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I guess I'm getting to a point where I can start sharing some of the art I've been commissioning for Earth-93 😚

Here's Scott's character profile, for any curious about the lore behind this art.

My take on a young Cyclops was brought to life by the wonderful Vin Lopez. He does some great redesigns, so he sure to check his stuff out if you dug this!

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Main Alias/Moniker: Quicksilver

Legal Name: Pietro Matheo Maximoff

Other Aliases: Pretty Boy, Silver Head, Speedfoot

Date of Birth: May 31st, 1985 (Age: 19)

Status: Alive

Species: Mutant

Sex: Male

Gender: Cisgender

Height/Weight: 6' (1.83m) / 175 lbs (79.38kg)

Hair/Eye Color: Silver / Blue

Timeline (1985 - 1990): Pietro and Wanda grew up in a Romani ghetto in Transia, raised by their maternal aunt and uncle. They never met or knew of their father until they were adults, and their mother Magda only visited them once when the twins were five. Magda spent most of her time with Wanda, and though Pietro was the last person she met with before departing, she was reportedly cold and sparse on words with him. Wanda has suspected it was because Pietro reminded Magda of their father.

In spite of this, Pietro was not bereft of affection in his formative years. Well before gaining his powers, he was an energetic child. One of the few things that could reliably relax him was his uncle Django's puppeteering. There would be less time for these puppet shows following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, radically altering Transia's economy and forcing Django and their aunt Marya to work long hours to keep the family afloat. Pietro's rambunctiousness would shift to bitterness and rebellion as he got older.

Timeline (1990 - 2000): As true as it is today, Pietro had a short tolerance for insults, especially ones lobbied at Wanda, and was unafraid to pick fights with anyone should he feel slighted. Depending on the person, this attitude made Pietro a hero, a laughing stock and a bad egg all at once. In the case of his aunt and uncle, they were distraught over who Pietro could provoke, should he pick a fight with a non-Roma outside the ghetto. They kept Pietro out of trouble for a time by arranging him to help with the cooperative farm out in the countryside. He complained at first, but quickly found the fresh air and open spaces extremely uplifting.

Such a luxury was once more revoked due to radical changes in Transia. Following General Novoty's rise to power, Transia's economy was remade to serve a small aggregate of oligarchs, one of whom bought the cooperative farm out from the Romani. The rampant injustice of the world became cruelly apparent to Pietro and he soon fell into petty crimes with other young hoodlums, participating in the sweep of criminality in Transia following the fall of Communism.

Timeline (2000 - 2003): To quell Pietro yet again as well as bolster the family under desperate times, Marya took Pietro and Wanda with her to England to do seasonal work. Pietro continued his thievery, where he first earned the name "Quicksilver" for his uncanny evasion of the law. Pietro had reportedly been quick since he could walk, but his knack for speed became more and more uncanny until one day, where he and his group's getaway car was sputtering out and the authorities were on their tail. In his fluster, Pietro ran down the street faster than the car could have--entirely on foot.

Having resented the lowly status he had been forced to live all his life, Pietro reveled in his newfound powers. Such elation gave him little patience for the opposition he encountered among his gang almost immediately, be it anti-mutant bigotry or Pietro's own ego as he sought to take more active leadership. One supporter of Pietro was Toad, a fellow hoodlum that Pietro thought little of before.

Mortimer divulged to Pietro of his own mutant status and introduced him to the London chapter of the Brotherhood. The organization's rhetoric of mutant superiority was tantalizing to Pietro, but much to his chagrin he was barred from membership until he could convince his sister to join alongside him, explained away as the likelihood that she was a powerful mutant as well. Pietro had been aware of his sister's "hexes," as she called them, but was adamant that they were not a mutant ability, but some sort of witchcraft first taught to her by their estranged mother. Regardless of this, he begrudgingly carried out the request of the Brotherhood representative, who was none other than Wyndgarde.

Wanda was defiant of Pietro's cajoling for a few days until they returned home one night to see it in flames. Pietro witnessed Wanda break down in anguish, and in a state of distress himself could think of nowhere else for them to go but a Brotherhood safehouse. Neither sibling was aware that the flames were but a convincing illusion conjured by Wyndgarde, and that their Aunt Marya was sleeping soundly in the home the twins abandoned. The deception nonetheless succeeded, as by the time Wanda awoke from her grief had turned to wrath. For the first time in their lives, the roles were reversed, and Pietro found himself having to keep Wanda in check.

