Profile: Quicksilver

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Scarlet Warlock (maternal grandfather, deceased); Natalya Maximoff (mother, deceased); Django Maximoff (maternal uncle and foster father, deceased); Marya Maximoff (maternal aunt and foster mother); Crystalia Amaquelin (Crystal) (ex-wife, marriage annulled); Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) (twin sister); Luminous (alleged sister); Ana Maximoff (cousin and adoptive sister, deceased); Mateo Maximoff (cousin and adoptive brother, deceased); Luna Maximoff (daughter); Vision (former brother-in-law); Tommy Maximoff (nephew, deceased); Billy Maximoff (nephew, deceased); Tommy Shepherd (Speed) (reincarnated nephew); Billy Kaplan (Wiccan) (reincarnated nephew); Quicksilver (clone, deceased).

• Hyper Speed: After exposure to the High evolutionary's Isotope E, Quicksilver's mutant powers have increased to Shift-Z land speed (Mach 4, 3750 mph, 62.5 mpm, 200 areas a round):
  • Extra attacks with Shift-Z ability (allowing him to make 100-Gd damage attacks) or multiple attacks on one target that inflict up to Unearthly damage, ignoring body armor (only one to hit roll is made).
  • Create cyclones for Excellent damage and Shift-X stunning or slamming.
  • Increase speed to CL1000 (10,000 mph, Endurance FEAT every 3 rounds or pass out).
  • Water running: Pietro can run at Shift-Y speed across large bodies of water, like the Atlantic
  • Wall runnning: Pietro can run at Shift-Y speed up buildings or mountains.
  • Invisibility by moving extremely fast, Red intuition FEAT to notice
  • One must make a Red FEAT to hit Quicksilver with anything other than an area effect or Psychic attack. If Quicksilver is making multiple attacks against the same target the FEAT is reduced to Yellow.
  • Considered Unearthly rank for Fighting for multiple attacks and evading.
  • Considered Unearthly rank for Agility for dodging and catching projectiles.
  • Considered Shift-Z rank for Intuition for initiative.
  • He may perceive any object's momentum as though it were moving at Feeble speed, I.E. Arrows and bullet sized objects appear moving at 5 mph. 
  • When attempting to hit Pietro the attacker must have initiative or succeed in an Unearthly Intuition FEAT, otherwise he will have moved out of the way. This FEAT is not required if the attacker also has Hyper-speed powers.
  • Quicksilver is considered to have Unearthly Endurance for movement and tiring purposes.
• Vibratory Control: Due to his recent power increase Quicksilver can adjust his vibratory rate at Incredible ability.
• Phasing: Quicksilver can adjust his vibratory rate to pass through solid objects at Remarkable ability.
• Destroy machinary: Quicksilver can shake or cause machinary to explode with Remarkable ability using this power.
• Thick Skin: Good body resistance
• Resistance to Cold: Incredible
• Enhanced metabolism: Unearthly resistance to drugs or alcohol.

Languages: Hungarian, Romanian, French, Latin and English, accentless.

Performer-Piano: Pietro is self-taught in his skill to play the Piano, he does so at Excellent ability.

He has white hair.

Quicksilver is a jerk, but an heroic jerk with strong willpower. His problem is that he’s always sped up, so peoples around him look unbearably slow, stupid and clumsy. As he once said, his entire life is like waiting in line at an ATM behind a little old lady who’s afraid of the machine, doesn’t know how to use it and takes forever to try to get $5. Quicksilver does all kinds of things to alleviate this aggravation and boredom, being hyperactive and sometimes doing stupid things out of arrogance and irritation. He comes across as arrogant, overbearing and full of contempt — but when he likes the peoples around him his temperament changes becoming witty and even sometimes funny . He’s also very protective of women, and is your typical Mediterranean when it comes to his sister.

Pietro, along with his sisters, appears to have inherited his father's propensity for mental illness and depression. Pietro has undergone mental breakdowns, episodes of mental illness, and severe depression.

