Sister Grimm

## **History**

### **Nico Minoru: 2002 - Present**

Nico Minoru was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Robert and Tina Minoru, two rich philanthropists. Nico grew up under a prep school education, then inevitably came the age of rebellion, and she started wearing goth clothes, becoming a wiccan, and listening to metal music, a way to affirm her identity to her parents… obviously causing a lot of arguments.

Every year, **Nico Minoru'**s parents would join five other couples in a "charity event." One year, Nico and the other kids decided to spy on their parents. Nico was shocked to discover her father speaking a strange enchantment, and after witnessing the murder of an innocent girl by their parents ("The Pride"), Nico joined the others in running away from their parents.

While on the run, Nico reencounters her parents. Her mother, wielding a large staff with a ball at the end ("the Staff of One"), reveals that she and Nico's father were dark wizards. She then attempts to jam the Staff into Nico's chest. Nico's body, curiously, absorbs it. After she is later cut by Dale Yorkes' samurai battle-axe, the Staff re-emerges from her chest, prompting Nico to use the phrase "Freeze", and freeze Stacey Yorkes. Nico was discovered to be a witch, and the Staff would only emerge when she bled. Sometime after running off, Nico took on the name Sister Grimm to escape the name her parents gave her, but dropped it after a while. After team leader Alex outs himself as a mole and defeated along with the Pride.

## **Personality**

Nico's personality was mostly influenced by a tragic and defining moment in her teenage years: the death of her best friend Amelia. Nico was deeply traumatized by this event, even more due to the fact that she was the first one to find Amy's body. Losing her best friend deeply affected her and her relationships; from this point, Nico began to isolate herself from both her family and her friends; she changed her physical appearance for a darker look and embraced Wiccan beliefs. Although Nico did her best to hide her sorrow from her former friends, she felt incredibly lonely. Nico Minoru is apparently a gloomy and sullen goth girl, keeping the attitude of someone who’s enraged with the whole world, but she’s actually a positive-thinking and careful girl, more mature than her age and deeply altruistic. Intelligent and cultured, Nico is a wise leader and a maternal figure for some of her teammates, a girl who sometimes feels like the weight of the world is entirely on her shoulders, but who can always face the threats in front of her with a smile to cheer her teammates up.

Joining the Runaways enabled Nico to open up to her friends. Although she retained her dark clothes and makeup and her stern behavior, she was able to show a warmer side, although the ghost of Amelia's death still had an influence in her life. She started a relationship with her friend Alex Wilder, which ended when she discovered that he knew something about the background of Amelia's death. She then grew closer to Karolina Dean, who had long been attracted to her, and realized that she also had feelings for her. This relationship brought a significant stability in Nico's life, especially when Dean reassured Nico regarding her fear of the Staff of One.

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Homo Magi Physiology:** Nico Minoru is born into two of the most powerful magical families human known as the Minorus & Igarashi family, her bloodline has the ability to use magic as an innate talent instead of studying. She is able to naturally adept in using magic; she's been learning more powerful spells of magic.

