I tell myself that if I do it... If I do take lives in the course of doing what's right... Then at least it means other people won't have to. Like I'm... Like I'm saving innocent souls. But that's a lie. That's lazy guilt-dodging bollocks. The truth is this: I rejoined X-Force because I couldn't bear to stay away. My name is Elizabeth Braddock, and I'm an addict. - Psylocke
PSYLOCKE (BETSY BRADDOCK)
PL11
OPL: 11; SPL: 5; DPL: 10; FWPL: 10; HP: 1
Real Name: Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock
Age: 25
Height: 5-11
Weight: 155
Eyes: Violet
Hair: Purple
Skin: Olive
Race: Mutant Otherworlder Hybrid
Identity: Secret
Alignment: Hero
Status: Active
Occupation: Adventurer
Base of Operations: Mobile
Team Affiliations: X-Men; X-Force
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 2, STAMINA 3, AGILITY 5, DEXTERITY 4, FIGHTING 12 [14], INTELLECT 2, AWARENESS 4, PRESENCE 2
SKILLS: Acrobatics 8 (+13) [Agile Feint], Athletics 8 (+10), Deception (+2), Insight 9 (+13), Intimidation (+2), Perception 7 (+11), Persuasion 5 (+7), Ranged Combat [Throwing] 6 (+10), Sleight of Hand 4 (+8), Stealth 10 (+15) [Hide in Plain Sight], Vehicles 3 (+7)
ADVANTAGES: Agile Feint, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll (2), Equipment (2), Hide in Plain Sight, Improved Initiative (1), Languages (2) (Japanese, French, 3 others, Base: English), Move-by Action, Power Attack (3) (Katana, Psychic Crossbow, Psychic Katana), Ranged Attack (2), Takedown (1), Trance, Uncanny Dodge
POWERS:
Mind Shield: Enhanced Will 4 (Flaw: Limited to Mental Effects); 2 pts
Psionic Combat: Enhanced Advantages 7 (Improved Initiative, Power Attack 3, Ranged Attack 2, Uncanny Dodge; Flaw: Limited to opponents where surface thoughts have been read), Enhanced Dodge 2 (Flaw: Limited to opponents where surface thoughts have been read), Enhanced Fighting 2 (Flaw: Limited to opponents where surface thoughts have been read); 10 pts
Psychic Senses: Senses 3 (Danger Sense [Mental, Extended], Telepathic Awareness); 3 pts
Aura Reading: Senses 4 (Detect Emotional and Physical State [Visual, Mental], Ranged); 4 pts
Psionic Powers: 41 pt Dynamic Array; 57 pts
Mind Control: Perception Ranged Cumulative Affliction 10 (Resisted/Overcome by Will; 1st: Dazed, 2nd: Compelled, 3rd: Controlled, Extras: Dynamic, Subtle); 41 pts
Telepathy: Mind Reading 11 (Extra: Cumulative, Dynamic, Subtle); 2 pts
Mental Communication: Communication 4 (Mental, Worldwide; Extra: Area, Dynamic, Selective); 2 pts
Psychic Katana: Psychic Damage 10 (Extra: Alternate Resistance [Will], Dynamic, Flaw: Inaccurate); 2 pts
Psychic Crossbow: Ranged Psychic Damage 8 (Extra: Accurate 3, Alternate Resistance [Will], Dynamic); 2 pts
Mental Invisibility: Concealment 10 (All Senses; Flaw: Limited to Minds, Resistible [Will, DC20]); 2 pts
Telekinesis: Move Object 10 (Extra: Accurate 2, Dynamic, Subtle); 2 pts
Mental Detection: Senses 5 (Detect Minds [Mental], Accurate, Acute, Ranged, Extra: Dynamic, Subtle); 2 pts
Astral Projection: Remote Sensing 10 (4 miles; Visual, Auditory, Aural, Mental; Extra: Dynamic, Subtle, Flaw: Side Effect [Physical Body is defenseless and immobile]); 2 pts
EQUIPMENT:
(10 pts)
Katana: Slashing Strength-Based Damage 3, Dangerous; 4 pts
Shuriken: Ranged Multiattack Piercing Damage 1; 3 pts
OFFENSE:
Initiative +9
Close Attack +12 (+14 with Psychic Combat) [Unarmed +2; Katanas +5, Critical 19-20]
Psychic Katana +10 [Psychic Katana +10, Critical 19-20]
Ranged Attack +4 (+6 with Psychic Combat)
Throwing +10 (+12 with Psychic Combat) [Shuriken +1, Multiattack]
Telekinesis +8 (+10 with Psychic Combat) [Move Object +10]
Psychic Crossbow +10 (+12 with Psychic Combat) [Psychic Crossbow +8]
Special Attack [Mind Control Affliction +10, Perception; Mental Blast +10, Perception]
DEFENSES:
Dodge +11 (+13 with Psionic Combat) [DC21/23] Parry +12 (+14 with Psionic Combat) [DC22/24]
Toughness +5 (+3 without Defensive Roll), Fortitude +6, Will +9 (+13 against Mental Effects)
COMPLICATIONS:
Phobia: She has a strong fear of dying again.