• Avengers Communicard: Avengers ID that has microcircuitry that allows the following:
  • Communications: Avengers can communicate through holographic display that project from the card. The Card acts like a pager and has a 5000 mile range.
  • Computer, HQ and Quinjet access-None of these may be accessed without an Avengers Identicard. (BTW Quinjets wont start without one and it has to be a valid one.)
  • Resource Card-Card acts as a bank card with Gd Resources for emergency uses.
  • The new cards are Rm Material and are fully Waterproof.

The Avengers; Scarlet Witch (sister); The Inhumans (including his ex-wife: Crystal); Magneto.

Pietro Maximoff is the son of Magneto, mutant Master of Magnetism, and his former wife, a Romani named Magda. Prior to Pietro’s birth, Magda fled Magneto, terrified by the recent manifestation of his bizarre powers and his newly adopted doctrine of world domination. Seeking refuge, Magda came upon the scientific citadel of Wundagore in the Balkan Mountains of Transia. She was taken in by Bova, a humanoid cow created by the master geneticist known as the High Evolutionary. Magda gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and named them Wanda and Pietro. Still afraid her estranged husband might hunt them down them, she walked into the frozen mountain wilderness to perish.

Bova presented the twins to the High Evolutionary, who agreed to find them human foster parents. He chose Django and Marya Maximoff, a Romani couple camped nearby, who had lost their own twins. The Maximoffs accepted the gift and cared for the children as if they were their own. As adolescents, Wanda and Pietro discovered they possessed unusual superhuman abilities. Wanda could cause strange phenomenon to occur simply by waving her hands, and Pietro was able to move faster than the blink of an eye. When Django stole food to feed his starving family, enraged villagers attacked the Romani camp. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro took flight with his sister. The circumstances of the youngsters’ separation from their family were so traumatic that not until well into adulthood could they remember anything but the barest details of their early existence. For the next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered central Europe, living off the land. While visiting a small village, Wanda accidentally caused a house to burst into flame with her then-uncontrollable hex-casting abilities. Superstitious townspeople took up arms against the young mutant, mistaking her for a witch. Despite Pietro’s attempts to defend his sister, the siblings soon were overpowered. They were about to be killed when Magneto came to their rescue. The genetic terrorist pressed them into service in his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, costumed them, and rechristened them the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. For months, Wanda and Pietro served their new master out of a sense of obligation — and for fear of reprisal. As members of the Brotherhood, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch aided Magneto in his terrorist campaigns against humanity and helped him combat the idealistic team of mutant heroes known as the X-Men. Magneto did not realize Wanda and Pietro were his children, nor did they know he was their father.

When the alien entity known as the Stranger stamped out the Brotherhood, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch petitioned for membership in the Avengers, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. They were inducted — along with Hawkeye, arrow-slinging ex-con — to replace the team’s charter members, who wished to take leaves of absence. However, humanity’s hatred and fear of mutants still disturbed Quicksilver ; he briefly rejoined Magneto, compelling his sister to follow. Ultimately, the siblings confronted the Master of Magnetism. Combining their abilities, Wanda and Pietro helped the Avengers and X-Men defeat their former savior. After rejoining the Avengers, Quicksilver was seriously injured while battling a pack of mutant-hunting Sentinel androids. He was rescued by Crystal — a member of the royal family of the Inhumans, a genetic offshoot of mankind. The pair became romantically involved and married following a brief courtship. Not long after the birth of their first child, Luna, Quicksilver discovered the truth regarding his parentage. Magneto had stumbled upon Bova, and learned from her that Wanda and Pietro were his children.

