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Amanda Sefton was born Jimaine Szardos to a circus in Germany. Her mother, a powerful sorceress named Margali, raised Jimaine, her brother Stefan, and her adopted brother Kurt Wagner with care for years. Jimaine was close with Stefan, but even closer with Kurt. The two were a an acrobatics team in the circus until, eventually, Kurt decided to leave. Jimaine, who was in love with Kurt, had planned to leave with him. When Margali found out, she informed Jimaine of her destiny: She was to carry on the practices of the Winding Way--the magical paradigm whose followers' powers increase and decrease as they progress. Jimaine wanted to live her own life, however, and set her heart on leaving. On Kurt's final performance, his teacher requested to be his partner rather than Jimaine. To her dismay, Jimaine watched as their teacher plummeted to his death in a tragic "accident." Believing it to be the work of the demon Belasco (and an attack intended for her), Jimaine decided to stay at the circus and train under her mother.

Stay long, however, she did not. When she and Margali learned of Stefan's death at the hands of Kurt, Margali swore vengeance. Jimaine, on the other hand, insisted that there must have been a valid reason. She set out to find Kurt before her mother did, and to get the truth out. Taking the name Amanda Sefton, Jimaine became a flight attendant. Eventually she and Kurt found eachother, and began a relationship anew (though he had no idea she was actually his childhood love). The truth came out when Amanda helped to stop her mother's revenge on Kurt, and the two remained together until they had an argument due to Kurt's lack of faith at the hands of the Beyonder.

Amanda soon regretted leaving Kurt, and was dismayed to learn of the deaths of the X-men. Later, she discovered that he was alive and well, part of the British super-group Excalibur. She came to the lighthouse where the team was based, but found no one save Alysande Stuart. The two journeyed to Muir Island, where Amanda saved Banshee from certain death and then agreed to help fight off the Reavers. Afterwards, she fell under the control of Shadow King, but was eventually freed by Xavier, the X-men, and X-factor. She left immediately, deciding to re-start her life.

Upon Captain Britain's displacement through the timestream, Amanda was again called in to help. She joined Excalibur under the codename Daytripper, and together with Rachel Summers, managed to pull Brian back to the present, causing Rachel to be lost through time in the process. She stayed with the team for a while, gaining Ilyana's Soulsword from Shadowcat and stopping her mother and the Hellfire Club from destroying London. Unbeknownst to Excalibur, Amanda's body had been swapped with Margali's, and Amanda herself was in Limbo suffering at the hands of Belasco.

With Kurt's help, Margali came to Limbo and, along with Amanda, defeated Belasco. She vanished afterwards, and Amanda realized that there was no one left to protect Limbo. Knowing that the realm's stepping disks would allow demons to journey into other realms, Amanda became it's guardian.

Taking the name Magik (after Ilyana Rasputin) to confuse her enemies and weaken their spells, Amanda now rules Limbo and keeps its powers out of the hands of the demons who wish to control it. She has allied the various Splinter Realms to fight a force more powerful than any of them alone, has defeated foes such as Mephisto and Selene in direct combat, and has aided Kurt and the X-men when needed. She has grown incredibly over the years, and shows no signs of stopping.

NOTE: This journal is intended for roleplay purposes at marvel_mansion. Amanda Sefton is copyright Marvel comics.

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