Background
The psionic entity Malice was recruited by Mister Sinister to join his Marauders. As a member of that organization, Malice body hopped through a number of female X-Men, including Dazzler, Rogue and Storm. But Storm´s will was too strong, and she forcibly ejected Malice from her body. During the Marauder´s attack on Polaris, Malice possessed the powerful mutant. As their two energy matrices interwove, the two women became permanently bound together. Mr. Sinister had known this union would occur, but failed to warn Malice of it because he had specific plans for the now-blended entity: using the Malice-possessed Polaris to attack the X-Men, who counted among their team members Polaris´ lover Havok.
Malice was later freed from Polaris´ body when Zaladane temporarily stole Polaris´ magnetic powers. Eventually Malice found her way back to Polaris, but angered over being forced from Polaris' body, she instead possessed the body of Polaris' then-lover, Havok. On vacation from their job as government operatives in the X-Factor group in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Malice-possessed Havok attempted to kill Polaris, but was stopped by Mister Sinister, who wanted Polaris alive for his own unrevealed plans. After taking Polaris to safety, he ordered his Nasty Boys to do anything short of killing Havok in order to rid his body of Malice. With the rest of X-Factor arriving mid-battle, the Nasty Boys were forced to halt their assault when Strong Guy and Wolfsbane perceived Mister Sinister to be abducting an unconscious Polaris while the Nasty Boys held Havok at bay. After a quick battle Polaris regained consciousness and revealed Malice's possession of Havok, then attempted to force Malice from him. Mister Sinister instead instructed Malice to possess Polaris, which forced Havok and Polaris into a mental struggle over who would possess the non-corporeal mutant (both wanting to sacrifice themselves to spare the other). Eventually, forced from both bodies, Malice's corporeal essence floated free, where it was apparently destroyed by Mister Sinister. Instead, he had forced her essence to exist in a cameo necklace, and use that means as posession.
Roleplaying Statistics
- Malice calls out when in the cameo. The call is stronger to more powerful mutants. The call is not heard by telepaths. To see if victim can resist the call, roll Psyche against 1d50. If victim loses, the must put on the cameo and be possessed by Malice.
- If cameo is destroyed or cracked, Malice is freed from her prison to posess others as she pleases
- If victim of possession falls unconscious due to an attack of psychic persuasion, there is a 50/50 chance they can temporarily recover their body. At that time they can remove the cameo.
- She has no other powers. She wields the powers of the victim possessed. |