Prejudice: Mutant.
Relationships: Her brothers, Jamie Braddock (coo-coo), and Brian (Captain Britain), and she and Archangel have had a long on-and-off relationship.
Responsibility: Xavier's Dream.
Abilities 68 + Skills 30 (60 ranks) + Advantages 12 + Powers 76 + Defenses 14 = 200 / 200
Build Comments: Betsy is almost like The Hawkman of the X-Verse. Convoluted backstory, constantly changing powers and now she’s Captain Britain to solve the slightly problematic issue of her having Kwannon's body. She can't catch a break.
As of late, Betsy has been raised to an “omega level telepath” thanks to some help from Jean Grey and she’s been using a Psychic Crossbow in addition to her Psychic Katana which used to be her Psychic Dagger. And for a long time she didn’t have telekinesis and then she had it, then it went away, and now it’s back at “omega levels”. It’s too confusing. I moved her Mind Reading up to 11 to raise her offensive PL to 11 but I didn’t put her in Emma’s, Charles’ or Jean’s level overall telepathically. I like her as a good telepath that is mainly a kick ass ninja, so I amped her close combat to close to PL10 with her Psychic Combat and PL9 without. That puts her on par with most of main A/B List martial artists so even without her telepathy (which is due to go away again any time now, you inconsistent @#%#% X-writing bastards) she can be a key player on any X-Team.
Secret Origins: Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock was born in England and was raised in the small town of Maldon, Essex. Betsy was Sir James Braddock's second child and she, her twin brother Brian, and elder brother Jamie had a very privileged life. By the time their parents died, Betsy had become a charter pilot. After she and Jamie were taken hostage by the Red Skull's agents and freed by Captain America and Captain Britain, Betsy learned the latter was her brother Brian. At this time Betsy began to develop precognitive powers. She dyed her hair purple and took up modeling. At the age of sixteen, her psychic powers fully manifested, which grew to include telepathy.
The Story so Far: Agent Matthew recruited Betsy into S.T.R.I.K.E.'s Psi Division, and she became fellow psi Tom Lennox's lover. As she had inherited membership to the Hellfire Club from her father, Betsy was sent to infiltrate it, but was warned off by Tessa for her own protection. She also met future boyfriend Warren Worthington for the first time during one of the Hellfire Club parties.
After losing her eyes in savage beating by Slaymaster, Betsy went to Switzerland to recuperate.
Betsy was kidnapped from the Alps by Mojo, brainwashed, given cybernetic eyes, and, as "Psylocke," became the star of his new show "Wildways." Brian and the New Mutants rescued her, after which Betsy moved to the X-Men's mansion to recover. When the Marauders attacked the Morlocks, the X-Mansion was used as a temporary infirmary for injured survivors of the massacre. Knowing that the X-Men were away in New York, the Marauder Sabretooth invaded the mansion. Psylocke used herself as a bait to lead him away from the injured until the X-Men arrived to help her. While Sabretooth and Wolverine fought, Psylocke used her telepathy to gather information about the Marauders and their leader, Mr. Sinister, from Sabretooth's mind. Wolverine, though initially reluctant to involve outsiders in the X-Men's affairs, was impressed by her bravery and nominated her to join the team.
As an X-Man she had many adventures and was given the Siege Perilous, which she could use if they ever wanted to start new lives. As they were about to depart the Savage Land after battling the Savage Land Mutates, Betsy had a precognitive flash of the Reavers killing the team. To prevent this, she sent them through the Siege Perilous.
Betsy reappeared amnesiac on an island near China, where the Hand, a ninja clan, found her. Matsu'o Tsurayaba, their leader, saw a chance to save his brain-dead lover, Kwannon. Spiral informed Matsu'o that Psylocke's telepathy could restore Kwannon, and Matsu'o accepted. Unknown to Matsu'o, however, Spiral actually placed the two women's minds into each other's bodies. She also merged their genetic structures, leaving both women with physical and mental traits of the other, and with each possessing half of Psylocke's telepathic power. With some physical and mental conditioning, Psylocke—inhabiting Kwannon's body—became the Hand's prime assassin, taking the name Lady Mandarin. She gained highly remarkable fighting skills and learned to focus her telepathic power into a "psychic knife." Lady Mandarin's first mission pitted her against Wolverine. Betsy's psychic knife attack revealed Wolverine's memories of who she used to be and allowed her to break free from the Hand's conditioning.
