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I used some characters more than once because I had more than one idea for them!

Blob/Killer Croc: Waylon Dukes; they share being the “big bruiser” type villain, a near-invulnerable hide, and a past in a sideshow. I feel like Sabretooth also works well for a Killer Croc fusion, even better than Blob in a lot of ways, what with being akin to a predatory animal. In that case, he’d be Waylon Creed.

Sabretooth/Zasz: Creed Zsasz, a psychopathic serial killer with a feral bent who kills with sharpened teeth and claws. Think Randall Tier from Hannibal.

Poison Ivy/Black Tom: Pamela Cassidy, an Irish plant-lover who got her powers from a Druidic ritual rather than science, and who has more of a focus on wood than greenery.

Ra’s Al Ghul/Magneto: I think the “good goals, terrible methods, makes a lot of fair points buuuut” angle both have, as well as their respect for their greatest foe, makes for a smooth fuse. I’m thinking he’s called The Iron Demon, his goals are similar to Ra’s Al Ghul except he desires to leave his fellow metahumans alive to inherit the Earth. His backstory is like that of Magneto, up until the point his metahuman powers emerge and Magda flees from him. He searches for her, and in the process, finds the Wundagore Pits. These grant him immortality but also affect his mind, accounting for both his swings in apparent age and ideology/mannerisms/level of evil vs misguided vs downright heroic over the decades. The Wundagore Pits also end up connected to the abilities of his daughter. . .

Clayface/Mimic: Calvin Karloff I know Mystique would be the obvious option for a shapeshifter fusion, but I wanted to go a little less obvious! Calvin can copy the powers and skills of others, but only while he’s shapeshifted into them; however, he cannot shapeshift back to his original self, and his default form is forever that of clay monster since his accident.

Penguin/Sebastian Shaw: Sebastian Cobb aka Polar Bear, tall and beefy, very “strong fat”. Both the Penguin and Shaw stand out as pure pragmatic capitalist types among their respective fellow villains. Most of Batman’s baddies are depicted as mentally unbalanced, and most of the X-Men’s enemies are ideologues in one direction or another. Shaw and Penguin, though, while they have their gimmicks and getups, are really just practical businessmen. And they’re both club owners, even!

Emma Frost/Mr. Freeze: Emma Fries, who is trying to revive her cryogenically frozen dead students, and once her personal fortune is exhausted, she uses the last of her wealth to experiment on herself in order to gain more money by using her powers to commit crimes. These powers are that she has a diamond-hard ice form and can also mentally control those she touches if she freezes a part of their body. She goes by Frost Queen

Nocturna/Rogue and Nocturna/Selene: For those who don’t know of her, Pre-Crisis Natalia Knight aka Nocturna was an astronomer who suffered an accident that drained all pigment from her skin, leaving her vampirically pale. She loved the night, and she loved luxury, which she had become accustomed to through her foster father, a mob boss. After his passing, she and her adopted brother/lover turned to crime to keep funding the opulent lifestyle she felt she needed. Despite this, she would not kill, and had a conscience, as well as being in love with Batman, basically taking Catwoman’s niche for awhile in the 80s. Since then, she’s had a few different versions, including a much more murderous literal vampire.

I think I would merge Rogue with the more benign, morally conflicted original version, and she’d be called Annamarie Knight aka Night Rogue. For the far more evil and ruthless actual-vampire version, I’d choose Selene, and she’d be Selene Knight aka Nyx, who demands worship from a cult to fund her luxury while also having the cult members bring her people to drain.

Maxie Zeus/Selene: Maxine “Maxie” Moon, a rich socialite who becomes convinced she’s the ancient immortal goddess Selene from ancient Rome after an accident on vacation. In order to attain the powers to match these delusions, she pursues sorcery and makes pacts with dark forces to gain a lot of power fast. These dark forces demand life energy as payment, which forces her to sap the life of others to pay for her powers lest they take hers.

Ra’s Al-Ghul/Selene: In this case, the delusions are true! The Moon Demon, as she is known, is indeed an ancient being, kept alive and beautiful by sacrifices to the mysterious Lunar Pits, which transfer the lifespan and vitality of its victims to her. And since she wanes to an elderly crone over each lunary cycle, she needs it! Over her long  and unnatural life, she’s also learned much black magic, which she uses to draw followers to herself. Her cult is always ready to serve her, whether it’s with giving her the material luxury a goddess like herself deserves, snatching victims for the Pits (or offering themselves should they fail), or readying the world for her rise as a truly immortal (and ever-youthful) goddess at last.

