Wallflower, (Laurie Collins), is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe, one of the student body in the Xavier Institute, and a member of the former New Mutants squad therein. After the events of M-day transpired, she was one of a handful of mutants to keep her powers.

Creators

Wallflower was creted by Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir and Keron Grant

Characteristics

Life before Xavier's

Laurie is a second-generation mutant. Her father, from whom she received her power, used his power to manipulate people and get money, fame, and women. Laurie's mother Gail was one of these women, and stayed with him until one day his power stopped working on her because she was pregnant with his child.

Leaving him after learning what had happened, she raised Laurie alone and Laurie, realising her mother had been hurt, became a quiet loner. Until one day, on holiday, she suddenly became very popular because her power had emerged. Her mother, realising this (and immune to her pheromones), tried to talk her down gently - but Laurie, who hadn't realised why she'd suddenly become popular, became scared of what she could do and ended up even more withdrawn than before.

New Mutants

Student at Xavier's

Josh and Laurie

After the Xavier Institute became public, Gail decided to send her there, and moved to Salem Center to stay near her, so that she could have one person whose reactions she could trust. Although she insisted she live at the school, to try and make her come out of her shell. It didn't work. Laurie went through several roommates very quickly, and stayed quietly in her room, panicking, while a riot was going on, hoping she wasn't the cause.

When Sofia Mantega came to the school, she was paired with Laurie and, given her ability to blow Laurie's pheromones away, Sofia didn't have to worry about being accidentally manipulated by Laurie. Refusing to let her stay in their room, Sofia started hanging around with Laurie, as did David Alleyne and Kevin Ford, with Laurie and Kevin developing mutual crushes. Then, when on a visit to meet Sofia's "dad" (not her real father, but his manservant who'd had more time for her than her real father ever had), they got into a fight with the Reavers, and Laurie was stabbed through the chest, mortally wounded. She was only saved when Josh Foley, one of the Reavers who had just discovered he was a mutant, healed her (she quickly developed a crush on him), while Kevin, enraged, tried to kill Donald Pierce, the Reavers' leader, by Withering him away with his power. Dani Moonstar was forced to make him confront his worst fear - killing Laurie - to make him stop, and he left the school shortly after.

Laurie continued to stick around with the future New Mutants - and was happy when they were joined by Josh. And less happy when he developed a big crush on Wolfsbane just as Sofia was urging her to ask him out. When Josh was out late one night, breaking curfew, she thought she heard him approach and sneaked down to let him in... only to find him eviscerated by an out-of-control Wolfsbane, driven temporarily insane by the return of her powers. Controlling her power for the first time to scare Wolfsbane away, she nonetheless could do nothing for Josh's apparently mortal injuries. As he was rushed to the Institute's infirmary, she was depressed at the thought that she'd finally managed to control her powers properly too late to save him. But, when David and Surge managed to think up a way to get him conscious long enough to heal himself, she was needed to keep him calm long enough for him to do it. They succeeded, although she was hurt by the fact that he obviously still had a crush on Rahne.

Death

Death

After the House of M crossover, where almost the entire mutant population lost their powers, Laurie was one of the lucky few who retained the mutant gene. Unfortunately Kevin Ford believed he had lost his powers and reached out to Laurie, withering away her arm. Shortly after this trauma, Laurie was shot and killed by a sniper working for the Reverend William Stryker. It is later revealed that Stryker had her killed because a vision from the future foretold she would be the one to defeat his army.

Powers

Wallflower generated pheromones, which altered the chemical balance in the brains of those around her. Initially, she had no control over this effect at all, and she would cause everyone within range to match her moods. She later learned to control her power and was thus able to choose what effect she desired those in her proximity to experience.

House of M

Alternate Realities

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House of M -In this alternate reality, Wallflower was close with her father and more distant with her mother, both her father and her served as secret agents for S.H.I.E.L.D, who were working with Emperor Sunfire in Japan on 'Project Genesis' which is a classified experiment similar to Weapon X, only mutants were experimenting on humans, trying to force mutation to turn humans into mutants without the human's consent, but mostly resulting in death or physical defects and grotesque abnormalities. When Quentin Quire read Wallflower's mind and found out her secret, she used her powers to make him feel depressed and suicidal, ultimately ending up in Quentin shutting off his own mind, killing himself instantly. During the story's climax, Wallflower used her powers on the New Mutants, Hellions and the Human Terrorists (who also wanted to shut down 'Project Genesis') to force them to hate each other so much that they would fight to the death, however Mercury (the only one immune to Wallflower's powers in this reality and also Wallflower's best friend) shape-shifted her arm into a large knife and used it to pierce right through Wallflower from her back, killing Wallflower and ending her pheromone-based control over the parties involved.