Psylocke rejected her role as Lady Mandarin and escaped with Wolverine and Jubilee, eventually going with them to the island nation of Genosha, where the New Mutants had been kidnapped along with the X-Men's leader, Storm, by Cameron Hodge. Following Hodge's defeat, the X-Men reunited and returned to New York. Psylocke then joined the Blue Team led by Cyclops, for whom she displayed an obvious attraction. When Phoenix found out, the two women fought, but were interrupted by the arrival of Kwannon, now calling herself Revanche, in Betsy's former body, claiming to be the real Psylocke. Unable to discern which was truly Betsy, both stayed with the X-Men, maintaining an uneasy coexistence. Learning she had the Legacy Virus, Revanche had Matsu'o kill her, restoring Psylocke's full personality and telepathic potential.
Subsequently she aided Storm against the Shadow King, who tricked Psylocke into initiating a psychic shockwave that disabled all other telepaths, leaving him unchallenged on the astral plane. Her own astral form was destroyed, but her exposure to the Crimson Dawn gave her a new shadow form with temporarily enhanced powers, which she used to trap the Shadow King's core. To keep him trapped she was forced to constantly focus her telepathy on him, effectively rendering herself powerless.
Jean Grey's attempt to help Betsy deal with the Shadow King somehow swapped their powers, leaving Betsy telekinetic. In Valencia, Psylocke died in combat with the man known as Vargas while protecting Rogue and Beast, who were badly beaten by the villain. Brian Braddock and Meggan collected Psylocke's body from Spain. She was buried at the Braddock family estate and a memorial to her was erected at the X-Mansion by Beast.
One year after her death, Betsy awoke where she had died, unaware of how she had survived, and was soon reunited with the X-Men, helping them against the Saurian Hauk'ka, Mojo and Spiral. Jamie started to covertly observe his resurrected sister, allowing her to catch occasional glimpses of him. Betsy was reunited with Brian during the Scarlet Witch's "House of M" reality storm; when the timeline was set right, the memories of their encounter took on a dreamlike state, prompting Betsy and several of the X-Men to visit London to check on Brian's status.
Back in the USA, Betsy and the X-Men failed to stop Shi'ar Death Commandos from slaughtering the Grey family, targeted for death because of their relationship to Phoenix, but helped defeat them before they could kill Rachel Grey. With the First Fallen's servants, the Foursaken, about to make their move, Jamie revealed his part in Betsy's resurrection to the X-Men: sensing the approaching threat of the cosmically powerful First Fallen (a harbringer of frozen, eternal "perfection") and learning of Betsy's demise, an annoyed Jamie resurrected her, reaching back through time to stop her spirit passing into the afterlife. Intending her to be a weapon to use against the First Fallen, Jamie tightened up the "quantum strings" of Betsy's body, rendering her mostly immune to external manipulation, enhancing her telekinetic powers, and leaving her invisible to the First Fallen's senses. Jamie was abducted by the Foursaken before he could fully inform them of the imminent threat; trying to rescue him, the X-Men were easily captured, except Betsy, who found herself invisible to the Foursaken's senses. Disrupting their attempt to give the First Fallen full access to Earth, Betsy and the X-Men were pulled into his realm, the Singing City, where Betsy's immunity to his mental control allowed her to free the City's residents, including the Foursaken, from his dominance. As a wrathful First Fallen turned on them, Jamie sent the X-Men home while he held the entity back, apparently sacrificing himself.
Somehow, Psylocke was kidnapped by Madelyne Pryor's Sisterhood while traveling between parallel worlds. They also stole Betsy's original body, in which Kwannon had died, at a graveyard. A ritual of sorts with both bodies was performed, resulting in Betsy's original body being brought back to life. The Sisterhood, now including a brainwashed Psylocke, attacked the X-Men. Dazzler was forced to use her powers on Psylocke, blowing half of Betsy's face off. Dazzler's attack shocked Betsy back to consciousness, enabling her to overcome the Red Queen's control and return to her Japanese body.