Catwoman/Callisto: Callisto Kyle aka The Cat, former model, attacked by crazed fan damaged her face, took refuge in sewers with cats after modeling career dried up and money ran out, toxic waste accident caused her to take on some of their aspects, their agility and such, now operates as masked cat burglar to support herself and feline friends in luxury while flaunting still-beautiful body with her face covered, has become a friend to the homeless and sex workers as well as street animals and anyone else considered ugly or outcast by society. Probably good allies with the Two-Face/Mystique and Ratcatcher/Nanny fusions.

Joker/Arcade: Wild Card. Honestly, I don’t feel this one even needs an explanation, you can picture it pretty well already, right?

Harley Quinn/Madelyne Pryor: Cloned from a hero (Jean Gordon, a Barbara Gordon/Jean Grey fusion) by another villain, Mr. Pygmalion (Mr. Sinister/Professor Pyg) for the purpose of creating a “perfect” replacement for Gordon after she was paralyzed by Wild Card. Yes, of course they were enemies, but he couldn’t stand to see such good genetics go to waste even so! The replacement awoke to consciousness believing that she was the real Jean Gordon, and operated as such for a time. . .up until she was kidnapped by Wild Card. He revealed the truth of what she was to her, and while she could have survived the revelation of her origins, she was then driven insane by Arcade’s preying psychologically on her insecurities. He brainwashed her into believing only he would ever love her and see her as an individual, and she has a hell of a case of trauma bonding. Now going by Madelyne Quinn aka Harley Queen (a pun on “harlequin” + reference to the Goblyn Queen), she’s his ever-present assistant and hopeful-lover!

Riddler/Juggernaut: Weird one, right? Juggernaut should obviously be a Bane fusion, it would line up so perfectly! Which is why, as with Clayface and Mimic, I decided to challenge myself here. So, how does this even work? I’m thinking that the Gem of Cytorrak is sort of like the Greek Sphinx, compelling its host to ask riddles of people. . .and then kill them when they fail to answer, their deaths a sacrifice to Cytorrak. As a bonus, comes with superstrength, invulnerability, and being the Unstoppable Riddler! A pretty good deal for Edward Marko, formerly a scrawny nebbish type who longed to be a big bully instead of a brain…and now he’s both!

Two-Face/Mystique: Raven Dent was born with half her face and body horribly deformed. She was treated equally horribly by the world around her, until an accident (probably similar to or even the same one as Calvin Karloff suffered) granted her shapeshifting powers. Powers that she now uses to get revenge on others; both out of justice for her fellow downtrodden who have been wronged by those ‘above’ them in the social hierarchy, and spite against people who, though they may be innocent, have it too easy for her liking. Which route she takes depends on the coin she flips at the beginning of every day. Her new name is Muti-Face or Masquerade.

Ventriloquist/Mojo: Arnold Wesker is a mousey but deranged television writer who was driven over the edge by his horrible corporate higher-ups. After losing his job due to a mental breakdown from stress, he created his puppet “Mojo” as a representation of how he saw his former bosses, how they treated him, how they talked, their obsession with ratings. . .but then Mojo started, at least in Wesker’s mind, talking for real, and demanding to see a REAL show. . .whether the “actors” he “recruits” want to be in it or not. Arcade/Joker helps build the sets and kidnap the players just because he finds it hilarious.

Baby Doll/Cassandra Nova: Cassandra “Baby” Doll was one of a set of twins, both of whom were born with congenital issues. His was paraplegia, hers was dwarfism and stalled aging. Cassandra always felt she got the raw deal between them; sure her brother needed a wheelchair, but at least he was seen as an adult! At least he could have a life! And when she developed her telepathic metahuman powers, she thought at last she’d one-upped him, that she could now take out all her jealousy on him. . .but, alas, he’d developed equal abilities of his own. So now she’s going to take it out on EVERYONE ELSE CLOSE TO HIM.

