Angel Salvadore

Angel Salvadore Bohusk (Alias)

Salem Center, NY

## Background

### **1989 - 2004: Angel Salvadore**

Angel Salvadore is an Afro-Latina who grew up in very poor trailer park in Wyoming. Her family consisted of her distant mother, her abusive stepfather, her younger half-sister & a missing biological father. Since the age of nine, Angel had been physically, sexually, verbally & emotionally abused by her stepfather. To make matters worse, her mother seemed to either ignore or overlook the abuse even though her husband made no secret of the fact that he was molesting his step-daughter.

When Angel was fifteen, her mutation began to manifest. Her back was covered in wilts, bumps & rashes on the higher area of her back & shoulder which only escalated the abuse from her stepfather. Wanting to escape her family & her "skin condition," Angel snuck out one night to hang out with friends. After returning home after her curfew, her stepfather confronted her & began to physically fight her. Once he was done physically & verbally abusing her, Angel packed up what she could find & left.

The following morning, she awoke & discovered that she had formed a cocoon about herself while she slept. Inside the cocoon, Angel had begun healing her injuries & was sprouting a dual pair insectoid wings on her back where her previous scars had been. She was soon surrounded by U-Men, a group who harvested & grafted the body parts of mutants to grant themselves superhuman abilities. As they attacked her for her wings, Angel's body moves into fight mode & she discovers her abilities all at once.

She produced a deafening ultrasonic sound then vomited her acidic spit at several of the armored men. But the men begin to overwhelm her. Angel would have been captured if Wolverine had not arrived, having found her on Cerebro earlier. After he manages to calm Angel down, he convinces her to come with him to the Xavier Institute. She agreed but remained distrustful towards him but given her current circumstances, she had little choice but to join him.

### **2004 - 2010: Tempest**

Upon arriving the Institute, Angel kept mostly to herself. She had grown a disdain for the other “pretty” mutants, notably Emma Frost. However, Frost took Angel's attitude to be a challenge & opted to take Angel under her wing as a mentor to mold her into a sophisticated young woman. But Angel saw her mutation as an affliction & claimed that she would have her wings removed if she could afford it. Despite constantly voicing her dislike for the school to Wolverine, she remained at the school & continued to study as a student.

In time, Angel’s experiences & reputation with her fellow students though she soon went back to her rude ways & begun sabotaging the relationships that she had recently formed. All of this streamed from the fact that she still believed herself to be all the things that her stepfather had told her that she was, “a dirty mutie freak.” One of her worst incidents was when during a flight class with X-Men instructor, Angel. While she impressed her class with her abilities, another student Beak crashed & burned in first attempt of flying. When she later saw him, she told him he was a disgrace to school & a freak.

Though Angel had insulted him, Beak wasn’t turned away as he himself was a core optimist. Charmed by his spirit, Angel drunkenly kissed him during a party being held some of the students. The kiss soon led to a growing friendship between the two that turned into a romantic one. After dating for months, Angel discovers that she's pregnant. Nervous, she ends up confiding in Emma Frost, who relays to Angel that she will not be expelled for her pregnancy. After building up enough courage, she finally tells Beak. A week later, Angel’s pregnancy come to full term due to her fly morphology, which accelerated the rate of the pregnancy. Xavier sets them up in the boathouse just in time for the half dozen eggs to hatch.

After graduating, Angel joined the X-Men as a reserve member so that she & Beak could remain on the Xavier property. As of now, they live a relatively happy domestic life with their children.

## Romantic Relationships

* Barnell Bohusk: Boyfriend (2006 - 2008); Husband (2008 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Insectoid Physiology:** During the onset of Angel's mutation, she spun a cocoon around herself that changed her body's physical makeup, making her inner body similar to that of a housefly. Thus, her body was capable of withstanding the rigors of flight. Angel also possessed the ability to walk on walls & ceilings as a fly could.
	+ ***Winged Flight*:** Angel has a pair of veined, cellophane-like insectoid wings that allow her to fly at an unknown speed. She had great aerial maneuverability, even greater than some of the other winged mutants at the institute such as Warren Worthington III. She could have no motion & hover in place, except for the buzzing of her wings.
	+ ***Sonic Vibrational Capacities*:** Angel is capable of moving her wings at high speeds, creating potent sonic blasts that were powerful enough to shatter glass & to render those around her deaf.
	+ ***Healing Cocoon*:** Angel is capable of spinning cocoons around herself that heal her in an unknown way. This healing was potent enough to heal her wings if they were damaged or torn off & could heal injuries to Angel's body, though reportedly this cocoon could not heal Angel at the level that Wolverine's healing factor could.
	+ ***Acid:*** Angel has a special gland for producing digestive acid that Angel could use as a weapon. This acid was powerful & was used to melt most substances.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Energy Projection:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Fighting Ability:** Unknown

## Notes

* The original character of Angel belongs to the Marvel Universe.