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 Pharoah Dynasty
An ancient sorceress is on a quest to bring her long-lost warrior-king to the modern era in a bid for global domination. Can the heroes of the modern world stop her before all is lost?
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.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 15:47:24 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin rolled his eyes at her when she tried to affirm that she wasn’t extraordinary like he kept claiming. She was going to say something, but then Tarin was speaking, actually counting out the things that she’d done, well, the things that she’d told him about.
Lee’s blush, which had finally started to fade, was now fully back in place.
And the way he was saying the things…maybe he had a bit of a point. If these things had been said about somebody else, she probably would have thought the same thing.
He also thought that there was more. Well, he was right about that, though honestly she was not all that eager to share those stories…
”Alright, maybe you have a bit of a point,” Lee finally replied, her voice quiet as she looked up at Tarin from where she was still sitting. “But none of those things felt like I was doing anything extraordinary.”
But then Tarin was trying to tell her that all he’d done in his life was to move into a fifth floor walk up by himself. “Really? That’s all you think that you’ve done?” she asked, raising an eyebrow at him. “And what about surviving a cult that did everything in its power to kill you except actually pull the trigger themselves?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 16:27:06 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin had to smile as Lee relinquished the point. Good. She was also blushing the most incredible shade of red.
”I can’t imagine anyone who thinks they’re being extraordinary actually is extraordinary.” it was one of those things. To be truly extraordinary, you just did things because they were the right thing to do.
That’s why when Lee tried to point out what Tarin had done, the smile disappeared and his posture stiffened just slightly where he was leaning against the wall.
”Oh Lee…I know what you’re trying to do, but don’t.” he said crossing his arms again as he looked down at the floor for a minute before looking back up. ”The difference between me and you is that you saw something wrong with the world and you did everything you could to fix it. I just watched it get worse.”
He couldn’t, and wouldn’t, let her make it out like he had done anything special.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 16:34:10 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”Oh Lee…I know what you’re trying to do, but don’t.”
Lee took a deep breath and let it out with a sigh as she looked across at Tarin. Then she stood up and slowly walked toward him as she listened to what else he was saying, only stopping when she was standing in front of him. “Yes, some of the things I’ve done, I did them to make the world better. But there were plenty of other times where I was just reacting to the horrible situation I found myself in.”
Another deep breath as she looked up at him, lips pressed together for a moment before she continued. “Sometimes, simply surviving is the hardest thing you can do, and you did, Tarin.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 17:02:03 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
She just wasn’t going to give up. Lee approached and Tarin tensed even more, counting his breaths as he attempted to batter down the frustration that was starting to bubble up.
What Lee didn’t realize was that by making the choices she had made, she had changed things. She chose to leave the safety of her home to stop what she had known was a merge. She had chosen to go to Columbia. She had chosen to do all of those things.
”I survived, but so many others…so many kids didn’t.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 17:39:45 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin had tensed up as she had come closer. Lee had planned on reaching out, grabbing his hand, maybe a hug, something. But if her approach had caused tension, she wasn’t going to push it.
”Alright, Tarin,” Lee said softly as she looked up at him. “We don’t have to talk about it. Did you want to go sit again and talk?”
As seh waited to hear his answer, Lee thought about what they could talk about next. Something…happier? Better?
At least at the moment, Lee was coming up blank. Though, Tarin had been seeming rather interested in her ex-husband for some reason. Then she realized that while she had mentioned Blaine a few times, she’d never really told him anything about the man, about what had really happened.
And thinking back, Lee had to chuckle slightly. “You know…You knew more about those things I’d done within the first few days than Blaine ever found out…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 17:59:07 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Well. He’d gotten his way. It definitely didn’t feel like he’d won though. In fact, with Lee standing standing there like she was, clearly trying to figure out how to fix things, Tarin just felt like a huge jerk.
So when Lee asked if he wanted to sit down and talk some more, he nodded eagerly and forced his arms to drop to his sides. He didn’t move to sit though. ”I’m sorry.. he said, completely at a loss for what to say, how to say what he should.
And then Lee was talking about Blaine, the guy that Rachel had mentioned when she’d been working so hard to convince Tarin to go to the open mic night with Lee.
It nothing else, it was better than the previous conversation, so Tarin looked down at Lee, head tilted slightly, ”Just never came up?” he asked, frowning slightly.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 18:31:01 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin didn’t go to sit down, so Lee stayed where she was, standing in front of him. But he apologized, his arms dropping to his sides. Lee gave him a small smile as she reached for his hand, giving it a light squeeze. She knew that was a difficult topic for him. He’d told her that she was the first, the only, person he had told that story to.
But had her ‘exciting’ past just never come up with Blaine? “It’s…” Lee took a deep breath as she thought of how to explain why she hadn’t shared so much about her past with Blaine. Why she had decided not to tell him.
”I was just a single mum and bar manager when we met. Really nothing special. Well, obviously a mutant, as was he, but nothing special.