* **Magic:** She is able access magic, she is able to perform rituals, symbols, actions, gestures, language, etc., to exploit supernatural forces to varying degrees, with only her skill, personal power-level, imagination/knowledge, and/or morality to define the borders. Given the flexibility of her magic, she is able to have essentially limitless possibilities for what she can accomplish.
	+ **Dark Arts:** Her family is known to use the dark arts. She is able utilize the Black Arts: a form of magic typically used for selfish, self-serving and/or nefarious purposes. Though it is not necessarily "evil" magic, dark arts tend to focus toward destruction, harming, cursing and otherwise complicating the lives of other people while advancing the user's own state.
	+ **Blood Magic:** Nico has magical aptitude, but she did not receive formal training. So far she has relied on the Staff of One to work magic. After her encounter with Witchbreaker, her abilities were augmented so that she can create smaller magical effects without the aid of the Staff. She can freely float, although this ability is not as useful as actual flight which requires a spell. She can cast spells to change her surroundings, such as transforming the inside of a building.
		- **Elemental Manipulation**: Wielding the Staff of One, Minoru has the power to control and manipulate the elements.
			* **Air Manipulation**: Minoru can use the staff to manipulate the air around her to her desire, utilizing it for various tasks such as enabling her to fly or use it to knock back her opponents.
			* **Weather Generation**: While holding the Staff of One, Minoru unwillingly made it snow inside her mother's home office when she reminisced on one of her deceased sister's paper snowflakes.
			* **Flight**: While at the bottom of the hole, Minoru utilized the power of air and used it to carry her to the top where she confronted Jonah.
			* **Earth Manipulation**: By saying "Fill the hole," Minoru caused sand to swarm around a hole dug up by PRIDE. However, her mother cancelled the command before it can be completed by summoning the staff back to her hand. Minoru was also able to create a wall of stone from the road that stopped Geoffrey Wilder’s car from chasing them.
			* **Sound Manipulation**: By concentrating on what came to her mind first she was able to make her mother mute, her not being able to speak.
			* **Electricity Manipulation**: Minoru commanded her staff to create a spark in order to hotwire the engine on the Rolls.
			* **Technology Manipulation**: Minoru was able to use the Staff to turn and tune a radio in her room in the Hostel.
			* **Fire Manipulation**: While training with the other Runaways, Chase Stein's Fistigons created a fire which Minoru handled by extinguishing it with the staff.
		- **Sensory Tracking**: When Alex Wilder was kidnapped and Nico tried to find him, she asked the staff to lead her the way to him which it fulfilled by creating a series of lights that followed the heat signature of his kidnappers' car.
		- **Barriers**: During the Runaways' confrontation with Darius Davis, Minoru created an invisible barrier using the Staff of One that slowed down the hail of bullets he unleashed causing them to lose kinetic energy and drop in midair. She also created a sound barrier around Tina to prevent her from being heard. She was also able to create a energy shield to protect her from Chase Stein’s Fistigons blasts, and create a cone that stopped Topher from hearing her conversation with the rest of the runaways. Minoru also used the staff to camouflage the hideout as well as turn the building into a fortress which sealed the building with steel doors preventing anyone from entering or exiting. This however was only in affect while Minoru was concentrating on the spell, which caused her discomfort after extended periods.
		- **Telekinesis**: Minoru was able to create a blast of telekinetic energy that sent Topher flying several feat backwards, she was also able to create a giant shockwave that destroyed most of a PRIDE office, sent her parents flying backwards, and fatally injured her father.
		- **Sleep Inducement**: Minoru was able to put all of the Runaways’ parents instantly to sleep.
		- **Body Immobilization**: Minoru was able to temporarily immobilize AWOL and his team, leaving them conscious yet incapacitated.
		- **Dark Dimension Energy Manipulation**: Minoru was able to draw power from another dimension. Nico is also seen practicing drawing power from this dimension. When she does this, the skin around her eyes darkens, similar to the Zealots.
		- **Levitation:** While in her darkened state, Minoru was able to levitate herself off of the ground and back on her feet again
		- **Teleportation**: By chanting "*Get Out!*", Nico teleported AWOL and his team to the Dark Dimension.
		- **Summoning**: Like her mother, Minoru was able to summon the staff to her current whereabouts. The staff didn’t have to be activated for her to achieve this. When the staff was broken, Nico was able to recreate the staff by pulling it out of her body after it was summoned once she cut herself.

### **Equipment**

**Staff of One:**  This ancient magical item has become a part of Nico. She can call it forth by shedding blood (through cutting herself, menstruating, or being wounded) and reciting, "When blood is shed, let the Staff of One emerge." The staff appears out of her chest, passing through her skin and clothing without harm. Once summoned, the staff used to work for anyone. But as evidenced by the confrontation with Val Rhymin's magician, the Staff has recently developed the ability to defend itself in a violent manner. Nico can cast spells by invoking painful memories, thinking of an effect, and giving the spell a name. Nico's spells can affect the elements (earth, air, fire, water), time and/or space, matter and/or energy, light, biological processes, and mental processes, and can apparently summon creatures from other dimensions; in short, the staff allows Nico to do anything she can imagine, short of raising the dead. After the staff has expended a certain amount of power, it disappears inside Nico again. The Staff has been recently updated into a version of the Witchbreaker's Staff, augmenting Nico's powers considerably.

