Name: Estella Rey
Age: 18
Alias: Darkheart
Appearance:
Abilities: Electromagnetism Manpiluation
Skills:
Combat Experience - Unlike many mutants her age, the last three years of her life have been constant combat. With experience fighting the US Army, Mexican cartels, and Mickey Cohen's gangsters, Estella has become quite practiced at using her natural abilities in hostility.
Leadership - Starting as a neighhborhood defender but eventually leading an ecclectic band of poor and embattled in Southern California (from Mexican farm workers to Japanese Americans fleeing the US Army to young blacks and whites trying to defy organized crime leaders in Los Angeles) Estella Rey is a rare person that can naturally inspire others to follow--be it in peace or combat.
Willpower - Whether forged in trauma (childhood rape, the murder of her family, betrayal of those closest to her) or simply inherit from birth, Estella has an indomitable will. This has, in part, left her with the ability to control how she appears and acts on a level that any Hollywood actress would envy.
Multilingual - Growing up in a land as diverse as Southern California, in addition to natural talent and being a leader of such a diverse group, Estella can speak: Spanish, English, Japanese, some German, and some Russian.
Personality Traits:
High self esteem, Open mindedness, Impulsive, Private, Empathy, Vengeful, Protective.
Backstory:
Born to a Mexican farm worker turned gangster and Italian runaway, Estella Rey endured both rape (twice; age 6 and age 11) and the loss of her family at the hands of her father's enemies; coming home one night to find her mother and father murdered on the kitchen floor at the order of Mickey Cohen in a power play for the neighborhood her father 'protected.' After that day, no neighbor or family friend will admit to seeing Estella ever again.
The first official mention of Estella Rey is a Top Secret US Army report: when attempting to round up Japanese Americans in a Los Angeles neighborhood, the same her father once ran, Lieutenant David Simmons claimed, "a young Mexican girl used her mind, or magic, to steal our guns right out of our hands, and crunched our helmets against our heads until not a single one of us could see what was going on in front of us. Mercifully, she stopped short of squeezing our heads in like one of them fruits those Mexicans pick in the fields."
While the Office of Strategic Services would dispatch agents to Los Angeles in an attempt to locate the mysterious young Mexican girl, they would be unsuccessful in even getting a single soul in the neighborhood to admit that such an event had even happened. The OSS agents suspected natives "protecting one of their own" in a report back to Washington, a reported intercepted not by a foreign spy, but by the biggest spymaster in America: J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover would send his own men to Los Angeles in an attempt to locate this "magic Mexican bean." While Hoover's agents got closer than the OSS, what Hoover hadn't expected was that the original OSS agents (with critical help from a legendary MI6 operative on a mission 'to find a way to beat the Germans to the Atomic Bomb') were shadowing the FBI's hunt. Where the FBI agents got close, the MI6 operative did find the mysterious Mexican girl. In the highest level of secrecy since the Super Soldier Program, the OSS and MI6 arranged a meeting between the Mexican girl and a group of Physicist led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, with famed scientist Albert Einstein present, at the University of California at Berkeley.
Later, in papers that would never see the light of day, both Oppenheimer and Einstein would credit the Mexican girl, codenamed 'Darkheart' (by the MI6 operative who originally found her) and her "intuitive understanding of the fundamental forces of the Universe" with the U.S. not only catching up to Nazi progress on an Atomic Bomb, but beating them to production of the first Atomic bomb. For her assistance in the matter, the US Government agreed to pressure the Los Angeles Police Department to "intensify efforts to curtail Organized Crime in the city"; essentially handing the war on Mickey Cohen and his gangsters from victimized low income Los Angeles citizens to the LAPD.
Depending what secret arm of whoever's government you ask, either: the US threatened 'Darkheart' into enrolling with Charles Xavier (MI6 narrative), 'Darkheart' asked the US government to find her a "mutant tutor" (FBI narrative), or Einstein himself persuaded 'Darkheart' to go to Xavier's in order to gain a better understanding of her talents (OSS narrative). Whatever the truth, 'Darkheart' did not return to the constant fighting of Southern California, but instead joined Xavier's group.
