Celeste Cuckoo (Earth-616)

**Celeste Cuckoo** is a genetically-engineered mutant who was created by Dr. John Sublime from the genetics of Emma Frost. She is one of the Stepford Cuckoos.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Hive Mind:** The Stepford Cuckoos share a telepathic hive mind, which allows them to share thoughts and maintain a continuous telepathic connection. This link is strongest when the girls are in close physical proximity and also allows for increased telepathic strength and shared intellect. Although a stronger personality can take lead of the hive mind, all the Cuckoos maintain their independence.

* **Superhuman Cognition:** Through the hive mind, the sisters have gained a prodigious intellectual enhancement, allowing them to work together to manipulate vast amounts of cognitive and perceptive facilities on top of their vastly expanded psychic power. This union of their psyches also increases their comprehensive ability, tactical understanding, and acumen quota.

**Telepathy:** The Cuckoos can read minds and project their thoughts to others. Though they individually possess their own telepathic abilities, their powers are greater when they join together.

* **Telepathic Resistance:** They have stated that, together, they can block talented telepaths from reading their minds.
* **Illusion Manipulation:** The Cuckoos can create realistic telepathic illusions that cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
* **Mental Manipulation:** They are able to alter the minds of others by force of will. This can enable them to restore lost memories or transfer knowledge.
* **Tracking:** The Cuckoos' psionic senses enable them to detect and track other sentient beings by their unique psionic emanations or thought patterns. This ability is highly sensitive to proximity but can be enhanced with the use of Cerebra.
* **Astral Projection:** They are capable of sending astral projections, astral travel, and communicating with others astrally through their own will or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.
* **Paralysis Inducement:** They are able to affect certain areas of the brain to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
* **Memory Erasure:** They can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
* **Mind Control:** They can assume control of another person's actions and thoughts.

**Diamond Form:** Like their biological mother, the Cuckoos have the ability to transform themselves into a flexible, translucent, organic diamond-like substance while retaining full mobility. In this form, their skin is as hard as real diamond. Their diamond form does not require a conscious hold and, thus, will remain until it is voluntarily triggered back, Unlike their mother, their diamond forms are completely flawless, and nothing can enter or escape their core. However, maintaining this form for extended periods of time reduces their emotional capabilities. They are also able to selectively transform discrete parts of their bodies. Once, in order to trap the Phoenix Force, the Cuckoos turned their hearts into a diamond prison.

* **Telepathic Resistance:** Although they are immune to all psychic powers in their diamond forms, they cannot use their own telepathic powers either.
* **Superhuman Strength:** The Cuckoos are able to lift 85 tons in their diamond forms.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Their diamond forms grant them the ability to sustain peak exertion for up to 24 hours.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Their diamond form augments their skin, bone, and muscles to become stronger and harder than those of a human. They are completely impervious in this form.
* **Self-Sustenance:** In diamond form, the sisters to not require food or water for an undetermined amount of time.

**Telekinesis:** Some of the Cuckoos have demonstrated a telekinetic ability of an undefined degree. For instance, Phoebe once psychically lifted a bowl of cereal over another person's head.

#### Former Powers

**Phoenix Force:** The Cuckoos were once avatars of the Phoenix and later contained shards of the Phoenix Force inside their hearts until the Phoenix retreated from them.

* **Flight:** While possessing the full Phoenix, the sisters were able to fly.
* **Cosmic Pyrokinesis:** They were able to mentally create cosmic flames.
* **Telepathy:** The Phoenix fragments trapped in their hearts increased their telepathic powers. After the departure of the Phoenix, the sisters mourned their return to average telepath status.
* **Teleportation**
* **Soul Manipulation**
* **Reality Manipulation**
* **Immortality**