White Queen

{{Marvel Character| Marvel: In the Beginning...
 * Image=[{Image:EmmaFrost.jpg|300px]]
 * Name=Emma Frost
 * Codename=White Queen
 * Species=Mutant
 * Age=
 * Affiliation=Frost Enterprises, Hellfire Club, Inner Circle
 * Powers=
 * Telepathy
 * Precision Teleapthy
 * Mind Control
 * Mind Reading
 * Mind Swapping
 * Hallucinations
 * Sedation
 * Memory Alteration


 * Psychic Shield
 * Astral Projection
 * Psychic Bolt
 * Psychic Surgery
 * Psychic Hopping
 * }}

Frost Enterprises is owned and operated by Emma Frost. She is the founder, the CEO and the lead engineer for most of their works. She takes a first hand approach to almost everything that comes out of her company, and manages somehow to avoid most paparazzi when she does travel. She is a legal citizen of the United States who is an official resident of Massachusetts where she also is headmistress to a highly selective private Academy. This woman must never sleep.

Background
At the age of only three years old Emma Frost was already the benefactor of the Frost Empire in the eyes of her father Winston Frost. And an empire it was, Winston was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, they had seven homes each of which were mansions, and all of them one hundred percent paid off. The family fortune meant nothing but the best for his children, even if they were spoiled, undeserving little brats? all except his Emma.

Emma was put into a private tutoring session before she was old enough to start school, and then nothing but the best private schools was she allowed to go to, and her marks would come back perfect every single year. Year after year, as her older sister started to falter in schooling, pulling away from being anything more worthwhile than a model, as her older brother grew more and more distant from anyone in the family but Emma as he wanted to do 'good' with the Frost name, Emma grew closer and closer to Winston. He would show her how to handle business deals, he would let her do almost anything she wanted which was always to study more, get her work done, and learn about business.

As puberty started to set in Emma resisted any of the normal desires and distractions that developing biology brought along and continue to persevere in school. During this time, however, she started to become plagued by migraines the likes of which she could not even begin to comprehend, and since her family was not much for talking and only doing as Winston wanted, she never told anyone? at least not until her grades started to slip.

Her brother Christian was a much better outlet for her, and to him she revealed her secret of headaches. He consistently kept telling her that she should tell her father but she never did, keeping this to herself and just trying to do better in school. Instead, she continued her streak of being a B+ student, which was not good enough for Winston.

Failure after failure is all Winston saw in his family and began to become more and more verbally abusive, so much so that even after Emma's grades turned around to being perfect, she was still scolded as, "That's what a Frost should get." It didn't matter to Emma that she was using her blooming telepathic abilities to cheat on tests and essays, she only wanted to maintain her grades and through the use of her powers she was able to do so.

The shift of her role from a B student, which wasn't so acceptable in the elite cliques at private school, to becoming a more attractive young teenager and an A student caught the attention of one of her teachers, Ian. He was amazingly smart, kind, and sought to help Emma grow in her intelligence by tutoring her in everything including his favorite subject, art. The relationship grew to where Emma was Ian's favorite student, and Emma started developing a crush on her teacher. Where ever he would go, she would want to follow, and when he suggested she become a teacher, it became her goal, when he joined the tutoring group for the school Emma joined too and when Ian was going to be a chaperone at the prom, Emma just had to go and dressed up for him.

In all this time, Emma's telepathic abilities were growing stronger and she didn't know what they were, she could just sense answers to questions, know when people were lying, and was even picking up on the inappropriate thoughts her teacher Ian was having for her despite her much too young age at the time. Winston began to realize that his daughter was not attempting to please him anymore, that someone else had taken that position from him, so he conspired to set the stage so he could ruin Ian's career and have him kicked out of the school. His plan worked better than he thought when he was able to snap a photo of Emma kissing Ian, even though Ian was thinking about how nice that would be he was still angry with her and wasn't the one who initiated it at all. Still, it was enough for the school to get rid of him, starting Emma's vengeful spirit.

Less than a year later, during a family trip, Emma purposefully gained photos of her father with another woman, and attempted to use those to make her mother want to leave him. Winston's grip on the family was too strong, so much so that even after he ruined Christian's life to the point of him attempting suicide, Christian still stayed, Emma stayed, and Adrienne, her model sister, stayed. Winston recognized the may attempts Emma had to try and thwart him, and embarrass him, and though none of them had ever been successful that ambition deep inside of her made him name her as his benefactor despite all of the pain and anguish he had put her through. Emma, in a surprise move, refused and ran away.

While away she found she couldn't really manage on her own very well, not having any money or means to have a job since she knew nothing of the real working world. Eventually she met a friend, who helped her and gave her a place to stay, but had problems of his own. This proved beneficial to her, as they decided to use Emma's abilities to win at casino games and make the money her new friend owed to a small time gangster. After a failed second attempt at cheating at gambling, Emma and her new found friend became mixed up in an attempt to ransom Emma to her father for loads of cash.

