#Esme Stepford Cuckoo

[blairedazz]

i'm a stepford cuckoo. we're three-in-one. i am never alone. thank you for the inspo @mattelektras @brw! <3

[thatawkwardmoth]

Unfortunately for my mutuals, I'm on a family kick, and everyone is getting childhood headcanons.

Laura Kinney (My girl needs at least one universe where she was a child and got to be raised by Logan and be his little girl.)

The Cuckoos (Again, the curse of clones not getting a childhood kills me. Let Emma be a mom and let the Cuckoos be kids!)

Rogue and Kurt (X-Men 97 and recent comics gave me sibling moments between them but I'm greedy. Irene and Mystique being the messiest lesbian parents while Rogue and Kurt are just trying to grow up is a whole meal.)

Lorna, Wanda, Pietro (I got robbed of mutant siblings and I'm pissed. I'm glad they still get to be siblings but...bro. Let Magneto be their shit dad that cares but can't show it.)

[rikebe]

obsessed with your transfem julian drawings... i think her name would be helen bc it sounds like hellion

thats such a cute idea for a name!!!!!!!! the one i'm using for her is grace bc it's emma frost's middle name and i'm a reasonable amount of obsessed w their mentor-mentee/mother-child/tragedy of dropped plotline relationship and i love the idea of her naming herself after emma. but like somewhat indirectly so people can't tell right away

the cuckoos do notice and bully her bc they're haters

[gotham-at-nightfall]

The Quiet Council lives again!

NYX #1

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Esme: Okay, sure, I caused Sophie's death, shot mom, got hooked on drugs, and teamed up with Magneto (who wasn't actually Magneto) to commit mass murder, but Phoebe dyed her hair to look like Jean Grey so who's the real traitor here. Celeste: She makes a good point. Phoebe: Shut up, Celeste!

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

[azulso]

Stepford Cuckoos

[heckcareoxytwit]

Kamala Khan goes to the Times Square to stop Krakoan from rampaging the city. Krakoan (Julian Keller) is not only acting like a terrorist, he even says the cheesy line like "Welcome to Die" from the X-Men arcade game. Kamala is becoming suspicious with Sophie Cuckoo as she believes that she is involved with Krakoan as she used to be his schoolmate. Meanwhile, the new Quiet Council - Empath (Manuel de la Rocha) and the remaining Stepford Cuckoos are manipulating everything behind the scenes with their telepathic powers and they watch the events unfold. The Stepford Cuckoos coerce the lone Sophie Cuckoo to use her telepathic powers to manipulate the journalists to make sensationalist news on the mutants. Back to Times Square, the fight doesn't go well for Kamala Khan as Krakoan stretches her limbs and trapping her in spread-eagle position. Krakoan's terrorist plot was actually a set up by Empath and the Stepford Cuckoos who used Julian Keller as their pawn for their sinister scheme. The world watches Kamala get beaten down by Krakoan on live TV. Just as Krakoan could finish Kamala, Prodigy (David Alleyne) bursts into the scene. The Stepford Cuckoos try to manipulate Prodigy with their telepathy but he resists them thanks to the Anti-Telepathy Shield taught by Emma Frost. Prodigy fights Krakoan by using a combination of martial arts, tools and wits. Prodigy knocks Krakoan's helmet off, revealing the face of Julian Keller. Prodigy defeats Julian by tying him up with a cable and throws him down to the pavement. Even though Julian has been stopped, Prodigy is unfortunately arrested by the police. Sophie Cuckoo is hiding in the alley and showing her regret as she watches Prodigy's arrest from afar.

NYX v2 #4, 2024

[newx-menfan]

God this panel gets me every time…because it’s all painfully true…

[romicat]

[esmecuckoo]

[phoenix]

Frost Sisters

Snow Sisters

[thatawkwardmoth]

I had no power during a tropical storm so I wrote a bunch of shit by candlelight, like a Victorian ruler. So I'm sorry for the spam posts but...

Enjoy I guess.

Let's start with one thing that has been on my mind for a while; if Emma had been able to raise the Cuckoos from day one, she would've put an emphasis on them all being different, not just a hive mind. She maybe would've stuck with the matching outfits but she wouldn't have let anyone group them up. They had names. It's something I see in a lot of twins or parents of twins (being a twin myself) is that eventually, you want to be different. And the Cuckoos were all different at one time, two dead, three dying their hair. But then the Krakoa era started and I understood in a way why they all went back to looking the same. They were a complete set again.

But I think that if Emma had raised them, they'd all be individuals in their own way. Even their rooms, which are important to any kid, are your first chance to portray and discover your interests and a safe haven for you. In the White Palace, they share one room, by choice. And I think they would do that in any universe. They want to be close and probably never slept separately until Phoebe and Sophie (? I think) died. So I think they'd have one room together. But they'd have different decors and aesthetics if they were only allowed to have a character arc outside of being evil, dead, or a hive mind. More than just a few interests shown or spats between them.

I would imagine they'd get to decorate the space by their beds and that would be that. Kind of like the og X-Men dorms, if you've seen that panel, where it's the boy's dorm and everyone has a section of the floor and walls to decorate to their tastes (and sadly, Scott's is empty and barren). But their room would have that vibe.

And Emma would be so organized with them. She's a good mom. On top of her shit, not like Hazel. Not overbearing and with unreachable standards that her father. Everything would be in certain folders, certains baskets, certain bags, their names on each thing. Or even just their initals. Her assistant would have to keep with all of their after-school activities just as well as Emma does because the driver shoulder never be late. Emma would have a fit if her daughters ever thought she forgot. Meaning every dance practice, gymnastics competition, swim meet, beauty pagent, whatever the Cuckoos wanted to join, had to be put in the calander next to Emma's meetings and such. Only the best private schools but Emma is not afraid to pull them out if they want, unlike her parents when she was telling about her being the outcast, or letting her girls pass because of how much money Emma gave the school to improve.

Just let Emma be a mom. Not just an at-arms-length mom.

(The Emma mini-series in the comics really is one of my favorite things, despite the weird teacher thing. It was a wonderful insight into her character and why she acts the way she does with her students/children. Mainly because of how her parents were. I also think Emma enjoys seeing how close the Cuckoos are as sisters because the only sibling she's close to is Christian and all her sisters tried to kill her and they never recovered from it.)

[reddslym]

Phoebe Cuckoo dating Quentin Quire works better if you imagine that Phoebe was the only Cuckoo who viewed Cable as a step brother and was thus grossed out by Esme and the others trying to get with him. So she decided to one-up them by dating the douche who Sophie OD'd on Kick to defeat back in 2003.

[cyavillaarts]

Happy X-Halloween

The Cuckoos as Emma Frost

[strangenewwords]

X-23 #5 (2018)