Age: 18
Alias: Darkheart
Appearance:
Abilities: Electromagnetism Manpiluation
Skills:
Combat Experience - Unlike many mutants her age, the last three years of her life have been constant combat. With experience fighting the US Army, Mexican cartels, and Mickey Cohen's gangsters, Estella has become quite practiced at using her natural abilities in hostility.
Leadership - Starting as a neighhborhood defender but eventually leading an ecclectic band of poor and embattled in Southern California (from Mexican farm workers to Japanese Americans fleeing the US Army to young blacks and whites trying to defy organized crime leaders in Los Angeles) Estella Rey is a rare person that can naturally inspire others to follow--be it in peace or combat.
Willpower - Whether forged in trauma (childhood rape, the murder of her family, betrayal of those closest to her) or simply inherit from birth, Estella has an indomitable will. This has, in part, left her with the ability to control how she appears and acts on a level that any Hollywood actress would envy.
Multilingual - Growing up in a land as diverse as Southern California, in addition to natural talent and being a leader of such a diverse group, Estella can speak: Spanish, English, Japanese, some German, and some Russian.
Personality Traits:
High self esteem, Open mindedness, Impulsive, Private, Empathy, Vengeful, Protective.
Backstory:
Born to a Mexican farm worker turned gangster and Italian runaway, Estella Rey endured both rape (twice; age 6 and age 11) and the loss of her family at the hands of her father's enemies; coming home one night to find her mother and father murdered on the kitchen floor at the order of Mickey Cohen in a power play for the neighborhood her father 'protected.' After that day, no neighbor or family friend will admit to seeing Estella ever again.
The first official mention of Estella Rey is a Top Secret US Army report: when attempting to round up Japanese Americans in a Los Angeles neighborhood, the same her father once ran, Lieutenant David Simmons claimed, "a young Mexican girl used her mind, or magic, to steal our guns right out of our hands, and crunched our helmets against our heads until not a single one of us could see what was going on in front of us. Mercifully, she stopped short of squeezing our heads in like one of them fruits those Mexicans pick in the fields."
While the Office of Strategic Services would dispatch agents to Los Angeles in an attempt to locate the mysterious young Mexican girl, they would be unsuccessful in even getting a single soul in the neighborhood to admit that such an event had even happened. The OSS agents suspected natives "protecting one of their own" in a report back to Washington, a reported intercepted not by a foreign spy, but by the biggest spymaster in America: J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover would send his own men to Los Angeles in an attempt to locate this "magic Mexican bean." While Hoover's agents got closer than the OSS, what Hoover hadn't expected was that the original OSS agents (with critical help from a legendary MI6 operative on a mission 'to find a way to beat the Germans to the Atomic Bomb') were shadowing the FBI's hunt. Where the FBI agents got close, the MI6 operative did find the mysterious Mexican girl. In the highest level of secrecy since the Super Soldier Program, the OSS and MI6 arranged a meeting between the Mexican girl and a group of Physicist led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, with famed scientist Albert Einstein present, at the University of California at Berkeley.
Later, in papers that would never see the light of day, both Oppenheimer and Einstein would credit the Mexican girl, codenamed 'Darkheart' (by the MI6 operative who originally found her) and her "intuitive understanding of the fundamental forces of the Universe" with the U.S. not only catching up to Nazi progress on an Atomic Bomb, but beating them to production of the first Atomic bomb. For her assistance in the matter, the US Government agreed to pressure the Los Angeles Police Department to "intensify efforts to curtail Organized Crime in the city"; essentially handing the war on Mickey Cohen and his gangsters from victimized low income Los Angeles citizens to the LAPD.
Depending what secret arm of whoever's government you ask, either: the US threatened 'Darkheart' into enrolling with Charles Xavier (MI6 narrative), 'Darkheart' asked the US government to find her a "mutant tutor" (FBI narrative), or Einstein himself persuaded 'Darkheart' to go to Xavier's in order to gain a better understanding of her talents (OSS narrative). Whatever the truth, 'Darkheart' did not return to the constant fighting of Southern California, but instead joined Xavier's group.
