Crystal

Crystal was once a superhero in Denmark, but the opinion of the public and her comrades turned against her after a number of death. In recent years she has been a member of ACE, specifically the RACE faction since the schism.

Description
A tall, beautiful woman of Nordic features who appears to be made entirely from glass or crystal: she is entirely translucent. Her glass-fibre hair falls past her waist. She wears no costume.

(In human form she has fair, freckled skin, blonde hair and grey eyes, and does wear clothes.)

Background
Else Andersen was a geologist who got her powers when a rock she discovered proved to be an alien crystal lifeform which attempted to eat her. For some unknown reason it was Else's mind that instead won out in the resulting crystalline lifeform.

Crystal served as a superhero in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia, but the lethal nature of her powers led to death, albeit accidental. Perhaps because her crystal form is beautiful she was popular with the public, and this maybe led to them turning on her more when things went wrong. When a villain she'd transformed into a glass statue was accidentally shattered, people had second thoughts about her. When an innocent was killed by shard of glass from her body, the popular opinion rose against her. Things went downhill from there, and being a superhero became impossible. She found herself in trouble with the law, popular opinion and her fellow heroes. Escaping, she joined ACE, with whom she felt she could still do some good, even if she didn't entirely agree with their methods.

After she joined ACE, more deaths were associated with her. It's not clear that at any point she's ever killed deliberately, but ACE often used her in a hostage taking capacity: she would hold her knife-hand to someone's throat, or even turn a hostage into a statue (very effective because it made fighting dangerous for fear of shattering the person). Unsurprisingly such tactics tended to lead to deaths when the police or heroes took chances.

Powers
Crystal's body is made of some sort of living transparent crystal. While it's quite fragile, it regenerates at an extraordinary rate. Its broken shards are very sharp, and she can attack by deliberately breaking her limbs to form blades. She has been seen throwing a finger as a missile.

She can also transform other matter into a similar material by touch. If she transforms other living things, however, they are not mobile as she is. Transformed living things can heal back, in time, but in the meantime are quite fragile.

She appears to be resistant to at least some light-based attack, which are refracted harmlessly by her body. It is possible she has a vulnerability to sonic attacks.

Personality
Crystal appears bitter about the rejection she received for the deaths she caused, and wishes she never had her powers. Her anti-alien bias appears to be connected to the origin of her powers. Despite being a member of a "villain" group, she does seem to be motivated, at least partly, by a desire to help others.

Relations
Crystal appears loyal to her comrades in RACE, though she may not agree with them wholeheartedly

History
Crystal's first known appearance in Colonial Bay was shortly after the RACE/ACHE split, in Ace at the Opera. She was also involved in the later assault on Transmat Research and the attack on Kihzra on her return to Earth-1. In the aftermath of this, Paragon and Triple Sec resolved to help her to rehabilitate; the outcome of this remains to be seen. This seemed increasingly impractical, especially in light of Devil Dog's pursuit of her, but Himinglaeva hit on the solution of her relocating to Asgard.