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Real Name: Lorna Sally Dane
Codename: Polaris; formerly Magnetrix
Aliases: Lorna Lehnsherr, M-2, Magneta, Mistress of Magnetism, Malice (when possessed by the Marauder with the same name)
Race: Human Mutant (Homo superior)
Reality: Earth-PRN101
Age: 19
Place of Birth: Pescadero, California
Citizenship: American
Relatives: Jakob Eisenhardt (paternal grandfather, deceased); Edie Eisenhardt (paternal grandmother, deceased); Max Eisenhardt / Erik Lehnsherr | Magneto (father); Suzanna Dane (mother, deceased); Arnold Dane (stepfather, deceased); Ruth Eisenhardt (paternal aunt, deceased); Anya Maximoff-Lehnsherr (half-sister, deceased); Pietro Maximoff-Lehnsherr | Quicksilver (half-brother); Wanda Maximoff-Lehnsherr | Scarlet Witch (half-sister); Nina Gurzsky (half-sister); Zaladane ("twin sister"/clone)
Education: University of California, Berkeley - Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics
Relationship Status: dating Alex Summers; formerly involved with Bobby Drake.
Occupation: Geophysics graduate student and part-time cook, co-leader of X-Factor, former member of the X-Men, former member of the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy
Affiliation(s): X-Factor, Starjammers, The Twelve, Muir Island X-Men (by association); formerly Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy, X-Men (reserve member), Marauders (possessed by Malice)
Mutation Class: Class IV (Delta)
Mutant Abilities: Generation and control of magnetic fields and various magnetic forces. Limited ability to manipulate metal at the molecular level, altering their viscosity to make them behave as liquids and solids without them getting hot. Able to levitate and fly at high speeds.
Creators: Arnold Drake, Don Heck
First Appearance: The X-Men #49 "Who Dares Defy...the Demi-Men" (August 1968) (as Lorna Dane), The X-Men #50 "--Hail, Queen of Mutants (September 1968) (as Magnetrix), The X-Men #97 "My Brother, My Enemy" (November 1975) (as Polaris)

Lorna Dane's life was mired in complications before she was even born. While she didn’t realize it until much later in life, she was the daughter of Magneto. This would affect her in many profound ways both directly and indirectly throughout her life.

While much is known about her father, her mother, Suzanna Dane, kept a considerably lower profile. She kept her identity as shrouded as possible so not much is known about her background. What is known, however, is that she was involved in humanitarian work with the UN during various conflicts in the Balkans. This was a time when ethnic tensions were at a fevered level. She often defied orders from her superiors, seeking out conflicts in some of the most volatile parts of the region. This is what led her to confront Erik Lehnsherr, better known as the master of magnetism Magneto.

Their encounter occurred a few years after Magneto’s wife, Magda Maximoff, was killed. This is a period of time where little is known about what Magneto was doing, but it is suspected that he was briefly an agent of Mossad, traveling Europe and putting down Nazi war criminals and local rebel militias with his powers. Still grief-stricken over the loss of his wife, she reached out to him and he accepted it, leading to the two having an affair. However, it didn't last very long. One day, Magneto and Suzanna investigated rumors of a Nazi safehouse in Switzerland, only to discover it was in fact a secret research laboratory, trying to infuse humans with mutant powers. In the ensuing melee, Suzanna was shot in her shoulder. Enraged by the injury to his lover, Magneto unleashed a rage-fueled slaughter on the Nazis. Horrified by this bloodshed, Suzanna left the Balkans in shock and never returned without any further interactions with Magneto.

When she returned to her home in northern California, Suzanna found out that she was pregnant two months later. She never sought out Magneto nor asked for his support. She gave birth to Lorna with no complications, however, her newborn daughter was born with naturally green hair. Believing that her babe's green hair was a sign of her inheriting her father's mutant gene, Suzanna had no intention of ever revealing her to her father, fearing for Lorna's safety. She also hid Lorna's true parentage from her actual husband, Arnold Dane, making him believe that he was the girl's father. However, further complications would make that difficult.

For the most part, most of Lorna's early life and childhood were fairly normal. The Danes were well-off, but by no means wealthy. Lorna grew up in a fairly exclusive gated community and attended small, private Catholic schools. While her stepfather mostly raised her at home, her mother continued working for the UN as a correspondent and she never brought up the identity of her father. She remained somewhat sequestered. Lorna’s mother still feared that Magneto would one day seek her out, but the day never came out. However, her past actions would eventually catch up with her.

