Siryn
Siryn is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Theresa Maeve Rourke Cassidy was a red-haired female Mutant daughter of Sean Cassidy and his wife Maeve Rourke. During their time together, she became pregnant but did not inform Sean at the time. Unknown to anyone, Sean Cassidy was secretly an Interpol agent and a Mutant who was regularly deployed on assignment for months at a time. (X-Force v1 #31)
After her death, her daughter Theresa was left in the care of Tom Cassidy as the child's father was not present. Eventually, Sean returned to Ireland only to be shocked to find that Maeve had died and stood by her grave. Tom attempted to console his cousin and tell him that he had a daughter but an angry Sean unleashed his sonic cry on him. He lashed out on Tom as he blamed him for not looking after Maeve in the time he was away. Thus, Sean never came to realise that he had a daughter and Tom Cassidy developed an enmity with his cousin. He decided to raise the girl himself where he told her that her father had died making her believe she was an orphan. Though an act of revenge against Tom, he did genuinely care for Theresa as if she was his own daughter. As she grew older, her uncle began to engage in more illegal activities and decided to ship her to St. Elizabeth's boarding school by the time she was twelve years old. A year later, she remained angry with Tom with this resulting her trying out drinking alcohol for the first time. Her friends stopped the drinking as they hated the taste but Theresa continued as she used it to numb the painful emotions she was experiencing at the time. When she was 15 years old, she was informed by the school that Interpol had arrested her uncle Tom Cassidy for black marketing. Afterwards, she began to shut herself out from the world with her not going to his trial where he was sentenced to five years in prison and never visited him. (X-Force v1 #31)
She was eventually informed by her uncle Tom Cassidy that Sean Cassidy was her father and still alive. This saw her journey to the X-Men where her father resided and delivered him the letter from her uncle which said that Theresa was his daughter. A shocked and overjoyed Sean Cassidy then reunited with the daughter he never knew he had with Theresa being the last link he had to his dead wife Maeve Rourke Cassidy. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #148)
X-Force
Later that day, after Cannonball convinced Xavier to let him continue to lead X-Force his own way leading to the group relocating to Camp Verde. Xavier also had a talk with Theresa about her membership with X-Force. She explained that she’d felt dead inside after what the Shadow King did to them, but now that had changed and her emotions were coming alive again. (X-Force v1 #19)
Eventually, she finally decided to face her inner demons and returned to Cassidy Keep where she grew up, asking James along. In Ireland, they found the family’s lawyer badly injured by Black Tom, whose powers were spinning out of control. During the first two weeks of their stay, Theresa’s alcohol problem increased, forcing Warpath and a childhood friend of her, reporter Kelvin Doneghann, to work together with the Juggernaut to arrange a meeting with Tom. Theresa finally met her uncle over Maeve’s gravesite, where she confronted him about keeping her a secret from her father and told him to stop blaming others for his own mistakes. Realizing that she was at least partially sporting the same attitude, Siryn got a handle on her drinking. Before returning to their teammates in the United States, Terry told James that she could not return his romantic feelings and that she wanted to remain “just friends” with him. (X-Force v1 #31)
Sometime later, she met up with her father who, in the meantime, had become the headmaster of Generation X. Banshee told his daughter he wanted to have a better relationship with her as friends, and she happily accepted. (X-Force v1 #35)
Theresa was depressed, even considering suicide. She withdrew from her friends and teammates and nearly started drinking again but instead went to an AA meeting to get her act together. Afterwards, she chose to leave X-Force. She gave Warpath a letter in which she explained her decision and went to visit a distant aunt, who had invited her to her ranch in Looking Glass, California. (X-Force v1 #91)
X-Factor
