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Rosetta Juarez

"You really don't want to have an issue with me..."

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a character in “X-Men: No Mutant Left Behind”, as played by Vix

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{ R e q u i e m F o r A D r e a m | I S e e F i r e | W a r r i o r | B a z o o k a }

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
––Buddha




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Full Name
Rosetta Elysia Juarez

Nickname
| Ma'am | Headmistress | Professor Rose | Rose | Sia | RJ | Rej | Ares |

Birthday & Age
June 21st, 1979 [33]

Sex & Gender
Female – Doesn't gender identify

Sexual & Romantic Orientation
| Demisexual | Androromantic |

Ethnicity & Nationality
She is of Brazilian and Greek descent with dual citizenship between Brazil and America.

Hometown
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil {0-13} New York City, New York, United States {13-present}

Occupation
She is the current leader of the X-Men; She also works for Xavier's as the Professor of Music and Music Theory. She teaches a Botany class as well as a Dance class on weekends; She is the Headmistress of the school and head of the Drama Department.




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Height & Weight
5'10” & 139lbs

Eye Color
The most unique feature of her is her blue eyes. This is because of how shades of brown form and extend out some, resembling a tarantula hiding beneath her pupil. Like so. Her eyes shift to a mossy green when she's exerting an excessive amount of power but fade to their normal appearance afterward.

Hair Color & Style
Her hair extends just a bit past her shoulders and is naturally a pale gold in color, though she often dyes her locks to suit her sporadic fashion.

Special Markings
{Tattoos} [Left Foot] [Left and Right Wrists] [Right Forearm] [Right Side] She also has a shield with a sword and an arrow crossed over it on the top of her right breast with “η δικαιοσύνη θα επικρατήσει” under her breast. The words mean “justice will prevail”. She has an “X” with a circle around it (classic X-Men symbol) on her left hip. On her left leg she has been working on an image of Ares since the murder of Erik. Her piercings include three in her earlobe, a tongue piercing, her right eyebrow, her nose, and “angel kiss” piercings in her lip.

Physical Description
Rosetta is a tall woman with no shortage of feminine physical features, from the delicacy of her facial assets to the bountiful curves possessed by this woman. Her complexion varies, depending on how much time she's spent in the sun, ranging between a medium warm olive and a moderate tan.

Fashion Sense
{ [X-Men] -- [Professional 1] -- [Relaxin'] -- [Professional 2] -- [Relaxin' 2] -- [Working Out] -- [Relaxin' 3] }
Rose has a rather broad sense of fashion and her closets are a smorgasbord of random outfits. She seems rather fond of colorful hair and contacts, always color coordinating her outfits by theme and color; her eyes and hair color always match the dominant color of her outfit. She's rather fond of being barefoot or wearing sandals that expose a lot of her foot, pairing the natural look with cotton sundresses. It's no secret that she's got a shoe fetish, boasting a large collection of heels and boots of all kinds. She loves to accessorize with a variety of piercings, bows, necklaces, bracelets, and rings. She's also a huge fan of crazy socks as well as scarves.




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Likes
Music Art Combat Vlogging Writing new songs Reading Hanging out in the Danger Room Candy Organic food Eating pure sugar Seafood Steak Flying Her pets Tolerance Salmon Free running Movies Quoting Kids Busking DIY videos Baking Lava cakes Playing the piano, guitar, and violin Instrumental cover songs Dancing Wine Cute summer dresses Flowers Soccer Body art

Dislikes
Self-important people Bologna The smell of Pinesol Black licorice Watching horror films alone Watching war films alone Being without her stuffed panda Disorder Nihilism Bigotry Dogmatism Beef stew Most stew in general Feeling useless Black licorice Advanced darkness Needles Doctors Being examined or stared at Being all alone Empty night skies Itchy clothes Centipedes Loose clothes Sweaty pits Petty Fighting Yelling Cliches Being stereotyped Being belittled When people undermine her authority Being treated like a kid because she looks so young Abrahamic religions; Christianity, Catholicism, etc. Being told what she can or can't do Gender stereotypes Sexism Misandry Misogyny Hateful people

Habits/Quirks/Oddities
Humming Tattooing herself Reciting facts Quoting songs, poems, and books Quoting movies Just quoting in general Scratching her hands when she's nervous Babbling when she's hiding something from someone she cares about Cooking when stressed Not looking where she's walking

Aspirations
Achieving peaceful relations with the human population Taking down anti-mutant terrorist groups. She wants to slaughter them all, really. Living in a world safe enough to raise a family.

Fears
Dying in her sleep – Because she is so dead to the world when she finally lays her head down to rest, she fears that something bad will happen [like an attack on the mansion] and she will end up killed in her sleep. Failing the X-Men – She is honored to have been chosen as the leader, though it wasn't a surprise. While she is optimistic and takes her position in stride, she also holds the fear that she might do something wrong and mess up, maybe even put someone's life in danger. Fire – She's fine with fire that is held under control as with stove fires and such. However, she all but shuts down when a fire gets out of control. It is among her greatest of all fears.

