* Eighteen. Whip-sharp thin build, sharp features, probably (still) comes across as slightly feral.
* Long blonde hair down to just below her shoulder blades, with blunt-cut bangs and bright blue eyes. Looks utterly angelic, when she's not being a feral trash goblin child.
* Generally dresses in Grunge-style or goth: Ripped jeans, hoodies, flannels, fishnets, tank tops/baggy t-shirts, combat boots, etc. Basically looks like her PB/the version of the character from the New Mutants movie, along with the sarcasm (and anger issues). too bad it was such hot trash
* Make-up wise; sticks to lip gloss, mascara, and eyeliner as-needed.
* Her English was implanted telepathically, so has a slightly posh Upstate NY accent with faint British overtones. Thanks, Professor X. Though she's been living Greenwich Village for the few years, and has started picking up that accent, which gets more prominent as she feels more comfortable around people. Will revert to Russian if seriously distressed.
* Has callouses on her hands consistent with someone who trains with weapons a lot, particularly staff and sword. Which is one reason she likes baggy hoodies she can pull down over her hands.
* Mutant teleporter, so if you can sense mutations, she will ping your radar.
* Her teleportation 'Stepping Discs' are flat circles of gold or white light, which she can move in any direction she likes. The easiest method for her to use them are like the portals from Portal, or for someone to step on one, and then appear somewhere else. However, just because that's easiest, doesn't mean that's how she likes to use them. Illyana delights in making physics her bitch, and acting like she's in a game of meta-for Portal.
* Sorcerer's Apprentice. If you can sense magic, she is a gigantic glowing well of power. And her magic is equally flashy. Eyes can sometimes glow white or blue when using non-demonic magic, or her mutation. Yay lack of canon consistency.
* When serious magic's about to go down, will summon her Soul Staff, which has some similarities to a glaive or scythe. It is literally her soul made manifest, and is uniquely lethal to magic-users who aren't her.
* Also may break out a particular enchanted red cape that would look familiar to those who know a Doctor Strange in their reality.
* Raised in a Hell dimension by a demon lord from ages 6ish - 15. Was forced into a magical apprenticeship and taught dark, chaos, & demonic magics and had her soul corrupted as part of a plan to let the Elder Gods take over Earth.
* So if you're sensitive to magical energy, Illyana literally has one giant glowing sign of "DEMON" on half her soul, and the other half of her soul is uncorrupted and full of creation magic.
* Can see/sense other people's magic, pretty much like how Synch sees mutant auras. She has been told, repeatedly, that it's rude to let people know you can do that, but she doesn't always remember things like 'tact' or 'manners.'
* Her emotional state (or type of magic she's doing) affects her physical form. Illyana has three(ish) forms that are 'native' to her at this point. No one of the three is more 'her' than the others: Standard Illyana Human, half-demon-half-human (to varying degrees), and full demonic Darkchilde. She tries to stick to Standard Human for everyone else's comfort, but the 50/50 tends to come out when she's stressed or tired. No one here has seen full Darkchilde yet.
When in demonic-mode: * Eyes will tend to be solid gold, or white, or red, depending on how she feels. * Red horns grow from her head. Again, depending on how much she's lost control, they could just be tiny nubs, or full-on ram horns. * Fangs/claws/tail * If she's totally lost it, her legs become goat-like and her skin is red or gold. If she's at that stage, narrative will say so.
Illyana Raputina
* Long blonde hair down to just below her shoulder blades, with blunt-cut bangs and bright blue eyes. Looks utterly angelic, when she's not being a feral trash goblin child.
* Generally dresses in Grunge-style or goth: Ripped jeans, hoodies, flannels, fishnets, tank tops/baggy t-shirts, combat boots, etc. Basically looks like her PB/the version of the character from the New Mutants movie, along with the sarcasm (and anger issues).
too bad it was such hot trash* Make-up wise; sticks to lip gloss, mascara, and eyeliner as-needed.
* Her English was implanted telepathically, so has a slightly posh Upstate NY accent with faint British overtones. Thanks, Professor X. Though she's been living Greenwich Village for the few years, and has started picking up that accent, which gets more prominent as she feels more comfortable around people. Will revert to Russian if seriously distressed.
* Has callouses on her hands consistent with someone who trains with weapons a lot, particularly staff and sword. Which is one reason she likes baggy hoodies she can pull down over her hands.
* Mutant teleporter, so if you can sense mutations, she will ping your radar.
* Her teleportation 'Stepping Discs' are flat circles of gold or white light, which she can move in any direction she likes. The easiest method for her to use them are like the portals from Portal, or for someone to step on one, and then appear somewhere else. However, just because that's easiest, doesn't mean that's how she likes to use them. Illyana delights in making physics her bitch, and acting like she's in a game of
meta-forPortal.* Sorcerer's Apprentice. If you can sense magic, she is a gigantic glowing well of power. And her magic is equally flashy. Eyes can sometimes glow white or blue when using non-demonic magic, or her mutation. Yay lack of canon consistency.
* When serious magic's about to go down, will summon her Soul Staff, which has some similarities to a glaive or scythe. It is literally her soul made manifest, and is uniquely lethal to magic-users who aren't her.
* Also may break out a particular enchanted red cape that would look familiar to those who know a Doctor Strange in their reality.
* Raised in a Hell dimension by a demon lord from ages 6ish - 15. Was forced into a magical apprenticeship and taught dark, chaos, & demonic magics and had her soul corrupted as part of a plan to let the Elder Gods take over Earth.
* So if you're sensitive to magical energy, Illyana literally has one giant glowing sign of "DEMON" on half her soul, and the other half of her soul is uncorrupted and full of creation magic.
* Can see/sense other people's magic, pretty much like how Synch sees mutant auras. She has been told, repeatedly, that it's rude to let people know you can do that, but she doesn't always remember things like 'tact' or 'manners.'
* Her emotional state (or type of magic she's doing) affects her physical form. Illyana has three(ish) forms that are 'native' to her at this point. No one of the three is more 'her' than the others: Standard Illyana Human, half-demon-half-human (to varying degrees), and full demonic Darkchilde. She tries to stick to Standard Human for everyone else's comfort, but the 50/50 tends to come out when she's stressed or tired. No one here has seen full Darkchilde yet.
When in demonic-mode:
* Eyes will tend to be solid gold, or white, or red, depending on how she feels.
* Red horns grow from her head. Again, depending on how much she's lost control, they could just be tiny nubs, or full-on ram horns.
* Fangs/claws/tail
* If she's totally lost it, her legs become goat-like and her skin is red or gold. If she's at that stage, narrative will say so.