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.
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Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 11, 2024 13:13:54 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded as she looked up at Tarin. ”I know it won’t,” she said, her voice much softer but just as certain as his had been.
But then Tarin was questioning how she had said it had taken a week or two for him to get back to normal after the easy merge. Not that anything was easy when Rupert was involved. ”Yeah, probably about that,” Lee said after a couple of moments. ”Though it was a long time ago, so I may be slightly off, but about that.
”Though, when it was this spirit,” Lee said quietly as she turned and made her way further into the apartment. ”We, he, was having problems for months. Then Times Square happened, and any progress was gone…”
”And I can imagine how hard that was for you, it must have been terrifying.”
Lee took a deep breath and let it out very slowly as she sat down on the couch. ”I’m…actually not sure you can…” she said, glancing up at Tarin very briefly before looking at her hands that were now in her lap. ”He was merged, but at least I figured it out quickly. We got home, and when the spirit realized what I was trying to do, it tried to take him out the window to get away.
“I was definitely not expecting that, but I had already siphoned a fair bit. I grabbed him just as the window broke and pulled him back in. That spirit didn’t hang on very tight, so it didn’t take much longer to get rid of.
“Then there was a knock on the door.” Lee paused, another deep breath. There was a crease between her brows now as she continued to look down at her hands. ”And there was Rupert. Who knew Tarin by name. Who had seen what I had done at the window. Who introduced himself as the camp supervisor. So yeah, I was panicking, while trying to not look like I wasn’t. Who said he wanted to make sure he was alright.
“So what can I do? I let Rupert in and woke Tarin up, which thankfully I could. And then they proceed to chat. While I’m pacing from the energy, and he’s telling me to calm down.”
Lee finally looked up at Tarin at this point. ”How could I?” she whispered. ”The camp supervisor was in my apartment and knew I was a mutant. And I didn’t know that the collars could be adjusted…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 11, 2024 14:00:10 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Problems for months. We. All progress gone. This spirit. Hopefully that thing was in hell or somewhere equally nasty. Probably not though, Tarin thought he knew what to look for now though. It wasn’t going to happen again.
This all sounded like a mess though.
From the start, Tarin had been emphatic that he and his counterpart on this side of the rift were different people who had different personalities, but the differences were becoming more and more stark. At least this Tarin hoped so.
Maybe it was what he’d been through on his side, or how he’d grown up, but it just didn’t make sense to dwell. To make your problems a problem for the people around you, especially if you cared about them.
Lee moved across the room and sat on the couch and Tarin could tell by her body language that she was thinking about something upsetting. He sat down on the couch, close by but not touching her…He wanted to reach out and hold her hand or something, but it didn’t seem like the right thing to do. So he just listened.
It was getting harder to give his counterpart the benefit of the doubt, Tarin decided as Lee explained how after she had saved the day, the other Tarin had told her to calm down with the registration camp supervisor in her home. She’d been pacing, and worried, and he’d told her to calm down.
She hadn’t known that the collars could be adjusted. The collars that shocked mutants when they used their powers.
That was the part he couldn’t understand and the terror that was still in her eyes when she talked about it shook him deeply.
he thought for a moment before he reached out his hand for Lee to take if she wanted, ”I’m so sorry nobody realized.” What else could he say without saying something nasty about the other version of himself?
”Thank you for telling me…” he’d remember what she said, and while he was bound and determined that the situation would never repeat itself, if something similar happened maybe he could do a little better.
Still.
”That wasn’t the only time something like that happened, was it? That’s why you were so convinced that I was going to snap or breakdown or something…”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 11, 2024 15:14:55 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin sat down beside her as she was speaking, but Lee didn’t look over. She knew that he was close. Very close, but not touching her. As Lee finished speaking and saw that Tarin was looking back at her, she drew her bottom lip between her teeth and bit it. Maybe a little harder than normal or necessary. It was better than crying, though.
Tarin agreed that no, he couldn’t imagine it once she had explained it to him. And holding his hand out toward her, the contact available if she wanted it, but not forced.
Reaching her own hand out, Lee only hesitated momentarily before closing the last little distance and held his hand before leaning against him.
”He explained my ‘behaviour’ to Rupert as being worried about the collars because my power works all the time,” che continued, her voice slightly quieter than her last words. ”He knew, but he didn’t realize. And once Rupert told us that night that the collars could be adjusted, that was reason enough to stop worrying…”
Feeling a couple tears filling her eyes, she closed them and took a deep breath as she heard Tarin thanking her.
And no, that wasn’t the only time Lee thought as she shook her head against Tarin’s shoulder. ”After every merge,” she told him. ”Before he got to New York, I think that was one of the reasons he’d bail and leave whatever city he was in at the time. But every time was bad.