Timeline (2003): In spite of their youth and relative inexperience, the Maximoff twins were brought onto the Santo Marco mission. Pietro and Wanda were among those tasked with sniffing out intruders, aka the X-Men. Pietro personally confronted me, blocking me away from the rest of the team and wearing me down with rapid blows from all directions. The stride in his step was swerved courtesy of Bobby, while Wren took his feet off the ground altogether.

Pietro attempted a rematch with us in the city square during Magneto's confrontation with the Stranger, but that left him vulnerable to capture once the military swept through the country. He and Wanda were arrested and remained in captivity in the Neverland Containment Center for the next few months. They were among the many inmates who fled during our jailbreak, but in the chaos of it all a falling out apparently occurred between the siblings, and Pietro and Wanda went their separate ways.

Pietro's tenure going solo did not last long. Shortly after we had regrouped back at the Mansion, he had appeared to begrudgingly ask our help in finding Wanda. We were still quite shaken ourselves, with the Professor still in a coma and Wren being MIA since Neverland. We eventually agreed to help, with Jean and Hank staying behind to tend to the Professor while Bobby and I accompanied Pietro. Hy happenstance, our respective missing persons problem was mutual, as Wren had given Wanda sanctuary in her family cabin in Colorado.

Pietro was understandably hesitant to go back to prison, though we swore we would vouch for both of them (At the time, he bluntly told us that didn't make it much better). With his relationship with Wanda relatively mended, however, he ultimately agreed to finally step away from the Brotherhood. The twins were given sanctuary on Muir Island for a time, and when Steve Rogers headed a reserve team of Avengers that would grant a pardon to convicted super-villains in exchange for service, the Maximoffs were quickly put through. That project is still underway, but if there's anyone on the planet who can take Pietro's bad attitude and whip him into shape, it's Captain America.

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Main Alias/Moniker: Unus the Untouchable

Legal Name: Angelo Unuscione

Other Aliases: Gunther Bain

Date of Birth: November 8th, 1968 (Age: 36)

Status: Alive

Species: Mutant

Sex: Male

Gender: Cisgender

Height/Weight: 6′1″ (1.85 m) / 220 lbs (99.79 kg)

Hair/Eye Color: Black / Blue

Timeline (1968 - 1987): Angelo was born in Milan, but primarily grew up in Caracas. His family fled the political violence in Italy at the time of Angelo's birth and resumed their careers as artists in Venezuela. Angelo was apparently not as deft with a pencil or paintbrush as his parents or siblings, which made him the black sheep of the family. He instead sought to continue the family tradition of the arts through an acting career, and through those pursuits took up bodybuilding and wrestling.

The Unusciones lived comfortably across Angelo's childhood, but were among those affected Venezuela's economic collapse in the 1980's. This is most likely when Angelo's fixation on material wealth in his youth first came about, as did his mutant abilities. It stands to reason that Angelo did not understand himself to be a mutant at the time, but even back then superhumans still permeated the global zeitgeist enough that he was able to reconcile suddenly having the ability to generate force fields.

Whatever the case, Angelo most certainly was quick to capitalize on his newfound powers. With his acting talents, formidable physicality and the ability to render himself untouchable, Angelo reasoned that American wrestling was the best venue to showcase his talents and earn the wealth and fame he desired. With Venezuela's situation only worsening through the decade, Angelo had little inclination to stay. With money likely stolen from his parents, he acquired a fake identity and immigration papers forged and fled to the US.

Timeline (1987 - 1992): After stints in various promotions under his fake alias of Gunther Bain, Angelo enlisted in the Midwest-based Ultra Class Wrestling Federation (Now known as the Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation). Through Hank's diligent investigations, we now know that the UCWF (As well as, most presciently, its holding company the Brand Corporation) scouted and pursued performers with observable superhuman traits for high-spectacle matches and tournaments. It was under his contract with the UCWF that Angelo first gained his title of "Unus the Untouchable."

Though he finally gained fame and fortune, he also found an organization eager to exploit him. After numerous arguments with the UCWF'S promotion over his matches, Angelo sought to walk out and bring his celebrity into a different promotion. Curtiss Jackson, the UCWF's owner, overbooked him without his awareness, and his string of no-shows effectively blacklisted him with any other promoter or territory. With both this and the threat to expose his falsified documents, Angelo was consigned to Jackson's whim, and spent the next few years strung along various international matches—which is most certainly where Angelo first caught word of Magneto and the Brotherhood.

