#Wolverine is girl dad coded

[that-art-cat]

[ringstoss]

Bubble tea! (+ short comic)

Laura convinces Logan to try bubble tea for the first time-

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 1 - Side B

firestar art by @kudos-si-do

Propaganda below ⬇️

Kirei

He fucked up so many people's lives so badly in just one decade (not on purpose) that the universe put him in the summoning pool of all world influencing souls. He doesnt really have any special powers but he does serve as a vessel for rasputin at one point. He's the guy who says "people die when they are killed"

please please please there's literally a type moon character in the gif on the top of this form so it's typemoonphobic if none of them get in but it shouldn't be her it should be kirei bc he's 50x funnier & more iconic than jeanne. funny lil murder priest who's fucking THE gilgamesh (from the epic of) in the church basement and dies in a knife fight w a 17 year old whose dad he wanted to fuck back in '94 before realizing that he was actually kinda lame and he's been bitter abt it ever since. he has an orphan torture factory in his basement but he's also canonically good at being a priest. he's so funny you should def try his mapo tofu i swear it's totally safe for human consumption and not made with any california reapers. did i mention he's a deadbeat dad.

Priest claims to be Pro Life to make Sakura Matou the most miserable girl on the planet, but he dies anyway.

bro became a catholic because he loves suffering

He’s a priest. Kind of. Not a very good priest obviously. There is something seriously wrong and fucked up with that man. It’s so entertaining.

he's gotta be one of the most insane catholic men ever with a very in-depth and interesting relationship with his religion and his relationship with god also he's the sexiest man ever to be conceptualized in the known universe and all of time

Will never forget the 40+ minute monologue in heavens feel being a thinly veiled metaphor for abortion

he wants to torment churchgoers and make them face their failures and suffering but all he ends up doing is motivate them to improve themselves. cringefail moment for him

he's absolutely insane. the coldhearted mercenary that barely reacts to anything is terrified of kirei. he's super fucked up. his ult in stay night is literally him channeling divine power into something called kyrie eleison. he's the vessel of rasputin (on account of being a priest with a huge....no i shant say) the biblical beast in grand order among other things. he gets drunk with and tops gilgamesh from the epic of gilgamesh in the church basement after gilgamesh from the epic of gilgamesh bats his eyes a little too hard at kirei in some of the horniest shot scenes ive ever seen. he also used to be a heretical "fixer" for the church, cleaning up scenes that would expose shit to the public. uhh what else. he holds cool swords between his fingers like a kid pretending to be wolverine but in my favorite route he just squares the hell up with the protagonist and they fight to the death outside planned parenthood

Firestar

Kitty jesus, he believes in starclan which is the kitty version of heaven/god and yea. All the warrior cats characters except those outside the clans or those that are atheist believe in the kitty heaven and would irl be bri-ish and christian as hell so. The authors are all older british christian women and so the way starclan is written is like undoubtedly that.

The main religion in the series is extremely catholic coded. Most clan cats believe in Starclan and the Dark Forest(or heaven and hell). There is a set of rule they must uphold and follow, where following them leads to heaven and breaking them leads to hell. Their religious leaders are sworn to celibacy, and the punishments that "code breakers"(or cats who break the rules) face are extremely similar to situations people with religious trauma have gone through.

OP notes: apparently converted to avoid getting his balls cut?? Idk. The discord yet wild for firestar so I had to include him because it's hilarious hehehe

[fandumb-thoughts]

Butch Wolverine

I just watched X-Men (2000) for the first time and yes, the X-Men are inherently queer coded obviously but there’s just something so butch about drifting through life, hated by everyone who finds out what you are—and, in a lot of ways, seemingly just on instinct—and the thing is you also don’t understand why despite objectively knowing that what you are is something just about universally hated, because you’ve become so detached from your past that whoever you were before this societal pariah might not even be yours to claim anymore—nobody you knew then has even tried to find you.

Then to, even drifting and alone, to come across a teenage girl who’s the same as you and, despite how inviting people in has never worked before, you can’t just leave her to freeze so you let her in your car and you feed her your food and you try your best to protect her from the threats coming at you to the point where she almost gets you killed and you don’t even blame her, you just immediately worry for her when she’s gone and you go after her and you know her so well, despite it only being a few days, that you manage to get to her first even though everyone else is also looking, just to try and convince her to come back to where it’s safe and she can be herself like you never got to even though you yourself still don’t feel that way here.

And when people target her before you the horror is immediate and the reaction is also immediate to try to protect her, and you’ve just met her a couple of days ago and she almost killed you and some of the bad people after you have only hurt you because of her but you don’t even care! You just want to save her, like you were never saved!

It’s vaguely girl dad but it’s SO CLEARLY not at the same time. There’s too much of a specific “I relate to this teenage girl, I am this teenage girl” for that.

(Plus the way Logan flirts with Jean Grey lmfao, Logan was trying to U-Haul that shit immediately.)

[caliburn-the-sword]

a (non)comprehensive list of all characters that i as a child decided were asian because representation hardly existed in the early 2010's, with varying degrees of asian-coding and/or canon. it also gets more unhinged

will not be tagging SHIT because i would like to not experience hate but also i feel like my mutuals would somewhat enjoy this. as a kid, my only requirements were that they either 1) had dark hair 2) had dark eyes or 3) had unnatural hair/eye/skin colour in which case i could go nuts

list is under the cut:

you liked these fairies cause you were gay?? i liked them because they were asian to me we are NOT the same (i am also gay). both are asian coded so i wasn't wrong. also shoutout to vidia for being asian and an absolute BITCH. i think her back is sore from carrying the bitchy asian rep. no one's doing it like her

musa from winx. also asian coded so it works

batman. NOT to be confused with bruce wayne. bruce wayne is white af even to me as a child. but when he had the mask on i could project on him and call him chinese

dick grayson's robin in almost all cartoon iterations (pictured above in the batman) but also including:

to be clear, this is NOT to be confused with dick grayson the civilian, or dick grayson as nightwing. by my 9 y/o logic those guys were both white af. but when dick grayson had the robin mask on that gave room for me to project, as such they're asian

zatanna zatara is wasian IN MY HEART. to ME her mum is chinese and obvi her dad is italian so she's almost just like me (chinese/spanish). idc argue with the wall

superman but ONLY the justice league unlimited version

huntress bertinelli, for the same reasons as zatanna, was always wasian to me. but she gave off half korean, half italian vibes. i will not explain myself

now is raven from a different plane than us?? yes. however azarath is home to asians idek

sorry guys jinx is a bad bitch so she's also asian

while we're at it, beast boy is also asian but ONLY in teen titans. unfortunately young justice beast boy is whitewashed (he was never asian to begin with). i asked my sister if she ever asian-washed characters when watching tv she said no (rudeass) but i provided multiple teen titans as an example and my mum was like "wait?? beast boy isn't asian?? i thought he was asian??" so beast boy is actually mum-approved-asian. i don't make the rules

draculaura from monster high was always asian to me idc what the haters say. everyone say thank you to the monster high reboot for giving me asian draculaura because frankly i deserve it

also. robecca steam is south asian in my heart

jackson jekyll was also asian. idk. he just was

now, since the eah reboot made draculaura wasian i'm BEGGING for there to be an eah reboot because they will do my girl raven queen justice. SHE is asian

kitty cheshire is also asian i don't make the rules

sorry guys duchess swan is also asian

while i'm at it, faybelle thorn is also asian talk to the wall

now i need you guys to pinky promise to be nice to me. percy jackson was wasian to me until ethan nakamura was introduced. only after ethan's introduction did my 13 y/o ass let percy be white again

tony stark is asian but ONLY in iron man armoured adventures

now, a plethora of xmen evolution characters are actually asian (source: i made it the fuck up) these include, but are not limited to: wolverine, x23, wanda and pietro

[words-writ-in-starlight]

Headcanon meme: Logan? (Or Laura, your choice.)

Some of both, I think, because I love them both so much.  Speaking of which, I’m rereading the X-Men comics I own starting with the very first issue in the 60′s, with the overdramatic dialogue and the ridiculous costumes, and...I love them...so much.  For this headcanon meme!

HeadcanonLaura! Is! Trans!  Good talk!

For Logan, I still really truly believe that he and Steve Rogers ran in similar circles for a minute or twenty in WWII, because quite frankly if one super soldier is good, one super soldier and one dude with an upsetting talent for taking a bullet and walking it off is better.  Steve remembers Logan much better than Logan remembers Steve, because Logan’s working with a fair amount of memory loss just purely because, yeah, he can take a bullet to the brain and get back up, but memory storage is a delicate business and repairing the neural paths doesn’t necessarily repair the memories.  The two of them get drinks sometimes regardless.

HeartcanonLaura and Logan are both Highly Paranoid (with good reasons) and therefore people tend to expect them to radiate enough unease to make animals nervous.  They are Deeply Wrong.  Laura, at first, tends to be more afraid of animals than they are of her, relic of a long history of any and all new creatures being basically a gladiatorial fight to the death, but she comes around pretty quickly when Logan shows her how to entice a stray cat toward her.  As soon as Laura calms down the pair of them are always the most popular kids at the dance when it comes to domestic animals (with the exception of horses, which are anxious enough to need some soothing first) and one time Laura wandered out of the woods behind the manor with a real-ass fox in her arms.  

“You’re a Disney princess,” Kitty gasps, thrilled.

“I am not,” Laura snaps, blushing, and puts the fox down.  It does not leave.  As far as it’s concerned it’s found the universe’s friendliest apex predator and it’s pretty sure that following her around is going to get it enough food to turn it into a fox-colored sphere.

Gutcanon...the HYDRA cell that cloned Laura included a neurobiologist who used to work for the Red Room, and as such Laura has command coding modeled off the Winter Soldier and the Black Widow program deeply laced into her brain.  They learn this in the worst possible way (of course) and the ensuing fight to keep her contained nearly kills even Logan.  When she comes back to herself, she’s covered in his blood and Logan is still standing between her and the rest of the X-Men, because he knows from bitter experience that coming out of a haze and finding you’ve killed someone you love is the worst experience in the world.

See, the Weapon X program, when it experimented on Logan, was well equipped mechanically but underprepared for the delicate process of brainwashing.  Their first attempt crossed wires badly with Logan’s mutation, and accidental (or intentional) activation of the programming would send him into berserker rages, and...yeah.  He’s not letting that happen to Laura.  A lot of bad shit’s happened to her because of him, including this, but he’s pretty sure she’ll come out of it before she actually kills him for good, so he takes the punishment and does.  Not.  Move.

JunkcanonHey listen, I know Kitty/Illyana is, like, The Thing, but: Illyana/Laura?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Just me?  They would be a narratively perfect match, and also I would LOVE the parallel of Sweet Smiling Sunshine Illyana Who Is Also Belasco’s Heir and Grumpy Scowly Swear-y Laura Who Is Lowkey On A Righteous Crusade.  Tall Illyana in her high femme armor with a bigass sword and short Laura with her hair up in a ponytail and the blood of her enemies on her highly practical uniform.  Laura’s mutation and training mean she’s strong enough to carry her girlfriend bridal style even though Illyana is extremely��Colossus’ sister and like a good solid seven inches taller than Laura’s 5′4″.  Illyana is enthralled with this fact.  One time Laura saw Illyana throw her sword like a javelin in a training session and instantly got clobbered by a mock Sentinel while she was staring.  It was totally worth it because Illyana spent the next hour fretting over Laura, healing factor notwithstanding.

Illyana had more of a childhood than Laura did (although not THAT much more) and teaches her dumb stuff like clapping games and jumprope, and one of the languages Laura learned in the lab was Russian and she falls in love with the language like she’s never done before when she hears Illyana telling bad jokes in it.

It takes Illyana a little while to get over her hopeless crush on Kitty, and it takes Laura even longer to figure out what the fuck pining even is, let alone that she’s been doing it, and then they’re sweet and clumsy and earnest together while Logan and Colossus kind of eye each other dubiously over their heads.

