#bobbydrake

they meet as teens because of a string of math or academic contests along the school year. because the competitions happen all over the country , plenty of different school teams end up travelling together . they meet enough times to form a group and jokingly call themselves the x men 'cuz they all always solving for X (get it, they always meet for math olympiads and such )

scott - great at trigonometry, bobby at algebra, warren - co ordinate geometry, beast is the ever all-rounder and jean is a biology beast

time goes on , the x gene activates, they help each other with their powers and grow closer together as friends

since professor x isn't there to help scott and give him his ruby quartz glasses, in this au scott doesn't get anything like a visor until maybe his thirties. this happens as the gang do end up finding a solution for scott's uncontrolled optic blasts they don't have the finances for it, so when they're established in their careers with good money they make his glasses. Warren could give his money because his parents were always strict with whom he could spend it on.

the only way scott could control it was by....shutting his eyes. he's essentially blind

for adult life they do stay connected sometimes sharing apartments

jean becomes a biologist specializing , in human gene mutations, bobby becomes a CA, warren manages his family business, hank does a whole host of PhDs and is in the research field, he might later on join mutant related politics.

i headcanon scott to start a youtube channel for funsies where he sometimes post videos of him singing, after a while he keeps getting better at song writing and singing, and views keep pouring in. He starts earning money from it. he saves up for joining a pilot program. yada yada plot happens, he joins the military pilot program by scholarship even though he's blind cause he has excellent spatial awareness. he graduates but continues to sing to earn money as a side hustle during breaks. he gets famous as a singer too. his stage name is *drumrolls please* MR. BEAM *wink* *wink* *wink* *wink*

yada yada plot occurs, they open a school for mutants, and do x men missions.

oh, btw, scott is in a relationship with madeline pryor , they get married and have nathan in their mid thirties. he met her during his flight program in the same institute but she was in a different flight program. in this au, madeline and jean become friends, they were never clones, but they look very alike , its a running joke that their twins/clones in another universe.

to differentiate between them, in my au, jean & madeline both have telekinesis and telepathy, but jean has weak telekinesis and madeline has weak telepathy. together the call themselves the 'Phoenix'.

[ madeline is a crazy lady and scott loves it. he even wrote a song about her 'crazy maddie' :-) ]

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