1. **"Freeze."** Magically froze Gertrude Yorkes' mother for a short period of time.
2. **"Freeze."** Due to this spell already having been used, the Staff of One randomly summoned pelicans.
3. **"Smoke."** Produced a thick cloud of black smoke to cover the Runaways' escape.
4. **"Away."** Teleported Nico away from Alex Wilder.
5. **"Mud."** Summoned a blob of mud that flew right at Karolina Dean.
6. **"Burst!"** Caused two spray-paint cans to explode.
7. **"Rock and roll."** Generated a tremor that resulted in the Hostel caving in on the Runaways and LAPD officers.
8. **"Waterproof!"** Summons a impervious bubble for the team to travel underwater in.
9. **"Float on."** Levitated Chase Stein's powerless parents up to the roof and kept them there for a while.
10. **"Hands off!"** Caused the Fistigons gauntlets that Alex Wilder had stolen to blow up.
11. **"Comeback Alex"**. Nico resurrect Alex Wilder
12. **"Fumigation"**. Uses a fumigation spell to prevail against an insect-based enemy.
13. **"Fish Face"**. Turns Chase Stein into a fish.
14. **"Short"**. Ironically uses a Reduction Incantation to make Mole Man even smaller.
15. **"Deconstruct."** Caused a member of the Wrecking Crew to simply fall apart into several pieces, temporarily.
16. **"Flashback."** Allowed Nico to view the last living memories of the Gertrude Yorkes of the future.
17. **"Rockstars!** Fired an energy blast at Victor Mancha.
18. **"You suck."** Caused Turbo's wrist turbines to reverse, causing a vacuum around her.
19. **"Insulation!"** Negates Victor Mancha's electromagnetic powers for a while.
20. **"Cloak"**. Turned the entire team, except for Victor Mancha, invisible.
21. **"Shine on, you crazy diamond."** Encases Ultron in a solid block of diamond.
22. **"Fumigation!"** Cast for the second time, the spell has the unpredicted consequence of teleporting Nico and Karolina into a desert.
23. **"Acid rain!"** Summons a cloud that produced acid rain to cause a few security daemons to melt.
24. **"Old Lace to Old Yeller!"** Turns Old Lace, the team dinosaur, into a small dog, temporarily.
25. **"Hellfire!"** Fires jets of hellfire at Spider-Man.
26. **"Dreamtime!"** Causes Spider-Man to instantly fall asleep.
27. **"Magic Carpet"**. Summoned a flying carpet to transport the team across New York City.
28. **"Sunburst!"** Fires a burst of solar energy at a villain.
29. **"Get to work!"** Turns Chase's list of things to do when he turns 18 into a wrench.
30. **"Revelations!"** Undoes the illusion cast by Geoffrey Wilder to make himself look like his son.
31. **"Shut up!"** Blasts Chase away in a swirl of energy. Chase didn't retained his ability to speak after this.
32. **"Muzzle"**. Casts a muzzle spell on Old Lace after the dinosaur attacked her.
33. **"Pixies, find the leak!"** Successfully summons a dozen pixies to show Nico how the new Pride has been keeping tabs on them.
34. **"Forget."** Erased Geoffrey Wilder's memory of ever coming to the future and sends him back to the 80's, where he was summoned from.
35. **"Caffeine injection!"** Gives an exhausted Molly Hayes a sudden excess of energy to keep her fighting against a gigantic monster.
36. **"Now here comes the sweet talk."** Gives Xavin the voice of the monster's late wife to go along with his shapeshifting into her, convincing the beast to stop destroying buildings.
37. **"Cage"**. Summons a magical cage of energy to trap the Silver Bullet Gang inside it.
38. **"Get Lost"** Temporarily blinded Kate Bishop.
39. **"Chill out."** Causes an Artic atmosphere which halts the fighting between the Young Avengers and Runaways.
40. **"Wake up"** A spell used to wake up the other members of the teams, who were knocked out by Noh-Varr.
41. **"Prodigium Effodio"** 'Excavating monster' a red light in the shape of a monster that got the heroes into the Cube through the floor.
42. **"Going Down"** Phasing through the floor of a building to escape the Punisher--Molly calls it 'Shadowcatting'.
43. **"Crash"** Used to knock out ninjas.
44. **"Heal Me"** healing spell Nico used to heal herself.
45. **"Create Outfits"** Nico creates outfits for them to wear in 1907.
46. **"Put out the fire"** fire controlling spell, to help the effort of rescue of the factory fire.
47. **"Open Sesame"** used to open the bank vault.
48. **"Float"** used a Flight spell
49. **"Flood"** caused water to flow through the streets to extinguish the fires and ,temporaily, the fighting.
50. **"Vegan"** Stops Maneater.
51. **"The show must go on."** Neutralizing the Yorkes ,and making them unable of changing future events such as; their own.
52. **"Pop"** After Xavin holds the Runaways in forcefield bubbles, Nico uses this spell to explode them before the Skrulls invade
53. **"Stone Cold"** This was used to froze a member of the Wrecking Crew.
54. **"Clot"** Stop Chase's bleeding
55. **"Canopener"** Opened the Iron Lad armor.
56. **"Rubber Soul"** It bounced Victorious' energy back to himself.
57. **"Applause"** It can create two large red hands clapped themselves around Victorious.
58. **"Scatter"** Nico's infamous spell that was meant to scatter the villainous Majesdanians over Earth, but it also emotionally scattered the Runaways.
59. **"Ocean View"** After the Majesdanians break the Runaways' new kitchen, Nico uses this spell to repair it.
60. **"Xavin! Here! Now!"** Nico uses this spell to magically pull Xavin through the air, pronto.
61. **"Wings"** Gives Nico brilliantly large wings to fly
62. **"Suck eggs, skunkhead"** Nico used this spell to shoot out eggs at a Momida's face with the force of bullets
63. **"Balloons"** Nico used this spell to magically attach air balloons to Cadie McDonnogh's falling helicopter
64. **"Zombie Not"** Nico's spell attempted to turn plastic-surgery zombies normal, although since she can't "reverse magic", it causes them to form into one large zombie. It's later revealed the reason is because her magic took control of itself; it thought she said "zombie **k**not".
65. **"Oily"** Nico's spell to break apart the zombies backfires again and spills oil through the streets of Los Angeles.
66. **"Cocoon"** Wraps up Val Rhymin once and for all in a cocoon.
67. **"Wardrobe Malfunction"** Nico causes Marie robe to turn against her
68. **"Deflector Shield"** Reflecting magic lightning blast back towards Marie