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Charles and Raven
Charles Xavier
The POV Character kidnapped from his country and brought to manor where he is forced on a side of a war he doesn't want anything to do with.- Animal Motifs: Telepaths express their powers using psychic projections of birds, and Charles favorite becomes a Raven after he's taken from his sister, to the point where most people who know him know that particular thought-bird.
- Audience Surrogate: Learns with the audience about the situation between the Free West and the EBS.
- The Casanova: Charles was known as the "Oxford Casanova" who really got around.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Tries to do a toned-down version by pretending to be weaker than he really is in order to avoid drawing attention to himself. After he realizes that Frost knew how strong he was all along and belittled him in order to mock him he pretends to be an example of Does Not Know His Own Strength, going into Frosts mind from much greater distances than she believes him capable of and tricks her into thinking that he wandered in by accident while asleep.
- Cultural Posturing: When describing his disdain for the modestly laws Erik grew up with; Erik calls him out on it.
- Damsel out of Distress: Escapes (for now) in chapter 45
- Defiant Captive: No matter what happens to him, no matter how dangerous, he never gives up on trying to escape.
- Dirty Coward: Justified with what Charles has put up with, but considering how he hates being called one, this fits.
- First-Name Basis: Charles sometimes introduces himself or insists on being called by his first name to appear friendly (e.g., Ororo), while insisting on something more formal if he doesn't like the other person (e.g., Alex).
- Gilded Cage: Charles once he's given access to the library and not treated like a child. However, still very much a cage as he is still locked in rooms and not allowed to leave the manor unless on a mission.
- Manipulative Bastard: Charles. From erasing memories to slightly adjusting how he is perceived (though he feels bad every time he does this to a friend and tries to avoid these tactics unless absolutely necessary). Probably the best liar in the story, carefully cultivating different images of himself in different people. Everyone can be deceived indeed.
- Mind Rape: Charles was literally going to rape Erik in his mind, but fortunately, he realized what he was doing and stopped.
- Parental Substitute: To several of the children, most notably Jean, as well as Raven prior to the story's start.
- Professional Sex Ed: Charles' first sexual experiences were with prostitutes he hired as a young teen.
- Psychic Powers: Include detecting when someone is lying to him, erasing and planting memories, speaking to and reading people's minds, entering people's minds, detecting others, switching perspectives, and hiding his presence
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Charles attempts this on multiple occasions
- Unreliable Narrator: Charles from how he views others to how he justifies his actions. Sometimes he acknowledges this when reflecting on his behavior and assumptions in the past.Erik (to Charles): "Do you only value those aspects of civilization that are fashionable, or those with which you happen to agree?"]
Raven / "Mallory Darkholme" / "Mystique"
Charles's sister that he rescued and then protected from being captured by the EBS. This version is significantly younger than Charles.- Morality Pet: For Charles: both his sister and his birds represent his compassion
- Parental Figure In Distress: She starts a revolution after Charles is kidnapped.
- Present Absence: Despite how often Charles thinks of her, by the end of Part 3, Raven has yet to re-appear in the story since the beginning.
- The Resistance: Leading the resistance against the EBS under the pseudonym "Mystique"
The Eastern Brethren and Sistren (EBS)
Armando Muñoz
A new recruit to the EBS as a supervisor for the children after he was rescued from the Free West.- Adaptive Ability: As in cannon. To date, he can not only adjust to his surroundings, but tether Kurt, resist telepathy, and heat metal with his hands.
- Defrosting the Ice Queen: Armando over time opens up and becomes more friendly to Charles
- Literalist Snarking: Armando does this on his introduction sceneLogan: We don't waste things here.Armando: Except my time, Wolverine. Except my time...
- Power Nullifier: To Kurt to prevent him from teleporting away. He can also lessen the power of psychic attacks.
- Properly Paranoid: He's one of the few characters who understands just how much Charles lies to everyone, and figures out right away that there are dangers in the Manor that he'll have to figure out in order to survive.
Azazel Neyafim
Emma's oldest companion; he lives to serve her.- Evil All Along: Azazel can at times appear friendly and helpful; but he works for Frost, he may have raped others before, and he agreed to kill a sex worker shortly after just meeting her.
- Legacy of Service: His family to Emma Frosts.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: He's loyal to Emma's family, and criticizes many of her decisions but still obeys her without question. Not that he's very moral himself.
- Parents as People: He tries to protect Kurt and give him gifts, but other times Charles's notices how he doesn't visit Kurt while in the Manor
- Pay Evil unto Evil: His justification when Charles is opposed to the idea of Azazel raping Moria after he hires her services as a prostitute, as she's a human from the Free West.
- Teleporters and Transporters: Goes with his powers
Emma Morozova / "Lady Frost" / "The White Queen"
Leader of the EBS, Lady Frost works hard to train effective soldiers, manipulate world leaders, and defeat the Free West, a corrupt nation. However, her actions are often cruel or unethical in order to get what she wants. She was the one who discovers Charles and kidnaps him.- The Baroness: Don't get on Frost's bad side.
- Blue Blood: Turns out she was born to a powerful Russian family, in addition to being a powerful mutant.
