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The Character
Character Name: Emma Frost
Character Journal: diamondsare

Canon: X-Men (Comics/Earth-616)
Age: ??? (She was 27 at the time of the 2001 New X-Men series, but comics aging can be weird. I’m assuming she’s a little older now, somewhere between 27 and her early 30s.)
Race: Mutant ( Further Information)

Timeline: From the end of Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1 after returning to the Mansion from Breakworld and giving Scott his visor back.
Abilities/Powers:
Emma Frost’s primary mutation was her telepathic abilities. Over the years, as she’s developed them, she has shown the ability to do a great number of things with them. For starters, as a telepath, she has the ability to read and control the minds (this includes altering the memories of and perception of reality) of others. In addition to mind reading, Emma is also capable of broadcasting her own thoughts into the minds of others, as well as receiving thoughts directed at her. She has two methods of inflicting psychic attacks: through the use of psychic energy bolts that harm a person’s mind and by transmitting mental pain via touch.

Emma is also able to perform psychic surgery using her telepathy. This involves focusing psionic energy to control the patient’s individual brain functions. From here Emma can do a variety of things from power boosts to curing diseases and disabilities. This could possibly be used for negative effects as well, but has never been shown.

Like some of her fellow mutants, Emma possesses a secondary mutation. In this case, she has the ability to change her body’s composition into flexible organic diamond. In this form, her strength is enhanced, though the exact limit seems to vary. Her diamond body is incredibly durable, able to withstand extreme physical force, cold, and heat. Her stamina is also increased since the diamond form produces no fatigue toxins and requires no food, water, air, or rest. Lastly, her diamond form provides some immunity from the psychic abilities of others and can glow in the dark.

However, there are several drawbacks to this form. The biggest drawback is that her diamond form possesses one molecular flaw. If this flaw is attacked with sufficient force, her diamond body can be shattered. Furthermore, in her diamond form, Emma is unable to access her psychic abilities. The exact reason for this is currently unknown. Emma’s inability to feel physical sensations in her diamond form also applies to her emotions, making her come across as cold hearted at times. Also, if she is knocked out, she reverts back to her normal body.

Emma is also capable of limited psychometry (making otherwise unknown connections from an object using psychic abilities). Furthermore, she is shown to have the potential for telekinetic ability; however, she is unable to consciously use this.

Power Limitations: I plan to set up a Permissions post for Emma in regards to her telepathic powers. It’s not magic, but her psychic surgery should be able to mask the symptoms, but not cure the disease in accordance with the rules. The only thing I would like clarified concerns her diamond form. If infected, would she be able to show symptoms in her regular body, but not in her diamond form, while remaining infected with the disease?

Inventory: Her “uniform” and a backup X-Men communicator for use in areas with psychic shielding.

Personality:
Even before the onset of her secondary mutation, Emma could be compared to a diamond: bright, flawless, expensive, beautiful, and cold. Irritate her and there’s bound to be some sort of catty remark as a rebuttal. Even if she’s not irritated, she’s liable to respond with a bitchy, sarcastic response. Scott is still mourning Jean? Oh lord, not another installment in the Scott Summer grief saga. Kitty thinks Emma’s really evil? Of course, she’s planning to destroy the world on Tuesday after her ethics class. This is all most people get from Emma, and she’s perfectly okay with that.

Get to know her a little better, and well, probably more of the same. Unless Emma really likes, respects, or flat out hates someone, they’re probably going to only get the snarky uncaring side of her. If she truly likes someone, they still won’t be spared from her wit, but she generally is shown to be caring towards them. Still, when she actually apologizes to her boyfriend Cyclops, he’s shocked. Her attitude towards people she respects is similar and can even result in honest, sincere praise from Emma (which can be incredibly rare). As far as hatred goes, Emma’s more likely to just kill someone (Cassandra Nova, Adrienne Frost) or make them suffer a great deal (Sebastian Shaw imprisoned and telepathically tortured by Emma, after her canon point) than resort to sarcasm.