It started when Lorna was nine almost ten. Her stepfather, Arnold, began noticing how Lorna shared little to no similarities with him and started to grow suspicious of his daughter's parentage. It didn't take long for Arnold to figure out his wife's affair in the past. One night, when Suzanna returned home from her travels, Arnold locked all doors so that she would have no place to flee when he confronted her with this. An argument erupted, upsetting Lorna whose desperation to make her parents stop fighting triggered an early manifestation of her immense magnetic abilities, which caused her to emit a magnetic pulse that destroyed the entire Dane house and killed her parents in the process. Distraught, Lorna withdraw from her home's ruins and was forced to survive on the streets. But it didn't last long as she was discovered by an old man who had similar powers as her. This man was Erik Lehnsherr, her biological father.

Erik had no knowledge of Lorna's existence until he was informed by his old friend Charles Xavier detected a mutant manifestation in California that gave off an electromagnetic pulse. After bringing her to the Xavier Institute, Erik discovered that the green-haired girl was his daughter following a DNA test. Though somewhat shocked by this revelation, Erik decided to take Lorna under his care.

Throughout her preteen and early teenage years, Lorna was treated well enough by her father in his private home in Camarillo, California. He gave her a place to live, food, and education, also he started to train her personally as her powers were almost identical to his.

When Lorna was 14, her father cut his ties with Professor Xavier and formed the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy as their leader Magneto. Unlike her older half-siblings Pietro and Wanda Maximoff-Lehnsherr, Lorna was mostly kept in the dark about the Brotherhood's activities but knew that her father was into some bad things. She was placed into La Reina High School, a prestige high school for California's wealthy, and Lorna started to dye her hair brown--mostly to fit in and to stop the gossip about her. Later in life, Lorna realized that Magneto had placed her in that particular school to gain the trust of certain politicians’ kids and possible entry into their homes.

Lorna graduated high school and was accepted into the Geology program at UC Berkeley. However, before she left for college she confronted her father about the Brotherhood, and the only way she was allowed knowledge was to fully accept the membership. Against her better judgment, she agreed, joining the Brotherhood as "Magnetrix", the Mistress of Magnetism. Lorna was allowed access to files within the Brotherhood and that is when her father told her about the world he envisioned for all mutant kind. It was also around this time when Professor Xavier's first class of X-Men was emerging as a powerful force.

One of the Brotherhood's more recent missions did not sit well with Lorna after she witnessed her father killing human soldiers and saw that the Maximoff Twins supported his actions. Sickened by her family's actions, she made clandestine contact with Professor Xavier, offering to pass the X-Men information about Brotherhood operations in return for help dismantling said operations.

These years were the most difficult of Lorna's entire life. On the surface, she projected the image of the dutiful daughter and believer in the cause, feigning flawless enthusiasm when given orders by her father, while underneath she was always considering ways to slow down and sabotage the Brotherhood's plans. She was able to maintain her masquerade undetected through a number of crises, though the mask threatened to slip a few times, generally when she learned that her father had kidnapped and coerced other mutants into working for him. Soon, the mask came off; Magneto's use of the Juggernaut to attack New York City and endangering the lives of innocents in an attempt to publicly humiliate the X-Men became the final straw that broke the camel's back. After a heated argument with her father in which her work as a double agent was revealed, Lorna left the Brotherhood for good.

Now on the run, Lorna then found herself recruited by Charles Xavier and became a student at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. For her first few months of the X-Mansion, Lorna was not allowed to leave the premises due to an ankle tracker put in place by the government following a false lead that she still worked for the Brotherhood undercover. She worked with the X-Men's FBI liaison Fred Duncan to regain her freedom by giving proof of her father's illegal activities. Once free, she eventually became a member of the X-Men, taking a new codename "Polaris".

At first, she was a little weary of meeting other people but opened up when she met one of her teammates, Bobby Drake. What started as a simple friendship quickly blossomed into romance. However, their relationship didn't last very long as Lorna started to become attracted to fellow student Alex Summers (Havok). When Lorna later confessed that she'd developed stronger feelings for Alex and when Alex returned those feelings, she and Bobby quietly broke it off.