Professor Pyg/Sinister: Lazlo Essex was a Victorian era eugenicist obsessed with the process by which selective breeding could make more perfect, healthy, beautiful organisms. However, selective breeding took too long with human beings to really observe for more than two or three generations, and he worried he’d never live to see the fruit of his works. To this end, he pursued the Wundagore Pits. . .and found them. Operating in the modern era as “Mr. Pygmalion” he has now embraced and mastered more modern, fast-working ways of modifying organisms, from plastic surgery to genetic engineering. The results are. . .unspeakable. He is the creator of the Madelyne Quinn aka Harley Queen, a clone of Jean Gordon.

Firefly/Pyro: Okay, I finally went for the low-hanging fruit here, but since I went the hard road with The Unstoppable Riddler, I can take an easy mesh too! Garfield Allerdyce was a Hollywood journalist (merging Pyro’s past as a wartime journalist and Firefly’s past as a special effects artist) who became obsessed with fire after covering a display of revolutionary pyrotechnic special effects.

Rat Catcher/Nanny: Mama Rat, along with Baby Rat (Orphanmaker) and the “Rat Pack” they gather by kidnapping children. These children are typically kids who were abused by their families, outcasts or runaways, rejected metahumans, and so on, until they were taken in by Mama and Baby Rat. However, Mama Rat and Baby Rat often misjudge situations as being much worse than they are, or blame parents that are trying their best but just don’t have the resources, leading them to kill parents who have done no wrong and/or kidnap children that don’t actually need to be removed from their home. Not to mention, it’s not like these kids are actually going anywhere better with Mama Rat, as her “Rat Pack” need to steal to support their “family” essentially dooming them to a life of crime with her. But Mama knows best!

The Scarecrow/Mastermind: Jason Crane uses his metahuman illusion abilities to scare people into submission for his own sick enjoyment, especially enjoying the terror and corruption of attractive women

Lady Shiva/Lady Deathstrike: Shinigami aka Sandra-Ming Oyama is the Sino-Japanese daughter of a renowned crimelord who was equally renowned as a scientist. Her arms can transform into blades of adamantium, swords that can never be taken for they are a part of her.

Man-Bat/Sauron: Dr. Karl Langstrom’s experimentations with the power of hypnosis lead him down a dark path. He discovered that through hypnotizing others, he could drain their energy. He became increasingly mentally unstable from this, believing that he needed to do it to survive. Much like the Renfield of Dracula, he began collecting lab animals to feed these urges, primarily bats and lizards, as he found them too ugly to feel sorry for as he did mice and rabbits. Eventually, his increased draining of their energies transformed him into a reptilian-bat-human hybrid creature. He uses his new form to terrorize humanity in search of more energy to drain, and in hopes that enough human energy will be able to restore his true form…though sometimes, as he grows more unstable, his goal is to transform others into beings like him!

Dr Phosphorous/Unus the Untouchable: Alexander Unuscione was a wrestler from Italy who also worked as a muscle for the mob. While he was “disposing” of some bodies at an abandoned nuclear plant, he ended up in an accident involving irradiated sand that had been left behind from the past meltdown that had caused the plant to be abandoned in the first place. He himself was bizarrely unaffected, yet a constant film of phosphorous radiation coated him like a second skin. Anyone who touched him suffered horrific radiation burns, and with time he learned to expand this ‘skin’ out into a dome or shield around him, letting him hurt others without even touching them physically. Deciding that this alone meant he had what it took to be a mob leader, he killed his former bosses and attempted a takeover. However, he ended up rather poor at actually running things, and went on to team up with other metahumans instead for simpler operations. 

Great White Shark/Donald Pierce: Donald White was an industrial manufacturer tycoon whose unethical dealings landed him in prison. Many of his products had been made to oppress, restrain, combat, and even kill metahumans, so in vengeance the meta population of the prison mutilated him. He was left a quadruple-amputee with no nose, ears, or teeth. Upon early release for good behavior, he used his funds and his company to outfit himself with new cybernetic appendages and a mouth full of razor-sharp serrated mechanical teeth based on those of a Great White Shark. He now devotes his life to persecuting and hunting metahumans personally rather than at a distance, calling himself the White Hunter or White Death. 

