X-Men Minus Xavier

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Series Begun:
2024-01-29
Series Updated:
2025-04-23
Description:

Started out as one thought experiment about who the X-Men might be if Charles Xavier had not gone around scooping up teens and taking them off to mutant school. Or creeping on teenage Jean. Or faking his own death and leaving said teens on their own, or sending random teens to their death and we only find out about it decades later, or any other myriad of actions that have made him both a parental figure and also...kinda a source of their trauma. Starts with the formation of the first-gen X-Men, goes from there. Stories about people navigating their own extraordinary abilities, their lives, and institutional power structures when you have had to figure all that shit out on your own. Not explicitly retelling a set of canon stories, but trying to keep relative character ages/relationships in familiar territory.

Notes:

No shade to Charles Xavier fans! He's an interesting character to read (and write) - if that's for you, that's great. But I found myself frustrated by the weight he carries in both fanworks and sanctioned content and so I started playing around with a counterfactual situation and it has spun into something more than a thought experiment.

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Words:
175,849
Works:
4
Complete:
No
Bookmarks:
19

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