Come the fuck on, guys, this is a great concept.  This is, like, the Sweetest Ship.

God, catch me getting feelings about an AU where Laura is an angel and Illyana is a demon even though I’ve never read a single Magyk comic.

SpleencanonCanon can frankly suck an entire dick, especially on the subject of their perennial Death Of Wolverine nonsense.  Like, listen up?  Bitch?  You can have an immortal character.  It’s okay.  You can do that.  I understand that you feel like you need to keep doing the death thing because it’s “emotionally poignant” or whatever, but fucking COUNTER-PROPOSAL: you have a bunch of potentially immortal characters, which, understandably, you milk for a lot of angst.  That’s okay, I like mortals-and-immortals angst, but you need to stop fucking killing Wolverine because it’s nonsensical and annoying and never sticks, so what you’re going to do instead is have Wolverine start a whole fucking daisy-chain of immortal found family narratives.  Just have Logan adopt all of them.  Literally every single immortal character who isn’t actively out to do a genocide is Logan’s child now.  

Laura?  Yep.  

Illyana?  That’s his baby girl.  

Thor?  Thor needs a strong father figure in his life and Odin ain’t always top notch.  

Silver Surfer?  Norrin is a sad and shiny boy who could probably stand to have a parent around so he stops making so many bad fucking decisions.  

Elixir?  You KNOW Logan’s already on his game there.  

Steve Rogers?  Depending on your canon homeboy could live a long fucking time with that serum, and as we’ve discussed Logan was already Full Dad Mode in WWII, it’s just the status quo.

And like, Logan doesn’t need to keep all his new kids at home with him, most of them are grown folk, they’re adults, they can take care of themselves, but what I’m going to need is an ever-growing network of semi-to-fully-immortal characters who know that they can call up Wolverine when their girlfriend or their children or whoever lives out a long mortal life and dies of old age.  

You think I’m kidding but I’m EXTREMELY serious.

[frederator-studios]

Meet Rory Panagotopulos, Creator of Thrashin’ USA

Rory Panagotopulos is a Boston native with a Venice Beach soul, whose lifelong love of skateboarding inspired his short “Thrashin’ USA” our 11th Go! Cartoon. When he’s not animating the crowd-pleasing interstitials of MTV shows like Girl Code, Rory is hanging out with his dog Bosco or creating skate-related content such as gifs of the Gundam robots catching phat air—quality content accessible on his Instagram. I caught up with Rory to talk sketch comedy, bad 80s action sports movies, and turning your childhood neighbors into over-the-top cartoon villains.

How did you start animating?

I always wanted to do art—funny art, if possible. I knew I wanted to animate but didn’t really know where to start. The first things I made were claymations In high school—my aunt and uncle were getting rid of their giant 80s VHS camcorder, so I used that and just hit ‘record’ and ‘stop’ really fast.

An illustrious beginning. Where’d that take you?

I went to college for Computer Science. It was back when the belief was that everything was going to be 3D animated from then on. So I started getting into 3D animation, and found that it wasn’t for me. I’ve always loved drawing and making characters, and I was got lost in all the technicality of 3D. So I started focusing on art in college instead, and realized I could easily use a computer to make 2D animations.

Wait, so… you became a Computer Science major just to do 3D animation?

Yeeeaah. I was so mystified by animation that I was like, “3D animation is done on computers right, so Computer Science major it is.” 

Oh man.

It culminated with me and my friend sort of tricking our advisors into letting us make a movie our senior year. He was a film major and I was like an Art major, Comp. Sci. minor at that point. Our movie had 3D animations that I did the full animating on - way too much for one person, so it didn’t look great - but it was an animated movie.

That’s cool. Did you submit it to festivals?

Ohhh, yeah, noo, it wasn’t a fit for festivals. But we did meet people from MTV because of it. Randomly, a dude at MTVU reached out to us after seeing it. And oddly enough, the same person I first met at MTV, 10 years later, is the person I work with now at MTV.  

What do you do for MTV now?

Technically the gig is with the independent production company that the executive producer of the shows I work on created. But I make the little explanatory animations for the show Girl Code.

Neat! So did you go straight into freelance animating after school?

Actually, no. Me and the friend I made the film with moved to New York and started doing comedy stuff at Upright Citizen’s Brigade. Just to make stuff, we’d make YouTube videos and would put animation in them.

Comedy stuff! Was that acting, writing, stand-up?

Sketch shows, which we did for about 5 years. They have house teams at UCB, so every month we’d host a different sketch show—it was great training for writing. And we did a few big shows, like one called “Dog Fleet”. It was like a live on-stage Saturday-morning Cartoon parody. Sort of like a Ninja Turtles toss-up, but with dogs.

Actual dogs onstage?

Oh, no, that would’ve been bad, ha—just people. People with very rudimentary dog ears on their heads. And they were obsessed with beans instead of pizza.

Ah, gotcha. So this comedy stuff, it couldn’t have been paying the bills?

Not quite! I was working at a book publisher, Simon and Schuster, doing the #1 most boring job in the arts. I’d go through editor’s corrections for books and make sure they didn’t mess up the page layout too much. So scrolling through books all day adding commas.

And then you’d let out all that steam with the comedy at night?

Pretty much! I liked that job because it ended at 5pm, and I wouldn’t think about it again until the next morning. Lived that double lifestyle for a while. Then the guy I met at MTV started doing Girl Code, and reached out to me and was like, “Oh, do you still do animation?”. At first I was like, “No”.

Ha! Shut down.

I wasn’t exactly like “No” but I was like, “Oh, I dunno, this comedy thing is pretty cool.” But I eventually got too bored of the other job. So I reached out to him and was like, “Hey, are you still doing that?” And he was like “Actually no, I’m not.” But he graciously introduced me to the new person who was running the show. So that’s how that gig started.

Did you dream of making a cartoon as a kid?

Definitely, I was obsessed with cartoons. We didn’t have cable until I was like 12, so any time a cartoons came on TV, I was watching it. It was basically Ninja Turtles and all the action 80s and 90s cartoons like GI Joe and Centurions. And I was totally obsessed with the X-Men cartoon, which I actually re-watched recently and found to have the most insane complicated plot of any cartoon. I definitely didn’t understand what was going on when I was a kid. I guess I was just like “Oh my God! Wolverine!”

So what do you work on in your own time?

The awesome thing about doing freelance is I can take a full month here and there to work on personal stuff. I did an animated web series a couple years ago called “Garbage Time”. It’s about two kids sitting on the bench for a basketball team, something I did a lot of my freshman year of high school. I did everything for it: writing, casting, recording, animating. I learned why so many people work on animated projects—it’s a lot to make. If I’m more busy, I make wacky photoshops that I usually share on Twitter.

So did you come to pitch to Go! Cartoons?

I knew of Frederator through Adventure Time or Fairly OddParents. I don’t know what landed me on the website... again with the theme of me not knowing what I’m doing. But I saw the Go! Cartoons program, and was like, “Oh, I definitely want to do this”. “Dog Fleet” was originally going to be my cartoon pitch, but my friend wanted to do it as a sketch show, so that’s how that went.

But I still wanted to make a cartoon, so I came up with two new pitches. My girlfriend and I were coming out to LA for a wedding, so I scheduled my pitch for then, and figured if I’m going all the way out there, I’ll wow them with two - not just one - pitches. In hindsight, neither was good. Eric (our VP Development) gave me great notes and a quick class on pitching, and I took his advice home, came up with and boarded “Thrashin’ USA”, and did a better pitch over Skype.

What was the advice you were given on pitching?

Well, because the shorts are only 5 minutes, character is key. You have to get a very good, likable character out to the audience as quickly as possible. And then you also want the story to be simple and to the point. The ones I’d pitched before, nothing really happened. They were kind of like mumblecore. So when I went back I tried to make a very tight story where actions happened in sequence, and you get to know a character, and you actually feel good at the end.

What inspired “Thrashin’ USA”?

I loved skateboarding in high school and college. I was terrible at it, but I’ve always loved it, and skate culture in general. And it was on my mind at the time because my nephew was turning 5 and wanted a skateboard for his birthday. I was like: #1, it’s crazy that you’re 5 and you want a skateboard; and #2, I was remembering how when you’re a kid, it’s so hard to get anything. So I thought about a kid trying to get a skateboard or get his skateboard back, and that’s where that idea originated.

Also, my neighbor growing up was named Mrs. Tracy. And before I had a board, they always had this old 70s banana board in the back of their garage that I would just see. I’d always think, “Oh man… I just want to get that board.”

Were you guys friendly... was she evil? Is she gonna see your short?!

I think she was a very nice woman - definitely not evil. We were always like, losing balls in her backyard, so I think she was more annoyed with us than anything. The way my dad is… I’m sure he’ll see her on the street and try to explain it to her and she’ll be like, “Okay.”

Who were the inspirations for Pau and Gabby?

Pau basically looks a lot like my nephew, so that’s true to life. With Gabby, I wanted there to be a cool skater girl, and to avoid any kind of ‘damsel in distress’ trope. She’s as good a skateboarder, if not better than Pau.

Did you know any cool skater girls growing up?

Not really. Mostly because me and my one friend in high school who also skateboarded were too bad to go to skateparks or anything. But I think some of the reason behind that was that back then, and still now, skateboarding has an annoying "boys club" vibe. I think part of my intention with Gabby’s character was to raise the representation, in a small way, of skateboarding being a cool thing for girls to do. I’d rather paint a picture of skateboarding that’s more open to everyone.

Well you know one now! Not sure I count as “cool” though. Do you still skateboard?

Nah; the last time I did was back when I was still doing sketch comedy. I was using a skateboard as a prop in a show, so I skateboarded 5 or 6 blocks from the train to the theater, and my knees hurt so much afterward that I was like, “Ok, well, that was fun while it lasted.”

Where you grew up, was skateboarding a big part of the culture?

I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, and definitely not. The things kids liked were baseball and hockey. I watched a lot of TV shows as a kid about skateboarding and California and it always seemed like this awesome fantasy world where everybody skateboarded. Really I only had one or two friends who also skateboarded. But it was this cool thing where we were from a place people wouldn’t skateboard, but we were doing it anyway. And being from Massachusetts, we had to have a chip on our shoulders because it’s cold all the time. So it was this point of pride like, “Yeah, let’s go skate even though it’s freezing.”

Do you know what you’d do with a Thrashin’ USA series?

Well I’ve drawn a lot from the bad skateboarding movies that were made in the 80s and 90s. There’s one called Thrashin’ that is definitely my favorite of them; it’s basically Romeo and Juliet set against a downhill skateboarding race. There’s a rollerblading one called Airborne. And they make no sense. They’re supposed to take place in the normal world, but it’s all over-the-top and skateboarding is the most important thing in the world for everybody. And I was like, these could be good, if the conceit was that this is a fantasy world where skateboarding is super important and everyone cares about skateboarding, cause that’s just not reality. So that’s the idea: to build that kind of world and treat it as a fantasy.

Have you thought about Pau and Gabby’s arcs?

Well I imagine that this world would have levels of competitions. So I see them both entering the town competition, then regional, state, and all the way up to universal competitions. And it’d become a dynamic where they’re working out whether they have feelings for each other, and whether those will be affected by the fact that they’re both very focused on skateboarding and trying to be the best in the world at it.

Would Mrs. Tracy remain a primary antagonist?

Yeah, I like her as an antagonist because one of the goofiest things about those 80s skateboarding movies is how ridiculous the villains are. It’s (dramatic voice) parents, teachers, COPS. You know, people who are generally just trying their best but because they’re enemies of skateboarding, they’re public enemy #1 in this world. So I like the heightening of strict teachers, crazy neighbors—Mrs. Tracy just trying to get vengeance for her azaleas.

What are your biggest influences and favorite cartoons?