Timeline (1992 - 2003): It's unclear how and when Angelo was officially approached by agents of the Brotherhood, but it's safe to say when his recruitment finally occurred Angelo was more than amenable to their agenda. Angelo has heavily credited the Brotherhood and Magneto's revolutionary rhetoric that made him into a better person. Having not only been personally exploited by the UCWF but witnessing many others caught within the same exploitation, Angelo claims to have become disillusioned with his younger drives towards material wealth and found a more noble cause to live his life by. His unique cultural background made him especially attuned to the Brotherhood's anti-nationalist views. Today, Angelo identifies more of a mutant that he does a Venezuelan or Italian.

Angelo was so committed to the Brotherhood that he maintained his celebrity and contract for the UCWF for several more years, acting as a scout and recruiter for other mutants across his travels. Fred Dukes was among those recruits, and Hank was of course was another attempt. Following our intervention of Santo Marco, Angelo finally went off the grid. Our first direct confrontation with him was a few months later when he, Dukes and Toad pretended to be X-Men, terrorizing people and causing property damage to sully our reputation.

That instance in itself ties back into Angelo's inconsistent code of honor. He believes in the cause of the Brotherhood wholeheartedly, and thus views the X-Men as an obstruction to their goals. However, unlike some members Angelo claims to wish no ill will against us, perceiving us more as misguided than betrayers or frauds. Even as the brief leader of the "Factor Three," Angelo repeatedly professed to us he wasn't anything personal.

This "no hard feelings" act was far more credible later that year, when he saved Jean and Hank's life. When they were abducted by the Brotherhood, even Angelo could see how the trial arranged for their crimes against mutantkind were unfairly rigged, and aided Jean and Hank in evading their death sentence and making their getaway. At time of writing, Angelo remains at large, though reports indicate he is among the loyalists of Magneto who have found sanctuary within the island nation of Genosha.

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Main Alias/Moniker: Hulk

Legal Name: Dr. Bruce Robert Banner

Other Aliases: Doc, Big Guy, Hulkster, Greenfoot, Jade Jaws, Green Giant, Shrek

Date of Birth: May 19th, 1975 (Age: 30)

Status: Alive

Species: Human Mutate (Gamma Mutate)

Sex: Male

Gender: Cisgender

Height/Weight: [Bruce] 5'8'' (173cm) / 125 lbs (57kg); [Hulk] 7' - 8'5'' (2 - 2.5m) / 1,150 - 4,000 lbs (680 - 1,815kg)

Hair/Eye Color: [Bruce] Brown / Brown; [Hulk] Black / Green

Timeline (1975 - 1985): My past with Bruce aside, I don't think you need me to tell you that most of what's been written about the Hulk is bull. Nothing but conspiracy rags that make parsing the fact from the fiction even harder (If I were a more paranoid type, I'd say it's on purpose. I wouldn't put it past Ross or SHIELD to keep the public on their toes about Bruce, no matter how much good press he gets. I'm just as biased as any other guy, but I'm biased in the sense that I was just some kid that a so-called monster tried to help. Do with that what you will.

Bruce has said that his earliest memory was being pulled out from a car wreck by his dad during a rainy night. Brian Banner went back to get his wife, but by then the car had sunk so deep into the muddy earth that he couldn't find the strength to pull her out. That moment was totally where Old Man Banner's obsession with strength first came from. Once the media got a hold of the Hulk's identity, a lot of those write-ups loved to embellish Bruce's childhood. Don't get it twisted, Brian Banner wasn't the Devil, but he was a mean sonuvabitch. He would at least have his stepmom Rebecca in his life, once the Banners moved to New Mexico. To this day, Bruce still thinks of her fondly.

Brian himself was almost never home, instead toiling away at his gig at Desert State. See, Brian Banner was a physician with a specialty in glands. After he failed to pull his first wife out of that wreck, he became fixated on the theory of "hysterical strength." You know those stories you hear about moms being able to lift whole cars to save their babies? No scientist has ever been able to square away how and why that happens, but Old Man Banner was hellbent on being the one to crack it. When the higher-ups are Desert State shot down his research, he decided to keep going at home.

