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FANDOM:
616

CHRONOLOGY:
NW through X-Force #110 (In-between #109-110, When Pete Widsom is contacted by the team, and she decides to leave them.)

BACKGROUND:
Danielle Moonstar is a Native American (specifically, Cheyenne), and was born in Boulder, Colorado. As with most mutants, Dani's mutant powers manifested during puberty. One of her first manifestations is a vision of her parents' death, killed by a demonic bear. Shortly afterwards, her parents disappear and Dani is taken in by her grandfather, Black Eagle. The Hellfire Club attempt to capture her, and in the melee, her grandfather is killed. Luckily, he has already contacted Professor X to take care of Dani. Xavier, who had been a close friend of Moonstar's father, offers to teach Dani control over her powers. She joins his group of students called the New Mutants, and shortly afterwards becomes the co-leader of the group, together with Cannonball. There, she develops a deep friendship with Wolfsbane.

While with the New Mutants, Moonstar starts to have nightmares again about the Demon Bear, who until then had been kept from her due to Black Eagle's protective spells. Her fear over the entity causes her to contemplate suicide. One night, she is attacked by the entity and taken to the hospital. The other New Mutants wait for her in the hospital and are tracked down by the Bear. Its magics affect the team, drawing them into another dimension of rolling fields and clear skies. The New Mutant Magik manages to pierce the Demon Bear with her magical sword and the Demon Bear returns to his original form: William and Peg Lonestar. Dani is reunited with her parents, but decides to stay at Xavier's school.

Dani develops as co-leader of the team, along with Samuel Guthrie. In some of her early adventures, she visits a lost society in the Amazon called Nova Roma where she meets one of the citizens, Magma, and is nearly killed by Selene. Dani helps Magma come back to Xavier's to learn how to control her powers. They develop an intense rivalry with the Hellions, a super-powered team of young mutants led by the White Queen. This rivalry is later somewhat cooled when Danielle bonds with the Hellions's leader, Proudstar, over similar Native American heritage. Proudstar would later go on to be the X-Man Warpath.

Magik uses one of her teleportation disks but it reacts with the Enchantress' magic, dumping most of the team in random spots and times around the Asgardian realm. Danielle finds herself in rolling plains under clear skies. She soon finds a winged horse trapped in mud and barbed wire. With hard work, she frees the grateful animal, but they are attacked by other forces. Saving her from deaths are other women on winged horses. The women invite Danielle to stay with her at their castle and she does. She spends a few weeks bonding with the horse she rescued, Brightwind, and flying with her new friends. An incident where her presence scared other people makes her curious. She learns the reasons for this after overhearing a conversation. Danielle has become a Valkyrie, selected by Brightwind, one of the 'Choosers of the slain'. Some of the other women do not agree, but they can do nothing as it was Brightwind's choice. This gives Danielle supernatural powers, such as being able to see and even combat Death itself.

Danielle uses her powers and her allies to help rescue her friends and confront Loki himself. Eventually the New Mutants, and the X-Men who came to rescue them, are returned safely to Earth.

She confronts Death twice. In one incident, the Power Pack had called the New Mutants in order to garner help against a group of demonic creatures. The Pack's mother was gravely ill and Danielle fights off Death outside her hospital window, gaining the mother a new lease on life.

Soon, she and the other New Mutants attempt to save former teammate Magma from the High Evolutionary. During the fight, Moonstar is thrown into a machine intended to strip mutants of their powers. Instead, the machine (which had been reset by two other victims of the Evolutionary's plan), enhances her mutation; it gives her the ability to make the telepathic images manifest in reality, becoming solid. This ability was limited in that Danielle could only sustain one illusion at a time. She often carried around a "dream spear", in order to destroy previous illusions.

Moonstar continues as a member of the New Mutants for several years. For a time, the team is taken care of by the original X-Men, now called X-Factor. The group is seemingly settled into Ship, a sentient flying headquarters. Danielle is getting worse and worse headaches, which causes concern with the team but all this is interrupted by many things, including X-Factor being drawn away in battle.

Hela, the death goddess of Asgard, creates a plan to take over the realm and kill the Allfather Odin, who is in a healing sleep at the time. Hela's magics drive Danielle mad and she has to be restrained by her friends, allies, and the unseen help of Doctor Strange. The battle is soon moved to Asgard. The New Mutants, along with the wolf-prince Hrimhari and the Valkyrie, Mist, who resist Hela, ultimately triumph. Danielle seemingly loses her winged horse Brightwind in the battle, which concludes in Odin's very bedroom.