For “Thrashin’ USA” specifically, the title comes from the song “Thrashin’ USA” by The Bones Brigade, that actually took their name from a skateboarding crew from the 80s—so doubly ripping off. They were like a thrash metal band I was really into in college that did a lot of songs about skateboarding and eating junk food.

Some of my favorite movies of all time are the Bill and Ted duology. I think it’s had a big influence on my humor and ideas. I’m a fan of Genndy Tartakovsky’s stuff - definitely Samurai Jack, but I feel like his Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon gets overlooked. That was my favorite cartoon for a while. One of my favorite animated movies ever is called Interstella 5555. It’s basically a Daft Punk album that they made an anime over, and the story is of a super popular alien pop group getting corporatized by an Earth record company. I also really liked Daria and Beavis and Butthead. When Adult Swim and Toonami became a thing, I was all about that. 

And what are you working on now, as personal projects?

Well I was inspired by the whole Go! Cartoons process, so I’ve just been like, coming up with a lot of pitches and character ideas. One that I’m working on now is about a BMX bike gang—sort of like Daria crossed with Akira.

I’d watch! Thanks for the chat Rory. I’m excited to see the projects you slide into next.

- Cooper

[opheliamblackwood]

Refraction: Chapter 2: A Danger to Your Health

I'm dreaming of mom again. It's the same dream over and over again. It's always the same dream. She’s always reaching for me and as I reach for her, I can see her screaming, but I never hear it. I watch her skin and muscle melt away from her body until all I can see is half of her face masked in horror and her bony fingers reaching for me. I see the mushroom cloud go off in the distance and can feel the heat of the shock wave on my face. At first, it feels like the Sun and then it starts to boil my skin until blisters form. That isn’t possible for me now that I know that I can’t be harmed by the radiation, only fueled by it.

I don’t know what kinds of things I might be able to do.  I know that one of the effects of the Radiation on those of us positively affected by it, is an unnaturally long life. It will take us a lot longer to die. Our life span is practically doubled and we don’t really get old. We age, but we don’t show it. Some of us have more mental abilities and some of us have physical abilities. There is extra strength, heightened senses on grand scale. Things like hearing farther than normal humans can, being able to lift a phenomenal amount. We never get sick, we never age, but we can die. 

This girl I grew up with, Charlotte, found out she was a Nukie and lost her damn mind. She had telekinesis and it was heavily connected to her mood. As you can imagine, she was freaking out knowing that she was one of us and this made her telekinesis go haywire. She started throwing everything around her, including people. A lot of people got hurt and she moved a heavy machine that got slammed into her little brother who died from the impact. The only way to get her to stop was to knock her out which the Feds did. They took her away and no one has ever seen her again. Her poor family was left to pick up the pieces, losing both of their children. Her dad committed suicide a week later and her mom got really sick and eventually passed away a few months after that. It’s what Nukies like us risk to lose. It’s important to stay very calm until you can get a reign on whatever ability it is that you have. 

I think about all of this as I go to work. I’m hoping to find something that will help me figure myself out. They’ve been running all sorts of tests on various Nukies. They tend to leave those of us that are Nukies and Engineers alone, seeing as how they need us. So, they test on other Nukies instead. Mainly, we test out their powers in a safe, controlled environment, draw their blood and try to replicate whatever genetic mutations caused from the radiation exposure on Non-Nukies. Nothing has worked so far. We can’t create Nukies. Therefor, we can’t un-create Nukies. So, there’s a strong chance I’ll be like this forever. 

There’s a girl I work with, Bria. I knew her back in college. We had a lot of the same classes together and we’ve become good friends over the past few years. Especially since the War. We got assigned to the same team, so we see each other everyday. Bria isn’t afraid of me. Rather, she finds me interesting and loves to annoy the shit out of me every single day by asking me if I’ve figured out what my abilities are yet.  I walked in today, clomping into the lab in my Doc Martens and Bria, as usual, excitedly jumps up from her stool to dash over to me and yet again, annoy the shit out of me. 

“Anything?!” she asks in an excited whisper as if everyone where we worked didn’t know that I was a Nukie. 

I sigh exasperatedly.

“No, Bria.” 

I walk over to my stool and sit down, careful not to tip it over as I lean forward and look through some paperwork. I can feel Bria’s eyes on my face as I attempt to read. I give up and lay the papers down, turning to face her. As I expected, her eyes are alight with excitement and her lithe body looks like she’s ready to spring on me. I eye her warily and take the bait, 

“What?” I ask. 

“ You didn’t hear?” she asks, excitement still present in her voice.

“If I’d heard anything worth warranting excitement, I wouldn’t be asking would I?” I say, annoyance in my voice.

It sails completely over Bria’s head or maybe she just ignored it.

“ They found something.” she says, trying to keep her voice down to a whisper.

“What do you mean they FOUND something?” I ask. 

Could she be talking about the Feds? Did they finally “crack” the code to us Nukies?

Bria looks around nervously and gets a little closer to me which is beginning to make me a little uncomfortable. I’ve seen Bria excited, but never like this. 

“They tested a girl yesterday and Raheed was checking her blood when he found something. We did the necessary tests and....” Bria said, trailing off. She glanced around nervously. I looked around too and everyone was focusing on the task in front of them. I wondered why she was so nervous. 

“ And?” I asked.

“ It worked.” she said, letting out a breath as if she’d been carrying a stack of concrete blocks.

My face must have betrayed how surprised I was.

“ What?!” I said in a rather loud whisper which garnished some looks from our colleagues. 

“Shhh. Keep your voice down. Not everyone in the lab knows.” Bria said leaning in close to me.

“What? Why?” I asked. Why would it be a big secret anyway? Isn’t this what we’d been working towards for months anyway?

“ I don’t know. But...be careful. I don’t know what this could mean. They may try and experiment on you next. And, you’re my friend. I don’t want to lose you.” Bria said, tears in her eyes.

I laughed and reassured her, “Bria, I’ll be fine. I’m sure they won’t. Besides, they need me don’t they?” 

“ Well, yes and no. Now that they know they can do it with the teams they have, what’s not to say they won’t just forego their no-touch rule and go after you next? I mean, it’s feasible.” she said worriedly. 

“Bria. I think you’re being paranoid.” I said and turned back to my paperwork.

She was right. What was to keep them from coming for me next? I wasn’t going to be some god damn lab rat for these people. And, I enjoy being a Nukie. It keeps me safe in a lot of ways. It seems to me that the only real danger in this new world are the damn humans. I mean, I still consider myself human, but a lot of people would say I’m a mutant or a monster. Nukie is a kind term and Meta-Human is what the scientists call us. They say we’re the next step in the evolutionary change. They want to understand why people like me are so special that we get to have the privilege that comes with being a Meta-Human. Everyone wants to be the cool kid on the block. It’s not exactly like I asked for this, but I’m not exactly complaining either. 

I feel like an X-Man everyday. I’m just thankful I’m not Rogue. It would seriously suck to have to wear gloves everyday of my life. Wolverine doesn’t seem like a great character in terms of if I had to choose to be him. Being Storm would be pointless underground, although, she is pretty bad-ass. Jean Grey was pretty cool, but she had a lot of issues with her powers. Cyclops, I’ll pass on that one. Gambit was...interesting. Nightcrawler was pretty cool. I don’t know. I think about this often. I get to be my own X-Man. Hey, maybe I can grab a bunch of meta-nerds like me and form my very own X-Men group in real life. How could would that be?

My mind tends to wander and jump from thought to thought. I kind of can’t help it. I was so stuck in my thoughts that I didn’t realize how quiet everything had gotten around me. I look back up and everything around me is different. People aren’t moving at all and the room is no longer bright and mostly white. It’s a stormy gray and there’s a mist that’s sort of snaking around everything like I’m walking in a countryside in a zombie movie or something. I carefully get up from my stool and I wave my hand in front of Bria who is staring in my general direction. Her body stays the same. Her eyes don’t move at all. Freaky.

I can hear this low humming sound and a faint sound of what sounds like whale song? What the hell? The room is suddenly very cold and I wrap my lab jacket around me even more. I take my goggles off and put them down on the table in front of me. Is everyone frozen in time? Is this Me? It has to be Me doing this. This has never happened before. I leave the lab and dash as quickly as I can to the experiment room. This room requires a certain level of clearance that I don’t really have. I’m on the lower end of what I’m allowed to do, see and participate in. If ever I wanted the full answers to what they do to people like me, now’s the time. I’m not sure how long this will last, so I’m really praying to every God that exists that it stays this way long enough for me to snoop and get back to my desk like nothing ever happened.

I remember watching a bunch of sci-fi movies when I was a kid. I loved watching all of the old stuff. The Twilight Zone was my favorite. I remember thinking about all of the possibilities of the world and wondering if any of those things are possible. Now that I’m older, I still think it’s all very possible. I had always wanted a different life. I used to beg for anything other than the mundane. Well, I got it. There was a war and multiple nuclear bombs were dropped. Everyone wanted so badly to win that they stopped caring about who they were fighting for. In the end, no one won. I guess, maybe we did. If this had never happened, I would never know what I could be capable of, what I could become. I feel like I’m in a sci-fi novel. If you think about it, I am. Dystopian future, protagonist with a heart-wrenching backstory. I think about this as I make my way down the multiple hallways I’ve walked so many times. I stand outside the door that’s heavily guarded. There are 4 SWAT officers that are heavily armed and quite intimidating. This is my chance.

I slip past them and go through the doors to see multiple scientists frozen in various poses around the room while they do different things. In the center of the room is the president of our branch staring at a man that is naked and suspended in clear fluid with various tubes hooked up to his body. Walking around the man, I see that his eyes are open. I gasp because I notice that the color of his irises are similar to mine. I’ve never seen anyone else with eyes like mine. I don’t have any siblings, so I know we can’t be siblings. He looks about my age and is well-built. I avert my eyes and try very hard not to look down, even though I want to. The last time I had a boyfriend was in college before the war. He didn’t make it. There hasn’t been anyone since. 

So this is what they’re working on back here. I walk around the room, eyeing everyone cautiously and read over some of the various paperwork that I see. It seems like they’ve been working on him his whole life. He’s a year younger than me and he’s an orphan. They took him from one of the bunkers and have kept him here ever since.  His name is Project number 12. They couldn’t even give him a fucking name? This is cruel. I wonder what they’re doing to him. I’m assuming they’re experimenting on him, but I wonder what for.  Is he like me? He must be to have my eyes. I wonder if he has this ability too. I press my hand to the glass. I feel this connection with him now. 

I don’t know how much time I have. I’m lucky as all get out that I’ve had this long without getting caught. I turn to head out of the room and look back one last time. His eyes meet mine and I let out a gasp. Is he...awake? I back away and run down the halls to my stool and compose myself. When my breathe finally evens out, the world swims back into focus. Noise fills my ears and I can hear the on-goings of the lab. No one even noticed I was gone. So, I can control how long I freeze time after-all. I look around and everything is bright, white and clear again. What was with that weird mist anyway? 

Bria comes over to me and scares the shit out of me when she whispers, “Boo.”

“Shit, Bria! Why would you do that?” I say.

Bria looks surprised and steps back.

“Woah, you okay? I didn’t mean to scare you.” Bria says. 

“I’m fine. Just...tired.” I say, putting my pen down and rubbing my eyes with one hand.

“Are you having the nightmares again?” Bria asks. 

“Yeah.” I say, looking up at her.

“ I’m sorry Rory.” Bria says, putting a hand on my shoulder. 

I lay my hand over her hand.

“Thanks Bri. I appreciate it.” I say.

“You should go home. It’s not like they’ll notice if you aren’t here. There’s only like a thousand of us. What’s one day anyway?” Bria says.

“Yeah, maybe I will.” I say.

I work for another hour and decide to go home. I feel strange and think about that man that I saw. Was he looking back at me? Was he unfrozen? It’s weird. I feel like he’s watching me even now, but that isn’t possible. But, I can’t stop the feeling of being watched. I turn around in the street and everyone is doing their own thing. No one is looking at me. I turn around and head home. 