Secrets
She used to be in the Brotherhood and was known as The Big Apple Psychopath; She was never identified by the NYPD. The only people who would know this are her colleagues who have been at Xavier's since her teen years. She chose her codename when she was thirteen because a relatively small cult within The Brotherhood of Mutants worshiped her as Gaea, as did her mother before she was killed.. There is a part of her that believes that she is Gaea reincarnated. Because of her Hellenistic upbringing, she welcomes this.

Personality
{Intelligent} {Aesthete} {Adventurous} {Charming} {Able to Balance Heavy Schedules} {Passionate} {Fluid} {Vindictive} {Aggressive} {Audacious}

She's very amiable and finds it easy to approach others, though because she is a mutant, she is wary around most humans. She's your typical sweetheart, often throwing people off because her type of sweet is a rare thing these days. She would offer a total stranger her jacket if they were cold or perhaps a slice of pie if they seemed sad. Once a person has earned the right to be called her friend, they aren't just a witness to her outgoing and whimsical mannerisms, but they become involved and she's more open. She's a great leader and is quick to take charge when things get hectic, able to keep a level head when shit gets real. Her likable personality and amount of training makes it easier to give commands.

She's the type of girl who prefers spending time with her friends over solitude unless she needs some time to think. She's almost always with someone though, even if she's just reading a book or writing a new song. She's never still for too long, having to do something that keeps her moving. Because of this, she often prefers to be entertaining. Whether she's in the middle of the mall, a classroom, a 7/11, or the street, she has no problem bursting into song, dancing, performing acrobatic stunts, acting out a scene from Hamlet, or breaking out an instrument. She's not really an attention-whore, as some would misunderstand. She just likes to see a smile on people's faces while being able to express herself and her talents. She's very proud of her talents, though not overbearingly so to the point where she has to point it out in every conversation or display them to anyone who hasn't seen yet. In actuality, when it comes to performing in front of others, she tends to only do it to cheer them up or busk. She's never actually uploaded any videos of herself performing from home – All videos of her performing are from her busking. She'll only perform socially at the request of others and prefers that she's not the center of attention outside of busking or leading her team.

Express yourself is a phrase that she's highly familiar with. Art is her life and her passion, easily told by the tattoos and piercings adoring her body. One of her pet peeves is being judged (herself and others) for tattoos and piercings. She literally has a rebuttal for anything and everything that a person might try to argue about in a conversation against body art, as she's been approached more than once (like so many others) by people (mostly old people) with reserves against body art. She's very proud of the ink that she's put on her body and finds herself often doodling more onto them every now and again when the inspiration hits her. She frequents tattoo shops to observe the work of others (maybe now and again to do some work of her own for some cash) and isn't against sitting in an art museum for hours to stare at a painting or sculpture to wonder what the artist was feeling. She wishes that every artist had her ability to make others feel as they do when they perform or paint, thinking that more people would truly appreciate art if they could.

That's her good side. Let's talk about her inner warrior.

She can be rather volatile and unpredictable at times, sometimes snapping about the smallest things. She possesses a strong desire to satisfy her need to vindicate the innocent lives she had been forced to take and the lives of others that she had not taken but had witnessed being taken. In battle she is absolutely brutal, cruel, and uncaring. She can skin a man alive and pour acid on him without feeling a shred of remorse for what she had done.

But she wasn't messy -- at least not in the sense of leaving a trail. She was an apex predator. She was the crocodile in murky waters and her prey was the unsuspecting deer trying to cross. She was smart – She had been trained to leave no traces of her presence and she did very well in that. She would often compare herself to Dexter -- a favorite show of hers and a bit of inspiration. She had been hardened by her past and no fucks were given as she watched the light diminish from the eyes of her victims. But she felt in her head that she was doing the right thing. Her heart had no say in it -- They weren't on speaking terms during that time. But despite her cruel treatment of criminals, she never hurt an innocent person if she could help herself (when she wasn't under the influence of the government) and would go out of her way to make sure that an innocent would remain out of harm's way even if it meant that she would get hurt.




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Mutant Alias
Gaea

Mutation
Nature Lordship.

