#logan's always interested in things that interest wade even if he doesn't show it

[mischievous-thunder]

So, keeping in mind how it ended, it's safe to say that Hello Kitty is, in fact, very much real.

[twilightkitkat]

I think it would be especially interesting to see how their interactions with the other people in the mansion would change.

In the original timeline, Logan being cold and closed off was seen as normal. He's the token sarcastic asshole who's there when danger strikes but is never really close to anyone. He leaves when he can and nobody thinks they can tie him down, so they never try. They leave him to drift then turn around and blame him for not being tethered.

In this universe, though, Wade is his anchor. He stays at the mansion more consistently, anxious to leave because he doesn't want to be without Wade. When he goes on trips, he brings Wade with him and they always come back together with matching grins and souvenirs. He's shown being soft and affectionate and vulnerable around Wade, while on his own his walls are stacked so high people assume they're impenetrable.

It shows everyone who Logan is capable of being. It's like a museum exhibit—come see how Logan's entire demeanor shifts when around Wade, free entry.

It changes things. People no longer see him as the "bad boy" who's incapable of settling down, they see him as a dangerous beast who can be tamed. Who's domesticated.

It makes him desirable to Jean in a way he wasn't in the original timeline. Ironically, Logan being in a relationship is what makes her finally want him. She saw Scott as her soulmate, the hero who she always comes back to and who treats her right. A little boring, but good. And here's Logan: attractive, exciting, dangerous... but soft. Capable of being a steady figure to lean against and an affectionate partner, just like Scott. She sees the other side of him he so desperately wanted her to, but a timeline too late.

And then there's Scott. He used to fight with him a little, before Wade. Used to flirt with Jean and piss him off on purpose, like a kid pulling a girl's pigtails. But that stopped. Logan doesn't care anymore about getting into fights just for attention when he has Wade, who kisses him any chance he gets. He can't really be bothered with keeping up their rivalry when he finally has a home, when he finally has a stable relationship to return to. There's no need to light himself on fire just to feel warm anymore.

It bothers them, deeply. Jean feels regret for brushing Logan off before, for treating his feelings as trivial now that she's seen what his love is worth. Scott feels uncomfortable with the shift in dynamic. Logan won't even look at him anymore, won't be his rival or his friend or his enemy. He hates change and he hates having the only person to really understand pull away. They both feel loneliness, an aching chasm where Logan once was. Where he should've stayed (even if he suffered, even if he was miserable and taken advantage of until he died).

But now he's with Wade. And that changes things.

(Okay, for some reason, the repost where I was talking about this just...disapeard?? So here I go. Again. I'm just going to post it as a separate thing.)

(Also, Warning, talking about child hood cancer, experimentation and torture, and the other general dark Logan or Wade things.)

Okay! So- obviously, with the timeline, it wouldn't work- but I can just change that because why not?

Imagine Wade being diagnosed with cancer at 8. He has chemo and some surgeries, then for a good 2 years he is cancer free. Of course, though, it comes back at around 11. There isn't anything they can do this time, though. The surgeries won't work, and chemo will only prolong the inevitable, so Wade has to accept his fate. His parents get approached by someone who promises to cure Wade, though. All they need to do is sign over their legal rights in regards to him, so that's what they do. Sure, they cured him, but only after years of being tortured and experimented on. Wade thinks his parents didn't know at the beginning, but after the first few months, he started to question if they knew what this place was. His parents had never been kind people, and Wade quickly decided his parents probably didn't care what happened when they signed that waver. He survives, though. He gets his mutation, and eventually, the X-Men manages to find the facility that has been doing this. He's glad all of the other kids have been saved and most of them reunited with their parents- he had looked after half of them in that hell hole so he feels responsible for making sure they are all save wherever they go- and he goes back to the school with the other kids who don't have a home to go back to or just don't want to go back home. It's weird to be a whole 17 years of age and not knowing how to function in the world. He knows how to survive, but that's about it. So, it's a struggle to settle into the mansion at first, but he quickly takes on the role of bigger brother to the younger kids. And yeah, he finds it hard to interact with the people his own age, too terrified to deal with the possible riddicule of how he looks.

Logan's been there awhile. He was found by the Professor after a few news articles popped up about some 'strange deaths' and he had investigated. No one at the school knows much about him- they know he lived in the woods for a year when he was 13, and that the Professor found him- but that's about it. Practically all the students avoid him like the plague in the halls and at meal times. It's not that Logan tries to talk to the others anyway, and he doesn't really want too. He's used to being a lone wolf. He keeps to himself, doesn't want to deal with others shit, and he plans to keep it that way. He's gonna leave this place as soon as he is 18 next year. He isn't even sure where he would go, but he refuses to join the X-Men. He can't bring himself too- to many accidents with the claws and panic attacks to be able to help people.

Naturally, Wade decides that Logan is the person he is going to befriend. Even if the idea of being judged terrifies him, he can't help but be interested in the quiet brooding bad boy.