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Mobius as a single dad with two mischievous teenage sons and a jet-ski obbsesion casually asking the tall British emo boy who suddenly appeared in his backyard and looks like he's going to have a mental breakdown if he’s still in the market is the most in-character thing ever written by the Marvel Studious
If He Who Remains was writing everything anyways why couldn't he just write a world with no war or poverty or things like that? Why couldn't everyone just be the good guy, what are those villains even for? Or am I just understanding this wrong
The True Vine
“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me."
John 15:1-4
via Hugh Jackman
Ok, MCU/ “sacred timeline” compliant AU where the X-Men exist except they don’t have their abilities/ weren’t born with them. Instead the institute is a school for the underprivileged and disabled.
I would like to say here I’m not personally disabled so if I say something wrong let me know. This is purely off of different disabilities that I know about but I haven’t done in-depth research. This is for vibes and an interesting AU idea I had. I mean absolutely no offense by this so if I say something wrong or if I am being offensive I’ll take the post down.
The Professor started the institute to help low income, underprivileged, and disabled children get the education and access to healthcare that they deserve.
It has become a well respected institution renowned for its cutting edge medical research and care. The institute represents access to education for all. Not only do they except students with disabilities but look for bright students who don’t have the means of attending ivy leagues schools despite the fact they have a mind worth doing so.
Hank was a world class scientist with a master’s in evolutionary science and Biology. He taught AP bio at the institute for several years before he got his master’s and continued to teach after while working on getting a master’s in anthropology.
Jean gets chronic migraines from an undiagnosed condition that the institute has been trying to help her get diagnosed. Scott started calling her the Phoenix because of her red hair when they met but after they got together he called her Phoenix because of how strong he thinks she is.
Kurt was born with a facial disfigurement that doesn’t harm his physical health but it’s very obvious to other people by just looking at him. In place of being judged for his blue fur he’s judged for his disfigurement.
Jubile has a form of blindness that fills her vision with bright flashes of colors almost like fireworks. She was offered a full scholarship to the institute because of her artistic abilities.
Warren has a form of muscular dystrophy. He wasn’t diagnosed with it till he was 6 and became wheelchair dependent by 14. His father sent him to the institute hoping they would be able to help him with his condition as it is deadly and gives him a life expectancy of 30-40. As a kid Warren had the dream of becoming a pilot.
Logan comes to them with rapidly progressing joint degradation and severe amnesia. He’s a former army/ special forces vet who was honorably discharged after an “accident” that left him with the amnesia and caused him to develop the joint degradation.
Now some of them still have their powers because their stories are just so integral to who they are as people in the multiverse. Their powers are kind of like their canon events and i genuinely can’t imagine them without their powers.
Scott fully develops his powers from the plane crash when he was a kid. With his parents dead and him and his brother orphaned they had no way of getting possible treatment for Scott’s “condition”. In the end Scott spent years virtually completely blind as to prevent anyone from getting hurt because of him. Charles comes to him saying they believe they can help and they want him and his brother to begin attending the school. They help Scott see again by giving him accommodations to help control his powers and they give him a home.
Logan has reincarnated through several lifetimes and before the amnesia he remembered them all. This would be the replacement to his healing factor/ near immortality. While he was in the Canadian army/ special forces a mission goes wrong and he gets captured eventually leading him to the weapon X program. Thing is without his healing factor and claws there was nothing they could do to keep his body from degrading. They surgically implanted the claws and gave him a form of a super serum to help his body support what they did but it wasn’t enough. He revived an honorable discharge once he escapes and special forces finds out he’s alive. He ends up at the institute after getting into a fight at a bar where Jean and Scott were and they can see just how much pain he’s in. It’s there that he finally gets the help he needs and hope of finally regaining his memories.
Magneto / Eric still has his powers but instead of being a Mutant they are a result of experimentation from when he was in the concentration camps as a kid. He was given the same serum Bucky was and it slowed his aging. A second experiment gave him his metal manipulation. He met Charles years before the institute and had originally planned to run it with him till they had a falling out. Eric ended up moving to Sokovia where he had Wanda and Pietro. He was killed in the bombing when they were kids.
Charles developed his own powers at the same time as Jean. An attempt to help Jean with her condition went horribly wrong after there was a break in. They were there hoping to steal tech from the school/ lab but instead caused an accident. In an attempt to save Jean he lost his legs and they both gained telepathy and she gained telekinesis.
Warrens condition begins to worsen during his last couple years at the institute and he starts getting desperate. He’s terrified of losing what little of himself he has left without ever having the chance to live a full life. The institute is doing everything they can but research takes time and the only way they are able to do the work that they do is by being heavily monitored by the government and SHIELD. In his desperation Warren turns to Nathaniel Essex, also know as Mr. Sinister. A rogue scientist who used robotics and human experimentation to prolong his own life. Warren asks if he can save him and he makes a deal with the devil. He’s given his wings and his life but at the cost of his freedom. Essex turns him into his perfect weapon, his Ark Angel.
