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Marvel Legacies - Mantis — Description
I did a massive reworking of this Guardian of the Galaxy. I read up on her history and it was a clusterf$%k of confusing elements. So I altered it for a better understood backstory.

Mantis comes from a planet light years away from Earth. Her people are the Dictyopterrans, a praying mantis like race of aliens that work closely with the Kree in the galaxy. Some experimentation has been rumored but no solid evidence has been brought forth. Mantis is a prime result of this experimentation and as a child she developed Chlorokinetic abilities and with her plants she can connect to others with Telepathic Empathy.
In what would be considered her 20s (human age would be 346) Mantis came into contact with The Celestials, the oldest living beings the universe, and they announced that they had chosen her to become the a Celestial Maddon-Nya, a being who would bring about change across the entire universe, may it be good or bad. This made her the target of everyone looking to exploit her power for their own nefarious purposes. So Mantis left her planet and went on the run.
Mantis eventually crossed paths with the Guardians who at first captured her to collect a bounty under a false crime but they later learned the truth and sought to keep her from being used by evil forces like the Skrulls or Thanos. After a lengthy space battle, it looked like Mantis perished in a ship explosion but she in reality, she escaped unnoticed in an escape pod to a nearby planet and would stay there until her Celestial Powers matured to their fullest extent and would not allow anyone to use them but her.

Years after this, when the most of the Guardians disappeared, Mantis was found by Shocket and Groot to form a new team and find out what happened to the old one.

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