The key that opens the gates of heaven, opens the gates of hell 🔑
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Magik by Ephemeral-Visions
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I recently got into X-Men comics via the Krakoa era. Ive been really liking the New Mutants and want to try their original series. Is it a good idea to jump straight into that run, or is it a better idea to read some of the Claremont X-Men run for context first?
The correct jumping-on point for the New Mutants is Marvel Graphic Novel #4, The New Mutants, which is a great 50-page introduction to the premise (Professor X recruits a new class of students to the Xavier School) and the cast of characters (Rahne Sinclair, Roberto da Costa, Sam Guthrie, Dani Moonstar, and Xuân Cao Mạnh - future main characters like Doug Ramsey and Ilyana Rasputina will be introduced later) and their backstories.
From there, you can jump straight into the first issue of the ongoing title by Chris Claremont and then later Louise Simonson. Really, the only thing you need to know about the X-Men for context is that Professor X and Moira MacTaggart are the good guys and the Hellfire Club are the bad guys.
One of the great things about the X-line during the Claremont run is that a combination of the unprecedented level of editorial and creative coordination and Jim Shooter's diktat that "every issue is someone's first" is that they're very good at doing economical world-building. Thus, when you need to learn who Sebastian Shaw or Emma Frost or Henry Peter Gyrich are and how the X-Men relate to the New Mutants, the books will tell you everything you need to know quite succinctly.
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Illyana Rasputina Best Friend Headcannons
*•.¸♡Request: what would it be liked being best friends with Illyana ? Headcannons pls ! Ty !
*•.¸♡Warnings: minimal violence
*•.¸♡Paring: Illyana Rasputina x Platonic!reader
You two weren't friends, to begin with
she was kind of bitchy and your snippy comments didn't help
In the beginning, it was a rivalry, nothing major, just enough to get in a fistfight and a couple of broken noses
But when a new Mutant came through the small school and tried to take Illyana's dragon plush you became friends
he was a stupid boy who could teleport
and unluckily for him, he teleported in front of you and you smashed his nose into the door
That's when the real rivalry dropped and become a back-and-forth sarcasm bet
You two pretty much stayed together from that point on
Ilyana had taken the opportunity to customize all of your jeans with different details and patterns
Rock music was always heard in your shared room
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Ilyana Rasputina hours
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Due to inactivity and with pain in our hearts, please UNFOLLOW:
Dawson Riggs ( @dawsonrigged )
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Joseph Wilson ( @sladeson )
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Kitty Pryde ( @ofkittenspride )
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Frank Castle needed for a slowburn with Karen on a pre-Infinity War MCU site!
Strongest Avenger (or so they say) needed on a pre-Infinity War MCU site!
Open face/gender Human Torch needed for the Fantastic Four on a pre-Infinity War MCU site!
Ilyana Rasputina needed as a Genoshan badass on a pre-Infinity War MCU site!
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Choose Your Own Adventure 4/5 (Dresden AU)
“Are you going to need more time to consider your options?”
“Yes, we will.” With that, Belasco disappeared in a cloud of smoke, reminiscent of Kurt’s own teleportation abilities.
“Twixt the Devil and the deep blue sea we are. Is there really no other way to get this Unraveling?” Wisdom pulled out a cigarette and used his hot knives to light it.
Yana shook her head. “Trying to steal from the Queen Mothers would be as bad as trying to steal from Belasco. We could go back and try to bargain with the wizard, but we don’t know what we could offer him either.”
“The way I see it,” said Brian. “Is we’re either screwed now or we’re screwed later. We give Belasco that Bloodstone, it probably won’t take him that long to create the final one. Maybe even within the year. But a favor, I’m thinking he’ll hold on to it for quite a while.”
“I disagree,” Kurt interjected. “We don’t know how long it took Belasco to create the first two Bloodstones, but we do know there was a large gap in time between making the second and the third. And it’s been a few years since he created the one from your soul, Yana. He could turn a favor back on us fairly quickly, but if we give him a Bloodstone, we’ve probably got a few years to stop him from making the final one. Or, worse comes to worst, we could steal it back.”
Wisdom turned to Yana. “Can we put restrictions on the favor? What I’m concerned about is if we give him a favor, he’ll make us give him the Soul Sword or create the Bloodstone anyway.”
She nodded. “We could do that. Trade him for a favor but state that giving him the Soul Sword or creating a Bloodstone are specifically excluded.”
Pete’s fag went out and he didn’t bother to relight it. “Then giving him a favor gets my vote. So that’s two for the favor and one for the Bloodstone. Magik, I guess it’s your call.”
Yana bowed her head in thought and Kurt held his breath. “Then it’s three to one. Belasco gets a favor, but not the Soul Sword or a Bloodstone.”
The demon reappeared, having clearly been spying on them. “The Unravelling in exchange for future favors from four different members of Excalibur, not including a Bloodstone or the Soul Sword. Done and done.” From thin air, he conjured up what looked like a tangled mesh of dark grey yarn.
“No fiery parchment? No signing in our blood?” japed Wisdom as he took the enchantment form the demon.