This really showed off how much Winston had flipped flopped since Emma's early childhood as he wasn't planning on paying even a paltry 150k. Due to Adrienne's own conniving to get a hot story in the news, the faux kidnapping of Emma became big news and something that Winston couldn't ignore anymore causing him great frustration. The money was paid, but Emma used her abilities to both get the gangsters arrested, her friend was killed during the kidnapping when it turned violent and real, and Emma masked her appearance and taking of the 150k that had been put into a locker. Due to her abilities she was able to get past the police who were watching for the kidnappers to appear, and she decided to go away with the money and enter college with it.

During her early days in college she continued to use her telepathic abilities to circumvent the system, making it so she could get high marks very easily. When others were taking twelve units as a full time student she was taking twenty four, and summer school as well as her own independent studies off on the side which allowed her to graduate with multiple degrees. Her abilities of mind reading were coming along quite nice but other abilities were only slowly developing, but along came another Telepath, Astrid.

For a while Astrid and Emma were never apart from one another, constantly in telepathic conversation. Astrid showed Emma how to use her abilities, focus her attention and prevent the noise of other thoughts so she could learn to delve deeper than just the surface. She taught her how to do much in the way of controlling others, but left out bits about defense which proved detrimental to her in a fight between Astrid and Emma near the end of her first quarter of college.

Due to particular events she had become re-acquainted with Ian at this new college, got back into a relationship with him and when everything went down with Astrid she had him to tell her secret. She told him how Astrid had come along and played the friend, but all the while was making sure Emma's roommate and Emma got into fights so Astrid could replace her, told her how Astrid had made a football player attempt to sexually assault Emma to prevent that relationship from going anywhere, and how Astrid even made it so Ian was going up for charges of abusing his power to have sex with students and then likely he would have been fired. Emma managed to, at the last moment, escape Astrid's telepathic lock by delving her mind and learning how she built psychic shields. Ian took in all this information and decided he could no longer be with Emma because of her mutant status, she was a freak to him and more than that, she could read minds and control people, and and and? and Emma grew bitter.

The years that followed made her grow colder and more distant from the rest of the human race. She graduated university after only three years with a handful of degrees, most that she deserved some that she she didn't. She graduated with greater understanding of her abilities and the desire to find out more, and especially more ways to use them. At the sweet old age of 21 she starts to play the stock market with her left over money, and with information she was able to gleam from the rich and the powerful she made it big? very very big and became the major stock holder in a large transportation corporation with which she renamed Frost Enterprises and subsequently added government and military contracts to her list for electronic devices she had devised.

Still unknown as a mutant, Emma Frost found out about an exclusive club constantly filled with the social elite, and what could be a better place to get information and make contacts for her own business than this Hellfire Club? When auditions for the private club were held to find dancers, Emma telepathed her way into the interview and then her already well developed dance skills mixed with her telepathy to make it seem like she were better than she was aided her in getting employment. It helped that with the money she had earned she had perfected the sexualness of her own body through plastic surgery and gave off this cold dominatrix type feel which was the exact look Hellfire was after.

It took almost no time for Emma to find her way into good graces with the then only Bishop Sebastian Shaw, who helped to secure her a place within the Inner Circle. For years she has been the White Queen of Hellfire Club, but it wasn't until she discovered the conspiracy against mutants of the old White King that Sebastian Shaw and others within the Inner Circle found out that she was a mutant herself.

The organization has changed, with Sebastian Shaw as the Black King, Emma as the White Queen, both rich beyond the belief of most people and with great amount of sway in those with political power but not having it themselves. They both have the same goal, and while Emma is willing to sit in the background allowing Shaw to believe her weaker than him, he doesn't realize she's using him as a pawn to be the figure head, the person who gets hit first when everything goes down. She has yet to realize he has his own things up his sleeves as he is trained to identify telepathic scans, and so they two conspire together as well as against one another, something both of them deep down realize but respect in each other and it allows them to trust one another in their mutual goal to have the Hellfire Club stand at the top of the world.

In the past few years, Emma Frost bought a private school in Massachusetts and had it renovated then wiped the minds of all who participated. Below ground there is a secret facility used to train mutants that she finds at her school, and outside that she brings into her tutoring. These mutants are called the Hellions, and she is seeking right now to grow their ranks, and she keeps them separate from the Hellfire Club for right now as they will be her means to enter the world bigger than life, or so it is her goal. She still serves as headmistress of the school, CEO of her company, head engineer for electronic devices, as well as serving as the White Queen of the Hellfire Clubs Inner Circle, as well as still participating at the Hellfire Club's social gatherings for the elite amongst the elite to whom the Hellfire Club is nothing more than a highly risque social club for the rich and powerful. Something they all seem to enjoy.