Timeline (1985 - 1991): To this day, Bruce has never said what really went down that night. As far as I know, his mind just blocked it out. I have my theories, but if I'm resorting to speculation I'm no better than one of those rag pieces. All I know for sure is what was put on the police report: The morning after a nasty storm, authorities swept through the Banner household smashed up, Rebecca beaten to death, and Bruce left in a shock in the same room as the body. A few days later, Brian was found in the middle of the desert, naked and hysterical. He was charged with murdering Rebecca and was given life.

Another misconception about Bruce is that his anger issues only came about once he went green. What he went through, that's where it all started, and you don't even have to trust me on that. His aunt and uncle would back me up, since they were the ones who took Bruce in. Back then, Bruce was unresponsive, quick to anger, and would throw a fit if he ever felt cornered or too agitated. He wasn't too responsive to treatment at first, either. What turned it all around for Bruce was his cousin, Jen. She was born a year before his aunt and uncle took him in, and even though they did their best with him, they had understandable worries about Bruce being around Jen. He says this is what first made him try to take treatment seriously. Earning that trust from his aunt and uncle. To this day, the two see each other more as siblings than cousins.

He put a lid on his anger issues, but Bruce's social skills never really picked up. His brains, though, they never seemed to stop growing. So when he got an in at the Tomorrow Academy across the country, his aunt and uncle couldn't see a downside. I have my theories Ross had his eye on Bruce all the way back then because of who his old man was, but I can't back that claim--yet. Even if I can't make a direct connection, Ross still definitely had his finger on the place. That meant having an extended stay in New York, and his kid popping in the Academy from time to time. That's how Bruce first met Betty. In spite of himself, Bruce managed to strike something up with Betty, and they kept in you well after the Academy's shutdown. Even when Bruce had any school in the world to nab his PhD, he went with NJIT so he would be closer to Betty. Neither of them could have imagined this would seal Bruce's fate.

Timeline (1991 - 1998): Betty was in Jersey because she was one of the first recruits for the newly-minted SHIELD Comm School. She wanted to keep up the family military tradition by getting into spy work, but even back then she was a sleuth at heart. Case in point, when she and Bruce got close enough he started opening up about his past, Betty couldn't just leave it be. I don't know if it was empathy to help Bruce get closure, or just a fixation on solving a mystery. Whatever it was, Betty put together an investigation on what Brian was researching before he killed Rebecca and showed it to Bruce.

In turn, a switch went off in Bruce when he poured over his old man's work in hysterical strength. Like father, like son, Bruce became obsessed with finishing his old man's work to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have. SHIELD was either desperate, or Bruce made one heckuva pitch, because in no time at all a new Super-Solider project was in the works. The ink on Bruce's pHd wasn't even dry before a base in the desert was installed to further explore his theories.

Call it trauma, shame, fear, or even some lingering loyalty to the powers that victimized him, but Bruce has never come clean about what went down at Project Gamma. From what I personally know, their experiments went well past any ethical boundaries. A young man looking for some closer was quickly finding things spinning out of his control, that's a lot on your conscience. And that all came crashing down on that one fateful day, when an internal sabotage caused a radiation leak, then a breakout of its test subjects—helped by a big, green giant barrelling through the walls and security for them.

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Main Alias/Moniker: Cyclops

Legal Name: Scott Daniel Summers

Other Aliases: Cyke, Slim, Scotty, Summers, One-Eye, Shades, Hot Shot, Risky Business, Ray Charles, Buddy_Holly

Date of Birth: August 13, 1986 (Age: 19)

Status: Alive

Species: Mutant

Sex: Male

Gender: Cisgender

Height/Weight: 5’9’’ (1.75 m) / 162 lbs (74 kg)

Hair/Eye Color: Hair/Eye Color: Brown / Brown (Glowing Red Almost Constantly)

Timeline (1986 - 1996): Scott didn't want to write up his own file. Something about a conflict of interest. So here I am. I choose to believe that means he sees me as capable as himself, since Scott otherwise takes his duties as a TB pretty seriously. There are still a ton of personal details I wasn't able to get from Scott directly, but I did get from Jean with Scott's consent, and I'd say that's about as good a verification as any.

Scott has had a rough life, but what he went through wasn't what entirely made him into who he is. When corresponding with Alex, it sounds like Scott was always a bit of a quiet kid, the kind who preferred to play around with his LEGO bucket than go outside. The family moved around a lot, which probably didn't help Scott with making friends. That's probably why he seemed to cling to Alex in these days. Even though Alex was super-young back during this time, he still vividly remembers Scott being very protective, helping Alex with his math homework and cleaning him up whenever Alex got scuffed up. Poor Scott might have been able to catch up on his social skills, were it not for everything that came next.

