Elsa Bloodstone appeared in the 2001 Marvel Comics called Bloodstone.
Elsa Bloodstone was born to Elise and the immortal monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone in Boston, Massachusetts, but she was actually raised in England and saw Europe as home.
Ulysses was a strict parent, to say the least; as a rite of passage, Bloodstone had his daughter fight the Blight Beast when she was only a baby. He also tried to remove her weakness as a child by throwing her to a horde of Great White Sharks off the coast of South Africa. For her first kill, her father made her fight a Qlippoth, but she took 10 seconds too long and got its blood all over her head. Elise wanted to shave Elsa's head to remove it, but Ulysses had ordered Elsa to let it remain there and infect her scalp as a sign of her inadequacy, so Elsa complied with her father. Elise, on the other hand, wasn't very happy with it, and Ulysses decided it was best to remove her from the equation, which he accomplished by putting her in contact with some Monster Fiends and then claiming she was insane and had to be taken to a medical institution.
When Ulysses' age was finally catching up with him, he begged Elsa to end his life, but she refused. After he died, she settled in his former family estate, in Boston, Massachusetts and decided to start a Monster Hunting career as well, using the powers of Bloodstone Choker whenever the situation demanded.
At some point, Elsa Bloodstone joined Nextwave in their fight against The Beyond Corporation.
After her exploits with Nextwave, Elsa registered to the US government by joining the Initiative, and returned to her monster-hunting ways. She hunted down the Children of Goram to Prague where she was impregnated by one of the monsters, but the Bloodgem killed the offspring while it was inside her and she puked it up. She killed all the monsters and vowed to kill all monsters before she died (also vowing to be the last of the Bloodstone line, never to have a child).
In between her monster hunting, Elsa became a staff member of the Braddock Academy.
When a being known as the Dreaming Maiden started dreaming again, Elsa was drawn to track her down, due to her father being a member of the Covenant, a group that tried to kill the Dreaming Maiden years ago but did not succeed in doing so, due to deception by the assassin they hired, Wolverine. This led her to search out the Maiden to finish her father's work which brought her into contact with Wolverine in the present day. It also brought her into direct confrontation with Covenant members Murderous Lion, Jefferson Chambers, Wyatt Crowley, and Menace. After the Maiden had been killed, Vanessa Baker, another previous member of the Covenant, brought her and the other members together to "get back to business".
Powers and Abilities[]
According to Elsa, she had some of the Bloodgem power via a genetic inheritance from her father, and it was present in her blood, indicating that she didn't gain powers solely via the Bloodstone Choker, but was born with at least some of her power already. An example of this is her immunity to vampire bites. The stone grants her superhuman strength, agility and enhanced regenerative powers.
The bloodstone can also discharge potent energy blasts when called upon and, despite not being capable of controlling it initially, she has made it work on command since she got her bloodstone hand. The concussion streams she releases are powerful enough to blow away giant monsters at will.
Elsa is a prominent martial artist.
Arsenal[]
- Bloodstone
- She had access to occult books such as the Scrolls of Chthon and the Darkhold, the Daveroth Fragments, or the Le Fay Testimonies.
- She also used magical artifacts, such as Mordred's Causeway, a teleportation portal generator.
- Often uses Uzis, shotguns and handguns, sometimes stowed in a guitar case.