Doctor Gotham/Belasco: Dr. Belasco was born in 13th century Italy, where his studies in alchemy and dark magic led him into a pact with the demonic Elder Gods. Through this pact, he gained immortality, vast mystical powers, and rulership of the demonic dimension known as Limbo. He was eventually sealed away in what, at the time, was believed to be a land that would never be settled by any “civilized” humans: the coast of North America. Though in suspended animation, bound beneath the earth itself, his evil was so strong that it seeped into the ground around him and infused the land itself with corruption. This was the land that eventually became Gotham, and contributes to its. . .unique state. Recently resurrected, Dr. Belasco has returned to Limbo. . .with a new and unwilling young bride.

Vandal Savage/Count Nefaria: A 16th century Italian nobleman, Count Luciano Salvaggio was traveling on horseback when he and his party witnessed a meteorite crash to Earth. They rode to the crash site to investigate, and the Count, always a daring man, got the closest before the strange rock evaporated into nothingness. In the decades since, he did not age, and he has since concluded it was due to the exposure to whatever was in the radius of that asteroid. Not one to waste an asset, he used his superhuman lifespan to began building his empire of wealth to the grandiose sum it is today (if he was to live a long time, he wanted to ensure it would be the standard he’s accustomed to!) as well as to cultivate his mind. He became a Renaissance man in metaphor as well as technical fact, always on the cutting edge of the scientific progress of his day. In the modern era, he’s gained super-strength, flight, and ionic manipulation powers via scientists in his employ. However, use of these superpowers will drain him, and he must rely on his children, descendants, or clones for organ replacement and blood transfusions to reinvigorate him. But the powers are worth it, for they’re all the better to do crime with!

Oh yeah, the crime. Yeah, that turned out to be the best way to gain and keep wealth. He began through the cutthroat politics of all aristocrats in the Renaissance era, then moved with the times to the mafia and, in the age of superheroes, a supervillain who calls himself Count Savage. 

Red Claw/Omega Red: Ariadna Rossovna was a child from somewhere in the Soviet Union who was taken into the Black Widow program. However, in her teen years, her X-Gene activated, giving her superhuman strength, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes, and the ability to secrete pheromones referred to as "Death Spores" that kill a normal human within seconds of breathing them. She was moved into the Soviet super soldier project, and  implanted with clawed retractable carbonadium coil in each arm that she could use to drain others of their life energy…which became a necessity when the carbonadium started poisoning her.

Claw Omega, as she became known since, attempted to rebel and go rogue once she discovered this weakness, and was placed in suspended animation by her superiors. Once freed by the League of Assassins, she formed her own terrorist organization, aiming at nothing less than the collapse of a world she’d come to see as nothing more than prey.

Condiment King/Eye Scream: One would think the criminal known as “Ice King” would be another Mr. Freeze, perhaps an evil alternate universe Bobby Drake, maybe a mythological being of some type…nope. He’s a guy using a utility belt and firing gun stocked with different ice cream flavors. Like chocolate, vanilla, arsenic, cyanide…you know, the classics. 

Ma Gunn/Mystique: Another Mystique fusion, this one plays less with her shapeshifting power (though she’s a master of disguise here, rather than a mutant, and merely PRETENDS to be a sweet old lady) and more with her role as the leader of the second Brotherhood and adoptive mother of Rogue. Fusing that with Ma Gunn running a criminal-training academy disguised as a boarding school for disenfranchised boy, and we’ve got Faye Darkholme, a lovely “elderly” schoolmarm who runs the “Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding House” (shoutout to X-Men Evolution!) where she takes in “problem” youth, especially those with superpowers…and makes them BIGGER problems! 

Clock King/Destiny: Chrono Queen aka Irene Tockman. Unlike the long-reaching future sight of Destiny, or the mere seconds of Clock King, Chrono Queen can generally see the outcome of a few days to a week’s time. She uses that to help her lover, Faye Darkholme, in their plans steering their “students” to the right place at the right time for the right gain. Or maybe she works with the Clayface/Mystique fusion instead!

Not a villain but:

Harvey Bullock/Fred Duncan: I think most Batman fans know who Harvey Bullock is, but even a lot of hardcore X-Men fans don’t know Fred! He was the X-Men’s FBI liaison in the early days, before they became the type team for whom a guy in the government didn’t make too much sense anymore. Now, Harvey generally doesn’t like or trust Batman, while the rest of the cops usually do, from what I understand…while Fred is like, the one dude who DOES like and trust the X-Men. So I’m not sure exactly how to fuse that, but it’s an interesting enough parallel I think the characters could be meshed if you just found the right way to do it. Val Cooper/Harvey might be a smoother fuse, but as has been established, I like a challenge!