Mutation Capabilities
Environmental Adaptation - [Passive] Rosetta's body automatically adapts to the environment around her to provide her an optimal chance for health and survival. It is because of this that she doesn't need specialized suits and equipment like the others. She can survive extreme heat, extreme cold, varying water pressures, pollution, varying air pressures, and many others. It is because of this that her body can survive for the seven days when she sleeps without food or water. Ecological Empathy[Passive] Rosetta has the ability to innately sense the state of the world around her, though it is entirely localized. She can tell where there is pollution, which plants are dying, who is sick, and if something is simply off. She can immediately identify various flora and fauna by touch or a single glance and their uses. She can sense the overall well-being and conditions of their immediate environment and natural setting stemming from a psychic sensitivity to nature, including all biomes (forests, deserts, tundras, wetlands, mountains, etc). A tree naturally falling or predator catching their prey in a near by forest is felt by her, leaving her feeling calmly relieved. Unnaturally, it leaves with a sense of hurt. She can detect natural changes as well (raise in temperature, humidity, etc). Nature Enhancement & Manipulation[Master] Rosetta can manipulate plants, even the ones that she is not in physical contact with. She can also generate plants from her body as well as from nothing at all. She can enhance or diminish the health of the plants. She can sap the life force from plants around her to heal herself as well, though she hasn't learned to redirect the life force to heal others yet. She can sense the sentience within plants that others cannot, able to speak to them as well as enhance their sentience. Elemental Transformation[Expert] She has the ability to transform into different elements including air, metal, and different kinds of plants. She can turn into fire and earth but it's hard for her to turn back. Air Manipulation[Adept] She can manipulate air at an adept level, creating strong gusts of wind from nothing. It becomes quite problematic for people around her when she sneezes. Animal Manipulation[Adept] She can morph into any animal if she's eaten its meat first and she can understand and communicate with them. She bonds with animals faster than most but she cannot command them unless the bond is intense. Earth & Metal Manipulation[Expert] Rosetta can manipulate the earth and its minerals with ease, having trained long and hard under the tutelage of a friend, Petra. She has yet to be capable of generating them from nothing as she can with plants. She can create small earthquakes and open up the earth a bit as well. However, her abilities limit it to being localized. She can also manipulate different types of metals except for copper. Electricity Manipulation[Adept] She can manipulate and generate electricity from her body with enough voltage to knock someone on their ass but she hasn't learned how to control other sources of electricity yet. Fire Manipulation[Novice] Her control over fire is novice because of her fear of it. She can create small fireballs in her hand and shoot them about or cover her hand in fire, but they never last long. She's too afraid and when she starts to freak out so does the fire. It tends to end badly. Water Manipulation[Expert] She can manipulate and control different liquids so long as there is water in them and she can create water from nothing. She is capable of controlling and generating large volumes of water as well as altering the state and temperature of it. Magma Manipulation[Unrealized] Crystal Manipulation[Unrealized] Weather Manipulation[Passive-Master] She can sense, create, shape and manipulate weather, {the meteorological patterns, creating rain, wind, hail, lightning, snow, sleet, fog and temperature changes etc}. This includes the ability to generate various natural phenomena or control the intensity of the weather in highly concentrated (inside room) or vastly extended (continental) areas. The weather often responds to her mood when she is in an intense state of emotion. Slowed and Halted Aging[Passive] She stopped aging when she was eighteen, her cells constantly rejuvenated by drawing in life and energy from nature around her.

Skills/Talents/Strengths/Knowledge
She speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Greek. She's also an expert in all subjects concerning the environment, having studied the subjects deeply to better understand her powers. She is very knowledgeable about various theologies and deities, a very spiritual person. She's a 1st degree black belt in Muay Thai and a formidable boxer, a former Lightweight Youth World Champion. She is very light on her feet and good at evading incoming attacks. She might be a bit smaller than most of her opponents but she can certainly take a hit. Her domestic skills include cooking, familiar with many recipes through surfing the web. She is also a frequent traceuse, spending a lot of time with her best friend in gymnastics. She is an excellent driver, though she's hardly a stunt master. She's qualified to fly the Bird, taught by her mentor, Ororo. She is a talented patron of the arts. Because she never sleeps, never really tires, she has a lot of time on her hands to learn many new skills and subjects.

Equipment
She keeps an array of items with her in her backpack, most notably is her iPad, laptop, headphones, a set of journals and notepads, homemade candy, bags of sugar, and marijuana joints. She doesn't fight with any weapons because she feels no need considering her abilities as a hand-to-hand combatant and her power abilities.

Weaknesses
She knew a mutant once upon a time who could heal and who also didn't know about her healing factor. She had broken her arm and the young mutant tried to heal her while Rosetta's own body was in the process. Doing so didn't work out so well and now when her left arm is hit with enough force it goes numb for days. She cannot sleep. She might get tired, but she cannot sleep for any longer than three or four hours a day. It's on the last seven days of every month when she just shuts down, her body entering a state of self-preservation as she recharges completely. It's these seven days when she's at her weakest. You could throw her done a flight of stairs and she still wouldn't wake up. She can stave off that sleep for a few days if she must, but she'll sleep for every day that she missed. She has dash of PTSD, a sprinkle of paranoia, and a hearty helping of dysphoric mania. She is allergic to copper. She also has a marijuana, sugar, and alcohol addiction. She is incapable of ingesting any non organic food or drink without growing violently sick.




