Origins of the Snow Queen

'It all started with this.' thought the beautiful blond woman, holding a old book of Hans Christan Andersen's Fairy Tales. Which contained the Tale of the Snow Queen.

She continued, 'When my telepathic powers came in, an idea appeared in my mind. The merging of two elements of the tale. The Snow Queen, a personification of snowflakes being their queen like those of a queen bee and her hive. Then the broken Mirror of the Devil Troll, which reflected nothing of goodness or beauty. Only wickedness and ugliness. Those who gained a sliver in their eyes would see things the way the mirror showed, if in the heart they would feel nothing but the mirror's view of the world.

With time I created my Psionic Fragments. A Psionic Sliver allowed me to subtly influence people's thoughts and feelings. More time, added fragments, or both allowed me to increase it's size. A Psionic Splinter allowed for more thoughts and feelings being controlled, creating a longer effect and a more permanent change then the Sliver. But a Psionic Shard allows me to alter the person to my way of seeing things, a loyal agent who thinks and feels what I want them to.

Which was why I moved to permanently live in New York. The city of heroes and villains.'

Emma looks at the designs of her new persona, even as her powers were working. If one could see the psionic energies in the just right way, they would see thin fragments whirl like a snow storm in the city. Affecting people in the five boroughs.