Post by Stepford Cuckoos on Jan 25, 2008 23:54:54 GMT -5
Basic Stats
Name: Celeste, Mindee and Phoebe Stepford
Codename: The Three-in-One; The Stepford Cuckoos
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Occupation: Students
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Place of Residence: The Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters
Known Relatives:
William Stepford [Father] (Deceased)
Amelia Montgomery-Stepford [Mother] (Deceased)
Esme Stepford [Sister] (Deceased)
Sophie Stepford [Sister] (Deceased)
Alliance: X-Men
Physical Stats
Height: 5 Feet 6 Inches
Weight: 105 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Avatar: Brittany Snow
Abilities
Mutation: For such an extraordinary feat of being born both as a set of quintuplets and x-gene positive, the Stepford quintet were gifted with the relatively common ability of telepathy. Yet within that irony lies an even greater irony. The girls' telepathic abilities are unlike anything else encountered as of yet. Celeste, Mindee and Phoebe Stepford are capable of combining their individual telepathic talents into a greater hive mind state that enables the sisters to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously. This gestalt allows the triplets to function as a single unit and is so powerful that it often causes the girls to speak in unison as well as finish each others' sentences. The rare ability also boosts each sister's latent telepathic abilities threefold, but is hindered by the girls' proximity to one another.
Though common among the world's many mutants, the range of skills one can achieve with telepathy are both useful and varied. Thankfully, the girl's have experience in almost all of it. Simple thought reading was mastered at an early age by the five young Stepfords. It was in the quiet Fifth Avenue apartment building where the ambitious blondes honed their first and only skill by eavesdropping on the private and often intimate thoughts of their parents and neighbors.
From there, the next natural progression for the girls was to block out all the unwanted psychic garbage that floated haplessly into their heads. At first it was a struggle to stop that unrelenting wave of telepathic chatter and in their initial attempt to halt the thoughts of their nanny, the girls had stumbled upon their next ability: mind control. With the combined weight of their psychic might, the triplets are capable of overriding one's freedom and forcing them to comply to their will. Though they eventually gripped the basic control of their newly found powers, that first branching gave the girls' a thirst they had never experienced.
Day after day the girls would use with telepathic gifts with mild abandon and they grew to learn how to create vivid illusions by manipulating the sensory centers of the brain as well as the emotional centers in order to cultivate certain emotional responses. Of course, their truly useful abilities were learned within the hallowed halls of Xavier's Institute. From the hand of Emma Frost, the remaining three Stepfords learned to fire deadly bolts of psychic energy and defend themselves against psychic attack and telepathic probing.
Also, though they would be loathe to admit it, the girls do carry a heavy setback to their enormous telepathic potential. Their powers are purely psionic in nature and are therefore largely ineffective against someone with a defense against such abilities. Furthermore, they are easily susceptible to physical harm.
Mutation Section adapted from Marvel Universe
Skills: Like many students, the Stepford three are primarily skilled in studying. That's not to mention that their ability to organize and carry out tasks is unparalleled due to their unique telepathic gifts. They also have a higher rate of information retention as three telepathically connected minds are without a doubt, infinitely better than a lone mind. Interestingly enough, the girls are also classically schooled in dance and music. Celeste is able to play the harp while her sister Mindee plays the piano and Phoebe, the violin. Yet perhaps their greatest talent is getting to the truth of things. As detached as they are, they notice the little nuances in body language that others exhibit when they do not lie well or cannot hide the truth. The skill is very instinctual and only serves as preemptive to telepathy.
Personality: Being raised under the care of neglectful parents and strict nannies, the Stepford triplets never had many in the way of role models. So naturally the girls would seek to imitate the very first they would encounter in a world of tumultuous academe. Their choice: Emma Grace Frost. A woman of immense telepathic power and control. A woman who handled the stress of everyday mutant life with passing ease. A woman who - pardon the French - kicks the most ass.
Derived from the greatest loss they could ever lose - the death of their sisters Sophie and Esme - the girls sought every way possible to block that grief. It was hard at first, but when they first met Ms. Frost it was clear what they had to do. Become as unfeeling as a stone. Detach themselves from that hurt and it wouldn't - couldn't - bother them. Soon that mantra became ingrained into their collective mind and began to stick a little too well. Retreated within the sanctity of their hive mind, arrogance was bred into their every behavior. The sarcastic remarks and biting wit was withheld from only those the girls had the utmost respect and deference for. Yet, as hard as it might be to get past, their stone cold exteriors do house the emotional instability of an individual, of a teenager. They worry about their looks, the way people think of them, even boys.
