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[ffverr]

And the thunder has struck!

WIP. Three down and four X-Women to go!

[wellnoe]

Hello! First things first, I absolutely love your art!!

I would love to hear how you would describe Jean's personality because I'm having a lot of trouble establishing a coherent version of her in my mind and i love how you perceive her! She tends to fluctuate a bit between writers and I need a Jean specialist's opinion to be able to make stuff with her :) (Sorry if you've already awnsered to a similar question !)

thank you!!

i think there are a few facets of jean i keep in mind when trying to make stuff with her...jean is intentionally nice, she can be pretty condescending and self-righteous, she's a performer, and she keeps secrets. i am not giving a lot of specific examples here but if you're wondering where a take comes from there's like a 80% chance its louise simonson, who writes the best jean imo.

to go into more detail:

by intentionally nice i mean that jean is nice on purpose and with effort. she tries. she also uses this to smooth things over with other people, she's pretty good socially, and being pretty and nice is a big part of why people respond to her the way they do!

i think jean's telepathy lends itself to her condescension and self-righteousness, in that she sometimes seems to take knowing what other people are thinking as an indication that she knows more and knows better. but also i think this is tied to jean's self-identification as a hero, something she takes pretty seriously! i kind of think she digs MORE into this vein when she's insecure, which isn't a good look but is really fun.

jean as performer has 2 layers to me the first being that she's just kind of theatrical and a showoff...telekinesis lends itself to fun displays of prowess and jean follows through! i think its cute and charming. also she is kind of always performing perfect girl perfect child for various people. this is why i think emma and scott are both fun comparison characters for her? in jean's case i think of it as kind of a defense mechanism...a way of showing herself as harmless and good and perfect.

jean keeps other people's secrets!! i will go to my grave saying this but oh my god she is such a secret keeper of other people’s secrets and her own…she is complicit in a lot of xavier’s stuff (and alludes to being more knowledgeable about the origins of the x-men than most of the others know?) she keeps corsair’s identity a secret from scott she refuses to tell anyone about what’s going on with her in the dps until its too late…she keeps things to herself! i think this is both an interesting manifestation of her personal telepathy ethics and also a lot of the time a really interesting look at her relationship w xavier and the x-men as an entity.

i kind of think trying to create the ultimate jean who always coheres is a losing battle, so i am just kind of trying to describe the version of her i find most interesting. this version of her is absolutely contradicted by some canon, but i like that writing less! so i kind of disregard it.

[yalster54]

big thanks to @ffverr for pointing out to me that Rachel flirts like her father 💀

[losinqdogs]

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[tasteless-lemonade]

still learning how to edit but if i didn't get this out of my system i think i'd die

anyways thank you @ffverr for presenting me the combination of jean grey + arsonist lullaby

bonus:

[kermit-coded]

okay so @ffverr's post about superheroes having scars got me thinking about ric with scars. until @lesbianliutana pointed it out in the tags i'd honestly forgotten about the explosion but the burns he got in x-men unlimited are nasty and there's no way he wouldn't have scars considering he needed medical attention right away. i love the idea of the right's machine leaving him with scars on his arms. (i also think he probably has self-harm scars from his teenage years/when he lost his powers but that's a separate post).

ref panels below the cut

[telepathlover]

made a shitty little graphic for my Jean Grey playlist that has been on fucking REPEAT lately. i have more songs but they don’t fit quite as well (also thanks @ffverr for the hozier jean Thoughts)

[nthflower]

Don't kill me

Also the inside of the rows are not ranked. They are all equally loved/hated with their own row mates.

@ffverr thanksies for tier list :D

[marvelgotchaforgaza]

Creator announcement! @ffverr is doing art!

[lovecatsys]

FINALLY got it to work.

Here's the link if anyone wants to do it! got it from @ffverr

this was so fun...

[ffverr]

Jean and Bobby friendship supremacy!!!

(but also, she SURE has one hell of a bad side💞😭)

[catboy-sinister]

my X-men tierlist by @ffverr :D

[ffverr]

Very quick celebratory Dazzler sketch as I'm getting used to this tablet!

[ffverr]

A dear dear Rachel requested by @caelumsthelimit !