- Body to Jewel: In her mind, Emma's tears - disingenuous though they be - fall as literal diamonds.
- Connected All Along: Baby Jean is Erik and Emma's little girl.
- Cool Crown: In the mind-world, Frost has one that's literally painful to look at.
- Defrosting the Ice Queen: How she presents herself to Charles in Part 3. Whether she's lying or deliberately allowing herself to do this due to her desire for companionship is unknown.
- Dude He's Like In A Coma: Likes her men unconscious and nonconsenting.
- Ermine Cape Effect: Always wearing nice clothes.
- Evil Is Petty
- Founder of the Kingdom
- God Save Us from the Queen!: To those outside her favor or don't want to work for her. Averted slightly in that the people living in the nearest cities respect her, and besides some mention of anti-human prejudice there's little indication that any citizens who aren't working for the Free West hate her or want to end her reign.
- The High Queen: What she strives to be.
- Ice Queen: She's unfriendly and cold towards Charles and the children.
- Mean Boss: Frost in spades. If your charges temporarily escape, you'll be tortured in front of them.
- Socialite: For fun, she pretends to be merely a socialite when she's invited to the Free West for peace talks, waiting to see how long it takes the people around her to figure out who she really is.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Not so subtly expressed to Frost by the Free West, by having Stryker's wife give her a cook book. (Although it's possible that might be because of Innocent Bigotry on the wife's part.)
- Sword and Sorcerer: Thanks to the Finder, she plays the sorcerer to her entire army.
- Wicked Cultured: Speaks several languages fluently, goes to ballet, and has great taste.
- Winter Royal Lady: Styles herself as one, even molding her mental world, psychic presence and mind-birds to seem ice-like and cold.
Erik Lehnsherr / "Ari Binyamin" / "Erik the Red"
The Terror of the Free West, Erik the Red, Emma Frost's right hand, or "Just Erik" is a leader in the EBS, guardian (and punisher) to the children, and also cleaner for the manor. He first lusts for Charles on meeting him, then hurts and threatens him, before Charles strikes a bargain.- Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Frost changed Erik so that she could control him. Otherwise he would have acted as Shaw instructed him. Or at least that's what she claims...
- Berserk Button: If you enter his library without permission, and Shaw's cologne.
- Connected All Along: Erik is baby Jean's dearly devoted father.
- The Dragon: Erik to the Free West
- Immune to Mind Control: For the most part, Erik is able to repel Charles's mental attacks; however, this is largely a result of Frost's brainwashing
- Magnetism Manipulation: Goes with his powers.
- No Name Given: Erik at the beginning, but the audience should be able to guess it even if Charles is unwilling.
- Pet the Dog:
- Has a Sweet Tooth!
- Knowing that John suffers from a rather severe inferiority complex, Erik kindly lets the surly teen "steal" his lighter during the Dallas campaign for bragging rights.
- Roof Hopping: Erik does this from time to time: in Part 1, chasing down Alex and, in Part 3, playing around with Azazel
- Slave Brand: His Shoah tattoo, forcibly bestowed, against Jewish law, upon him by the Third Reich.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Erik: lucid and talkative or violent and feral.
- Testosterone Poisoning: Erik's character in the Free West produced film.
Henry "Hank" McCoy
Hardworking and earnest - yet deeply anxious - Hank is a prolific and gifted young scientist and engineer for the EBS who struggles with psychological asepcts of his mutation.- Badass Bookworm: For being more of the researcher in the manor, Hank has moments of badassery helping Alex and driving the truck to Albany
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Logan's Red.
James "Logan" Howlett
A fighter in the EBS, Logan is compassionate and tries to protect the children and Charles from the war and Erik's wrath.- Catchphrase: "Don't set the place on fire."
- Cigar Chomper: Sure is!
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite hiding things from Charles he really does care about him and the children
- Long-Distance Relationship: with Rogue
- The Nicknamer: Quite possibly his favorite hobby.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Hank's Blue.
- Team Dad: Keeping an eye for the children and trying to protect Alex from punishment
- What the Hell, Hero?: Logan to Charles on asking which side he's choosing: EBS or the Free West. Does it again when he thinks Charles ditched the others during a Free West raid, but backs off when it's made clear that the latter honestly didn't know what was going on and came as soon as he could.
Jean "Grey" / Jean Lehnsherr
A kind little girl who communicates only through her powerful psychic abilities, Jean was brought into the EBS ranks by Lady Frost herself and has since come to know her share of war. Wide-eyed and wise beyond her years, she's 6-going-on-7 when Charles first meets her early on in his captivity.- Affectionate Nickname:
- Erik reserves the Yiddish term of endearment maidele ("little girl; maiden") for his young daughter.
- Ororo, Jean's found-family older sister, calls her "Jean Bean."
- And Call Him "George": Though overjoyed at Princess Alexandra's existence, Jean's harsh life has not equipped her for taking care of a creature just as small and vulnerable as herself, and so she sometimes ends up loving on the kitten a little too much out of both worry and desperate affection.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: Jean agrees to be hooked up to the Finder and witnesses, unflinchingly, the destruction of war.