After these events Psylocke's powers changed once again; she now possesses both telepathic and telekinetic abilities, but with her psionic potential divided between them neither ability is as strong as it once was. The following days saw Betsy travel back in time alongside Beast's X-Club. Psylocke also led the X-Club in a mission to raise Asteroid M, which was at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, in order for it to serve as the X-Men's new base of operations and a haven for mutantkind, called Utopia. Soon after, Psylocke goes to Japan with Wolverine to re-inter her former body. Arriving in Japan, she is ambushed by the Hand, who destroyed her original body at the behest of Matsu'o Tsurayaba. Enraged, Psylocke tracks Matsu'o down, finding him terribly disfigured as the result of Wolverine's yearly revenge on Matsu'o for his role in the murder of Mariko Yashida. Matsu'o, now missing both hands and other body parts, desires an honorable death and wants Psylocke to grant him that honor since he cannot himself hold a blade to perform seppuku. Before Psylocke can oblige, Wolverine emerges from the shadows and says that Matsu'o's punishment is not over yet. Unwilling to walk away, Psylocke engages Wolverine in a brutal fight which ends in a truce. Wolverine then permits her to finish Matsu'o off. She does so, mercifully, using her telepathy to project illusions into Matsu'o's mind of his body restored and of Kwannon embracing him, then quickly kills him with her psi-blade.
During the Nation X storyline, Psylocke, Wolverine, and Colossus were sent down into the sewers under San Francisco to investigate the case of a missing Predator X. They encounter Fantomex, who has slain the beast. Psylocke battles Sublime's associates with the help of Fantomex and her teammates. Following the return of Cable and Hope Summers, Psylocke is selected as part of Cyclops' "Alpha roster" of X-Men sent to locate and protect the two from the forces of Bastion.
In the aftermath of The Second Coming, Psylocke, along with Deadpool, Fantomex, and Archangel, are selected by Wolverine to be a member of the new X-Force, the sole condition being that no one must learn of the team's existence. Psylocke had been seen using her telepathy to help Warren control the "Archangel" persona in his mind, which has led to the two rekindling their previous relationship. The team's first mission is to locate and kill Apocalypse, who has been reborn. With X-Force, Psylocke also faced long-time rivals such as the Reavers and the Shadow King. The latter succeeds in freeing the Archangel persona in Warren. In order to prevent Archangel's ascension into Apocalypse, X-Force travels to the Age of Apocalypse to seek a Life Seed, which could cleanse Warren. Psylocke's hesitation to kill Archangel leads to her transformation into the Horseman of Death at his hands. Jean Grey of the Age of Apocalypse manages to revert this process. Psylocke then stabs Archangel with the Life Seed, which kills Warren and creates a new being in his likeness.
After the Schism between the X-Men, while Psylocke has decided to stay on Utopia with Cyclops' team, she also secretly stays on X-Force to help whenever Wolverine requests. Cyclops also places her in charge of a new X-Men Security team, asking her to be his spy and spy-hunter. Captain Britain learns of Betsy's activities with X-Force through their bond and decides to retrieve her to Otherworld, where Jamie Braddock is revealed to be alive, and punish Fantomex for his crimes. Betsy takes up the Lady Briton mantle to rescue Fantomex and is ultimately forced to kill Jamie in order to prevent his future self from destroying the multiverse. Soon after X-Force faces a new Brotherhood of Mutants, of which the Shadow King is a member. Psylocke imprisons his psyche for good into Omega White, whose ability is to eat psychic energy.
After this last mission, X-Force disbands and Fantomex, who had been keeping a relationship with Betsy, but died at the hands of the Brotherhood, is resurrected in three different bodies for each of his brains. As a member of Cyclops' Extinction Team, Psylocke deals with the fallout from Archangel's machinations in Tabula Rasa and sides with the X-Men against the Avengers once the Phoenix Force returns to Earth to reclaim a host.
When Wolverine's body disappeared from his final resting place, Kitty Pryde assembled a group of X-Women—including Psylocke—to confront Magneto in his base of operations in Madripoor, since they determined he was a potential suspect. The mutant heroines were ambushed by a local crime ring, Viper's Femme Fatales. The psychic vampire Sapphire Styx absorbed the entirety of Betsy's soul at once, leaving her body dead. Finding herself inside Sapphire Styx's mind, Betsy fought her way back with assistance from a fragment of Wolverine's soul the villainess had absorbed years earlier. Psylocke destroyed Sapphire Styx from the inside, and used the remaining soul power left behind to recreate her original body, molecule by molecule. Psylocke was finally herself again, no longer attached to Kwannon's destiny. She then rejoined the X-Men and is now on Krakoa.
Characterization: Betsy has been through many changes over the years but maintains a positive outlook and a commitment to Xavier’s dream. However, as of late, her approach has become more aggressive and her former compunction against killing has fallen by the wayside.
Friends and Foes: She remains close to her brother Brian and still has feelings for Archangel, but with the changes he’s gone through, she is trying to sort her feelings out for him.
Poor Aparagus People. She could not help it--she got hungry. It is always good to eat your veggies! 
