Marie-Ange Colbert

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Character Journal: x_tarot

Real Name: Marie-Ange Camille Colbert

Codename: Tarot

Aliases: Vision (trainee name)

First Appearance: May 30, 2003

Date of Birth: August 18, 1987

Place of Birth: Lyons, France

Citizenship: French

Relatives: Colbert Family: Duvall (father), Jeanne-Michele (mother); Jean-Philepe (cousin).

Education: High School diploma, currently completing degree in architecture via correspondance

Relationship Status: Dating Garrison Kane

Occupation: Employed by Snow Valley Memorial Center for Mutant Affairs to research and improve ADA regulations for mutants.

Team Affiliation: X-Force

Biography

Childhood

Marie-Ange is the only daughter of Duvall and Jeanne-Michele Colbert. Duvall was a kind, if rather distant man and largely left Marie-Ange to the care of her mother, who was something of a religious type. Raised as a good Catholic girl, she was sent to an all-girl's school when she reached secondary level. She manifested in her early teens and managed to hide her powers for several years until the Great Headache resulted in her being exposed to her classmates. There was concern for the safety of the other students, given not much was known about mutants in France at that time, but one of the nuns knew of Charles Xavier and his school and it was arranged for Marie-Ange to transfer under a student visa to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

Living At The X-Mansion

Marie-Ange came to the school at the end of May 2003. Aware of only her imaging power at that point in time, she quickly adapted to the school, making friends among the many new students at that time: Jamie Madrox, Everett Thomas and Doug Ramsey. She was also one of the students who came under the wing of Dr. Nathaniel Essex, resulting in her being recruited to kidnap Betsy for further surgery, an action that resulted in her receiving punishment duty in the medlab. It was during this duty that she met Manuel de la Rocha, with whom she had an on-again, off-again friendship.


It was in September 2003 that Marie-Ange's precognition surfaced, usually in the form of prophetic dreams. She began keeping a regular dream journal when it was discovered she had foreseen over the months several events, including Mystique's impersonation of Bobby Drake, Emma Frost's kidnap and escape, the nature of Doug's powers and Alex Summers being held hostage by Selene. She began testing with Dr. Moira MacTaggart to refine this troublesome power, using tarot cards and other means of divination (with the help of witch, Amanda Sefton) to focus it. She also forsaw the attack by Jamie's twisted dupe, but was unable to interpret the vision until too late: she was forced to kill one of the dupes, something which caused her to lose faith in her Catholicism and question her pacifism.


In the wake of the love potion disaster, Marie-Ange and Doug began a relationship, which was only strengthened by their separation in Asgard. During her time in Asgard, Marie-Ange was taken in by Odin, who had her trained in the warrior's art. He also gave her one of his ravens, Memory, as a means of keeping tabs on her during her journeys through his land. On her return it became obvious Marie-Ange's precognition had become more refined as a result of her interaction with Odin. She began sharing a suite with her now-friend Amanda, the two girls' powers and temperaments interacting unexpectedly well.


When Doug interpreted one of Marie-Ange's visions and nearly got himself killed trying to protect Rahne Sinclair from a sniper's bullet, Marie-Ange made the decision to become an X-Man trainee and received the codename "Vision", with Doug joining her on the trainee roster not long afterwards. However, problems arose with her precognition, eventually leading to her to almost have a psychotic break, only seeing the deaths of those around her. Remy LeBeau was the only one exempt from this, and eventually he was able to get her help from Tante Mattie, a houdon in New Orleans.


Tante's hard-learned lessons about her precognition came back to haunt Marie-Ange when her roommate was targeted by Selene. In order to ensure that worse events did not happen, Marie-Ange had to stand by and let Amanda gradually be drawn to the Hellfire Club. This, combined with her increasing frustration with the limits imposed on her as a trainee and her increasing knowledge that she was harder and more ruthless than many of her fellows, served to create doubt in her mind as to her place at the school and the team.

X-Force and Snow Valley

Following the rescue of Romany Wisdom, Doug and Marie-Ange broke up following a public argument in the foyer of the mansion. Doug accepted a job offer with Snow Valley Memorial Center for Mutant Affairs and moved out. At college, Marie-Ange had an encounter with Quentin Quire, a telepath with a crush on her. The interaction of their powers when he tried to telepathically influence her resulted in a number of alternate presents appearing to the mansion residents. It was Doug who worked out the connection, but his treatment of Quentin drove a further wedge between them.


Following her assistance with the incident in Germany, Marie-Ange accepted a position with Snow Valley. It was awkward, working with Doug, but they managed to achieve a business relationship and later a friendship, brought on by the various missions they went on.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5’6”

Weight: 135 lbs.

Eyes: grey

Hair: naturally red, tinted to various shades from strawberry blonde to auburn

Other Features:


Powers

Marie-Ange is a rarity among mutants, with two seemingly unrelated mutant abilities.

The first is the creation of solid images, formed directly from astral matter, or ectoplasm. Marie-Ange can form three-dimensional solid images based off of any two-dimensional representation that she can see. The simpler the structure, the easier it is to animate and control. While Marie-Ange can control the actions of her constructs, she can also endow them with a semblance of autonomy, such as animating an image of a farmer to clean out the stables without her direct attention. Her most powerful constructs still have a finite amount of structural integrity, and if breached, dissolve into the astral matter they are formed from, leaving behind a thin layer of viscous 'slime' that evaporates quickly.

Marie-Ange tends to use small playing-card sized representations of her constructs to create them, most often a personalized deck of tarot cards. She has also been able to construct temporary supports and shelters from building blueprints, and on at least one occasion create a simple support without any base image. The effort of this construction, however, exhausted her greatly and the stunt has not been repeated.

Marie-Ange's second mutant ability is precognition, the ability to visualize future events. This ability was initially uncontrolled and nigh-incomprehensible before Marie-Ange trained with Tante Mattie, and learned the process of focusing her precognition through either her card reading or her art. While Marie-Ange can attempt to induce a precognitive episode through meditation and specific techniques, this process is not always reliable. Most of her "visions" come without warning, and are often difficult to explain or interpret without some form of focus such as her art.

On a few occasions, Marie-Ange's gifts have combined to create short-lived solid images of potential events that she had seen and drawn in her sketchbook.

Equipment

Marie-Ange owns more decks of Tarot cards then she does shoes, and given her love of shopping, this is no small number.

Trivia

Marie-Ange has an army of animated imps who do her bidding in the brownstone.

Plots

2003

Crimson Dawn

2004

Asgard

British Invasion

Daddy's Girl

Love Potion Number Nine

One To The Chest

Repodemon

Red X Mission: Stonewall

Skippy (plot)

Unwell


2005

Brood

High Cost Of Living

Lost In The Woods

Just One Drug

Mutants and Molotovs

X-Men Mission: Mercy Flight

X-Men Mission: Things That Go Boom


2006

Dogs of War

Ghost of a Chance

Libri Veritatum

Masque (plot)

Operation: Body Snatchers

Operation: Don't Leave Me With The Germans

Operation: Flesh Mechanic

Operation: Opening Salvo

Operation: Xorn

The Curse Stops Here

The Enemy Within

The Rictor Effect

X-Men Mission: The Perfect Nanny

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