Marvel Comics Character Profile - Magma
Name Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla, Alison Crestmere Magma New Mutants
Nationality Nova Roman
Powers Mutant. She can Generate blasts of heat and flame hot enough to melt rock, in her Magma form she is imperious the the heat.
Affiliations New Mutants, Hellions
1st App. New Mutants #8
History- Amara was born in the timetrapped civilisation of Nova Roma, a hidden offshoot of ancient Rome in located in south America ruled by the immortal mutant Selene in the guise of the Black Priestess. She was the daughter of Senator Lucius Antonius Aquilla, an opponent of the Black Priestess, who sent his daughter to live with the native tribes in the jungle to protect her. She remained in the jungle until an encounter with the New Mutants were they captured by Nova Roman soldiers and held prisoners by Selene. Amara was to be sacrificed by Selene in order for her to absorb the young mutant's life-force but as the New Mutants battled to save Amara Selene cast her into a pit of burning magma. But instead of consuming her the fires caused her mutant power to appear and with the help of her new friends Selene was defeated. Amara was ordered by her father to return to America with the New Mutants to learn more of the outside world. She left to join the Massachusetts Academy's Hellions when she fell for the charms of the the mutant Empath. It was later revealed that Nova Roma was a construct of Selene's and the population was humans kidnapped by her and mind altered to believe in their Roman Lives. Amara changed her name to Alison Crestmere and is a mutant without a past.