#X-Men 97 OC: Shantel Warrick

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Shantel Fun Facts

Was a part of the original five X-Men, making them the original six.

Teaches Music at the Xavier Institute

Used to hide her elf ears with magic, no one not even the team knew for a long time she had them. It wasn't until someone had described her appearance and they had left out her ears, that's when she revealed them.

A lot of people tend to forget she is a feral mutant, because it manifests itself in a different way, and her generally soft nature, people are surprised when she rages.

Without telepathy, she can naturally speak French, Creole, and Latin

She is a stress cooker and eater, you can hear Dolly Parton music blasting in the kitchen as she furiously whisks away at whatever she is making

Can play an acoustic guitar, She likes sitting outside under the trees singing and writing music, she can be seen harmonizing with the birds.

Is naturally ambidextrous, and as a child would compete in shooting competition.

hates when people get on her own bed with their outside clothes

She can communicate with animals, she gets the best gossip that way.

Can't draw for shit, but can make some pretty damn good art collages, she has made a bunch of memory scrap books over the years

Doesn't get cold, due to her Hellfire, her body always runs hot

Has Egot status, was the youngest Egot winner in history.

When it comes to academics, she was a pretty average student. She was always busy with acting and singing so she never really pushed herself in school. But magically she was trained the hardest because her schedule was so chaotic

Was very rambuctious as a child, but grew out of it once she got into acting. If she was going to be out in the public eye, she was going to keep her act up

As a celebrity would have been made fun of even before she got exposed as a mutant and X-Men, because she would have been considered fat due to the 90s body image problems, and being an X-Men she would have had to bulk up and get strong.

Has a photo of her as a toddler with Martin Luther King Jr.

Is a daddy's girl

She writes love letters, both romantic and platonic, to the people she is close to, and leaves encouraging sticky notes around the mansion for people to feel better.

Does a little happy dance when she eats

She is not the best driver, most of her life she was driven around by other people, she owns a pink Porch

Is the queen of meal preps

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X-Men 97- OC

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Full Name: Shantel Latoya Warrick

Nicknames: Sunshine, Moonshine, Dixie

Alias: Moonshine

Age: 31

Appearance

Height: 5’10

Eyes: Onyx brown irises , White eyeballs (while using powers)

Hair: Curly Reddish-Brown, Green and Blue glitter hair (while using powers)

Teeth: Retractable fangs (while using powers), star tooth gems (while using powers)

Ears: Long elf ears

Birthday: Atlanta, Georgia June, 10th, 1966

Nationality: American

Ethnicity: 60% West African, 20% Cajun, 20% French

Gender: Female

Species: Mutant; Omega Level (Feral), Sorcerer (Voodoo)

Family: Scott Summers (Husband), Drusilla Warrick (Mother), Marcel Laurent (Father), Collette Warrick (Sister), Henrietta Warrick (Maternal Grandmother), Winston Earl (Maternal Grandfather), Bernice Warrick (Maternal Aunt), Francis Warrick, Deniss Warrick, Lance Warrick (Maternal Cousins)

Personality:

Trustworthiness: Shantel’s resourcefulness stems more from a place of her being innovative and imaginative rather than tactful on the battlefield. Not saying that she can’t be smart on the battlefield, but that like to use it more for personal reasons or in higley complex social situations, I mean she was a superstar after all, weaving through the social scene is her thing, she is quite the trendsetter. She is always there for her friends and family, whether it’s to be a shoulder to cry on or to kick someone's ass, she’s got you covered, and got your back in the battlefield. Don't worry, despite her love for gossip, she is quite the secret keeper, I mean she is immune to telepathy so your secrets are safe with her. She is basically the team's therapist, the amount of things she’s heard from her teammates that they wouldn’t dare tell anyone else.