“No need,” a thin smile appeared on that red face. “I have other methods of enforcing my contracts.”
Excalibur repressed a communal shiver as they stepped away and Yana opened up a portal to take them out of Limbo.
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“You’ve been dead for a year!” “And here I thought you’d be happy to see me. I still have my hearing- there’s no need to shout.” (Comic canon)
@djinmer4 @dannybagpipesarecalling @discordsworld @bamfoftheundead
N/A: tempted in do the Krakoa arc but nope. Excalibur au.
The evil sorceress desires Kitty Pryde´s purest soul -something that is becoming a trend among evil sorceress. In fact, the lady was so obsessed by the desire of ''possess'' Kitty Pryde that prompts Excalibur and Kitty herself to think that maybe, just maybe, the sorceress wants something extra than just her purest soul.
For some unknown reason, Ray and Kurt are not ok with this random woman lusting after Kitty´s soul. Again, just maybe, said sorceress is not only lusting for Kitty´s soul.
"Is there a way to reverse this?" Brian asked as Magik is searching answers in her book. You see, the sorceress was really into Kitty and well, crazy evil sorceress don´t accept rejection well and Kitty is under a curse where she will remain dead for one year.
Magik shakes her head. "No, I´m afraid Katya will have to endure being dead for one year, the best I can do is to make sure her body remains healthy as her mind will do a long journey"
"This seems like a Sleeping Beauty´s story. If someone kissed her will she waken?" Meggan asked in a desperate tone.
Again, Magik shakes her head.
Rachel Grey is not pleased by this.
Kurt Wagner is the same.
Lockheed is crying fat tears and refuses to leave Kitty´s body.
And Excalibur has to deal with one ''dead'' Kitty for a year. Is a macabre as it sounds.
One year later.
Kitty opens her eyes and the first thing she does is to check her breath. "Oh, not morning breath, good" and then notices a sleeping elf, a grumpy and sleepy Ray, Lockheed curling like a ball on her chest and one Yana and her many books near Kitty´s bed.
"Guys. I´m back"
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Kitty and Yana in X-Men Gold #30, illust David Marquez
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X-Men as Leverage
@iwillshipyouman asked:
Charles as Nate Erik as Sophie? If you don't plan of having Logan as Elliot then Erik could be both. Or you know Raven as sophie/Parker Hank as Hardison
I can give you some of my thoughts on that - although obviously if you want to do a Leverage AU, you can do whatever you want, there can be multiple options, none is worse than the other. My ideas with some explanations for those who haven’t watched Leverage (no spoilers, only the premise) are under the cut!
quick explanation for those unfamiliar with Leverage: it’s a TV Show about a team of criminals that con bad rich people in order to bring justice to poor people/return their money. the team has five characters with five different criminal occupations: a grifter, a hitter, a hacker, a thief and a mastermind (not really a criminal occupation, but the guy that plans stuff and holds the team together). (if some of these words are new to you, I advise you to google them - I know that I had to google them when I started getting into the show, nothing bad about it, we all have a different vocabulary range).
so our task here is to pick some X-Men characters for the roles. iwillshipyouman suggested: Charles as the mastermind, Erik as the grifter or as the grifter and the hitter at the same time. +possibly Raven as the grifter/the thief and Hank as the hacker. now come my ideas.
I have to say that my experience with the Leverage AU for another fandom (BBC Musketeers 2014-16) and specifically some awesome people from the corresponding discord server have taught me that it’s more fun to choose some not extremely obvious roles for characters because this lets more of their sides shine. I also have a personal preference for Cherik to have a first meeting after the start of the story so here’s my random list of characters with justifications. I give everyone they/them pronouns ‘cause I dunno what pronouns they’ll have in the story.
Dear anyone who stumbles upon this post, feel free to use my ideas, but please send me the link so that I could read it and tell everyone about it :) If you want to brainstorm this together, do reach out via asks/notes/DMs/whatnot.
Erik - the mastermind. They have their metal powers to defend themselves but that’s not their main thing. Angel - the grifter. They also have their powers to defend themselves. Raven - the hitter (that’s basically canon, see: beginning of DOFP, for example). Aaaand, totally random: I wanted to have Kitty on the team and with Kitty comes Ilyana, so, Kitty as the hacker and Ilyana as the thief? Maybe?
You can notice that Charles is not on the team. Well, the idea in my head is sth like Charles is Raven’s sibling and the team accidentally stumbles upon them during a job. Raven’s main line is “Stop flirting with our team leader”, and Erik will be crushing like Erik because, well, I love that trope. Will there be Raven/Kitty? Kitty/Ilyana? Raven/Angel? Very possible. Polycules are our everything.
I might write this at some point but I give zero promises, a promise-free zone
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Kitty & Illyana - Security Footage
Oh look! Them again!
This is a painting of my love's OTP that I did for their birthday. I've done plenty of Kitty & Illyana before and I'm sure that I will continue to do plenty more.
The background for this actually took quite a while. It's interesting trying to depict a space accurately at this crazy angle!