(I swear I haven't forgotten about this guys)

[ffverr]

hello I come to you with a request. I watched x men 97 recently and was saddened by how little time the whole magneto in charge of the x men storyline got and I know he does this longer in the comics (I can't say why but the phrase "its seven in the morning max..." lives rent free in my brain) so I wanted to ask if you have any recommendation for comics from that era / any recommendations for comics with mister magnet-os because I want to get into x men comics but comics as always are so daunting

It is my great pleasure to answer this!!

Disclaimer 1, I am still going through a lot of the issues of this era but I will try my best to make it as clear a guide as I can for you!

Disclaimer 2, Headmaster of the school and leader of the X-Men are quite different positions that they kind of fused together in the 97 show so I do want to make it clear that magneto in the "seven in the morning" era is headmaster of the school, teaching young kids, while Storm is leading the X-men team and Scott is leading the X-factor team, so with that said:

Magneto's teacher arc starts in uncanny X-Men issues 199 and 200 (iconic issues containing the trial of magneto that was adapted in the show!) And then he is headmaster of the school in the book "The new mutants" by Chris Clermont, from issue 35 to issue 75. It is A LOT I admit and he gets a more minor place considering the book is about the kickass young class of new mutants that he's teaching. But it is worth checking out! Many consider this to kind of be peak magneto because.... he's trying so hard to be a good teacher and to handle all these kids and it's very humanizing for him!

I mean look at him and his 8 kids!

Now, how to get into Magneto overall? Let's get into it:

I believe it is impossible to get into Magneto without reading his ultimate origin story, Magneto: Testament by Greg Pack. It is a quick intro, it barely features his powers (not an action comic) and it is a very very emotional read. I consider it essential magneto reading!

Next up: Two One shots if you want to get a quick primer on the character pre moral arc instead of sitting through his few appearances in the Stan Lee comics:

A classic one: X-Men: God Loves, Men Kills by Chris Claremont. It is an iconic comic book one shot that can be read out of continuity just to see what his deal is when he's not necessarily on the side of the X-Men but fighting for his own ideals! It's overall a brilliant comic book!

If you want a more recent retelling of the first appearances of magneto you HAVE to read X-Men Mythos that retells magneto's major first appearance in the 60s in quite a beautiful and amazing way! It also has an absolutely insane magneto scene that is very memorable! (So this would "chronologically" come before God loves men Kills)

Now for his switch from cartoon villain of the 60s/early 70s to complex guy in the 80s, read the issues 149 and 150 from the run Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont. This is THE pivotal moment for "good guy" Magneto

(know that after issue 150, somehow he falls in the ocean from asteroid M, is rescued from a shark attack by Scott's girlfriend Lee Forester. They have a quick relationship where he struggled with his change of morals then he comes to the new mutants)

if you want to continue chronologically you read the issues 199 and 200 that I recommended at the start then go to the new mutants book I talked about earlier!

If you want MORE MODERN comics, then I advise you get right into what's happening at the moment!

House of X powers of X are two series that intertwine (you'll easily find them in the right order) by the same writer, Jonathan hickman!

It serves as a status quo change/relaunch of the X-Men universe. Magneto plays a big part of the story as he is directly involved in building a mutant nation. I'd say it's a bold but quite functional intro to X-Men comics!

Then he appears as a major character in the GREAT series X-Men Red by Al Ewing alongside Storm, a character that meant a lot to him in the 80s, so it's really nice to see again.

In this he is- epic, depressed, suicidal, sassy, it's great magneto stuff! This series is widely regarded as the best X-Men comic out right now!

(if you want context for this book read the event X of Swords, or I could explain if interested)

That's about all I will lay on you ! If this is hella confusing, don't hesitate to dm me! I can detail more cleanly exactly what you have to read and when!

Good reading!

[ffverr]

what do u think are Rachel and Scott's parent-child bonding activities???

I think as they are today they should get REALLY competitive when playing pool together. Their sessions would last for HOURS and they're both cheating with their powers while talking a bit about everyday stuff. That would be good for the soul I think.

I'm sure Rachel is a good player because her Scott probably teached her when she was young😔