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Crystal was the second child born to the Inhuman nutritionists Quelin and Ambur. Her father Quelin was the brother of Rynda, wife
of Agon, king of the Inhumans, and as such she was considered part
of the Royal Family of Attilan. Like her older sister
Medusa. Crystal was
subjected to the Terrigen Mist when she was an infant, and
the process endowed her with certain mental powers. While she
was still a child, war erupted, forcing Crystal and her
kinsmen to flee Attilan.
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Crystal passed through adolescence into young
adulthood while wandering with her kinsmen through
Asia, Europe, and finally America in search of
Crystal's amnesiac sister Medusa. When they finally caught
up with Medusa in New York, Medusa had sought refuge with
the Fantastic Four, mistaking her kinsmen for her enemies.
Crystal then met
Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four and the
two began a romantic relationship that survived Crystal's
return to Attilan and a lengthy separation. Crystal
eventually returned to New York and served as a substitute
member of the Fantastic Four during the Invisible Girl's
first pregnancy and post-childbirth. Crystal was forced to
return to Attilan when her health became impaired by
prolonged exposure to pollutants in the atmosphere. However,
enroute to Attilan, Crystal became a pawn in a plan by the
alchemist
Diablo, and then happened upon the mutant
Quicksilver, who had been wounded in battle with the
Sentinels. She brought
Quicksilver back to Attilan, nursed him back to health, and
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The Human
Torch soon learned of Crystal's change in affections, and
after a futile battle with Quicksilver, terminated his
relationship with her. Crystal and
Quicksilver were wed shortly thereafter, theirs being the
first marriage between an Inhuman and a human (albeit a
human mutant) in recorded history. Crystal and Quicksilver
conceived a child, a girl bearing no apparent Inhuman or
mutant characteristics, whom they named
Luna after the world
on which she was born. While Quicksilver wanted to exercise
the father's right to have his child subjected to the Terrigen Mist, Crystal convinced him to let her grow up
normal.
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Eventually, Crystal and Quicksilver's
marriage began to deteriorate, due to
Quicksilver's temper, which may have been
aggravated by the evil Inhuman,
Maximus the Mad.
Crystal left Quicksilver and Attilan with Luna
and her nanny, Maya, and returned to the
Fantastic Four. Although she searched for the
relationship she once had with Johnny, he was
then married. Dissatisfied, Crystal briefly had
an affair with another man. Crystal returned to
Attilan to deal with a crisis posed by
Medusa
and Black Bolt's child. Amidst the troubles, she
and Quicksilver reconciled.
Later, the Inhumans were attacked by the
alien Brethren, and Crystal sought out the
Avengers for their help. Shortly there after she
joined them, moving into the Avengers Mansion
with Luna and nanny, Marilla. During her tenure
with the Avengers, she developed a crush on
teammate Dane Whitman (the Black Knight,)
although she soon reconciled with Quicksilver
yet again. Crystal was among the Avengers who
seemingly sacrificed themselves to end the
menace called Onslaught. |
Actually transported to a different reality
created by Franklin Richards, Crystal was restored when the
heroes returned. When the heroes, who were believed dead,
returned to Earth, Crystal and Quicksilver were reunited.
Both helped the Avenges reassemble and accepted the status
of reserve members. Crystal returned to Attilan, where she
remained aside the Royal Family, raising Luna. Quicksilver
would return to assist the Avengers on occasional missions.
Earlier,
Quicksilver had revived the Knights of Wundagore (actually
animals mutated into humanoids by the High Evolutionary) and
encountered Black Knight and his hero team, the Heroes for
Hire. The two would eventually fight over Crystal's
affections, whereupon an embittered Crystal estranged
herself from Quicksilver again.
Later,
Crystal was on hand during the Inhuman's emigration from
the moon to the recently-raised continent of Atlantis. At
this point, her relationship with Quicksilver was no longer
strained, although the two would still spend large amounts
of time apart.
More
recently,
the Inhumans were captured by the alien Kree, the
original creators of the Inhumans. The Kree judge and
warrior,
Ronan the Accuser, hoped to use the Inhuman Royal
Family to assassinate the Kree's enemy, the Shi'ar empress
Lilandra. Black Bolt singlehandedly dueled and defeated
Ronan, but the Inhumans turned away from him, deposing him
by decree and exiling him. The Royal Family returned to
Earth, monarchs with no people.
Crystal
rejoined the Royal Family on their return to Earth. However,
they were all met with a wave of xenophobia as every nation
rejected the Family's appeals for sanctuary. In fact, the
only nation offering the Inhumans a place in its lands was
Latveria, ruled by the villain, yes it's
Doctor Doom, and the Inhumans
reluctantly accepted.
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STRENGTH
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Crystal possesses the normal
strength of a female Inhuman who engages in moderate regular
exercise. Due to generations of eugenics, Inhumans are
superior to humans in strength, reaction time, stamina,
resistance to injury and speed.
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Crystal possesses the ability
to mentally manipulate the four basic elements of nature:
fire, water, earth, and air. She does so by means of a psionic interaction with the substances on a molecular
level. By controlling oxygen molecules she can cause fire to
spontaneously ignite or she can douse any oxidizing flame by
depriving it of oxygen. She can join hydrogen and oxygen
molecules to create rain, summoning these molecules from a
volume of atmosphere within a radius of approximately two
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She can
control the movement of water by manipulating surface
tension, divining water from the ground and causing it to
flow in designated directions. The observed maximum volume
of water she can control is approximately 2,000 cubic feet
(about 15,000 gallons). Thus, she cannot change the
course of rivers or cause the sea to part. She can control
the various substances that make up common bedrock (earth:
iron, granite, shale, limestone, etc.), creating seismic
tremors of up to 6.7 on the Richter scale (greater if
tectonic plate fault lines are nearby) by causing a sudden
shifting of the earth. The observed maximum volume she can
affect at once is 1.8 x 10" cubic feet (approximately 1/800
of a cubic mile). She can also control oxygen atoms and
oxygen-containing molecules to create atmospheric
disturbances of various kinds. By intermingling air with
earth she can cause a dust storm, air with water a typhoon,
and air with fire a firestorm. She is able to create a wind
of tornado intensity, approximately 115 miles per hour. |
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| Crystal can sustain a certain
elemental phenomenon for approximately one hour before her
mind begins to tire. She can also create any number of
effects in succession for about forty-five minutes before
mental fatigue impairs her performance. |
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