Picture completed in August of 2019.
Media: Watercolours, gouache, and ink on paper.
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Magik by Ephemeral-Visions
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Trinity
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You believe yourselves IMMUNE to death ? I bring you a gospel of oblivion. I bring you the Soulsword. Taste it and cease to be.
( hunter schafer. 25-ish. she/her. trans woman. ) are you a hero? something tells me that the echoes of laughter in a abandoned playground, ancient swords, and a fire persevering through the harshest winter make you who you are, ILLYANA RASPUTINA. with the powers of stepping disc creation & sorcery, you’re sure to have a vehement, abrasive personality — and you definitely belong to unaffiliated. were you listening to afraid by the neighbourhood on your way to the subway? it suits you. we can’t wait to see what you do next!
𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞
𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 ; illyana nikovelenia rasputina
𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 ; hunter schafer
𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 ; anya taylor joy
𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐭 ;
- 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 : illyana’s mutant ability is the ability to teleport via portals that she refers to as stepping discs. through these portals illyana can traverse through time, space, & dimensions. she does not need to have sight of where she is teleporting, as all teleportation must go through the dimension of limbo from where she can scry a safe location & time point. she can travel interstellar distances as well as short gaps, and travel through centuries -- the portion of controlling time is the area she needs most practise on.
- 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 : illyana is the sorcerer supreme of the demonic dimension known as limbo. in her own dimension, there is not a being more powerful than her. however on earth she is severely weakened due to differences in magical properties & ether. her magical abilities stems from the demonic magic that filled the void in her soul when it was ripped from her as a child. the most common form she produces her magic in is her soul sword that is crafted from the remaining pieces of her soul.
- 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 : illyana is the hell lord of limbo; her demonic form , known as darkchylde, is fun and has hooves. when she is stuck in her darkchylde form, she struggles to exist in this plane for long periods of time -- however, as ilyana she lacks this issue. during the blip, illyana absorbed the dimension into herself to try and solve it being thrown off balance. this made her immune to telepathy as her mindscape is now effectively a version of hell. fun !!
𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 ; the x-men
𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 ; nikolai & alexandra rasputin ( parents, deceased. )
mikhail rasputin ( older brother, presumed deceased. )
piotr rasputin ( older brother. )
𝐳𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐜 ; capricorn sun. aquarius moon. scorpio rising.
𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 ; wiki. + pinterest + bio etc tba.
WAS YOUR CHARACTER “BLIPPED” OUT? WHO IMPORTANT TO THEM WAS BLIPPED OUT, AND WHAT HAS IT FELT LIKE AFTER THOSE FIVE YEARS HAVE PASSED?
illyana wasn’t blipped -- but you’d be forgiven for mistaking as such, when the blip happened illyana was in limbo / and although the dimension exists outside of time, the sudden change in the universe fractured it’s reality . for two years illyana was stuck in this hell again as she worked to restore order and prevent demonic uprisings. mentally, this had little impact on her just because well ... she’s used to it / but physically, the extended period of time in the dimension and absorbing it into herself caused her to become more demonic / unable to balance herself between illyana and darkchylde, she was too afraid of rejection to show herself to the surviving x-men and instead chose to pretend that she had also been snapped whilst she trained her magical abilities. after the blip was reversed, she realised she could not keep hiding, and thus pretended to come back to this reality. she is still, clearly 5 years older than when she “ blipped “ but -- it’s illyana, her age is fickle, so she hopes not too many people will question it.
WHERE ARE THEY LIVING? ARE THEY LIVING WITH ANYONE?
illyana lives at the x-mansion again. she’s just vibing with the x-men, but is not unknown to teleport into her friends places when she’s hungry and wants to steal their bagels.
WHY IS YOUR CHARACTER AFFILIATED WITH WHO THEY’RE AFFILIATED WITH?
x-men and mutant rights only. loosely tangentially affiliated with other magical groups, but they will always come second to mutant rights.
WHO ARE THEIR MAJOR FRIENDS, ALLIES, AND FOES?
the x-men and she stole her brothers fiance friends !! of course, new mutants are also up here they are THE gang of dumbass misfits. allies include, all x-men and mutant supportive characters -- does not care if ur a terrorist babes we all can’t be perfect and sometimes murder IS okay !! in terms of enemies, standard x-men enemies + specifically belasco can go fuck himself for stealing illyana’s childhood.
WHOSE HANDS DO THEY BELIEVE THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE IN?
give her an option that actually cares for mutant rights, and then maybe she’ll consider it.
WHAT’S THEIR CURRENT MENTAL STATE AT? THEIR PHYSICAL STATE?
not good besties !!! mentally and physically she could be better, always having to balance demonic forces in her mind -- she still is , at her core, a good person but that is so often overshadowed by the cold armor she wears to protect herself from unpacked childhood trauma. in terms of physical state, she’s in peak condition outside of unforseen and uncontrollable shifts into being a literal half demon goat lady with horns and a tail -- but being sexy and evil outstanding, it’s all good !!
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