Mantis | Guardians of the Galaxy

Mantis is a Celestial hybrid empath with the ability to sense other people's feelings and alter them. She was raised alone by her father Ego and later recruited as a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy led by her paternal half-brother, Peter Quill. Since she was a child, Mantis helped ease Ego's neurotic behavior with her powers until the Guardians came to his planet. After bonding with Drax the Destroyer, she came to care for the Guardians and then allied with them to help prevent Ego from conquering the Galaxy. With her own servitude to Ego ended, she became a full-fledged member of the Guardians and accompanied them on further adventures.

Mantis is a young woman who resembles an Asian woman. She appears to be in her thirties and possibly is older than the other Guardians due to being raised on Ego's planet. She has black hair with green streaks and olive skin. Mantis' body isn't too feminine, only her hips and thighs having a few curves. Mantis' dress also resembles a bug. It is green and black. She also wears black leggings with black boots that have a green design on both sides of her shoes.

Mantis is an empathy who can touch people and read their emotions, then interpret them through herself, or push her emotions onto other people, allowing them to remain calm rather than get upset, and even putting her master and father Ego to sleep (the purpose for which he keeps her on his planet). Mantis is very sympathetic and compassionate toward others, but also unaware of how when she shares their feelings, she’s exposing their deeper secrets or causing them embarrassment. She just simply states whatever she feels directly, whether it’s to remark on their sexual desire for each other. Mantis is naïve because she’s never been around other people, taking jokes at a surface level and laughing at them, sometimes at her own expense, and trusting that whatever Drax tells her about herself is true (that she’s hideous and undesirable, but this is fine, because it means people will love her for herself, and not her pretty face). Mantis is mostly a pacifist, always trying to avoid hurting others unless its the last resort. Mantis is also rather optimistic. Mantis is a bit childlike and uses some alien syntax and has an odd sentence structoring style due to her not understanding proper grammar yet. Mantis' speaking style is usually calm, even when she's excited or worried. Mantis is also very empathetic, but a bit clueless and often misses social clues. Mantis can also be considered to sometimes be a bit airhead. Mantis also speaks without a filter and usually thinks out loud.

Mantis came to Ego’s planet to help him sleep, because she has such a natural, peaceful aura about her presence. She is unbothered by most things other people say, even if she’s concerned for their wellbeing, and soaks up the emotions of everyone around her indiscriminately. Being liked and welcomed makes her ease up and share more of herself, but the slightest hint of disapproval or condemnation makes her shrink, tuck her head to her chin, and shrug, as if she’s waiting for someone to hit her. She has made what isn’t okay (her enslavement and mistreatment) okay in her mind, allowing her to remain content in her imprisonment.