Moonstar

Origin

Danielle Moonstar was born in Colorado to members of the Cheyenne Nation. The first time Dani's powers manifested, she saw the image of her parents deaths. She saw a huge bear standing over the bodies of a horse and an eagle, representing her father and mother-her mother came from the horse clan and her father from the eagle clan. Shortly thereafter, her parents took a trip into the mountains and they disappeared, presumed to be dead.

Origin

At first Dani was sent to live with some neighbors prior to her parents disappearance, but her mutant ability to create illusions based on primal fears or deepest desires was out of control, spreading not only to herself but to others as well, resulting in much resentment toward her in the community. To escape the malice of her community, she went to live with her Grandfather, Black Eagle, a recluse in the mountains.

Mirage

Black Eagle was conveniently a friend of Charles Xavier (Professor X), and contacted him to help his granddaughter upon learning of her mutant abilites. He told Dani(as most people close to Danielle call her) of Xavier and his wish for her to go and study with him at his school. Dani, in anger at being sent away (especially with a "white"), accidentally lashed out with her power, creating an image of her grandfather's death. Before Xavier could arrive, Black Eagle was killed by Donald Pierce.

In her ensuing quest for vengeance, Dani freed X'ian Coy Mahn (Karma) from Donald Pierce's imprisonment and encountered Xavier and the other young mutants he had gathered to fight Pierce and his genocidal anti-mutant agenda. After Peirce was defeated Dani stayed with Xavier, at first taking on the codename Psyche and shortly thereafter Mirage, to honor her grandfather's wishes. She soon came to see the New Mutants as not only close friends but her family.

When the Demon Bear, who had claimed her parents, came for her, Dani went out to face it. It mauled her severely, nearly killing her. (Had it not been for the Morlock healer, Dani would have been paralyzed.) The New Mutants fought the Bear on a magical plane, defeating it and freeing Dani’s parents from its clutches.

Valkyrie

In one adventure, the New Mutants (along with Storm) were kidnapped by the Enchantress of Asgard at Loki’s request. When Illyana Rasputin attempted to teleport them all away, the New Mutants found themselves scattered through Asgard. Dani found herself in a grassy plain. She spotted a fully white, winged horse that had been trapped by hunters and began to attempt to free it. While trying to set the winged horse free, an army began to charge at her. Unwilling to leave the horse helpless and not willing to run, Dani chose to fight back. Which led her to using her telepathic abilities to draw forth the image that the oncoming warriors feared most, Hela Asgardian Goddess of Death. The enemies froze in fear and left immediately, without a backwards glance. Dani not recognizing who the image was, cared less and returned to the winged-horse and freed it. The horse instantly began trust and bond Dani. It turns out that the horse was one of the winged-steeds of the Valkyor who had chosen her to be a Valkyrie, one of the choosers of the slain. It is possible that Dani’s moments of seeing her parents and grandfather’s deaths may have indicated a previously existing mystical ability in this area. The New Mutants joined forces with the X-Men, who had come to Asgard to rescue them and Storm, to defeat Loki. The steed, which Dani named Brightwind returned to Earth with her. Upon her connection with Brightwind Dani was very different though, in powers as well as responsibilities. Dani was no longer just a human mutant but a Valkyrie, a chooser of the slain now. This title gifted her with the ability to "see" death, or an aura of death around individuals who were to die soon. This gift also allowed Dani the ability to fight Death its self. On a couple of occasions, Dani attempted to fight Death to save the lives, though she was not always successful and learned that Death was a natural process of life not always to be feared.

Later, when Hela attempted to take over Asgard, Dani found herself trapped under the sway of Hela along with the rest of the Valkyor. She attempted to kill Odin, but the New Mutants combined with the Asgardians defeated Hela’s forces, freeing the Valkyor and Dani. Dani then chose to remain behind in Asgard to help repair the damage she had done.

