Here's Illyana Rasputina! She's the edgy brat of the X-Men, the Sorceress Supreme of Limbo, and a scared young woman who really, really needs a hug.

Ya'll know the drill by now. This is set in my personal X-Men timeline. None of the big post-Y2K events are canon. That means no New X-Men, House of M, Decimation, time-travelling O5, AvX, Inhumans vs X-Men, Krakoan ethnostate, or the disappointment that was From the Ashes. The X-Men are still running their superhero base in Westchester, Emma Frost is pretending to be a public school teacher in Boston, X-Factor are playing Poirot in Mutant Town, and Excalibur are hopping around the multiverse. The Hellfire Club still schemes, Magneto's drunk-driving Asteroid M, Sentinels take 'creative destruction' literally by renovating Salem Centre's business district, and Apocalypse is, well, Apocalypse.

I really, really need to write that lorebook.

As for Illy, she doesn't go all evil with Cyclops, nor does she wear a stripper outfit with Wi-Fi routers glued to her head. Oh, and the Soulsword doesn't look like some JRPG shit with RGB lighting installed. Her rule over Limbo is firm but fair, having turned it into not-Kislev because, uh, reasons. Look, I just think Slavic Otherworld would go hard asf. Marvel's missing a big opportunity by not dipping into Eastern European folklore.

Anyway, hope you enjoy! Lemme know what bots you want in the New Year! Manhunter (aka Kate "The GOAT" Spencer) is next!