Meggan Puceanu

## Background

### 1983 - 2002: Meggan Puceanu

Meggan Puceanu is a British Romani born in their camp near Fenborough Station. As a young child, Meggan was thought to be a wolf girl. However, she had simply grown fur because she was cold & her mutant shape changing power. As rumors escalated about the monstrous child, Meggan subconsciously manifested the attributes they speculated she had, such as fangs & bat wings. Because of this, her parents kept her isolated & she was only allowed to venture out at night. Because of this sheltered life & lack of education, Meggan was functionally illiterate.

When the Romani's caravans were raided, Meggan was separated from her father. She stayed in an derelict warehouse where she was befriended by Josie & Micky Scott, two teenagers from a nearby council estate. The full moon would affect Meggan at this time, making the kids think she was some type of werebeast. Running into Captain Britain in this form, she battled him but during the fight, Mickey was accidentally killed by falling debris. After Micky's funeral, Captain Britain visited the Scott family to apologize for his part in Micky's death. While he was there, Meggan also struck up the courage to do the same. Taking pity on her, Brian offered Meggan to be his house-guest at Braddock Manor.

When they arrived, Psylocke sensed that Meggan was "beautiful & radiant." However, Meggan said she had always been in her monstrous form. But one night, Meggan transformed herself into a tall, blonde woman who matched Brian's idea of beauty. Brian instantly fell for her & two entered into a relationship.

### 2002 - 2007: Gloriana

For the years to come, Megan settled into the Braddock Manor as a permanent guest of both Brian & Elizabeth.

After the Morlocks Massacre committed by the Marauders, some of the X-Men were brought to Muir Island so that Dr. Moira MacTaggert could look into their conditions. At the time, Meggan also decided to look into her genetics & had Moira do the same. As the X-Men were recovering, Meggan & Kitty were kidnapped by the villain Technet. Withe the help of Nightcrawler & Captain Britain, they were able to escape & Technet. Seeing how well they worked together, the four of them & Psylocke became the founding members of the British-based team Excalibur & based them out of the Braddock Lighthouse.

Constantly subconsciously modifying her form and behavior to match the empathic needs of those around her, Meggan still wondered which form was the 'real' Meggan. At the same time, Captain Britain was suffering from drinking problems. In a particular bad argument, she subconsciously altered herself into darker version of herself & attacked Brian upon learning he was seeing Courtney Ross on the side.

Needing some time from Brian, she became close friends with her teammate Nightcrawler. However, Brian became extremely jealous & attacked Kurt, who in turn felt Brian did not appreciate Meggan. The fight between the two caused Meggan to run away with Betsy following her. The two women soon visited her old friend Josie & her family who helped Meggan come to realize that she wanted to locate her missing parents. So Meggan & Betsy went searching for her group Romani in France but found nothing.

After her return, the team made Braddock Manor their new headquarters & threw a housewarming party there. Among the guests was Brian's ex & mistress Courtney Ross, who had in fact become the villain known as the Ice Queen. Courtney had her criminal forces attack the party-goers & her lieutenant (a clone of Brian) torture the guests, including Meggan. Brian was drugged & controlled by Courtney, who intended use him as her own personal slave but he broke free when she tried to make him kill Meggan. Shaking off the effects of drugs she'd been given, Meggan broke free of her restraints. She then beat the clone senseless & Betsy neutralized him with her psychic knife. As they tried to free everyone, Courtney & Brian's clone escaped.

After this encounter, Brian became obsessed with stopping Courtney, to the point where he ignored everyone else. Nightcrawler drew Brian's attention to his neglected relationship so Brian took Meggan on a romantic holiday then proposed. Meggan accepted, admitting that she could see the power in Brian & that was part of why she fell for him. Meggan then asked him if he would have ever loved her if she had not assumed her current form but they both agreed it was more than just looks they were interested in.