Loyalty: Shanel has unwavering loyalty to her goals and motivations, she will live and die for the mutant liberation and very few when it comes to people. Despite her unconditional love and compassion, her loyalties can override the other and when the people she is close to overstep the boundaries she has to handle business. Scott, her parents and her sister, are the people she is most loyal to, even Really? Scott summers? Militant, strict and kind of introverted Scott Summers, look when I tell you she loves this man to death i mean it. She loves her leader and would go to bat for him, she respects him so much because she sees what he has been through the most, they have been through everything together, if she is near she will handle the disrespect. The amount of times people have had to break up fights with Logan and her is crazy.

Compassion: Amongst the rest of the X-Men she had the most stable upbringing, it explains why she came out with a non-tragic backstory. Her genuine interest and empathetic nature makes others feel heard and understood, giving back the same kindness and compassion she grew up with. She constantly praises friends and family, naturally lifting others up with positive genuine words making everyone around her feel more confident and valued, and always expressing her appreciation for them whenever warranted, Shantel is the team's morale. She is very perceptive, noticing the little details with ease, and is good at reading body language.

Fiery: She is not afraid to express herself openly and raise her opinions when asked for, is confident in herself and can embrace risk and accept any challenge thrown her way. She is very prideful, she is by no means narcissistic, she has been in the spot life most of her life, but that doesn’t mean she can crown her achievements. She is a black woman after all the world is already hard enough as it is to mutants, so she shows what she's got. But she is also impatient and her desire for action can make her a bit impulsive at times, she tries hard to control herself in public but when it is battle time it's the only time when she can really let loose when her feral side takes over. She is a bit short-tempered, mostly due to her mutation, and is likely to go to the danger room to duke out her emotions to burn herself out a little bit.

Backstory;

In Atlanta, Georgia on the cool spring morning of June, 10th, 1966 Drusilla Warrick and Marcel Laurent welcomed into the world they're beautiful set of twins, Shantel and Collette Warrick. Born to the magical Warrick bloodline, Shantel had already been destined to do great things like her ancestor before her, but soon problems would later arise when her mutation was discovered. As a young child Shantel and her family grew up on the Warrick’s family property, Magnolia Springs Ranch, she comes from old money and was brought up in an exuberant southern lifestyle. 

Shantel loves to sing, dance and act. She loved going to places where she could perform on stage for people, she begged and pleaded with her mother to let her audition for things, but because shantel was going to a magical academy, her mother didn't want to make the move to LA. Finally when Shantel was 12 years old was thrust into the world of acting, her father had quite the connections to Hollywood and was able to get her her very own TV show just for her to film back home in Atlanta. Black Beauty it was called, where she played a pistol whipping cowgirl on an adventure with a magical horse in order to tame the wild west against outlaws. The show was a massive success, in the 80s and her career. The show runs for the next couple of seasons, until 1982, she records the first song for the tv show that blows up her music career, she's getting calls left and right in order to produce her music.

But her superstardom takes a turn when she suddenly develops her mutation, while in the midst of filming for a new movie she kind of explodes, not literally her mutation, Stardust, explodes in an array of dead stars and energy beams. Which gave the crew on site quite the startle, in the mutant hating world, this was quite the dangerous situation to be in luckily her father was able to wipe crew's memories and able to play it off as a light paneling exploding leading for the set to be closed off for a while. After a couple of months with  no other options left her parents head to the Xavier school in order to seek out advice about what to do about the situation, they were skilled in magic not mutations, so they were honestly kind of stumped. 

Now it was quite the surprise for the team to see a superstar standing in their living room, and coming to join their school.Now her parents weren't exactly playing on sending her they're just yet, they had some hesitations, not for them being mutants, but the family being magical and it being kept secret was also a liability, and the dangers of her daughter being totally outed was hanging in the air. So they made a deal, Shantel could come to the school and train her powers only if they did it in secret. Their family was pretty respected in the world and weren't willing to ruin their reputations over this, even though they love their daughter very much. So she moved to New York to train and do secret missions on the side while getting to keep her superstar life for a while, it wasn't until after some time of being an X-Men her superhero had been uncovered and was shunned out of the superstar life.

