The X-Men. A small, fairly unimportant team of super heroes inhabiting New
York. Their aim is to become the leading crime fighters and heroes of the
city--but that's not easy, with Spider-Man and Daredevil, amongst others,
around.
Their leader: an eccentric man known as Charles Francis Xavier, to a certain extent, a hippie. On the other hand, he is completely bald, and regularly sends his team out to beat the hell out of people. But he is well known to be completely laid back, perhaps lazy, and under the belief that everything is "radical, dude". In his opinion, his being a hippie comes before his leadership, before the fact that he is a mutant, before anything.
A lead member of the team is the mutant known as Jean Grey. A beautiful redhead, single, interested currently only in meeting Spider-Man and defeating him. Her telepathic abilities have made her incredibly nosy from a young age, always tempted to have a peek at someone's thoughts, or eavesdrop from the other side of their mansion.
Alongside Jean is Ororo Munroe, known often as Storm. Storm has no grievances with Spider-Man, nor any other super hero in the city, but joins the battle for popularity because she has nothing better to do--and it's rumoured there's something between her and Jean. Ororo has a temper to rival Jean's, or any other redhead's, always creating some kind of thunderstorm or tornado in her anger, destroying large areas of the city and leaving the authorities to blame vandals or terrorists to cover it up.
The brains of the team come in the form of Katherine Pryde, known to her friends as Kitty (much to her annoyance) and her enemies as Shadowcat. She joined the X-Men in a hope that she could make a real difference to the world, not knowing of the petty disagreements between the superhumans of the USA. Her mutant abilities allow her to walk through solid matter, a power it never occurred to her to abuse before she met Nightcrawler, a teammate. She is a fully qualified doctor, often tempted to rejoin the profession and leave the X-Men to it.
Currently, it is early morning (well, around eleven), and most of the mutants are in bed. A popular, but frankly lazy member of the team, Kurt Wagner, is asleep. He dreams of Jean, and of his breakfast, while snoring loudly enough to disturb Ororo, next door. Ororo pulls a pillow over her long white hair and groans, knowing Kurt won't quieten until he's hungry enough to get up. After a few moment pause, she throws the pillow to the floor and stretches her long, slender arms towards the ceiling. With an animal-like growl she picked up off Wolverine, she uses her power to create a large rain cloud above Kurt's bed. Then she pulls on her dressing gown and slippers and heads downstairs.
On the way she notices Wolverine's door is open. Peering inside, the room is exactly as he left it before going out the night before to "beat the hell outta the Spider kid". 'Perhaps he lost,' Ororo thinks, unbothered.
Kurt Wagner, known as Nightcrawler, Nightie, the Crawler Dude, Elf, and The German One to everyone, is a German mutant with a weird appearance. His tail, blue fur-coated body, three fingered hands, elf ears, and glowing yellow eyes make him easily recognisable, something he uses to his advantage. His interest in the X-Men spans as long as it takes until dinner, at which point he has interest only in what he can eat.
Ororo arrives in the kitchen to find it in the same mess it was the evening before. Picking through the empty pizza boxes and fast food wrappers, she reaches the cereal but finds the fridge is devoid of milk. "Nightcrawler..." she growls to herself. And moments later, a cow some miles away finds itself flying through the air on a strong and completely unexpected wind.
Ororo's breakfast was delayed for around an hour, because getting the milk proved more difficult than she'd expected. During this time, Dr Pryde returned from the local convenience store with milk, bread, butter, a bag of sugar and some kitchen roll. She'd got up around half seven that morning, with the intent of sorting out the kitchen, but discovered they were lacking on quite a few basic kitchen essentials, and had gone to get some. She'd taken her time, not keen on returning to the mess (not forgetting the smell that comes only with leaving KFC remains on the same worktop for many months).
When Ororo enters the kitchen again, with a jar containing a small amount of milk, Katherine is sat at a small cleared space of the table, eating toast.
"Good morning, Ororo," she says politely.
"Good?" she mumbles back. "I had to milk a cow just to get some breakfast!"
"You could have gone and bought some milk," Katherine replies, after swallowing a mouthful of toast.
"Curses," Ororo says sharply. The cow found itself taking the second flying lesson that morning.
"I've got work to do today," Katherine says, as if she hadn't heard. "There's a large amount of paperwork I need to get done before the X-Men can progress any further."
Katherine bores Ororo, what with her "I'm a doctor" and "paperwork" and the general dullness of her life. Ororo finds it difficult to believe that anyone could still live without having been out clubbing and getting so drunk you'd never know who you were going home with, in the last few months. The weather witch does it often. Katherine has never done it in her life. Ororo doesn't bother to reply, and heads for the door, tripping over an empty plastic bottle and swearing loudly. She's not really a morning person. She mumbles, "We need a maid," and leaves the room.
