Ystina
Ystina is a female comic superhero who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Ystina
Arriving in 21st-century Los Angeles and separated from Vanguard, Ystina was pursued by the LAPD, as well as a Sheeda Mood 7 Mind Destroyer called Guilt, which sought to goad her into suicide by telling her that she doomed Avalon to destruction by leaving. However, Guilt dissipated after Ystina saved a homeless man from a pair of thugs. Shortly after, Ystina resolved to clear her name by going to the police. However, at the police station, she was ambushed by Gloriana, who captured her and took her to the Castle Revolving. (Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight v1 #2) At Castle Revolving, the Queen intended to force Ystina to fight against Galahad, who had been brainwashed into a monstrous brute. However, just as the fight was beginning, she discovered that 'Ystin' was in fact a girl, and so instead she resolved to have Galahad either torture or rape Ystina until she submitted. Ystina thus killed Galahad, swearing to avenge him and set off to attack Gloriana, hiding inside the Cauldron of Rebirth. (Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein v1 #4) When the queen later came to bathe in the cauldron and ensure her immortality, Ystina sprang out and ambushed her. In the ensuing battle, the young knight stabbed Gloriana through the chest and sliced off a significant portion of the Sheeda-Queen's face, but was unable to kill her, and ended up being thrown off of Castle Revolving, saved only by the sudden intervention of Vanguard. (Seven Soldiers of Victory v1 #1)
Guilt informs her that the Sheeda broke Camelot and created a nightmare kingdom in its place, ruled by the undead King Mordredd. Without the goodness of Camelot to inspire them, the kingdoms of Avalon (which took up all the world) committed suicide. Guilt taunts Ystin, saying that the war might have been won if Ystin had not run away. When Ystin saves a homeless man (implied to be Ali Ka-Zoom), from some thugs, Guilt evaporates. Ystin, newly enlightened, seeks out the police.
The police contact two women: Agent Helen Helligan, a metahuman specialist for the FBI, and Doctor Gloria Friday, an expert on pre-Atlantean civilization. With Friday's uncanny grasp of ancient Welsh, they learn of Ystin's predicament. Suddenly, as the clock strikes midnight, Friday reveals that she is really the Sheeda-Queen, and promptly incapacitates Ystin before poisoning Helligan.
At Castle Revolving, the Queen intended to force Ystina to fight against Galahad, who had been brainwashed into a monstrous brute. However, just as the fight was beginning, she discovered that 'Ystin' was in fact a girl, and so instead she resolved to have Galahad either torture or rape Ystina until she submitted. Ystina thus killed Galahad, swearing to avenge him and set off to attack Gloriana, hiding inside the Cauldron of Rebirth (Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein v1 #4). When the queen later came to bathe in the cauldron and ensure her immortality, Ystina sprang out and ambushed her. In the ensuing battle, the young knight stabbed Gloriana through the chest and sliced off a significant portion of the Sheeda-Queen's face, but was unable to kill her, and ended up being thrown off of Castle Revolving, saved only by the sudden intervention of Vanguard. (Seven Soldiers of Victory v1 #1)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Ystina
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- The Ystina Shining Knight was created by Grant Morrison and Simone Bianchi where she made her first appearance in Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight v1 #1 (August, 2005).
- Demon Knights writer Paul Cornell was deliberately ambiguous about the character's gender until the fourteenth issue, where Ystin says: "I'm both [genders]... I was born this way". Cornell later called Ystin transgender on social media and asked for more detail by Newsarama, Cornell said: "I think that's down to what each individual reader wants from that exchange, or most identifies with. Why shut down any of the possibilities?"
Alternate Versions
- In Teen Titans v3 #52 (2007), an alternate version of Ystina appeared in the Titans Tomorrow reality set in a different future timeline. She was shown as being a member of the Titans Army.
Appearances
- Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight v1: (2005)
- Demon Knights v1:
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