DREAMQUEEN: Page 2 of 2

Publication Date: 29th Oct 2024
Written By: Daytripper.
Image Work: Douglas Mangum.
Biography

BIOGRAPHY - page 2

On Liveworld, the Dreamqueen captured Puck and made him her personal plaything. She used the malleable matter of her world to make the elderly Alphan young again so that his body could withstand her torture for long periods of time. However, this only increased her lust to inflict her nightmares on the people of Earth. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #67]

The Dreamqueen soon became aware that the former Alphan Elizabeth Twoyoungmen, once the powerful Talisman, was near the tomb of Nanquato, working on an archeological excavation. She sensed the dormant power within Elizabeth and, through the dream totem that she sent to Earth hundreds of years ago, the Dreamqueen was able to begin influencing Elizabeth. At first, Elizabeth became overwhelmed, as she used to when she sensed great power. Despite this warning, she continued with her work, ignoring the mystical warnings as the Dreamqueen slowly took control of her mind. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #67, 62, 64-65]

Several days later, Elizabeth dug into a rock formation found on the site and discovered the skeletal remains of the mystic Nanquato. Unable to explain why, Elizabeth felt drawn to the remains but, before she could touch it, she suddenly fell unconscious. In this dream state, she was visited by the spirit of the deceased Alphan and demi-goddess Snowbird, who showed her the Dreamqueen's history and urged her to find the power within her – as the nightmare was just beginning. When she woke, Elizabeth found her fellow archeologists trying to force her to touch the dream totem, the close proximity of the totem allowing the Dreamqueen to influence Elizabeth’s colleagues. Much to her surprise, Elizabeth found the dormant power within herself and fought off those under the Dreamqueen's thrall. She then fled from them and the dream totem to warn Alpha Flight of the nightmare that loomed.

To her annoyance, the Dreamqueen received a visit from her father. Nightmare had come to give his daughter a warning – that the world was different now than when she last tried to enter it several hundred years ago. Nevertheless, when six of the former Alpha Flight members that the Dreamqueen cursed gathered at Vindicator's home, the villainess was able to use her connection via the curse to them to transport herself to Earth. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #67]

When Elizabeth, now acting as Talisman, called Vindicator’s home to warn them about the Dreamqueen, it was the Dreamqueen herself who answered. She informed Talisman that she was too late and mocked that the young woman was some 3,000 miles away, and unable to help her former teammates. Hanging up, the Dreamqueen chose Sasquatch as her next pawn for her plans on Earth, bestowing her curse with a kiss.

The Dreamqueen quickly found the matter of Earth different to Liveworld and discovered she could not manipulate this reality and warp it to her will – only the minds of its inhabitants. She manipulated a civilian man into taking her to Edmonton, to the building in which he understood the richest man in Canada lived. For his help, the Dreamqueen thanked him by making him believe he was walking into a paradise – except he walked in front of a car and was killed. The Dreamqueen reveled in this tragedy. She then took the top apartment of this building as her base of operations, but not before manipulating the old man who lived there to fall out the window.

The Dreamqueen then began to stretch her thoughts, to release her evil thoughts out across the land. However, her final victory, she believed, would come with her curse of Sasquatch. When Talisman reunited with Alpha Flight, the Dreamqueen had known that her father, Michael Twoyoungmen, would give back to his daughter his mystical coronet, returning her to her full power as Talisman. However, as he went to do so, Sasquatch, now the Dreamqueen’s unwitting thrall, stole the coronet and raced to give it to her. However, what the Dreamqueen had not known was that Sasquatch, Walter Langowski, was currently inhabited the body of Snowbird, who had warned Elizabeth earlier and whose spirit was still connected to her corporeal form. The spirit of Snowbird mystically restored Sasquatch from female to male, severing the Dreamqueen’s control. Elizabeth then took the headband back, becoming Talisman once again. Although this was definitely a setback for her, Dreamqueen's power was already taking affect around Edmonton. All across the city, violence broke out among its citizens and they began to kill each other, each one another under the Dreamqueen's control. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #68]

In fact, the Dreamqueen’s malevolent influence was branching out. Starting with just Edmonton, Alberta, her madness spread to Calgary, then across Canada and into the United States. Along the way, the Dreamqueen attempted to thwart Alpha Flight, first causing their jet to crash and then pitting them against a visiting group of Chinese super beings called China Force. When they finally converged at her penthouse suite, the Dreamqueen attacked directly, manipulating each of them with their own inner demons. As her madness spread, the Dreamqueen grew even more powerful. Just as it seemed she was unstoppable, a moment of distraction came when Nightmare appeared and warned his daughter of her impending demise, just as Talisman made her way into the Dreamqueen's penthouse.

