AU X-Men:First Class Dream
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The dream started off as X-Men:First Class, but it diverged from the movie as Charles and Erik went about recruiting mutants. For the most part they recruited the same team they did in the movie, but instead of recruiting Angel and Darwin they recruited a version of Shadowcat and a version of an OFC of mine since childhood.
The version of Kitty they recruited wasn't one that's been seen in the movie'verse, or in comic book canon. Shadowcat in my dream was a blend of the Earth-616 Kitty, the Earth-597 Kitty, and my own sorceress Kitty. In the dream, Shadowcat was played by Natalie Portman.
My OFC has changed some over the years, but there have been some constants. She's always been a mutant. The first Marvel book I read with regularity was The New Mutants. I fell in love with Magneto when he was Professor Xavier--Professor Michael Xavier. My OFC has generally been a blue eyed redhead. Her preferred colors for her personal costume, as suppose to the team yellow and blue, are purple and white. She's a character with psionic abilities. They've tended to be telepathy, telekinesis and, er, empathetic(?) healing. She's never been a very powerful telepath or telekinetic. I've never imagined her taking on Charles Xavier or Jean Grey. What she's always been is a very powerful healer. She might need to touch someone to heal them, but once she has... It took me a while to settle on her codename, but I finally picked Panacea. In the dream, I played her, and people called her/me Becca. I was Panacea for the duration.
The story didn't entirely diverge from the XM:FC plot as soon as Charles and Erik recruited Kitty and me. They still went off to capture Emma, leaving the rest of us to meet Shaw and company for the first time without them. In my dream no one agreed to go with him, and no one was killed. Shaw did leave thinking he'd killed Kitty because he didn't understand all she could do. Havok and Banshee were afraid she'd been killed briefly too, but Mystique, Beast and I already knew Kitty well enough to know she'd fooled Shaw. The place was still a wreck, and when Charles and Erik got back they still saw that we all needed to learn better control of our powers. It's once we got to Xavier's Mansion things moved further away from the movie's plot, and became more of an AU.
There was a female character that started appearing around the mansion. Not all of us saw her, and even some of us that did weren't sure we had because she'd vanish so quickly. Her costume sort of reminded me of Deadpool's and the one they put together for the "Lone Vengeance" character on Castle. I never got her name, real or codename, but I did eventually get to see her without her mask so I know she was played by Jessica Biel. I also know, because she did eventually talk to me some about why she was there, that she was from a future where Shaw had succeeded at starting World War 3 and a lot of people were dead. She wanted to stop Shaw from succeeding at that, and at killing Erik and Charles. I couldn't exactly blame her for wanting to save the world, or Erik, or even Charles. I still can't believe I actually like Charles with James McAvoy playing him. It's scary.
I did object to her willingness to a) kill anyone that got in the way of those objectives, and to b) injure Erik and-or Charles if it kept them alive. The Girl From the Future (here after referred to as the GFF) did try reason before resorting to violence, at least where Erik and Charles were concerned. She talked to Mystique, thinking she could get Charles to see reason. It went about as well as Mystique's trying to talk to Charles went in the original movie. Fortunately for Charles the GFF did not hold his being obtuse against him. She also talked to me. The GFF thought I could get Erik to listen. Shocked me. I may have spent 25 or more years loving Erik, but my muse has tended to see me more like a daughter or little sister than an equal, much less a romantic interest. I tried. He wouldn't listen. She wasn't so forgiving with him. Kitty once again briefly had people wondering if she was dead. She was in the way when the GFF attacked Erik. He was injured.
Soon as the GFF got through to him there was part of me afraid of his winding up in a wheel chair. It's happened in some canon AU's. Of course, I was Panacea. I could fix him, eventually. The thing that I remember most clearly isn't him bleeding, though I have an unfortunate knack for remembering when a character I love winds up bleeding in one of my dreams. What I remember most is knowing absolutely he really was in love with me when he didn't want me to see how badly he was hurt. Keep in mind, in this dream, he knew damn well that I was a healer that could do just about anything short of raising the dead. I knew why the GFF had attacked him, but I wasn't sure how he'd feel if I told him. I'm still not sure how he'd feel. I took care of him, and the GFF took care of Shaw. I'm not sure how she killed him, I wasn't there when she did it, but I do know Riptide got fatally in her way.
So, that was the dream. I'm not surprised by the GFF. I saw, well, various Summers children and Bishop travel back to the present from some future while I was reading the books. It's pretty natural for someone from a Shaw spawned future to show up with an agenda. I'm not surprised Erik got hurt. I've had a dream or two in 25 years where he died protecting me. It shouldn't be a big surprise when my muse has tended to think of me like a daughter or little sister. I am surprised that it was Michael Fassbender's Erik, not a comic book Erik, or Ian MacKellen's Erik but Michael's. Most of all, though, I'm surprised he didn't just love me like family. He was in love with me. I'm still in shock at that.
