Personality: First and foremost Xavin is a skrull. This means an impatient and war like attitude is in her very nature, and as much as she tries to suppress these tendencies, they will still often get the better of her. She doesn’t often spare time for issues she deems trivial, and she’ll often be frustrated when people don’t automatically see eye to eye with her. This can be seen easily in the fight she and Karolina have over leaving the past quickly, and when Xavin finds out Teddy has rejected his destiny as Dorrekk VII, saviour of the Skrull race. She just doesn’t understand it, and this lack of understanding is a large part of what fuels her frustration, along with her temper. As for the impatience and war like attitude, Xavin is very much a shoot first, ask questions later person, as seen when she attacks the Young Avengers after seeing an unconscious Molly in Patriot’s arms. While the Runaways’s try and act a little more diplomatic, Xavin launches straight into a fight, which only exacerbates the tension between the two groups. At the same time she acknowledges this flaw of herself, and tries to work towards changing it, wanting to become a diplomat and not a soldier.
As implied, Xavin is a very protective person, who will go out of her way to protect the people she cares for, especially if that person is Karolina. Molly was essentially the next person who gained Xavin’s protection, aided by the fact that Molly was also the first person to be upfront with Xavin, and make an attempt to form a relationship. But it also seems like Klara would have also gotten this protectiveness, as Xavin groups her with Molly as a hatchingling, and thus Xavin would feel that they both need that protection due to their ages. But Karolina is definitely the one who cops it the most, with Xavin risking her very life to protect Karolina from the Majesdanians and the trial they wish to put her on. The likelihood of Karolina returning to Earth safe and sound is too uncertain for Xavin to risk it, and thus it’s clear in her mind that she will take Karolina’s place and face her battles for her.
She’s also very loyal. Loyal to Karolina, to the point of following her to a planet she doesn’t really know, to trying to fit in with her friends, to rejecting her very own people to save Earth and Karolina. She’s also loyal to Teddy, who she knows is supposed to save the Skrull race from destroying itself in its battle against the Kree. And so the idea of others not being loyal in return is foreign to her, often to the point that it actually insults her. But at the same time, she also finds her loyalties change through the series, to the point it becomes more important to her that she helps protect and save Karolina, the Runaways and Earth than to dutifully serve the Skrull Empire, and she finds herself rejecting orders to do so.
And she’s adaptable. She changes her physical gender without hesitation, to please Karolina. She tries her best to fit in with the Runaways, to fit in with Earth. It takes time, but Xavin learns more about Earth culture so that she properly adjusts and starts to become more human. It’s one of her greatest qualities, that she adjusts to change so readily and with apparent ease, but it’s a quality that should come naturally to a shape shifter. And yet sometimes she takes it too far. Shape shifting into Nico in an attempt to please Karolina, to make her more comfortable. Xavin changes, but she changes to fit in with others, to make them more comfortable with her, to the point she sometimes forgets who it is she really is.
Finally there’s Xavin’s gender. Appearing originally as a male, she shifts into a female when Karolina confesses she’s a lesbian. And while she says it’s just like changing her hair colour to a skrull it’s clear she struggles with it, never staying completely in a female form when the return to Earth. She claims it’s just her nature, but she then says she doesn’t know who she is, suggesting that she is struggling with her gender identity, amongst other things. But at the same time she seems to grow, taking on a male form to show aggression and power, or to adapt to a situation to make it favour her more so, like becoming a white male when being an African American and a woman would limit what society would be accepting of her doing. And it’s clear by the time they go back in time that she’s begun to identify as a woman, as she thinks of that as her natural form. And upon returning to Malibu, she has progressed to the point that she has a female Skrull form, implying she feels more comfortable as a woman. Still, she won’t raise a fuss if someone uses male pronouns, because she still does take a male form at times, and it isn’t as big a deal to her as it would be to a genderqueer or trans* human.
Overall Xavin is a mix of complication, and like any teenager, she’s still growing into herself and discovering who she is.
Abilities: As a Skrull Xavin has the innate ability to shape shift at will, able to change race, size and gender as well as other minuscule details about her appearance. However, maintaining a form requires concentration, and should she forget she can lapse back into what she is thinking of as her true form, as seen when she slips from the guise of a white male into her African American female form during an argument with Karolina.
This ability to shape shift also makes her harder to kill, at least by bullets, as demonstrated when Geoffrey Wilder shot her vol 2, chp: 17-18 and she simply moved her organs out of the way. She also appears to have an advanced form of healing, as she once had her neck snapped and recovered quickly despite apparently being killed by the action. She was however out for a reasonable amount of time as she healed.