Hobbies and interest

Music: I mean come on y’all she was one of the biggest singers of her generation before she got exposed for being mutant. She is a bit of an audiophile as well, she was on the track to producing her own music but then her career got sidetracked. 

Acting: Being a performer was something she was always passionate about since she was little. She loved going with her parents to the country club to perform, hell honestly wherever there was a stage, she was there to light it up. 

Horseback Riding; Her mother used to take her out whenever she could to go horseback riding. The wind blowing in her hair in the cool spring breezes  was enough to bring Shantel to a state of calm. 

Swimming; Shantel really never likes swimming in pools, there's something about swimming about floating in a lake or a swamp that feels so much more natural to her. The Warrick family lived on the lake and all of the cousins could regularly be seen playing and roughhousing out on the water,

Powers:

Stardust Manipulation: As a mutant Shantel has the ability to create, shape, and manipulate and generate  stardust, mineral grains and particles of cosmic substances originating from or embody remnants of dead stars , nebula , and meteorites. She can use stardust to attack of various shapes or intensities, either projected, or used as part of melee attacks, ect, from huge rays that can obliterate targets.

Enhansed Senses: has extreme accurate senses, allowing her to see, hear, smell, taste and feel like other feral mutants.

Magical abilities 

Voodoo: For Shantel magic is a birthright, and being a Warrick means having great power. Voodoo mysticism is utilized in various practices of mixing  white magic and black that involve rituals, prayer, sacrifice, herbalism and communing with Iwas and Loas to achieve various effects. The Warrick family had been Voodoo practitioners since the mid 1800s, and the knowledge over the years they had collected was extraordinary, with its own collection of hidden musical knowledge.

Psionics 

Divination; She can read the future, present, and past or provide help to a problem by using occultic practices, Or whether it be using divination to communicate with the supernatural, and consoling in matters of love, health, fortune, guidance,and clarity. Mostly using chicken bones and tarot cards for more practical means, but her astral sight can also be applied to being able to see as well, astral sight might not give the  most accurate or clear readings. 

Astral projection: Shantel is able to project the consciousness of herself and others out of the body and into the spirit realm. She can pull things out of the astral realm into physical reality. And even cloak, shield, locate, imprison, or destroy any individuals and/ or objects whilst on the astral plane. Using her door ability, she can even pull out anything in the astral realm, whether or not what she pulls out has a corporeal or incorporeal state.

Telepathy: Though she tends not to use it for her own personal reasons, Shantel on many occasions uses her telepathy for tactical and medicinal purposes. Shantel is not malicious with her metal abilities, she is a shielder and a protector, despite her more feral nature, she doesn’t have the heart to manipulate or mind control. It's why her psionic shields are the most extraordinary of anyone in her family, or known telepath, she can  even have her shields up while asleep or unconscious. She has even been known to have used her healing magic and telepathy simultaneously in order to heal mental and psychological trauma. 

Psionic shield; Shantel has impenetrable psionic shields, she is resistant  to any and all mental intrusion including psychic or empathic powers, hypnosis, hallucinations, deception, mind control, and telepathy, thought she can turn this on and off at will and allow anyone to enter and exit her mind as she pleases. As a child her mother and grandmother put her through ruthless mental training, The Warrick family is known for their telepathic immunity, it explains why in the early years Charles Xavier was not able to locate Shantel using his cerebro.

Telekinesis: She has the ability to move and manipulate objects with the energy he wields, though she is not the best at doing this with her mind, most of the energy she uses to channel her telekinesis come from her hands, hell even her legs if she feels like it. Her legs are actually better at channeling her telekinesis than her hands because the muscles in her legs are the ones she uses the most for combat, they are very strong and most force sensitive. 