- Connected All Along: Jean is Erik and Emma's baby girl.
- Innocent Prodigy: She is a powerful telepath, and and seems unaware of how she is mistreated.
- Morality Pet: Jean to Erik.
- Muggle Foster Parent: For the first four years of her life, Jean was raised, with extraordinary love, by her human foster mother in a quiet, humble créche somewhere in upstate New York, just beyond the borders of the manor.
- Not in Front of the Kid: Erik takes care to make sure that his daughter never witnesses any of his more violent tendencies and decisions off of the battlefield.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: Jean was this for the Finder, until Charles volunteered to replace her.
- Psychic Child: Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Psychic Powers: She speaks to others with her mind, enters people's minds and can move physical objects.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Jean has inherited her father's, Erik's, fiery red hair, and her mother's, Emma's, "fern-curl" smile.
Kurt Neyafim
Azazel's 4-year-old son; a happy, goofy, carefree kiddo.- Insult of Endearment: The English translation of Azazel's Russian pet name for his son is "backbiter".
- Poirot Speak: Poor Kurt often falls into his Russian mother tongue, to his detriment.
- Still Sucks Thumb: In lieu of said thumb-sucking, little Kurt often noms instead on his own tail.
- Third Wheel: Even though they are all children, Kurt is this to Jean and Scott
Ororo Tafari / "Ororo Munroe"
The most mature of the children, Ororo decides on the social rules, and looks for ways to escape the manor. She is around 16 years old.- Adaptation Dye-Job: Unlike in the comic books, shows and movies, Ororo is described as having dark hair shot with white.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Ororo with Erik after Charles tells Erik to go back to protect her
- Mama Bear: Looks after Jean more than the other children
- Public Secret Message: When she left Charles a book and put attention on it helping her grew a spine.
- Stepford Smiler: Ororo is a caring and capable individual, but understandably has difficulty coming to terms with how she was taken away from her family
- Weather Manipulation: Goes with her powers
Scott Summers
Alex's soon-to-be-9 year old, adorably precocious little brother.- Adorably Precocious Child: He acts the most responsibly out of the other children and keeps his eyes shut for the many days while wearing only a blindfold
- Afraid of Their Own Strength: Upon blasting a a hole through the snow, he starts crying
- Blessed with Suck: Uncontrollable laser beams coming from your eyes makes it unable for him to see
- Children Forced to Kill: He was left behind when the Free West attacked the manor and in protecting himself was forced to kill two enemy soldiers. He doesn't take it well.
- Eye Beams: Goes with his powers
- Temporary Blindness: Since the onset of his powers, Scott has voluntarily kept his own eyes closed and blindfolded, night and day. After some time, Hank and another mutant are able to engineer him some snazzy goggles, and he regains his sight.
Free West
William Stryker
Leader of the Free West, Stryker is relentless in opposing Frost and treating mutants as if they weren't human.- The Ghost: Although being the president of the Free West, Stryker has yet to appear.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Styker's family
- Permanent Elected Official: So long as he keeps shouting about freedom and spewing hate-speech, he stays in office.
- President Evil: It's William Stryker as a president. This is a given.
Moira MacTaggart
A captain in the Free West, Moria first meets Charles while she is held captive at the manor. They eventually become something like allies.- Alone-with-Prisoner Ploy: When Charles talks to Moria alone he intentionally reveals Raven's existence to convince her that he also wants to escape.
- Badass Normal: Manages to escape the inescapable ESB headquarters and Azazel with a little help from Charles.
- Immune to Mind Control: Due to training and being an intelligence officer
- Quickly-Demoted Woman: Justified in-story by her living in the Free West: after it's revealed she's a woman, she is striped of her rank, and then found again working in a brothel.
- The Resistance: Appearing as sex worker is a front because she is actually the leader of The Resistance within the Free West
- Sweet Polly Oliver: Moria's disguise works on Charles for a few moments.
General MacMurphy
A general in the Free West. He was a major enemy in the November campaign, but is then captured, tortured, and killed.- Dying Dream: Dreams he's in the middle of WWII again, and mistakes Charles for Archangel Michael after being informed of his upcoming death.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Moria still looks up to MacMurphy even though he bombed cities and killed innocent people.
- A Father to His Men: Judging from his relationship with Moria and his talk with Charles when he's dying.
- Face Death with Dignity: Inside his Dying Dream he accepts death calmly and has a pleasant conversation with Charles.
- Faux Death: When Charles first finds him on the table, he is mistaken for being already dead
- Lured into a Trap: When he tried to capture Jean, he, himself, is captured
Rick Slade
A member of Moria's party. He also meets Charles while being held captive at the manor. After escaping, and Moria's demotion, he quickly rises in rank in the Free West.- The Starscream: He always wanted to overthrow Moria's position; gets the opportunity once she's revealed to be a woman
- Unreliable Narrator: In-story, Slade apparently gave his version of the events when he was captured and it likely downplays Moria's involvement in there escape
- Vice President Who?: Averted, his escape from the ESB HQ is a major part of Stryker's propaganda campaign, and he does some diplomatic work on-screen.