I hang my jacket up and call out, “I’m home!” 

The house is silent. 

“Dad?” I call out. Complete silence.

I head upstairs and see him in bed. 

“Dad?” I ask again quietly, gently putting my hand on his shoulder trying to wake him.

My breath catches in my throat. My hands shaking, I put two fingers on the side of his throat to feel for his pulse. There isn’t one. I fall back on the floor and look at his body. He’s gone.

[the-darkdream]

Project Zero

A/N : Hey guys ! This is my first fiction for old Logan and the whole of marvel thing . Hope you will like it . This will be two parts as I hope..

English is not my native language and I don’t have beta so forgive my mistakes.

Summary: You were the first project they made and for them you were a great failure. They didn’t know what you were able to do , but they kept you anyway until your sister Laura was born after five years of project Zero ( you )

Warnings: Old Logan / Laura sister/ Logan!father x daughter reader / angst / spoilers for Logan 2017 !

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You were finally able to runaway with Laura in your hands , you ran until there was no more , you ran until the end of the roads with Laura and Gabriella , it was the only chance to stay alive after they closed the project and you wanted it for Laura not for yourself, you knew it was already too late as you were project Zero and that meant - at least for you - not able to be saved !

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That time when Logan came to the motel and saw Laura you were only able to see him from far away distance as you were hiding, you were afraid that he might not be able to accept both of you and you wanted Laura to be the one who Logan is going to save , you knew she would have a better chance when he is around...

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When Gabriella was killed you had no chance expect to run with Laura as she had now no one else ..

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The moment you reached Logan place , the moment your eyes met you knew life is not going to be the same , you knew that you are not going to able to give up on him even if he asked you to and from the way you both stopped to look at each other you were able to guess that he felt the same even he wasn’t going to admit it easily...

“ The woman asked me to deliver one girl and that causing me so much problems already so who the hell are you ? “ Logan asked angrily trying to fight his thoughts and don’t let that show up .

You only took a step back with holding Laura with one hand and taking her closer to your side

“ Logan ! Please welcome our guests! The little one is Laura - the one I have been communicating with - the other one is..” The professor stopped at this point kind of sad about the fact of what happened to you “ the other one is Zero..” that was the only name he was able to give you , it was your code after all !

Logan with going to say something, but the bad guys interrupted and there was no more time to talk..

Since the first move Laura made you knew that Logan recognized her immediately, he was always a smart man and he knew that he was his girl for sure and you thought that was enough, but a part of you wanted more..a part of you wanted him to recognize you..

You weren’t like them , you weren’t Wolverine, but you were like a battery and blade to them , no one knew that expect you , that was the reason you were a failure to them as they never knew what you really was . You helped as a defender no more , you helped keeping the professor safe and getting him in the car when Logan asked to and the only thing that helped you to keep fighting was that short looks you shared with your dad even he was so angry on everything around, angry from himself more than he was angry from you..

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You were finally able to stop for a while . You got out with Laura to play outside, leaving the professor and Logan alone in the car..

“ So what the hell ? What are you trying to say ?” Logan asked angrily

“ I am not trying to say anything! You aren’t blind Logan ! Maybe you are so old and weaker than before, but you are not blind and definitely not stupid! Both girls are your daughters ..Zero is a special case as she was born with a different kind of power ! She can help you to heal again , Logan . She has her ways that she kept it a secret since she was born even she knew that she might get killed because of that, but she waited on the hope of finding and helping you some day . She waited for Laura as well..” the professor explained

“ Do you want me to believe that ***” Logan said trying to accept that truth from the inside

“ You don’t have any other option as this is reality!” The professor ended the talk and then he looked to see the reflection of both of you on the mirror of the car . You had a very beautiful smile..he admitted that to himself

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Logan started the video Gabriella left while you were all sleeping and then he started to listen to Laura story , but he also wanted to know more about you..

“ Finally about project Zero ! She is so afraid you might not accept her and she preferred that you save Laura instead of her , but if you are seeing that video that means she is already with you. Project Zero was a great failure! At least that what we all thought . When she was five years old the reachers recognized that she cannot be a Wolverine and she can’t live away from them , people like Zero can’t live 24 hours away from Wolverine type for a reason wasn’t clear then . That was the reason the decided it is time for a new project ( Laura) . When Laura was born Zero was able to live kind of normally even that word didn’t really exist for her as they prevented us from giving her a name and they refused to let her stay with the other kids as she was showing no power and she wasn’t talking as well..someday after putting that metal inside Laura I saw something..Zero has an ability as well ! Instead of the claws she has empty holes that fits Wolverine’s claws and by getting them in there she can kill a Wolverine and heal him..I don’t know a lot about that , but she will be useful to you, so please don’t give up on her..” the video ended and then Logan gave you along look asking himself “ Who are you ? “

[dalekofchaos]

My Favorite things

Favorite Movies

The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Crow, Star Wars(in it’s entirty) The Dark Knight, Serenity, Star Trek II:The Wrath Of Khan, John Carpenter’s Halloween, Batman Begins, Repo! The Genetic Opera, The Devil's Carnival, Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, Let The Right One In, Interview With The Vampire, Pacific Rim, Inception, Memento, Scarface, Fight Club,The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1974)Alien, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Aliens, Terminator 2:Judgement Day, The Terminator, Robocop,Back To The Future trilogy, Harry Potter series,Lord Of The Rings trilogy,(Extended Edition)Silence Of The Lambs, A Clockwork OrangeThe Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Reservoir Dogs, Kill BillPulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Jackie Brown, Donnie Darko, Battle Royale, Catching Fire, Patton, The Pianist, Schindler’s List, Platoon, Enemy At The Gates, Empire Of The Sun, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket,To Kill A Mocking Bird, Dirty Harry, American Psycho, Red Dragon, Dawn of The Dead, Day Of The Dead, Night Of The Living Dead, Dracula(1931),  Frankenstein(1931), Bride Of Frankenstein,The Phantom Of The Opera(1924), The Mummy(1932),The Invisible Man, Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Peter Cushing Sherlock Holmes movies, The RDJ Sherlock Holmes movies,  the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies, King Kong(1933), Godzilla(1954), Godzilla vs King Kong, Godzilla vs Destroyah, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Return of Godzilla, Godzilla:Final Wars, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah,  Horror Of Dracula, Curse Of Frankenstein, The Devil’s Rejects, Mean Girls, The Matrix, Men In Black, Selma, Malcolm X,  Gran Torino, Dirty Harry, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Rocky series. Rambo series, Mad Max series, Ghostbusters 1984, No Country For Old Men, The Patriot, Brokeback Mountain, A Knight’s Tale, Monster’s Ball,  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Public Enemies, Kingsman:The Secret Service, Lost Boys, Underworld series, Jennifer’s Body, Trick r Treat, House Of 1000 Corpses, An American Werewolf In London, Zombieland, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 4, From Russia With Love, Casino Royale, Wonder Woman, WatchmenV For Vendetta, Dredd, Man Of Steel, Batman V Superman:Dawn Of JusticeBatman(1989), Suicide Squad, Superman II:The Richard Donner Cut,Superman:The Movie, Batman Returns, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 & 2, All-Star Superman, Wonder Woman(2009 animated film),  Superman:Doomsday, Batman Year One, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, Batman:Under The Red Hood, Green lantern:First Flight, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, Captain America:The Winter Soldier, Spider-Man:Homecoming, Captain America:The First Avenger, Iron Man, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers:Age Of Ultron, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Ant-Man, Thor:The Dark World, Logan, X-Men:Days Of Future Past, X-2:X-Men United, The Punisher, Blade II, Blade, X-Men:Apocalypse, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men, The Wolverine, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, The Lion King, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Mulan, Beauty And The Beast, Moana, The Incredibles, WALL.E, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Toy Story 3, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Monster’s Inc, Lilo And Stitch, Monsters University, The Princess And The Frog, Tangled, UpSleeping Beauty, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Brave, Big Hero 6, Inside Out, Wreck-It Ralph, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Pirates Of The Caribbean:Curse Of The Black Pearl, Zootopia, Alice In Wonderland(Disney's, not the Tim Burton abomination)Peter Pan, Tron,Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Hercules, Pocahontas, Tarzan, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, Frozen, The Emperor’s New Groove, Atlantis:The Lost Empire, Ratatouille, The Aristocats, Lady And The Tramp, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Mary Poppins, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood,The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers, The Black Cauldron, Oliver & Company, The Rescuers Down Under, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Hocus Pocus, A Goofy Movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Shrek series, Ice Age, The Prince Of Egypt, How To Train Your Dragon 1&2, The Craft, Beetlejuice,The Addams Family, The Addams Family Values, Edward Scissorhands,  Mortal Kombat, Taylor Swift:The Journey To Fearless, I Robot, The Machinist, Ninja Assassin, Space Jam, Power Rangers:The Movie, Power Rangers 2017, Machete, The Expendables, The Never Ending Story, Red, The Iron Giant, Anastasia, Street Fighter II, Star Trek III, IV, and IV, and Death Note trilogy

Favorite TV Shows

Doctor Who, Orphan Black. Stranger Things, Carmilla, Firefly, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, The Defenders, Iron Fist, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Hannibal, American Horror Story, iZombie, Supernatural(seasons 1-5), American Crime Story, Granada Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, Elementary, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Dexter, The Walking Dead, Vikings, The Strain, Penny Dreadful, Preacher, Wynonna Earp , Dollhouse, Agent Carter, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends Of Tomorrow, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Constantine, Star Trek, Star Trek:The Next Generation, Star Trek:Deep Space Nine, Star Trek:Voyager, Sons Of Anarchy, Ash vs Evil Dead, Orange Is The New Black, House Of Cards, The Walking Dead, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Jekyll, House, LOST, Heroes, The Sopranos, Damages, NCIS, Criminal Minds, True Blood, The SHIELD, Scrubs, The Thick Of It, The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, That’s 70’s Show, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Cheers, Fraiser, MASH, Hogan’s Heroes, Malcolm In The Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Futurama, Rick And Morty, Bojack Horseman, Red Vs Blue, Bob’s Burgers, Darla, The Simpsons, South Park, American Dad, Robot Chicken, The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, The Colbert Report, The Nightly Show, and The Late Show

Favorite Cartoons

Avatar:The Last Airbender, Legend Of Korra, Batman:The Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League:Unlimited, Batman Beyond, Superman:The Animated Series, Teen Titans, Young Justice, Green Lantern The Animated Series, Static Shock, Spider-Man:The Animated Series, X-Men:The Animated Series, Wolverine And The X-Men, Spectacular Spider-Man, Avengers:Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Star Wars:The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Ed Edd n Eddy, Invader Zim, Adventure Time, The Powerpuff Girls, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Samurai Jack, Codename:Kids Next Door,  Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, Looney Toons, Scooby Doo Where Are You, Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, Rugrats, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, The Adventures Of jimmy Neutron, Old Spongebob, Dexter’s Laboratory, Grim Adventures Of Billy And mandy, Tom And Jerry,  Johnny Bravo, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters!, The Wild Thornberries, Catdog, Cow And Chicken, Ren And Stimpy, Animaniacs, Rocko’s Modern Life, Gargoyles,  Happy Tree Friends, Pinky And The Brain, The Flinstones And The Jetsons

Favorite Anime

Code Geass, Psycho Pass, Elfen Lied, Fullmetal Alchemist:Brotherhood/Full Metal Alchemist 2003, Gurren Lagann, Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing Ultimate. Attack On Titan, Sword Art Online, Durarara, Baccano, Steins;Gate, Fate/Zero, Tokyo Ghoul, Wolf’s Rain, Samurai Champloo, The Big O, Trigun, Soul Eater, Witch Hunter Robin, FLCL, Blood +, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Death Note, Naruto/Naruto Shippuden, Bleach, Fairy Tail, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Super, Sailor Moon, Another, Yuri!!! On Ice, Gintama, Angel Beats, Clannad, Clannad:After Story, Pokemon, Yugioh, Street FIghter II, Pokemon:The Origin, Hellsing Abridged,  Yugioh:The Abridged Series and Dragon Ball Z Abridged.