Mutant Liberation Front

X-Force

Eventually, Dani returned to earth and joined SHIELD. As a SHIELD operative, she took on a mission to go undercover in the Mutant Liberation Front (M.L.F.), using the code name Moonstar which was her last name, serving as an informant for them and Cable. Dani was forced to take on a harder, darker persona, almost changing herself completely. This includes her mutant powers. Dani was able to refine her psychic abilities to the point were she focus he mental engergies to create "Psychic Arrows." These same "arrows" once contected with there intended target would incapacitate them, by either

knocking them unconscious, temporarily paralyze or befuddle them and they would begin to make incoherent noise, completely taking the out of a fight. Not only did Dani take on a darker appearance in mind and body, but it also changed Brightwind. No longer bright at all. Not white, but completely black and now call Darkwind. While apart of the M.L.F., Dani struggled with her "undercover status" as it put her at odds with herself. An unfortunate side affect to her "deep cover" was that it brought her into many conflicts with old allies, specifically, X-Force(who were previously the New Mutants and her ex-teammates/friends/family). Additionally she began to get to know the members of the M.L.F. a lot better, as a result, Dani seemed to develop a genuine friendship with the mutant named Forearm. Which only made her job more of a struggle as she began to feel guilt by her actions.

After the M.L.F. and X-Force, battled [[Operation: Zero Tolerance:char:43899]], Dani left the M.L.F. and SHIELD to rejoin her friends.

teacher

Later, Dani joined the X-Men as an affiliate member, recruiting and teaching/ training students at the Xavier Institute, even becoming a guardian for one (Elixir) when his parents rejected him completely. She eventually took over the training of the New Mutant Squad.

Dani was one of the many Mutants’ who powers were removed by the Decimation. Emma Frost made Dani leave the school along with all the other mutants who had been depowered.

She is was working with the Government as part of The Initiative to train young people with super-powers, though sometimes her wishes run counter to her supervisors. She is primary the instructor of Trauma, who has similar emotion/fear-based powers as herself had.

It appears she has been fired by Henry Gyrich for Teaching Trauma liberal, anti-militaristic beliefs.

Final Genesis

In the wake of the Messiah CompleX, there are no more X-Men and Cyclops has closed down the Xavier Institute. Shortly After he seeks out 6 students and recruits to as, potentially, the last team of X-Men ever. Once gathered together at their headquaters he explains who their enemy will be. He reveals a hologram and states that those shown are the new incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Depicted are all ex-New Mutant and some were once active X-Men. Shown were Sunspot, Cannonball, Karma, Magma and Danielle Moonstar. Cyclops also states that the new team of X-Men's orders are to kill them. It turns out that it was actually Donald Pierce that sent the new team after Dani and the original New Mutants. After his defeat, Cyclops asked Dani ans Sunspot to train the Young X-Men.

Powers

Danielle Moonstar’s principal ability is to pull images of great fear or desire from her victims and manifest them as three dimensional illusions. While she consciously uses this ability, it does not allow her to scan a person’s mind. She only knows what image she is pulling out when it has manifested in front of her. The illusion would appear as a holographic image to all who saw it except for the victim, who would think it was real.

This limited form of empathy/telepathy also allows her telepathic communication with animals, including those that shapeshift into animal form such as Wolfsbane.

As a Valkyrie, Dani had the ability to see, communicate with, and even fight Death itself. She already had some ability to see and manifest visions of other’s deaths before she found Brightwind, but the gifts of the Valkyor greatly augmented this ability. However, it seems these abilities have disappeared. How is unclear.

Over the course of her adventures, Dani’s abilities have been temporarily augmented in one form or another. For a while after encountering the High Evolutionary, she could manifest the images she pulled from others as tangible three dimensional projections, but she could only do that with one image at a time. If she created a car by wishing for it and then wanted to create a spear, then the car would disappear whenever she created the spear. For a while she could fire psychic arrows that disrupted a person’s neural pathways or forced them to relieve traumatic experience in their lives. For a short time, her powers were mutated to allow her to control all quantum energies and interactions.

Dani is also highly athletic and skilled hand to hand combatant.

She is de-powered after the events of M-Day.

