Illyana Rasputin

Illyana Rasputin (**Magik**), mutant, is a native Russian with telepathic and telekinetic abilities, with a powerful connection to the Astral Plane.

## Physical Appearance

Illyana is a beautiful, thin and petite young woman with pale skin, green eyes, and midlengthed blonde hair (with fringe bangs). Her style is very feminine, but is very diverse in the fashion. Her wardrobe is largely composed of tennis skirts, pants, and tops that accentuate her figure. She likes to show her midriff and is also a big fan of accessorizing; chokers, fish nets, etc.

## Personality

During the course of the entire series, Illyana is described as a witty, sassy, carefree but a laidback, strong and intelligent young girl, bit of a tomboy with a passion for art. She has a strong sarcastic sense of dark humor. In spite of acting carefree and slightly bitchy, she is a very loyal
and faithful friend and shows a strong caring side towards Rahne Sinclair, shown after the latter first arrived at the Essex Facility.

Due to being kidnapped and tortured by Shadow King, Illyana has a lot of trauma that hasn't been healthly handled. She's been seen to lash out, and react in violent ways.

## Powers and Abilities

### Mutant Abilities

* **Psionics**: Illyana possesses an array of psionic powers which manifest themselves as blueish, glowing energy currents and mist-like shapes from her hands. When using her telepathic abilities, Rasputin's irises glow a dark blue color. When using her telekinetic abilities, her irises glow a bright blue color. Rasputin's powers are reliant on movement and focus, which means her enemies or opponents can stop her from using her powers by disrupting her focus or restricting her movements.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Illyana has the ability to move, levitate and otherwise manipulate objects using her psionic energy in a remote manner without the need for her energy to first be projected from her hands. She uses this energy to affect and control molecules and particles, allowing her to fully control matter and energy. Rasputin used this power to stop an off-rail train in New York, tear apart spider-like sentinels and rip out the central processor of a Sentinel's body, which was made of a very strong metal. Illyana's telekinesis can control a soldier's gunfire and throw him away, lift James into the air to enter a building, hurl aside a possessed James, hurl cars, extract and dissipate an enormous amount of gas, and even hold up a collapsed watchtower for several minutes. She was also able to stop a massive line of spider-like sentinels, as well as hold back a charging Juggernaut. During her second fight with Juggernaut, she lifted and flung large portions of debris at him. She then incapacitated him by lifting him into the air and began to crush his body, snapping off significant portions of his armor. Illyana is also precise enough to use her energy to remove a copious volume of poisonous gas by spreading her energy throughout every molecule of gas and making it dissipate into the atmosphere.
		- **Telekinetic Sword**: Rasputin can manifest a telekinetic sword composed of raw psi-energy at will. Illyana's telekinetic manifestations produce visible radiance in the physical world. Thus, she can use her psychic sword as a makeshift light source in areas of darkness. Her telekinetic sword is strong enough to harm other beings more powerful than herself.
		- **Force-Field Generation**: Illyana is able to create a highly durable barrier of energy that she can shape and conform as needed. She used it to grab and break apart targets, protect others from enemy fire, contain a target or to cover and deflect attacks from enemies. Like any physical barriers, the barrier could be broken with extreme brute force, as the sentinels were able to eventually break it. She has learned to project her energy around herself, constructing a close-to-the-body psionic armor to protect herself from extreme impacts, such as falls from great heights or blows from superhumanly strong combatants, increasing her durability to a significant degree. This allowed her to land safely whenever she crash lands, as well as defending her against the might of superhuman combatants.
	+ **Telepathy**: Illyana can read minds or mentally communicate and experience memories and thoughts of others or project her own thoughts. While she was using her hypnotic powers in conjunction with this power against the guards at the secret facility, she herself viewed their memories. When using her power, her irises sometimes glow a dark blue color, especially when she concentrate it on certain targets. Illyana can also sense the minds and emotions of those around her as she could see Rahne's fear and sensed Doug's panic attack, knowing exactly what happened to him, as if she had seen it directly. She can also manipulate the memory, thoughts, actions, emotions, and senses of others at will, as well as to induce sleep or pain and create illusions without any difficulty. In addition, Illyana has a powerful connection to the Astral Plane, naturally tuned to levels of the realm.
		- **Astral Plane Manipulation**: Rasputin has a powerful and vast connection to the Astral Plane, as she was kidnapped and stored there for over three months. She used this ability to construct an elaborate illusion of the Essex Facility, capable of trapping several people, including several powerful psychics. Her power over the realm allows her to telekinetically affect the environment, such as immobilizing other, as well as controlling Beef’s motor skills and forcing him to walk backward. Additionally, she was able to contort The Shadow King’s body in Astral Plane, simultaneously killing him in the real world.
			* **Astral Teleportation**: She has a powerful connection to the astral dimension and can use her link to teleport. Illyana can teleport over long distances by psychokinetically creating portals that she can use to teleport herself in and out of the astral plane (she is also shown to be able to carry additional weight, such as another person, when she teleports). This power physically manifests as a blue-transparent light of energy that creates a rift and absorbs her, taking her wherever her wishes.

### Abilities

* **Gifted Artist**: Illyana is known for being very artistically talented, evidenced by her drawings of her dreams and nightmares, along with a detailed sketch of the Astral Plane. She's often seen sketching or painting during her free time.
* **Skilled Combatant**: She's developed a fighting style in which she would infuse her acrobatic abilities and psionic energy into her hands to greatly enhance her hand-to-hand combat skills and allow her to parry attacks from bladed weapons without suffering any harm due to her psionic energy protecting her hands from damage. Her combat instincts were also honed to the point she could react to and halt an explosion, parry attacks, and catch metal shards moments before it could strike her.
* **Talented Acrobat**: Rasputin is shown to be highly skilled in various acrobatics, including ballet and other agile maneuvers, often incorporating agile moves while fighting opponents. When raiding the MRD, she was able to evade attacks from the police officers and other prisoners using a variety of cartwheels and handsprings.

## Relationships

### Enemies

* **Shadow King** - Kidnapper, Attempted Killer, Victim
* **Smiley Men** - Former Enthrallers, Victims
* **Mister Sinister** - Enemy, Attempted Victim, Former Enthraller
* **The Hellions**
	+ **Beef** - Enemy
	+ **Roulette** - Enemy
	+ **Jetstream** - Situational Enemy, Ally
* **Selene** - Enemy