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The dream started off as X-Men:First Class, but it diverged from the movie as Charles and Erik went about recruiting mutants. For the most part they recruited the same team they did in the movie, but instead of recruiting Angel and Darwin they recruited a version of Shadowcat and a version of an OFC of mine since childhood.
The version of Kitty they recruited wasn't one that's been seen in the movie'verse, or in comic book canon. Shadowcat in my dream was a blend of the Earth-616 Kitty, the Earth-597 Kitty, and my own sorceress Kitty. In the dream, Shadowcat was played by Natalie Portman.
My OFC has changed some over the years, but there have been some constants. She's always been a mutant. The first Marvel book I read with regularity was The New Mutants. I fell in love with Magneto when he was Professor Xavier--Professor Michael Xavier. My OFC has generally been a blue eyed redhead. Her preferred colors for her personal costume, as suppose to the team yellow and blue, are purple and white. She's a character with psionic abilities. They've tended to be telepathy, telekinesis and, er, empathetic(?) healing. She's never been a very powerful telepath or telekinetic. I've never imagined her taking on Charles Xavier or Jean Grey. What she's always been is a very powerful healer. She might need to touch someone to heal them, but once she has... It took me a while to settle on her codename, but I finally picked Panacea. In the dream, I played her, and people called her/me Becca. I was Panacea for the duration.
The story didn't entirely diverge from the XM:FC plot as soon as Charles and Erik recruited Kitty and me. They still went off to capture Emma, leaving the rest of us to meet Shaw and company for the first time without them. In my dream no one agreed to go with him, and no one was killed. Shaw did leave thinking he'd killed Kitty because he didn't understand all she could do. Havok and Banshee were afraid she'd been killed briefly too, but Mystique, Beast and I already knew Kitty well enough to know she'd fooled Shaw. The place was still a wreck, and when Charles and Erik got back they still saw that we all needed to learn better control of our powers. It's once we got to Xavier's Mansion things moved further away from the movie's plot, and became more of an AU.
There was a female character that started appearing around the mansion. Not all of us saw her, and even some of us that did weren't sure we had because she'd vanish so quickly. Her costume sort of reminded me of Deadpool's and the one they put together for the "Lone Vengeance" character on Castle. I never got her name, real or codename, but I did eventually get to see her without her mask so I know she was played by Jessica Biel. I also know, because she did eventually talk to me some about why she was there, that she was from a future where Shaw had succeeded at starting World War 3 and a lot of people were dead. She wanted to stop Shaw from succeeding at that, and at killing Erik and Charles. I couldn't exactly blame her for wanting to save the world, or Erik, or even Charles. I still can't believe I actually like Charles with James McAvoy playing him. It's scary.
I did object to her willingness to a) kill anyone that got in the way of those objectives, and to b) injure Erik and-or Charles if it kept them alive. The Girl From the Future (here after referred to as the GFF) did try reason before resorting to violence, at least where Erik and Charles were concerned. She talked to Mystique, thinking she could get Charles to see reason. It went about as well as Mystique's trying to talk to Charles went in the original movie. Fortunately for Charles the GFF did not hold his being obtuse against him. She also talked to me. The GFF thought I could get Erik to listen. Shocked me. I may have spent 25 or more years loving Erik, but my muse has tended to see me more like a daughter or little sister than an equal, much less a romantic interest. I tried. He wouldn't listen. She wasn't so forgiving with him. Kitty once again briefly had people wondering if she was dead. She was in the way when the GFF attacked Erik. He was injured.
Soon as the GFF got through to him there was part of me afraid of his winding up in a wheel chair. It's happened in some canon AU's. Of course, I was Panacea. I could fix him, eventually. The thing that I remember most clearly isn't him bleeding, though I have an unfortunate knack for remembering when a character I love winds up bleeding in one of my dreams. What I remember most is knowing absolutely he really was in love with me when he didn't want me to see how badly he was hurt. Keep in mind, in this dream, he knew damn well that I was a healer that could do just about anything short of raising the dead. I knew why the GFF had attacked him, but I wasn't sure how he'd feel if I told him. I'm still not sure how he'd feel. I took care of him, and the GFF took care of Shaw. I'm not sure how she killed him, I wasn't there when she did it, but I do know Riptide got fatally in her way.
So, that was the dream. I'm not surprised by the GFF. I saw, well, various Summers children and Bishop travel back to the present from some future while I was reading the books. It's pretty natural for someone from a Shaw spawned future to show up with an agenda. I'm not surprised Erik got hurt. I've had a dream or two in 25 years where he died protecting me. It shouldn't be a big surprise when my muse has tended to think of me like a daughter or little sister. I am surprised that it was Michael Fassbender's Erik, not a comic book Erik, or Ian MacKellen's Erik but Michael's. Most of all, though, I'm surprised he didn't just love me like family. He was in love with me. I'm still in shock at that.
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