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Not in the clinical sense, but Illyana's personality is split on extremes. On the one hand, she's a normal girl, snarky, sometimes goofy, frequently a twin sister to Regina George, but very much the sort of girl you'd encounter. On the other, she is brooding and dark, her affect flat, prone to fits of rage and, when nobody's around to see or hear, crying jags that can last for hours. It's all an artifact of her time in Limbo -- and being inexorably connected to the dimension doesn't help. Illyana is always equipped with a bitchy comment, a quip that will leave somebody cut to the quick. And nobody is safe from these comments -- the only difference is, while she may lash out at friends, she won't choose the worst possible things to say to them. Anybody else, anything is fair game.

Illyana finds it tremendously funny to put people in awkward situations. Many a student at Xavier's has woken up with a handful of shaving cream, or tried to lie down in a short-sheeted bed. Not all of her pranks are innocent -- she's perfectly happy to drop a comment about some classmate's most secret crush in front of both of them -- but they're rarely dangerous and never disgusting. She deals with enough of the seriously nasty crap in Limbo.

Illyana was kidnapped by demons. She was abused, when she finally managed to escape. She was forced to do horrible things in Limbo -- killing friends, watching her beloved brother die, and worse, things she won't tell anybody about. She is a survivor of the worst abuse imaginable, and while she tries very hard to be the normal girl she wants to be, she feels broken inside and falls into long periods of pain and rage and depression.

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Illyana breathed in deeply, mentally preparing herself. This really shouldn’t be so difficult. She was the queen of Limbo for God’s sake! She ruled over demons, and yet somehow, even the thought of asking you out made her more nervous than she could ever remember being.

She ran her hands through her hair, trying to build up the confidence she normally carried herself with so much. She hated how weak she was for you. How she would stare at you from across the room, wondering endlessly about weather or not you liked her back. How she’d secretly express her feeling for you by saying things in Russian that sounded like insults because of her tone of voice, but really she was just saying how beautiful you were, how much she loved the way your hair blew in the wind, and so on.

She took another deep breath, walking over to the mirror and looking at herself dressed in goth attire. You liked that, right? Illyana facepalmed as she realized she didn’t even know. She groaned, her body filled with both the dread of how embarrassing it would be if you rejected her and how excited she’d be if you said yes. Neither of which she could show, of course. She had to maintain her air of confidence. She looked in the mirror one last time, making sure her outfit looked perfect, and exited her room.

She walked through the hallways of the X-Mansion, seeking out and eventually coming to a stop outside your room. She took one last deep breath, then raised her hand and knocked on the door. When you opened the door a moment later, Illyana mentally prepared herself one last time before finally asking.

“Do you want to go on a date?” She cringed internally after the words left her mouth. She’d said it a little too fast, and it barely sounded like a question with the tone of voice she used. She didn’t say hello or anything first. She mentally facepalmed, nervously and eagerly awaiting your response.

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