Danielle Moonstar

Status

Known Relatives:

William Lonestar, father, Peg Lonestar, mother, Black Eagle, (grandfather, deceased)

Citizenship:

Citizen of the United States and member of Cheyenne Native American Tribe with no criminal record

Place of Birth:

Boulder, Colorado

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation:

Adventurer, teacher, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, student, former Valkyrie, mutant, advisor, teacher

Education:

Xavier Institute

Characteristics

Gender:

Female

Height:

5’8”

Weight:

125 lbs

Eyes:

Dark Brown

Hair:

Black

Earth-295

House of M

Alternate Realities

Earth #295

Age of Apocalypse

In the Age of Apocalypse reality Danielle Moonstar It is an agent of Apocalypse. Cruel and sadistic Danielle is a member of Damask's Pale Rider's. Danielle would cruelly torture, by cutting and slicing, Dead Man Wade's (AOA version of Deadpool) face over and over again. Dead Man Wade had a healing ability that would take care of the wounds but it would still be an excruciating experience. Danielle was told numerous times to stop by Damask, and didn't listen. Eventually, Damask had enough of Moonstar’s disobedience and killed her.

Earth #58163

House of M

In the House of M reality Danielle Moonstar is an agent of the SHIELD and agent appointed to the Hellions, who are the training unit in SHIELD. In this reality there are two schooling options for young mutants to decide from. Either the New Mutant Leadership Institute (similar to Xavier's Institute) for the future diplomats and leader's of the nation or become a trainee of S.H.I.E.L.D. (joining their Hellions training squad) for a spy and covert ops/military type training. In the House of M, Danielle chose S.H.I.E.L.D. and is the field agent in charge of training the Hellions training squad, although an agent she actively participates in missions.

Earth #904

X-Men: The End

Dani’s ascension to a Valkyrie!

In the X-Men: The End, it chronicles the end of the X-Men 20 years in the future. In this reality, Danielle is capture and placed in a coma in a newly created Neverland Ranch located on the blue side of the moon. Whilst she is in a coma many of her friends and family (X-Men she has known for years) are being killed, and she can do nothing to help. During an attack on Xavier Institute, Wolfsbane was caught in an explosion saving students. In her last dying thoughts she called out to Dani for help. With Dani's mutant ability telepathically communicate with animals and her psychic rapport with Wolfsbane provided her with enough energy to try to break out of her coma. She begins to chant spells, with runes manifesting above and around her body. The scientists begin to get nervous and decided to kill her, to stop what she was doing. In her death, she awakens no longer a mutant or even human. Danielle Moonstar becomes a Valkyrie, finally reaching her potential. She destroys Neverland Ranch as her final help to her allies on Earth. She then leaves Earth never to return. Thereafter, she later helped destroy Hela and took her place as the Norse Goddess of Death and ruler of Hel.

A divergent reality similar to the Days of Future Past

New Mutants #49-50

Most of the X-Men, if not all, and the New Mutants were killed by Sentinels in their initial attack. The New Mutants are now a trio consisting of three individuals: a now aged Cannonball, his lover Lila Cheney and a very embittered and war torn Danielle Moonstar. They devised a plan to gather the remaining mutants together and use Lila's intergalactic teleportation powers to safely leave Earth and head to another planet. It appears that they are successful in their attempts as they are shown teleporting away in one of the final panels.

Earth #1081

Homeworld of Morph, ex-member of the Exiles

The New Mutants of this reality were/are very similar to the mainstream counterpart of Earth #616 with an exception to the members of the team. The team consisted of Cannonball, Sunspot, Moonstar, Wolfsbane and Morph.

Earth #904

WHAT IF the X-Men Stayed in Asgard

An offer is made to the X-Men and New Mutants giving them the choice of whether to stay or leave Asgard. Though only a few X-Men accept and stay, all but three of the New Mutants remain in Asgard effectively putting an end to the group as a whole. Those that remain in Asgard dramatically change history there and most take on important roles while there, Danielle Moonstar would be no different. Danielle Moonstar battles and defeats Hela the Goddess of Death and takes her role and place becoming the new Goddess of Death, ruling over her domain of Hel.

Earth #?

Marvel Mangaverse

In this reality Danielle Moonstar uses the codename Mirage and is a member of the X-Men. He powers are quite different in this reality as she is a sorceress and has the ability to summon monsters that battle for her. One other significant difference from her mainstream counterpart is that here is from India and is Indian, whereas her counterpart is Native American, specifically Cheyenne.