“At one point, Blaine almost made it as a pro MMA fighter, but with how absolutely offended he got when I asked if he had ever been in a real fight…To be honest I was worried that it would change how he looked at me if he found out some of the stuff, so I didn’t tell him any of it. But then when it was actually important and useful for him to know at least some of it, there wasn’t time to tell him.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 18:49:04 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee squeezed Tarin’s hand and he gave hers a light squeeze back. He wanted to talk to her, about it, but he just didn’t know how.
Lee was talking again though and it helped him to just listen to her voice as she explained that when she’d met Blaine, she just hadn’t mentioned any of this stuff. She’d just been a Mom…a bar manager…and she had been worried that if he found out about the things she had done it would change how he looked at her.
Whoever he’d been, whatever he had done, he’d been a fool if he’d known Lee, had something with her, and had done or revealed anything that would have made her feel that way. Something told Tarin that wasn’t the right thing to say though.
And then, apparently, it had been too late.
”I’m sorry…” he said again, dropping Lee’s hand to slip his arm around her waist in a light hug, ”Do you want to talk about it?” The irony, and hypocrisy, of the question not lost.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 19:44:20 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee smiled slightly when she felt Tarin’s arm around her waist, and she leaned into him. And he was asking if she wanted to talk about it. After he hadn’t wanted to talk about what he’d managed to do in his life. After he’d barely told her anything about what previous relationships he’d had.
But from what he’d previously told her, what she’d been able to figure out on her own, Tarin had never really had anyone to share these kinds of things with. He’d never been able to talk. And some things were just impossible to talk about until the right time, she knew.
”Honestly, Tarin, you may understand this better than most,” Lee said, glancing up at him before resting her head against his shoulder. “Rachel just thinks he left me. Kevin still thinks that one day he’ll be back.”
Lee took a breath to settle her thoughts and went back to the beginning. “One day, I ran across the ‘other’ Blaine on the street. Other than a haircut, they were identical. The weird thing was, he pretended to be the Blaine I knew, that I was dating. We went for lunch. I figured it out, that he wasn’t the man I thought he was, but not soon enough. We ended up eating at the restaurant Blaine’s niece worked at.
“And to this day, I still don’t know why he did that.” As she paused, Lee scratched her cheek before running her hand through her hair. “It’s probably weird, but that’s probably the part that still bothers me the most, that I don’t know if this guy was just a psychopath, if he was with SUPER, or something else.
“A while later, this guy tracked Blaine down at the gym and they fought. It…it was bad. And long. Multiple people live streamed it, thinking it was awesome. The problem is, Blaine thought that MMA matches, with their rules and all were real fights. This other guy…If he followed any rules, it was to simply stay alive.”
By this time, Lee’s eyes were closed as she leaned against Tarin, her face partially turned toward his chest. After taking a slightly shaky breath, Lee continued. “A month later, the guy found Blaine at his apartment. I don’t know if Blaine realized it, but I’m sure the plan had been to kill Blaine. But before he did, he threatened to kill me and Blaine’s niece.
“Blaine must have snapped, because he actually killed the guy. But like I said, we had no idea if he was acting on his own, or if he was connected to something bigger. So to keep Skye, me, and Kevin safe, we decided it would be best if he disappeared for a while. He had to have been in shock, because he didn’t even question the fact that I knew people who could get in touch with people that could make a body disappear.”
Again, Lee paused, swallowing the lump that was trying to form in her throat. “I made sure he had plenty of cash and a burner phone before he left. Told him not to use his cards, that if he did speak with someone in the city or back home, to use a burner and not say where he was. But the last I heard from him was a month before the rift closed. His family hasn’t heard from him either. Either someone from your side got him and he couldn’t get back before it closed, or he’s dead.”
As Lee finished speaking, she shrugged slightly again, a single tear escaping her eye and slowly running down her cheek.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 20:15:23 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
For some reason, Tarin had worried when he asked Lee if she wanted to talk about it, that she would throw it in his face that he hadn’t shared anything with her…that somehow she didn’t owe him all of these details about her life when he couldn’t even have a simple conversation about something that had happened almost twenty years ago.
He should have known better.
Lee didn’t hold it against him. Of course she didn’t. She just leaned into him and started to talk.
Again, Tarin couldn’t help but think that Rachel desperately needed to learn about context and when it was important because what Lee’s sister had insinuated and the truth of the matter couldn’t have been further apart.
Poor Lee. Poor Kevin. Poor Blaine.
Categorically fuck the other Blaine.
Lee didn’t know why what had happened had happened, but it all amounted to the same thing, and as she turned her head into his chest, Tarin raised his hand and slowly rubbed her back in comforting circles the same way she had done for him each time he’d had a nightmare. He didn’t really know what he was doing, but he hoped it would help.
Blaine had killed for Lee, and Kevin and then he had left to keep them safe. As much as he hated to admit it, and as weird as it might have been, Tarin had to respect the man for his gumption.
