Illyana Pryde

Illyana Pryde is an original fictonal character.

Background
Illyana is the spitting image of her mother, former X-Man Kitty Pryde; her biological father was Piotr Rasputin, aka Colossus, who named her in honour of his younger sister. Though she recalls a happy early childhood, Illyana was born into a very tumultuous time for mutantkind and was barely six years old at the time of The Last Stand. The deaths of her parents left a deep and permanent scar on her psyche, and ever since she has been obsessed with somehow finding a way to change history and bring her parents back to life.

As a result, she has always felt disconnected from her adoptive family. Even after eight years living in New York with Alex, Kelly, and her many adopted brothers and sisters, Illyana considers "Derasmo" to be a cover identity only and prefers to use her mother's mainden name. If anything, her dedication to her childhood quest has only intensified over the years, particularly since she finally developed her destructive mutant power at the age of 13.

Illyana is a grim and serious young woman and definitely the black sheep of the family. She treats everything in life as though it were training for her long-term mission, and puts only minimal effort into anything that doesn't at least tangentially contribute to her skill set. Her report cards are a strange mix of top marks and near-failures. She prefers to spend her summers in Wakanda with Unity where she can train in hand-to-hand combat and other skills, though Anole has no patience for wanna-be child soldiers and usually sends her packing once she's worn out her welcome.

Powers and Abilities
Illyana is an Alpha-level mutant. She can project slender beams of energy that disrupt the binding forces that hold solid matter together: any inanimate matter in the path of one of her beams is instantly reduced to a fine, inert, grey powder.

Though this ability is still new and inefficient, she is already capable of cutting through solid concrete walls with ease. Thankfully, her disintegration beams seem to be disrupted by the innate bio-energy of living creatures, though they can still cause enough pain to knock out a full grown human.