The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
Got a plot in mind?
MRO plots are player-created the Mods facilitate and organize the big ones, but we get the ideas from you. Do you have a plot in mind, and want to know whether it needs Mod approval? Check out our plot guidelines.
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A flush. Rushing water poured from the sink. Scrub scrub. The towel passed over his hands. Thor looked up as an unfamiliar-looking person with a familiar scent passed him by. The Huskie arched its ears for a second, then settled back down. No harm. No worry. Whoever it was was okay by his book.
The young Asian yawned and stretched. Welp. Now that that was handled. He made like a man on a diving board and hopped back into bed.
Whoever the girl was, she sure was pretty and she liked cuddling. Hey! Another thing in peoples books they found okay!
Maybe she'd give him his name if he asked sweetly later? Worth a shot.
His arms wrapped 'round the blond's shoulders as he snuggled up and nuzzled the mystery girl's neck.
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The sun was already streaming through the windows when large blue eyes opened, then squinted to shut out the light. Boy it was sunny...the light in her room didn't usually shine in her eyes like that when she was just waking up. In fact...the sun wasn’t usually up this high when she woke up for church and school. Kealey yawned, and blinked to try and clear the cobwebs, deciding it must be the weekend.
Shifting a little in her bed, Kealey found herself pressed up against a warm body and frowned slightly. It had been ages since Maire had let a nightmare scare her into her younger sister's bed. It must have been really bad.
"Maire...I know you're always hot, but did you have to open the window...it's Saturday?" she asked groggily, voice thick with sleep and Irish accent as she rolled over to look at her sister...
....and found herself looking at a boy.
There was a boy. In her bed. Cuddling her.
"EEEEEEEEEEE!" she squeaked as she simultaneously sat up and tried to roll to the wall that had always been next to her bed. Only, it wasn't there...only air.
"EEEEEEEEE!" she squealed again as she fell, landing in a heap of blankets and clothes that felt too big to be hers.
"MA! DA! THERE'S A BOY IN MY ROOM!" she shouted, trying to free herself from her cotton prison.
In trotted Thor, ears flat on his head at the ruckus that his humans were making. Whining as he made his way to the girl-human, he nosed in the blankets. He could help!
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Legs rolled to rest over the bed's edge. A finger went up to twirl in his ear.
Noisy. This chick was noisy. And what the hell was with that accent? He'd thought she was American. Was that even English?
"Hello. You're quite noisy. What's your name?" He said. But certainly not in English. Golly gee willickers, Tetsuya. You might have a communication issue on your hands! You should have studied HARDER.
Eh. He'd get by. Had he mentioned she was cute? Because, yeah. That was still a thing. A lot cuter when quiet, though... maybe he had a solution for that, actually.
Testuya reached down and scooped up some of the blankets. That was step 1. Resting them over the mystery girly's head. That was step 2.
Step 2, complete.
He smiled at her charmingly. Yeah. That'd fix things.
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Sitting up, and still trying to get free from the blankets, Kealey watched as the boy in her bed sat up. What was he doing there? How had he gotten in? Where was Maire? Where were her parents? Why did she feel so funny?
It was like the thought brought everything crashing down on the 12 year old at once. She felt so scared, and so confused, and so worried, and so happy, and so giggly, and so grumpy, and so sad andso...so...so...everything all at once.
To make matters worse, the boy was rambling some sort of jibberish at her. She tried really hard to focus for a second, eyes blearily taking in his features. Was he Asian? Did that mean he was speaking another language?
Oh why was she so confused?
Then he helped matters by throwing the blankets over her head.
After a moment's struggle, she managed to get her head free, and studied him again. Carefully, crossing her arms across her belly to try and make all the feelings settle down. IT was then that she noticed the dog, sitting and looking at her with what had to be a quizzical look on its doggy face. Out her arms reached to wrap around his neck and drag herself closer.
All of this was scary, and even though she'd yelled, her mom and dad hadn't come to the rescue.
Yes, 12 was practically grown up, but Kealey was so scared that her eyes might have started welling up a little bit and her bottom lip might have quivered just a little.
"Who are you?" she said, half into the doggie's fur.
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Ooooh, lip-quivering. That was never a good sign, was it?
Man, he wished he could remember her name. Or whatever language she spoke. Or how he'd found a fox like her and wound up cuddling. That, there was nothing wrong with. Because it wasn't like he currently had any girlfriends. He didn't THINK he'd been drinking. No, whatever memory loss he seemed to be experiencing, he reasoned, was probably not caused by alcohol. As definitive evidence, he lacked a hangover. And he knew what those were like.