This isn’t all there is to Emma, but is usually what she shows other people. Though rare, she is capable of emotional breakdowns during periods of great stress (crying in Wolverine’s arms after Jean forcibly drags up Emma’s memories and crying alone after Kitty Pryde is trapped in the bullet). She’s more likely to keep those feelings, her feelings of guilt (from surviving when everyone else around her tends to die), the feeling that she uses rudeness whenever she has nothing to say, her belief that Jean Grey is a better telepath than her, and her insecurities towards being a reformed villain and whether the other X-Men will ever truly accept her bottled up inside where no one can get at them, but occasionally they do slip out.

History:
Emma Grace Frost was the youngest of four children born to Winston and Hazel Frost. Despite her family’s wealth, childhood was not a happy time for Emma. Nor was her home a happy place for her siblings. As Emma herself put it, “My family was a blast furnace no one could survive.” Her father was an overbearing tyrant who enjoyed pitting his children against each other to see which one was a worthy heir. Her mother abused prescription medication to escape the problems in their household, and her brother Christian developed a serious drug habit due to depression resulting from his father’s tyranny.

School wasn’t much of an escape for Emma either. She was an average student at best, and her family’s wealth only brought her scorn from her other classmates. However, after her mutation manifested, she was able to pick up better grades and find a friend in one of her teachers, a man named Ian. Her friendship with Ian inspired Emma to become a teacher. Unfortunately, her father didn’t agree with this, and after a misunderstanding caused by Emma’s powers, had Ian dismissed from her school.

When it came time for Winston to choose an heir, he chose Emma over her sisters. Instead of accepting the Frost fortune and her place as her father’s successor, Emma walked out, wanting to make her own path in the world.

The exact circumstances that brought Emma to Empire State University vary from comic to comic, but eventually she found herself a student at ESU. Here she befriended a fellow telepath named Astrid Bloom and reencountered her former teacher Ian. Bloom taught Emma how to hone her powers further. Bloom also tried to drive away anyone close to Emma through the use of her own powers. When Emma found out that Bloom had done this to Ian and another boy she had been interested in, she confronted Bloom and left rendered her in a catatonic state. Sadly, when Emma confesses all this to Ian, he leaves her after she reveals that she is in fact, a mutant. This leaves Emma prejudiced against humans for quite some time.

Either before or after graduating (the exact order of events varies from comic to comic), Emma Frost auditioned as a dancer at the infamous Hellfire Club. Though not the most talented dancer, Emma was able to land the position by using her psychic abilities to make her appear better than she was. This attracted the attention of Sebastian Shaw, a fellow mutant and high ranking member of the Club. At the time, the club’s leadership (consisting of humans) decided to support a project that would create robots to hunt and capture mutants. The club’s White King assured Shaw that it was only to capture mutants the Hellfire Club could use to gain power, but Emma was able to scan the King’s mind and discover that this was a lie (In actuality, the project would be used to exterminate all mutants). Using this information, Shaw and Emma were able to stage a coup and seize control of the club. Shaw became the Black King, Emma became the White Queen, and the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle became populated with mutants.

At some point after this, Emma convinced Sebastian to fund a private school (the Massachusetts Academy) in order to find mutants for the Inner Circle to use. This not only benefitted Shaw, but also benefitted Emma since she finally became the teacher she had desired to be since she was a teenager. Soon after, Emma attempted to recruit a young mutant girl named Kitty Pryde to join her school. At the same time, Professor Charles Xavier was also attempting to recruit Pryde for his school ( Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. This would lead to the first major conflict between Emma and the X-Men (a team of mutant superheroes operating out of Xavier’s school). Having tired of trying to recruit Ms. Pryde, Emma instead attempted to have her kidnapped. Emma managed to kidnap the X-Men instead, only to be defeated at the hands of Jean Grey, a telepath who was channeling a celestial entity called the Phoenix at the time. Emma would continue to antagonize the X-Men as the years went by, failing each time.