At some point, Lorna and Alex decided to leave the X-Men to return to their civilian lives, with Lorna moving into her own apartment in Emeryville, California to complete her college degrees. She remained inactive as a member of the X-Men, though she and her boyfriend did return from time to time to assist the X-Men. For example, Lorna and Alex assisted the X-Men with a battle against the Brotherhood at Worthington Industries in Chicago.

For the most part, Lorna remained in civilian life until it was interrupted when the Marauders kidnapped her for her useful powers. She was forced to wear a collar containing the essence of a dead telepath named Malice. While controlled by Malice, Lorna joined Mister Sinister and his Marauders, helping them kidnap young mutants in order to collect their DNA for Sinister's experiments. As Malice, Lorna murdered several of the Morlocks in the Mutant Massacre, lobotomized two young members of the Friends of Humanity, kidnapped Jean Grey, and nearly killed Alex. It was Jean who unleashed a massive psychic blast against Lorna that freed her from Malice's influence and allowed the X-Men to rescue them.

Back at the X-Mansion, Lorna had to face what she had done. Her sense of personal responsibility was at odds with the general reaction that nothing had actually been her fault, that she had been mind-controlled and wasn't to blame. Some of the surviving Morlocks, especially Masque, insisted she had been responsible, having witnessed her direct involvement in the Mutant Massacre with their own eyes. Despite everything that happened, Alex firmly believed that Lorna was innocent.

Lorna went to the Muir Island Research Facility to recover from the mental scars left behind by Malice. She was able to come to terms with her mind-control experience thanks to call-on psychiatrist Dr. Leonard Samson, helping her develop her confidence.

One day, Lorna was approached by the Commission of Superhuman Activities (CSA for short), the government's watchdog taskforce that oversaw the affairs of American citizens possessing superhuman/mutant abilities, and coordinated S.H.I.E.L.D., Project WideAwake, and other agencies' use of government-controlled superhumans. It seemed that following several mutant-related incidents, including Apocalypse's invasion of Manhattan, the CSA was itching to have its government-funded super team like the Avengers to have at its beck and call to deal with such threats. So, the CSA started the "X-Factor Initiative", a movement to form a team of mutants that would work for the CSA directly--a sort of government-sanctioned X-Men. Tired out of hiding out in Muir Island, Lorna accepted. Lorna and Alex were set as the team's leaders. Joining X-Factor offered her the chance to reunite with Alex, but their relationship remained largely unresolved as she still felt guilty about harming him during the Mutant Massacre. Despite that, her time in X-Factor has changed her dramatically as she has grown stronger and surer of herself. Since then, Lorna has become a mainstay in X-Factor and became the government's secret weapon against a possible attack from her father Magneto.

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Lorna's previous codename "Magnetrix" is from X-Men: The Hidden Years (1999-2001), a 22-issue comic series that was made in an attempt to fill in the gap of events between The X-Men #66 and Giant-Size X-Men #1, where it was often used as a nickname by Havok to annoy her.

Polaris and Havok share a lot of history with each other, so I thought it would be fitting for them to be founding members of X-Factor in my continuity. Like Earth-616, Lorna was one of the X-Men's first new recruits after the original five, though, in this series, she was originally a member of her father's Brotherhood who then became a double agent and joined the team before Iceman proved himself as a full-fledged member. My interpretation of Polaris has lived a life where so much was taken from her, from the death of her parents to her argument with Magneto to being possessed by Malice and being used to murder innocents. But, ultimately, in the end, she has endured. This ability to have such a strong moral center and function normally gives her an uncanny strength. This strength allowed her to handle many challenges as an X-Men and a member of X-Factor, especially when she encounters her former family, whether if it's her father or her older siblings. However, this strength leaves her vulnerable in certain areas. Like her father, her emotional nature leads her to make mistakes and lose control over situations.

When designing Polaris, my initial look for her was the Shi'ar costume she wore when she and Havok were briefly brainwashed by Erik the Red during the issues leading up to the Phoenix Saga. But, I decided on a lesser-known yet more memorable look, so I took most of my inspiration from when she was possessed by Malice following the Mutant Massacre. It also takes elements from her original design, modern design, and 90s X-Factor design. The in-universe explanation of her uniform was that it was something she made for X-Men missions when she was still at the Institute.

I also updated the reference sheet by giving her throwing knives.

I hope you guys like it.