Their leader: an eccentric man known as Charles Francis Xavier, to a certain extent, a hippie. On the other hand, he is completely bald, and regularly sends his team out to beat the hell out of people. But he is well known to be completely laid back, perhaps lazy, and under the belief that everything is "radical, dude". In his opinion, his being a hippie comes before his leadership, before the fact that he is a mutant, before anything.
A lead member of the team is the mutant known as Jean Grey. A beautiful redhead, single, interested currently only in meeting Spider-Man and defeating him. Her telepathic abilities have made her incredibly nosy from a young age, always tempted to have a peek at someone's thoughts, or eavesdrop from the other side of their mansion.
Alongside Jean is Ororo Munroe, known often as Storm. Storm has no grievances with Spider-Man, nor any other super hero in the city, but joins the battle for popularity because she has nothing better to do--and it's rumoured there's something between her and Jean. Ororo has a temper to rival Jean's, or any other redhead's, always creating some kind of thunderstorm or tornado in her anger, destroying large areas of the city and leaving the authorities to blame vandals or terrorists to cover it up.
The brains of the team come in the form of Katherine Pryde, known to her friends as Kitty (much to her annoyance) and her enemies as Shadowcat. She joined the X-Men in a hope that she could make a real difference to the world, not knowing of the petty disagreements between the superhumans of the USA. Her mutant abilities allow her to walk through solid matter, a power it never occurred to her to abuse before she met Nightcrawler, a teammate. She is a fully qualified doctor, often tempted to rejoin the profession and leave the X-Men to it.
Currently, it is early morning (well, around eleven), and most of the mutants are in bed. A popular, but frankly lazy member of the team, Kurt Wagner, is asleep. He dreams of Jean, and of his breakfast, while snoring loudly enough to disturb Ororo, next door. Ororo pulls a pillow over her long white hair and groans, knowing Kurt won't quieten until he's hungry enough to get up. After a few moment pause, she throws the pillow to the floor and stretches her long, slender arms towards the ceiling. With an animal-like growl she picked up off Wolverine, she uses her power to create a large rain cloud above Kurt's bed. Then she pulls on her dressing gown and slippers and heads downstairs.
On the way she notices Wolverine's door is open. Peering inside, the room is exactly as he left it before going out the night before to "beat the hell outta the Spider kid". 'Perhaps he lost,' Ororo thinks, unbothered.
Kurt Wagner, known as Nightcrawler, Nightie, the Crawler Dude, Elf, and The German One to everyone, is a German mutant with a weird appearance. His tail, blue fur-coated body, three fingered hands, elf ears, and glowing yellow eyes make him easily recognisable, something he uses to his advantage. His interest in the X-Men spans as long as it takes until dinner, at which point he has interest only in what he can eat.
Ororo arrives in the kitchen to find it in the same mess it was the evening before. Picking through the empty pizza boxes and fast food wrappers, she reaches the cereal but finds the fridge is devoid of milk. "Nightcrawler..." she growls to herself. And moments later, a cow some miles away finds itself flying through the air on a strong and completely unexpected wind.
Ororo's breakfast was delayed for around an hour, because getting the milk proved more difficult than she'd expected. During this time, Dr Pryde returned from the local convenience store with milk, bread, butter, a bag of sugar and some kitchen roll. She'd got up around half seven that morning, with the intent of sorting out the kitchen, but discovered they were lacking on quite a few basic kitchen essentials, and had gone to get some. She'd taken her time, not keen on returning to the mess (not forgetting the smell that comes only with leaving KFC remains on the same worktop for many months).
When Ororo enters the kitchen again, with a jar containing a small amount of milk, Katherine is sat at a small cleared space of the table, eating toast.
"Good morning, Ororo," she says politely.
"Good?" she mumbles back. "I had to milk a cow just to get some breakfast!"
"You could have gone and bought some milk," Katherine replies, after swallowing a mouthful of toast.
"Curses," Ororo says sharply. The cow found itself taking the second flying lesson that morning.
"I've got work to do today," Katherine says, as if she hadn't heard. "There's a large amount of paperwork I need to get done before the X-Men can progress any further."
Katherine bores Ororo, what with her "I'm a doctor" and "paperwork" and the general dullness of her life. Ororo finds it difficult to believe that anyone could still live without having been out clubbing and getting so drunk you'd never know who you were going home with, in the last few months. The weather witch does it often. Katherine has never done it in her life. Ororo doesn't bother to reply, and heads for the door, tripping over an empty plastic bottle and swearing loudly. She's not really a morning person. She mumbles, "We need a maid," and leaves the room.