A month ago I asked for ideas about fusions for THIS CHARACTER! I got several suggestions from people, and I tried to use all of them, as well as my own ideas for who she could be merged with (Arella Roth and Ra’s Al Ghul) I don’t expect anyone finds this as interesting as I do, since she’s a very underknown character and I’m her only fan I’ve ever met, but here goes!

Haven/Arella Roth: Born in her father’s native Gotham, Radha Roth often went to visit her mother’s family in India. Growing up in East and West both, she saw great differences, but also great commonalities…mainly, the vast divide between the rich and poor, and how those on the latter side of suffered. The inequality and division in the world—both the class divide as well as religious, racial, mutant and metahuman vs baseline humans, all of it—caused her great distress. Her search for answers on how to fix that, and her strong spiritual nature, drew her into a cult in her youth. Though they promised her solutions, they in fact had selected her for her purity of spirit, as such a being was needed to carry the ultimate evil into the world—Trigon the Adversary, their demonic god. In order to appear once more, he needed a child in this world, one that was as evil as he, and it must be born of a pure women with no ill intent in what she did by carrying his spawn. A ritual was carried out in which his essence was impregnated into her, and within the first trimester, the presence of his evil within her growing child was already effecting her mind. She became falling further and further into madness, believing that Trigon would save the world she so loved, and as she matured, she even became the cult leader. As for her pregnancy, due to its supernatural nature, she remained in the first trimester physically for the next twenty years.

However, when the moment of her child’s birth arrived, Trigun, his power already increased by his child’s approach into the world, briefly materialized and revealed his true nature to her, laughing at her naivete and how she, once so good and pure, had been corrupted from within by his seed. Aghast, she fled to her cult’s greatest enemy, The Haven of Azar, and raised her child there, where her daughter would learn to control the evil within her while the mother lived out the rest of her life in solemn, pacifistic penance.

Haven/Eclipso: Radha Dastoor here retains her backstory of being raised in a very wealthy and religious family in Mumbai, and trying to use that wealth to better the world in her youth. In this version, rather than her unborn child being possessed, she instead finds a black diamond called “The Heart of Darkness” during her religious studies. Unbeknownst to her, this contained a being known only as The Adversary. Once the personification on divine wrath, it had been cast out and imprisoned til this gem, until someone of sufficient moral purity and faith made contact with it.

Radha was that unfortunate person. Upon her touch, the Heart of Darkness exploded into shards which embedded into her skin…and then disappeared. The Adversary had now found its new host, and every time there was an eclipse, so too did he eclipse Radha’s personality. During these times, her body also wielded his incredible powers, which she used to enact his reign of terror on what he saw as a deserving world. Radha has come to call this being Rahu, after the “shadow planet” in Vedic astrology that causes eclipses and is associated with wickedness and afflictions such as delusion, corruption, impiety, addictions, and trauma. Over the next twenty years, Rahu began to overtake Radha entirely, until now it is only during an eclipse that she can emerge, a precious window of time in which she reaches out to the heroes to defeat her other half!

Haven/Mother Mayhem: The Radha Dastoor of this universe has a past much like her Marvel canon version. However, her journey to help others led her to Zandia, where she fell into the cult known as The Church of Blood in her search for answers of how to alleviate suffering and fix the divisions between people. It is here that she meets the Church's leader, Brother Blood, and her story becomes more like that of Sonya Tarinka. Specifically this, quoted from Comic Vine: "He explained that everything with blood is connected by the Red.... that humans will not only be united under primal laws again but that something much bigger is coming to reset us all. Liking the idea of unity, she stayed despite his unorthodox religious flaws (risque parties with cult members and ceremonial cutting) and became a loyal pupil. One of his best. She followed the trail, so well that she was bombarded by it upon predicting its location.... this energy was Source energy. "

Unlike Sonya, however, Radha had been mystically impregnated by the Source. It granted her great power for the next twenty years, while at the same time corrupting her, turning her once innocent ideals towards evil. During this time, she called herself Blood Haven. All the while, a demon called the Blood Adversary gestated within her, ultimately killing her upon its birth. 

