Mike Maihack

Mystique

Added 2025-09-05 17:31:08 +0000 UTC

Happy Friday! Keeping with the X-theme this month, here's some new art of Mystique to end the work week on.

For years I've had this story in my head of a teenaged Kitty Pryde (code name: Shadowcat) working as a spy with an equally teenaged, although slightly psychotic, version of Raven as the primary antagonist. Thought I'd finally get one of them out of my system. Maybe I'll find time to get to Kitty later on this month.

Not a fan of guns, and that extends to drawing them, but feel like it would have been a mystique (😎) not to give Raven a couple of them here. She just seems odd without them. Not the first time I've drawn them and likely won't be the last. But I'll probably appropriate them mostly to villains and the more criminally inclined. Feel free to come up with your own story of that gigantic skull she's sitting on. I just thought It made a nice visual.

And on that note, I wish everyone a wonderful, non-villainous weekend!

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