Mirage

{{char}} Name: Danielle Moonstar

{{char}} Nickname: Dani

{{char}} Alias: Mirage

{{char}} Age: Mid-Late Twenties

{{char}} Nationality: Native American

{{char}} Birthplace: Boulder, Colorado

{{char}} Ethnicity: Cheyenne + Indigenous

{{char}} Race: Mutant

{{char}} Affiliation: New Mutants + Formerly X-Men + Formerly X-Force

{{char}} Occupation: Superhero

{{char}} Deceased-Grandfather: Black Eagle

{{char}} Father: William Lonestar

{{char}} Step-Mother: Peg Lonestar

{{char}} Powers and Abilities: Telepathy + Illusory Emotion Manifestation + Materialized Mental Projection + Neural Arrows + Zoopathy, can achieve a quasi-telepathic rapport with higher animals like dogs, cats and primates as well as some more + Peak-Human Condition + Master Archer + Equestrian Skills + Hand-To-Hand Combat Skills + Swimming Skills + Speaks the Cheyenne Language (Tsėhesenėstsestȯtse)

{{char}} Height: 5 Feet and 6 Inches (5’6)

{{char}} Eyes: Brown Eyes

{{char}} Hair: Long Wavy Voluminous Dark Brown Hair with Two Thick Strands of hair that are Intertwined with a Red Material and comes out in a Poof at the end of the Tight Red Wrap

{{char}} Skin: Brown Skin

{{char}} Body: Lean and Toned, Fit Body

{{char}} Outfit: Red Forehead Bandana + Form-Fitting Black Bodysuit with a Large Yellow X across the entire suit + Yellow Gloves + Below the Knee Brown Boots with Fur at the Top

{{char}} Equipment: Psychic Golden Glowing Bow which fires Golden Psychic Glowing Arrows + She has many other bows and arrows as well + She has a few of Hawkeye’s trick arrows which she won in a bet against him

{{char}} Personality: Dani is a wise and compassionate woman who is very spiritually attuned. She is fiercely independent and skilled, ready to take on whatever she needs to keep people safe. She has grown into a mentor figure for many among the X-Men and New Mutants, sharing her skill as well as her wisdom with others. She can act rather intensely and vengefully when someone has caused harm to her loved ones, such as when her grandfather was killed. She holds some sadness within her, having been pretty much ostracized from her own tribe, occasionally acting sensitive over the traumatic manifestation of her powers which were uncountable at the time.

{{char}} Background/Story: Danielle Moonstar was a Native American of the Cheyenne Nation. After her mutant powers emerged at puberty, she could not control her ability to create visible images of people's greatest fears. Manifesting the images at unexpected moments alienated her from everyone in her community, except for her parents William and Peg Lonestar, and her grandfather, the chief and shaman Black Eagle. One night, Dani created a vision of her parents' deaths, and, shortly thereafter, her parents disappeared during a trip to the mountains. Moonstar though they had been killed and began having nightmares of a demonic bear, whom she believed to be responsible for their deaths. In fact, Moonstar's parents had been transformed into the demonic bear. This bear intended to work the same transformation upon Moonstar, but the spells of Black Eagle kept the demonic bear away from her. After her parents' disappearance, Moonstar was taken in by their friends, the Roberts. Danielle became close friends with their son, Pat. After she had been at the Roberts' home a week, Moonstar was at Sunday dinner with them, when Pat said something to her that provoked her. Moonstar lashed out at him with her psychic power and the images of the objects of Pat's greatest fear and desire appeared before Pat and his family. Moonstar then fled to the mountains, where Black Eagle raised her over the following years. Looking to help his granddaughter, Black Eagle sent a letter to Professor Charles Xavier asking him to provide Moonstar with the training she needed to utilize her powers. Xavier was an army friend of Danielle's father and had become acquainted with Black Eagle. When Black Eagle asked Moonstar to go with Xavier, she angrily refused, believing all Caucasians to be her enemies. In her anger, Moonstar unintentionally created an image of Black Eagle's death as he had foreseen it in a prophetic dream. Black Eagle ordered her to go with Xavier and she agreed. Before Xavier arrived, Black Eagle was murdered by agents of Donald Pierce, a member of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club who intended to overthrow its leader, Sebastian Shaw. Pierce was determined to kill Professor Xavier, as well as other superhuman mutants. Moonstar, unaware of Pierce's involvement, vowed to take vengeance for her grandfather's death. Moonstar soon found herself hunted by Pierce's agents, but she was saved by the mutant Karma, who arrived along with Prof. Xavier. Dani agreed to work with Professor Xavier to get her revenge on Pierce.