((Bendy timed, because... real life, you know? Right before Esme takes the Magneto train...))Esme turned the bracelet over in her hand, running her fingers over the pink engraving on the cold, hard metal. 'Sophie.' Pain wasn't fading, no matter how you looked at it. She had a suitcase packed and it sat next to her as she stared out over the ( Read more... )

From: Magneto (Lehnsherr, Erik Magnus ( Read more... )

Phantazia exited the United Nations where she had just given a speech to a very surprised looking group of delegates. Security had not stopped her. They hadn't seen her until she was at the podium and speaking. Dressed, her her full regalia though her mask was left out, she had delivered Magneto's simple speech ( Read more... )

At precisely 10AM Eastern time a broadcast cuts into much of the world's local media. When the picture resolves, it shows a man clad in very familiar blood-red and royal-purple armor with a very infamous helmet atop his head ( Read more... )

((OOC: Bendy timed to a week after the final events of Crisis of Faith. Also, opened to any X-Men/New X-Men/X-Kids who would feel the need to go to Sophie's funeral.))The house was somewhere between a large house and a small mansion. Not many in the local neighborhood had turned out for the funeral of Sophie Cuckoo. Most of the neighborhood had ( Read more... )

((Takes place after the Big Fight at Xavier's; open to anyone))

Sal was surprised, when she woke up some days later, to be feeling no pain. Mind, she wasn't quite ready to open her eyes and look around.

Mostly because she had a vivid idea of what she'd see when she did.

She remembered being lit on fire, she remembered growing cold, and then ( Read more... )

The fighting had started all across America. According to Bastion, a significant number of the X-men were involved in the combat in New York.

Which meant that the children here were left all alone. There would be no one to save them this time.

He gave the first unit the signal to advance.

Cyclops was still leery about letting anyone out of the Institute with the Purifiers still out there, but he knew he had a riot on his hands if he didn't give everyone a chance to get out and breathe. As such, he arranged for a trip into the city, a chance for everyone to get out, go Christmas shopping, take in the sights, and stretch their legs a ( Read more... )

With everything that had been going on at the mansion lately, Northstar had been running from one end of the world to the other. Or at least it certainl felt like it. If he wasn't teaching, he was on some X-Men business, trying to find out more info about the Purifiers. However, he needed to take a few days to himself, and he needed to take care ( Read more... )

( Oh Christ no, not that fabulous frog. Some douche by the name of Summers runs this joint. They calls him Cyclops but he's got two eyes, so it ain't very apt. An' he makes Northstar look like a kind, flexible individual. )