History
Kristal Van Helden was the daughter of a South African diamond miner who lost a huge amount of their fortune when the nation stopped its apartheid politics. Wanting to rebuild her fortune, Kristal kidnapped Emma Frost, planning to use Frost's diamond form to create diamonds and sell them for jewelry and body armor. To harvest the diamond, the diamond that made up Frost's body had to been grafted to living tissue. After an entire garden was turned into living diamond, Frost's telepathic power, which was being suppressed by van Helden's crystal palace, was amplified by the diamond, allowing her to take out van Halden's men. The energy overload caused van Helden's crystal castle to crumble. Emma switched to her diamond form and fled her prison unharmed while van Helden was impaled by a huge chunk of diamond and died.[1]