Much later, the former villain Magneto had been appointed headmaster of Xavier’s school. In a battle with a cosmic being known as the Beyonder, several of the New Mutants (a superhero team consisting of much younger mutants than the X-Men) were killed, and then recreated by the Beyonder. The recreated students suffered from an incredible amount of psychic trauma, and Emma through both honest and deceptive methods, arranged for them to be transferred to the Massachusetts Academy, where she was able to treat their problems. Magneto was unhappy about being deceived, but was able to later work with Frost to help the students.

At some point during her tenure as headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy, Emma had willed her school to Charles Xavier. After an attack from a time travelling assassin rendered her comatose, her school became part of the Xavier Institute. When Emma awakes and discovers the attack led to deaths of many of her students, she accepts she might have been wrong and Xavier may have been right about how young mutants should be taught. After recovering, Emma resumed her tenure as headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy.

However, the stock market was not kind to Emma, and she was forced to borrow money from her sister, Adrienne, to keep the school open. Adrienne helped, under the condition she be made co-mistress. She then trapped Emma’s current students in recreations of the deaths of her previous students, in an attempt to take revenge on Emma for being successful. Her plan didn’t work, and she escaped. Adrienne would return again, this time succeeding in killing one of Emma’s students. However, she would not escape this time. Emma shot her sister dead. Following this disaster, Emma closed the Massachusetts Academy.

Emma moved to Genosha (Magneto’s nation for mutants) and accepted a job teaching telepathy to her fellow mutants. Unfortunately, one day just as telepathy class got underway, a horde of Sentinels, the mutant killing robots mentioned earlier, descended upon Genosha and proceeded to exterminate the mutant nation. Emma managed to survive through the miraculous onset of a secondary mutation, changing her skin to diamond and allowing her to live through the attack.
Feeling guilty for surviving and once again out of a place to teach, Emma returned to the Xavier Institute as a teacher. She almost immediately focused on a group of psychic quintuplets, the Stepford Cuckoos, and tried to mold them in her own image. During this period, Emma also took advantage of problems in the marriage of Cyclops and Jean Grey and began a psychic affair with Cyclops. She was also instrumental in defeating Cassandra Nova, an evil psychic parasite, who not only attacked the school but was responsible for the genocide in Genosha.

When one of the students (Quentin Quire) incites a riot that leaves one of the Cuckoos dead, the remaining girls turn on Emma. They had tried to warn her that something was wrong with Quire, but Emma ignored them. As payback, the girls inform Jean of the affair. Jean proceeds to catch Emma with her husband inside their minds and forces Emma to relive every painful repressed memory she has as punishment. The stress and trauma associated with those memories caused Emma to break down and admit that she truly does love Cyclops.

Shortly after this, Jean Grey is killed by Magneto (who had turned evil again). Emma, with Jean’s help from the astral plane, convinces Cyclops to keep the school open, and the two take over the administration of Xavier’s school. In an attempt to rebuild the team’s image and improve mutant relations over all, Cyclops has a new X-Men team put together, with Emma as the group’s psychic. The group, which also includes Kitty Pryde who still dislikes the mostly reformed Emma, is ultimately successful in its first few missions, apprehending an alien villain known as Ord.

The exact order of events consisting of Jean’s revival, Danger, M-Day, and Warsong isn’t entirely clear. Joss Whedon chose to not include major comic events in Astonishing X-Men. However, since both Astonishing and these events affected the regular comic, they have to fit together somewhere, and this order seems to make the most sense.

In space, the alien race known as the Shi’ar revive the Phoenix before it is ready to rise. Their plan is to try and kill the creature while it is weak and disoriented. A fragment of the Phoenix survives the attempt and voyages to Earth, looking for its host Jean Grey (currently deceased). In its search, the Phoenix manages to accidentally create an argument between Emma and Cyclops over Jean and their relationship. In the morning, it’s revealed that Jean’s body is missing. Emma attempts to telepathically bait the Phoenix into showing itself, but it doesn’t work.

When the X-Men finally encounter the Phoenix, Emma confronts it and offers herself as a host. The Phoenix Force accepts and possesses Emma. The X-Men manage to trap Emma and Cyclops together in a containment pod, but only until a revived Quentin Quire shows up and breaks the Phoenix out of it. The Phoenix once again battles the X-Men. This time the battle concludes when a revived Jean Grey rips the Phoenix Force out of Emma Frost’s body. However Jean loses begins losing control. The X-Men combine their love and Jean becomes the White Phoenix and leaves again.

