BIOGRAPHY - Page 3
Betsy emerged from the Siege Perilous at the shore of an island in the south China Sea, naked and amnesiac. She was found by the Hand and brought to their jonin, Matsu’o Tsurayaba, who recognized her as the X-Man Psylocke.
Matsu'o saw in Betsy the perfect chance to restore his lover, Kwannon. She had served Lord Nyoirin, a rival crimelord. When Kwannon and Matsu'o had battled each other, Kwannon took a fall off a cliff and nearly drowned, leaving her brain dead. He contacted Spiral at the Bodyshoppe for help. To please her employer, Mojo, Spiral twisted the two women further than she was asked. Besides switching their minds, she manipulated genetic coding between them. Both women now had traits of Kwannon and Psylocke and it was nearly impossible to tell them apart in mind or body. Apparently, though, most of Betsy’s soul was transferred into the Asian woman’s body. Further, she underwent some conditioning that resulted in her believing herself to be Lady Mandarin, the Hand’s prime assassin. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #255-256, X-Men (2nd series) #32]
Utilizing her telepathy in the form of a psychic blade and now sporting Kwannon’s martial arts training, Betsy performed several missions for the Hand and their ally the Mandarin, until one assignment pitted her against her former comrade, Wolverine. When she hit him with her psychic blade, the feedback showed her his memories of her former self, enabling her to break free from the brainwashing. She helped Logan and his new sidekick, Jubilee, stop the Hand’s imminent plans and then fled with them.
Although Betsy’s dream finally became reality, for now she was a true warrior, she blamed herself for the unknown fates of her teammates, whom she had sent through the Siege Perilous. If the changes that had happened to her as a result of this decision were any indication, the other three X-Men might have found themselves in equally bad or even worse scenarios. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #257-258]
After a few adventures in China and Japan, Psylocke, Logan and Jubilee headed to Genosha when the news reported the capture of the New Mutants during the crisis known as the X-Tinction Agenda. Wolverine and Betsy posed as Magistrates, but their cover was soon blown by former teammate Havok, who had been transported to Genosha by the Siege Perilous. Amnesiac and confused, he was easily manipulated into serving the state. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #271] After Cameron Hodge, the mastermind behind the Genoshan government, was defeated, the X-Men reunited and returned to New York.
Back in Westchester, with the X-Men no longer pretending to be dead, the time had come for each of them to get in contact again with friends and family. 
Only Betsy was hesitant. When she had last been separated from her brother for a time, he was startled by her simple change of having purple-dyed hair. Ironically, the hair was still purple, but everything else had changed this time and these changes were more than skin-deep. No one knew for sure that there wasn’t some part of the Hand’s brainwashed conditioning left and, despite his best efforts, Forge could not come up with a way to undo the changes to Psylocke or fully diagnose her. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #273]
Soon, Psylocke’s loyalties were put to the test. Shortly after the original five X-Men rejoined, the team found themselves under attack by Fenris and Matsu’o Tsurayaba. During the battle, Matsu'o used a post-hypnotic command, causing Betsy to switch sides and oppose the X-Men. Her entire team ended up captive, but it turned out that she was only feigning obedience. Psylocke had truly overcome her brainwashing. [X-Men (2nd series) #6-7]
As there were over a dozen X-Men, the decision was made to split the group into two strikeforces. Psylocke ended up on the Blue team led by Cyclops. Slowly but surely, Betsy started to flirt with her leader, and influenced his mind on a very low level telepathically. [X-Men (2nd series) #8, 12, Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #294, X-Men (2nd series) #17]
When Jean found out, she engaged Betsy in a battle of wills but the confrontation was cut short by the arrival of Kwannon (in Betsy’s original body), now calling herself Revanche. When the other X-Men came to Psylocke’s aid, Revanche pulled off her mask, revealing her face and claimed that she was the true Betsy Braddock. [X-Men (2nd series) #20]
Since neither Logan’s enhanced senses nor Xavier’s telepathy could tell which one was the real Betsy, the X-Men traveled to Japan for answers, but from Nyoirin and the Hand they only got half-truths. [X-Men (2nd series) #22] Her ambiguous identity left Psylocke off balance for weeks as she tried to reconcile her memories and behavior with who she believed herself to be. She cemented a deep and lasting friendship with Hank McCoy around this time, when Beast remained steadfast in his belief that she was Ms. Braddock, regardless of any claims to the contrary. [X-Men (2nd series) #29]
Only when Revanche was infected with the Legacy Virus, which brought her powers to their peak, was she able to see clearly through the lies in her head and knew that Psylocke, even though in the Asian body, was the one, true Betsy Braddock. Upon dying, Revanche returned the rest of Betsy’s mind and power to Psylocke and took the missing parts of Kwannon into herself. [X-Men (2nd series) #31-32]