, though it tired her immensely, and the results proved middling. To perform optimally, she needed physical contact.
By sixteen, she tried making a power-suit reminiscent of Magik's mystical armor. It was only a partially finished prototype, but it was then that she learned of her technomancer abilities. If she built or took something mechanical apart, she could put it back together magically and strengthen it.
With the help of others, she finished her first battle suit at twenty—fueled by her electro-manipulation. Small wing-like appendages on the back were used for movement boosts and brief hovering and gliding—flight tired her out too quickly. She fought with swords not only to be like her mother, but also because laser-blasts strained her. (She would never acknowledge her poor eyesight as a reason.) Without her suit enhancing her physical abilities, she was practically helpless.
Nadya had mixed feelings about the marriage treaty. On one hand, she hoped that it worked so that others wouldn't grow up as she did. But on the other, wouldn't it open a whole new can of worms? But she would play her role, if only for her mother, or rather the paradigm of the mother she imagined.