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stoicslim276 - Are you an only child? Write about your siblings or lack thereof.
At last count-- and believe me, that's a lot less of a joke than I'd like it to be-- I have two brothers.
Alex Summers was the one I grew up with in Alaska. Being my younger brother, I took the job of taking care of and watching out for Alex as seriously as I've taken every other responsibility in my life, maybe even moreso, and that was even without Dad having made a point of it on numerous occasions. The best I can figure it, that instinct is what triggered my mutant abilities for the first time.
When the plane our family was in got struck by lightning (at least that was what we believed at the time) and there was just one parachute to go around, my father strapped Alex and me into it and pushed us out, but not before demanding one last time that I take care of my brother. When the parachute wasn't slowing us down enough, my optic blast manifested and broke our fall enough to keep us alive.
Not long after that, Alex was adopted out of the orphanage away from me. It killed me to be separated from my brother, but I was happy he didn't have to live my lonely, cold existence. We didn't meet again until we were young men and the Professor brought him into the X-Men as Havok.
Alex and I, we've... well, we've not always seen eye to eye. He has a strong, independent personality and is a good natural leader, but between other people and himself, there's always been a need there to compare himself to and compete with me. I've never wanted that, but I admit there have been times when our arguments come out of me wanting him to be better, to be everything I know he could be.
Gabriel Summers, on the other hand, I just found out about. He's a couple of years younger than Alex, and has had a rough life. I wish that excused some of the things he's done recently, but it doesn't. It only gives a little context.
You see, it wasn't lightning that struck our family's plane, it was an alien spacecraft from the Shi'Ar Empire. The Shi'Ar took our parents as prisoners and delivered them to their insane leader, Emperor D'Ken. While our father, Christopher Summers was thrown into a mine to work until his death, our mother Katherine became one of D'Ken's... personal slaves. He impregnated her with Gabriel, who eventually escaped and found his way to Earth.
The Professor found Gabriel and made him a kind of auxiliary X-Man, calling him Vulcan. I met Gabriel right around the time I was reunited with Alex, but the Professor never told any of us who his mother was. When Gabriel's team of mutants were presumed killed, Professor Xavier wiped all memory of them from our minds.
It wasn't until Gabriel awoke from a state of hibernation that the truth was finally revealed, but not before my half-brother's obsession with vengeance cost us the life of Sean Cassidy. Before we could help him or contain him, Gabriel left for space, determined to take revenge on the Shi'Ar empire
And now, Alex is out there too, hunting our half-brother down. I don't know what he'll find, and how things are going to turn out, but I know at least one thing, and I'm not ashamed to admit it: I know which brother needs to win. More than that, I know which brother I want to win.
I just wish I could be there with him.
(601)
OOC Note: This is a canon-based prompt. See disclaimer.
At last count-- and believe me, that's a lot less of a joke than I'd like it to be-- I have two brothers.
Alex Summers was the one I grew up with in Alaska. Being my younger brother, I took the job of taking care of and watching out for Alex as seriously as I've taken every other responsibility in my life, maybe even moreso, and that was even without Dad having made a point of it on numerous occasions. The best I can figure it, that instinct is what triggered my mutant abilities for the first time.
When the plane our family was in got struck by lightning (at least that was what we believed at the time) and there was just one parachute to go around, my father strapped Alex and me into it and pushed us out, but not before demanding one last time that I take care of my brother. When the parachute wasn't slowing us down enough, my optic blast manifested and broke our fall enough to keep us alive.
Not long after that, Alex was adopted out of the orphanage away from me. It killed me to be separated from my brother, but I was happy he didn't have to live my lonely, cold existence. We didn't meet again until we were young men and the Professor brought him into the X-Men as Havok.
Alex and I, we've... well, we've not always seen eye to eye. He has a strong, independent personality and is a good natural leader, but between other people and himself, there's always been a need there to compare himself to and compete with me. I've never wanted that, but I admit there have been times when our arguments come out of me wanting him to be better, to be everything I know he could be.
Gabriel Summers, on the other hand, I just found out about. He's a couple of years younger than Alex, and has had a rough life. I wish that excused some of the things he's done recently, but it doesn't. It only gives a little context.
You see, it wasn't lightning that struck our family's plane, it was an alien spacecraft from the Shi'Ar Empire. The Shi'Ar took our parents as prisoners and delivered them to their insane leader, Emperor D'Ken. While our father, Christopher Summers was thrown into a mine to work until his death, our mother Katherine became one of D'Ken's... personal slaves. He impregnated her with Gabriel, who eventually escaped and found his way to Earth.
The Professor found Gabriel and made him a kind of auxiliary X-Man, calling him Vulcan. I met Gabriel right around the time I was reunited with Alex, but the Professor never told any of us who his mother was. When Gabriel's team of mutants were presumed killed, Professor Xavier wiped all memory of them from our minds.
It wasn't until Gabriel awoke from a state of hibernation that the truth was finally revealed, but not before my half-brother's obsession with vengeance cost us the life of Sean Cassidy. Before we could help him or contain him, Gabriel left for space, determined to take revenge on the Shi'Ar empire
And now, Alex is out there too, hunting our half-brother down. I don't know what he'll find, and how things are going to turn out, but I know at least one thing, and I'm not ashamed to admit it: I know which brother needs to win. More than that, I know which brother I want to win.
I just wish I could be there with him.
(601)
OOC Note: This is a canon-based prompt. See disclaimer.
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Date: 2009-03-31 09:32 pm (UTC)OOC: Aww, obviously canon reply for Emma to Scott. She would tell him to go be with Alex and everyone. :(
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Date: 2009-03-31 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 09:33 pm (UTC)OOC: And... canon reply for Alex. Good thing we never RPed this story, huh? Because seriously? Like Scott would let Alex go alone after Gabriel?
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Date: 2009-03-31 10:42 pm (UTC)OOC: Seriously, he never would.