X-Men © Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Marvel Comics

Description
Original artwork - here

Real Name: Lorna Sally Dane
Codename: Polaris; formerly Magnetrix
Aliases: Lorna Lehnsherr, M-2, Magneta, Mistress of Magnetism, Malice (when possessed by the Marauder with the same name)
Race: Human Mutant (Homo superior)
Reality: Earth-PRN101
Age: 19
Place of Birth: Pescadero, California
Citizenship: American
Relatives: Jakob Eisenhardt (paternal grandfather, deceased); Edie Eisenhardt (paternal grandmother, deceased); Max Eisenhardt / Erik Lehnsherr | Magneto (father); Suzanna Dane (mother, deceased); Arnold Dane (stepfather, deceased); Ruth Eisenhardt (paternal aunt, deceased); Anya Maximoff-Lehnsherr (half-sister, deceased); Pietro Maximoff-Lehnsherr | Quicksilver (half-brother); Wanda Maximoff-Lehnsherr | Scarlet Witch (half-sister); Nina Gurzsky (half-sister); Zaladane ("twin sister"/clone)
Education: University of California, Berkeley - Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics
Relationship Status: dating Alex Summers; formerly involved with Bobby Drake.
Occupation: Geophysics graduate student and part-time cook, co-leader of X-Factor, former member of the X-Men, former member of the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy
Affiliation(s): X-Factor, Starjammers, The Twelve, Muir Island X-Men (by association); formerly Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy, X-Men (reserve member), Marauders (possessed by Malice)
Mutation Class: Class IV (Delta)
Mutant Abilities: Generation and control of magnetic fields and various magnetic forces. Limited ability to manipulate metal at the molecular level, altering their viscosity to make them behave as liquids and solids without them getting hot. Able to levitate and fly at high speeds.
Creators: Arnold Drake, Don Heck
First Appearance: The X-Men #49 "Who Dares Defy...the Demi-Men" (August 1968) (as Lorna Dane), The X-Men #50 "--Hail, Queen of Mutants (September 1968) (as Magnetrix), The X-Men #97 "My Brother, My Enemy" (November 1975) (as Polaris)

Lorna Dane's life was mired in complications before she was even born. While she didn’t realize it until much later in life, she was the daughter of Magneto. This would affect her in many profound ways both directly and indirectly throughout her life.

While much is known about her father, her mother, Suzanna Dane, kept a considerably lower profile. She kept her identity as shrouded as possible so not much is known about her background. What is known, however, is that she was involved in humanitarian work with the UN during various conflicts in the Balkans. This was a time when ethnic tensions were at a fevered level. She often defied orders from her superiors, seeking out conflicts in some of the most volatile parts of the region. This is what led her to confront Erik Lehnsherr, better known as the master of magnetism Magneto.

Their encounter occurred a few years after Magneto’s wife, Magda Maximoff, was killed. This is a period of time where little is known about what Magneto was doing, but it is suspected that he was briefly an agent of Mossad, traveling Europe and putting down Nazi war criminals and local rebel militias with his powers. Still grief-stricken over the loss of his wife, she reached out to him and he accepted it, leading to the two having an affair. However, it didn't last very long. One day, Magneto and Suzanna investigated rumors of a Nazi safehouse in Switzerland, only to discover it was in fact a secret research laboratory, trying to infuse humans with mutant powers. In the ensuing melee, Suzanna was shot in her shoulder. Enraged by the injury to his lover, Magneto unleashed a rage-fueled slaughter on the Nazis. Horrified by this bloodshed, Suzanna left the Balkans in shock and never returned without any further interactions with Magneto.

When she returned to her home in northern California, Suzanna found out that she was pregnant two months later. She never sought out Magneto nor asked for his support. She gave birth to Lorna with no complications, however, her newborn daughter was born with naturally green hair. Believing that her babe's green hair was a sign of her inheriting her father's mutant gene, Suzanna had no intention of ever revealing her to her father, fearing for Lorna's safety. She also hid Lorna's true parentage from her actual husband, Arnold Dane, making him believe that he was the girl's father. However, further complications would make that difficult.

For the most part, most of Lorna's early life and childhood were fairly normal. The Danes were well-off, but by no means wealthy. Lorna grew up in a fairly exclusive gated community and attended small, private Catholic schools. While her stepfather mostly raised her at home, her mother continued working for the UN as a correspondent and she never brought up the identity of her father. She remained somewhat sequestered. Lorna’s mother still feared that Magneto would one day seek her out, but the day never came out. However, her past actions would eventually catch up with her.