Haven/Jason Blood: Jason of Norwich was an aristocrat in Camelot during the days of Arthur and Merlin. He longed to fix the suffering that he saw in the world, yet felt himself powerless to do so despite his wealth. In his quest to achieve the means by which to make a better world, he sought the aid of Merlin, offering him any price for aid in aiding others. Merlin used the opportunity to bind a demon, The Adversary, to Jason in order to gain the demon’s secrets, as the being of evil could only be contained in this world by one suitably pure of heart. Whether Merlin successfully gained The Adversary’s knowledge from this gamble is unknown, but Jason was nonetheless left with the creature sharing his body. This granted Jason immortality, but also at times The Adversary would take control of him, changing his physical form as well to match his demonic nature. In order to control the demon, Jason used his long life to become a master of the occult, and now uses the demon’s own powers for good and to fight the forces of evil both mundane and mystical, finally fulfilling his desire to help the world. . .even if it’s not in the way he’d hoped he would. However, one day, The Adversary is destined to overtake him once and for all and thus be “birthed” back into this world, and Jason’s learned magic can only delay this, not stop it. The clock is ticking . . .

Haven/Madame Xanadu: When Merlin stripped Nimue’s immortality from her, her solution in this universe was not potions to keep herself alive, but instead a spell that granted her reincarnation. Her most recent incarnation is Radha Dastoor, a wealthy Indian woman. She uses her fortune in this life to help the needy, while using her accumulated occult knowledge from lives past to help others with supernatural matters. Due to her aiding others, she is called Madame Haven. I really like this version because no possession/dying/becoming evil, yay!

Haven/Jinx: As per usual, Radha Dastoor is a kind woman born in India who wishes to help others and alleviate suffering. In this version, she is born without her usual wealth. Thus, she is given by her parents to a sacred temple as well, where she learned mystical arts in addition to spiritual teachings. Unfortunately, her mystic practices opened the door to possession by an aspect of The Adversary, imbuing her with bad-luck powers and evil inclinations to match. She now calls herself Hex in English and Jadu (Magic) in Hindi, and aids several other supervillains for the sheer sake of doing evil while her real self still longs inside to do good.

Haven/Celsius: Arani “Rani” Dastoor was born to a wealthy family that practiced philanthropy. Unfortunately, her father became severely mentally ill, and she had to run away to escape him. She ended up meeting Charles Caulder, who helped activate her metagene, and train her in her resultant powers to control temperature extremes. Now able to wield fire and ice on either fist, she was ready when her father, who wished to bring about the Kali Yuga, found her. Alas, he had never been mentally ill, but in fact possessed by a demon called The Adversary. Having burned through her father as a host, it now wanted the much more powerful Rani, and transferred itself to her. Now, Caulder and the Doom Patrol seek to free her from its grasp, while she seeks to bring the Kali Yuga as her father did under its influence. She goes by the name Crucible now, reflecting how she will warp the world into something “better” with her powers.

Haven/Maya: Chandi Dastoor was born to a wealthy family that practiced philanthropy. They were also deeply religious, and so when she manifested her heat/fire-based metahuman powers, they left her in the care of a temple that they believed would be able to train her best. Alas, the temple turned out to be more of a cult, and Chandi fled from it rather than allow them to misuse her powers. Renaming herself “Maitri” after the Sanskrit term for “loving-kindness”, she traveled to England and joined The Justice League Europe in order to live up to the moniker with her deeds. Unfortunately, the cult found her, and more unfortunately, it turned out to be a front for a being called The Master Adversary; an alien entity, celestial force beyond good and evil, which acted as a heavenly judge. This being took control of her, and it was only after a climactic battle with the JLE that she was freed from its influence. After this experience, she returned home to her parents to forgive them.