Timeline (1996 -1998): Now, even those among us here on Stars & Stripes, the full details of what went down at the Starcore Incident remain unclear. We have a prevailing theory, but pending the approval of an actual, real-life alien onto the Brigade (Rick himself has been vouching pretty hard for this Marvel guy, so it shouldn't be too long), all we know for certain was that Canadian billionaire Peter Corbeau wanted to get humankind into space, and someone else didn't want that. And because Chris Summers was the chosen pilot for the spacecraft and invited the rest of the family to the lunch site to watch him fly off, they all got caught in the crossfire.

First, Scott watched the spacecraft carrying his dad get shot out of the sky. Next, his mother rushed him and Alex into a convoy and rushed off the launch site as it was being bombarded from above. Scott's mom didn't get far and was swerved off the road. Pinned to the car from the wreck, she pleaded to Scott to lead Alex into the woods and keep him safe, but the brothers only made it out a little bit before Alex broke down in hysterics. As Scott tried to tend to Alex, he saw from afar two figures aiming a shot. When Scott shoved Alex out of the way, the blast that hit the ground then flung Scott into the air, striking his head against a boulder and knocking him out cold.

What happened next is much less speculative, but no less nasty. That monster Essex, he somehow found Scott and took him to his clinic in Arkansas. Over the next year, Scott was kept in the clinic's basement, sedated but conscious enough to be subjected to Essex's experiments, all to extract and toy with Scott's X-Gene. What finally pulled Scott out of it was Jean, when she became a guest of the clinic herself. The connection was hazy, but the mental impression of a red-headed girl around his age gave Scott enough focus to finally escape. His optic blasts cleared an entire concrete wall, and Scott blindly ran off into the Ozarks.

Waking up a year later, clear across the country, and suffering not only from intense migraines, but what seemed like lasers bursting out from his eyes to say that Scott was overwhelmed would be an understatement. This was how he fell prey to Jack Winters, a jewel thief who was operating in the area at the time. Winters came up with half the solution to Scott's optic blasts, and gave him a nice pair of Ray-Bans. They weren't as effective as his later custom ruby lenses, with Scott literally burning through his shades over time, but it was enough to entrust Scott to Winters, who became his lookout and accomplice in his crimes.

Scott's blasts would still sometimes get out of control, and enough random arsons made in this stealing spree caught the attention of Agent Duncan, who then reported the situation to the Professor. It all came to a head when Duncan assembled the local law enforcement to corner Winters in his latest raid. Desperate, Winters opted to hold Scott hostage, only to find his body becoming immobilized. The Professor then telepathically instructed Scott to exit the store, where the two then had a more proper introduction once the cops rushed in to detain Winters.

Timeline (1998 - 2004): With the help of Agent Duncan and Professor Xavier, Scott was sent to live with his grandparents in Alaska, where he lived a much more stable Iife for the next few years. Scott still wasn't much of a social butterfly, but his traumas didn't completely cripple him, either. During this time, Scott got super-introspective, getting into meditation and martial arts (Huge fan of Bruce Lee). He also got involved in his school's sailing and journalism clubs, which is how he met his one and only high school friend and confidante, Lee Forester. Speaking with Lee, Scott around this time didn't sound much different from how the rest of us know him for, save for being even more stiff and reserved. And, knowing what he just went through back then, I honestly don't blame him.

This was also around the time Scott first got into sleuthing. Not only having been victimized by forces he didn't understand, but also just insanely curious about his mutant nature, Scott first fell into his habit of never being able to leave things be. It's probably what ended up having him become one of Rick's earliest recruits into the Brigade. Scott never managed to uncover the full truth of what truly went down at Starcore, but he did at least track down Alex. He chose to remain with his adoptive family in Vancouver, but the two brothers remained in touch.

Speaking of keeping in touch, Scott maintained contacts with Xavier all throughout this time. The Professor hooked Scott up with his first pair of ruby shades, and frequently held check-ups on Scott's condition and his own private testing of his mutant power, and Xavier was completely open to any and all questions Scott had about mutants, of which there was apparently a lot. I can personally attest to this, the Professor is one of the few people Scott can become an absolute chatterbox about. He trusts him out of all of the original team. So when the Professor called Scott to come to New York following graduation to help him with a social study on the mutant experience, Scott left Alaska without a second thought.

