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M (Monet St. Croix)

Universe
Marvel Universe

Real Name
Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix

Aliases
Formerly Penance, Penny

Identity
Secret

Occupation
Adventurer, private investigator; former student

Citizenship
Bosnia, Algeria, and France

Place of Birth
Sarajevo, Bosnia

Known Relatives
Cartier St. Croix (father), unidentified mother (deceased), Marius St. Croix (Emplate, brother), Claudette St. Croix (sister), Nicole St. Croix (sister), Penance/Hollow (unknown relationship)

Group Affiliation
X-Factor Investigations; formerly X-Corporation, X-Corps, Generation X

Education
Studies at Massachusetts Academy and DeLaCorte’s Boarding School

Height
5'7"

Weight
(As Penance) Unrevealed; (as M) 125 lbs.

Eyes
(As Penance) Blue; (as M) Brown

Hair
(As Penance) Red; (as M) Black

Powers
M's abilities include superhuman strength and speed, telepathy, flight, nigh-invulnerability, acute night vision, heightened hearing, and the ability to perceive mutants' auras. Her body's injuries heal at an accelerated rate. Her former Penance form was diamond-hard and super-dense, with clawed hands and feet and razor-sharp skin and hair.

Abilities
M is extraordinarily intelligent, highly educated, and a formidable hand-to-hand combatant.

Weapons
None

Paraphernalia
None

First Appearance
(Twins as Monet) Uncanny X-Men #316 (1994); (Monet as Penance) Generation X #1 (1994); (as Monet) Generation X #40 (1998); (twins as Penance) Generation X #40 (1998); (third Penance) Generation X #57 (1999)

Origin
Generation X #24 (1997); Generation X #40 (1998)

Significant Issues
Twins as Monet captured by Phalanx, rescued by X-Men (Uncanny X-Men #316-317/X-Men #36-37, 1994); twins joined Generation X, Monet as Penance taken to Academy by Gateway (Generation X #1, 1994); vs Generation X, calmed by Chamber (Generation X #2-3, 1994-1995); with Generation X, investigated disappearance of Cassidy Keep (Generation X #8-9, 1995); suffered relapse, slipped into coma (Generation X ’95 Annual, 1995); recovered, telepathically probed by Emma (Generation X #12, 1996); with Generation X, captured by and subsequently opposed Emplate (Generation X #13-14, 1996); with Generation X, opposed D’Spayre (Generation X ’97 Annual, 1997); aided headmasters in opposing Black Tom (Generation X #25, 1997); with headmasters, searched for teammates during Operation: Zero Tolerance (Generation X #26-31, 1997); twins’ true identities revealed (Generation X #31, 1997); twins briefly merged with Emplate, learned of Monet’s fate (Generation X #34-39, 1998); Monet's transformation into Penance revealed and reversed, twins became Penance (Generation X #40, 1998); briefly lost telepathy (Generation X #42-45, 1998); full name & nationality revealed (Generation X #46, 1998); with Generation X, alongside Forge, vs Paradox (Generation X #47, 1999); began flirting with Everett, with Generation X, alongside X-Man, vs Gene Nation (Generation X #50/X-Man #50, 1999); with Generation X, trapped by Adrienne Frost, freed by Emma (Generation X #55-56, 1999); with Generation X, vs Emplate, twins freed from Penance form, Penance still sentient (Generation X #57, 1999); withdrawn from Massachusetts Academy, first kissed Everett, enrolled in private Swiss school (Generation X #58/Generation X ’99 Annual/Generation X #60, 1999/2000); third Penance rejoined Generation X (Generation X #58, 1999); opposed vampiric headmaster, defeated him, returned to Massachusetts Academy (Generation X #61-62, 2000); began romance with Everett (Generation X #67, 2000); Everett killed in explosion (Generation X #70, 2000); with Generation X, investigated House of Corrections (Generation X #64-66, 2000); with Jubilee, vs train hijackers (Generation X #72, 2001); Generation X disbanded, Academy closed (Generation X #75, 2001); with X-Corps (Uncanny X-Men #403, 2002); alongside X-Men, vs rogue X-Corps members (Uncanny X-Men #406, 2002); X-Corps restructured as X-Corporation, vs Weapon XII (New X-Men #128-130, 2002); alongside X-Men & Juggernaut, vs Black Tom Cassidy (Uncanny X-Men #410-412, 2002); revealed to have retained mutant nature after “M-Day” (X-Men: The 198 Files, 2006); with X-Factor Investigations, saved depowered Rictor, convinced him to join (X-Factor #2, 2006)

The eldest child of a wealthy ambassador, mutant Monet St. Croix was a spoiled, pompous girl. After her brother Marius, a student of dark magic, invited her to join him in world conquest, she scornfully rejected him. For this, Marius magically trapped her in the form of a red-skinned mute dubbed Penance. Believing their brother had killed Monet, her young twin sisters banished Marius to another dimension. Seeing Marius as the only way to return to normal, Monet followed. To spare their father from a broken heart at the loss of his favored daughter, the twins used their powers to merge with each other into a single being that duplicated Monet mentally and physically. As Monet, the twins were among those mutants captured by the techno-organic alien Phalanx race, who sought to assimilate mutants into their collective. The twins and their fellow prisoners were rescued by an ad-hoc X-Men team led by Banshee, and they went on to join Generation X, a team of trainee mutants at the Massachusetts Academy under co-headmasters Banshee and Emma Frost. Meanwhile, after years of imprisonment during which Marius – now calling himself Emplate – used her as a source of sustenance for his energy-draining powers, Monet escaped to Earth. She was found by the Australian aboriginal mutant Gateway, who had been mentoring the twins, and he took her to the Massachusetts Academy. Initially distrustful, Monet soon accepted her new situation and ultimately joined the team. Eventually, the twins’ true nature was revealed, and they soon after merged briefly with their brother, learning Monet’s true fate. They next merged with the Penance form, freeing Monet but becoming trapped in it themselves. During a subsequent battle, Jubilee defeated Emplate with an explosion that also freed the twins from the Penance form. Shortly thereafter, Monet’s father withdrew her from the Academy and took the sisters home. Monet was enrolled in a private boarding school in the Swiss Alps, where she soon discovered the headmaster was secretly a vampire feeding on students. Defeating him, Monet returned to the Massachusetts Academy and romanced her teammate Everett Thomas (Synch), who was ultimately killed by a bomb planted by Emma’s sister, Adrienne. The students soon quit, and the Academy closed. Monet and her former teammates Husk and Jubilee joined Banshee’s paramilitary X-Corps. Monet stayed on after the X-Corps was restructured into the X-Corporation, and also aided the X-Men’s Juggernaut against Black Tom Cassidy. Following the X-Corporation’s closure, Monet joined the staff of the mutant detective agency X-Factor Investigations.

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