So even though the Cuckoos are renowned for being quite the little "Emmas", they have been known to display individual characteristics from time to time. Celeste, for instance, is clearly the leader for the pack. Being the oldest, the head blonde often takes it upon herself to maintain order within the group and will often speak for the three. She is known to be a bit more judicious and thoughtful than her sisters, but only because she knows her decisions will directly impact the hive. She has the easiest time making friends as she is the one who frequently provides the voice of the Three-in-One, making her a diplomat of sorts. Though she does not admit it aloud, Celeste appreciates the girls' current place in life, both at Xavier's and in the greater scheme of life. She is the most resistant to change.
Mindee is the second oldest since the death of her sister Esme. While Celeste may be the leader of the gestalt know colloquially as the Stepford Cuckoos, Mindee is the mediator. To say that the girls are always in a state of agreement would be a lie, for what are sisters if not friends. And like friends, the girls do bicker, however much a secret it may be. So it falls to the middle Cuckoo to balance out the brash behavior of her younger sister Phoebe and the often dictatorial attitude of Celeste. She is the more quiet and reserved for the three, often choosing to spend time alone when in the company of her twin sisters. She is also the most studious and as such, the sister with the most yearning for knowledge.
Where Celeste is commanding and Mindee the most accommodating, Phoebe is the rebellious sister; though only as rebellious as her sisters may allow. She questions any and all authority other than the combined might of the hive mind. Were it just Celeste speaking -- and only Phoebe and Mindee could know -- Phoebe would almost certainly disagree and seek an alternative point of view. She is most often the sister to make enemies of the other students and is probably the sole reason Paige Guthrie took an immediate disliking to the triplets. Of the three, Phoebe is the one to immediately use her powers to obtain her desired results seeks the growth of their telepathic potential the most.
History: As if it weren't amazing enough that five beautiful little girls were born into the world -- for it is indeed rare for triplets, let alone quintuplets -- but Celeste, Esme, Mindee, Phoebe and Sophie were born X-Gene Positive. What is truly astounding, however, is the fact that the oddly quiet infants were found roughly sixteen years ago upon the doorsteps of St. Mary's Orphanage in lower Manhattan. This clandestine drop off would eventually be forgotten and supplanted by the even more miraculous and mysterious adoption of all five two week old infants. William Stepford and Amelia Montgomery-Stepford were a newly married couple from the Upper Eastside who were unable to unwilling to actually conceive. Yet despite all the warnings of hardships five children could bring to their budding careers, but that didn't hinder the couple's resolve. In a matter of days, the girls were given their infamous surname.
Were the fortuitous good luck of their adoption continued on in their lives, they would have had a hapless yet happy childhood fraught with little by the occasional scraped knee and many tea parties. Yet it wasn't to be. William and Amelia's greatest mistake in raising their little girls was their lack of attention in their daughters. Nanny after nanny found their employ in the Stepford's spacious apartment in upper Manhattan and for 12 years and 50 weeks, the Stepford daughters were practically raised apart from their busy parents. With Amelia's expanding law practice and William's long and exhaustive hours in the local hospital's operating room, it was a wonder the girls ever knew what their parents looked like.
Eventually the quiet little babes grew into quiet little girls and then into quiet young women. Upon the day following their thirteenth year of life, the girls awoke with a startling realization: They were in each others' heads. Surprising at first, the quints became quickly adjusted to the fact that they were mutants -- a race separate from humans and quickly growing notoriety in the news. To the girls it was just another aspect of their already perfect selves and it did not help that their high opinion of themselves would now be reinforced by their constantly connected minds and superior evolution. Their previously slow ascent up the academic ladder was now significantly faster thanks to their telepathic abilities. Lessons were absorbed with ease and information was learned that was previously attainable only through hours of combing through the right books. They became masters of their private, girls only school.