Favorite Books

ASOIAF, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Lord Of The Rings, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls,  Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, The Vampire Chronicles, The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Giver, Dexter series, The Crow, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, The Long Halloween, The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Batman Year One, Batman Hush, Heart Of Hush, Batman Dark Victory,, Knightfall, The Man Who Laughs, Joker, A Death In The Family, Batman Earth One, All-Star Superman, Superman Earth One, Superman Secret Origins, Superman Red Son, Kingdom Come, Superman:Brainiac, Luthor, Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals, Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth, Wonder Woman: Paradise Lost, Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, JLA:league Of One, Green Lantern Secret Origins, Green lantern Rebirth, Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night, Spider-Man:Reign, Birth Of Venom, Carnage U.S.A, Cable & Deadpool, Old Man Logan, Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash, Serenity:Better Days, Serenity:Those Left Behind,  The Walking Dead, Sin City, Scott Pilgrim, Kick-Ass, Hellboy, Akira, Full Metal Alchemist, Hellsing, Death Note, Naruto and Bleach

Favorite Musicians/Bands

Emilie Autumn, Taylor Swift, Halsey, Lorde, Britney Spears, Marilyn Manson, Dir En Grey, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle Of Filth, Die Antwoord, Melanie Martinez, Marina And The Diamonds, Meg Myers, Lindsey Stirling, Sex Pistols, Misfits, Ramones, The Clash, Amon Amarth, Dimmu Borgir, Dagoba, Rob Zombie, Voltaire, Eminem, 2Pac, Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury,  Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Frank SInatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Beethoven, Mozart, Pink Floyd,  Bad Religion, The Offspring, The Casualties, Black Flag, AC/DC. Slayer, Slipknot, Children Of Bodom, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Alice In Chains, Arch Enemy, Satyricon, Rammstein, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Pantera, Cancerslug, Gwar, Gorgoth, Lamb Of God, Metallica, Korn, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Daft Punk, Muse, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Queen, Guns N Roses, Maroon 5, Otep, The Gazette, MIYAVI, D'espairsRay, Nightvale, Chameleon CIrcut, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Aerosmith,  Slash, Combichrist, Hollywood Undead, Led Zeppelin, Destiny’s Child, Ellie Goulding, Darkthrone, Idina Menzel, Lana Del Rey, Madonna,  Christina Aguilera,  Limp Bizkit, Blink-182, Pink, Paramore, Maroon 5, Guns N Roses, Queen, Kiss, Kid Rock,  Miley Cyrus and Rebecca Black are my guilty pleasures

Favorite Video Games

Mass Effect Trilogy, Bioshock Trilogy, Kingdom Hearts Series, Assassin’s Creed series, Life Is Strange, Batman:Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Origins, God Of War series,  Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Telltale’s Batman,  Telltale’s Game Of Thrones, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy XIII, Silent Hill series, Resident Evil series, Castlevania series, Metal Gear Solid series, Crash Bandicoot series,  Tomb Raider series, Prototype, Left 4 Dead, Dead Rising, Portal 2, Doom, The Last Of Us, Until Dawn, The Evil Within,  American McGee’s Alice & Alice:Madness Returns, Alien Isolation, Sherlock Holmes vs Jack The Ripper, The Testament Of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes:Crimes And Punishments, The Darkness, Devil May Cry 1, 2, 3 and 4,  Fable, Fable II, Hitman series, Mortal Kombat series, Tekken series, Street Fighter series, Soul Calibur series, Halo series, Gears Of War seires, Pokemon, Call Of Duty(WWII games and Modern Warfare trilogy) GTA 4 and 5, Red Dead Redemption, L.A Noire, Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic 1 and 2, Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2, Star Wars The Forced Unleashed 1 and 2, Star Wars The Old Republic, DC Universe Online,  Chronicles Of Riddick:Escape From Butcher Bay, Chronicles Of Riddick:Assault On Dark Athena, Destroy All Humans series, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 , Deadpool, Spider-Man:Shattered Dimensions, Spider-Man:Edge of Time, Aliens Vs Predator, Alien Isolation, The Sims 1 & 2, and The Godfather game 1 and 2.

Favorite Actors

Al Pacino, Heath Ledger, Brandon Lee, Christopher Lee, Lon Cheney, Lon Cheney Jr, Peter Cushing, Bela Lugosi, Borris Karloff, Robert Downey Jr, Bryan Cranston, Idris Elba, Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins, Mad Mikkelsen, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey. Ben Affleck, Sean Connery, Vincent Price, Russell Crowe,   Bruce Lee, Willam Dafoe, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Samuel L Jackson, Keith David, Christian Bale, Kurt Russell, Michael Keaton, Christopher Reeve, Tom Hardy, Forrest Whitaker, Danny Glover, Donald Glover, Donald Pleasence, Robert Englund, Bruce Campbell, Gunner Hansen, Tony Todd, Brad Dourif, Kane Hodder, Lance Henriksen, Doug Bradley, Tobin Bell, Terrance Zdunich, Marc Sentor, Paul Sorvino,  Adam Pascal, Bill Moseley, Nivek Ogre, Chris Pine, Charlie Hunam, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Henry Cavill, Will Smith, Cillian Murphy,  Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hugh Jackman, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, William Shatner, DeForrest Kelly, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Ricardo Montalbán, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho,  Anton Yelchin, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes,  Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton,   John de Lancie, Avery Brooks,  Alexander Siddig,  Robert Picardo, Mark Hamil, Harrison Ford, Ewan McGregor, Alec Guinness, Peter Mayhew, James Earl Jones, Hayden Christiansen, Frank Oz, Billy Dee Williams, Ian McDiarmid,  Liam Neeson, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Jeremy Bulloch,  Temuera Morrison,  Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Jiang Wen, Julian Richings,  William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Tom Baker, Sylvestor McCoy, Paul McGann, John Hurt, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Roger Delgado, Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beevers, Anthony Ainley, Eric Roberts,Derek Jacobi, John Simm, Charlie Cox, Mike Colter, Mahershala Ali, Finn Jones, Jon Bernthal,  Elden Henson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Pratt, Ryan Reynolds, Tom Holland, Edward Norton, Paul Bettany, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Michael B Jordan, Chadwick Boseman, Dominic Cooper, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rooker,  Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Ron Glass, Anthony Stewart Head,  David Boreanaz, James Marsters, Seth Green, Alexis Denisof, David Harboour, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin,  Noah Schnapp, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Alan Rickman, Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Robbie Coltrane, Oliver Phelps, James Phelps, Alfred Enoch, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Harris, Terrance Stamp, Michael Shannon, and Peter Dinkleage

Favorite Actresses

Natalie Dormer, Eva Green, Jessica Chastain, Hayley Atwell, Charlize Theron, Daisy Ridley, Felicity Jones, Jessica Henwick, Chloe Bennett, Millie Bobby Brown, Helena Bonham Carter, Katie McGrath, Maggie Smith, Carrie Fisher, Nichelle Williams, Jodie Whittaker, Michelle Gomez, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden,  Alice Krige, Terry Farrell, Nana Visitor, Kate Mulgrew, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Heather Lagenkamp, Danielle Harris, Neve Campbell, Jennifer Tilly,  Fairuza Balk, Christina Ricci, Natalia Dyer, Elodie Yung, Krysten Ritter, Rosario Dawson, Deborah Ann Woll, Simone Missick, Rachael Taylor,  Ming-Na Wen, Brittany Murphy, Viola Davis, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster,  Cate Blanchett, Rachel Weisz, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Angelina Jolie,  Marion Cotillard, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close,  Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer,  Evan Rachel Wood, Amanda Seyfried, Gillian Anderson, Catherine Tate,  Jeri Ryan, Margot Robbie, Alyson Hannigan, Felicia Day, Emma Watson, Evanna Lynch, Zoe Saldana, Lupita Nyong’o,Angela Bassett, Lucy Liu, Rinko Kikuchi, Taissa Farmiga, Emma Roberts, Lily Rabe, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Stewart, Ellen Page, Emilia Clarke, Lena Hedley, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Sarah Chalke, Emma Stone, and Megan Fox

Fav Directors David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, and Ava DuVernay

Favorite Writers

George R.R. Martin, JK Rowling, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Mary Shelly, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll,  C.S. Lewis, Gaston Leroux, Jhonen Vásquez, James O'Barr,  John Ajvide Lindqvist, Stieg Larsson, and Bret Easton Ellis, 

Favorite Fictional Characters

Harry Potter:Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Nymphadora Tonks, Minerva McGonagall, Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Fred & George Weasley, Molly Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Bill Weasley, Fleur Delacour, James Potter, Lily Evans Potter, Viktor Krum, Cedric Diggory, Regulus Black, Andromeda Tonks, Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange and Lord Voldemort

ASOIAF:Arianne Martell, Oberyn Martell, Doran Martell,(in the books) Elia Martell, Ashara Dayne, Arthur Dayne, The Sand Snakes(in the books) Asha Greyjoy, Catelyn Stark, Lyanna Stark, Benjen Stark, Eddard Stark, Robb Stark, Jon Snow, Bran Stark, Arya Stark, Sansa Stark, Rickon Stark, Meera reed, Jojen Reed, Samwell Tarly, Howland Reed, Daenerys Targaryen(in the books) Tyrion Lannister, Sandor Clegane, Euron Greyjoy, Victarion Greyjoy, Edmure Tully, Brynden Tully, Brynden Rivers,  Olenna Redwyne, Stannis Baratheon, Shireen Baratheon, Davos Seaworth, Margaery Tyrell, Barristan Selmy, Mance Rayder, Ygritte, Val, Tormund, Tywin Lannister, Joanna Lannister, Jaime Lannister and Cersei Lannister

Star Wars: Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, General Hux, Revan, Jedi Exile, Bastila, Canderous Ordo, Carth Onasi, T3-M4, Hk-47, Mission, Zaalbar, Jolee Bindo, Juhani, Darth Malak, Kreia, Atton Rand, Bao Dur, Mical, Mira, Hanharr, Brianna, Visas Marr, GO TO, Darth Sion, Darth Nihilus, Anakin/Vader, Ahsoka Tano, Padme, Han, Leia, Luke, Mara Jade, Chewbacca, Boba Fett, Lando, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace Windu, Ki-Audi-Mundi, Luminara Unduli, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, Adi Gallia, Aayla Secura, Quinlan Vos, Shaak Ti, R2-D2, C-3PO, Ezra Bridger, Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren, Zeb Orrelios, Chopper, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Palpatine, Darth Maul, General Grievous, Jango Fett, Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress, Cad Bane,

Tolkien:Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Theoden, Eowyn, Arwen, Thranduil, Thorin, Beorn, Sauron, Saruman, Melkor and  Tom Bombadil

Doctor Who:The Doctor,  Ian Chesterton, Barbra Wright, Susan Foreman, Steven Taylor, Dodo, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Zoe Heriot, Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Sergeant John Benton, Captain Mike Yates, Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Leela, K-9, Romana, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown, Ace, Donna Noble, Captain Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Sally Sparrow, Adelaide Brooke, Amy & Rory Pond, River Song, Clara Oswald, Kate Stewart, The Master, Missy, Davros, The Daleks, Omega, The Cybermen, The Silence, The Weeping Angels, Vashtra Nerada, The Empty Child, The Valeyard, The Black Guardian, The Celestial Toymaker, The Family Of Blood, Mr Finch, The Great Vampires, The Great Intelligence, Madame Kovarian, The Rani, The Sontarans, The Meddling Monk, and Rassilon

Marvel:Captain America, Spider-Man, X-Men(Wolverine, Gambit, Cyclops, Professor X, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Rouge, Jean Grey, Storm, Jubilee,Psylocke, X-23, Cable, and Bishop)  Fantastic 4, Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man(Hank Pym), Wasp, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Blade, The Punisher, Daredevil, Elektra, War Machine, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Bucky Barnes, The Hulk, She-Hulk, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, Moon Knight, Black Cat, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Doctor Strange, Dr Doom, Red Skull, The Mandarin, Loki, Mephisto, Surtur, Ultron, Amora The Enchantress, Hela, Baron Zemo, Thanos, Galactus, Magneto, Apocalypse, Mr Sinister, Sabertooth, Green Goblin, Venom, Carnage, Doctor Octopus, Bullseye, Kingpin, The Lizard, Vulture, Kraven The Hunter, Sandman, Electro and Chameleon

DC: Batman, Barbara Gordon, Nightwing, Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Batwoman, Stephanie Brown, Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, Wonder Woman, The Flash(Barry Allen and Wally West), Aquaman, Mera, Green Lantern(Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Kyele Rayner), Green Arrow, Black Canary, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, Arsenal, The Question, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Martian Manhunter, The Atom,  John Constantine, Hawkgirl,    John Constantine, Catwoman, Shazam, The Joker, Harley Quinn, Bane, Ra’s Al Ghul, Two-Face, The Riddler, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Mr Freeze, Anarky, The Penguin, Killer Croc, Deadshot, Mad Hatter, Hush, Black Mask, Mad Hatter, Hugo Strange, Clayface, Talia Al Ghul Lex Luthor, General Zod, Darkseid, Brainiac, Doomsday, Bizarro, Livewire, Sinestro, Circe, Ares, Cheetah, Black Adam, Captain Cold, Reverse Flash, Gorilla Grodd, Black Manta, Ocean Master, Solomon Grundy, Shade, Deathstroke, and Anti Monitor  

Repo: Nathan/Repo, Shiloh, Blind Mag, Graverobber, Amber, Luigi and Pavi.