Storm, though not born with her powers encountered something that gave them to her. She ends up at the institute after being sought out by Charles because of her academic potential. Maybe she has vitiligo or something. (I personally think it would be really cool if her vitiligo developed as almost the Lichtenberg Figure / the pattern of lightning.)
Hanks family has a history of Alzheimer’s and by the time he’s gotten his masters in anthropology he fears the early signs are beginning to show (He’s in his 40s-50s). As a result he uses his pull in medical and scientific fields to get help in preventing his condition from progressing. By using the institutes access to SHIELD resources he gets help in developing a drug he believes will completely cure him. Unwilling to wait for years of trial he begins the trials on himself without letting SHIELD know. The trial goes wrong and in the end it gives him his abilities and becoming “Beast”.
In the MCU mutants don’t exist but what if the people still do? What if in some way their existence is so integral to the multiverse that even though they would have never gotten their powers on the sacred timeline there was still always a branch that allowed at least some of them to.
I don’t know I feel like there’s something so interesting about changing how they got their abilities. Like instead of being discriminated for their powers they are discriminated for their disabilities and social status.
Their powers are integral to who they are but I feel like it’s really interesting to see who they are when they aren’t born with them.
How does Magnetos character change because his powers were a product of his oppressors?
Is Charles still just as keen to start the X-Men when they get their powers later in life?
What about Logan, is he still the same after having lived several lifetimes but having the ability to die?
How do their stories change when working around the MCU timeline? What was their reaction to the Accords or when Fisk took office and outlawed vigilante groups? Are the X-Men ever founded?
This AU just scratches something in my brain!!
Who is the Sacred Timeline’s Anchor Being?
Tony Stark
Steve Rogers
Thor
Stephen Strange
Wanda Maximoff
Peter Parker
Someone else who I will name in a reblog or reply
Portal to My Heart (Book 1) Alternate Chapter Six
Loki x Reader
Alternate Chapter Six: Into the Original Timeline
Summary: What if instead of escaping the timeline and becoming variants, (Y/N) and Loki continued on their path in the original timeline?
Author's Note: Welcome to my Alternate (or really Original) Timeline Loki x Reader. I'm going to start a book that follows the original Thor: Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, and Avengers Infinity War timeline of the Marvel universe to show what would have happened between Loki and the MC if they hadn't gone to the TVA and such. Fair warning, as my Book 2 showed, it will not have a happy ending, so just know you're not going to be necessarily satisfied. But we have the LOKI series to keep the romance going! And now, without further ado, what could/would have been:
(Y/N) could hear the fight continuing outside. She could see Chitauri and their strange tank creatures flying by. She could see flames and smoke from destroyed buildings. She hated to think about the lives lost in the battle. (Y/N) sighed. She hoped it would be over soon with the “Avengers” the victors.
Suddenly, the sky outside went dark. Storm clouds rolled in. Lightning crackled above. Then, lightning crackled down the Empire State Building. It was then redirected, undoubtedly by Thor, over Stark Tower. (Y/N) guessed it was probably to hit the Chitauri coming out from the portal.
After that, relatively clear skies returned. Screams and explosions were all (Y/N) could hear. She despised it, but there was no safe way of getting down from the tower, nor could she really help. So, she decided to have a little bit of fun during the possible end of the world. Stark’s bar was pretty out of the way, so (Y/N) sat down behind it so people couldn’t see here and had a drink.
Cheers to the end of the world, thought (Y/N), toasting to herself. She was alone with her thoughts. They were clouded with thoughts of Loki. She was curious about what he was really like, beyond whatever was controlling him. (Y/N) had felt how the scepter wanted to influence her, whispering without words about how much power and revenge it could bring her, magnifying her negative feelings. She wondered how much of what he was doing was him, and how much was the scepter. Loki possessed it for much longer than the minutes she held it. Who knew how much his mind was twisted? Granted, (Y/N) knew he definitely had some mischievous tendencies and loved power, but she had seen some forms of kindness in him, although only briefly. She wanted to see more since he was very interesting.
Summoned by her thoughts, she heard a crash on the balcony outside. Peeking over the bar, she saw Loki standing up angrily. His helmet had been knocked off. He was about to attack when the Hulk slammed him through the remaining windows of Stark Tower’s top floor. (Y/N) winced at the force by which Loki hit the wall and then the floor. Hulk roared and approached the raven-haired man.
“Enough!” cried Loki furiously, standing up. “You are, all of you, beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature. And I will not be bullied by—.”
Hulk grabbed him by the ankle and smashed him repeatedly against the floor. Loki was left on his back in a dent in the ground, groaning.
