Mirage

"Cindy" (Nickname)

Eremia Reynard (Younger Brother)

Fantsy (Future Daughter)

## **History**

### **Cynthia Reynolds: 1984 - 2007**

Sinfi Reynard was born somewhere in the outskirts of Opal City, Texas. Sinfi's family belonged to a clan of Romani migrants and the caravan would often travel from Louisiana, through Texas, up through Colorado, and into the Pacific Northwest. Soon after Cindy's brother was born, Edward and June began to fight. Cindy tried to keep her parents together but also suffered abuse. No longer able to stomach the abuse Cindy bought a one-way bus ticket to Detroit and ran away from home.

At thirteen years old, a police pursuit of a fugitive caused quite the commotion as the caravan was driving through Blue Valley, Colorado. Bus Driver tried to pull the bus aside when he saw the pursued vehicle followed by a trail of flashing lights, but as he pulled over on a narrow shoulder, the fugitive's vehicle sideswiped the bus and pushed it through the guard rail, causing it to go rolling down a steep embankment and into a mountain riverbed. Mark Shaw, a federal agent, radioed the police to keep on the fugitive while he went to check on the crashed motor-home. Mark Shaw found the three adults in the front dead but found a young girl unconscious nearby in the riverbed, having been thrown from the crash.

Agent Shaw rushed the girl to the Blue Valley Medical Center where doctors stabilized her but claimed she was in a coma. Sadly for Cindy since she didn't have any form of id on her she was as a Jane Doe as comatose child. But not everyone left the girl alone, Agent Shaw visited as often as he could for six years. On New Years' Eve in 2003, Agent Shaw promptly left Sinfi's hospital room on some urgent matter, just minutes before Sinfi woke up.

### **Mirage: 2007 - Present**

Afflicted with a splitting headache and scared out of her mind, Sinfi's initial reaction was overwhelming panic. The nurses tried to calm her by telling her that Agent Shaw would be back to see her soon. Of course, the nurses didn't know that Sinfi had no idea who Agent Shaw was and thus Sinfi only became more paranoid. When the medical staff sedated her, Sinfi found herself projected outside her own body. When she returned to her body, she awoke and quickly discovered other psychic abilities at her disposal, like creating potent illusions and low-level telepathy. Somehow, Sinfi used these nascent powers to escape the hospital and leave town, catching a bus heading for Central City.

For three years, Sinfi lived a luxurious life as a con-artist as she mastered her abilities. To help elude this agent and other law dogs, Sinfi took on the name "Cynthia Reynolds". In time, "Cynthia" felt her abilities might be plateauing. She had heard talk that STAR Labs had a drug which could enhance metahumans' powers. So Cynthia used her psychic powers to cloud the minds of STAR Labs' best and brightest as she snooped around the particle accelerator. While tailing Dr. Wells, Cynthia inadvertently strolled into the lair of the Flash and even saw the speedster unmask. Afraid to press her luck, Cynthia hastily left and found herself in the lab of Cisco Ramon. Cisco was startled by the beautiful woman and when he said as much, Cynthia realized this guy could see through her illusions.

## **Personality**

Cynnthia Reynolds is an expert con-artist and psychic, a resourceful and street-smart woman who values her freedom over everything else. Deeply attached to her mother, she’s however in a bad relationship with her farther, whom she despises being totally reciprocated. Elusive and cunning, Mirage was born as free as air, and she’d do anything not to spend her life behind bars.

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

### **Powers**

**Metahuman Physiology:**

* **Telepathy:** Cynthia Reynolds can mentally interact with the mind, consciousness, and thoughts of herself or others through mental power/capacity, thus being able to read/sense another person's thoughts, communicate with them mentally, and a plethora of other capabilities without the aid of physical communication (noise or movement).
	+ **Astral Projection:** She can project her astral form from her body onto the Astral Plane or the physical plane. In the physical plane she can travel in astral form over vast distances. In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. She can communicate with others astrally through her own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. Capable of forging psi-links with herself and her body to travel in astral form. A unique trait of her astral form is the ability to interact with the physical world as though she were tangible.
	+ **Illusion Manipulation:** Mirage is a metahuman with the power of illusion casting. She can psionically cause other people to see, hear, touch, smell, and/or taste things which do not actually exist. For example, she can seem to make a solid wall appear in an empty space. She can also cause people to see, hear, touch, smell, and/or taste real things in ways that they would not do naturally. For example, she can make herself look and sound like a different person, or look and feel like a wall, or even seem invisible. However, her power works so strongly on the mind that even if her victims know they are being subjected to an illusion, they will still react to the illusion as if it were reality unless they can rid themselves of all suspicions that it is indeed reality. Hence, if Mirage creates the illusion of a wall, most people, even if they know it is an illusion, will still be unable to walk through it. Invariably Mirage's illusions are so realistic that most people are unable to help having the feeling, at least subconsciously, that they are not illusions but reality.

## **Trivia**

* Mirage joined the Justice League in 2011 nominated by Black Canary.
* The federal agent who saved Sinfi was actually Martian Manhunter using one of his many human aliases.
* She considers J'onn J'onzz to be her surrogate father. If she ever gets married, she wants J'onn to walk her down the aisle.