As well as shapeshifting, Xavin was in training to become a Super Skrull, which means she has the powers associated with the Fantastic Four, ie: Invisibility and creating psionic forcefields like the Invisible Woman, super human strength and superhuman durability as well as taking on a rock like appearance like the Thing, pyrokinesis and flight like the Human Torch and plasticity and elongation like Mr Fantastic. However as she is in training, Xavin is still only able to manage to use one power at a time, which is both a pro and a con depending on the view. As a pro she is stronger with each power individually, but as a con most super Skrulls will use powers combined. It also possible to force her to lose control of her powers, if she is in Skrull form, by creating a high pitched noise, something her larger than a human's ears cannot handle and causes her pain. And then sometimes her powers just plain fail her, like her plasticity and elongation did in vol 2, chp: 25 where she over stretched.
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As implied, Xavin is a very protective person, who will go out of her way to protect the people she cares for, especially if that person is Karolina. Molly was essentially the next person who gained Xavin’s protection, aided by the fact that Molly was also the first person to be upfront with Xavin, and make an attempt to form a relationship. But it also seems like Klara would have also gotten this protectiveness, as Xavin groups her with Molly as a hatchingling, and thus Xavin would feel that they both need that protection due to their ages. But Karolina is definitely the one who cops it the most, with Xavin risking her very life to protect Karolina from the Majesdanians and the trial they wish to put her on. The likelihood of Karolina returning to Earth safe and sound is too uncertain for Xavin to risk it, and thus it’s clear in her mind that she will take Karolina’s place and face her battles for her.
She’s also very loyal. Loyal to Karolina, to the point of following her to a planet she doesn’t really know, to trying to fit in with her friends, to rejecting her very own people to save Earth and Karolina. She’s also loyal to Teddy, who she knows is supposed to save the Skrull race from destroying itself in its battle against the Kree. And so the idea of others not being loyal in return is foreign to her, often to the point that it actually insults her. But at the same time, she also finds her loyalties change through the series, to the point it becomes more important to her that she helps protect and save Karolina, the Runaways and Earth than to dutifully serve the Skrull Empire, and she finds herself rejecting orders to do so.
And she’s adaptable. She changes her physical gender without hesitation, to please Karolina. She tries her best to fit in with the Runaways, to fit in with Earth. It takes time, but Xavin learns more about Earth culture so that she properly adjusts and starts to become more human. It’s one of her greatest qualities, that she adjusts to change so readily and with apparent ease, but it’s a quality that should come naturally to a shape shifter. And yet sometimes she takes it too far. Shape shifting into Nico in an attempt to please Karolina, to make her more comfortable. Xavin changes, but she changes to fit in with others, to make them more comfortable with her, to the point she sometimes forgets who it is she really is.
Finally there’s Xavin’s gender. Appearing originally as a male, she shifts into a female when Karolina confesses she’s a lesbian. And while she says it’s just like changing her hair colour to a skrull it’s clear she struggles with it, never staying completely in a female form when the return to Earth. She claims it’s just her nature, but she then says she doesn’t know who she is, suggesting that she is struggling with her gender identity, amongst other things. But at the same time she seems to grow, taking on a male form to show aggression and power, or to adapt to a situation to make it favour her more so, like becoming a white male when being an African American and a woman would limit what society would be accepting of her doing. And it’s clear by the time they go back in time that she’s begun to identify as a woman, as she thinks of that as her natural form. And upon returning to Malibu, she has progressed to the point that she has a female Skrull form, implying she feels more comfortable as a woman. Still, she won’t raise a fuss if someone uses male pronouns, because she still does take a male form at times, and it isn’t as big a deal to her as it would be to a genderqueer or trans* human.
Overall Xavin is a mix of complication, and like any teenager, she’s still growing into herself and discovering who she is.
Abilities: As a Skrull Xavin has the innate ability to shape shift at will, able to change race, size and gender as well as other minuscule details about her appearance. However, maintaining a form requires concentration, and should she forget she can lapse back into what she is thinking of as her true form, as seen when she slips from the guise of a white male into her African American female form during an argument with Karolina.
This ability to shape shift also makes her harder to kill, at least by bullets, as demonstrated when Geoffrey Wilder shot her vol 2, chp: 17-18 and she simply moved her organs out of the way. She also appears to have an advanced form of healing, as she once had her neck snapped and recovered quickly despite apparently being killed by the action. She was however out for a reasonable amount of time as she healed.
As well as shapeshifting, Xavin was in training to become a Super Skrull, which means she has the powers associated with the Fantastic Four, ie: Invisibility and creating psionic forcefields like the Invisible Woman, super human strength and superhuman durability as well as taking on a rock like appearance like the Thing, pyrokinesis and flight like the Human Torch and plasticity and elongation like Mr Fantastic. However as she is in training, Xavin is still only able to manage to use one power at a time, which is both a pro and a con depending on the view. As a pro she is stronger with each power individually, but as a con most super Skrulls will use powers combined. It also possible to force her to lose control of her powers, if she is in Skrull form, by creating a high pitched noise, something her larger than a human's ears cannot handle and causes her pain. And then sometimes her powers just plain fail her, like her plasticity and elongation did in vol 2, chp: 25 where she over stretched.
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