Thirteen quickly became sixteen and soon the very perfect lives of the five Stepfords would slip into a tumultuous downfall. And it all started with a boy. Sophie was the most exuberant of the group. She was the most naturally gifted with their abilities and could turn heads with her infectious smiles and quick wit. She was the leader of the Stepfords despite being the youngest and yet she was the first to fall. It happened much too quickly. It was mysterious to say the least that Sophie should have met and fallen for a boy in less than a day. Slightly jealous and most certainly protective of their status quo, Celeste, Esme, Mindee and Phoebe questioned their younger sister for information about this young man whom had bewitched their sister so easily, but young Sophie brushed them off. She wrestled her sisters into helping their parents "understand" the reason Sophie should be allowed an impromptu date with her new boyfriend. They grudgingly complied, consoled by the fact that whatever might happen, Sophie could take care of herself via her telepathic powers. Sophie was discovered on a Central Park bench at 3:24 am, dead. Stricken with grief by that empty space in their hive, the girls were sent to a counselor. It was to no avail - as the psychiatrist would later reveal - for Esme jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge a week later. Devastated, the girls talked their parents into the idea of boarding school, one very far from the city. Just the family was close to making a decision on which schools the girls should attend, a strange man in a wheel chair paid the Stepford's a visit. He introduced himself as Professor Charles Xavier, a man with certain talents that only the girls knew and a school in upstate New York. The girls begged and pleaded not to reveal their secret and with his approval they were accepted to Xavier's Institute within ten minutes.
A month past that point went by and the girls were quickly adjusting to school life. They gained praise from Xavier himself for their dedicated work habits and soon found themselves among the top percent of their class. But as all the students learn, life at Xavier's is anything but unexciting. Their second month at the mansion was soon filled with gossip about the Cure and it's worldwide announcement. That was when Professor Grey was resurrected from her death at Alkali Lake only to murder Professors Summers and Xavier. The school around them mourned the loss as the battle of Alcatraz waged and the Cure turned weapon became hot debate. Soon thereafter, the mansion was attacked by sentinels. The girls coordinated with the other telepaths and the younger students, helping all who could to escape a death by mechanical means. It wasn't until the Decimation of District X that the girls faced their toughest test. In the crossfire of the world versus Mutant Town's residents, Emma Frost called upon the Cuckoos to help her face down Exodus in a battle of wills. Needless to say, the girls are alive and well...and Exodus is not. It has been six months hence and the U.S. struggles to again cope with the mutant "problem", but for the students and teachers at Xavier's an uneasy break is being taken from their lives as X-Men. Classes continue and the girls look forward to picking out a university for after their senior year. Phoebe and Quentin have cooled things down, what with the high amount of disapproval from her sisters. Mindee, however, has been seeing Carter for the past six months, but has managed to keep him a secret for all that time.
Shortly before the term began, the girls received a visit from the New York authorities who informed them of their parent's murder during a break-in robbery. The funeral was somber and there was little bereavment. The second single most important moment in their lives was the inheritance of over fifty million dollars in assets, savings and property. The first: a letter detailing the girls' adoption.
Sample Post: The first rays of dawn lighted daintily upon the pale, smooth skin of a cheek and fell squarely upon a shut eye. It fluttered in response to that impossible brightness. Once. Twice. The third time it grudgingly opened to adjusted to the not-dark of morning. When it's icy blue iris gained control over the shrinking pupil, the eye's partner slowly lifted to take in the light. It was followed by two more pairs of eyes which were no less responsive than their predecessors.
Morning, what an absolutely wretched hour to wake.[/b][/color] The voice was cold and slightly annoyed. Oddly, it did not echo off the walls or reach any ears, but rather it was crisp and clear and whispered groggily and was heard nonetheless.
It would not be so wretched if you hadn't insisted on an extra hour of study. The same voice replied, yet it wasn't the same. It had the same pitch and timbre and pronounced wretched in exactly the same way, yet despite that it was inexplicably different. It was crisp and clear but did not echo.
If we're to be the first to class, we ought to hurry off to the showers.This voice was no more or less the same than the one before it and the one before that. Yet with it came the rising of a figure from three beds pushed together. It was a young woman, light and graceful with nicely accentuated curves that rose from the bed and retrieved a bathrobe. From behind her two more women arose, each exactly as graceful and identical to the next. They stretched and yawned and wiped away the sleep from their eyes in ways that matched each other almost to eerily. They were the Stepford triplets: Celeste, Mindee and Phoebe. Blessed with the mutant ability of telepathy, a now rather common permutation in the mutant species, their identical physical attributes weren't their only unique quality. Unlike other telepaths, the girls were capable of linking directly into each other to form a gestalt of psychic energy. In simple layman's terms, a hive mind.
