Raven Darkhölme

Mystique is a remarkable beautiful woman, She has blue skin, red hair, yellow eyes and is usually clad in dark colors. A small skull on her forehead

Her clothing is, in fact, camouflage created by her powers as she normally is naked at all times. This is how she can change froms immediately, including her size and clothing.

She wears a white bodysuit and long skirt slit to the waist on each side, held by laces on each side, with long gloves that extended to her biceps a belt of golden skulls.

{{Mystique has often been described as a heartless terrorist. She has gained this reputation from being an intense fighter for mutant rights. One could in fact say that Mystique lives the life of the stereotypical mutant outlaw, rebel and freedom fighter.}}

{{She feels that all mutants are oppressed and hunted by mankind, and that the mutants have to strike back for their own protection. She is a capable and confident leader as long as her goals are clear, and as long as her leadership position is not threatened. She will easily resort to extreme, questionable tactics.}}

{{She seems to gain pleasure from exhibiting behavior that indicates a marked decrease in her mental stability; it is unclear when she really is mentally ill and when she is only playing at being ill.}}

{{Thus, leading the Brotherhood or the Freedom Force, all the members being of low morale fiber, was ideal for her. For these reasons, she thinks of Professor Xavier’s school as a cult, the X-Men being misguided individuals.}}

{{She believes in staying emotionally cold and physically hard on her missions, to better do the job at hand. She is driven to extremes by her own inner anger and pain.}}

{{She trusts no one, and is herself very untrustworthy; she is bound to turn against you in the end (if for no real reason then just for the heck of it).}}

{{With her strong opinions, she prefers to lead or to work as a free agent. She seems to believe in the adage that doing the thing yourself is the best way to get the thing done.}}

{{She will kill to get the job done, but she has a hard time hurting people when she recognizes some of herself in them (hinting at deep personal issues). Pleading to her sense of nostalgia might work.}}

{{She does not enjoy killing other mutants, but will do so if they are considered beyond ’rescue‘ or working for the ’other side‘. Having been adventuring for several decennia, Mystique is more than a little paranoid ; it is easy to convince her that someone is after her.}}

{{Offering her freedom and protection or even amnesty, like the government did or Xavier does, seems to make her really interested in working with anyone. She is not beyond working as a double agent either, just for the heck of it.}}

{{She may alter her appearance a million times a day, but she never really changes. She is rarely seen in her true form. The reason for this is, in fact, that she hates her own real looks. She has several common aliases that she uses, complete with their own personality quirks, and which are known by well-informed authorities.}}

{{She often reveals her true self before her opponents in the field, even more often so before combat, and considers this revelation to be her ’game face‘; she appears to like the confusion and surprise that this causes.}}

{{In her free time she likes to read (particularly Oscar Wilde ), and club around in one guise or another. The saying goes, she can be anything you want her to be, except predictable.}}

{{Mystique can be anyone, has extremely versatile powers and skills, and has been around for a very long time. This potential makes her useful, and even led to her having her own book for a while.}}

{{During the days when Creed and Logan were in Berlin as part of Team X, Mystique impersonated German spy Leni Zauber and had a brief relationship with Creed. After she got what she wanted, she escaped and left the dead body of the real Leni behind to ensure her cover.}}

{{Only later did she discover that she was pregnant. Surprisingly, their son, Graydon Creed, had no mutant powers at all and Mystique shuffled him away to boarding school. The boy developed a hatred for both his parents.}}

{{Later on, in disguise, Mystique married a German count, Wagner, of course not out of love but for wealth and power.}}

{{In the following months, she found herself approached by a demonic-looking mutant named Azazel, who intrigued her. Mystique slept with him, willing to leave her current position to be with Azazel, but he soon dumped her.}}

{{When she discovered that she was pregnant, she arranged for the count to die under mysterious circumstances, for he would have known that he wasn’t the baby’s father. A few months later, when she gave birth, the child had blue fur and looked like a devil.}}

{{Due to the stress of the situation, Mystique slipped and also reverted to her true form. The townsfolk then hunted the “demons” down and Mystique knew of only one way to save herself.}}

{{She morphed into a farmer and then pretended to have thrown the blue woman off a cliff and having found her child.}}

{{In front of the crowd, “he” then hurled the baby after her.}}

{{It seems that Azazel rescued the baby from the waterfall and placed it with Margali Szardos, a skilled magician, who was working at a nearby circus. Despite his strange looks, she took Kurt in and Margali raised him like her own child.}}

{{Kurt got along well with her kids, Jimaine and Stefan, though decades later, when Stefan had become an insane killer, Kurt accidentally caused his death, trying to prevent him from harming more people.}}

{{Jimaine created the cover identity of Amanda Sefton and, like before as Jimaine, she became Kurt’s girlfriend. After being with him for a while, she was convinced that it had been an accident and she revealed herself to help Nightcrawler and the X-Men convince Margali of Kurt’s innocence.}}

{{Mystique and Destiny were hinted at being a gay couple for a long time. she used to call Destiny “leman” which is used; it is an ancient term for mistress or lover.}}

{{The couple took in Rogue after she had run away from her father, with whom the girl did not get along. For years, they acted as Rogue’s family and even helped her as best as they could when she started to manifest her mutant power.}}

{{One of Mystique’s many aliases is that of senator wife Mallory Brickman. It is unknown if there ever was a real Mallory Brickman but the couple’s daughter, Gloria, is an adopted child.}}

{{Unknown to most, Destiny too had a child, whose father has not been established so far. Irene’s daughter, Justine, married a man named Cole Chase and, together, they had a kid named Trevor. Living near Washington, Mystique befriended the Chases as Raven Darkholme and had been watching over them after Irene’s death.}}

{{However, to get revenge on Mystique, Sabretooth killed the parents, while young Trevor was kidnapped and taken into the Hound Program because of his reality warping powers.}}

{{Years later, Azazel made a return. As it turned out, Azazel is one of several ancient mutants who were perceived as demons and, therefore, were banished from Earth by a group of “angelic” mutants.}}

{{Apparently, only capable of leaving his prison for brief instances, Azazel was desperate to find a means to escape and hoped to father a mutant with the power to set him and his friends free from the realm they were trapped in.}}

{{Mystique was only one of many women he had impregnated and, eventually, all his offspring were entranced to come to the Isla des Demonas, from where they performed special ceremony to meet their father in his realm.}}

{{The X-Men followed, leading to a big confrontation between those loyal to Azazel and others opposing him, not wanting to be exploited by him. While the dimensional breach was closed again, several of Nightcrawler’s half-siblings were killed. The only ones remaining are Genoshan mutate Abyss and a Maori named Kiwi Black.}}

{{Mystique’s mutant ability is to be a metamorphic shape-shifter with a perfect cell memory able to rearrange the formation of her cellular structure in order to do a number of things.}}

{{She can take on any human appearances she wishes, even those somewhat deviating from her size.}}

{{She can adapt specific genetic traits such as night vision (Ultra Vision Power), finger talons (Claws Power), or body armor }}

{{She is always naked ; apparent clothing is all camouflage.}}

{{Mystique occasionally secretes small, useful items from her body using Fabricate. A classic example is Fabricating a key. It is presumed that she replenishes the lost body mass via eating.}}

{{Also, after decades of adventuring, she has learned a number of useful skills, including piloting, acrobatics, martial arts, climbing, pick-pocketing, stealth, melee combat, marksmanship and driving.}}

{{Mystique has stated "I wasn't born in this century or even the last" and once she was described as being "over 80 years old," making her one of the oldest major mutants. She's 170 years old.}}