During the X-Men’s next major battle, Emma is rendered unconscious. While unconscious a strange voice appears in her head, mocking her teammates. Emma recovers in time to alert the team that the X-Men’s Danger Room (a holographic training room programmed to both kill the X-Men and not kill the X-Men at the same time) has become self-aware. The X-Men encounter this entity (known as Danger) and lose to Danger after it assumes a physical form. They follow Danger to Genosha, where Emma once again encounters the voice, telling her they won’t have to put up a façade for much longer. Emma considers this to be a relief. After Danger is defeated, the voice is revealed to belong to Cassandra Nova, now part of a brand new Hellfire Club. However, a major event in the life of Emma and the lives of every mutant occurs before the X-Men battle the Hellfire Club again.

In another part of the world, the Avenger Wasp mentions her teammate, Wanda Maxmioff’s children. This causes Wanda to have a mental breakdown. A long time ago, she used her magic powers to create her own children. Eventually, the children were erased from existence along with Wanda’s memories of them. The remark unintentionally restored her memory, and the now insane Wanda attempts to alter reality, only to have her powers shut down temporarily.
The Avengers and the X-Men meet to discuss Wanda’s fate, with Emma suggesting they kill her. Xavier decides that they should talk to Wanda before they do anything. When they arrive at Wanda’s location, they find her missing and then disappear one by one. When the flash subsides, everyone now lives in a world remade by Wanda’s powers where mutants are the dominant species.

In this reality, Emma Frost is married to Scott Summers and the couple has three children.
Thanks to Wolverine and a mutant named Layla Miller, the memories of many of the heroes are restored and they confront Wanda. During the altercation it is revealed that Wanda’s brother, Pietro, was responsible for the creation of this universe. Magneto attempts to kill his son for causing this, only for Wanda to confront him, ending with the line, “No more mutants.”
Everyone finds themselves in the real world again. Only those shielded by psychic abilities or magic remember what happened. Upon noticing that several students lost their powers, Emma uses Cerebro (a mutant detecting device invented by Charles Xavier) and learns that the number of mutants has dropped from millions to 198. This event becomes known as M-Day.

After M-Day, it is revealed that the Phoenix had stored itself in the remaining three Cuckoos. During yet another assault on Xavier’s mansion, the other two Cuckoos are resurrected (as zombies). After causing chaos, the Cuckoos flee to the World. As the X-Men, including Emma, follow, the Cuckoos are met by John Sublime. Sublime reveals a room full of Cuckoos in pods to them and attempts to force the girls into the pods.

Around the same time, the X-Men breach the World, and Emma discovers a room full of similar pods, but the Cuckoos within are horribly mutated. To Emma’s shock, these girls refer to her as mother. It is revealed that while Emma was comatose, during her tenure at the Massachusetts Academy, Sublime harvested her ova, and used them to create the Cuckoos. After Kitty and Beast reprogram Sublime’s computer terminal, it is discovered that the Cuckoos were classified as Weapon XIV (the fourteenth in a line of biological weapons meant to wipe mutants from the face of the Earth). It is also revealed that the Phoenix manifested through the Cuckoos in an attempt to kill off Weapon XIV.

Emma, not wanting her newfound children to die, attempts another solution by disconnecting the parts of Celeste’s mind (the Cuckoo channeling the Phoenix at the moment) that allow her to control the Phoenix and taking control of Weapon XIV’s hive mind. However, Sublime activates an override that not only removes Emma’s control, but absorbs the Phoenix Force from Celeste’s body in the machine, creating an army of Phoenixes. Sublime’s goal was to control the Phoenix through Weapon XIV.

