seeingredscott summers ⊗ cyclopsDate: 2024-12-23 03:23 am (UTC)
Brief History:
Scott came to Xavier's at age 15, an orphan runaway with amnesia* and uncontrollable powers due to a TBI. He's forced to always wear ruby quartz glasses to contain his destructive optic blasts. Scott hero-worships the professor and has totally dedicated his life to supporting Xavier's dream.
*His parents died in a plane crash, he and his younger brother escaped using the only parachute, and he hit his head on landing. He doesn't remember much more about his childhood than this. He spent the next five years in a group home, suffering horrible headaches and occasional blackouts, until his powers manifested and he was found by Xavier.
Personality:
The boy scout—brave, responsible, idealistic, rarely puts a toe out of line. Serious to the point where it used to be weird to see him smile; he's relaxed a fraction over the years. One of the youngest members of the team, and extremely hard on himself because of it. Runs his days with the intensity of drill sergeant—partly because he never feels like he's as good as everyone else, and partly because he is pathologically afraid of losing control and hurting someone. Calm and decisive in deadly situations; cold and hesitant in social situations. Cares deeply about the X-Men, whom he sees as his family, but is awful at expressing his emotions there.
Timeline:
2016 - X-Gene activates at age 15. Arrives at the Institute. Adopts the codename of Cyclops for the X-Men.
2018 - Wildways - Despite racking up the most hours in the Danger Room out of anyone, Cyclops is so boring to the audiences of Mojoworld that they boo him when he enters Mojo's games.
2019 - Days of Future Past - Learns that he and Jean have a daughter (Rachel Summers) in this alternate future, which is a mindfuck when he hasn't so much as breathed a word to anyone about his (obvious) crush on present-day Jean. Naturally, he compartmentalizes this information and does nothing about it. Scott follows Xavier's lead in all things, including whether or not to go public (but since it was Xavier's idea in the first place to do secret identities, I think Scott is anti-going-public?).
2020 - God Loves, Man Kills - Was accompanying Xavier when he was ambushed, and kidnapped alongside the professor. Scott is used as a test subject for forcing Xavier to kill mutants. Resisting Stryker's programming, Xavier puts Scott's brain functions into stasis, enough to make Stryker believe he's dead. Although he's saved in time to help the others rescue Xavier, Scott blames himself for failing to protect him.
Concerned about long-term effects, Xavier does a deep dive into Scott's head and discovers extensive mental manipulation from his time before joining the Institute. Although Xavier is unable to identify the telepath who altered Scott's mind, Scott regains some memories of his childhood. As a precaution, he asks Emma to train him in telepathic shielding.
2021 - Agrees to reveal his identity, although he prefers to just act as an X-Man and a teacher at the school (geometry, trig, battle tactics). He'll do anything you order him to, Professor, but please don't make him do public speaking.
Going public puts Scott in contact with Alex Summers again, and it's a bit weird to everyone that Scott has never mentioned before now that he had a long-lost brother. Alex is a college freshman (and not a mutant unless someone wants to app Havok).
When Kurt vanishes, Scott is appointed as leader of the X-Men in his stead. He is now forced to do public speaking. :)
2022 - Scott begins dating Madelyne Pryor, a human pilot who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Jean Grey. Due to increasingly tense human-mutant relations and Scott's high-profile status, there's an uncomfortable amount of media attention on their romance.
He does his best to follow Xavier's example and speak out against the MRA in a diplomatic way, with mixed results. Even after Kurt returns, Cyclops stays in the spotlight, as he's worried about putting too much pressure on Kurt.
2023 - X-Tinction Agenda - On Genosha, Scott is forced to battle a brainwashed Jean, and desperately tries to jog her memory and avoid hurting her. Not wanting to spend time with Jean afterwards, he chooses to help Genosha recover. Very soon afterwards, Scott and Maddie break up.
2024 - Returns home from Genosha just before the start of the new school year. He becomes a teacher at the school (geometry, trig, battle tactics).
For the first time, Cyclops has a new uniform that doesn't cover his hair, which boosts his popularity online. He gets back together with Madelyne for two months, but they break up again before Christmas, at the same time Xavier is found in a coma.
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CHARACTERS: Scott Summers
*His parents died in a plane crash, he and his younger brother escaped using the only parachute, and he hit his head on landing. He doesn't remember much more about his childhood than this. He spent the next five years in a group home, suffering horrible headaches and occasional blackouts, until his powers manifested and he was found by Xavier.
2018 - Wildways - Despite racking up the most hours in the Danger Room out of anyone, Cyclops is so boring to the audiences of Mojoworld that they boo him when he enters Mojo's games.
2019 - Days of Future Past - Learns that he and Jean have a daughter (Rachel Summers) in this alternate future, which is a mindfuck when he hasn't so much as breathed a word to anyone about his (obvious) crush on present-day Jean. Naturally, he compartmentalizes this information and does nothing about it. Scott follows Xavier's lead in all things, including whether or not to go public (but since it was Xavier's idea in the first place to do secret identities, I think Scott is anti-going-public?).
2020 - God Loves, Man Kills - Was accompanying Xavier when he was ambushed, and kidnapped alongside the professor. Scott is used as a test subject for forcing Xavier to kill mutants. Resisting Stryker's programming, Xavier puts Scott's brain functions into stasis, enough to make Stryker believe he's dead. Although he's saved in time to help the others rescue Xavier, Scott blames himself for failing to protect him.
Concerned about long-term effects, Xavier does a deep dive into Scott's head and discovers extensive mental manipulation from his time before joining the Institute. Although Xavier is unable to identify the telepath who altered Scott's mind, Scott regains some memories of his childhood. As a precaution, he asks Emma to train him in telepathic shielding.
2021 - Agrees to reveal his identity, although he prefers to just act as an X-Man and a teacher at the school (geometry, trig, battle tactics). He'll do anything you order him to, Professor, but please don't make him do public speaking.
Going public puts Scott in contact with Alex Summers again, and it's a bit weird to everyone that Scott has never mentioned before now that he had a long-lost brother. Alex is a college freshman (and not a mutant
unless someone wants to app Havok).When Kurt vanishes, Scott is appointed as leader of the X-Men in his stead. He is now forced to do public speaking. :)
2022 - Scott begins dating Madelyne Pryor, a human pilot who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Jean Grey. Due to increasingly tense human-mutant relations and Scott's high-profile status, there's an uncomfortable amount of media attention on their romance.
He does his best to follow Xavier's example and speak out against the MRA in a diplomatic way, with mixed results. Even after Kurt returns, Cyclops stays in the spotlight, as he's worried about putting too much pressure on Kurt.
2023 - X-Tinction Agenda - On Genosha, Scott is forced to battle a brainwashed Jean, and desperately tries to jog her memory and avoid hurting her. Not wanting to spend time with Jean afterwards, he chooses to help Genosha recover. Very soon afterwards, Scott and Maddie break up.
2024 - Returns home from Genosha just before the start of the new school year. He becomes a teacher at the school (geometry, trig, battle tactics).
For the first time, Cyclops has a new uniform that doesn't cover his hair, which boosts his popularity online. He gets back together with Madelyne for two months, but they break up again before Christmas, at the same time Xavier is found in a coma.
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