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Die #1 [Textless] (Comic Odyssey/InkInk Collectibles Exclusive First Anniversary Variant) (2019)

she is refusing to help me get to any of my medical appointments (i cannot drive due to said conditions) in the meantime or even speak to me anymore (she is insane) and i am now currently attempting to swap out any medical appointments i can to go through either telehealth or a transportation service (i need to call my insurance. i am so tired.)

she has triangulated the entire family against me because once again, she Is abusive and none of them are willing to rock the boat with her or help me either, to the point where my aunts only offers have been to demand that i get a job (i tried this. the government literally deemed me unfit to work.) do inpatient or outpatient (this is not helpful. what i need is a permanent way OUT of this situation.) or look into homeless shelters (lol.) my uncle said in no short words that he "does not believe me and is not interested in supporting me because we have no family bond" (okay man) and my brother has gone so far as to actively lie to our (formerly) mutual friends telling them i have "more money than him and my mom combined" (???) and that i am "misrepresenting his mother and his relationship" by calling her abusive (????????)

so um. needless to say at this point that even IF she's bluffing (unlikely given how often she's been talking about this imo) then it's still clearly not safe for me to continue to stay here and keep putting myself at risk, especially since she has escalated to physical aggression within the last year. (her "husband" has done similar and has a noted temper as well. even if she only plans a temporary visit i find it extremely unlikely that he's going to "let" her come back to the states once she's there.)

i do have a plan still, though i am working out the kinks and have a LOT of phone calls to make and individuals to contact and i'm kind of fucking exhausted so i don't want to get into it right now. that said, i would Very Much Appreciate It if i could get some further help.

a change comes over me.

In Marvel Zombies: Dead Days, Professor X is unceremoniously, and somewhat implausibly, torn to pieces off-panel by rabid Canadians. This is a necessary handwave, because although the original Marvel Zombies run was famously unconcerned with any of the silver-bullet asspulls from within Marvel continuity that could be used to undo the zombie apocalypse, Professor X was too prominent a character to ignore outright but also too powerful a psychic to have in a plot where the apocalyptic threats are specifically vulnerable to having their brains fried. For there to be a story, Charles Xavier had to die.

In Earth X by Alex Ross, Jim Kreuger and John Paul Leon, a major figure in the worldbuilding of near-future Earth is The Skull. The Skull is the most powerful psychic left on earth, capable of immediately psychically enslaving anyone who comes within a certain range of his person. He's one of the major threats of the series, as his entourage slowly moves cross-country, assimilating all superhuman resistance before marching on New York City. The Skull's psychic abilities were so potent that upon his empowerment, he emitted a psychic shockwave that killed every other telepath on earth, including Professor X.

It's eventually revealed that this wasn't an accident. The meta-plot of Earth X concerns the discovery that all forms of superhumanity on Earth are directly or indirectly derived from the immune system of a gestating Celestial, which grants power to the indigenous lifeforms of the planet it's growing inside so that they can defend it from spaceborne threats long enough for it to hatch. The birth of The Skull is revealed to be a pre-planned step in the wind-down phase of this biological cycle; his unknowing purpose is to neutralize all psychics powerful enough to catch wind of what's actually going on, and then assimilate as many superhumans of note as possible into his retinue so that they won't be able to co-ordinate an effective response to the planet-killing birth of the Celestial. Between the machinations of The Celestials, and the extent to which Earth X is heavily threaded through with secretive superhumans working at cross-purposes to promote their respective agendas in the run-up to the apocalypse, one takeaway is clear; the existence of a benevolent, competent telepath as powerful as Professor X is a complication that cannot be abided by the narrative. For there to be a story, Charles Xavier had to die.

In Worm by Wildbow, "true" human psychics are an absence noted in-universe by scientists studying superhumanity; the lack of any superhumans with "conventional" telepathy is pseudoscientifically chalked up to the physiological inability of the human brain to process another brain's worth of information, despite the fact that superpowers observably violate all other limits of their user's physiology all the time. Out-of-universe, this is partly due to the setting's aesthetic aversion to the mysticism implicit with Marvel-style psychics- the "psychic plane" as a quasi-physical dimension, "psychic energy," and similar ideas. But In-universe, the lack of psychics is extremely deliberate. Such a powerset is trivially mechanically possible- numerous heroes and villains possess abilities that represent individual facets of what a "true" psychic can do at Marvel and DC. But nobody gets the entire package because superpowers are the result of malevolent alien intelligences running experiments on human society, and they're loathe to distribute powersets that could potentially result in their test subjects figuring out what's going on and coordinating an effective response. As a result of all this, the closest thing to a "conventional" comic book psychic in the setting is a malevolent, indestructible Kaiju who devotes her abilities to fomenting chaos and targeting the best and brightest of humanity. For there to be a story, Charles Xavier could never be born at all. In The Power Fantasy, Etienne Lux