But he’d disappeared before the rift had even closed, and nobody had heard from him since. Six long years of not knowing.
Because he was looking down at her, Tarin could see the tear slip down Lee’s cheek and he reached up with his other hand to brush it away before wrapping his arms around Lee in a tighter hug and resting his chin on her head.
”It sounds like he cared about you both very much.” He said, marveling a bit at how after everything Lee had been through she was still able to be so open and share so readily.
So much pain for Lee had come from the rift, it was a wonder that she didn’t outright hate it and anything associated with it. It was another of those weird juxtapositions because it had given Tarin a whole new lease on life.
”I’m sorry the rift happened.” he added, knowing it was a weird thing to say, but just wanting Lee to know he understood.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 20:41:08 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
At some point while she had been talking, Lee noticed that Tarin’s hand was rubbing on her back. She hadn’t even noticed when he started that, just that he was currently doing it. So similarly to when she woke him from the nightmares.
Well, it had been a bit of a living one.
When she felt Tarin pulling her into a hug after she had finished speaking, Lee wrapped her arms around him, burying her face in his chest a little more as she felt his chin resting on her head.
”It sounds like he cared about you both very much.”
Lee nodded against Tarin’s chest. “He did,” she whispered. “And Kevin loved spending time with him. He wanted Blaine to teach him everything about fighting. Though, outside the gym, I swear Blaine was even more awkward and uncomfortable around Kevin than you are. As she finished speaking there, Lee couldn’t help but laugh slightly.
”I’m sorry the rift happened.”
Lee just nodded against Tarin’s chest again. She really didn’t know what to say to that. Was there anything that could be said to that? But Lee understood what he meant. Even as she stood there hugging a man who had been born on the other side of that same rift.
”I’m sorry, that was probably a whole lot more than you wanted to know, wasn’t it?” She finally said. “Just…once I started, I couldn’t stop. I’ve never been able to really tell anyone all of it before.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 20:58:19 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Ahh, that explained why Kevin loved to go to the gym so much, Tarin realized with a bit of a jolt.
Lee mentioned that Blaine had been even more awkward and uncomfortable around Kevin than he was himself and Tarin resolved to try a little bit harder. God knew he wouldn’t be able to help on the gym front, but there had to be something. Kevin was into powers and stuff..maybe he liked baseball…
Lee was talking again though, apologizing for saying so much and admitting that she hadn’t really ever told anyone the story.
”It wasn’t” Tarin said shaking his head, ”I want to know you Lee, and all of these things are part of you.”
It was hard to verbalize and again Tarin felt like the biggest hypocrite in the world, ”If none of the things you’ve told me about had happened, you wouldn’t be who you are today.” he said, then smiled a bit into her hair, ”And we’ve already established that you’re extraordinary.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 21:24:28 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Despite the previous conversation, Lee couldn’t help the smile that appeared on her face when Tarin started speaking again. And she had to agree that Tarin was right. The previous merges she had dealt with, the events in Columbia and Romania, they had done so much to shape who she’d become, so much to build her skill and confidence in using her powers. Without the previous merges, she wouldn’t have known what was happening, wouldn’t have known she could help, could stop it.
But if she hadn’t gone to Columbia, hadn’t gone to Romania, would she have left the apartment that night? Lee wanted to say yes, but there was really no way to know.
Train wasn't finished speaking, though, and once again Lee blushed. “You’ve stated that often today,” Lee replied with the slightest bit of a playful tone creeping into her voice. “I think I could accept and agree that I’ve done extraordinary things, but that does not make me extraordinary. Is that fair?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 21:45:27 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Success.
If not happy, Lee was much less sad now and she had once again conceded the point that she was, indeed, extraordinary.
Well. That the things she’d done were extraordinary.
”I will take what I can get from you, but I can think what I want to think.” he said, loosing his arms so that they fell back by his sides, face serious again as he ran a hand through his hair.
”I don’t know how to be like you Lee…so…open. I don’t know if I can be.” he said, looking down at her again as he made the confession.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 22:02:41 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Feeling Tarin’s arms falling from around her, Lee moved back just enough to make it easier for her to look up at him. And rolled her eyes as he stated that he was allowed to think what he wanted regarding her being extraordinary.
But then Tarin’s tone and expression grew more serious. She had already figured out at least part of that on her own, but she nodded in understanding as she looked up at him. “From what you have told me,” she said softly as she looked up into his green eyes. Looked into his eyes and was glad that he was looking back at her; he had tended not to do that so much when the conversation got deep like this in terms of him. “I can understand why it’s so hard for you. I do not like the things that caused it, but I understand.”
Glancing down just long enough that she was able grab his hand, Lee looked back up at Tarin. “I may nudge you sometimes, and I don’t think there is such a thing as a comfort zone for these kinds of things, but I’m not going to try and force you to talk before you’re ready.” As she looked up at him, one side of her mouth curled up in a smile. “But I’ll be here to listen when you are ready.”