So, hmm... Think, think, think.
"I don't know what you're saying," He said in Japanese. "Whoever you are, you must be important. I just wish I knew why."
He was being honest with those thoughts. He really did want to know. It wasn't like he went around snuggling random girls who wound up in bed with him, after all. Whoever she was, she had to mean something.... and whatever something it was, it was big.
Tetsuya sunk down off the bed to rest on his knees beside her and scratched a spot on the big dog's head between his ears that the dog just loved.
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More language she didn't know.
Kealey kept holding the doggy and listened to the words, trying to figure out what they meant. This was so scary and stupid, she wanted to be like Pocahontas and suddenly understand. Somehow though, she felt like she could tell that the boy was serious, and that he wasn't going to hurt her. Somehow she knew that on an even deeper level.
Down he came, onto the floor with her, and in spite of her first instincts, Kealey didn't move away. He scratched the dog's ears, and it seemed to like that.
Slowly, carefully, the blond unwrapped her arms from around the Husky's neck and looked again at the boy. Eyes narrowing slightly, she studied him, his eyes and nose, and the way his hair kind of fell into his face. She couldn't place him anywhere in her memory, but something about him just felt familiar.
"I'm Kealey." she said, trying to meet his eyes and hoping he could understand that much. Heck...it had worked in the movie.
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Triangular pupils locked with dazzling blue.
Okay. He got names. That was definitely an introduction, if ever he'd heard one. Simple, short. To the point.
"My name's Tetsuya." He replied. In Japanese. Then, with an attempt at the little English he could emphasize, he insisted (louder) "I am Tetsuya." TETSUYA. Because foreign languages and failures to understand them can easily be brought down to being deaf. Or soon to be deaf, if the response is too loud.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Apr 5, 2012 21:46:48 GMT -6
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Oh! Hey! It had worked!
For a moment, Kealey grinned, pleased with their small success. It had been touch and go for a moment there as he'd replied in Japanese, but then he'd gotten the right idea and repeated himself. Loudly and in English.
"Tet-su-ya." she said, slowly. Then she said it again and smiled. The name had a nice ring to it...
"And you don't have to yell."
Now that they'd established who they were, they needed to find out where they were.
"Hmmm." the blond said, rising slowly and holding on to the shorts she was wearing as she made her way to the window and peeked outside.
"Oh my....." she breathed, looking down to the busy street and all the people milling around. Looking at them made her dizzy, and brought back all those feelings she'd momentarily managed to forget.
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Tetsuya's triangle eyes definitely DID NOT take this moment to take any exact measurements of any girls behinds. Obviously, that would not have worked very well anyways, because of how ill-fitting those clothes actually were.
The big dog nudged Tetsuya's head as if sensing that he was a teenage boy and needed a reminder that he was in a foreign place with an unfamiliar face and definitely did not need to be thinking about anatomy. Tetsuya mournfully accepted this (no mourning emotions were actually involved).
He rose to join her in looking out the window. It was very bright outside. And very unfamiliar. Suddenly, he was worried. And maybe a little scared. He was man enough to admit it. He could deal with that thought.
So there they were, together by a window in an unfamiliar place, in ill-fitting clothing, holding onto it to make sure neither party had a wardrobe malfunction.
"I really wish I could transform into some better clothing..." Tetsuya sighed, pressing two fingers to his forehead. Yup. No English this time. Unless she needed more simple answers, he was out of usable phrases for the day.
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Annnd they were back to the other language.
Realizing she was chewing on her nails, Kealey lowered her hand and looked out the window more. There sure were a lot of people. It made her tummy hurt to think about going down there without her mom and dad. She moved again and had to catch the shorts as they tried to fall down.
"First. I'm going to find better clothes." she muttered, turning from the window and looking for the closet.
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Tetsuya did NOT glance in the drawer the 'Keeley' girl was looking in and notice bras. Nope. He didn't even let his grid (grid?) vision stray even slightly towards that drawer-ful of clothes. He wasn't really even sure what she was up to till she started picking things out. Then, he caught on.
Okay. Yeah. Getting better clothes. Great. They were of the same mind there.
So, what kind of dude clothes did one have sitting around here? Tetsuya looked around.
Hrm...
He supposed it wouldn't hurt to check the other clothes drawer in the room. He checked.
Tetsuya picked up a pair of red boxer shorts a few sizes too large.
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Kealey sighed as she shut one drawer and opened another. Most of the underthings she'd found were going to be too big. Luckily though, there were some stretchy sports bra looking things, and a few pairs of shorts with draw strings. They were going to have to do.
