#ch: illyana rasputin

[xmenuniverse]

Magik in Midnight Suns (2022-2023), art by Luigi Zagaria.

[616rogue]

source: variant cover of dark web: x-men (2022) #1, illustrated by terry dodson.

[darkholmes]

I don’t like you anymore.

Liar.

[vertigoimprint]

Magik by Dani Strips

[uncannysource]

Hey, Dani. Wanna go for a ride?

NEW MUTANTS (2019) #1, art by Rod Reis

[ofcosmicwonder]

@ofmagikandlimbo

(✉ → sword babe 😈): so I have a friend in the hospital and he’s getting really tired of the same green jello every day. think you could help teleport some blue raspberry to him? I promised I could make it happen, and an amazon does not go back on her promises.

[lanseax]

Tell anyone I cried, and I will dismember you. That’s my girl.

[uncannyjeangrey]

uncanny x-men #33

[eversinceamsterdamn]

happy pride month let kitty pryde and illyana rasputin kiss

[starslung]

❝ Do you think a paring knife remove a human heart in under a minute? ❞ ( from illyana afdkjh )

BROOKLYN NINE NINE STARTERS !

   “guess it depends on how neat you want it to be.” he’s mostly used to the conversation topics illyana broaches with him, now, especially when they’re general ones like this. of course, if she’d asked him whether he thought a paring knife could remove his heart in under a minute, there’d be some trepidation, but they’re on level ground for now. sure, it’s spooky level ground, like a cemetery or whatever, but he can handle it. “i mean, are we talking for like, emergency transplant purposes or fuck this person and fuck them getting to have a beating heart purposes?”

[rebootrevolution]

X-Men Novelization (Ch. 27)

Chapter Twenty-Seven

On the other side of the globe, where nighttime spread across Siberia, Charles Xavier’s message penetrated the dreams of a farm boy named Piotr Rasputin. Piotr, just a couple years older than Kitty and Bobby, discoverd his powers almost a year before that dreaming night when Xavier’s voice appeared to him.

He would remember the day he discovered his powers all his life. He was on his family’s farm just outside Ust-Ordynsky doing a watercolor of the landscape. The air was crisp in his nostrils, and the familiar sound of his father’s combine sweeping across the field surrounded him. He was trying to paint around the combine, wanting to capture nature itself, but the dreaded thing kept creeping into his view. In amusement he would smile and call out to his father, but his father could not hear him. Then he saw his little sister, Illyana, walking across the field toward the combine’s path. She had her earbuds in, obsessed with music in those days, and seemed blithely unaware of the swirling blades bearing down on her.

Piotr charged straight through his easel, his legs pumping and burning as he raced toward his sister. Suddenly he was moving faster, and the burning went away as if the running itself was effortless. The next moments were a blur--he grabbed Illyana in his arms and beared down over her, and there was the awful cacophony of machinery twisting and breaking and snapping against an unyielding force. When it was over Piotr let Illyana go, she marvelled at him with saucepan eyes, and when he looked at his hands he saw his own reflection in a sheath of metallic skin.

Piotr’s parents did not understand the change that was happening to him, but they made sure that his life stayed normal after that. The loss of the combine was a blow to their family, but soon they were recouping their losses with the increase in productivity that Piotr supplied them. He could sprint across a field pulling two plows behind him, toss hay bales to the animals from the other side of the farm, and lift the tractors with ease when they needed a tire change.

The Rasputin family tried to keep Piotr’s gifts a secret as long as they could, but there was no escaping the eyes of a government looking for people precisely like Piotr. There was a knock at the door one day, and it was Piotr’s mother Alexandra who answered.

The visitor was a harsh-looking military man named Mikhail Ursus. When the Rasputin family tried relating to the man by saying that Piotr’s eldest brother was also named Mikhail the man simply responded, “I know.”

Ursus was straightforward about his knowledge of Piotr’s abilities. He was straightforward about the government’s desire to recruit Piotr into an elite military force they were assembling, and he was straightforward about his disdain when Piotr declined.

“What if I’m not asking, son?” Ursus responded.

Piotr stared at his feet, his large frame taking up a whole corner of the tiny kitchen, his sister and parents crowded around him. “I only ever wanted to be an artist. I only ever wanted to create. I do not have the constitution of a soldier.”

Ursus’ gaze turned toward the refrigerator. Piotr’s artwork was stuck to the the door with little magnets, the pictures growing in complexity from paper to paper, a result of Alexandra putting her favorites on the fridge ever since Piotr was just a boy. Ursus looked back at the family and saw how they cowered at him--all but the girl, the sister, who stared defiantly, knowing that she should not like the man but not understanding why.

Ursus took pity on them. He said that he would report back that Piotr was not fit for duty, and he ignored all attempts at thanks that the Rasputins offered him. Just before he left he said that he was not lying for them--he was not lying at all.

It was because of Ursus that Piotr’s parents had misgivings when their son came to them one morning and told them about the dream they had. He described a beautiful mansion in America where kind teachers could teach him about himself, about the world, and how to help. His parents saw the look in his eyes and they could tell it was truly what the boy wanted. Piotr’s father dug out a small box from the floorboards and gave it to his son, telling him that they would drive into Irkutsk the next day to get the documentation for Piotr’s passport.

Illyana was angry at her brother for leaving, old enough to remember her brother Mikhail’s disappearance but too young to know why anyone would ever leave home. Piotr embraced her nevertheless, told her for the thousandth time in their lives that she had a head of hay, and promised that he would come back to her.

The towering man who tore a combine to shreds and hurled hay bales a hundred meters at a time came to be known as “Colossus,” but his family would always remember him as their little Piotr.

[616rogue]

source: art by artofnickrobles on twitter.

[uncannysource]

DAWN OF X CHARACTER CONCEPTS

Character designs for upcoming Dawn of X titles, released by Marvel Comics on September 30, 2019, via Adventures In Poor Taste.

[ofcosmicwonder]

❝It doesn’t really speak to my skill set.❞ || @ruleroflimbo​

“Oh, so now you have skill sets?” Donna teased with a glint in her eyes. “And what skills would those be?” She couldn’t help the smile that passed so easily across her face as they sat in the pizza parlor that doubled as an arcade, where Donna was daring Illyana to face off against her in an old game of Dance Dance Revolution that looked like it was straight out of the early 2000s. After she’d practically forced Illyana to ask her out on their first date, Donna had decided that something more low-key (and on her own dime) was in order for the second. As soon as Donna realized that Illyana had never even been in a relationship before or gone on a proper date, she’d begun making quite a list of all the cliche things she was determined for Illyana to enjoy and that included New York style pizza and shared milkshakes to start.

[lanseax]

illyana & ororo in extraordinary xmen are in love and no one can change my mind

[616rogue]

don’t worry, boy!

magik goes to limbo and plays with a pet demon.

source: extraordinary x-men (2016) #13, by victor ibañez.