Haven/Ra’s Al Ghul: Radha Dastoor was born hundreds of years ago in Mumbai when it was still under Muslim rule, well before the British Raj or its preceding Portuguese. The wealth and education of her family enabled her to pursue an education as well, and she specifically wished to be a physician so she could help those who could not afford treatment. In pursuit of more learning, she traveled far, aiding those in need along the way with her arts. However, great tragedy also befell her, and in the course of this tragedy, she discovered two things: She was pregnant, and the Lazarus Pits. The Lazarus Pits saved her life, but also eternally stalled her gestation, keeping her in a permanent state of first term pregnancy as well as freezing her apparent age. She took advantage of her long life to try to continue to help others. However, as the world only continued to grow worse, as people stayed the same, as tragedy after war after famine after massacre occurred, she grew weary and sorrowful. This allowed the madness of the Lazarus Pits to play with her mind, especially as she needed to revisit them periodically to stay alive and retain her physical prime.

As the centuries passed, the Lazarus Pits affected not simply her, but her unborn child. It became possessed of a rudimentary, often crazed consciousness, and its impulses often acted out through Radha, who had come to call herself Haven…as well as manifesting strange eldritch powers through her as well. Having become very arguably mad in the modern era, she began to form a cult dedicated not to saving the world, but destroying it…wiping the slate clean, and cleansing it all away for something better to finally take its place! No longer is she Radha Dastoor nor is she Haven, but The Rakshasa (The Demon), in her native India, Al-Ghul (the same)  in the Arab world, and The Adversary (named for the translation of “Satan”)  in the West! But is it really her at the helm of her own mind now. . .or something from the Pits inside her?

There’s a lot of repetition in these, of course, but that’s because we’re working with the same character in them all! Anyway, thanks very much if you read!

I was just randomly inspired for these. I’m a comics fan for both groups, but I decided to use the MCU Eternals as the basis. For the X-Men side of things, I went with Prof X, the O5, and then some of the more popular later members.

Ajaxier: Ajak/Xavier, this healer is bonded to their space ship from the waist down as its eternal (no pun intended) pilot. However, they are nonetheless the leader of the other Eternals, retaining a constant mental link to the others no matter where they go. Their psychic abilities also allow them to be the only one to mentally communicate with Celestials.

Thenix: Jean/Thena, who channels her psychic energy into an array of weaponry. Though she is a master warrior, she is a kind and calm person…except when her strange fits of madness overtake her.

Gilgabeast: Hank/Gilgamesh, he is both the physical powerhouse of the team and the brains as well. . . to say nothing of his enormous heart! A lover of science, literature, and cooking.

Kangel: Angel/Kingo, this high-flying energy-blaster has used his good looks to make a fortune in the film industry (he’s currently billed as his own grandson) but will always come back when his fellow Eternals are in need.

Cykaris: Ikaris/Scott. Like Kangel, he has the power of flight and energy beams, but the latter fire from his eyes, and can be as uncontrollable as Thenix’s rages. A stoic leader, he has always done things by the book, meaning as Ajaxier commands. . .but lately, he has doubts. A lot of them.

Spryke: Sprite/Iceman, their appearance as an eternal (again, no pun intended) teen reflects their equally immature nature as a prankster who seems unable to take anything seriously. In fact, this is a cope over their difficulty with never getting to ‘grow up’ and live a truly adult life like the others. They can control ice, and even give it an illusionary quality so that it appears to be things it’s merely shaped like (ex: an animated dog made of ice appearing to be a real dog)

Rorsi: Rogue/Sersi, she can transmute matter with a touch, but alas cannot control the ability. Anyone or anything organic who makes contact with her risks being transformed into a random substance like stone or metal. Thus, for everyone’s protection, she wears full-coverage clothing over herself. She has a brassy, outspoken brawler personality to disguise her own insecurities over this.

Kariro: Makkari/Ororo, as fast as the winds she commands. Though she is deaf and speaks only through sign language, it’s never a mystery how she feels, as the weather will always reflect her mood! Luckily, she’s a very placid, dignified person…but her rage, when it happens, breaks the heavens. LITERALLY.

Drogan: Druig/Logan. Darkly cynical about humanity, yet protective of it nonetheless. The bone claws of one hand can cut through flesh, or anything else for that matter. The psychic claws of the other, when jammed through a person’s head, puts them under his longterm telepathic control.

Astem: Emma/Phastos. Since Forge/Phastos (Phorge) seemed too obvious, so I went with Emma since she’s one of the next most prominent X-Men. They are a mechanical genius who can generate any machine from their mind in the form of crystalline psychic energy, but their TRUE power is their acerbic wit and sexy fashion sense!