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History
Rosetta was born in Greece when her father, a native of the Brazil, found himself backpacking across the country. When he happened across Athena, he fell in love even though she was much younger. The two were married within a few months and she was soon pregnant. She gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Happy, the new couple moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where Edgar's family resided. Growing up, these two children absolutely adored their parents, though they were more inclined to their mother. However, things began to soon change. Their mother had given birth to them at home and was against taking them to the doctor, being a militant naturalist. She eventually caved, not having much of a choice, when her mother-in-law -- a pediatrician -- offered to be their pediatrician from home. She noticed anomalies in their blood and sent it to a friend of hers, soon discovering that her grandchildren were mutants. A Catholic woman, she was conflicted and kept this information to herself while she prayed on it. They were her grandchildren and innocent babies. She began to pray on it and decided that they could be angels instead. The two children grew up relatively normally, healthy, and happy. They were very active and family oriented, always being doted on. But by the age of six, their powers began to grow out of control with their immature mood swings. They were soon thrust into a world of darkness and abuse.

Athena tried to protect her children, saying that they only needed to learn to control it. The rest of the family were convinced that it was her fault, being a devotee of the Hellenic religion rather than a Catholic. They believed that she spawned the children of Satan while she argued that her children were the incarnations of Gaea and Aether. They made threats to call in the government if she would not allow them to be taken to church to be exorcised. And so she told her children that they were leaving -- She was going to take the six year olds far away to a place she had heard of for mutants like them where they could learn to better control their abilities and they wouldn't have to hide. She hadn't had the chance before Edgar killed his wife and turned his children over to the government when an exorcism didn't work and left three priests dead.

The two soon found themselves under the “care” of Martino Alvarez and his team of odd and twisted scientists and soldiers. With twelve other mutants, they were in captivity and slavery from the ages of six to fifteen. For nine years they suffered daily emotional, mental, physical, verbal, and sexual abuse while under Stockholm Syndrome. In order to control them, their captors told them that their families were simply frightened but with their help the children would come to serve a higher purpose and be able to help innocent people. When they did wrong or refused cooperation, they were beaten and harassed, eventually coming to feel like worthless tools for the use of human supremacy, nearly brainwashed. Tulio died when he was nine after having his heart removed for study, though Rosetta was told that a bad man from outside the agency had killed him, fueling a rage in her. In their years of captivity, Rosetta had been the strong one. She was the one that defended who she could, taking extra beatings so that he might be spared and have a few minutes to recover. The most horrific part of her capture was the Quintipede. It was a crude form of technology that was used to manipulate a person's nerves to control their movement. It was a failure and discarded after they resolved that their current treatment and abuse would suffice. At such a malleable age, it was fine; They didn't need to train adults when they could have a powerful mutant army. They were transformed into drones, trained to handle various forms of combat.

Rosetta was among the five that survived the experiments and torture, becoming a finally tuned killing machine that was sent out to kill enemies of the agency and capture other mutants under the notion that they were "bad people". Eventually, she snapped -- along with a few others -- and began to fight back. They were unable to completely defeat the agency but they were able to escape. She was thirteen years old and fled to the United States, having remembered mentions of Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters during meetings. However, she was discovered first by The Brotherhood of Mutants. She would not reveal her tale to them but she allowed them to take her in and teach her as well as use her, though she had no clue that she was being used to further their agenda against humans. It was there that Rosetta went through a couple of years of deep depression and anger, her strange sleeping habit forming. For four years, she simply lost her passion for life and seemed to just go through motions of living. She also had a sort of... “Batman Meets Dexter Phase” going on. She would venture out into the city and brutally murder criminals that she came across. The NYPD was on a manhunt for a serial killer with no face or no name. But someone knew who it was.

Fearing that the government would get their hands on her and it would end badly for both her and all mutant kind, after finding out who she was and what Magneto had her doing, Charles met with her and went through intense therapy with her and eventually broke through. By the time that she was seventeen years old she had left The Brotherhood and moved into Xavier's where she slowly began to mellow out during her therapy sessions with Charles and slowly began to open up. She attended lessons regularly and eventually earned her high school diploma before she began to study to become a Professor at the Academy. She was twenty when she joined the X-Men and it was one of the proudest moments of her life. She was hit hard when both Erik and Charles died, fond of them both and hating neither. She was chosen by Scott, Ororo, and Logan to lead the X-Men when she was twenty-three years old and began to choose the new X-Men as well when they retired. She had developed close friendships with all of their children and plans on paving a new way for mutants, though it is often questioned whose vision she shares: Charles' or Erik's.