Magneto confronted Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch with this revelation, hoping to sway them to rejoin his crusade against humanity. Unable to accept that he had changed his ways, Quicksilver denounced Magneto for his callous treatment of them when they were members of his Brotherhood. Although the mutant speedster chose to remain with his wife in the Inhumans’ domain, he began to neglect her. This led Crystal to become involved with another man. Learning of her infidelity, Quicksilver refused to forgive her. For a time, Quicksilver became somewhat unhinged and moved to Hungary (see above). Crystal took Luna to Earth and joined the Avengers, while Quicksilver connected with the team’s West Coast branch. Shortly thereafter, Pietro became a special operative of the U.S. government as a member of its new mutant task force, X-Factor. When Quicksilver and Crystal successfully reconciled, Pietro left X-Factor and rejoined the Avengers. However, the struggling couple’s happiness came to an abrupt end when Crystal seemingly perished in the team’s battle against sentient psionic menace known as Onslaught. In reality, a whole host of Earth’s greatest heroes had been transported to an alternate reality. During Crystal’s absence, the High Evolutionary recruited Quicksilver to lead a small faction of his Knights of Wundagore, animals the geneticist had endowed with intelligence and humanoid forms. For a time, Pietro directed the Knights in battles against injustice. Quicksilver and Crystal were reunited when the missing heroes finally returned to their native Earth.

After Magneto gained control of the island nation of Genosha off the coast of South Africa, Quicksilver returned to his father’s side — but only to acquire a better vantage point from which monitor his activities. At first forced to cope with civil war and the effects of the lethal Legacy Virus, Magneto soon gained the might of a unified nation when a cure for the mutant plague was released into the atmosphere. At the eleventh hour, Quicksilver managed to escape his father’s empire to warn the X-Men of the Master of Magnetism’s impending attack against humanity. Though the world continues to teeter on the brink of genetic war, Pietro has chosen to fight by his sister’s side once again as a member of the Avengers. When his sister Wanda was but into a come after having a mental breakdown and inadvertently using her powers to harm or kill numerous Avengers, Pietro was among the leading members of the Avengers and X-Men who met to discuss how to handle the situation. Fearing that the assembled group might harm his sister, Pietro convinced her to use her abilities to remake the world. In this altered reality, mutants were the dominant political force across the world and Magneto was the most powerful of those leaders, with Wanda and Pietro serving at his side. Flaws in this restructured reality (including a mutant who restored others’ memories of the original unaltered world) eventually led to its collapse, with Wanda bringing it to an end by wishing for “No more mutants.”

As a result of Wanda’s final hex, the world returned to its original state but 98% of the currently existing mutant lost their powers. Pietro was among those mutants and fell into a suicidal depression due to everything that had happened and his prominent role in those events. His former wife Crystal of the Inhumans brought Pietro back to the Inhuman city of Attilan. After the Inhumans’ Royal Family refused to let Pietro expose himself to the Terrigen Mists that gave the Inhumans their powers, he snuck into the Terrigen Cave and did it himself. The Terrigen Mists gave Pietro new powers. Instead of moving at superspeed, he could now travel through time, though it had cumulatively deleterious effects on him. Convinced he could use the Mists to return other mutants’ powers, Pietro stole a canister of the Terrigen Mists and some of the Crystals and went to Genosha. He restored the powers of several other mutants with the Mists, and as with Pietro the powers were similar though not exactly the same as their original abilities but also had serious defects. These defects actually crippled or killed some of the mutants who had been exposed to the Mists and the effects of the Mists eventually faded for all exposed.

As a result of the complications arising from the use of the Mists and a brutal three-way confrontation between the remaining Genoshans, the Inhumans, and the US government (which stole Pietro’s supply of crystals, precipitating a conflict between the US and the Inhumans), Pietro gave up his original plan to restore the world’s mutants with the Mists. He fled the scene and instead immersed himself in his remaining supply of the Mists for an extended period, then traveled into the future to see the results of his actions. He was horrified by the chaos that was coming, but did not believe he could change it. Instead, Pietro embraced the future and began openly using yet another ability he had gained from the long-term exposure to the Mists — his touch could now restore mutants’ powers in the same manner that exposure to the Terrigen Mists did. Pietro has now opened a clinic of sorts where he claims he can restore mutants’ powers without side-effects. When he does so and the usual complications arise, he blames the “cured” mutants for being unworthy of the gift.

