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Marvel Comics: Dawn of X

@Ruby

Actually, yeah, lol. What is the drinking age?

@Silver Carrot

Good question, not sure that one's come up, but let's go with 18.

Marvel Comics: Dawn of X

Added the Discord link back to the OP.

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I hope you've recovered well. Sickness is never fun.

@Leophael

Thank you!

First post up for everyone else. Big party on Karakoa, celebrating the UN vote granting the island nationhood having passed earlier in the day.

Let me know if I can clear up any details. <33

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She was the last to be told. She was not the last to know. The message was cryptic and guarded from both Scott and Xavier, Scott with his texting code words and Xavier with his arm’s-length-telepathic signal. There had been a short discussion about heading off to Westchester for the meeting, but the truth of it was the old mansion had seen far better days. Instead, they all opted for a property along the Massachusetts shore.

There was irony to a mutant nation being discussed in such early stages at the white beach shores of Cape Cod. It was all such a distant memory. Jean Grey walked into a room filled with family, and a few others. There were clearly those who had found out already, and those who either hadn’t or hadn’t cared to listen to what had been whispered in their ear weeks ago.

Xavier went one by one, around the room, as the X-Men, past and present, and had it out about his change of direction and ambitious new plan for mutantkind. Unsurprisingly to her, each of them focused more on the change in direction of Xavier’s ideology. Living together, united, had become just co-exist peacefully as possible on the same planet. Now that was just gone, and some of the people who had spent their lives fighting and dying for that dream were more than just a little surprised to hear it was no more.

That they were all just moving on.

The last person Xavier came to. Maybe it was fate, maybe it was just star-crossed destinies. As a room filled with X-Men stared on, there was absolute silence as two preeminent telepaths stared coldly at each other, their discussion between them. When Gambit protested that everyone else had heard everyone else’s words, Xavier replied that privacy would be respected. Jean was the one who linked everyone into the room into the conversation.

Into Jean Grey warning Charles Xavier. “I will uphold my values. I will keep us honest…Charles, I will keep YOU honest.” He feigned some level of outrage at the suggestion, but Jean hadn’t a single moment’s patience for it. She said precious little about the dream he was giving up. There was a sense of knowing something, of some second sense that Jean couldn’t shake regarding the direction they were taking.
And it was all focused on Xavier.

Half a year ago, now. Yet it was a memory that didn’t shake the red-head in green and gold bodysuit as she smiled and greeted those nearby, those who approached, as she made her way through the dense crowd, exiting the northern most giant tree within the vast valley of the Carousel; centrally located on Krakoa, the Carousel was an area used for lavish Krakoan festivities and celebrations. The giant trees lining the valley were used for a variety of functions, from residential to industrious, their lobbies holding numerous Krakoan gates that linked around the world.

Concussions burst in the sky as the night dazzled crimson hues, burnt oranges, brilliant blues, pale purples, vivid pinks, glowing greens, and seemingly to Jean every color in the spectrum of color. Scott was waiting for her, but her most pressing matter was the new Council: Magneto had taken the unusual step of asking for her directly, privately, regarding a Quiet Council matter. Given the Quiet Council ruled the mutant nation of Krakoa, Jean felt the appoint was pressing and meant braving the thick crowds of mutants celebrating the birth of their nation, the vote of the UN on the issue of Krakoan sovereignty now in the past, a much needed win for all of mutantkind.

Once she was outside and on the ramp she felt safe to focus her telekinesis and lift her frame from the ground, taking flight in a bright haze of dark pink. She saw the points, she heard what was said: “That’s her, one of the originals. Yeah. The one that killed trillions.” If it bothered her, Jean didn’t show it, the look on her face pleasant, taking in the sights and sounds of an event that changed world history, and an event Jean wasn’t sure she would ever see.