Their thoughts just pure desires running through their connected brains, the girls made their way silently down the empty halls toward the bathroom. With each passing doorway, the stirring dreams and thoughts of the room's occupants would drift swiftly in and out of the girls' minds. Forgetting for a moment that it was purely an act of habit, the girls wrapped their robes closely around themselves. It was merely a physical manifestation of their act of closing off their minds from that wave of psychic garbage that only a non telepath could not perceive. They showered in silence and returned to their rooms as the first few students began peeking out their doors.
They dressed as silently as they had showered, no real need for thoughts between those connected right down to the emotional level. The passing of a blouse here, the handing off of a comb there. It was all without sound, all without real thought. Like a well-oiled machine, the girls worked more efficiently than even the X-Men could. When they were finished at last, they took one final look in the mirror and admired what they saw. Three identical young woman. It would have been hard for any to tell the triplets apart, but should anyone be really willing to try, the tiniest of differences could be noted in the stud earrings adorning each set of ears: three different colors.
Let's go girls, Carpe Diem.[/b][/color] Celeste lead the way past their bed and desks and dressers and out the door, her sisters following obediently.
Dulce et Decorum est...[/b][/color] Phoebe retorted with a mutter. Though Celeste was chipper most mornings, the youngest Stepford knew the day would be no better than its predecessors, and so she quoted a fitting line to counter her sister's lie.
Could we please just get through the morning without bickering?[/b][/color] Mindee asked with a hint of annoyance. She shut the door quietly behind her completed the wedge the three had formed to slice quickly through the now pulsing throng of students. It was unnecessary, however, as averted gazes and their owners quickly moved aside to let them pass.
The Stepford Cuckoos, this early in the day? Awww yeah![/b][/color] The image of semi-nude triplets slipped into their heads and was gone as quickly as it had come. Omigod!! DID THEY SEE THAT?!? CRAP!....BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK!!![/b][/color] A flushed young man walked quickly past them in the opposite direction.
Arrogant little snots. Why do they have to be so freakin' early to...[/b][/color] A nameless female voice drifted away as the girls drew tightly together. They walked with chins held high and blazing white eyes staring straight ahead. No, today would be no different from the others.
Player Information:
Name: Jen
Age: 21
Contact Information: PM or Email
Other Characters: None yet
Name: Celeste, Mindee and Phoebe Stepford
Codename
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Occupation: Students
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Place of Residence: The Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters
Known Relatives:
William Stepford [Father] (Deceased)
Amelia Montgomery-Stepford [Mother] (Deceased)
Esme Stepford [Sister] (Deceased)
Sophie Stepford [Sister] (Deceased)
Alliance: X-Men
Physical Stats
Height: 5 Feet 6 Inches
Weight: 105 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Avatar: Brittany Snow
Abilities
Mutation: For such an extraordinary feat of being born both as a set of quintuplets and x-gene positive, the Stepford quintet were gifted with the relatively common ability of telepathy. Yet within that irony lies an even greater irony. The girls' telepathic abilities are unlike anything else encountered as of yet. Celeste, Mindee and Phoebe Stepford are capable of combining their individual telepathic talents into a greater hive mind state that enables the sisters to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously. This gestalt allows the triplets to function as a single unit and is so powerful that it often causes the girls to speak in unison as well as finish each others' sentences. The rare ability also boosts each sister's latent telepathic abilities threefold, but is hindered by the girls' proximity to one another.
Though common among the world's many mutants, the range of skills one can achieve with telepathy are both useful and varied. Thankfully, the girl's have experience in almost all of it. Simple thought reading was mastered at an early age by the five young Stepfords. It was in the quiet Fifth Avenue apartment building where the ambitious blondes honed their first and only skill by eavesdropping on the private and often intimate thoughts of their parents and neighbors.
From there, the next natural progression for the girls was to block out all the unwanted psychic garbage that floated haplessly into their heads. At first it was a struggle to stop that unrelenting wave of telepathic chatter and in their initial attempt to halt the thoughts of their nanny, the girls had stumbled upon their next ability: mind control. With the combined weight of their psychic might, the triplets are capable of overriding one's freedom and forcing them to comply to their will. Though they eventually gripped the basic control of their newly found powers, that first branching gave the girls' a thirst they had never experienced.