At first, Talisman was more than a match for the Dreamqueen’s thralls, mere mortal men she had summoned for her pleasure, but the tide turned when the entranced Alpha Flight arrived and were commanded to defend their queen. As the heroes closed in around Talisman, Laura Dean opened a portal behind the Dreamqueen, through which Talisman managed to hurl the witch. The portal closed behind the villainess, trapping her and her malevolent influence from both Alpha Flight and the population of the Earth. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #69-70]

Trapped back in her own dimension of Liveworld, the Dreamqueen received some unexpected but welcome visitors some months later when Laura Dean unwittingly transported herself, her teammates in Beta Flight and her parents to Liveworld. For weeks, the Dreamqueen tormented them, having her Dream Demons pursue them across the realm – with the aim of having Goblyn brought to her. The Dreamqueen's latest quest proved short-lived, however. As almost inexplicably as they had arrived in Liveworld, Laura Dean was able to open another portal back to Earth, enabling the young mutants return to safety. The Dreamqueen almost gained access to Earth once again when several Dream Demons nearly made it through the portal, however a member of Alpha Flight prevented this from happening. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #109]

Trapped on Liveworld, the Dreamqueen somehow developed the ability to reach into the minds of Alpha Flight, back on Earth. She forewarned the team leader, Guardian, about a nightmarish future that lay ahead – a future with no imagination. The Dreamqueen could not stand for this future to come to pass, for if it did, the world she knew she would one day inherit would have no one for her to manipulate. If the people of Earth had no imagination, there would be no dreams. She watched through a scrying pool as Alpha Flight battled their other greatest foe – the Master of the World. She even assisted them by reaching into the mind of Puck, whom she had tortured when he was imprisoned on Liveworld, forcing him awake when he was unconscious. Eventually, Alpha Flight defeated the Master of the World and the Dreamqueen was assured that her future, and the eventuality that she would succeed in reclaiming Earth, would come to pass. To her delight, Alpha Flight were promptly disbanded, which she believed assured that she would inherit a world without her sworn enemies. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #128-130]

Although it's unknown how she sustained herself during this time, the Dreamqueen maintained a low profile in the years that followed. Despite Alpha Flight reforming and disbanding several times over, the Dreamqueen did not strike out at her foes. Rather, she focused her efforts on strengthening Liveworld and expanding it through the Splinter Realms – with Asgard her first target. To that end, she had Thor Odinson, now ruler of Asgard, captured and trapped in Liveworld, and set about rallying as many of Asgard's enemies as she could muster. Among these were as the Enchantress, Algrim, Ulik and Tyr, all of whom launched an assault on Asgard. Asgard's heroes united to battle the intruding forces, while the Dreamqueen returned to Liveworld. There, she was confronted by Jane Foster, who had been reunited with Mjolnir and come in search of Odinson to put an end to the strife in Asgard. The Dreamqueen appeared as a child before Jane and Thor, who were able to escape from her when a Valkyrie arrived to rescue them. They returned to Asgard to undo the Dreamqueen's meddling, leaving the Dreamqueen behind in Liveworld. [Jane Foster & the Mighty Thor #1-5]

Undeterred by her failure to expand Liveworld, the Dreamqueen set her sights on a slightly lesser target next, and began to haunt the dreams of the young heroine called Viv Vision. Her synthezoid mind appeared to be an endless supply of trauma for the Dreamqueen to feed on, as Viv was still dealing with the loss of her mother and brother. The Dreamqueen was delighted to encounter the Scarlet Witch when Viv sought out the assistance of the powerful sorceress. The Dreamqueen, sporting a new appearance, challenged the Scarlet Witch but found herself outmatched, and trapped. The Dreamqueen's threats to roast the Scarlet Witch did not frighten the powerful sorceress, who made the Dreamqueen an offer – to cease preying on the dreams of those on Earth, including Viv, and return to her own realm. The Dreamqueen wasn't impressed by this offer, unsure of how she would live without feasting on the trauma of others. The Scarlet Witch presented her with a sarmale, seasoned by the Witch's suffering endured after losing her children – enough to sustain the Dreamqueen for an age.

The Dreamqueen retreated back to Liveworld with the sarmale but, after consuming it, discovered it came with a hidden surprise. Indeed, the Scarlet Witch had cast a transformation spell within the sarmale, which altered the Dreamqueen's need to consume tragedy into the need to consume bliss. Worse for her, her tastebuds did not change and the taste of bliss would leave her disgusted. [Scarlet Witch (3rd series) #2]

How the Dreamqueen is coping with this need for bliss, and when she will next strike out at the dreams of humanity remains to be seen.