At least in this reality. The House of M was a tall, slender, palace of intricate, delicate, beauty woven into every room and corner of the home of Magneto. He had helped craft the large building with Krakoa, itself, a collaboration of earth and metal that left the Master of Magnetism content enough to call The House of M his new house on his new home. Jean Grey approached the structure with a familiarity, landing on an upper balcony and letting the psychic force of telekinesis open the glass doors for her, stepping in and catching sight of the man immediately.

She nodded, as his eyes stared into her’s, a meager greeting. “Erik. You wanted to see me?”

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I got sick, apologies for delay.

Will get this started ASAP!

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Hihi! I have a simple question!

I know its a marvel rp, but if I wanted to make an OC using heavy influence from a DC character, would that be allowed? The full disclosure is I wanna make a character based off Raven from DC. Just, probably gonna tie her into a bit more dark magic/demonic heritage stuffs. So likely related to stuff such as Darkhold and such as Scarlet Witch is, just that heritage might Actually have a demon-dad.

Could also be fun to play with there already being a Dr. Strange ^^

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I do also have two backup ideas, in the way of an AI in a nanomachine-built body that is designed specifically to kill mutants (Her whole arc would be learning to be a person and maybe even switching to the Mutant side! But rn she'd be an Orchis unit. Probably specifically controlled by Hydra-elememts).

OR I do have a Spider-Girl oc. Which basically is just my twist on Spider-Man but I like writing girls so sue me.

I'd prefer the Raven idea but I could do any of these!

@Queen Arya

No bother! Sorry for the miss. The Raven inspired OC seems to be the best fit to me.

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If this is still active, I've been working on a character concept that I'd be happy to submit for review in the near future.

@Leophael

Still active, opening post inbound tonight or tomorrow. Submit away.

Why I Roleplay Female Characters (As a Cisgender Man)

I don't feel weird when I play Madden, or a Batman game. If I thought twice about emotionally investing in a male character, I'd miss a lot of good fiction.

I'm not sure I care who's playing what female or male. I THINK someone I've RPed with for years is male, they've played a female, but it's never come up over years and I honestly don't care. It's IC. This is my level of care: after literal years, I still don't care if it's a guy or girl.

Whatever, man.

Romance, even, I don't know that I care. It's IC, and I'm not really looking for attachment outside of that, so why would it matter?

I wonder if you can't just chalk the look you got up to toxic male masculinity and move on. I'm sure there are people here who'd probably lean closer to your friend's response, but probably not worth the potential conflict for them to comment. There will always be those people.

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Name: Thomas “Tommy” Shepherd
Alias: Speed
Age: 18
Place of Birth: Springfield New Jersey

Powers: Tommy is a speedster. This means that he can run at speeds that a normal human would never achieve. His top speed is unknown, but he is fast enough to break the soundbarrier and run over water. His body is made in a way that allows him to endure frictions that would flail anyone else alive and bones that are made not to shatter in a collision at high speed. That doesn't mean he is invulnerable; a bullet at any speed could kill him.

Besides running fast, Tommy also functions incredibly fast. He can do things at speed nobody else can and has a brain to match them. His brain is made to function at incredible speeds that allow him to catch all the details during a run. This also means he can read a book in mere seconds and remember everything he has read.

A major setback to his powers is that all this has left Tommy with a skewed perception of time. What might be minutes for somebody is hours for him and it is both incredibly frustrating and lonely for him.

History: The Avengers Vision and Scarlet Witch once had twin children. Billy and Tommy Maximoff. This was an extraordinary occurrence, considering Vision is a synthetic being and Scarlet Witch is a chaos magician. The family lived happily during a time known as the House of M. Unfortunately for the couple, the children were undone when Scarlet Witch muttered No More Mutants. However, the souls of the children would be reborn as new people.

Tommy was born to Frank and Mary Shepherd in New Jersey. His parents divorced when he was barely four years old. Tommy lived mostly with his father after his mother rejected him, believing him not to be her son due to the fact that he barely resembled his parents with his striking white hair and green eyes. Tommy spent most of his childhood getting into trouble; he could barely sit still for longer than five minutes and was often bullied for this and his unnatural hair color. Frank got a girlfriend who was anti-mutant and felt Tommy was one and they often fought. Frank often took her side and disapproved of all Tommy's accomplishments or lack thereof.