Gathering the things in her arms, she turned away from the dresser to see her unlikely companion doing the same and holding up a pair of boxers.
With both hands.
And not holding onto his own ill-fitting shorts.
Yeah. They hadn't stayed up very well.
Kealey dropped all the clothes she'd gathered as she yelped in surprise and covered her eyes with one hand.
"Pick up yer drawers!" she shouted. "I want to change my clothes."
Maybe that was the norm where this silly Asian kid was from...but Kealey Anne Quin was used to something a little less...bare.
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The big dog stepped into view behind the Asian, conveniently appearing just as he turned in mild confusion. What was she talking about (in frustrated gibberish)?
Oh. He suddenly noticed a little draft. Tetsuya set the underpants down and picked up his own pants. That was embarrassing.
If any viewers on the scene had chanced a glance (and were into spying like that), they might have noticed a distinct lack of tattoos on that back end. They likely would have found that fact uninteresting, as young men generally did not have such things. But as this butt had once had such a beaut, anyone familiar with who this 12-year old Asian once was (or rather, what the once and future Tetsuya might have had), they might have found it a curious sight. Then again, why are we talking about rear ends when Tetsuya hasn't been showing enough cheek?
Tetsuya smirked at Kealey and apologized in Japanese. It was an honest mistake. Damn pants. He was covered now, and had been (Thank Dog). Everything was fine. Or so he outlined. Now what was she wearing? Did he need to leave the room now? These things he asked, and more. Tetsuya held up a blue shirt he'd found with a big yellow smiley face with a splash of blood across it. He jiggled it to get her opinion. He jiggled a pair of running shorts, too.
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"Thank you doggy." Kealey said, as he made himself useful. Wherever they were, the people who owned this apartment had done a good job training their dog.
Now came the question of clothes. Finally covered, the Asian boy shook out a shirt with a smiley face on it. The blood made Kealey wrinkle her nose a little bit, but it was probably just a boy thing so she nodded her head. The running shorts weren't what she'd have picked to go with it, but it was probably the best they were going to do in this place full of grown up clothes.
"I'm taking the bathroom." she said, bending to pick up the clothes she'd selected and making her way into the place.
Once there, she stood for a moment with her head tilted at the shower. The thing was huge! What on earth would anyone need a shower that big for? Shaking her head she turned away and her eyes fell on a little blue sundress hanging from the back of the door. Down she looked at the running clothes she'd grabbed, and back up at the dress and smiled. This would be much better.
Five short minutes later, Kealey emerged in the blue dress. There'd also been a belt, so she'd cinched the thing up at her waist so that it didn't drape down too long and it flounced becomingly in the middle. Wherever they needed to go, she'd go there in style. Back to the closet she went, to grab the white shrug she'd seen too. There. All done.
"You can have the bathroom now...." she said, finally turning her attention to her companion.
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Tetsuya cast the shirt aside as the 'Keeley' girl vanished into the restroom. He'd seen the little wrinkly lines on the nose. He'd noted the writing on the wall. Girly no-likey. For some reason, that mattered to him. So as she got naked and changed into something new behind the closed door a short distance away, he tore his attention towards the task of finding something to wear. Something that would appeal.
The dog watched with a look that was almost amusement as clothing flew from one side of the room to the other. It was kind of impressive, actually. And look at that hang time!
Jeans? Maybe he could roll the legs up? Sweat pants? Spandex might fit better? Still too long. Harder to roll. Belts? Definitely an option. And shirts? There were a ton. He would definitely be able to find something that hung large. Then, he saw it.
Tetsuya stopped.
The Asian just stopped.
He blinked. Long and hard. Then he walked over and picked It up.
The words slipped through his mouth with an air of utter shock, amazement, and confusion. "Kaiba...?"
The white jacket was big. Long. Flowing. And imposing. It looked like someone had spent an awful long time working on it. It was like something from an anime. Oh, he had to wear this.
Thor's tongue lolled out as the young Asian stripped and slipped into long blue jeans, cinched them with a belt, pulled an oversized black shirt with a gray symbol of some sort over his head, and slipped the long white flowing jacket over the whole mess. He spent a minute straightening his collar, admiring himself in the mirror.
The moment he stopped admiring himself was the moment he started admiring her. In the corner of the mirror, she lurked. In a blue sundress. He turned.
It looked like just maybe, he wouldn't need the bathroom to change?
Tetsuya smiled at her. "Pretty," he said in English, Japanese accent thick.