He then has Weapon XIV confront the X-Men. Despite having the celestial power of the Phoenix, it seems unable to kill the X-Men. It turns out that Celeste is fighting against Weapon XIV's mind, which allows the X-Men to disconnect some of the machinery, shorting the Phoenix Force out in some of the Cuckoos and freeing them from Sublime’s control. Sadly, Emma has realized what needs to be done and apologizes to Celeste for trying to mold her in her own image.

Celeste channels the Phoenix Force and puts it to work, by burning away what doesn’t work. In this case, that means destroying all of the newly freed Cuckoos, leaving only the original three surviving Cuckoos alive. Despite Weapon XIV being destroyed, the Phoenix refuses to leave. Celeste manages to seal the Phoenix Force in the hearts of her and two sisters. Emma attempts to comfort Celeste; however, due to the containment method, the Cuckoos now feel nothing. After returning to the mansion, Emma walks outside and swears that if the Phoenix Force returns, for what it did to her new family, it will have to answer to her.

After that event, a normal chronological order of events resumes.

At some point after that, Emma begins experiencing what appear to be repressed memories. These memories consist of Cassandra Nova explaining her plan to genocide Genosha and offering Ms. Frost the chance to survive it. Nova mentions that Emma won’t remember this event until she wants Emma to. Emma begins acting strangely after this by using her powers to give Kitty nightmares while she meets with the new Hellfire Club that appeared after the battle with Danger. The meeting concludes with a strange hooded figure, named Perfection, telling Emma her game is first.

That night Emma attempts to seduce Cyclops by using her powers to disguise herself as Jean Grey. Cyclops initially rejects Emma’s advances, but eventually kisses her. During the kiss, Emma uses her powers to make Scott appear as Wolverine, which sets him off again. Emma removes the illusions and the two share what appears to be a serious heart to heart talk about Jean and why Xavier chose Scott to lead the X-Men. Emma tells Scott he lacks control and takes him into his “Bug Room” (a room existing in a person’s psyche representing their unconscious). Here Emma has Scott revisit the moment he subconsciously blocked control of his optic blasts and tells him that he can let go now.

The next morning, Cyclops is found in a catatonic state in their bed. With Emma’s “game” finished, the other members of the Hellfire Club begin taking out the X-Men. Colossus, Wolverine, and Kitty Pryde are also neutralized, and Cassandra Nova reduces Beast to a feral state and sends him after the students.

The Hellfire Club’s goal appears to be the contents of a locked box in the basement of the mansion. The box was designed by Charles Xavier and cannot be opened by anyone present. It is revealed that Kitty Pryde can open the box, and the Club arranged for her rejoining the X-Men so she could do so. Before they can locate her, Pryde ambushes the Club and leaves Emma in a rock cave under the mansion. Back in the mansion, Kitty is confronted by Perfection who reveals herself to be Emma, in her White Queen persona.

Perfection alters Kitty’s memories, so she will willingly open the box. Inside the box is Stuff, an alien life form Emma trapped Cassandra Nova’s mind in years ago. Before the Hellfire Club can put Nova’s mind into a new body, Cyclops appears and proceeds to shoot Perfection. Cyclops continues shooting the other members and then orders Kitty to save Emma.
It is revealed that the new Hellfire Club weren’t physical beings and were actually illusions created by Emma’s mind. At the moment Emma tricked Cassandra Nova’s consciousness into entering Stuff, Nova placed a single suggestion into Emma’s mind. The one single suggestion became a voice in the back of her head whispering to her that maybe she was really evil. Maybe she deserved everything that happened to her. Over time, that suggestion grew and grew and led to the events occurring in the Mansion.

Nova’s voice in Emma’s head convinces Emma to let her out of Stuff so she can seek a new body, Kitty Pryde’s body. At the same time, Kitty steals Cyclops’ gun and points it at Emma’s head, accusing Emma of having her open the box. Cyclops explains that Cassandra wanted Kitty to open the box, but Emma subconsciously brought Kitty into the team to stop her. Nova changes her mind and selects another X-Man, Hisako, as her host. However, Ord and Danger break into the room and the entire group, minus Stuff is teleported away from the Mansion, so the results of the transfer are unknown.