She has lead the Academy as the X-Men Leader and the Headmistress for the past ten years and didn't have much trouble with anything. Nothing too drastic, anyways. She could hardly believe it when she and the other X-Men were told by a group of seer mutants about the alternate reality. Wolverine tagging along, they sought out Wanda to confront her about the issue as well as meaning to put her away where she couldn't cause anymore trouble. When they arrived they found her powers concentrating together for another big warp. They had no idea what she planned on doing until she uttered the words “No more mutants.”. When talking her down failed and a few of them found themselves feeling rather normal, Wolverine wasn't going to risk the mutations of others. Rosetta watched as he killed her. They didn't know how many had lost their mutations until they returned to Xavier's. Jean and Scott's daughter, Miriam, dusted off Cerebro and attempted to use it. It overloaded her and she was able to utter only a number before she died. The Academy was sent into a frenzy as students, staff, and X-Men alike found themselves as humans. Rosetta got over the shock as quickly as she could and began to work to get everything and everyone in order. She knew that this was only the beginning.

Family
Edgar Juarez - Father (deceased)
Athena Juarez - Mother (deceased)
Tulio Juarez - Brother (deceased)



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Two weeks.

That's how long it had taken for them to work things out. It had been hectic, dealing with everything that had come their way. Things weren't completely sorted out but they were on the road there. Xavier's had been moving people in and moving people out since the death of Wanda Maximoff after she triggered the depowering of mutants all across the globe. Nobody really knew what had happened but the X-Men all knew that it had to do with Wanda, the only mutant capable of warping reality so quickly on such a level. None could even remember, having their minds erased, of the alternate reality she had created. All anyone could remember was life as normal only to wake up the next day and find that mutants had lost their abilities.

A lot of them.

Some were awake when it had happened in the dead of the night, watching frightened as they were suddenly no longer mutants. For those at Xavier's, they'd been examined in great detail and it was discovered that their X-Gene was completely gone, without a trace. A few samples had been taken from humans as well and it was found that they no longer possessed the X-Gene that would make it possible for them to one day mutate as well. It was the very next day when the news hit the television screens and internet. The inhabitants of Xavier's Estate felt a tragic loss as Jeanette Summers, the only child of Scott and Jean and the strongest mutant telepath since the death of Charles Xavier, died from mental overload after using Cerebro to see how many were left. She died shortly after letting them know. Scott was barely able to contain his despair and it was a damn near catastrophe trying to plan and host a funeral while at the same time packing up and moving out those who were humans while also seeking out and moving in the mutants who needed their help.

Two weeks and they had moved out their human residents; It had been easy enough to find them homes when many of Xavier's graduates and former staff members were willing to reach out a hand to the former mutants, some of them now human as well. The staff of Xavier's apologized but there was none needed, as they understood that they needed all the room they could get as well as how being around so many humans could be a trigger for some mutants. Only fifty-three inhabitants of Xavier's hadn't been depowered and all of them focused themselves on moving in the new mutants that began flooding in as well as maintaining security, keeping the protesters, rioters, and the news teams at their gates.

It was tough work but they managed to do so with a limited amount of snapping on others, breaking down into tears, and whining for normalcy. By the time that the twelfth had rolled around, they were still getting a few new mutants a day and had everyone situated into their dorm rooms and made sure they knew how to get around the house and who the staff members were. Rosetta had managed to find among the refugees some new teachers to replace the ones that they had lost during the day that was now dubbed “M-Day”. She was happy that they could finally begin to establish at least some sense of a normal life after getting everything sorted out, mentally exhausted from the matter. After establishing contact with their former-mutant friends, Rose officially declared things to be back in order. Students had been registered for the school year, and she had made a number of backup plans to discuss with the X-Men.




Rose grunted as she glanced at the clock on the wall; It was six in the morning. That meant that people would be getting up and getting ready to start their day. Most of the people there, nearly two hundred, had been in Xavier's for a while. However, at least two-thirds of them were still relatively or completely new. She had decided to delay the beginning of school for another week to give everyone time to adjust. She didn't think she'd give them much longer, thinking that getting them into a schedule of a normal life at Xavier's would help them all calm down. She and her team worked hard to shield them from the mess outside and she knew that a lot of people were bummed about them no longer being able to go to the rest of New York City.

However, many of them that were coming in from elsewhere had barely made it through the front gates, swarmed by throngs of people. There were media reporters all over, angry religious protesters rioting, and pro-mutant supporters trying to chase away the protesters. Then there were cops as well, constantly breaking up fights. It was a mess out there and Rose had responded by telling the media to wait and making higher walls around the school, brewing up a fierce storm in the sky that kept choppers from hovering above and spying on them. She would have to address them eventually and that day might as well be today. The sooner she got them out of there, the better. She would have to deal with the cops as well as local and state government, having a meeting in another thirty minutes with all of them, arranged a rather informal press conference within the mansion by George. The older man thought that it would fare better for them and the rest of the mutants not associated with the Brotherhood if they actually sat down to explain what was going on as best as they could. Revealing the true nature of Xavier's Academy would hopefully help as well, also admitting why it was kept so secret.

