When mutants have powers based on or around an element, a lot of the time they have elements of their personalities that mimic the element they control. Bobby knew from personal experience that John was volatile like the fire he controlled, unpredictable and heated, passionate and out of control, almost unstoppable once he got going. Lance was ( Read more... )

It started happening after they'd gone home to Boston, when John had blasted through their house in his attempt to save them from the cops that shot Logan in the head. It had started happening after he'd told his parents that it wasn't a prep school he was at, but a school for mutants. He was a mutant, it wasn't their fault, it wasn't his fault, he ( Read more... )

Music reminds Bobby of a lot of things. Soft songs remind him of Kitty, bouncy ones of Jubilee. But the ones that always get him going are the ones with a heavy guitar, where the singer apparently hates the world, singing about the disaffected youth and the horrors of the world through a cyincal and embittered lens.

( Old Memories )

The first time he thought saw Pyro, he was fifteen and standing in the Danger Room watching John and Piotr fighting. The Russian had said something that made John’s temper flare and explode and it had taken Bobby running over and standing between his best friend and the Russian metal man to stop a fight from happening and to stop John from carrying ( Read more... )