The first day he stepped foot into the Mansion, Scott was met with his literal dream girl. Apparently, his face grew as red as his glasses, and then when Jean attempted to greet him telepathically he then rushed out of the room. The two tried again with the introductions eventually, but it would still take a bit more time for Scott to open up to Jean. All the other non-mind-readers of the First Class, it was a whole lot smoother. Scott got along with Hank pretty well. The two bonded not only on mutant issues (Scott with the social aspect, Hank with the genetics), but also because the two now had a sparring partner with their martial arts hobbies. There was a brief pecking order once Wren entered the picture, one that Scott didn't feel like dignifying and let Wren believe she was the leader of their little group, for the time being at least. The two even worked together when Bobby got into his legal troubles, and because of that Bobby was especially fond of the two of them.

Soon enough, Scott found himself in a friend group he could trust and depend on, and he believed in the Professor's whole dream wholeheartedly. So when the Brotherhood invaded Santo Marco and created an an international incident, it was a lot for Scott to take in. He looked for the Professor for guidance, only for Xavier to shut himself off entirely, taking the whole situation even worse. Hank told Scott and the others of the whole history between Xavier and Magneto, and the story sparked something in Scott. With a little encouragement from Jean, Scott first rallied the rest to take action, and then cajoled Xavier to let them take their training to the test. It took a lot of convincing, but eventually the group piled into the Professor's fancy private jet, ready to sneak into Santo Marco and change history.

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Main Alias/Moniker: Marvel Girl

Legal Name: Jean Elaine Grey

Other Aliases: Jeannie, Little Red Hen, Red

Date of Birth: June 28th, 1986 (Age: 19)

Status: Alive

Species: Mutant

Sex: Female

Gender: Cisgender

Height/Weight: 5’6” (1.68m) / 130 lbs (58.97kg)

Hair/Eye Color: Red/Green

Timeline (1986 - 1996): Scott delegated yet another write-up onto me. I hope he knows he can't use this "conflict of interest" excuse forever. This whole project is one big conflict of interest, but whatever. I, for one, don't need an excuse to talk about the second-coolest lady mutant I know. And Jean lived with the first on my list, so I know she won't take it personally.

Jean was the middle child of five to two college professors in Annadale-on-Hudson. Her parents doted on her, her big sis and little brothers loved her, she was the happiest little girl north of Broadway. Then one day, when Jean was ten, something horrible happened. Jean and her friend Annie were playing outside, when Annie ran out into the road and was struck by a car.

As Annie was clinging to life, Jean's mutant powers emerged prematurely, using her telepathic powers to try and hold onto Annie, but she didn't make it. Jean felt someone die more closely and directly than most people ever will, and on top of that Jean's powers were like an open wound, her mind taking in every stray thought and feeling around. Eventually, Jean couldn't take it anymore and fell into a catatonic shock.

Timeline (1996 - 1997): Eventually, Jean was admitted to the Millbury Clinic, at the time was one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country. The Greys were worried for their littlest, and who and what "Millbury" was connected to and had done wasn't yet exposed, so let's not hold it against them. After all, even after admitting Jean, they didn't call it a day. They kept looking into what had happened to their daughter, and that eventually got them in contact with Professor Xavier, who was still holding down his residency at ESU at the time.

It would be easy to give Xavier the credit of bringing Jean out of her coma, entering her mind and having a psychic counseling session, but right before Xavier went down to the Millbury Clinic, Jean had a brief anchor for her powers. The mental image of a boy her age with fire blasting out from his eyes altered the empathetic side of her powers. Xavier at least put in some mental blocks on his way out, to help curb the flow of thoughts and sensations Jean would be overwhelmed with otherwise.

Timeline (1997 - 2002): Jean was given a clean bill of health (Something "Millbury" didn't hesitate to take credit for publicly), but the incident with Annie still left an effect on her. As a teenager, the formerly outgoing Jean grew more withdrawn and introspective. She cut her hair, started wearing more muted clothes, and while supportive with others almost never opened herself up to someone else.

This is the time Jean's artsy side started to grow. This all wasn't too long ago, but it was still long enough for being an outed mutant was unthinkable, and though Jean can be quiet and shy, she is absolutely not the type to bottle herself up. That need for visibility is probably where her modeling and performative art stuff first came from, and trying to make sense of her powers is probably why she's so fond of more abstract art and music. All of it is just kinda static to me, but you do you, girl.

