Disclaimer:Two months of laziness later, and I still do not own X men: Evolution, oh woe is me.
Author's Note: One of the things that I found so very interesting about X men: The Last Stand was the idea that Jean had a split personalty called the Phoenix. One of my greatest regrets was that X men: Evolution was cancelled after the Fourth season, when in the fifth season they were planning to bring in the Phoenix. I would really have loved to see how they would have pulled that off. Would they go with the original comic story, or would they follow a smiliar path to either the recent Ultimate Phoenix story or the Movie story? I recieved the idea for Jean's story from Jean's own competitive nature. As one can see from the show, Jean is a very competitive sports player and student, always trying to be the best. If you think about it, the only thing that Jean can never be surpressed in is her mutant power. As a mutant, Jean is basically unstoppable (check out comic history. You CAN'T kill her). And in the movie, she almost ended the universe. These all acted as inspiration towards this piece, exploring why Jean recieved the powers she did.
If there was one word that Jean would use to describe her older sister Susan, it would be "Perfect".
Perfect.
Complete.
Without equal.
Unsurpressable.
It seemed to Jean that she had been competing with her older sister ever since she could quite remember. There was just something about Susan that awoke Jean's competitive spirit like no other person could. Susan was everything that Jean wished she could be.
Perfect.
Susan was a straight A student, with honors in almost all her classes, and was also a natural athlete, as well as very pretty. The neighbors were always complimenting her, even though everything came so easily to Susan. Jean on the other hand worked as hard as she possibly could, but she never seemed able to ever receive the same amount of praise that her sister received on every and any occasion. Susan could also wear any colour she wished, and she always looked so . . . perfect in any style she should so choose. And she could wear pink.
Perfect.
Pink.
Perfect Pink.
Pink had long been Jean's favorite colour. She had always loved the forbidden colour. The colour that would always clash with her rebellious red hair. Most of Susan's clothes were pink, as pink was Susan's favorite colour as well.
It wasn't fair.
It never was fair.
Jean would never be as smart or as pretty as her sister.
At night, when she clutched her pink teddy bear tightly in her arms, she would find herself praying for a number of things.
Please God, don't let me be normal.
Please God, please let me be better at something that Susan can't and can never be good at.
Please God . . . let me wear pink just once.