Danielle Moonstar

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Danielle Moonstar
Portrayed by Q'Orianka Kilcher
Codename:	'Mirage'
Affiliations:	Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters - Staff
Birthdate:	April 15, 1987
Journal:	The only thing to fear
Player:	Maureen

Danielle Moonstar (or 'Dani' as she prefers) is a Cheyenne proud of her heritage. However, due to the demands of a pregnancy on her empathy-based powers, she found it necessary to relocate to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where she found herself another kind of family.

Details

Character Journal: x_mirage

Real Name: Danielle Moonstar

Codename: none

Aliases: Dani, Danielle Gilbert

First Appearance: December 12, 2004

Date of Birth: April 15, 1987

Place of Birth: Watonga, Oklahoma

Citizenship: Cheyenne Nation, American

Relatives: Moonstar Family: Margaret Moonstar (mother, deceased), William Moonstar (father, deceased), Elise Black Eagle (grandmother, deceased), Richard Black Eagle (grandfather, deceased)

Sheldon Gilbert (ex-husband)

William Norton Moonstar-McCoy (son, adopted by Dr. Henry McCoy)

Education: High school diploma, currently enrolled at Westchester Community College for Business Administration

Relationship Status: Single

Occupation: Administration Assistant (secretary) for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and resident advisor at Xavier's, student.

Team Affiliation: none

Biography

Childhood

Danielle Moonstar grew up in Watonga, Oklahoma on the Cheyenne Reservation where she was born. When she was a toddler her parents were killed by a drunk driver on the reservation and she was sent to live with her grandparents. Her grandmother died when Dani was still fairly young and she continued to live with her grandfather, Black Eagle, a shaman who taught her the more traditional Cheyene beliefs and way of life.

In high school she began to date Sheldon Gilbert. They married when she was 17, after she became pregnant and she moved into Sheldon's house with his family. Shortly thereafter, Black Eagle died. After his funeral, her powers began to manifest.

Danielle began to have nightmares that would manifest themselves as hallucinations in the people around her. Afraid of what Danielle could do any time she fell asleep, Sheldon and his family demanded that she leave their house. Not knowing what to do, Dani began driving her grandfather's truck until it ran out of gas and then began walking.

Living At The X-Mansion

Dani arrived at the school after being kicked out of her house by her husband for being unable to control her powers and wandering across the country for several days with no idea what to do. She was several months pregnant as well. She quickly bonded with Forge, insisting he is her brother through their shared Cheyenne heritage, despite Forge's insistance that he had no interest in that aspect of his life.

Shortly after arrival, Dani received a package in the mail containing divorce papers from her husband. Enraged, she drags Forge on a roadtrip back to the reservation. Sheldon, her husband, is truly the prize that everyone expected him to be and in true Jerry Springer style, was caught cheating, insulted Forge and Dani and hit her. Divorce was never a more needed thing. Sheldon also refused to pay child support or alimony on their child. Dani has not seen or heard from him since the divorce was finalized.

Throughout everything, Dani's powers were continually problematic and her control was haphazard at best. She tried working with Manuel, despite their rocky start, on her powers, but they had two very different forms of empathy. She had better luck using tai chi & herbal remedies to help control her mood swings and sessions with Nathan and Professor Xavier to control her powers.

Having worked around the house for most of her life, Dani could not sit idly back without working at Xavier's, and began working in the kitchen helping Lorna and handling the paperwork that goes into managing a commercialize kitchen for a school and for Hank, collating and typing his notes up pertaining to his research.

In tai chi classes, Dani became friends with Karen, a member of the local Friends of Humanity chapter. Their friendship was shortlived however, once Karen discovered that Dani was a mutant. Karen returned to tai chi with Tommy Jones and other boys from the FOH, intending to hurt Dani, but Dani was able to use her powers to stop them, although Alison had to intervene to difuse the situation.

During Dani's divorce, she asked Hank if he would be willing to adopt her baby. Once Billy was born, her friendship with Forge becomes rocky, but she began to finally regain control of her powers. After Forge returned from With Malice Aforethought, Dani attempted to begin repairing their friendship, only to have it broken a few days later when Forge found out about Dani's relationship with Manuel.

Finishing high school without a clear plan, Dani began working at Xavier's as the school administrator (secretary) and continues working with the paperwork aspect of kitchen, leaving the majority of cooking to Lorna. She began summer classes at Westchester Community College, although she does not do well and ultimately dropped out of school.

Currently

Dani has continued to work as the school administrator, but only works 3 days per week now so she can once again take classes at Westchester Community College as a business administration major. She shares a suite and the Resident Advisor position for the students with Marie.

While attempting to go shopping with Tabitha, she and Dani ran across dinosaurs in New York City! Not knowing what to do, the girls used their powers to try to herd the oversized lizards away from people and into the waterways. Neither of the girls are X-Men so this was even more problematic with their powers training and physical ability, however, they succeeded in preventing people from being stepped on.

During one of the routine weekend trips into New York City, the Xavier's bus was kidnapped, including Dani. Without being able to reply on a rescue by the X-Men, Dani and the other students freed themselves and made a successful escape. This is the first time Dani succeeded in keeping her head during a crisis and was able to lead and guide the others.

She took Forge's disappearnce in Sound of Silence badly, as everyone she has been close to or loved up until now has died or abandonded her. Even though she knew logically that he had no way of knowing what was going to happen, she still saw it as him rejecting her. Dani did not speak to Forge when he returned until he came by her suite and dropped off an article about a Cheyenne Art exhibit at the MoMA.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5ft 10in

Weight: 170lbs

Eyes: brown

Hair: straight & black almost to her waist, she generally wears it long, in two braids or pinned up with a claw

Other Features:

Piercings: one hole in each ear

'Tattoos: none

Scars: under her chin from a childhood fall

Powers

She can manifest other people's fears in the form of illusions that are completely real to the person with that fear. Her power is mostly touch-based at this point, although she has better control over her powers than when she first came to the school. She sometimes loses control when she sleeps, invading other peoples dreams and giving them nightmares, but that is a fairly rare occurance now.

Equipment

None.

Trivia

Danielle doesn't have a middle name, her Cheyenne name is Heme'kone Ôhmâsêhanee'êstse which means 'Crazy Head'.

She was married and divorced before she turned 18 and had a baby only a couple weeks after turning 18.

Plots

2005

Fear Itself

Growing Pains

2007

Red X Mission: Whiteout

This Savage Land

Voodoo Child

2008

Red X Mission: Whistler

The Shadow King (plot)

Red X Mission: Reconstruction

Meta

Player: Maureen

E-mail: 135px

AIM: darkladymo1

Player Icon Base: Q'Orianka Kilcher

Meta Trivia