After a brief encounter with the Inhumans, U.S. government agents shot Quicksilver with a tranquilizer dart in an attempt to immobilize him. What they really sought, however, was the tank of Terrigen Mist. In an attempt to save his daughter, Pietro ordered Lockjaw to teleport her away from Genosha. This proved a fortuitous move. Despite a warning by the Inhumans to return the tank, the agents attempted to escape with their newly acquired cargo. Left to deal with the situation on his own, Black Bolt whispered the word "war," preventing the agents from escaping and causing massive destruction to the surrounding area. As a result, this action was taken as a sign of open conflict between the Inhumans and the U.S. government. After escaping from the battle on Genosha, Quicksilver bathed himself in the Terrigen Mists for what seemed to be weeks on end, going so far as to absorb the crystals into his own body. He used the Terrigen Crystals to travel farther into the future than ever before, and upon his return spoke of a monstrous disaster yet to come. Learning he gained the power to restore the super-human abilities of former mutants, Pietro "cured" a man on the street that turned out to be the villain known as Reaper. As he walked away, Quicksilver appeared more mentally unstable than ever before as he chose to accept the destruction that lay ahead.

Pietro was later arrested for vagrancy, but he regained his powers after suffering through many hallucinations that eventually indicated that the terrigenesis crystals had run their course through his body. Upon seeing a young woman in danger from his cell, he used his powers to break out of the prison and save her after she was thrown off a building. He left her at a lighthouse on Rhode Island with a man and his child who likely did not have a mother. He rediscovered his desire to be a hero and happily ran off with a fresh start. After these events, Pietro obtained a new costume and rejoined the Knights of Wundagore serving as a scout and gathering intelligence but was later captured by Modred. The sorcerer transferred his consciousness into Chthon's spell book while transferring Chthon's consciousness into Pietro's body. Hank Pym and his new Mighty Avengers eventually thwarted Chthon and Pietro was returned to his body with the help of the new Vision (Jonas). He initially declined Avengers' membership offered by Hank Pym (now the Wasp), but he changed his mind after seeing his sister, the Scarlet Witch in their ranks.

Unbeknown to him and most of the Mighty Avengers, it was really a disguised Loki. Pietro chased after the Mighty Avengers hoping to catch them and reinstate their offer, but Hank declined because of his former teammate's initial response. Wanting to prove himself, the speedster continued to chase the group's activities persistently aiding them on multiple missions in which Pym and the Avengers gratefully accepted him. Pietro participated in all of the team's missions hoping to speak with his sibling but met with no success. After opposing the powerful Inhuman known as "the Unspoken" Pietro recovered the remaining Terrigenesis crystals returning them to the Inhumans and clearing his name of criminal charges through a lie that a Skrull committed all of his felonies during the Secret Invasion events. While the Wasp (Pym) and Jarvis know the truth behind his deception, both have kept it secret and want him to continue on his road to redemption. Their views however, are not shared by Pietro's daughter Luna; while she keeps the truth secret out of love for her father, she will never forgive him for his past actions and may never see him as the man he is trying to revive.

Pietro joined the Avengers Academy as staff. He is blackmailed by one of his students, Finesse who deduced that Pietro was lying about being replaced by a Skrull, into teaching him the same methods and strategies that Magneto taught him in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Pietro develops a closer student-teacher relationship with her, especially after Magneto pays a visit to the school and Finesse asks Pietro to teach her to be like him instead of like Magneto. Quicksilver sided with the Avengers against the X-Men. After he failed to convince his sister to join him on the side of the Avengers, he alone attacked his father. When his half-sister Polaris was getting drunk and demolishing a bar, Quicksilver intervened to try and stop her. After a short conversation, the two began fighting. Quicksilver managed to knock her out, but before he could apprehend her on behalf of the Avengers, she was taken into police custody. Concerned about his sister, Pietro tracked her to Serval Industries headquarters, where she had accepted a job to lead the company's superhero team. Claiming that he had a falling out with the Avengers, he volunteered to join the team, and Polaris accepted, with Harrison Snow's, CEO of Serval, blessing.