He often got into trouble, and was in and out of juvenile hall for various things. His powers manifested when he was thirteen year old. He was in school when it happened and lost control over his powers instantly, blowing up the math class. Tommy was sent to a superjuvenile hall because of his record as troublemaker and the fact that he was a mutant.

Superjuvie was not a good time for Tommy. There was a lack of adherence to basic human rights. Tommy's parents never came for him, even though they were informed, leaving Tommy bitter and angry with parental figures. Scientists took an interest in a speedster with an ability to blow things up and Tommy was poked and prodded like an animal as they tried to turn him into a weapon.

Eventually, he was able to escape Superjuvie, and found refuge on Krakoa.

Story Arcs: TBD

@Crimson Flame

Approved.

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M A G I K

Illyana Rasputin ⭙ 26 Years Old ⭙ Russian/American/Krakoan ⭙ Great Captain of Krakoa ⭙ New Mutants

⭙ _{H I S T O R Y} ⭙

Illyana Rasputin’s story is a strange one for new young mutants to hear for the first time. From doe eyed sibling of an X-Men to the tormented and desperate child kidnapped to a hell dimension by a demonic sorcerer. From victim to survivor to member of the New Mutants, finding a new family. From veteran of the New Mutants to X-Men facing off against the Avengers, to a host of the Phoenix Force.

Raised on a collective farm in Siberia as a bright-eyed Russian girl with a loving family. She knew what her brother was, at least on some level. Living without him was harder, what with the big empty spot in the family’s life, but they got by. Getting kidnapped by an X-Men villain at age seven was anything but pleasant, but it did mean she could stay at New York with the X-Men for a while afterwards.

Illyana winds up kidnapped by a predatory demonic sorcerer named Belasco in the usual collateral that seems to go with being close with the X-Men. Yet this wasn’t some usual random death from a blow meant for your X-Men loved one; this kidnapping was very, very personal. In Illyana, Belasco had found the perfect resource to reclaim the favor of his dark “Old Gods.” He called her pure and perfect and unspoiled.

Illyana survived because of friendship, and teachings of those precious few allies she had during her time in Limbo as Belasco’s consort. She met others trapped in the hellscape of Limbo, alternate reality versions of Storm and Shadowdcat. While they were unable to defeat Belasco together, over their years together Storm would reveal Belasco’s obsession: Illyana had a greater natural affinity for magical energies than most other people.

Steal Illyana young, and he could turn her into an asset and tool. Shadowcat would see that Illyana was physically prepared, training her over time in every form of combat she knew, and some she had learned in the death pits of Limbo itself. After some time the trio decided to try their luck again with an assault on Belasco. The sorcerer saw it coming, and the result was brutal: Storm was apparently killed, and Shadowcut was twisted into a semi-feral pet of the demonic sorcerer. Belasco’s possession finally took full force of her life. What came next, what it turned Illyana into, is hard for the young woman to talk about sometimes.

There was the obvious abuse of a creature like Belasco. Abuse from demons who saw the young human girl as some sort of rival; beat her, torture her, and use their demonic power to regenerate her back to new so they could do it all over again. They broke her body, Belasco broke her mind. He would teach her so much, his attention intense, but coming and going, never consistent.

She hated him and loved him and wanted to please him and knew she should kill him. That bled into her feelings about herself. Illyana felt consumed by guilt and shame. The only hope, the only glimmer of light at all, came in the activation of her mutant power. With the ability to teleport, Illyana was able to sneak away, to sneak back, all without Belasco’s knowing. Outside of his sight she used the time to teach herself Storm’s form of natural magic energies, instead of the mostly dark or chaos magic energies Belasco typically stressed.