Day after day the girls would use with telepathic gifts with mild abandon and they grew to learn how to create vivid illusions by manipulating the sensory centers of the brain as well as the emotional centers in order to cultivate certain emotional responses. Of course, their truly useful abilities were learned within the hallowed halls of Xavier's Institute. From the hand of Emma Frost, the remaining three Stepfords learned to fire deadly bolts of psychic energy and defend themselves against psychic attack and telepathic probing.
Also, though they would be loathe to admit it, the girls do carry a heavy setback to their enormous telepathic potential. Their powers are purely psionic in nature and are therefore largely ineffective against someone with a defense against such abilities. Furthermore, they are easily susceptible to physical harm.
Mutation Section adapted from Marvel Universe
Skills: Like many students, the Stepford three are primarily skilled in studying. That's not to mention that their ability to organize and carry out tasks is unparalleled due to their unique telepathic gifts. They also have a higher rate of information retention as three telepathically connected minds are without a doubt, infinitely better than a lone mind. Interestingly enough, the girls are also classically schooled in dance and music. Celeste is able to play the harp while her sister Mindee plays the piano and Phoebe, the violin. Yet perhaps their greatest talent is getting to the truth of things. As detached as they are, they notice the little nuances in body language that others exhibit when they do not lie well or cannot hide the truth. The skill is very instinctual and only serves as preemptive to telepathy.
Personality: Being raised under the care of neglectful parents and strict nannies, the Stepford triplets never had many in the way of role models. So naturally the girls would seek to imitate the very first they would encounter in a world of tumultuous academe. Their choice: Emma Grace Frost. A woman of immense telepathic power and control. A woman who handled the stress of everyday mutant life with passing ease. A woman who - pardon the French - kicks the most ass.
Derived from the greatest loss they could ever lose - the death of their sisters Sophie and Esme - the girls sought every way possible to block that grief. It was hard at first, but when they first met Ms. Frost it was clear what they had to do. Become as unfeeling as a stone. Detach themselves from that hurt and it wouldn't - couldn't - bother them. Soon that mantra became ingrained into their collective mind and began to stick a little too well. Retreated within the sanctity of their hive mind, arrogance was bred into their every behavior. The sarcastic remarks and biting wit was withheld from only those the girls had the utmost respect and deference for. Yet, as hard as it might be to get past, their stone cold exteriors do house the emotional instability of an individual, of a teenager. They worry about their looks, the way people think of them, even boys.
So even though the Cuckoos are renowned for being quite the little "Emmas", they have been known to display individual characteristics from time to time. Celeste, for instance, is clearly the leader for the pack. Being the oldest, the head blonde often takes it upon herself to maintain order within the group and will often speak for the three. She is known to be a bit more judicious and thoughtful than her sisters, but only because she knows her decisions will directly impact the hive. She has the easiest time making friends as she is the one who frequently provides the voice of the Three-in-One, making her a diplomat of sorts. Though she does not admit it aloud, Celeste appreciates the girls' current place in life, both at Xavier's and in the greater scheme of life. She is the most resistant to change.
Mindee is the second oldest since the death of her sister Esme. While Celeste may be the leader of the gestalt know colloquially as the Stepford Cuckoos, Mindee is the mediator. To say that the girls are always in a state of agreement would be a lie, for what are sisters if not friends. And like friends, the girls do bicker, however much a secret it may be. So it falls to the middle Cuckoo to balance out the brash behavior of her younger sister Phoebe and the often dictatorial attitude of Celeste. She is the more quiet and reserved for the three, often choosing to spend time alone when in the company of her twin sisters. She is also the most studious and as such, the sister with the most yearning for knowledge.
Where Celeste is commanding and Mindee the most accommodating, Phoebe is the rebellious sister; though only as rebellious as her sisters may allow. She questions any and all authority other than the combined might of the hive mind. Were it just Celeste speaking -- and only Phoebe and Mindee could know -- Phoebe would almost certainly disagree and seek an alternative point of view. She is most often the sister to make enemies of the other students and is probably the sole reason Paige Guthrie took an immediate disliking to the triplets. Of the three, Phoebe is the one to immediately use her powers to obtain her desired results seeks the growth of their telepathic potential the most.
