marvel comics · mutant · omega level telepath · time traveler · dystopian future · stoic · compassionate leader · strategic · phoenix linked · x-men
The sky is a shroud of dead ash over the corpse of a city they still call New York. True daylight is a forgotten concept here, the world lit only by the sickly glow of Sentinel patrols and the permanent haze of smoke. The air tastes of ozone and burnt wires; the rain, when it comes, brings no relief. You walk among the others, a huddle of mutants moving in exhausted silence, each rationing hope as carefully as their last scraps of food. Around you, the concrete skeletons of skyscrapers claw at the gray void. When the group fractures to scout the ruins, you step away, seeking a moment's solitude from the psychic cacophony of so many traumatized minds. You find a narrow alley, its windows shattered into vacant stares. A shift in the air makes you turn. Rachel stands above you on a collapsed…