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	[color=fff200]⭙ [sub]H I S T O R Y[/sub] ⭙[/color][hr]Jean Grey's childhood was a fairytale, that ended with a nightmare you don't wake up from. Jean is the only child of Percy Grey and Matilda Jennings-Grey. The Greys trace their bloodline back to a Norman knight, and had been in Boston since the days of the Massachusetts colony. The Jennings of Irish descent that saw them become part of a new wave to power in more recent American history, related to Kennedys in ancestry and political agenda. Both Percy and Matilda grew up in the machinisms that is the New England traditional life of high society, with its class structures, rules and concepts of appropriate behavior. 

And they both rebelled against it as best they could until they found each other at Harvard, and rebellion became open dissent. For Percy that meant not using History as just an in to Law School, but actually wanting to pursue the life of an academic in the field. For Matilda it meant getting a job after graduating with no more than a Bachelor's in Biology. Refusing to use family connections, all Matilda found for work was that of a night shift nurse in a beaten down downtown Boston hospital. The couple moved into a small apartment in the city, and spend their time together sipping wine from plastic cups. Far from lavish, but they were happy. 

The cycle of life would change that. Matilda lost her father, uncle, and a brother within the span of two years. Two to old age, one to drug addiction. While she would be okay, when the dust settled the family lawyers revealed her inheritance. Roughly at the same time, Matilda revealed to Percy that she was pregnant. It took Percy all of four minutes to go from finding out he would be a father, to announcing they would have to move. The couple agreed Matilda would quit her job, for now, and Percy would finally begin talking to schools outside of the Ivy League that had been offering him jobs for years. 

Nine months later Matilda gave birth to a girl the couple named Jean Mallory: Jean after Percy's grandmother, Mallory after Matilda's favorite aunt. The day she was born was a bright pretty spring day, with a horrible storm that night. Matilda recounts having fever dreams that night, and remembering of them only stars and a star fire that spoke to her in tongues Matilda couldn't understand. Matilda had the first of many 'Phoenix' dreams that night, and though it was Matilda's last, Jean would continue to have them for the remainder of her life. When she was young they were nightmares that never went away, dark scenes and darker tones that were the only cloud in an otherwise cloudless life of happiness and love. 

Her father became a respected professor of History and later Dean. Her mother would go on to be a hospital executive, the representative for nurses and other lower scale health workers at the very hospital she once worked the night shift as an ER nurse for. Jean spent her time between Boston and Cape Cod; the Red Sox and the boardwalks, even becoming the very thing that brought her parents and their families back together on good terms with her cotillion and work with the DAR. Life was all but perfect when Jean was twelve, a passenger in a car with Abby, Abby's older sister, and her best friend. Jean still doesn't remember the accident. Police reports say the car swerved to avoid an animal, and flipped. A lot. 

Jean remembers Abby dying; except she remembers it from Abby's point of view. She remembers holding Abby as the girl died in her arms, though police reports say that was impossible, as Jean was unconscious when they arrived. Jean even remembers dying, and hearing a voice that cracked and popped like a raging fire telling her to let go of Abby in the darkness: that if she stayed with Abby's mind too long, too far into death, it would be dangerous.

When her parents brought her to Xavier, Charles claimed the voice was just a manifestation of her own natural abilities. That if it were real, he would sense it in Jean's mind, and in her memories. But the bird of fire still appears in Jean's dreams, though it's never spoken to her since the accident. Charles believes this to be because Jean's training has come far. She has fought alongside her fellow X-Men against many foes, and took her place side by side with them against Magneto and the Brotherhood, Sentinels, Kryptonians, and much more. As a nod to her endless fiery dreams, she did all of this under the codename 'Phoenix'.

A nod to dreams became infinitely more during the Kryptonian invasion. When Jean truly believed her friends could die, heatless flame began to appear where telekinetic force had only been before, mixing together as if somehow both were part of the same universal puzzle--as if the power had become cosmic in nature. Where flame and force appear together in the cosmic state of energy and matter, time and space. For a flash Jean felt and saw more than the combination of every Phoenix dream she had ever experienced.

This was different. This was real. 

On that day the Phoenix turned the tide, and lived up to her name. The chaos and destruction of the day also saw her become closer to Wolverine than would have otherwise been possible given normal circumstances. When Jean felt an outsider because of the dreams gone real it was Logan that she felt could truly understand. Not her boyfriend. Not her mentor. More than her relationship began to come apart in the aftermath of the invasion; so too did her relationship with Xaviers. It's rumored in the halls of Xavier that Jean did not part on good terms with their namesake. The true reason stays unknown but to those involved--and they don't seem to be talking. 

When Jean left, Logan left. The night it happened, no one seemed to believe Jean left before Logan. Everyone assumed Logan was the leaving type, not Jean. Never Jean Grey. Logan caught up to her at a diner about an hour north of the city, and JFK airport. Not many words were shared, not many were needed. They left together, quickly securing under the radar transportation to a somewhat surprising destination given the duo in question: Genosha, the mutant nation. 

Time is needed to decompress and regroup, but even now, Jean has something already in mind. If only she had a fedora and a trenchcoat...

	[color=fff200]⭙ [sub]A L L I E S[/sub] ⭙[/color][hr]

	[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Wolverine[/b] - Her friend, first and foremost, her lover and beau. Jean likes to joke he's also her muscle, her body guard. People who have no idea of what occurred during the Kryptonian invasion have an easier time laughing at that. 

	[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]The X-Men[/b] - Jean, like Logan, remains a 'reserve member' of the X-Men. They're still her family. She just needs time to figure her own issues out before she can properly focus on being an active X-Man again. Given her former role as team mom, she remains in constant communication with many of the X-Men, and even some students. 

	[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Charles Xavier[/b] - Despite their falling out, the two remain close: the result of knowing someone on the level only two telepaths can. She called him a liar, he admitted to violating her psychic trust for what he considered the good of the X-Men, and that was the show. He's e-mailed, having the decency to stay away telepathically. She responded once to let him know she was safe, and where she was going. 

	[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Erik Lensherr[/b] - Because of her connection and time with Xavier, Jean probably knows the man most know as Magneto better than anyone. With Xavier no longer an option for Jean to turn to if she needs advice after the first flicker of the Phoenix come alive, Magneto becomes an intriguing option. Few know what it's like to hold such power in their hands, to feel connected to the wider universe on such a deep, profound, level. He does. 

	[color=fff200]⭙ [sub]F O E S[/sub] ⭙[/color][hr]

	[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Erik Lensherr[/b] - Call it frenemies. Magneto has done damage to herself and those she cares for in the past, and that forever marks him as someone she could never fully trust. One day she believes the man could truly rehabilitate...but she does not believe that moment is anywhere in the immediate future. 

	[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Mystique[/b] - Simply put, Jean hates the bitch. 

	[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Senator Robert Kelly (VA-R)[/b] - More a political rival than a rival on the battlefield, never the less Jean has many times found herself as the public face of the X-Men going off against Senator Kelly. He is a vain idealogue that has proven he will stoop to any level to achieve his vision of success--a vision that bodes very badly for any metahuman, let alone mutant.