Her interest in behavioral science also came up around here. Even with her powers under control, a great deal of maintenance was still needed, and even though Xavier's blocks cut down Jean's telepathy, she had enough to grow fascinated with why people are the way they are. Speaking of Professor Xavier, he and Jean kept in contact over this time, doing check-ups and psychic training both in-person and across the state.

Around the end of her junior year, Xavier approached Jean's parents to ask her involvement in a pilot study of his, one that was meant to test out what would become the school. Jean had managed to graduate early and was ready to go to college down in the city, but she swore to her parents she could handle both. To try and sweeten the pot, Xavier offered to cover Jean's housing, which is how she first met Ororo. The two hit it off, both being beauties with big hearts who love all that artsy stuff. Ororo's influence definitely helped get Jean out of her shell, too.

Timeline (2002 - 2003): Jean was at the mansion the day Scott first arrived. She had told Xavier about her visions of him while in her coma, which helped him to track him down years before. Jean thought giving Scott a telepathic greeting would be a cute reunion, but Scott himself didn't seem to agree. Apparently, Scott said he wasn't used to having someone poke around in his head, but he'd also been in contact with the Professor for years up to that point, so I don't buy it (Nor does anyone else).

Jean did much better next time around, when Dr. McCoy first showed up at Xavier's doorstep. He stumbled in in a fugue state, one that even Xavier didn't know what to make of. Fortunately, Jean had been honing her empathy since then, and was able to get Dr. McCoy out of his funk. Wren, that was a different story. Being such a type-a personality, there was a sort of pecking order made by Wren with the only other girl in the group, but thankfully Wren learned to chill out before long. And Bobby, Jean said that he reminded him of one of her little brothers, so it wasn't all that hard to buddy up with him. So before they were even legit, Jean had been the heart of the team from the start.

When Jean first agreed to work with Xavier on mutant activism, she said she was planning on doing it in a sort of capacity Xavier was doing at the time. Helping from a distance, but not too far that her safety or anonymity could ever be put at risk. That's to say that she was probably the last person to ever see herself doing what they would do in Santo Marco that March.

But, believe it or not, while it was Scott and his rousing speech that convinced Xavier to intervene, and Dr. McCoy who told the rest of them the bad blood between Xavier and Magneto, and the whole idea of a mutant response team was first pitched between the two ex-friends years earlier, it was Jean that got all those moving parts together.

She's the one who lent the emotional support to get Scott to make that rousing speech in the first place. Just a few hours later, she and the rest of them were flying into an in-progress international incident. Talk about getting out of your comfort zone, huh?

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Main Alias/Moniker: Wasp

Legal Name: Janet Van Dyne

Other Aliases: Jan, ジャネット(Janetto), The Unstoppable Wasp, The Wonderous Wasp, The Winsome Wasp, Waspie, Fashion Fly, Giant-Woman, Tinkerbell

Date of Birth: March 5th, 1981 (Age: 25)

Status: Alive

Species: Human Mutate

Sex: Female

Gender: Cisgender

Height/Weight: 5'4'' (1.63 m) / 110 lbs (49.9 kg)

Hair/Eye Color: Auburn / Hazel

Timeline (1981 - 2002): Jan was born in the Big Apple while her parents, scientists Vernon Van Dyne and Nozomi Akatsuki, were staffing the Tomorrow Academy. Jan would spend her earliest days a fly on the wall to her future teammates and a bunch of other movers-and-shakers, but of course she doesn't remember any of that. Most of her time in the Academy was spent being playmates with the other baby of the Academy, Johnny Storm. The two of them were looked after by Johnny's big sis, in what Sue called "Yester-Daycare." Jan's parent's marriage didn't last long outside of the Academy's eventual shutdown, calling it quits when she was ten. Jan spent her adolescence bouncing between Japan and America between her parents. She says this played a big part in her wanderlust and love of art and culture.

For all her landmarks in the field of nanorobotics, Akatsuki-san is, evidently, a bit of a pill. She nudged Jan all her life to become a scientist like her, and allegedly discouraged Jan from keeping in touch with her father. By the time she was college-bound, Jan shot back at both of these burdens, enrolling in school in the US to be close to her old man. Going to UCLA with eyes on an art major, Jan made fast friends with her dormmate, fellow future heroine Jen Walters. Jan made sure to head up to San Fran once a month to check up on her dad, which since he was such a workaholic was often just PymTech HQ. This is how Jan met Hank, and the two started to go steady after a beat.