The Devil’s Carnival:Lucifer, The Painted Doll, The Scorpion, The Twin, Hobo Clown, Wick, Ms Merrywood, God, The Designer, The Translators, The Librarian, The Agent, and Cora

Star Trek:Captain James T Kirk, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Khan Noonien Singh, Spock, Leonard McCoy, Hikaru Sulu, Nyota Uhura , Scotty, Pavel Chekov,Data,  Kruge, General Chang, Kor, Kang and The Borg and The Borg Queen

Buffyverse:Buffy, Faith, Tara, Willow, Cordelia, Spike, Giles, Angel, Angelus, Darla, Drusilla, Fred, Wesley, Glory, Mayor Wilkins, The Beast and The Master

Firefly:Mal, River, Zoe, River, Inara, Jeyne, Simon and Badger

Carmilla:Carmilla, Laura, Mattie,  LaFontaine, Perry,  Danny and The Dean

The Vampire Chronicles:Lestat, Louis, Armand, Marius, Akasha and Claudia

Rick And Morty: Rick Sanchez, Morty Smith, Summer Smith, Evil Rick, Evil Morty, Doofus Rick, Beth Smith, Dr. Xenon Bloom, Krombopulos Michael, Snowball, Birdperson,  Scary Terry. Mr Meeseeks, and  Mr. Poopy Butthole

Horror Horror Icons:Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Pinhead, Leatherface and The Sawyer Family, The Firefly Family, Jigsaw, Xenomorphs, Predator, The Thing, Jessica Check, Nancy Downs, Tiffany, Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Phantom, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, Count Orlock, and Creature From The Black Lagoon Horror Heroes/Heroines:Ash Williams, Ellen Ripley, Dr Abraham Van Helsing, Dr Loomis, Laurie Stroode, Jamie Lloyd, Nancy Thompson, Alice Johnson, Kristen Parker, Tommy Jarvis, Alice Hardy, Kirsty Cotton, Sally Hardesty and Reggie Bannister

Avatar:Aang, Katara, Zuko, Sokka, Toph, Mai, Sukki, Ty Lee, Azula, Iroh, Korra, Asami, Bolin, Tenzin, Amon, Red Lotus and Kuvira

Mass Effect

Commander Shepard, Femshep, Garrus Vakarian, Urdnot Wrex, Thane Krios,  Jack/ Jacqueline Nought, Miranda Lawson, Tali'Zorah, Liara T 'Soni, Edi, Jeff Monreau, Grunt, Samara, Kasumi Goto, Zaeed Masani, Aria T’Loak, Javik, Saren Arterius, Steve Cortez, Samantha Traynor, Kelly Chambers,  David Anderson and Steven Hackett

Assassin’s Creed Altair Ibn La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore, Ratonhnhaké:ton, Connor Kenway, Aveline de Grandpré, Edward Kenway, Adéwalé, Shao Jun, Arbaaz Mir, Nikolai Orelov, Arno Dorian, Evie Frye, Jacob Frye, Bayek,  Yusuf Tazim, Cristina Vespucci, Rosa, Sofia Sartor, Desmond Miles, and Lucy Stillman, Songbird, 

Bioshock

Jack, Subject Delta, Eleanor Lamb, Elizabeth Comstock, Booker DeWitt, Daisy Fitzroy, Rosalind Lutece, Robert Lutece, Andrew Ryan, Frank Fontaine/Atlas, Zachary Hale Comstock, Sander Cohen,  Brigid Tenenbaum, Yi Suchong, J.S. Steinman, Augustus Sinclair, and  Cornelius Slate

Life Is Strange Chloe Price, Max Caulfield, Rachel Amber, Kate Marsh, Victoria Chase, Nathan Prescott, Dana Ward, Juliet Watson, Frank Bowers, Joyce Price, William Price,  David Madsen, Brooke Scott, Alyssa Anderson, Courtney Wagner,  Taylor Christensen, Daniel DaCosta, Ms Grant and Samuel Taylor

The Elder Scrolls

The Nerevarine, The Champion Of Cyrodiil, Dovahkiin, Lucien Lachance,  Martin Septim, Uriel Septim VII, Count Janus Hassildor, The Grey Fox, Miirak,  Azura, Boethiah, Clavicus Vile, Hermaeus Mora, Hircine, Jyggalag, Malacath, Mehrunes Dagon, Mephala, Merida, Molag Bal, Namira, Nocturnal, Peryite, Sanguine, Sheogorath, Vaermina,

Favorite ships.

All here

Favorite Wrestlers

The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Kane, Goldberg, Bret Hart, Triple H(before he became a corporate stooge and found out about what he did to Chyna) Shawn Michaels, Golddust, Mankind/Cactus Jack/Dude Love, Eddie Guerrero, Sting, Scott Steiner, Chris Jericho, The Hardy Boyz, Kurt Angle, Road Dogg, Bad Ass Billy Gunn, Road Warriors, Gangrel, Edge, Christian, Big Show, Macho Man Randy Savage, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Ricky The Dragon Steamboat,  Jake “The Snake” Roberts, Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan,  The Ultimate Warrior, Big Boss Man, Bam Bam Bigelow, Ted Dibiase, The Iron Shiek, Sgt Slaughter,  Nikolai Volkoff, Rick Rude, Honky Tonk Man, Mr Perfect. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Barry Windham, Harley Race, Dusty Rhodes, David Von Erich, Kevin Von Erich, Kerry Von Erich, Michael Hayes, Terry Garvin, Terry Gordy, Buddy Roberts, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon/Scott Hall, Diesel/Kevin Nash, Yokozuna, Davey Boy Smith, Dynamite Kid, Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart, Raven, Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, Vader, William Regal, Jerry Lawler, Chris Benoit(despite what he did, he was still a good wrestler) Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn, Rey Mysterio, Lance Storm, Billy Kidman, Vampiro, Juventud Guerrera, Ultimo Dragon, Psicosis,  Faarooq/Ron Simmons, Bradshaw,  Sid Vicious, Lex Luger, Sabu, The Sandman, Shane Douglas, Tommy Dreamer, Terry Funk, Tazz, The Dudley Boyz, Rob Van Dam, Batista, Cody Rhodes, AJ Styles, Finn Balor, Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode, Samoa Joe, Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns,   Kevin Owens, Bray Wyatt, Sami Zayn,  Chyna, Trish Stratus, Lita,  Victoria, Beth Phoenix, Melina, Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler, Michelle McCool, Jacqueline, Jazz, Mickie James, Ivory,  AJ Lee, Paige, Natalya The Bella Twins, Sasha Banks, Asuka,  Charlotte, Alexa Bliss, Bayley, Becky Lynch, Ember Moon, Nia Jax, Naomi and Emma

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Supergirl x each characters mutations (x men idk if you've seen/read their media)

nah im not hugely caught up on xmen but idk kara could be like the happy version of jean grey all flying & fire & stuff idk she was wildly powerful thats all i rmbr abt her

alex could either be not a mutant or listen to this she could be one of those mutants that cancel out powers like that little kid they locked away & giant metal dude knocked down the wall to but listen, listen if she got kidnapped & they weaponised her power & shot kara oooh man kara would fLIP OUT anyway also she can give kara a proper hug yay

siobhan is still a banshee basically her scream kills ppl i guess

james can be wolverine esque all healing powers & strong but i dont wanna put him through the whole adamantium thing thats gross re: racial stuff idk he just punches rly good & winn can make him claws or smth

winn is like that girl from sky high the techno hero (the villain) & he can build stuff & repair things rly easily. & he can like zap into computer things provided there is enough power or space to contain him so a phone? no. but like a generator or a power line or electricity cable in a house or smth he can zip along it so thats his version of teleportation. he also builds code/ programming as easily as james punches stuff so like, rly easily but he’s pretty sure thats not a mutant power he thinks thats just yknow his brain

j’onn is their mutant dad he has telepathy & telekinesis & mostly bulletproof skin yes im going all luke cage there is no way my fave dudes r getting shot 

mon el makes mud. just, mud. wherever he steps there is mud thats his only power

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Entry 070 - Hope Summers

Art by Jim Cheung and Laura Martin

Name: Hope Summers

Code Names: Hope

First Appearance: X-Men #205 (Jan 08)

Powers: Power mimicry

Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Lights, X-Force

About

Douglas Adams once wrote, “It’s one thing to think that you’re the center of the universe — it’s another thing entirely to have this confirmed by an ancient prophecy.” That’s the cornerstone of a thousand stories, a trope that defies cultural boundaries or the limits of time. The hero is more important than anyone else, and only they can save the world. The X-Men have had chosen one’s a plenty but in their darkest hour, in the wake of M-Day, there was only one girl who could save them all.

Hope Summers didn’t remember the war fought over her when she was days old. How the small Alaskan town she was born in burnt to the ground, how Nathan came to her rescue, or how a distraught Cyclops ordered his only son to keep her safe in the future. Two things she did remember, the mad man Bishop who razed the world to find her, and her father Nathan who went to every length to protect her.

Art by Mike Choi and Sonia Oback

New Liberty was her first home. Nathan took her there when she was very young and raised her with his new wife, a woman named Hope. He didn’t give the child a name, he didn’t think it was his right, so for seven years she was just his little girl. Years of peace were ruined when the new United States Army, composed of the insectoid inheritors of the Earth, attacked New Liberty. The little girl knew that Nathan, always the soldier, had planted semtex around the house, and she proved to be her father’s daughter. She pulled the trigger and decimated the army, allowing her family to escape. It was her first act of war.

Art by Ariel Olivetti

They ran from New Liberty, across the devastated wasteland that was once the world. She understood that it was a fight for survival and forewent her food rations to ensure they went where they were needed most. Nathan, his wife Hope, and the little girl became nomads like his parents before him. They were careful but the world was dangerous and on a routine stop, Hope was shot. They buried her, but in her memory, Nathan had decided. He had a name for his daughter, the one thing the mutant race needed more than anything else, Hope.

