Knives

No more wholesome. Now violence.

I often think about what it must be like for Jubilee as a teenager living in the X-Mansion. She should’ve been around 13 when she joined the X-men (since she turned 18 in ‘97) so she spent all her teenage years there. Her main friend group is a bunch of 30+ year olds and I doubt she hangs out with many people her own age since she lives and attends school at the mansion and is busy with missions. I don’t imagine she gets out much, especially since people know who she is and that she’s a mutant it wouldn’t be safe to. (You could assume that the school has other students her own age attending, but that’s not actually shown in the cartoon so…) So, I like to imagine that Jubilee would often try to convince the other X-men to do more teenage stuff with her (ie go to the mall, have sleepovers, go to the arcade like in that mojo episode, etc) and I think Morph would be down to do that kind of thing. Of course I think other characters like Rogue or Storm would like to spend time with her like that too but it feels kinda going-to-the-mall-with-your-mom to me. Since Morph was a newer member at the beginning of TAS, I imagine they’re a bit younger, and also since they weren’t present for a lot of Jubilee’s beginner years, it places them at a similar social level (if that makes sense?). Like they wouldn’t have the same teacher/mentor/parental figure role you might interpret with the other X-men but rather be the cool older friend. (That’s my interpretation anyway)

ANYWAYS I think about this a lot lol, so I was really excited reading this chapter. I love seeing them interact and bond and get to be wholesome while they paint their nails and bake muffins. It fills my metaphorical soul with joy. I need them to be besties in the show. I know Morph is supposed to be best friends with Wolvie but they can have more than one!

It’s that one black dress that was popular a while back, the Marilyn Monroe dress which Morph references in Exiles, and two of their other dresses in Exiles.