She sighed heavily and stood from her seat behind her desk, looking around her office. She should probably get dressed now, having been in pajamas for a while now. She hadn't really been doing anything for the past twenty-nine hours except sitting in front of her computer, trying to catalog all of the mutants that had come to them as well as wiring money to those who'd left. Charles had left a massive fortune for them and she had essentially cleaned out the bank, sending out well over twenty million dollars to her former students and colleagues who were now essentially on the run – Though, perhaps “hiding” would be a better phrase.

While they had done nothing wrong, they didn't want to get caught up in the wave of chaos. Now that they were human... They were vulnerable. Most of their families knew that they were mutants and were not supporters; They feared that their human family members would throw them to the wolves. It certainly wouldn't have been the first time for many. Rose didn't mind the hole it had put in her pocket to help them out – She maintained the grounds and for the past three years their entire household had been running through the use of alternative generators that were built by Doctor Howlett and kept running by getting a weekly dose of electricity by Rose and a couple of others capable of generating electricity.

She felt that they were in a good situation to sustain themselves without ever having to leave.

Ever.

But she obviously didn't want to keep everyone a prisoner forever. She wouldn't make them go through something like that.

She eventually forced herself out of her office and headed up to her room, closing the door behind her. When she had been appointed Headmistress ten years ago she had been stoked to get the biggest bedroom in the house, celebrating by buying a much larger wardrobe. She moved to her closet and inspected her color arranged outfits, moving down towards the blacks and whites. “Hm... I haven't worn these yet.” She grabbed a pair of black Christian Louboutin drapesse with a sigh. Her eyes then floated over to a dress of black and white, pulling it out. “Nineteen fifties chic. Professional enough, I suppose”

She sighed again and laid out the outfit on her bed before heading into her bathroom for a quick shower, moving as quickly as she could. Stepping out, she blasted herself with warm air for a quick dry before heading to get dressed, tilting her head at a knock on her door. “Um momento, por favor,” she called out as she moved to her dresser and grabbed a seven layer black bead necklace, struggling to get it clipped behind her neck, having to shove thick waves of pale gold out of her way. Her shoes came on last, boosting her up to an even six feet in height, making her a bit more intimidating and professional in appearance than usual; She was normally seen wearing a rainbow of bright colors with her hair rotating color constantly, looking more like a rebellious student than the Headmistress.

She headed to the door and pulled it open to see Caelan standing there, welcoming the much larger mutant with a hug. “You look nice, hon',” he said softly. She offered him a soft smile before looking at the clock. “They're here, huh?” She bit down on her bottom lip nervously, her eyebrows pinching together. “Yeah, Nina is at the front door with them.” Caelan shoved his hands into his pockets, clearly worried about the consequences that could fall upon them if the press conference went wrong. She switched to a smile again and placed her hands on his arms, giving his biceps a squeeze.

“Everything's going to be alright. I'm going to need you there... Don't worry about Soph and Skylar; I've asked Tristan to keep an eye on the kids.” As she looked to him for a response, he only nodded before moving for her to exit. His walk behind her was solemn and hers were more confident, the clicking of her heels echoing through the halls as they made their way to the grand staircase, descending a bit slowly. Her unique blue eyes swept across the sight before her. The X-Men had gathered and waited patiently for her, standing in front of their guests. Nina moved to take her place among the X-Men, offering Rose a nod of her head.

Rose's gaze then turned towards the humans: Gary Markov, the Commissioner of the NYPD, Elaine Roberts, the Mayor of New York City, Jackson Talbon, the Governor of New York, and four people that she didn't know, reporters for news networks. She kept on a brave face and a kind smile as pink wildflowers bloomed from her hair.

She reached the bottom of the stairs and made a showing motion of opening her arms. “Welcome to Xavier's Academy for Gifted Youngsters.” She continued moving forward until she was standing evenly between her team and the humans, bringing her hands clasped together, resting against her abdomen. “I know that you all, and the rest of the world, have a lot of questions. And I'll try to answer them as well as I can.” Her eyes closed as she took a breath before opening them again, looking into the cameras.

“My name is Rosetta Juarez and I have been the Headmistress of this academy for the past ten years. ...Until recently, the majority of the humans who know about this place have believed it to be just an academy for students with extraordinary talents, something like a performing arts school. However, we are a school exclusively for mutants.”

She took a moment to let this sink in as it was finally admitted to the world. A female reporter lifted her hand, answered with a nod. “Michigan Lousit, CNN. Is this school exclusive to mutants because of its ties with The Brotherhood of Mutants or any hatred towards humans?” Ah, the first and most obvious question.