## Romantic Relationships

* Kurt Wagner: "Dated" (2005)
* Brian Braddock: On & Off (2002 - 2006); Fiancée (2006 - 2007); Husband (2007 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology:** Meggan is a mutant empath, metamorph & elemental of great power.
	+ ***Empathy*:** She possesses a telepathic talent which enables Meggan to sense the emotions & feelings of all living creatures & can broadcast her own feelings in order to influence other people's emotions.
	+ ***Empathic Metamorph*:** Meggan is a shapeshifter who can assume the form of any living creature, even those who only exist in legends (i.e. Godzilla-like dragon, werewolf). Meggan can also assume the form of other people. Thanks to her empathic ability, her body will actually change in response to the emotions around her, becoming beautiful when she feels loved, or hideous when she feels fear or anger. Her elemental powers also cause Meggan to change in response to her surroundings, such as growing fur in extreme cold or gills when she is submerged underwater. She has also demonstrated the abilities to turn into sentient sand or water.
		- ***Power Duplication:*** If she takes on the appearance of another superhuman, Meggan can also gain their powers.
	+ ***Elemental Manipulation*:** In her true form, Meggan can manipulate, absorb or release elemental energy (including earth, fire, water, air & ether aka energy). Thanks to her empathy, she has a psionic link to the natural forces of the Earth. By "speaking" to the elements, Meggan can command the environment around her, and her emotional state can affect the local ecosystems. She can extinguish forest fires with a thought, summon gale force winds or part the waters of a lake with wave of her hand, or even cause earthquakes in a flash of anger.
		- ***Energy Blasts:*** Meggan can focus the elemental energies around her into devastating energy blasts. When she absorbs power, she begins to glow.
		- ***Earth Energy Manipulation:*** She has the ability to manipulate the energy from the Earth. She can use this power to augment her abilities to shape change, generate bio-blasts or fly.
	+ ***Flight*:** Meggan has the ability to propel herself through the air at high speeds by force of will.
	+ ***Magical Energy Manipulation*:** In her true form, Meggan can manipulate magical energy like deflecting spells.
	+ ***Magical Affinity*:** Meggan's powers grow more fluid, manageable & stronger while she is in magical realms.
	+ ***Natural Perception*:** She has the ability to “see” & “hear” natural patterns of force in the world around her, linking her with these patterns in the world around her. She can sense electromagnetic forces, air currents, chemical reactions & detect “visibly” telepathic communications.
	+ ***Reality Warp Resistance*:** Because of her shape changing power, Meggan has some resistance to the reality-warping powers of others.
	+ ***Superhuman Strength*:** Meggan mostly keeps her strength at a decent 50 tons. By drawing strength from the Earth, she was able to increase her strength to be far beyond that of her husband Brian.
	+ ***Superhuman Durability*:** Meggan has survived energy-based attacks, blunt force based attacks & weapon based attacks even attacks like demonic/holy based attacks & magic attacks.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Meggan is an experienced combatant, though she has little formal training in that area.
* **Swordsmanship:** She is a skilled swordsman, having once disarmed her husband in a fencing match although her skill conceivably could have just been a mimicry of his own.

### Weaknesses

* **Psychic Blocks:** Meggan's mind does not have the same level of psychic 'blocks' that most humans and especially beings with psionic power do. This can make her impulsive & impressionable which leads to her acting on the present with little concern for the past or future.
* **Illiterate:** Megan did not learn how to read until she was an adult, even after learning she still struggled & would come across words she did not know how to say aloud.

### Ratings

* **Acument:** Unknown
* **Might:** Unknown
* **Quickness:** Unknown
* **Mysticism:** Unknown
* **Gadgetry:** Unknown
* **Projection:** Unknown
* **Tactics:** Unknown
* **Battle:** Unknown

## Trivia

* In her true form, she is 5'10 with white eyes but still has blonde hair.
* Her daughter Maggie regularly had play dates with Rachel Summers.

## Notes

* The original character of Meggan Puceanu belongs to the Marvel Universe.
* Her date of birth is a slight nod to her first comic appearance, *Mighty World of Marvel*Vol 2 #7 (December, 1983).