Name: Amara Aquilla
Age: 14
Powers: Can project waves of heat
First Episode: Growing Pains
Originally from: Nova Roma
Known Family: None

Amara's entire adolescent life was spent on an island (Nova Roma) that was completely hidden from the rest of the world. As time and technology moved forward, her homeland did not. She is still learning to understand present-day technology (i.e. electricity, cars, computers, etc...). She was the only daughter to the King of Nova Roma, and at times acts like a little princess. Amara will often cover her lack of understanding with a bitchy "better than thou" attitude, but she is truly a very good person

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Unwrapping gift
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Actress - filmography

Laurel Canyon (2002) .... Darla

"X-Men: Evolution" (2000) .... Amara Aquila/Magma (2001- )

"70s, The" (2000) (mini) .... The Kneeling Woman
Notable TV Guest Appearances

"X-Men: Evolution" (2000) playing "Disabled Mother" (voice) in episode: "On Angel's Wings" (episode # 2.9) 15 December 2001

Comic Magma

Real Name: Allison Crestmere , formerly Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla
Identity/Class: mutant
Occupation: student , former princess
Nationality: British
Affiliations: X-Force associate , former member of the New Hellions , former member of the New Mutants
Scale of Operations: worldwide , formerly Brazil , South America
Powers:Allison Crestmere has the mutant ability to control lava flow of the Earth, and to a more limited extent,
the Earth itself. Magma can transform herself into a being seemingly composed of lava and can project lava-blasts
from her hands. Her lava form is extremely durable against physical attack. She can create earthquakes and
volcanoes within her vicinity and also turn any stone into a type of molten rock, reshape it, and cool it down
again. Magma regenerates damage done to her as long as she is in direct contact with the Earth. Similarly, Magma
's health and power levels remain at their peak as long as she is in contact with the Earth.

History: In the First Century B.C., a large number of Roman citizens feared that their republican government
might be replaced with an imperial one. They journeyed to South America, and eventually built a city in the jungle
near the Amazon River, Nova Roma. The original colonists of Nova Roma intermarried with a group of Incan
Indians that were fleeing Spanish invaders. Then, in the Twentieth Century A.D., a faction rose among the people
of Nova Roma, that wished to change the government into a monarchy based on the ancient Incan government.

Senator Aquilla, a member of the plebeian class, was the leader of a faction opposed to the imperial faction. Senator Aquilla's wife had disappeared a few years earlier, leaving him to raise their daughter, Amara. Fearing for her life, Senator Aquilla sent Amara to live in the jungle outside Nova Roma, disguised as an Indian. Senator Aquilla feared that a mysterious fire cult and its Black Priestess wanted to use Amara as a human sacrifice.Amara was captured by the young hero team New Mutants during their visit to the Amazon jungle. Robert "Sunspot" Da Costa's mother, an archaeologist, had heard rumors of Nova Roma, and she wished to find the city. Amara'a disguise was revealed at about the same time that she and the New Mutants were captured by Nova Roma soldiers. Amara explained the political situation to the New Mutants, and they all soon found themselves being used as pawns in the political struggles of the city.

Amara and Dani Moonstar (then known as Mirage) found themselves in the clutches of the Fire Cult and its Black Priestess. The Black Priestess turned out to be Selene (the villainess later known as the Black Queen), the wife of Senator Domitus Gallio, leader of the imperial faction. Amara and Dani soon found out that Selene was a mutant and a psychic vampire, and that she had killed Amara's mother years earlier. Dani tried to attack Selene mentally, but Selene easily bested her and threw Amara into a sacrificial lava pit. The immersion somehow awoke Amara's latent mutant powers. Amara rose out of the pit and attacked Selene before she could throw Dani in. Amara and the New Mutants were able to defeat Selene and her husband's imperial faction. Selene disappeared, showing up later in New York City and joining the world-dominating Hellfire Club.Senator Aquilla felt that it was time that Nova Roma learned more about modern society. He ordered Amara to go with the New Mutants, so that she could learn more about modern civilization and also so that she could learn how to control her powers from the New Mutant's mentor Professor X. She agreed and joined the New Mutants and Xavier's School for Gifted Children. She adventured with them for a long tenure, and even met the Roman god Hercules, a highlight of her experience.
Later, the New Mutants gained a new mentor, the X-men's enemy Magneto, who agreed to Magma's request to to be transferred to Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy. Her request was based on her crush on the mutant known as Empath, a member of the Hellions which operated out of the Massachusetts Academy. A few months later, Amara received a letter from her father. He ordered her home to meet with a Prince that he had arranged for her to marry. Hellion member Empath accompanied her on the flight to Nova Roma. During the flight there was a bad storm and the plane crashed in a swamp.

Amara and Empath found themselves being drawn closer together during their trek through the wilderness, without Empath even having to use his powers. Amara was wounded while saving Empath from a jaguar. He soon realized that Amara hoped that they would not be found by her father, because of the marriage plans her father had in store for her. Empath, knowing her wound was getting infected, used his powers to upset her so that she caused an earth tremor and raised a small volcano. A few days later, they were found by her father, who had located them due to her earth tremors. Soon after, while Amara and Empath were still in Nova Roma, Amara was captured by agents of the criminal geneticist High Evolutionary. The agents teleported her to a secret base, planning to remove her powers permanently. Emma Frost called Magneto and told him about the kidnapping. The New Mutants overheard Magneto talking about Amara's kidnapping and that they had located the base where Amara was being kept. The New Mutants teleported to the base before Magneto and the others, hoping to rescue Amara themselves. They arrived in time to rescue Amara before her powers were taken from her, and they then defeated the High Evolutionary's agents.When Magneto and the Hellfire Club arrived, the New Mutants and Amara teleported back to their school in New York, fearful of
being discovered. Before escaping, they overheard Magneto mention some special plans he and the Hellfire Club had for Amara. The New Mutants begged Amara to stay with them, but she gently refused. She knew that she had to face her father and deal with the plans he had made for her. She also felt that she would be safer in Nova Roma, away from Magneto and the other Hellfire Club members and their plans for her.

Many months later, the Hellions were viciously killed by the time-traveling villain Trevor Fitzroy. Former Hellions and New Mutants (Firestar, Warpath, and Cannonball) traveled to Nova Roma to give Amara and Empath the news. They uncovered Empath's mental control over the population, due to his revelation that the entire town was in fact all a lie created by Selene. Selene had kidnapped and brainwashed several native South Americans and tourists in order to create the elaborate community with her as its goddess. Empath revealed that Amara's true name was Allison Crestmere, the daughter of a British ambassador. Magma and Empath agreed to stay in Nova Roma and help its people adjust to life in the 20th Century.Later still, both Magma and Empath were kindapped by the mutant twins Fenris, a plot that was part of an elborate and deadly game organized by the villainous Gamesmaster. They were rescued by the team X-Force (formerly, the New Mutants). Afterwards, Magma decided to leave Empath and her friends, to search for her family in England. More recently, Magma was mentally dominated to join the New Hellions by the villain King Bedlam. King Bedlam unleashed the Armageddon Man, and Magma teamed up with X-Force to defeat him, after which she departed from her friends again.

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