“No. This school was founded to protect both humans and mutants. Whether born with abilities or having developed them later in life, no mutant will automatically have complete mastery of them. Their mutations are triggered by intense states of emotions and can be dangerous if they don't learn what they can do and how to control it. Because of both this and the stigma against mutants, they are welcomed here to be surrounded by other mutants. This instills them with a sense of normalcy, feeling less like a freak of nature and learning to accept who they are, learning to feel unique. Everyone is required to take Power Control classes under the supervision of my staff members as well as allow themselves to be studied by Doctor Rebecca Howlett, who can help us gain a better understanding of their abilities until they have mastered keeping their powers under control to the point of their accidents being within point oh-five percent and no higher and achieve her seal of approval. And I won't lie: There are mutants here who both hate and fear humans due to prior torture and abuse suffered at the hands of humans, often their own friends and families.”

Another reporter lifted a hand, this one a male. “Chuck Quarters, Fox News. Exactly what are your qualifications to teach these children and to take it upon yourselves deem these children worthy of not being identified as a threat?”

To this, Rose took a step to the side and motioned towards the people behind her. “Rebecca Howlett is the world's leading expert on genetic mutations. She looks young, but she is fifty-four years old. She obtained four PhDs before she was twenty years old – One in Quantum Physics, one in Molecular Genetics, one in Nanotechnology, and one in Mechanical Engineering. I'm sure you've heard of her. She has studied every mutation known to date, mapped out the capabilities of them, and named them. She studied directly under Professor Charles Xavier, who, as you know, was the first to bring genetic mutations to light – even though nobody listened to him. Nina Villanueva is one of New York's best family lawyers and a skilled therapist. Her abilities allow her to literally feel the emotions of those around her as well as calm them to help prevent incidents. She is our resident therapist and psychologist. Speaking with her helps the students come to terms with themselves and what they can do. Caelan Howlett is a very well traveled and educated man and everybody adores him. He has several college degrees earned over the course of his many years of life and teaches a number of subjects here. I have a degree myself, so I think that qualifies me to teach. We all possess a great deal of power and knew what it was like to grow up fearing and hating ourselves for some time. This allows us to empathize with our students. Doctor Howlett's studies allow her to help determine their potential and their weaknesses. Our Power Control course is more or less learning to control one's emotions. I'm a bit of a hippy, so I know a bit about that.”

Finished, she turned before looking back to the reporters. The Governor spoke up this time, clearly hesitant. “There are rumors that you're training mutants here into an army against humans. That you're somewhat of an academy that churns out Brotherhood members... Is this true? What exactly is your tie to the Brotherhood?” She gave another nod, clenching her hands a bit as she launched into the complicated history between the X-Men and the Brotherhood, trying to keep it as simple as possible while maintaining the point that not all mutants were flaming douchecanoes.

“That is not true. We have our own... Security team. The X-Men, named after our founder, Charles Xavier, are a group of highly trained mutants who have mastered control of their abilities and have shown a strong desire for peace between humans and mutants. Generally, our job simply entails finding innocent mutants who are endangered, often at the hands of humans, and bring them to safety. We offer them a roof over their heads, education, jobs, three square meals a day. We offer them a community, a support network to help them heal. As far as the Brotherhood, we are nothing like them. We discourage every mutant that lives under this roof to refrain from letting any existing fear or hatred towards humans to warp so badly that they become deranged, psychopathic murderers. We do not house Brotherhood members and those who have any alliance with them are given a chance to cut ties or they are removed from our grounds. The Brotherhood and the X-Men have a long history; The founders of both were once best friends. However, Charles held hope for humanity and distanced himself. Erik, the one called Magneto, he had suffered too much at the hands of humans and thought that too many others had as well that he refused to lay down and take it any longer. They weren't always this bad. But we've always fought them and tried to protect both humans and mutants from them. They did their best not to harm fellow mutants, viewing themselves as the superior race. But sometimes mutants stood in their way. Mostly us. In short: They vie for mutant supremacy. We vie for equality.”

“Why be so secretive about it all?” The Commissioner spoke up now, taking a few steps forward until he was nearly toe-to-toe with Rosetta. She was about a half inch taller than him in her heels, casting her gaze down.

“Humans already hated mutants enough, judging the entire community for the actions and beliefs of what is relatively a handful. Do you really think that things would have gotten better by telling them Hey! We've got a secret school-slash-community just for mutants, some of which hate humans. We train them to use the powers you think are unnatural, teach them that they're just as normal as you, and we also have a secret special operations team!? I mean... Even right this moment, people are at home hating us for it. We can tell people and show people that not all mutants are evil bastards, that not even the majority or half are, but will they really accept it? We can show scientific proof that mutations are just as natural as everything else... But will they believe it? So far, they haven't. Most of us just want to exist in this world peacefully. To lead normal lives; Have a career, have a family, travel the world. Humans cannot continue to blame mutants for everything wrong with this world. Humans cannot continue to act like mutants are the sole evil, the very source of it. There are humans who are murderers, rapists, child molesters, psychopaths, and terrorists. Despite the fact that for over fifty years we've tried to show that we're not all bad, we've tried to reach out a hand of peace, tried to help, we've been slapped down. Tell me – How's that case going for Erik Lensherr, Mia Tanara, and Lydia Michaels and her unborn child going?”

