This is a collection of my posts from X, my main social and the first place I post everything. You’ll find video game guides, comics, fiction, my writing and author updates, and other topics I cover.
4,845 posts are available here. Each entry keeps the original wording and links back to X.
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· Comics / Marvel / Character Profiles
Lockheed Lockheed has been around long enough in what I've read that it's easy to forget how strange his introduction actually is. Kitty meets this little purple dragon while the X-Men are caught up in the Brood story. They're dealing with...
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Chance Chance starts out acting like she's the person who already knows how the world works. She's suspicious, sharp with people and very willing to look after herself first. Put her beside Sunspot while he's working through guilt and tryin...
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Ariel Ariel has one of the most useful powers in Fallen Angels, but the doorways are only part of what makes her important. She can open a door and have it lead somewhere completely different. You follow her through what should be an ordina...
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Don Don is the blue lobster who travels with Gomi and Bill in Fallen Angels. His story is short, but what happens to him affects quite a bit of what comes afterward. One detail worth keeping straight is that his blue coloring and his enhanc...
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Bill Bill is the green lobster from Fallen Angels, and he deserves to be separated from Don when talking about them. They enter the story together, but Bill ends up having to continue after Don is gone. The cybernetic work done on the lobst...
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Gomi Gomi is one of those characters where explaining the basic idea already takes you into the stranger parts of the X-Men books. He's a young man with cybernetic abilities who travels around with two cybernetically enhanced lobsters, Bill...
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Their powers make the connection obvious, but shared abilities can only do so much. Sean can understand things about her voice and her flight that most people around them can’t. He still wasn’t there for her childhood. Knowing how a sonic s...
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Banshee finding out that Siryn is his daughter is one of those family developments that changes the meaning of things that happened before either character had a chance to understand them. Sean doesn’t know he has a daughter, and Theresa ha...
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The Proteus story shows how ugly the consequences of his power can get. One of Jamie’s duplicates becomes a host for Proteus. That’s a very different situation from sending another version of yourself to help with a job. A duplicate can be...
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Multiple Man has a power that sounds simple until you spend more than a minute thinking about what living with it would actually involve. Jamie Madrox can create physical duplicates of himself through impact. These aren’t projections that d...
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Her reunion with Sean is a really important part of that. The revelation doesn’t lead to him treating her as an inconvenience. He’s delighted to discover he has a daughter. Theresa arrives carrying an enormous piece of his life that he neve...
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Siryn has one of those introductions where knowing who she’s related to makes things more complicated instead of clearing them up. Theresa is Banshee’s daughter, but when she first turns up, she’s involved with Black Tom Cassidy and the Jug...
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Their relationship continues while both of them are trying to find a place in a much larger group. X-Factor’s younger charges include children with very different needs and experiences. Rusty and Sally have each other, but they also have Ar...
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Rusty and Skids have a connection that starts with something very practical: she can get close to him without being burned. For a kid whose powers first appeared by seriously hurting someone, that changes what being around another person ca...
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X-Factor #16 gives Skids an important step forward. Rusty’s bargain with Masque puts him in danger, and Sally finally manages to lower the field while trying to protect him. She’s been struggling to control it for ordinary things, and now s...
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Skids has one of those powers that sounds incredibly convenient until you start thinking about living with it all the time. Sally Blevins is surrounded by a frictionless force field. Things slide off her, grabbing her becomes difficult, and...
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As Rusty becomes part of X-Factor’s younger group, there’s more to him than that original accident. He builds connections with Skids, Artie and the other kids, and eventually he’s one of the young mutants having to act when the adults aren’...
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Rusty Collins has a rough introduction to the mutant world. He’s a young sailor when his fire powers emerge, and somebody gets badly hurt before he even understands what’s happening. So by the time X-Factor gets involved, he’s already frigh...
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Bobby's friendship with Hank also gives him some uncomfortable moments. During the Infectia story, he doesn't take the warnings seriously enough. Hank and the younger mutants are trying to protect him, while Bobby thinks the kids are interf...
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One very specific Bobby moment worth talking about is how he helps reach Warren when Apocalypse has turned him into Death. In X-Factor #25, Bobby creates an ice replica of himself. Warren destroys it and believes he has killed his friend. T...
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