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Repost of half my Casual Interest Check, as it pertains to 1x1:
(original post with a second, more group idea that's freer -in terms of continuity, OC-centred- can be found here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/189531-com…)





See below for a Teaser post to give you a feel for the idea (and for me)!
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Obviously with somebody else playing Xavier and contributing to the idea, the details will differ - that's what I'm here for: not looking to write this myself. This is just my lone interpretation of a climax scene we'll be building towards:


Back at the facility, in a room not unlike a prison visiting area, Cyclops and Xavier are in the heat of battle against [Xavier's son].

Presently, Xavier has been knocked from his wheelchair while a ways beside him, Cyclops is picking himself up from a knock of his own - the room thoroughly wrecked with its tables and chairs broken and strewn.

[Xavier's son] is ramping up - intent on destroying his father and the one his father actually cared about.

Xavier (emotionally, painfully, worked up): "You asked for my guidance, Scott, as you approach fatherhood. SEE the kind of father I am and know NOW to LOOK ELSEWHERE!"

But Cyclops stares steadily at Xavier - until [Xavier's son's] movements shift his attention.

To this point, Cyclops' optic blasts have been virtually ineffective against [Xavier's son]; absorbed or deflected. He's been too quick in noticing the blasts coming for Cyclops to get one off impactfully beyond the first, which he hadn't had dialed up to full; unwilling to go that far against a kid, Xavier's no less, and unaware he should've.

Seeing [Xavier's son's] latest intent, Cyclops makes a decision-
-pushing himself up the rest of the way, he quickly closes the distance between himself and Xavier in time to take a crashing blow intended for the latter; much more vulnerable than Cyclops is in his combat suit.

"NHAHHHH!" Cyclops groans; falling to his hands and knees over Xavier - just barely able to keep from falling flat.

Xavier: "You FOOL, Scott Summers! To risk your life for me, when YOU have a famil-"

"That includes you." He catches his breath. "And I'll manage this,"
he rises with new purpose, a new plan, facing [Xavier's son] once more. "It's what I was taught to do."

He starts walking closer to [Xavier's son], firing a series of short blasts---missing his target with every one...

[Xavier's son] swings at him with another psionically extended arm.

Cyclops ducks, then finally aims a proper blast at his adversary's centre.

[Xavier's son] absorbs the blast as before -- but in paying attention to that and his approaching foe, [Xavier's son] neglected to pay attention to all the previous, short blasts which from point of discharge, had been bouncing off the scattered objects and now, from multiple points, collide at once!

[Xavier's son] howls as he finally takes damage -- Cyclops properly aimed blast now dealing some too while his defenses are down - Cyclops dials it up.

But [Xavier's son] isn't through just yet - a final show before he succumbs, he psionically shoots Cyclops' blast back at him -- its properties changed so Cyclops feels the impact --
CCRRrrrRRAAACcKKKK
--flung back as though hit by a car

--CCrrRAACcK as he slams into the wall.

At separate ends of the room, both now lay - defeated.

Xavier looks between them.

Scott's overcome with pain -- now in a fight to breathe.

Xavier's son is injured, extent unknown, yet he stares at his father with a strange look...expectation?
He's waiting to see what he'll do....Who will he go to?

His rage may burn anew if his father cares first, cares more, for his "other son".... and if he comes to himself instead, would it only be with that thinking? To save the other?. .
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The Themes
(on top of the ongoing X-MEN theme of Civil Rights)
are:
  • Heroes & Villains Are Human
    (we'll see Xavier brought down, and Magneto in a new light)
  • Fatherhood
  • Choices/Self-Determination


Additional Note:
Jean Grey may become a part of this story near the end.
During the intense "final battle" between Xavier, his son and Cyclops -where nobody comes out undamaged in some way- Jean could get a premonition of this and come to the location ahead of, or in time to see, the end of the battle.
Or, Jean could get a since via her and Cyclops' psychic connection that something major is/has happened to him over there, arriving sometime after the battle when Cyclops is in the facility's Medical Bay.

In either case I have an idea for a spin-off story where it's decided it's not safe for Cyclops to recover in their present location (the high level/close proximity of anti-mutant groups; concerns of another flare up from Xavier's son; lack of security) - Xavier stays behind with his son (with whom he's also carefully preoccupied), while Jean and Cyclops try to return home. Only it's not as simple as walking back to the aircraft that brought them here - things get complex.

As aforementioned, I don't mind RPing in chunks: if you think you'd like to give Jean Grey a whirl I'm happy to jump ahead and play that with you (over PM) ahead of having anyone to RP the main story with. Please see the second point of the On Story section in "Quick Notes" above.

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UPDATED - new Teaser post replacing the original (2nd post above).
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Barring interest in the idea, I welcome feedback on the interest check itself; haven't been on an RP site before where they've been a thing, and pitching remains a work-in-progress skill for me.
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