Art by Ariel Olivetti

The years passed and Hope Summers grew into a teenage soldier her father would be proud of. She had experience love, loss, peace, and war. Running from Bishop and learning from Cable made her a better fighter than anyone ever imagined. Hope knew she was ready to be the savior every mutant needed her to be. They returned to the present day and it did not go unnoticed. A race was on to get to Hope first. Bastion, the Purifiers, and The Right on one side. The X-Men, X-Force, and New Mutants on the other. The X-Men were able to bring the pair to their home base of Utopia, but there were losses on both sides. Worse yet, Bastion trapped the mutants on Utopia sending wave after wave of Sentinels to exterminate them.

Art by David Finch, Matt Banning, and Peter Steigerwald

To stop the Sentinels, Nathan led X-Force on a suicide mission. Many escaped, but Hope had to watch as her father sacrificed himself to save her, and the entire mutant race. Bastion was not yet finished and approached the distraught young girl. She had lost the only constant in her ever-changing life thanks to him. He needed to pay. Hope’s X-Gene ignited and she began to mimic the powers of every mutant around her. She was truly ready to be the savior of the mutant race and obliterated Bastion as a fiery raptor appeared. And like that, five lights appeared on Cerebro, the first new mutants since Hope was born.

Art by Mike Choi and Sonia Oback

Hope, alongside the X-Men whose stories her father had told her at bedtime, visited each of the five lights. Their new powers were out of control, but Hope calmed them with a touch. They formed a new mutant strike force, working towards the survival of their race. But not all were satisfied with her leadership. Zero was terrified that Hope’s touch had changed them and Transonic didn’t like Hope turning children into warriors. It came to a head when Oya had to kill dozens of Hellfire Club grunts. Transonic wasn’t willing to let the innocent girl become a soldier in Hope’s war and forced Hope to send Oya to the Jean Grey School. Zero soon led a revolt against Hope and died in the process. The lights were scattered and broken, and Hope’s first attempt at leadership with a failure.

Art by Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson

She was taken under the wing of her grandfather, Cyclops. He had Hope join his Extinction team and pushed her to become the messiah they were promised. He saw the red haired, green eyed girl with fire around her and wondered if she was ready to be the savior they needed. Training on Utopia, he went too hard and something erupted inside her. It was the telltale flare of the Phoenix, the symbol of death yes, but also rebirth. Always rebirth. At the same time the Phoenix Force charged towards Earth, and the Avengers weren’t ready for it to inhabit a moody sixteen-year-old. They marched to the beaches of Utopia and demanded the mutant messiah. The X-Men did not oblige. As war broke out, Hope felt the Phoenix rising inside her. She ran. It was Wolverine she trusted, she knew that if she couldn’t control the Phoenix, he would have the constitution to do what needed done. They stole an AIM spaceship and sent off to the Blue Area of the Moon, ready to face fate.

Art by John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna, and Laura Martin

Hope felt the Phoenix as it drew near, she was ready to embrace it, but something happened. Iron Man tried to destroy the cosmic force but only diverted it. Instead of Hope, it resided in five other mutants led by Cyclops. The Phoenix Five were reshaping the world in their own image but Hope wasn’t alright with it and ran to the Avengers. In their K’unn-Lunn hideout, Hope trained with Spider-Man and Iron First to learn how to control the Phoenix Force. She confronted Cyclops and took the power from him. Alongside Scarlet Witch, she released the Phoenix Force and restored the X-Gene across the globe. She had fulfilled her destiny and restored the mutant race.

Art by Adam Kubert, John Dell, and Laura Martin

What does the chosen one do once the prophecy has been fulfilled? In this case, Hope tried being normal, but it didn’t stick. A child raised in war had no tolerance for the pettiness of high school. She yearned to join her father’s (who was resurrected, but it’s not important how) X-Force squad and Nathan relented, proud of the daughter he raised. When Hope discovered that Bishop was alive, in the present, and working with the X-Men, she felt deeply betrayed and hunted him down, only for the both to be captured by her father’s clone Stryfe. Stryfe placed her in a locked room with a bound Bishop and a sharp Psimitar. She wanted to run the blade through Bishop but knew that if Stryfe wanted that, she would be wise to do the opposite. She granted him mercy and X-Force came to their rescue.

Art by Angel Unzueta and Rachelle Rosenberg

Cable decided to bond with his daughter the one way he knew how, by taking her to an international arms convention. A mutant terrorist attack there killed three thousand and left Hope in a coma. Her powers allowed her to mimic a technopath and join the team in secret. She interacted with the nanomachines in Fantomex’s brain and the two formed a relationship before his quest for perfect drove him mad. Cable couldn’t rally X-Force against him, but Hope could. The team worked together to stop Fantomex and Hope decided that her dad needed a break. She fired him from her X-Force and solidified her role as the protector of the race she worked so hard to restore.

Art by Rock-He Kim and Jose Villarrubia

  Must Read

Hope had a lot of focus for a good five years. With how thoroughly decimated the X-Books were from M-Day they needed something to keep them moving. In Second Coming Hope provided that in spades. She was their conflicted messiah and it shone through, even with a rotating creative team. It is an exciting story about risking everything at your darkest hour and becoming who the world needs you to be.

Art by David Finch

Ranking

Hope is such a hard character to rank. She had a strong arc with a definite ending, but the nature of superhero comics is that nothing ever ends. Since AvX she has been floundering with books that just don’t know what to do with a character who’s defining motivation has been obliterated. But those five years? Those were good. Hope isn’t as good as her dad but I think she is better than her aunt Rachel. I think she is more engaging than Legion but X-23 has played similar roles to Hope better. That slots Hope Summers in as the new 26 in the Xavier Files.

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Entry 070 – Hope Summers was originally published on Xavier Files

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 1 - Resurrect Bracket (Losers Bracket) Side B

ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to [make it to the finals]

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Kirei

He fucked up so many people's lives so badly in just one decade (not on purpose) that the universe put him in the summoning pool of all world influencing souls. He doesnt really have any special powers but he does serve as a vessel for rasputin at one point. He's the guy who says "people die when they are killed"

please please please there's literally a type moon character in the gif on the top of this form so it's typemoonphobic if none of them get in but it shouldn't be her it should be kirei bc he's 50x funnier & more iconic than jeanne. funny lil murder priest who's fucking THE gilgamesh (from the epic of) in the church basement and dies in a knife fight w a 17 year old whose dad he wanted to fuck back in '94 before realizing that he was actually kinda lame and he's been bitter abt it ever since. he has an orphan torture factory in his basement but he's also canonically good at being a priest. he's so funny you should def try his mapo tofu i swear it's totally safe for human consumption and not made with any california reapers. did i mention he's a deadbeat dad.

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Priest claims to be Pro Life to make Sakura Matou the most miserable girl on the planet, but he dies anyway.

bro became a catholic because he loves suffering

He’s a priest. Kind of. Not a very good priest obviously. There is something seriously wrong and fucked up with that man. It’s so entertaining.

he's gotta be one of the most insane catholic men ever with a very in-depth and interesting relationship with his religion and his relationship with god also he's the sexiest man ever to be conceptualized in the known universe and all of time

Will never forget the 40+ minute monologue in heavens feel being a thinly veiled metaphor for abortion

he wants to torment churchgoers and make them face their failures and suffering but all he ends up doing is motivate them to improve themselves. cringefail moment for him

he's absolutely insane. the coldhearted mercenary that barely reacts to anything is terrified of kirei. he's super fucked up. his ult in stay night is literally him channeling divine power into something called kyrie eleison. he's the vessel of rasputin (on account of being a priest with a huge....no i shant say) the biblical beast in grand order among other things. he gets drunk with and tops gilgamesh from the epic of gilgamesh in the church basement after gilgamesh from the epic of gilgamesh bats his eyes a little too hard at kirei in some of the horniest shot scenes ive ever seen. he also used to be a heretical "fixer" for the church, cleaning up scenes that would expose shit to the public. uhh what else. he holds cool swords between his fingers like a kid pretending to be wolverine but in my favorite route he just squares the hell up with the protagonist and they fight to the death outside planned parenthood

Soap

Religious trauma coded. Popular hc that his family is Catholic.

He's gay and has a funny hair cut. Is that not enough to be Catholic?

he was such a bad bitch they had to kill him off in the third game bc he would've mopped the floor with the main antagonist otherwise. rip soap keep thotting it up in heaven we miss u every day

`!!!6ths -- propaganda by my kitten

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general.

NAME april alexandra nam

NICKNAME(S) none. her name is already short as it. her father used to call her princess though, if that counts. 

AGE twenty-one (twenty-two in kr age)

BIRTHDAY 1 march 1996

BIRTH PLACE seoul, south korea NATIONALITY korean

RACE/ETHNICITY korean

SEX female

GENDER cisgender female

PRONOUNS she / her / her

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION panromantic

SEXUAL ORIENTATION pansexual

relationships.

PARENTS anna nam (mother) and noah nam (deceased father)

SIBLINGS elijah nam (older twin brother)

CLOSE FRIENDS n/a

ADVERSARIES none.

LOVER(S) n/a

physicality.

HEIGHT 5′1

WEIGHT 93lbs 

BUILD slim with slight curves

HAIR COLOUR brown, but dyes it consistently. currently it’s red.

EYE COLOUR brown.

SHOE SIZE size 5

appearance.

EYE SIGHT april has the shittiest vision. she’s farsighted and has astigmatism, so contacts are a must for her. and when she’s not wearing contacts, she’s wearing glasses, but she hates wearing her glasses so she’s most likely wearing contacts.

BODY HAIR she has very, very little body hair to begin with, but what little she does have, she waxes. she’s all about body empowerment and women doing what they want with their bodies, but it’s a preference she has.

COSMETIC she dyes her hair a lot, 3-5 times a year. her makeup is usually light around the eyes. eyeliner and mascara are must haves, and she’ll wear eyeshadow, but it’s usually pale or light. blush is light as well, and she does contour and use highlight, but only to have a natural look. the only thing bold about her makeup is her lipstick. bright reds, dark reds and dark purples are her favorite lip colors.

ENHANCEMENTS none, but as soon as they come out with a procedure to extend your height, she’ll be the first one in line.

TATTOOS she doesn’t have any.

PIERCINGS ears, tongue and navel. 

SCARS scar along the back of her neck and trailing onto her scalp from when she was little and used to do cheer and gymnastics. she fell off the top of the pyramid and hit the back of her head and had to get stitches.

MARKS birthmark on her inner left thigh.

ATTIRE as cliché as it is, april’s wardrobe mostly consists are skirts and dresses and heels. she does have pants and jeans, but they’re all skintight. she can’t stand baggy clothes on her, because they make her seem smaller than she already is and she likes showing off the slight curves she does have. she does have a designated pair of sneakers for when she works out and exercises though.

personality.

ZODIAC pisces.

ALIGNMENT neutral good

MYERS-BRIGGS debater - (entp - t)

ENNEAGRAM the generalist and the leader

TEMPERAMENT choleric sanguine

HOGWARTS HOUSE ravenclaw

ELEMENT fire

ANIMAL wolverine, because they’re on the smaller side compared to other dangerous creatures, but they’re very short tempered and won’t hesitate to attack if they feel threatened.

mentality.

SAVVIES drawing, painting, instruments, dance

INEPTITUDE apologizing, admitting when she’s wrong

QUIRKS humming while doing simple tasks like cooking, doing her hair and makeup and working on new projects. if she notices something wrong with someone, like a hair out of place or wrinkled clothing, she’ll try to fix it.

LURES art, music, dancing, tattoos, eyes, intelligence

MORALITY april doesn’t really have any views on morality. she’s more of a live your life the way you wanna live it type of girl. if you do fucked up shit that’s your prerogative, just as long as you leave her and the ones she cares about out of it.

PERCEPTION glass half empty.

