<div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/97/XMenPhoenix01.jpg)</div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Phoenix</strong></span></div><br/><div align="center"><strong>I am Fire! and Life Incarnate! Now and Forever I am Phoenix!</strong></div><br/>Maybe not forever. I am still a mortal, but the rest is as true as can be. I claimed the name and accepted the power of my own free will, and now that the consciousness of the Phoenix Force has taken its natural place as a cosmic force again, a representation of all life, without mind or intelligence, I am the one its power is bonded with. It's a great responsibility, but I first chose the name Phoenix to show everyone that the Phoenix could be a force for good and I will stand by that, no matter what.<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The X-Men</strong></span></div><br/>Colossus, Rogue, Storm, the Professor, Wolverine ...  Those who knew me when I lived at Charles Xavier's school might remember me as an emotional girl, sometimes overwhelmed by guilt or uncertainty, sometimes rash and prone to act where I shouldn't have. They will find I am not that woman any more. I have laid my demons to rest and hopefully came out the better for it.<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Excalibur</strong></span></div><br/>Kurt and Kitty ... teammates when I was with the X-Men, teammates since we founded Excalibur. The best friends one could ask for. Kitty's older alter ego in my timeline, Kate Pryde, was part surrogate mother, and for a much larger part my best friend. She gave her life so I could have a fresh start on this Earth, and I would just as gladly lay down my life for her younger self in this reality. And Kurt... part of me still remembers my favorite fuzzy-elf who told me bedtime stories and took me to the circus when I was a kid, but here and now you are not just a great friend, but also the best teamleader Excalibur could wish for.<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Scott and Jean</strong></span></div><br/>My parents – and yet not my parents. But there is a bond between us that runs deeper than words can express. I inherited your genes, alternate reality or not. But how can I expect you to feel for me what I feel for you? I can't, but sometimes the mind can try to tell the heart something till the end of time and the heart won't listen. Scott... I should have told you so much earlier, should have told you when I was with the X-Men, but I was so afraid, and when I almost did, I felt that perhaps I wouldn't have to, that you felt that special bond between us too. I was content with that then, and I will have to content myself with it now. Jean ... mom. If only I didn't crave your love so much, but your face was the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes to the world. How can I not wish for your love, not think of you as my mother? I can't, but you don't want me and that hurts more than anything in my life ever has.<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Wolverine</strong></span></div><br/>Of all the people who ever tried to kill me, he came the closest to finishing the job, and he didn't fail for lack of trying. There are memories that can't be banished, no matter how hard one tries, and those claws stabbing right into my heart is one of them. One day I'll give you a piece of my mind, but that will be between you and me only.<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Magneto</strong></span></div><br/>Everyone believes you dead, and maybe they are right, maybe this is the time you will not miraculously reappear out of nowhere, but you deserve mention, even if you are really dead – or perhaps especially then. In my world you were a friend and a hero. And in this world you were headmaster of the school for most of the time I was an X-Men. But you were also the one who understood me best, had survived concentration camps like me, knew what it was like to be Ishmael, the one left to tell the tale.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>OOC: Who knows what about Rachel Summer's past?</strong></span><br/><br/>Professor X, Colossus, Rogue, Storm, and Nightcrawler know most of Rachel's background as Rachel showed them through a mind-link. They are all aware of the grisly details of Rachel's world through memories she shared with them and know that alternate versions of Scott and Jean are her parents.<br/><br/>Kitty Pryde somehow is aware of Rachel's world from when the minds of Kate Pryde and Shadowcat were exchanged so Kate could prevent the assassination of Senator Kelly. It's safe to assume Rachel has filled her in on the details.<br/><br/>Captain Britain, Meggan, and the Fantastic Four know where Rachel comes from, and that she is Scott and Jean's daughter in her original world.<br/><br/>Wolverine seems to know at least where Rachel comes from and that she killed in that reality. If he is aware that she is Scott and Jean's daughter ... No idea.<br/><br/>People who know that Rachel is from an alternate future, but should not be aware of her family name or her parents yet: Cable, Banshee, Gambit, Beast, Forge, Boom Boom, Cannonball, Sunspot, Warlock