History: As if it weren't amazing enough that five beautiful little girls were born into the world -- for it is indeed rare for triplets, let alone quintuplets -- but Celeste, Esme, Mindee, Phoebe and Sophie were born X-Gene Positive. What is truly astounding, however, is the fact that the oddly quiet infants were found roughly sixteen years ago upon the doorsteps of St. Mary's Orphanage in lower Manhattan. This clandestine drop off would eventually be forgotten and supplanted by the even more miraculous and mysterious adoption of all five two week old infants. William Stepford and Amelia Montgomery-Stepford were a newly married couple from the Upper Eastside who were unable to unwilling to actually conceive. Yet despite all the warnings of hardships five children could bring to their budding careers, but that didn't hinder the couple's resolve. In a matter of days, the girls were given their infamous surname.
Were the fortuitous good luck of their adoption continued on in their lives, they would have had a hapless yet happy childhood fraught with little by the occasional scraped knee and many tea parties. Yet it wasn't to be. William and Amelia's greatest mistake in raising their little girls was their lack of attention in their daughters. Nanny after nanny found their employ in the Stepford's spacious apartment in upper Manhattan and for 12 years and 50 weeks, the Stepford daughters were practically raised apart from their busy parents. With Amelia's expanding law practice and William's long and exhaustive hours in the local hospital's operating room, it was a wonder the girls ever knew what their parents looked like.
Eventually the quiet little babes grew into quiet little girls and then into quiet young women. Upon the day following their thirteenth year of life, the girls awoke with a startling realization: They were in each others' heads. Surprising at first, the quints became quickly adjusted to the fact that they were mutants -- a race separate from humans and quickly growing notoriety in the news. To the girls it was just another aspect of their already perfect selves and it did not help that their high opinion of themselves would now be reinforced by their constantly connected minds and superior evolution. Their previously slow ascent up the academic ladder was now significantly faster thanks to their telepathic abilities. Lessons were absorbed with ease and information was learned that was previously attainable only through hours of combing through the right books. They became masters of their private, girls only school.
Thirteen quickly became sixteen and soon the very perfect lives of the five Stepfords would slip into a tumultuous downfall. And it all started with a boy. Sophie was the most exuberant of the group. She was the most naturally gifted with their abilities and could turn heads with her infectious smiles and quick wit. She was the leader of the Stepfords despite being the youngest and yet she was the first to fall. It happened much too quickly. It was mysterious to say the least that Sophie should have met and fallen for a boy in less than a day. Slightly jealous and most certainly protective of their status quo, Celeste, Esme, Mindee and Phoebe questioned their younger sister for information about this young man whom had bewitched their sister so easily, but young Sophie brushed them off. She wrestled her sisters into helping their parents "understand" the reason Sophie should be allowed an impromptu date with her new boyfriend. They grudgingly complied, consoled by the fact that whatever might happen, Sophie could take care of herself via her telepathic powers. Sophie was discovered on a Central Park bench at 3:24 am, dead. Stricken with grief by that empty space in their hive, the girls were sent to a counselor. It was to no avail - as the psychiatrist would later reveal - for Esme jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge a week later. Devastated, the girls talked their parents into the idea of boarding school, one very far from the city. Just the family was close to making a decision on which schools the girls should attend, a strange man in a wheel chair paid the Stepford's a visit. He introduced himself as Professor Charles Xavier, a man with certain talents that only the girls knew and a school in upstate New York. The girls begged and pleaded not to reveal their secret and with his approval they were accepted to Xavier's Institute within ten minutes.
A month past that point went by and the girls were quickly adjusting to school life. They gained praise from Xavier himself for their dedicated work habits and soon found themselves among the top percent of their class. But as all the students learn, life at Xavier's is anything but unexciting. Their second month at the mansion was soon filled with gossip about the Cure and it's worldwide announcement. That was when Professor Grey was resurrected from her death at Alkali Lake only to murder Professors Summers and Xavier. The school around them mourned the loss as the battle of Alcatraz waged and the Cure turned weapon became hot debate. Soon thereafter, the mansion was attacked by sentinels. The girls coordinated with the other telepaths and the younger students, helping all who could to escape a death by mechanical means. It wasn't until the Decimation of District X that the girls faced their toughest test. In the crossfire of the world versus Mutant Town's residents, Emma Frost called upon the Cuckoos to help her face down Exodus in a battle of wills. Needless to say, the girls are alive and well...and Exodus is not. It has been six months hence and the U.S. struggles to again cope with the mutant "problem", but for the students and teachers at Xavier's an uneasy break is being taken from their lives as X-Men. Classes continue and the girls look forward to picking out a university for after their senior year. Phoebe and Quentin have cooled things down, what with the high amount of disapproval from her sisters. Mindee, however, has been seeing Carter for the past six months, but has managed to keep him a secret for all that time.
