Face Claim: Sophie Turner
Nationality: United States
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Occupation: Teacher at the Xavier School / X-Man
(tw: car crash, negative thought pattern, mental illness, brainwashing, manipulation, fire)
Jean had always been Daddy’s Little Girl. Her older sister Sara was smarter maybe. Prettier. But John Grey loved Jean no matter what. He bandaged every boo boo and taught her every equation. He knew the answer to every problem, the end to every story. He was little Jean’s world. So imagine her dismay when she asked him for help with her multiplication tables and she heard “You really should know this by now.” Well not heard exactly. Her father’s lips didn’t move but she knew what he was thinking. Hurt and confused, she dismissed it as a trick of a mind too tired from a child’s usually busy day.
Then, once her class had moved onto long division, Jean and her friend Annie Richardson were walking home from school when Annie ran ahead of her, teasing her for being a scaredy cat. That was when the car came. Jean felt her friend die. All the pain, the confusion, the rage, the sorrow, it washed through her brain like a tidal wave. And then…then Annie was gone. The world was dark and empty and cold and silent. So silent. Then it wasn’t. There was a feeling of flame, of falling, then another wave, a cacophony of sound and fury, murmurs, shouts, whispers flooded her mind. She could hear everyone and anyone. Every thought they had at once.
Needless to say, Professor Grey and his wife Elaine made sure to get Jean the best care he could find (though Jean heard him consider how much it would cost). Charles Xavier was a pioneer in his field. He explained to the baffled history professor and his wife that Jean was a “mutant,” “gifted.” Jean didn’t feel gifted. She felt like she was drowning. Drowning in an ocean she’d never wanted to set foot in. With the Greys’ permission, Xavier set up blocks in Jean’s mind to protect her from her own colossal power, the likes of which Charles had never seen.
Still Jean struggled, withdrawn, depressed, and frightened of what she’d heard. With the Greys at their wits end, she became a student at Xavier’s School for the Gifted, only hours from their home in Annandale-on-Hudson. Jean hid at first, but soon her fellow student Scott pulled her out of shell with gentle, consistent attention. Under Xavier and Hank McCoy’s tutelage, Jean’s powers grew to include telekinesis and psionic blasts, and the Greys began to visit less, and Jean was surprised to discover she didn’t mind. She had a new family: a supportive father (Charles), a sweet but weird uncle (Hank), a cool older sister (Ororo), a jerk older brother (Warren), and well, Scott was something else entirely.
When she turned 18, she accepted Charles’ offer to form a super team known as the X-Men without a thought. She wasn’t frightened of the world anymore. Only of herself. And with Charles and Ororo and Scott around and a villain like Magneto to fight, she could keep her own mind quiet and listen to everyone else’s. After many clashes, she was part of the team that captured Magneto and handed him over to the ICC. Jean struggled with peace time a little. She threw herself into teaching and mentoring at the school but she struggled with control. Scott and Ororo and even Warren did their best to distract her but when Charles and Hank wanted to head to Los Angeles to liaise with the Avengers (and to possibly warn them about the Maximoffs), Jean leapt at the chance of seeing action again. The only way to escape that fire in the dark was to light a fire outside.
Charles Xavier and Hank McCoy’s student
Grew up with Scott Summers
Classmate of Warren Worthington III, Bobby Drake, Rogue, and Kitty Pryde
Has allied with Dr. Strange and SHIELD to take down the Brotherhood
Member of New York High Society (thanks to her mother’s connections), so Harry Osborn, Kate Bishop, et all would have been aware of her recession from public life until her reappearance with the X-Men
Personality Traits: empathetic, shy, noble, private, trusting, skittish
Telepathy (if blocks were removed, she would be more powerful than even Charles Xavier)
Telekinesis including levitation and energy manipulation
Psionic blasts and force fields