The X-Men are placed on a ship headed for Breakworld, Ord’s homeworld, to deal with a prophecy that the X-Man Colossus will destroy their world. The Breakworlders have constructed a missile capable of splitting Earth in half, and the X-Men are tasked with stopping it. It is also revealed en route that no traces of Cassandra Nova remain in Emma’s mind. On the way, they are attacked by an armada from Breakworld, forcing a crash landing.

During a firefight with the Breakworlders, two things very important things happen in Emma’s life: Cyclops admits he’s in love with her, which floors Emma, and Emma says she’s sorry, which shocks Cyclops. However, what Emma is sorry about isn’t revealed. Before she can explain their ship is attacked by Danger, leading to another crash landing. On the ground, Danger confronts Emma, only for Emma to order Danger to kill her. Confused, Danger attempts to kill Emma, only to fail and then the battle ceases. Emma explains that Danger is incapable of killing her or any of the X-Men, due to a parent programming preventing her from killing the X-Men. As Emma puts it, “You never got over your parent programming. If it’s any consolation, no one ever does,” referring to not only Danger’s situation, but the lessons she learned from her parents many years ago.

Emma manages to broker an alliance with Danger in order to get closer to Breakworld’s leader. The team comes up with a plan, discussed via Emma’s telepathy, to have Cyclops captured, in order to access the building. The team manages to win on Breakworld, but the missile’s firing sequence is activated. Furthermore, when Kitty Pryde phases inside the missile, it becomes apparent that the missile is actually a bullet. Emma repeatedly tries to convince Kitty to phase out of the bullet, but to no avail. As a last ditch effort, Emma offers to telepathically make Kitty think she’s somewhere else, but the offer is rejected. Emma tells Kitty that this was never meant for her and tells Kitty that she was astonished by Kitty’s performance. To Emma and everyone’s shock, Kitty manages to phase the bullet through the Earth and space, saving the Earth and all planets the bullet crosses paths with.

Back home on Earth, the X-Men reflect on what has happened. In a rare display of sadness, Emma Frost breaks down and cries over the loss of her teammate. In private, she meets with Cyclops and returns his visor. After both of them say “I love you,” the two embrace.

First Person Sample:
[Video]

Hello? Can you see me? Good.

[The feed displays a blonde woman, wearing what is quite possibly the least conservative outfit in Icarus. It is clear that she is not pleased.]

I had a class scheduled for this morning, and I am now impossibly late. So, I would like someone, anyone, to please explain to me exactly what the hell is going on here. I got the cheaply made welcome box, but I want to hear it from someone else on this network.

[She smiles mischievously at the camera.]

And don’t even think about lying to me, darlings. You’ll regret it.

Write it out Sample:
Emma glanced around the district, subtly altering the perceptions of anyone who noticed her. She didn’t feel like dealing with the local people. Not yet, anyway. Instead, she wanted some time alone to reflect on all this. So far, Icarus looked like a miserable little place, but the former White Queen wasn’t exactly a stranger to miserable places. “Hell, the mansion’s looked worse more times than Logan’s said something crass,” she muttered aloud.

She continued scanning the area, this time with her mind and was surprised by what she found. She couldn’t sense any mutants. Not one besides her. M-Day had taken a huge toll on their numbers, but not one? Not even one of the less interesting ones? Now that was a bit of a shock. There were some other interesting signatures, but she had trouble discerning what they were.

Having concluded that Icarus wasn’t exactly a shining example of how a city should look and that there were no other mutants, Emma looked at the welcome box and frowned. The dream had mentioned cleansing the city, but she was the wrong X-Man for that wasn’t she? Cleansing and burning away was always more Jean’s thing. It had been her girls’ thing…for a while. Emma’s skin shifted to diamond while she thought about that. It had been some time ago, but the emotional scars still felt fresh.

This canceled out her mental abilities and needless to say, several locals were definitely startled by the sudden appearance of this diamond figure, but she ignored them. She had no time for dealing with the common folk. “Okay, darling,” she said, speaking towards the sky and the Phoenix Force wherever it was, “I’ll give it a shot. I mean how hard can this be if that cow you call a host can do it?”