Portal Creation; Shantel has only ever been able to open portals to magical realms, which in most cases has led her to trouble. Most portals are mostly just doors, which are always different and specifically tailored to whichever realm she chooses to inhabit; doors can appear floating in the air, tilted, or even pre-existing doors and still be usable as passageways. She can even open doors to places you should not be able to get into, anywhere from realms that are closed off to realms that no longer exist or ones that have yet to exist, she can even pull or put any items or persons that exist in these spaces as well, as long as it is a magical realm she can access it. At first know one really knew why Shantel could do this, she developed this power at a young age and no one knew where this powerful magic was coming from, but it wasn’t until she was older she found out what she was. She is a Gate, not a gatekeeper, just a gate or doorway to magic, she can tap in and channel other realms, it's the reason she can see literally everything. Other people, if powerful enough can even pull things out of her, as a child whilst stuck under an entrapment spell by Marie Laveau, she was able to reach into her chest and pull out the Golden Arrow of Eros, able to use it for her witchery. 

Transmutation: She has lower levels of transmutation, like being able to change her clothes in an instant/ into her superhero suit. Using her lasso she can extend it past its usual length and even infinitely, by using her stardust. 

Astral sight; Can see overlapping dimensions and planes of existence and the unseen creatures, spirits and psychic phenomena (auras, souls, energies, emotions, thoughts, memories,ect.) inhabiting them, but not into other realities that do not directly overlap their own. Through divination and doorway magic, she can see things that have yet to exist or that existed in the past.

Hellfire Manipulation: Shantel was bestowed with the ability to manipulate the flames of “Hell”, by “Satan” who wasn’t actually the devil but actually Mephisto in disguise. As a child Shantel and two of her cousins, Lance and Dennis Warrick, wound up in “Hell” due to Shantel wanting to control her portal abilities, and they ended up somewhere they shouldn't have. Mephisto, wanting to claim they're souls, takes the two cousins, intraping them in hellfire with only Shantel escaping, so in order to rescue them Shantel strikes up a deal with him in order to save them. In order to play “the devils game” she needed to be magically imbued with hellfire, and after miraculously won and had saved her cousins she ended up keeping the hellfire, her fire various shades of purple and blue, 

Healing: She can heal others or herself, while her healing is instantaneous it can take some time, but nonetheless it is sound, she has saved her teammates on numerous occasions. Though there is one person she is magically connected to, well used to and it was Scott. Scott used to have terrible migraines and had linked herself to him so she would have to always be able to help him whenever. It went until she found the source of the problem and figured out a way to make them stop happening permanently. While she wasn't able to completely heal his brain damage she was able to at least stop him from having migraines

Necromancy: Shantel is mostly able to communicate with the dead, she can reanimate and control them in some instances. For divination purposes, she mostly uses it to discover knowledge or foresee events. She doesn’t exactly know how to resurrect using voodoo, that's not really her specialty, but she can resurrect and summon souls temporarily from Hell using Hellfire. Using portals she can summon souls from anywhere on the astral plane or another realm, but that doesn’t mean she can control what she summons.

Siren song: Through her natural singing, she can enchant her voice to hypnosis an individual. She has been able to use it for undercover missions, especially when the public didn't know she was a mutant. She even has the ability to put people to sleep by singing someone a lullaby. 

Paraphernalia  

Vibranium Revolvers: Shantel was gifted a set of vibranium revolvers by the king of Wakanda after Shantel saved the young princess Shuri at the time, while they were visiting the USA. Since regular pistols cannot contain the blast of her stardust without braking, a special set was made just for her.

Orion's Belt ; Her stardust lasso is woven from her actual stardust particles itself and the meatal of Uru. One speck of stardust is tiny and invisible to the eye, but through magic. After one to many of her lassos breaking she needed a new one, she searched many weeks for someone who could make something, one that would contain her magic, so she decided to use her portal ability to let her take her to a place where someone could make her a weapon. She let her powers take her randomly, any place was a good place as long as she got what she wanted, and she ended up in Nidavellir, the Darven realm. After many negotiations with the dwarves, she would be allowed to have a weapon forged for her unless she did them a task, if she was able to find and rescue one of there dwarves who had gone missing. Shantel was able to find him in a couple of hours by opening a portal to him, near death and trapped in Hel. 

