Characters / X-Manson

Cast of Characters:

The Viewer/Kitty Pryde / Ariel/

The Viewer is a person watching the documentary that focuses on the demise of the people involved in Charles Xavier's cult. All the while, we are treated to little hints at their backstory. throughout the documentary, she is referred to as Ariel. A friend of Doug Ramsey who he met online. She attends the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters following a disastrous trip there by Doug Ramsey. She is also unknowingly harboring a psychic copy of Charles Xavier in her brain.

• Audience Surrogate: The entire story is written from the perspective of The Viewer as she watches the documentary about the horrific events surrounding Xavier's cult.

• Big Eater: Throughout the course of the story, the narration describes the viewer as going through most of a big bag of chips and dip as well as a container of cheap cookies. This takes a super grim turn when she proceeds to force herself to vomit up everything that she ate at the end of the story.

• Trauma Button: She starts crying at the end of chapter four, showing us a hint at her identity.

The Interviewer

The interviewer is a nameless character in the in-story documentary that is going around collecting stories and patching together what happened in the events surrounding the Xavier Cult.

• Stress Vomit: The Interviewer vomits after Domino mentions her and Cable killing the Six Pack.
• The Nameless: The Interviewer lacks a name, only being referred to as INT while showing off the interview segments.'

Psyche/Dani Moonstar

The woman known only by the alias, Psyche appears as a survivor of the escape from the Xavier School.

• Addled Addict: According to her testimony, after fleeing from the school, she "fried her brain on crack".
• An Arm and a Leg: At some unspecified time after heading west, she lost her arm.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Charles recognizes that he will have to go after her next.

Professor Erich Lehnsherr

Erich Lehnsherr is a mutant with power over magnetism. He displays this by describing stopping Charles from shooting him and later when he attempted to bring up a nuclear submarine at the behest of John Kelly.

• Adaptation Name Change: This is a bit justified. His comic counterpart's true name, Max Eisenhardt wasn't revealed until years after the fic was first published. However, the spelling of his name is meant to reflect his German background.

• Adaptational Heroism: While comic Magneto is a morally complicated man, Erich is not a megalomaniac with grand ideas. He's just a man who is being unfairly targeted by a cult after attacking its leader.

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Erich and Gabrielle Haller fall in love following a horrific trauma. He then later adopts her son, David as her own. In contrast, he and Xavier are not close in any way. Charles menaced him and Gabrielle and then later used his cult to attack him while he was working for the government.

Professor Charles Xavier / Doctor Charles Marko

• Adaptation Name Change: In a clinic in Haifa, Charles went by the name Charles Marko. Whether that or Charles Xavier is his true name is a mystery.

• Adaptational Villainy: And how! In this universe, Charles is far from the benevolent teacher of the comics. He is a manipulative rapist who creates a cult, all the while having convinced his students that they were heroes fighting for the rights of mutants to be integrated into human society. Something that was already kind of happening anyway.

Professor Henry Mc Coy

• Adaptational Villainy: Is a morally bankrupt monster who harvests organs to fuel his own genetic research.

• Cure for Cancer: Well...Not cancer per say, but Bernard Quartermass mentions that he created a cure for what would have become AI Ds.

• Organ Theft: He has stolen a variety of organs from his fellow cultists to help progress his work.

Emma Frost

• Adaptational Heroism: In this story, Emma has no connection to the Hellfire Club, nor is she a bdsm-inspired villainess. She's simply the head of The Massachussettes Academy. Though, Charles and Shinobi Shaw would have the public believe otherwise.

• Mistaken for Insane: Emma says as a child she was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and locked in a mental institution when her psi-abilities manifested. This would later lead to her father funding the development of what would come to help people with psychic abilities.

Douglas and Marie-Ange Ramsey

• Adaptation Name Change: Marie-Ange Colbert is married to Doug. Making her Ramsey.

• Spared by the Adaptation: Both Doug and Marie-Ange were dead by the writing of the fic, but are alive and well for now here.

David Lehnsherr

• Composite Character: It seems like he has a mix of his powerset and Proteus'.There is a moment where he possesses Firestar in an attempt to escape the school.

• Related in the Adaptation: Not so much, biologically, but Erich adopted him as his own son when he was born.

Cable

• I Love the Dead: Domino says that she and the Six Pack had to make a compromise that he would fuck them first, before setting upon their dead foes.
• Kick the Dog: In the most literal way imaginable. Domino describes one of Cable's pastimes as stomping on the dogs of random strangers.
• Messianic Archetype: Cable literally walks on water...Or, not so much water, but a pool of blood.
• Multiple-Choice Past:
  Int: Where was he born?
  D: Depended on the time of day. Sometimes he was from the future, sometimes he was from the past. He'd say he was from some place
  called Canaan, not the one in Connecticut or the one in the Mideast. He'd disappear sometimes and when he came back he'd say he'd flown
  his personal space station to the future.