Timeline (2002 - 2003): By Jan's senior year, things started to smell fishy over at PymTech. Vernon stopped answering Jan's calls, as did Hank. Strolling up to the joint herself, Jan was informed a change in management barred non-employees from touring the premises, which only got Jan's dander up even more. Evading security, Jan made her way to her father's lab, where she saw him chewing out the newly-minted CEO, Elihas Starr. Now, not to speak too ill of the dead, but by all accounts Vernon Van Dyne was a real pushover. He was exactly the type for someone like Starr to keep on hand in his scheme at the time to take over the company, but when it came time to start cooking up the company founder's signature shrinking particles to be weapons of war, Vernon finally grew a spine, and his defiance to Starr was what Jan walked in on.

Jan's stealth slipped at that point, but when Starr noticed her, he suddenly lightened up, chumming it up to her like an old friend. He told Jan he and her father were hashing out a test run to a new particle accelerator and offered her to be an audience. Probably out of fear of Starr exposing him in front of his daughter, Vernon went along with this cover, and out of want to uncover what was really going down, Jan went along with it. Unfortunately for father and child, Starr was exactly the type of person to waste two people who might interfere with his business, and he over-calibrated the accelerator. Vernon was vaporized almost instantly. Jan was a bit more lucky and fell into a coma. Even luckier for her, Starr was unable to finish the job, as quickly after the "lab accident" Jan was found by Hank and put up in his family home for personal care.

Timeline (2003): For the next few months, Jan remained bedridden while Hank and his family staged a heist to expose and discredit Starr from their company. Jan would awaken the night of the job, and would unwittingly botch up those plans. Jen Walters and Bill Foster were tending to Jen at the time, and they reported seeing Jan spring up from her coma, and shortly after her bed would collapse from underneath her. By the time she got to her feet, she had doubled in size, and had kept growing. As the Pyms would determine later, the bombardment of Pym Particles Jan endured months earlier had altered her body, making her the first living organism to produce and process the previously synthetic particles. A mix of that and some hazy memories through the Jan into a flurry of vengeance against Starr, and she leapt out the window and made a mad dash for PymTech, growing bigger as she went along. By the time she tore off the roof of the building, she was well over fifty feet tall. Hank managed to subdue her and bring her back to proper size, but at the cost of Starr making a getaway.

On Hank's insistence, Jan remained a guest of the Pym estate, going through physical and psychological therapy all while Hank ran a million different tests before concluding what I had said earlier. Eventually, Hank got a second opinion, which just so happened to be Jan's own neesan, Sue Storm. Finding out that her old babysitter had become a super-scientist, expectant mother and, most pertinently, leading a team of super-people with super-powers herself, Jan couldn't care less about her own condition and pleaded for Sue to catch her up on the last few months. By the end of it, Jan was certain a new wave of superheroes was rolling, and with the powers she had been granted wanted to get in on it.

Jan cajoled Hank to join in on this venture with her, and with the help of Sue and her formula for Unstable Molecules, Jan lent her eye for aesthetic to making custom suits for the two of them. She worked her beau's ant-keeping hobby into his suit, and wanting to compliment the bug gimmick (And probably also wanting to get some distance from being the "50 Foot Woman of Sam Francisco"), hatched her new identity as the Unstoppable Wasp. The duo would patrol the Bay Area over the following spring and summer, with special attention on fighting back on tie influx of super-weapons Starr was looking to facilitate. But all that would be small potatoes compared to what would play out that following September.

When Bruce was finally caught and locked up by the feds, a small team that included Hank volunteered to assist on a procedure that could potentially cure him of the big green monkey on his back. Jan tagged along, wanting to give Bruce a smile and a hug as a favor for Jen, who was too choked up about the whole thing to go herself. While the surgery was underway and Jan was left to wait and twiddle her thumbs, some folks at SHIELD tried to schmooze her up, get her to fight for them. Before Jan could even be talked into a handshake, the Breakout went down. Jan scoffed at the call for containment and sprang into action. She, Hank, Stark and Thor eventually came together to try and settle down the Hulk, but all five of them found a mutual threat in the rampaging Graviton. Once the day was saved, it was Jan who first coined the name for the house the five of them would build, though Jan herself admits there wasn't much thought behind "Avengers" just sounding colorful or dramatic.