Bag of Bones: It is a small hand held pouch, filled with rune inscribed bones, that are used for divination. By scattering them one can gain wisdom and insight to form a more clear view of the issues presented. This method is easy, rather than using astral sight because the intention of certain events is not always the most fortelling. 

Tarot cards: A deck of tarot cards used to foresee the events of an individual rather than the whole picture. Scott and Shantel love to sit together and read the cards to see how the plays on the battlefield will potentially play out and alter the strategies 

Silvermist: A magical ice horse Shantel tamed in her youth, the Horse of the Silver Mist was a water spirit which Shantel spent many days down by the river the spirit occupied, after her battle with it she was able to form a companionship and now they go wherever they are needed, which can also be used for combat.

Horseshoe hat; She is never seen without her lucky cowboy hat, it's mostly normal, other than the golden horseshoes on the front of it, which she can use for combat purposes, she can take it off the front and throw it like a boomerang.

Familiars: It's not typical for a witch to have multiple familiars, but if there is a will there's a way. Shantel’s familiar help her do daily tasks, mostly simple errands and providing counsel in magical spells. But they are mostly trained in protection, as their weather be it for herself, family, or the institute, they know how to throw down. They can be seen patrolling the grounds of the mansion and watching over the students. Scott likes having them in the danger room so they can train or whatever even though they don’t need it. It's rare but they have been on a couple of missions. Shantel has three chicken familiars, Foghorn, Angelus, and Lottie, Foghorn was supposed to be her only familiar, but she ended up finding two different witch familiars after they had been lost due to a another magical bet, man how does she keep getting herself in these situations.

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Fighting style + Attacks

Shantel fights honorably, she was born into wealthy and prestige, as a Warrick witch there is a code of honor she must uphold. She, like her predecessors, have been trained in her magic all of her upbringing, she shall not falter to the trials of the world

She prefers close-quarters combat, but because of her magic and arsenal she is a primary user of longer range combat. With her revolvers, whip, and magic primarily allow her to go long range but she can finally go melee when she channels her hellfire though her legs.

Through her time with the X-Men, her family managed to keep her diligent with her magic studies, they did not want her to hinder with her not being at the academy to finish her magical training. Even now as she is older and much more experienced, she still tries to keep and equal balance between her mutation and her magic.

Magic+ Spells: Shantel is a good mix of offensive and defensive spells. When it comes to simple villains, she is a lot more static with her magic. You know the simple fire and concussive blast ect. But when she has more wiggle room for the bigger bladder guy she can go all out. It can be anything from summoning spells, magical constructs, conjuration, entrapment ect. When she is on the offensive she mostly uses her abjration magic. Her primary usese are healing and divinination magic. When she is on the field alot of her defensive comes to light. Forice fields are the teams best friend when it comes to some dangerous missions.

Stardust attacks: Shantel can not only generate stardst but manipulate existing stardust aswell. She mostly uses it for melle attacks but if need be she can make some pretty good constructs. When it comes to fighting Shantel is one of two, she either fights to stun or to disarm. Her burst of stardust are not one to be triffled with.

Leg attacks: This woman loves melee attacks, her legs are her best weapon when it comes to concussive blast. This is when she gets roudy and excited, shouting and intimidating her enemy's. But this can also be when she gets the most reckless, more wildly, propelling herself of of walls, kicking peoples faces in, and even putting out bigger blast of energy then she usually would. Shantel loves to push her fire out through her feet and legs and sometimes pushing herself up through her hands, giving harsh kicks to her enemies.

