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Is that [Dan Stevens]? No, that’s [David Haller], AKA [Legion] from [Marvel Universe]! [He] appears to be [33]. [He] has the abilities of [a telekinetic psychic] which make them a powerful ally for the [Defiance]. (OOC: Sophie, she/her, 24, GMT)

Hi everyone :) My name’s Sophie, I live in England, and I’m 24 years old.

Here are a few of my favourite things: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Buzzfeed Unsolved, Dan and Phil, basically anything by Stephen King, Supernatural, finely-bound books, reading, cats, and vintage clothing.

And here are a few things to note about my son, David Haller:

If you haven’t seen Legion, strap in, because this is a wild ride. I’m gonna try to keep this short and succinct, because Legion is really something that needs to be seen to be believed, and even then, it’s absolutely crazy. So, this will be a super cut-down version of the wacky events of David Haller’s life. Also, to note, I’m only drawing from the show!

David Haller was born of Charles and Gabrielle Xavier. Because his father had defeated a powerful mutant demon named Amahl Farouk in battle, Farouk possessed David as a baby, playing with David’s incredible psychic powers, terrifying his mother with visions, making doors disappear, interfering with radio signals. Real haunting stuff. When David was still a baby (I guess because of the haunting but we never find out because Noah Hawley didn’t tell us), Charles and Gabrielle gave David away

He was adopted by the Hallers, but he was still hosting Farouk, who decided to stick around for the better part of three decades, feeding off David’s powers, making him hear voices, see things that weren’t there, and driving him slowly insane

He was diagnosed as schizophrenic, and, to cope with the visions and voices, he started self-medicating with hard drugs, and his life spiralled completely out of control. He ended up spending some time living on the streets, where he met Lenny Busker (more on her later)

After a suicide attempt, David was hospitalised in Clockworks Psychiatric Hospital for six years. Lenny also happened to be there (for some reason)

He was eventually broken out by a group of mutants, and taken to a place called Summerland. I’m going to skip over this stuff because this intro is already stupidly long and I said I’d keep it short, and I’m really just recounting the events of the whole show in absolutely the wrong order here

To cut a long and totally insane story short: David met Sydney at Summerland (AKA Syd, AKA the woman you’re going to get sick of reading about when you read my threads) and they started dating. Syd’s mutant power was that she swapped places with anyone she came into physical contact with, so she and David could never touch

Farouk hung around inside David’s head for a while, taking the form of Lenny, David’s old best friend, who had actually been murdered during David’s breakout from Clockworks, but the mutants in Summerland eventually exorcised him from David’s head, and he got his old body back

Fast-forwarding through the events of s2 and some of s3, the mutants David had met at Summerland (including Syd) came to think that David was too powerful, and a threat to humanity. He was still very unstable from a lifetime of being mentally tormented by a literal demon. At first, they’d put his schizophrenia down to Farouk, but now he’d been separated from Farouk, it was clear that David was still sick

For reasons that I would argue were totally justified (including those accusations, but other stuff happened too) David left the mutant team, and, naturally, decided to gather a group of devoted followers who worship his as a god for his powers, and for the drug he keeps them hooked on, the Blue Stuff

And that’s where I diverge from canon! If you made it through that entire ramble, well done ^_^

Now, David and his cult have moved into the Clock Tower in Gotham, where he plans to stay for the foreseeable future, just hanging out, taking drugs and giving faux-hippy sermons on peace, love, and understanding. His old mutant friends might have been wrong about a lot of things, but they were right about David being pretty unstable

TL;DR: This is my son David, who is schizophrenic, hears voices, and is a powerful mutant. He is currently leading a cult of wannabe-hippies who are actually basically homeless drug addicts

Please feel free to reach out to me to plot, or just chat! I can’t wait to write with everyone <3