While unable to replicate Storm’s magic, Illyana unlocked her own version of magical manifestation when she first called upon the Soulsword. Magik used the weapon and her various magical and martial training to kill Shadowcat, freeing her soul from Belasco’s corruption, and bring Belasco to defeat and begging for her to end him, to unleash the power of what would be his Darkchilde. Though half-demonic in appearance herself at this point, Illyana decided the wiser course was to let him leave, to kick him from Limbo, and return to her life.

Belasco’s power over her was no more. She wouldn’t concern herself with killing him and was unafraid of the next time they would meet—knowing full well they would meet again. Illyana returned to the X-Men, her best guess was age 15, she’d been lost in the hell of Limbo so long. Yet the time differences between Limbo and other dimensions means while Illyana had aged years, it had barely been a few minutes at the X-Mansion.

The X-Men had trouble accepting her tale. Her parents turned their back on her, mocked her. She was determined to continue, reaching out to the normal universe version of Ororo and Kitty. Both would help guide her, Xavier suggested she join the New Mutants. In the New Mutants, Illyana found friends and family. Over time she would prove her skill and worth, she would gain a new friendship with Cyclops. Anything that had to do with tactics or strategy was fair game any time they got to talking.

She would spend time with the X-Men, she would spend brief time fighting Avengers and hosting the Phoenix Force. Magik would prove herself against the best, and she would do it time and time again, that she was a top-tier heavy among the mutant population, and beyond. She followed the other New Mutants to Krakoa, where things seemed to be different. Now the New Mutants were the young adults training the new generation, instead of the new generation of mutants.

⭙ _{P O W E R S / A B I L I T I E S} ⭙

_{P O W E R S}

Teleportation - Magik can teleport herself and others via circles of light dubbed stepping discs; though this is apparently an innate mutant power, her demonic corruption has seemingly inextricably tied the discs to limbo, so that they also appear there randomly without Magik summoning them, and so that the discs always travel via limbo. Possibly because limbo’s nexus status makes it close to all places and times, Magik can teleport across interstellar distances or transtemporally, and home in on specific people without knowing their exact location.

_{A B I L I T I E S}

Sorcery - Magik is the Sorceress Supreme of her Limbo dimension. The extent of her powers there are all-powerful and the demons of Limbo did not dare challenge her. Magik had access to Belasco's store of mystical knowledge. Magik's sorcery was a unique mix of black magic, that she learned from Belasco, and white magic, taught by an alternative-reality Ororo Munroe. She was considered as a possible Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, and as an adult has trained with Doctor Strange. Due to her magical prowess Magik also possesses exceptional psionic shields able to thwart Earth’s most powerful telepaths.

Armed/Unarmed Combat - Illyana is a skilled swordswoman and created the Soulsword from her own lifeforce when she was trapped in the immortal demonic sorcerer Belasco's limbo dimension. It begins as a simple sword but evolves with use, both in appearance and power. The Soulsword can disrupt most spells or slay magical beings, but which can pass through normal people without harming them. When using the Soulsword, or using her magic, Illyana’s body becomes covered in a mysterious mystic armor known as Eldritch armor. The longer and more intense the combat, the more of her body will be covered in the armor. A lifetime fighting demons in Limbo, along with extensive combat training from various sources, has made Illyana one of mutantkind's foremost combatants.

_{A R C S}

Oh Great Captain, my Captain - Former X-Men. Great Captain of Krakoa. As the New Mutants lose one of their own, it's clear dynamics are changing, and Magik finds herself at the center of it. Outside their door of ALPHA house in the Akademos Habitat, but just barely, the other problems begin to hit them as the enormous question of who teaches the mutant young on Krakoa, and what is the purpose of their education begin to present themselves.

Swords? I heard something about swords? - Illyana finds herself sucked into the drama of magic and swords in Otherworld. Well, a different kind of magic and swords than she's used to dealing with. To no one's surprise, Illyana finds herself right at home kicking and stabbing things.