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.
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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
2/9 Amara's part of this is especially ugly. Selene intends to sacrifice her, and tells her that she took her mother too. At the same time, Gallio's plans threaten Amara's father and the republic. Her family is being attacked from both dire...
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1/9 Spoilers for the X-Men and New Mutants material through the end of the Muir Island Saga. That's where I've read up to, so that's where this stops. Selene's history starts somewhere very different from the Hellfire Club. Before the Black...
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15/15 So yeah, Psylocke still has a special place for me. The later version doesn't erase that, and I don't dislike her just because she changed. But if you're asking which version I wanted to spend more time with, it's the original Betsy....
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14/15 Bringing it up to where I am now, the Muir Island Saga puts her under somebody else's control again, this time the Shadow King. She's among the people turned against the others on the island. Her psychic knife ends up being important...
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13/15 Wolverine and Jubilee are involved in getting her out. When she tries to use her psychic blade on Wolverine as part of breaking him for the Hand, the connection doesn't work the way her handlers want. His own fractured mental state co...
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12/15 The Hand finds her after the Siege Perilous, vulnerable and without a clear hold on her memories. Matsu'o and the Mandarin see what they could do with a telepath under their control. The transformation story goes through her memories,...
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11/15 Then the Australian team starts falling apart. By the time the Reavers are coming back, Betsy has seen what could happen to the remaining X-Men, and she uses the Siege Perilous to get them out. And she doesn't just present it as an op...
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10/15 Before Australia, there's Dallas and the Fall of the Mutants. Betsy is one of the X-Men who give their lives to stop the Adversary. Roma restores them, but the world believes they're dead, and the team takes advantage of that to opera...
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9/15 I also don't want to act like the original Betsy was always gentle and the Hand invented every aggressive thing about her. She already wanted to be a warrior. That desire comes up well before the transformation, including the temptatio...
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8/15 Her fight with Sabretooth during the Mutant Massacre is important here. The mansion has wounded people in it, and Sabretooth is a serious threat to them. Betsy puts herself in his way and helps keep him occupied. Once Wolverine is figh...
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7/15 Those eyes also give Mojo a way to watch through her. Betsy getting her sight back comes with another invasion of her life that she doesn't even understand at first. And Mojo and Spiral aren't finished interfering with the X-Men either...
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6/15 And then Mojo and Spiral get involved, because apparently she hasn't been through enough already. They abduct her and give her artificial eyes. But this isn't somebody helping her recover out of kindness. They turn her into part of Moj...
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5/15 Then Slaymaster blinds her. She goes into a trap involving Vixen, and the fight ends with him taking her sight. Brian comes to her aid and kills him, but that doesn't undo what happened to Betsy. Afterward she has to live without her v...
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4/15 The family material gets pretty disturbing too. An alternate version of Brian, Kaptain Briton, attacks Betsy and attempts to rape her. She kills him with her powers. So even before her X-Men years, there are things in her history that...
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3/15 Then there's S.T.R.I.K.E., where Betsy is part of the psychic division. She's involved with another telepath, Tom Lennox, and the whole thing gets ugly when Vixen's takeover leads to Slaymaster hunting the psychics. Personally, the sec...
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2/15 Betsy starts out in the Captain Britain stories, with a whole life before the X-Men. She's Elizabeth Braddock, Brian's twin sister, with Jamie as their older brother. Their family history gets into Braddock Manor, their father's connec...
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1/15 Spoilers for Psylocke's early history through the end of the Muir Island Saga. That's where I'm at in my X-Men reading, so that's where this stops. Psylocke has always been one of my favorite characters. But I liked her more as the ori...
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SCP-122 is a star-shaped nightlight that makes people feel safe. A little girl has to stay in the room with it for that to work. It needs a child under fourteen who believes in a traditional Abrahamic religion. The current child is seven-ye...
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SCP-121 is a Colorado town where buildings float into the air, fall apart, and leave something moving in the wreckage. The buildings lock themselves up and rise at least 45 meters. When they eventually crash, there's an egg-shaped object ma...
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SCP-120 is a pink kiddie pool that the Foundation uses as an emergency exit. That sounds pretty convenient until you find out where some of the exits are. A conscious human can step through it, one person at a time, carrying less than 37.8...
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