The legacy of Professor Charles Xavier and his greatest work no one knows of began in an secret meeting room of the White House, in the year 1961. President John F. Kennedy had brought his top men, as well as some high priority guests, to discuss a growing scientific finding. In the year 1956, a man arrived to Las Vegas and found himself on a streak of good luck. It wasn't just some random thing though, he would go to one casino, and win a jackpot, only to go to another casino and do the exact same thing. When cops tried to apprehend the man, he resisted, and when they tried to take him out, even from point blank range they missed before their guns jammed at the same time. When the man was finally brought in, blood tests revealed a curious kink in his DNA strand.

They didn't think much of it, until a person who could create and manipulate ice showed up in New York, a young man grew wings in Connecticut, a young woman in California could hear the thoughts of those around her. Each ones having the same gene in their systems. Soon this gene was referred too as the “X-Gene” by those looking into it. Not much could be figured out of it, some experts believed it was a next step in human evolution, and others a possible new disease. Either way President Kennedy wanted something done before public knowledge of this new pandemonium got out.

At this meeting Kennedy invited two men, one was Professor Charles Xavier, one of the top men in the Government studying the gene, alongside his close friend Erik Lehnsherr, a former prisoner by the Nazis in World War 2. Both men had not only researched the gene, but surprisingly got it themselves. Charles becoming a telepathy, Erik gaining complete control over magnetism. During the meeting discussions over what to do with the growing population of people who had the X-Gene. After some of the more crazy ideas like moving out the population of Australia and let the gene blessed take it over were swiped aside as the crazy ideas they were. The ideas came down to one from Charles and one from Erik.

Charles knew that having these 'mutants' trying to mingle in with normal society would pose a lot of risks and dangers, believing it might be for the better to have them be put into a sort of underground confidently place. Giving a safe haven to hide away, learn and grow together, and eventually introduce mutants back into society. Erik however believed that mutants were far too special a growing group to exclude them. The debate raged on for some time. Finally though Kennedy sought to Xavier's idea. Giving him the funding to get started on the first academy for mutant kind. Erik in anger left the meeting, quickly vanishing and having not been heard since.

Charles Xavier's original dream has since grown and matured in the years. As the number of people with the X-Gene grew, so did a number of them using their new found powers for evil personal gains. Xavier began a new sub program, co-sponsored by the new Government program S.H.I.E.L.D. Known as “Project X-Men”, Xavier assembled some of the best trained mutants, giving them further training in hand to hand combat, and espionage. Now all these years later, The X-Men remain an unknown but very powerful force in ensuring that mutants who wish to abuse their power, or those using mutants, are dealt with properly.

The lo-down:

1: This is a Marvel Universe in which mutants are not something the public know about. Superheroes do exist outside of it, but generally are helped given funding and good publicity, The X-Men program helps ensure that mutants who want to live in public have complete control of their powers, or can be given help if they can't and a living space at the Academy for Gifted Youngsters, the X-Men's secret base in Winchester, New York.
2: Erik Lensherr is still around, having slowly lost touch with reality, now believes that not only should mutants exist in public. They should be the dominate species over mere humans, slowly yet surely he is building an army of mutants who believe in what he preaches. That said in this RP he won't come into things immediately. 
3: Project X has been going on in secret in the last 12 years, tucked away in the woods of Canada. The X-Men know something is going on, but don't have enough information yet about it.
4: In terms of characters the goal is to get a mixture of OCs and canon characters. Canon characters can be reimagined though.

[i][b]UPDATE: in order to ensure an even amount of reimagined canons and OCs for this rp, OCs are no longer accepted.[/b][/I]

Claimed/Completed characters:
DrewVonAwesome - Rogue

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