Monet St. Croix (Earth-616)
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History
Monet St. Croix was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia to Carter St. Croix, a wealthy former president of several corporations from Monaco, and his Algerian wife. The original Monet St. Croix joined Generation X as the mysterious mutant Penance, mute with razor sharp skin and an affinity for apples. It was later determined that Monet's two younger sisters Nicole and Claudette had been impersonating the real Monet, after their brother Marius, the vampiric mutant know as Emplate, trapped her in the form of Penance.
While all four St. Croix children possessed some form of power, Monet had a plethora of her own, including self propelled flight, superhuman strength and reflexes, and telepathy to name a few. In addition to her powers she tended to have a sizable attitude and a large chip on her shoulder, to the say the least. She quickly clashed with many of her Generation X teammates and often earned their irritation with her condescending attitude and occasional arrogance.
Her rival, Jubilee, oftened teased that her only power to was simply to be "perfect". In truth, Monet had survived an incredible series of ordeals, including enslavement at the hands of her brother Emplate. As a result, M became self-reliant and outwardly harsh and defensive to make up for her fear and insecurity. The only person she allowed to see her vulnerabilities was Everett Thomas, with whom she started a brief romantic relationship.
M was one of the most devastated of the Generation X team members when Synch sacrificed his own life to stop an exploding bomb that had been placed at the academy by Emma Frost's cruel sister, Adrienne. Soon after Synch's death, the team rapidly began to fall apart, even as Monet began to open up by acting a little more human and vulnerable around her fellow teammates. Following the bomb incident, Monet began to observe Emma Frost acting strangely villainous causing the entire team to question her leadership abilities, particularly when combined with Banshee's relapse into alcoholism following the death of his lover, Moira MacTaggert.
X-Corps
The team soon parted ways, however, M temporarily joined Banshee's militant X-Corps with Husk and Jubilee in order to keep an eye on the devastated Irish mutant. However, the X-Corps were soon destroyed by Mystique, and M joined the X-Corporation's European branch located in Paris. Monet helped the X-Men battle Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut before returning to her duties at X-Corporation Europe.
X-Factor Investigations
Following the events of M-Day, Monet opted to join the motley crew of X-Factor Investigations, a private detective agency run by Multiple Man. Monet completed her first mission on the team by telepathically tricking the famous actor, Jack Vaughn, to confess to the murder of Gloria Santiago's sister. Afterwards, Monet broke down and cried in Jamie's arms after empathizing with the victim, but quickly threatened to break him in half if he ever revealed her moment of "weakness". A comment made to Rictor implied that she no longer wished to go by the name "M". However, in a therapy session with Doc Samson, Monet stated that she hid behind the "M" persona so that others would not see how vulnerable she had become due to the lengthy amount of time she was held captive by her brother.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
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- Invulnerability: Monet is virtually invulnerable to injury. She is so durable she can withstand blows from beings such as World War Hulk unharmed.
- Healing Factor: Should M be injured somehow, she possesses a regenerative quality allowing her to heal and recover from near-fatal wounds extremely quickly. The effect also has the added benefit of making her more resist to toxins, disease and possibly also the aging process.
- Enhanced Senses: M's senses are so advanced that she possesses telescopic vision, night vision and superhuman acute hearing.
- Enhanced Agility: Her agility is greatly enhanced far more than peak human.
- Flight: Her flight speed is at least 500 MPH. In X-Factor 04, she caught up with--and leisurely maintained the speed of--a passenger plane carrying a suspect while inducing a psychic illusion.
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed: Her speed is greatly enhanced far more than peak human.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Her reflexes are greatly enhanced far more then a peak human.
- Telepathy: Ability to read minds and project her thoughts into the minds of others and defensively mask her mind against telepathic intrusion. Monet has also been shown to be capable of other basic telepathic abilities such as illusion casting and memory wiping.
- Gestalt Form Monet can merge with her other siblings.
Abilities
- Known Abilities: M is formidable in hand-to-hand combat and her intelligence is beyond genius level. She has perfect memory and superhuman intuitive skills. M also is Multilingual, capable of speaking a variety of different languages.
Strength level
M is capable of lifting approximately 10 tons.
Notes
- Monet is a citizen of France, Yugoslavia, and Algeria, with passports from all three countries.
- M is recently unsure if she had a one night stand with either Jaimie Madrox or one of his duplicates.
Trivia
- Scott Lobdell, the creator of M and Penance, never intended for there to be a "real" M - only the St. Croix twins.
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