#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

[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]

[gotham-at-nightfall]

The Quiet Council lives again!

NYX #1

[newx-menfan]

[esmecuckoo]

I've wanted to make a triptych of this moment, separating out each of the Cuckoos, for awhile now

[azulso]

What a lovely couple

[phoenix]

Frost Sisters

Snow Sisters

[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.

[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.)

[cyavillaarts]

Happy X-Halloween

The Cuckoos as Emma Frost

[p-perkeys]

I kinda like Gabby in the Cuckoo uniform

[themutantages]

NEW EPISODE

With a title like "3 X 1," you'd think this episode of The Gifted would be all about the Cuckoos, but mostly this episode is about the Struckers deciding to leave the Mutant Underground only to return once again by the time the episode, but the Gifted does occasionally love to play with horror tropes, and that is very fun.

Now available on all podcast listening apps, Spotify & Amazon Music!

[emmafrostcovercollection]

Marauders #23 (2021) - Aspinall Variant