Bella Donna

History

 Married to Gambit

Bella Donna Boudreaux and Remy LeBeau met when they were still children. Their fathers saw them as a way to stop the warring between the two Guilds of New Orleans, The Assassins Guild and The Thieves Guild of which Bella was a member of the former and Gambit a member of the latter. After the wedding, Bella Donna's brother Julien challenged Remy to a duel, one which Remy won. He was then exiled from New Orleans and forced to abandon Bella Donna.

After having her latent mutant powers activated by the Assassin's benefactress, Candra, Bella Donna asked Gambit to return to New Orleans in order to help the Guilds fight off the Brood  that had been attacking them. During this time, she used her psychic powers to follow Psylocke into the astral plane and later she expended a large portion of her energy in the fight against the Brood Queen. After she collapsed in Gambit's arms, he believed her to be dead and left her in Rogue's care in order to get revenge against the Brood.
 

Although Bella Donna was merely in a coma, Gambit risked his life in order to bring give her Candra's Elixir of Life. Also, while she was catatonic, Rogue accidentally touched her, and Bella woke up without any memory of who she was or the life she lead. Over time, her memory slowly returned, but she felt as if her soul had been violated. After becoming leader of the Assassin's Guild with her fathers death, Bella returned Candra to her former position of Benefactress. The two women then attempted to get revenge upon Gambit by kidnapping and attempting to kill his current lover, Rogue. However, both X-Men were able to survive the ordeal.

Later, Bella Donna took advantage of a number of contracts that had been taken out on Gambit's life. Although she had no interest in killing her ex-husband, she took this opportunity to sort out the conflicting emotions she had about him. After admitting that she still loved him, the two decided to permanently stay separated before they finally worked together in order to unify the Guilds of New Orleans like their fathers truly wanted. Although, Gambit was initially made leader of this Unified Guild, he opted to return to his life with the X-Men, allowing Bella Donna to rule over the Guild.  
 
Bella Donna entered into a romantic relationship with Bandit, although it was short lived after she learned that he was secretly manipulating her to gain control over her Guild.
 

Powers

Thanks to Candra, Bella Donna is able to release plasmic energy from her hands. She also possess some degree of psionic capabilities. While the full extent of her psionic powers have yet to be revealed, she was shown to be able to gain access to the Astral Plane

Known Abilities

Bella Donna is a skilled assassin and is adept in hand-to-hand combat. She also is proficient with a number of weapons. Though the Benefactress gave Bella Donna the ability to project an unknown type of energy, she is also proficient with some type of magic, presumably voodoo. 

Characteristics

Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 150 lbs (68 kg)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde

Status

T.V.

 X-men: The Animated Series

X-Men The Animated Series