Shortly before the term began, the girls received a visit from the New York authorities who informed them of their parent's murder during a break-in robbery. The funeral was somber and there was little bereavment. The second single most important moment in their lives was the inheritance of over fifty million dollars in assets, savings and property. The first: a letter detailing the girls' adoption.
Sample Post: The first rays of dawn lighted daintily upon the pale, smooth skin of a cheek and fell squarely upon a shut eye. It fluttered in response to that impossible brightness. Once. Twice. The third time it grudgingly opened to adjusted to the not-dark of morning. When it's icy blue iris gained control over the shrinking pupil, the eye's partner slowly lifted to take in the light. It was followed by two more pairs of eyes which were no less responsive than their predecessors.
Morning, what an absolutely wretched hour to wake.[/b][/color] The voice was cold and slightly annoyed. Oddly, it did not echo off the walls or reach any ears, but rather it was crisp and clear and whispered groggily and was heard nonetheless.
It would not be so wretched if you hadn't insisted on an extra hour of study. The same voice replied, yet it wasn't the same. It had the same pitch and timbre and pronounced wretched in exactly the same way, yet despite that it was inexplicably different. It was crisp and clear but did not echo.
If we're to be the first to class, we ought to hurry off to the showers.This voice was no more or less the same than the one before it and the one before that. Yet with it came the rising of a figure from three beds pushed together. It was a young woman, light and graceful with nicely accentuated curves that rose from the bed and retrieved a bathrobe. From behind her two more women arose, each exactly as graceful and identical to the next. They stretched and yawned and wiped away the sleep from their eyes in ways that matched each other almost to eerily. They were the Stepford triplets: Celeste, Mindee and Phoebe. Blessed with the mutant ability of telepathy, a now rather common permutation in the mutant species, their identical physical attributes weren't their only unique quality. Unlike other telepaths, the girls were capable of linking directly into each other to form a gestalt of psychic energy. In simple layman's terms, a hive mind.
Their thoughts just pure desires running through their connected brains, the girls made their way silently down the empty halls toward the bathroom. With each passing doorway, the stirring dreams and thoughts of the room's occupants would drift swiftly in and out of the girls' minds. Forgetting for a moment that it was purely an act of habit, the girls wrapped their robes closely around themselves. It was merely a physical manifestation of their act of closing off their minds from that wave of psychic garbage that only a non telepath could not perceive. They showered in silence and returned to their rooms as the first few students began peeking out their doors.
They dressed as silently as they had showered, no real need for thoughts between those connected right down to the emotional level. The passing of a blouse here, the handing off of a comb there. It was all without sound, all without real thought. Like a well-oiled machine, the girls worked more efficiently than even the X-Men could. When they were finished at last, they took one final look in the mirror and admired what they saw. Three identical young woman. It would have been hard for any to tell the triplets apart, but should anyone be really willing to try, the tiniest of differences could be noted in the stud earrings adorning each set of ears: three different colors.
Let's go girls, Carpe Diem.[/b][/color] Celeste lead the way past their bed and desks and dressers and out the door, her sisters following obediently.
Dulce et Decorum est...[/b][/color] Phoebe retorted with a mutter. Though Celeste was chipper most mornings, the youngest Stepford knew the day would be no better than its predecessors, and so she quoted a fitting line to counter her sister's lie.
Could we please just get through the morning without bickering?[/b][/color] Mindee asked with a hint of annoyance. She shut the door quietly behind her completed the wedge the three had formed to slice quickly through the now pulsing throng of students. It was unnecessary, however, as averted gazes and their owners quickly moved aside to let them pass.
The Stepford Cuckoos, this early in the day? Awww yeah![/b][/color] The image of semi-nude triplets slipped into their heads and was gone as quickly as it had come. Omigod!! DID THEY SEE THAT?!? CRAP!....BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK!!![/b][/color] A flushed young man walked quickly past them in the opposite direction.
Arrogant little snots. Why do they have to be so freakin' early to...[/b][/color] A nameless female voice drifted away as the girls drew tightly together. They walked with chins held high and blazing white eyes staring straight ahead. No, today would be no different from the others.
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