(full drawing and pics to come next days)
Backstory -> Stige comes from a very poor family. Her father is left with only one daughter to support and does not earn enough for both of them. When the girl turns 14, her mutation finally develops and the man decides to exploit her in illegal mutant fights to finally make some good money. When Stige fights, everything ceases to exist and in her head the choirs and cheers of the people who watch her, who have bet, reverberate. She takes refuge in that false validation, feeling appreciated even though it is in the worst possible way. As an adult, she finds the strength to run away and leave everything behind, even though she can't bring with her any of the mutants who helped her over time, ready to finally find her path. Eventually, she will be identified by Xavier and recruited to join the X-Men; but, despite her new respinsability as ome of the "good guys" and helper of the weakest, she will never fully integrate into the team, sometimes playing the role of an ally instead of a former member.
Abilities -> "Dead Man Walking", that's what she was. The girl could be considered a zombie: impossible to kill easily thanks to the rigeneration and good to control her body. Stige could easily take one of her arms or hands out, put it back together, especially since she learnt how to use her blood as a weapon. It's not weird for her to break down her fingers to use them as guns or to push gushes of blood to have a burst under her feet. Since her brain reads the body as half dead, she has no sensivity to cold, warm or pain; she uses this little "issue" to hide weapons inside her body.
Different relationships:
Kurt Wagner -> the two find comfort in their being different, in feeling out of place despite being part of a team. Kurt will help Stige to fully accept her diversity.
Rogue -> the two young mutants will help each other live with a mutation that brings more problems than anything else. Rogue can't touch anyone, well, not even Stige can fully feel what she touches. It's a small start, right?
Deadpool -> Wade was the first to make her feel completely accepted despite her unique mutation. Stige knows how hard it is for others sometimes to watch her fight, with all the sound of bones breaking and blood. But for Wade, it was pure entertainment. Finally there was someone like him and Stige will never forget the mutant's laughter when he saw her head fall off for the first time.
Charles Xavier -> the old man's and the young woman's way of thinking are very similar. Stige recognizes the frustration in having to help the first to attack, she understood in the ring how easy it is to recognize the fear in the first that throw the stone. But the girl knows that Xavier's path is the best among the options and dhe will do everything to make his dream happen.
Victor Creed -> combining Sabretooth's brute strength with Styge's fast regeneration is never a good idea. Victor has never been stressed in his entire life since Stige showed up on the battlefield: he tries to slice her and she keeps teasing him about how impossible it is for her to die. Why? 'Cause she already is, in a sense.
Pietro Maximoff -> the speedster and the zombie girl have a love-hate relationship. As time goes by, a rivalry has developed between the two that will often emerge in each of their encounters.
Something more about her:
- Stige is afraid of bugs because she thinks they might mistake her for a real corpse. She doesn't want to find herself with a family of flies in her stomach.
- Her greatest fear is that she will stop feeling anything. Is it possible for her brain to read the body as completely dead? Surely, Stige wants to find out as late as possible.
- She tends to annoy people with her mutation. The girl knows how tough it is for strong stomachs to even handle it and will use it to her advantage. Need an hand? Great, Stige has two to throw at you!
- That's the only comedy she knows. Stige will bend over backwards for you and give you her heart...literally.
SO PRETTYYY I REALLY LOVE HER HAIR 💙🪰
