Crystal

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

### **Powers**

**Inhuman Physiology:** Besides strength, Crystal possesses certain physical skills superior to those of human athletes. Her Inhuman metabolism affords her slightly greater reaction time, endurance, and speed than the human race's most perfect physical specimen.

* **Enhanced Endurance**
* **Enhanced Speed**
* **Enhanced Strength**
* **Enhanced Reflexes**
* **Elemental Manipulation:** Crystal possesses the ability to mentally manipulate the four classical elements: fire, water, earth, and air. She does so by means of a psionic interaction with the substances on an atomic level. Certainly, Crystal can manipulate anything that involves elements.
	+ **Air Manipulation:** She can control oxygen atoms and oxygen-containing molecules to create atmospheric disturbances of various kinds. By intermingling air with earth she can cause a dust storm, air with water a typhoon, and air with fire a firestorm. She is able to create a wind of tornado intensity, approximately 115 miles per hour. She has demonstrated the ability to control air as far away as within a 30-mile radius.
		- **Aerokinetic Flight:** Crystal is able to use the element of wind to levitate, float, and glide through wind current.
		- **Air Shield Construction:** By controlling air molecules, she is able to bind them together psionically and compact them into a boundary to such a degree that matter cannot pass through. She has also used this ability to deflect attacks and has demonstrated the ability to determine what may or may not pass through the barrier.
		- **Atmosphere Generation:** Crystal can use her power over air to create a protective atmosphere capable of sustaining a group of people within the vacuum of space. She uses this ability to various effects including creating a field around her, allowing her to breathe while submerged in water and molten lava and and contain the atmosphere when the hull of a spaceship was compromised.
	+ **Earth Manipulation:** She can control the various substances that make up common bedrock (earth: iron, granite, shale, limestone, etc.), creating seismic tremors of up to 6.7 on the Richter scale (greater if tectonic plate fault lines are nearby) by causing a sudden shifting of the earth. The extent of this power is unknown although she has demonstrated the ability to lift the entire city of Attilan for a significant amount of time.
		- **Metal Manipulation:** Her ability to control earth extends to many metals which are naturally occurring, including iron, the extent of which is unknown.
		- **Magnetic Manipulation:** She has demonstrated a limited capacity to manipulate the magnetic polarity of the metals she can psionically control.
	+ **Fire Manipulation:** She possesses the psionic ability to manipulate fire, cause it to grow in size and intensity, and take any form that she desires. She can also douse any oxidizing flame by altering the ionization potential of the outer electron shells of oxygen atoms. This fire burns only what she desires. By accelerating oxygen molecules, she is able to cause fire to spontaneously ignite.
	+ **Water Manipulation:** Further, she can control the movement of water to a certain extent, via manipulation of interatomic van der Wall's forces controlling surface tension, divining water from the ground and causing it to flow in designated directions. The maximum volume is unknown although she has demonstrated the ability to create a maelstrom large and powerful enough to trap at least a dozen individuals, including Namor, and brought down what was described as "a sea from the sky," at least several thousand gallons. She can cause hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the air to recombine and form water molecules, summoning these atoms from a volume of atmosphere within a radius of approximately two miles. This allows her to spontaneously create water, even in a dry environment, provided oxygen and hydrogen are present.
		- **Ice Manipulation:** Her control of water molecules extends to all of its forms, including ice. By slowing the movement of water molecules, she can instantly freeze water. This ability coupled with her power of hydrogenesis, allows her to spontaneously generate ice. She uses this ability most commonly in the form of ice blasts.
			* **Mind Control**
			* **Illusion Casting**