I had this theory going with a Charles rper about how telepathy works and Alex’s immunity to radiation
The way we figured it, their HC was that telepathy works via low level radiation, can’t remember all the detail they went into but it was a cool idea and that people who have resistance to radiation also have resistance to telepathy. But given Alex’s is immune to radiation it would make sense for him to be immune to telepathy like Jubilee is. Only he isn’t. He really, really isn’t.
My counter theory is that Alex is only seems immune to radiation because he feeds on it: his body and mind, entire being, is always open to it and actually needs it. His body is gathering up everything it can get because it’s starved from the atmosphere blocking out the amount of cosmic energy it really needs. Telepaths have a fast track into his mind because his body sucks in the radiation they’re using for their telepathy- Alex has no defenses against something his body recognises as sustenance: in fact it’s inviting them in. Grasping and pulling for this radiation.
Telepaths can get pulled in without being all too aware of it, finding themselves getting a note of Alex’s thoughts more often than another person’s thoughts; say they were in a room with Alex and another person, they’d get an impression of Alex before the other person.
Alex’s brain and mind are wide open, like his body, to these energy waves...
and the people who ride them.