It started when Lorna was nine almost ten. Her stepfather, Arnold, began noticing how Lorna shared little to no similarities with him and started to grow suspicious of his daughter's parentage. It didn't take long for Arnold to figure out his wife's affair in the past. One night, when Suzanna returned home from her travels, Arnold locked all doors so that she would have no place to flee when he confronted her with this. An argument erupted, upsetting Lorna whose desperation to make her parents stop fighting triggered an early manifestation of her immense magnetic abilities, which caused her to emit a magnetic pulse that destroyed the entire Dane house and killed her parents in the process. Distraught, Lorna withdraw from her home's ruins and was forced to survive on the streets. But it didn't last long as she was discovered by an old man who had similar powers as her. This man was Erik Lehnsherr, her biological father.

Erik had no knowledge of Lorna's existence until he was informed by his old friend Charles Xavier detected a mutant manifestation in California that gave off an electromagnetic pulse. After bringing her to the Xavier Institute, Erik discovered that the green-haired girl was his daughter following a DNA test. Though somewhat shocked by this revelation, Erik decided to take Lorna under his care.

Throughout her preteen and early teenage years, Lorna was treated well enough by her father in his private home in Camarillo, California. He gave her a place to live, food, and education, also he started to train her personally as her powers were almost identical to his.

When Lorna was 14, her father cut his ties with Professor Xavier and formed the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy as their leader Magneto. Unlike her older half-siblings Pietro and Wanda Maximoff-Lehnsherr, Lorna was mostly kept in the dark about the Brotherhood's activities but knew that her father was into some bad things. She was placed into La Reina High School, a prestige high school for California's wealthy, and Lorna started to dye her hair brown--mostly to fit in and to stop the gossip about her. Later in life, Lorna realized that Magneto had placed her in that particular school to gain the trust of certain politicians’ kids and possible entry into their homes.

Lorna graduated high school and was accepted into the Geology program at UC Berkeley. However, before she left for college she confronted her father about the Brotherhood, and the only way she was allowed knowledge was to fully accept the membership. Against her better judgment, she agreed, joining the Brotherhood as "Magnetrix", the Mistress of Magnetism. Lorna was allowed access to files within the Brotherhood and that is when her father told her about the world he envisioned for all mutant kind. It was also around this time when Professor Xavier's first class of X-Men was emerging as a powerful force.

One of the Brotherhood's more recent missions did not sit well with Lorna after she witnessed her father killing human soldiers and saw that the Maximoff Twins supported his actions. Sickened by her family's actions, she made clandestine contact with Professor Xavier, offering to pass the X-Men information about Brotherhood operations in return for help dismantling said operations.

These years were the most difficult of Lorna's entire life. On the surface, she projected the image of the dutiful daughter and believer in the cause, feigning flawless enthusiasm when given orders by her father, while underneath she was always considering ways to slow down and sabotage the Brotherhood's plans. She was able to maintain her masquerade undetected through a number of crises, though the mask threatened to slip a few times, generally when she learned that her father had kidnapped and coerced other mutants into working for him. Soon, the mask came off; Magneto's use of the Juggernaut to attack New York City and endangering the lives of innocents in an attempt to publicly humiliate the X-Men became the final straw that broke the camel's back. After a heated argument with her father in which her work as a double agent was revealed, Lorna left the Brotherhood for good.

Now on the run, Lorna then found herself recruited by Charles Xavier and became a student at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. For her first few months of the X-Mansion, Lorna was not allowed to leave the premises due to an ankle tracker put in place by the government following a false lead that she still worked for the Brotherhood undercover. She worked with the X-Men's FBI liaison Fred Duncan to regain her freedom by giving proof of her father's illegal activities. Once free, she eventually became a member of the X-Men, taking a new codename "Polaris".

At first, she was a little weary of meeting other people but opened up when she met one of her teammates, Bobby Drake. What started as a simple friendship quickly blossomed into romance. However, their relationship didn't last very long as Lorna started to become attracted to fellow student Alex Summers (Havok). When Lorna later confessed that she'd developed stronger feelings for Alex and when Alex returned those feelings, she and Bobby quietly broke it off.