“Puny god,” huffed Hulk as he left the building.
(Y/N) was deciding whether or not to come out. She watched first as Black Widow dropped down, grabbed the scepter, and left again quickly. She decided not to question it as the assassin was probably helping save the world. Bracing hers
Loki whimpered slightly from the pain.
(Y/N) was deciding whether or not to come out. She watched first as Black Widow dropped down, grabbed the scepter, and left again quickly. She decided not to question it as the assassin was probably helping save the world. Bracing herself slightly for what she would have to deal with, she finished her glass of wine. (Y/N) then grabbed a towel and a bottle of vodka. She walked calmly over to Loki.
“You look like how I feel,” she muttered.
Loki scowled at her. “Spare me your pity.”
(Y/N) rolled her eyes. “No worries, I’m not pitying the guy who’s started a war in New York.”
“Then what are you doing?” questioned Loki.
“You saved me from pain, so I’m saving you from some,” she answered. “Don’t tell anyone I did this, and I won’t tell anyone what you did.”
“Very well,” said Loki.
(Y/N) poured the vodka onto the towel and began dabbing into onto the trickster’s forehead where many wounds were. He hissed slightly at the sensation, but (Y/N) continued. No words were spoken between them. Both were planning on never speaking about this. In fact, if Loki lost, which it very much seemed he would, they were probably never going to speak again in their lives. (Y/N) and Loki were both disappointed since they had found someone interesting that brought some excitement into life, but neither would admit that. So, they contented themselves with silence, resigning to push away the emotions that they didn’t like.
“There,” said (Y/N), finishing. She looked outside and saw Chitauri falling to the ground from where they had been flying. They all seemed to be “shutting off,” if living beings could do that. “It’s over.”
“I’ve lost,” said Loki, growling slightly.
“We did warn you,” said (Y/N), “And now you’re going to pay for your crimes. Have fun!” She stood and placed the alcohol bottle back in the bar.
Loki smirked up at her. “If there’s one thing you should remember of me, it is that I rarely allow others to determine my future.”
She turned back to him and nodded. “True, you did spend quite a bit of effort ridding yourself of the scepter’s control.”
“And as usual, my efforts yielded results,” said Loki.
“Well, I suppose I should congratulate you,” remarked (Y/N), smirking, “But I’m afraid you’re about to be rather disappointed.” She saw the Avengers landing on the balcony.
“Oh, joy,” said Loki sarcastically. He dragged himself up the stairs before turning around. He looked up at the group of heroes who were looking down at him threateningly. “If it’s all the same to you, I’ll have that drink now,” said Loki cheekily.
The Avengers looked unamused.
(Y/N), on the other hand, snorted. “Good luck with that. Most of the bottles and glasses are destroyed.”
“All right, get him on his feet,” said Iron Man, “We can all stand around posing up a storm later.” He glanced back at Loki. “By the way, feel free to clean up.”
Loki’s hands were chained, and Thor stood by him so he couldn’t run off.
“Who gets the, uh, magic wand?” asked Romanoff.
“STRIKE team’s coming to secure it,” said Rogers.
SHIELD agents began to stream in. Some were doctors and walked over to (Y/N), but she waved them off. She had enough of people being all up in her business for today.
“We can take that off your hands,” said one agent to Black widow. (Y/N) thought his name might be Sitwell.
Black Widow handed it over, and Sitwell looked at it in awe.
“Don’t mess around with that thing,” advised (Y/N).
“Yeah, unless you want your mind erased,” said Barton, taking a drink he stole from the bar.
“And not in the fun way,” said (Y/N).
“We promise to be careful.” Sitwell placed the scepter in a silver case.
Captain America pressed his earpiece. “On my way down to coordinate search-and-rescue.”
Loki rolled his eyes and transformed into the Captain. “ ‘On my way down to coordinate search-and-rescue.’ ” He transformed back. “I mean, honestly, how do you keep your food down?”
Thor took out a small device that then expanded. It was a muzzle, which he then placed on Loki’s mouth. “Shut up.”
(Y/N) snickered at Loki’s face and followed everyone to the elevator. She just wanted to go home and sleep for days. Unfortunately, now she had to deal with being right next to Loki and a bunch of SHIELD agents.
Carrying a silver briefcase with the Tesseract in it, Stark was the last to get into the elevator after the SHIELD agents sent it back up. Behind him, Hulk attempted to get in.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” said Thor.
“Hey, hey. Buddy!” said Stark. “What do you think? Maximum occupancy has been reached.”
The doors began to slide closed as Hulk growled.
“Take the stairs,” advised Hawkeye.
“Yeah,” said Stark.
Hulk was getting annoyed.
If I have to deal with a brawl with the Hulk, I’m running away to a random island where none of this shit will bother me again, thought (Y/N).