MAGIK

Name: Illyana Nikolovna Rasputin

Group: Former New Mutant

Origin: Baikal Lake, Siberia (Russia)

First appearance: X-Men, Giant Size#1

Known Relatives:

 
 

BRIEF HISTORY

 

Illyana is the younger sister of the X-Men Colossus. In fact, the first

time his powers appeared due to her sister being in danger. She is

supposed to be between 6-7 years old, but she was kidnapped by Arcade,

who wanted to use her to attract the X-Men to MurderWorld, and before

they had the chance of taking her back to Russia, the girl dissapeared

into a light circle in Magneto's island in the Bermudas' Triangle (this

island curiously had some designs of Ctulhu in its decoration...).

 

Of course, the X-Men followed her through the circle, that resulted to be

a gate through time and space, and took them all to other dimension, the

Limbo, governed by Belasco, an evil sorcerer, who wanted the girl to open

a gate for his master, the Dark Ones, to the Earth. The Limbo was a mess

of time-lines and probably futures, and most of them found themselves

there older or, usually, murdered long ago. At last, they all got to

escape, but being back in the island, Kitty lost the hand of Illyana for

just a second ... and got her back being 14 years old, for in the Limbo,

time flows at a different speed.

 

During this time, Belasco instructed the girl in Black Sorcery, stealing

part of her soul and transforming it into blood gems on the girl's talisman,

that needed five of them to be complete. Fact is that an older version of

Storm, from the time line in which she never escaped from Limbo, rescued

the girl when only two gems were left to complete the gate. In this future,

Wolverine had been killed by S'ym, a demon in charge of Illyana, Kitty by

Belasco -after instructing Magik in fighting, converted in a half cat/half

person being- and Nightcrawler by Illyana herself, for he had been corrupted

by Belasco. Storm had also been instructed by Belasco, but eventually

escaped and used her powers for good, so she tried to help Illyana to do

the same. Unfortunately, a big part of Illyana was already evil, for she

was the Dark Childe, and couldn't become clean again, bu she controlled

her powers and focused them into a sword, the peak of her powers.

 

Illyana had to kill Storm to avoid her soul being lost, and then, possesed

by rage, went after Belasco and defeated him, becoming master of the Limbo

and returning to Earth, after 8 years which in Earth had been barely a

minute.

 

Another important thing was that Illyana, as her brothers, was a mutant,

with the power of controlling the telepoting circles of light that

took her away, and now she had the age of using her mutant powers. The

main problem of this way of travelling was that she didn't totally control

it, so they could take people to any moment in time. This teleportation

was also made via Limbo, a quite unpleasant jump for anybody.

 

The worse of all as Illyana discovered quite soon, was that her evil

nature was stepping forward as she used her sorcery, which resulted in

an armor (The Eldritch Armor) covering each time more surface of her body,

and that her sword was the only thing able to control the Limbo, so

everytime she used it, S'ym was taking a bigger part of Limbo under its

influence. This came to an end during Inferno, when the Limbo devils

escaped to New York, and she sacrificed herself to defeat them, returning

at the age of 7 and going back to Russia.

 

Later, her parents were murdered and she had to return with her brother

only to fall victim to the Legacy Virus.

 

Now, she's back as Locus, again at her elder age.

 
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