At some point, Lorna and Alex decided to leave the X-Men to return to their civilian lives, with Lorna moving into her own apartment in Emeryville, California to complete her college degrees. She remained inactive as a member of the X-Men, though she and her boyfriend did return from time to time to assist the X-Men. For example, Lorna and Alex assisted the X-Men with a battle against the Brotherhood at Worthington Industries in Chicago.

For the most part, Lorna remained in civilian life until it was interrupted when the Marauders kidnapped her for her useful powers. She was forced to wear a collar containing the essence of a dead telepath named Malice. While controlled by Malice, Lorna joined Mister Sinister and his Marauders, helping them kidnap young mutants in order to collect their DNA for Sinister's experiments. As Malice, Lorna murdered several of the Morlocks in the Mutant Massacre, lobotomized two young members of the Friends of Humanity, kidnapped Jean Grey, and nearly killed Alex. It was Jean who unleashed a massive psychic blast against Lorna that freed her from Malice's influence and allowed the X-Men to rescue them.

Back at the X-Mansion, Lorna had to face what she had done. Her sense of personal responsibility was at odds with the general reaction that nothing had actually been her fault, that she had been mind-controlled and wasn't to blame. Some of the surviving Morlocks, especially Masque, insisted she had been responsible, having witnessed her direct involvement in the Mutant Massacre with their own eyes. Despite everything that happened, Alex firmly believed that Lorna was innocent.

Lorna went to the Muir Island Research Facility to recover from the mental scars left behind by Malice. She was able to come to terms with her mind-control experience thanks to call-on psychiatrist Dr. Leonard Samson, helping her develop her confidence.

One day, Lorna was approached by the Commission of Superhuman Activities (CSA for short), the government's watchdog taskforce that oversaw the affairs of American citizens possessing superhuman/mutant abilities, and coordinated S.H.I.E.L.D., Project WideAwake, and other agencies' use of government-controlled superhumans. It seemed that following several mutant-related incidents, including Apocalypse's invasion of Manhattan, the CSA was itching to have its government-funded super team like the Avengers to have at its beck and call to deal with such threats. So, the CSA started the "X-Factor Initiative", a movement to form a team of mutants that would work for the CSA directly--a sort of government-sanctioned X-Men. Tired out of hiding out in Muir Island, Lorna accepted. Lorna and Alex were set as the team's leaders. Joining X-Factor offered her the chance to reunite with Alex, but their relationship remained largely unresolved as she still felt guilty about harming him during the Mutant Massacre. Despite that, her time in X-Factor has changed her dramatically as she has grown stronger and surer of herself. Since then, Lorna has become a mainstay in X-Factor and became the government's secret weapon against a possible attack from her father Magneto.

XXXXXX

Lorna's previous codename "Magnetrix" is from X-Men: The Hidden Years (1999-2001), a 22-issue comic series that was made in an attempt to fill in the gap of events between The X-Men #66 and Giant-Size X-Men #1, where it was often used as a nickname by Havok to annoy her.

Polaris and Havok share a lot of history with each other, so I thought it would be fitting for them to be founding members of X-Factor in my continuity. Like Earth-616, Lorna was one of the X-Men's first new recruits after the original five, though, in this series, she was originally a member of her father's Brotherhood who then became a double agent and joined the team before Iceman proved himself as a full-fledged member. My interpretation of Polaris has lived a life where so much was taken from her, from the death of her parents to her argument with Magneto to being possessed by Malice and being used to murder innocents. But, ultimately, in the end, she has endured. This ability to have such a strong moral center and function normally gives her an uncanny strength. This strength allowed her to handle many challenges as an X-Men and a member of X-Factor, especially when she encounters her former family, whether if it's her father or her older siblings. However, this strength leaves her vulnerable in certain areas. Like her father, her emotional nature leads her to make mistakes and lose control over situations.

When designing Polaris, my initial look for her was the Shi'ar costume she wore when she and Havok were briefly brainwashed by Erik the Red during the issues leading up to the Phoenix Saga. But, I decided on a lesser-known yet more memorable look, so I took most of my inspiration from when she was possessed by Malice following the Mutant Massacre. It also takes elements from her original design, modern design, and 90s X-Factor design. The in-universe explanation of her uniform was that it was something she made for X-Men missions when she was still at the Institute.

I also updated the reference sheet by giving her throwing knives.

I hope you guys like it.

X-Men © Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Marvel Comics