Personality

 * The Whole World In Her Hands: There are few things more godlike than taking over the minds of other people, knowing inner most secrets, being able to unleash nightmares and otherwise control the masses as if they were just puppets. Emma Frost has taken this to the uttermost extreme, and looks at the world as if it is already hers but it just doesn't realize it yet. She acts as those the morals and ethics of normal folks, of governments and countries, have no bearing on her and thus she is able to do anything and proclaim it good. Who would know better than Emma Frost? No one, that's who.
 * Self Centered: The Earth revolves around the sun but the universe revolves around Miss Frost. At a party she introduces herself to everyone who's anyone, makes sure to talk loudly at her own private booth so others are constantly aware that she is present, and if she is not the prettiest she punishes those who think otherwise. And there's no lying to a Telepath. Emma Frost has spent large sums of money at regular intervals to make sure that her entire body is modified and adjusted to be her ideal perfection of a woman, which is often times influenced by what she knows rich men and women find attractive. When it comes to her own telepathy powers she is willing to use them on anyone including the innocent and weak willed, in fact sometimes especially. This is a rule she's set for herself, and the rest of the world be damned with their ethics.
 * Snobby: Experimental cars, massive mansions, private jets, the finest clothes, rare jewelry and unique furnishings are all things that Emma Frost expects in any place she is living in or expected to step foot inside of, and so she is often disappointed with the more mundane things people possess. Why get it if it is something other people have? If you invite Emma over for dinner she will expect that you found a previously undiscovered prodigy for a cook, brought out the fine china that was handcrafted by people who have been making such things for thousands of years, and the conversation will be not only fun but life transformative? she will be disappointed with your evening out, with how you talked, and no matter what you do you will find it hard to impress her because of her ludicrously high expectations.
 * Fair: Oddly enough, Emma Frost is something of a fair person. With her Knights she hires only the finest mercenaries, those who have proven themselves to be very very good, and she pays them accordingly, so well in fact none have ever betrayed her. Though failure, any failure, to do as whatever task is assigned and it means death. Never, however, has she sent her Knights into an assignment without being perfectly equipped for the job, well researched on the tactics of the opponent, and with the proper timing selected. With this in mind she demands success for failure means you were not the level of mercenary you claimed and the initial testing must have failed to filter you out? now an explosive in your armor will do just that. If you make a deal with Emma, she will fulfill her half and if you do not fulfill yours, well let's just say you don't want to do that.
 * Honest: Despite many other character flaws, Emma Frost is one of the most honest people you will ever meet. In many ways she flaunts her arrogance and superiority beliefs, and won't back down when someone asks her a question. Of course she's the head of a multi-billion dollar company, of course she's had plastic surgery, of course she is willing to sue you for scuffing up her floors and subsequently ruining your family's business. She'll admit to it all and gloat about it should you give her the chance, but it is all the truth.
 * Vindictive: If you manage to ever hurt Emma Frost with anything she will get you back tenfold. If you steal her pen she will take your house. If you actually manage to hurt her somehow she will make you her slave for the next few years, convince you that you love her, and once you have no ability to revert she'll then send you on your way unable to see her ever again but always wanting. She understands defending oneself, but those people who go after her first irk her, after all she didn't think to go after them first. That really pisses her off and be sure she will find a way to make your life a living hell for the simplest of slights.
 * Persistent: The nice way of saying Stubborn. Ever since she was young, no matter what it was that she wanted, she would strive to get without any concern as to who or what might prevent her from getting that which she desired. Her father was always attempting to get her to do what he wanted, to take over the business, but she always wanted something else and would fight against him. When he would win the fights, which was almost all the time, it didn't dissuade Emma from attempting again or coming at it in a new way, and if that way failed another, and then another and so on. Only one thing can satiate this woman's desire for something, and that is getting it. She will stop at nothing less.
 * Strategist: Above all other things, Emma's a thinker. She lives in her mind as well as the mind of others, and she doesn't say or do anything unless it was thought out thoroughly beforehand. Her plans aren't formed till she has full information to complete them, she doesn't go on gut instinct or intuition. She is a reader of the ancient world, and it was the belief to not debate anything that you could research. Well, for a Telepath who is also an expert at many scientific fields, there is little in this world that she cannot comprehend with enough time. As such, she might spend weeks deciding where to meet someone, when to meet them, how the meeting will happen and what will work out in her favor, and if all those things work out favorably for her she goes, if they do not, she abandons that plan and forms a new one. It is not unusual for her to spend hours in her own mindscape, away from the world, and allowing herself to interact at the speed of thought with herself and many other minds in the nearby vicinity, having debates they will never remember having, just to decide on one thing.
 * Rational: Logic, cold-hearted logic, leads most of Emma's decision making capabilities. She doesn't leave room for just 'caring' for someone to be a good answer, or just wanting this or that. She's seen too many minds, known too many liars, and thus reasonably assumes that every action has some sort of rational explanation, and for others that might reside deep in their subconscious so she can pull it from there to know what's going on. For herself, however, she can't delve into her subconscious so she makes an active effort that all of her actions make for logical progressions from thoughts and desires which must also have logical backing. Indeed, if she finds herself making a decision arbitrarily or liking something for no selfish benefit, she gets rid of it.