IN CHARACTER SECTION.

biggest fear ? 

that’s an easy one - death. i know a lot of people say that they aren’t afraid of death, but how could you not be at least a little wary of it? no one knows what lies on the other side. that’s terrifying. so i guess i’m more afraid of the unknown than death itself.

happiest memory ?

i remember when i was seven years old and my dad took my brother and i to an amusement park. it was a surprise - we hadn’t been expecting it, but he took off work during one of our vacation days and woke us up early in the morning and didn’t tell us where we were going until we got there. we spent the whole day on rides and eating junk food and it’s still one of the best memories i have. most likely always will be.

most embarrassing moment ?

oh god, okay so it was back when i was 18 or 19 and i lost my virginity. we were in my bedroom and my mom walked in on the middle of it and i - it was just horribly embarrassing and i had to beg her to keep it between us. 

love or lust ?

lust. love is way too messy and i’m too young to be stressing over that.

zombie apocalypse or alien invasion ?

zombie apocalypse. i’ve always loved those resident evil movies.

favourite musician ?

just one? ugh, that’s such a hard question, so you’ll get more than one. i love jessi, the wonder girls, girls’ day, jay park, ladies’ code.. but western artists? beyonce, of course. rihanna and the weeknd are amazing as well. and that other american artist? what’s his name? ah, yes! frank ocean.

rom-coms or horror ?

horror. they usually give me a good laugh.

biggest regret ?

not going to college.

if you had to describe yourself as a colour, which one would it be and why ?

purple - because it’s the color of royalty.

what’s your earliest memory ?

my mother singing to me and brushing my hair.

who’s a person that has made a large impression on you ?

my father, of course.

favourite season ?

summer. i can’t stand the winter months because i hate wearing a bunch of layers.

favourite christmas present ?

one year my brother got me an easel imported from france and i still use the easel to this day.

do you believe in love at first sight ?

life isn’t a disney movie, so no.

are you a morning or night person ?

night. although i can be a morning person after a good cup of coffee.

family or friends ?

if you’re a friend, you’re my family. 

have you got a role model ?

is it bad to say myself? 

have you ever had a pet and if so, what kind and what were they called ?

a pet was the one thing i couldn’t convince my dad to get me, unfortunately. i’d love to have a dog or a kitten now maybe. 

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Entry 063 - X-23

Art by Ariela Kristantina and Sonia Oback

Name: Laura Kinney

Code Names: X-23, Wolverine

First Appearance: X-Men: Evolution Season 3 Episode 11

Powers: Healing factor, enhanced senses, adamantium coated claws in hands and feet

Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Force, Avengers Academy

About

In 1943, the writers of the Batman movie serials introduced The Bat’s Cave, a secret underground lair for the caped crusader. Less than a year later, Don Cameron and Jack Bumley made the hideout a part of the comic mythos. The radio show, The Adventures of Superman, introduced a weakness for the man of steel with radioactive Kryptonite. Within six years, Kryptonite had become such a recognizable part of Superman stories that the comics added it. These are just a couple of examples of corporate synergy impacting storytelling in a huge way. It isn’t always successful (remember Spider-Man’s organic web shooters) but at the end of the day, when comics borrow from other media it does more good than harm. The X-Men were impacted by this in some subtle ways, the wedding of Cyclops and Phoenix, the black leather in Morrison’s run, the recent Apocalypse War event, but nothing was as impactful as the addition of a popular guest character from X-Men: Evolution.

Portrayed by Dafne Keen in Logan

So to ground ourselves on X-23, we need to understand a little bit about X-Men: Evolution. The show runners made the astute observation that the Xavier Institute circa 2001 wasn’t really qualified to teach calculus or chemistry and decided to have the strangest teens of them all attend public high school. Now, not everyone was aged down to a teenager. Professor Xavier, Storm, Beast, and Wolverine were all roughly their comics age, if not a bit older. Writer Craig Kyle decided that he still wanted to see what “teen Wolverine” would be like and created a character to fulfill that. She was young, younger than most of the cast, but she was the weapon that Wolverine’s creators only wished he could be. X-23 appeared in just two episodes of the show but she left a huge impact on an audience who only wanted more.

They got that in the comics when a top-secret facility dedicated itself to recreating Wolverine. Geneticist Sara Kinney was unable to creative a viable clone of Wolverine from the damaged DNA they had of him. After 22 attempts, she tried something novel, duplicating the X chromosome in place of the unsalvageable Y chromosome. It wouldn’t be a perfect clone but it was viable. Dr. Zander Rice forced Sara to carry the embryo to term and soon their weapon, X-23, was born. The child was tortured in the Facility, treated as more of a tool than a person. They coated her claws in adamantium, trained her in combat and killing, and dehumanized her. They developed a trigger sent to send her into a frenzied rage, pointed her in a direction, and got out of the way. When anyone treated her like more than a weapon, like her sensei did, they would use the sent to force X-23 to kill them. I didn’t matter if she was being used by Rice or tortured by her sadistic handler Kimura, the girl’s life was hell.

Art by Billy Tan, Jon Sibal, and Brian Haberlin

Sara felt a strange sense of motherhood to the child she carried. At one point her niece, Megan, was kidnapped by a serial killer and X-23 was sent to rescue her. After this, Dr. Rice decided that Dr. Kinney was emotionally unfit for the Facility and had her removed. Rice wanted to commercialize his child soldier, going as far as to create twenty-five additional clones, but Kinney had enough. She ordered X-23 to destroy Zander and the other clones, to cripple the facility. Rice was prepared, he used the trigger sent to throw X-23 into a berzerker rage, but he still fell victim to his creation. X-23 fulfilled her mission but Sara was caught in the crossfire. With her dying breath, Sara gave her daughter a name and Laura Kinney ran into the wild, free for the first time in her young life.

Art by Billy Tan, Jon Sibal, and Brian Haberlin

Laura journeyed through life, trying to find the closest thing she had to a family. She ended up in San Francisco at the doorstep of Sara’s sister Debbie and her niece Megan. Laura and Megan became quick friends and their relationship was enough to get Megan out of the slump she was in after she got kidnapped. Unfortunately, the Facility was not willing to lose their weapon so quickly. They had arranged for an agent to being dating Debbie and Kimura instructed him to unleash Laura’s trigger scent on the home. Megan was able to help Laura overcome the scent and stop Kimura but Laura knew that her family would never be safe. She left them to find the only other person to understand where she came from, Wolverine.

Art by Mike Choi and Sonia Oback

To her surprise, Wolverine was expecting her. Before her death, Dr. Kinney sent him a letter informing him about Laura and he tried to comfort the girl as much as he could. However, SHIELD was not thrilled about a dangerous mutant with an impressive body count running loose and captured her to be interrogated by Matt Murdock and Captain America. Capt was disturbed at the way Laura was used but understood she was just a child. He knew you don’t blame a gun, you blame the triggerman, and he let her free. With nowhere to turn Laura began selling herself in New York City to get by. She began cutting herself just to feel alive for the moment. It wasn’t until she met some other young mutants that she was able to break out of her funk and find a life outside of the underage sex trade.

Art by Mike Choi and Sonia Oback

She reached out to Wolverine and arranged a way for her to come to the X-Mansion without bringing up her dark past. Going from the sterile Facility to the vibrant school was a culture shock for Laura. She was reserved and rarely spent time with the other students. The Facility had trained her better in education and combat than anything the Institute could provide. It wasn’t until the mutant race was decimated that she found a place at the school.

In the wake of The Scarlet Witch’s curse, Emma Frost formed a squad of the best young students to be trained as the new X-Men. Though she initially didn’t permit Laura from joining, Cyclops thought it would be best for Laura to be among her most qualified classmates and put her on the team. The younger students encouraged Laura to curb some of her more murderous tendencies, and she even started to form a romantic relationship with Hellion (who is just the absolute worst and isn’t good enough for you, Laura). Kimura returned to torment Laura, capturing Mercury in the process, but the one-time X-23 lead her teammates to the rescue.

Art by Paco Medina, Juan Valasco, and Brian Reber

With the birth of the first mutant baby after M-Day came a power struggle for control of the child. To ensure the X-Men ended up with the child, Cyclops ordered the best trackers, including Laura, to join together as the new incarnation of X-Force. Once the baby was secure, Cyclops wanted to ensure the future of the mutant race and kept X-Force going as his secret kill squad. He told Laura that he needed her on the team and she accepted in spite of Wolverine’s objectives. X-23 was a valuable asset in taking on threats before they could threaten mutantkind. She was a weapon again, but she told herself it was for a better cause.

Art by Clayton Crain

Eventually, the team was found out and Cyclops disbanded it. Her friends from the New X-Men were disturbed that Laura returned to her killing was and she felt like an outcast once again. She struck out on her own but was quickly joined by Gambit. The Cajun knew a thing or two about having a dark past and was able to mentor Laura without making her feel ashamed for what she had done. After some misadventures, Laura missed school but knew she wouldn’t be welcome back with her old classmates. Following up on an offer from Black Widow, Laura joined the Avengers Academy.

Art by Kalman Andrasofszky

At the Academy, she struggled to bond with students who understood even less about what she did than her old classmates. She was quickly wrapped up in Arcade’s plot to have his own Hunger Games with teen heroes. She tried to contain herself, she knew she could kill any of the other competitors without much effort, but she thought of herself as more than a sharpened blade. As the ordeal came to a close Arcade released the trigger sent in the arena and Laura lost her control. It took the full measure of Hazmat’s radioactive blast to halt her but the damage was already done. Arcade had been streaming the whole thing online and now the world knew what a monster X-23 could be.

After being rescued from the arena Laura wandered Florida and was soon chased by the Purifiers. The time-displaced original five X-Men found Laura after blindly following a blip on Cerebro and took her in. They were initial apprehensive towards Laura but the young Cyclops knew what it was like to feel alone and reached out to her. He soon left to spend time with his space pirate dad, and Laura was alone again. He was the only thing keeping her with the O5 and when he left she tried to leave too. The time-displaced (but from a different time) Brotherhood of Evil Mutants attacked her as she left and she tried desperately to warn the X-Men. They battled, the X-Men won, and Angel realized that she was pretty great and they began dating.

Art by Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Marte Gracia

After Logan’s death, Laura felt the responsibility to keep up his legacy and became the all-new, all-different Wolverine. On a mission in Paris, Wolverine stopped an assassination attempt but was shocked to discover that the triggerman looked just like her. She soon found herself in a plot using cloned versions of Laura as assassins. With the help of the clones, Laura was able to take out this new facility, but with heavy losses. One of the clones died, the other betrayed Laura for Kimura, and the youngest, Gabby, stayed with Laura. She had to find a way to be responsible for a young girl who was a lot like her but soon Laura, Gabby, and their new pet wolverine Johnathan (not joking) tried to do what Laura had always done. They found their place in a world where they don’t fit in.

Art by Marcio Takara and Jordan Boyd

Must Read

So I am gonna get real real with y’all. I like the Kyle & Yoast X-Men stuff a lot less than most people. While I appreciate the role they played in Laura’s creation and development, none of their work with the character resonates with me. In fact, there has only been one run with Laura to make me really care about the character, Tom Taylor’s All-New Wolverine. The book’s first arc The Four Sisters sets the stage for this new Wolverine and has a perfect combination of humor, action, drama, and heart. All this being drawn by David Lopez elevates it to a whole new level. It’s all on Marvel Unlimited or check out the trade on Amazon.

Art by David Lopez

Ranking

Laura is a character I like, but don’t love. It’s a significant problem with distaff counterparts like Laura, they are often held back by being the “girl version” of the original character. On top of that, Laura is a character who it easy to write poorly and often struggles from an attitude that is a little too close to Shadow the Hedgehog. But when she is written well, she sure is a treat. Not to mention I have a huge soft spot for Evolution so that is going to help her case. Kid Omega is another character who falls into the same issues of consistency as Laura but I have enjoyed his stories more. Arcade is the floor for the character because she is way deeper than him as a character. Right above her is Legion and look, I’ve been thinking about Legion a lot recently and I have a ton of love for him right now. However, until TV Legion and comics Legion start to get a lot more similar I and gonna have to rank X-23 above him as the new number 23 (see what I did there? It wasn’t 100% intentional but it worked out nice) in the Xavier Files.

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Entry 063 – X-23 was originally published on Xavier Files