Orion's Belt; Despite what most might think, Shantel and Orion are actually not the most deadly duo. Her wip can actally be mostly considered to be more on the defenssive side. Like her revolvers her mutation and her magic are one. Yes, thought her wip can create powerful blast, she now mostly use's it to entrap people, lassoing them up. Thought that does not mean it can't due some pretty serious damage, with the right opponent to be used on. I mean it is is made from Uru meatal after all.

Revolvers: To be honest the revolvers aren't really the driving force that makes the guns so deadly. Yes, the revolvers are made from Vibranium, but its mostly the bullets that will decimate an opponent. Vibranium is what is needed to contain her stardust. Shantel enfuses her bullets with stardust, and enchants them with magic. Then the Vibranium revolvers need to be able to contain the powerful blast the expell from when they shoot out of the barrel, to which can obliterate an opponent.

Helfire: Helfire is a dangerous thing and must be usesd sparingly. As to not case harm to her teamates, Shantel has spent grueling hours in the danger room, hell nearly even destroying it, in order to contain her power. If she holds back on anything, its is definitely this, she can be considered a rought fighter, but she will refuse to lose control over this. Nothing bad has ever happened while using it, but be damned will she ever consider even taking the risk to go all out.

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Hair moodboard-Drusilla

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Hair moodboard- Collette

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Laurent Warrick moodboard

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Shantel Warrick moodboard

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Scott Summers x Shantel Warrick

When scott and shantel first met they were not immediate friends, scott was shy and reserved and shantel was loud and energetic. Though this time in shantels life was difficult, she was being thrown into a new environment and forced into a code of secrecy. Shantel was the main communicator between the two, despite him being so shy and reserved,  shantel persevered and was able to build a strong connection to scott. Shantel is highly empathetic, and over the years she was able to crack the nut that is scott summers and truly knows why scott is the way that he is.

Scott has this problem of making sure everyone else is looked after first and then only is he allowed to think of himself, Shantel noticed this early on in their friendship, she really tried hard to know why he is the way that he is, why he's so reluctant on taking care of himself. This self doubt, his low self esteem, the guilt he carries of not being the best leader when it's obvious he is trying his hardest. He just gets to be Scott summers, just some guy who has a lot of baggage and needs to be taken care of. 

When Scott is with her he is not constantly in his leader/ big brother complex, she is usually the one taking care of him. Him constantly having to be the leader, the pillar, the revolutionary, the hardass, the one everyone turns to when shit hits the fan, but not with her.

In all of her time Shantel has been with the X-Men, she has never left scotts side, never. A constant pillar of support and stability in his life, there were so many times when she could have left, but she chose not to, deep down it was all because of him. She takes care of Scott like know one ever has.

Shantel never really uses her telepathy with scott, she never really uses it for communication unless she has too. The two don’t have a psychic rapport, Shantel is very good at naturally reading scotts emotions. I didn’t want Shantel to be another product of Scotts psychic dating pattern , so I gave him someone whomst he could have a more natural emotional connection with.

Shantel and Scott learn to grow and change. In the later years Shantel challenges Scott and supports him into being a better leader. A leader that she knows he has the potential to be. Pushing him to be more independent and own all the power and influence he has. Scott pushes her to be more responsible and more disciplined, it sounds weird but life for shantel before the X-Men was very different. Despite her very sweet and nurturing, she was a wild child who had been so accustomed to a life of legacy and secrecy. She kind of always thought she would be a popstar forever, whilst hiding in the shadows of her family's magical legacy, She never thought one day she would be one of the faces of mutant revolution. She kind of had to step up to her own family to fight for her people.

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Hair Moodbard - Shantel

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this is so Shantel and Laurent codded lmao

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X-Men Oc’s and variant timelines

ᯓᡣ𐭩X-Men 2002

ᯓᡣ 𐭩X-Men 97

X-Men 97 OC: Shantel Warrick

ᯓᡣ𐭩X-Men 1980s

ᯓᡣ𐭩X-Men 1960s