In the end, she chooses to stay behind in Asgard. This does anger one of her Cheyenne deities, who comes to Asgard itself to bring her back. He interrupts Danielle and Mist in the middle of a training session. The deity is later satisfied with Danielle's promise to eventually return to Earth and he leaves peacefully.

When she does return, she joins S.H.I.E.L.D. and infiltrates the Mutant Liberation Front. At this point, she refines her psychic ability so that she could cast "psychic arrows," which incapacitate their targets, and rides Darkwind, a dark version of her former steed Brightwind. Her assignment brings her into many conflicts with old allies, mostly X-Force (a continuation of her old team the New Mutants), Excalibur, and Moira MacTaggert. Despite the Front's malicious missions, Danielle seems to develop a genuine friendship with the mutate Forearm.

Later, X-Force helps with a third foray into Asgard to help stamp out another take-over attempt. Once that ends, she joins up with X-Force for an extensive road-trip, that ends with the creation of a new base of operations. She also gains the ability to manipulate quantum energy as concussive blasts, but this power apparently disappears. She leaves the team when they contact Pete Wisdom, hoping that he will help them become more pro-active, a direction she disagrees with.


PERSONALITY:
Dani is a calm, collected individual. She constantly thinks about others before herself. Or at least, used to. She was considerate of other peoples feelings. Despite having a caring, loving nature, Dani is never afraid to stand up and fight for whatever she believes in. Understanding people is her greatest strength. She hates to see tears and sorrow. She's a person that will always listen, provide help, and assistance to whoever needs it. She also has a fun loving, carefree, flirty, exibitionist side that only her closest friends know about.

CLASS:
Hero, but her genuine personality of pacifist is waning. She stills holds a high regard of animals, but sees decreasing value in people. She will keep her dog tag.
SUPERHERO NAME: Mirage
ALTER EGO:Dani Moonstar, Teacher
POWER:Telepathy, Illusion generation, Psionic arrows,telepathic rapport with animals. Dani is also highly athletic and skilled hand to hand combatant.

Note: Dani will not attack unless provoked,or an ally/friend/teammate is attacked and calls backup. I'll post on her LJ what she will, and won't do with her powers.

COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
I don't understand. ThERE was a bright flash of light and, I'm ..where the heck am I? I wonder how everyone else is doing? What is this place? When is this place?

Oh, I'm in an alleyway, just perfect. Is this Magik's doing? That's not out of the question. I've actually been to hell, and back.. Well, I'm alone again.

This isn't first time, and I'm sure it won't be the last.

And I'm weaponless, even better... I knew I wanted of scenery but, this is a bit much... And somethings never change.

THIRD PERSON:
Teleporters, what fun! She knew this wasn't her home. Parallel words weren't foreign to her, though she'd been to enough that she never wanted to experience them again. The sky was gray, the sun wasn't going to show for today.

Checking herself, she had no weapons. No tasers, arrows or bows. She looked at the city, there was no joy here. The air was thick with smog and smoke. Well that was just like home. This city was dead. The streets were filled with the homeless, jobless people. Dani shock her head. Walking out the narrow alley, she tried to figure out why she was here. A purpose? Or a pawn?

Their lives were robbed by this place. A big black dog barked, startling her. Its snout reared back, showing its harsh yellow teeth. Dani tried communicating with it, but to no avail. The dog leapt at her. She moved to her left, feeling the sting a scratch on her arm.

Her mind shifted back to a simpler time. A time when she was just a fourteen year old girl joining the new mutants. Another day another fight. It never ended. Dani always held out for everlasting peace & unity. A untied peoples across the globe.

Everyday, she fought with that dream, and everyday she was rewarded the same: sadness, anger, resentment, fear. Among her friends, she felt peace and joy. Yet, there was tension, fights, break ups and make ups. This was the life of a mutant. She didn't ask for it, no one did. When fate deals you the cards, play them the best you can. Backed up against a wall, she spotted a bat to her right. She grabbed it. The dog leapt again. With a heavy heart, she swung. No, this really wasn't home at all, she thought.