She gave a hurt glare now, causing the man to look away. “I've been watching the news. Erik had a family. He has a family. Grandchildren of his watching humans on television talking about the grandfather that loved them as though he is the source of all evil. As though he was just some psychopathic murderer who got what was coming to him. Humans destroyed his life and his family. Just last month, the same reporters that condemn Erik now are the very same who sympathized for the man who murdered fifty people responsible for his daughter's death and was sent to prison. The only difference between that man and Erik is that Erik is a mutant.”

Everyone was uncomfortable now, the Commissioner taking a step back as she took a step forward. “He has been tortured and abused, shunned his entire life by humans, watching the same happen to his fellow mutants. And no human ever held out a hand to help him. He wanted peace, too! He just didn't see it being possible with humans! Can you blame him?”

Nobody answered her as she went on, her hands coming undone, now hanging at her sides and clenched into fists as she fought back tears. “He's cared for mutant children abused and cast out by their family – He brought Otis to us.” She turned to indicate a young man with a frightened expression, wringing his hands. “He was born with the tail, ears, and several abilities of a cat. He was no danger to anyone. Yet his parents emotionally and physically abused him every day of his life until Erik rescued him when he was ten while he was on his deathbed, starving and bleeding out. Erik took care of him and then brought him to us to take care of. He was a man who didn't want to see anymore children dying. He didn't want to see anymore people shunned by their families for... Evolving. Otis is twenty-one now and among the brightest in his class and as healthy as a horse, never hurt a fly.”

Her head lowered and there was a moment of silence before she lifted her head again. “Mia's family filed a missing report a month ago. Lydia's husband filed one a month ago as well. Their families loved them. They were kidnapped. They were beaten, raped, killed, desecrated, and pitched up on crosses at the gates of an academy where we house children as young as five years old... I'm not going to sugar coat it... You bring justice, or we will.” Her eyes were cold and hard as she turned to the Governor, who seemed to be thinking before speaking up.

“What about that depowering... What was that?”

“Erik's daughter... Wanda. She had the ability to manipulate reality. She was so devastated by what had happened to him, Mia, and Lydia that she became hysterical. She thought that all sides of the war were fighting in vain, that we would all be fighting until we were all dead. She believed that the world would be better off without mutants. So, she attempted to erase mutations across the world by warping reality, erasing the very existence and memory of the X-Gene – She was very powerful but not that powerful. Between the strain of such a large scale reality warp, her unstable mental state, and thousands of mutants whose mutations granted them inherent resistance abilities, she died before she could remove all mutations. Once we realized what exactly it was that she was trying to do, one of our own... Killed her. Doctor Howlett has studied the genes of both humans and former mutants and found that their X-Gene is completely gone, as though they has never existed.”

“I'm very sorry to hear that... I have a cousin. He attended here as a child – which is why I addressed the rumors as just that, rumors – and he lost his mutation during this. I harbor no ill-will towards mutants at all. I know that you're all frightened and worried and those idiots out at the gates aren't making it any better. But you have my support and I will do all that I can to make sure that Xavier's Academy is protected. I hadn't planned on announcing this until next week, but a bill is being pushed that will make New York an official sanctuary for mutants. I am pushing for legislation that will protect mutants in this state, whether born here or not. Just remember – we're all scared and we're all worried. But I will do what I can to help fight the fear, the worry, the hatred, and the bigotry. However, I must inform you that some investigations will be conducted; Making sure all of your teachers have the proper certifications and that... Well, make sure that none of the children are kidnapped.”

The two nodded in understanding before sharing a tight and lingering hug. The Governor released her after some time and turned to the others there, motioning towards the door. “Perhaps you'll get a tour and interviews with them later, but I think they have things they need to do and don't need us in the way. Gary, I need you to get the blues to start rounding up everyone outside the gate and get them out of here. And don't even think about closing that case.”

Rosetta watched as they all headed to leave, feeling a giant weight off of her shoulders. As the doors closed, she turned to face everyone who had gathered, a smile on her face. “I told you – Everything's going to be fine. So long as there's breath in my body, I'm going to fight to keep you safe.” Caelan stepped towards her, motioning to the other ten X-Men. “We all will... Now, go ahead and go get some breakfast, go play. Make yourselves at home...” He gave a faint smile as people slowly began to disperse, heading upstairs to the cafeteria, grumbling about having only one elevator and that one elevator only heading down. He gave a soft chuckle, draping an arm over Rose's shoulders before looking to the others. Most of them had dispersed as well, likely to oversee that everyone was settling nicely.

“Things are going to be okay,” she whispered softly, her arms wrapping about him as she leaned against him.