Theresa’s involved with the X-Corporation came to an end during M-Day, when about 90% of Earth’s mutant population lost their powers. Anti-mutant groups quickly seized the chance to attack the few mutants left, and the headquarters of X-Corporation Europe was blown up by terrorists. As a result, the X-Men chose to shut down the organization entirely; after all, it had already lost its purpose with there being next to no mutants left to contact. Jamie Madrox had left the X-Corporation earlier on to start his own detective agency, X-Factor Investigations in the Mutant Town area of New York City and he hired several former colleagues and friends, among them Siryn to help him run the agency. (X-Factor v3 #1)
To make matters worse, she was not found by her teammates but by a sadistic ex-mutant doctor called Leery, who kidnapped her and tied her up. Things quickly turned uglier and Leery might have mutilated or killed her, if not for Rictor turning up having expected Theresa for breakfast. That gave Siryn the incentive and opportunity to free herself and reuse her powers. (X-Factor v3 #5)
While the business side of X-Factor Investigations was doing quite well, troubles were brewing within the team. Madrox’ duplicates were acting more and more independently, each duplicate being a different manifestations of one of his personality traits, and it occurred in one night that while one Jamie was having sex with Monet, another was sleeping with Siryn. (X-Factor v3 #10)
As Lorna's condition worsened, Terry came to ask Layla Miller for help in contacting the Morrigan in an attempt to save Polaris's sanity. This was a success and she was granted an audience once more with the Morrigan who revealed that her name was actually a title that had been passed down from one woman to the next for countless years. Siryn then pleaded for the Morrigan to use her power normally for destruction as a tool for healing in saving Lorna's mind before she could potentially destroy the world. The current Morrigan stated that she had grown tired of this existence and simply wanted to move on so she would give her power to Siryn but the condition that she would become the new bearer of the mantle. Terry accepted and she killed the last Morrigan host with a 'Banshee's scream' in the form of a sonic lance and thus gained her godly power which she used to easily restore Lorna back to normal. (X-Factor v1 #244)
House of X
After the establishment of the nation of Krakoa, she was one of many Mutants that came to reside on the living island that was the home of their people. (X-Factor v4 #5)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Originally, she operated under the name of Theresa Rourke with her using the same last name as her mother. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #148) Whilst working with her uncle, she began to operate under the code name of Siryn. Originally, she began to wore a costume that was patterned after her father, Banshee. (Spider-Woman v1 #37)
She was said to be the kind of girl that people fell heads over heel in love. (X-Force v1 #31)
It was noted that she spoke with a distinct Irish accent. (Spider-Woman v1 #37)
To Theresa, Tom Cassidy was her uncle and a parental figure to her as he was responsible for raising her. When she was 12 years old, he sent her away to boarding school and she knew that he sent her away as much for her safety as his own. Despite that, she felt hurt by his actions and was angry at him for sending her far away from home. Though angry, a part of her was also afraid as she thought she had done something and was being punished for it. (X-Force v1 #31)
Powers and abilities
As a Mutant, she developed the ability to emit powerful sonic attacks as a scream. Teresa was shown to be capable of creating a sonic lance that could kill her target or slash through objects. Her control of her powers was also refined enough to allow her to create a bubble of sound around her to protect Siryn from harm. (Spider-Woman v1 #37)
Her powers in conjunction with the wings of her costume allowed her to fly. (Spider-Woman v1 #37)
After killing the last Morrigan host, she came to inherit the power of the goddess that was a mantle which passed through hundreds of women over countless years. (X-Factor v1 #244) The raven served as a familiar to the Morrigan and was their tie to the source of their power. (X-Factor v1 #239) The entity itself remained within Siryn's body where it could impose a geas on another person with this being a magical contract imposed on a mortal to achieve a set goal. (X-Factor v4 #9)
Notes
- Siryn was created by Chris Claremont and Steve Leialoha where she made her first appearance in Spider-Woman v1 #37 (April, 1981).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Films
Appearances
- Spider-Woman v1: (1981)
- X-Force v1:
- Deadpool: Sins of the Past v1:
- X-Factor v3:
- X-Factor v1:
- X-Factor v4:
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