“I’d have trouble after some of them, I had nightmares. So I couldn’t even imagine how much worse it would have been to have them in my head…”
Swallowing and straightening up a bit so she could look at Tarin again, Lee squeezed his hand slight. ”But yeah, that’s why. Because every time…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 11, 2024 16:23:13 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
As soon as Lee took his hand and moved that little bit, Tarin wrapped his other arm around her. How did they keep ending up like this? It seemed like just a few minutes before they’d been teasing and playing as they ran up the stairs.
It was all part of it though, he supposed. They both had all of these dark places in their past that liked to pop up at the wildest times. All they could do was work through it. It was easier together though.
The story Lee told was so sad. Tarin had a hard time imagining Lee, the woman who was sitting beside him, taking that kind of behavior. It didn’t take a huge leap of logic to understand why something like one of those collars would be utterly horrifying to her. It also didn’t take much to understand why even with the knowledge that it wouldn’t outright kill her, she’d still be worried.
It wasn’t just sad. It was a bit infuriating, Tarin realized…the whole situation was. Unused to the feeling and a bit uncomfortable with it, Tarin realized something as Lee continued to speak.
Every time it happened the other Tarin would leave whatever city he’d been in. Every time? Every time?
Looking Lee right in the eyes, Tarin took her other hand.
”Listen to me.” he said, ”You never have to do that.” he paused a moment and took a slow breath, ”You never walk on eggshells with me again. I’ve said it before, but my feelings are not your responsibility, even if you want to help. You tell me.”
It also sounded like this was a common thing, ”Why did it happen so much?”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 11, 2024 17:06:18 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee leaned more into Tarin as she felt his arm wrapping around her.
It was strange, though. She didn’t talk, or even think, about the merges much at all anymore, but when she had in the past it really hadn’t been this hard. The memories hadn’t been this difficult.
Then again, Lee didn’t think she’d ever gone into this much detail about what had happened with anyone else before. With the one person she really could have, well, they never talked about the merges after the fact.
And even though she had been the one who’d first made the eye contact after she had been speaking, Lee was finding it hard to maintain. She was about to drop her eyes again when she felt Tarin grabbing her other hand as well.
”Listen to me. You never have to do that.”
Lee frowned at him slightly when he paused. They’d already talked about him having any other merges. If it hadn’t been for who that spirit had been, Lee honestly believed Tarin would have gone through his entire life having only ever had the one merge.
But then he continued and Lee’s frown deepened slightly. She hadn’t felt responsible for his…
Except that, especially right after merges, she had been extremely careful to avoid talking about certain things. About doing certain things. Even if those things had been commonplace before.
And here Tarin was, actually sounding angry for possibly the first time while she’d been around, telling her to never do that around him. ”Ok,” Lee whispered for the simple fact that she didn’t seem to be able to turn the volume of her voice up at the moment.
But then Tarin was asking why it happened so much. Lee simply shrugged at first. ”I don’t even really know how the merges with the spirits happened, so I’m not sure why they seemed to happen so often. With people, whenever he felt like it was starting, he would do everything he could to not touch anyone. But believe me, even places other than New York, that is much easier said than done quite often.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 11, 2024 20:02:28 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee didn’t seem to like what he was saying and Tarin wondered if what he had said had been a mistake, ”I just hate the idea of you being that uncomfortable or that scared and feeling like you’re not being heard. If it still upsets you this much, all this time later…it must have been really awful at the time.” he paused again, ”Not just with merges either…” He’d have to pay more attention from now on.
She started talking about the merges and Tarin just shook his head frowning off into space.
”Only time it’s ever happened to me I’ve been knocked unconscious or close to it…but it hasn’t happened every time that happened either.” Tarin said when Lee pointed out that she didn’t know how merges with a spirit worked. ”I think when I get my bell rung like that and everything is misfiring it leaves an opening somehow.”
”Otherwise they’re not ever close enough to have a chance.”
The other merges.
Tarin was still horrified by that thought, but maybe it just wasn’t ever going to be a thing for him. The idea that all it would take was someone touching him to bring on the kind of disaster that Lee had told him about on a few different occasions was almost more than Tarin could wrap his head around. The idea that something new would be created and he would be lost inside it…Tarin couldn’t help the shudder that passed through him at the thought.
”I’m sorry…I didn’t mean to make you more upset…it just made me mad…” he said, a little self-consciously. ”I don’t want you to ever feel that way because of me.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 11, 2024 20:50:24 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”Alright.” Lee nodded slightly and squeezed Tarin's hand as she listened to him talk. ” It was,” Lee said quietly after a few moments. ”I was constantly scared, worried about being caught. He thought I was overly so, being paranoid. Even after finding out about the collars, and that it might not be the automatic death sentence I had thought getting caught would be…
“Every time I was touched, every time I had a strong emotion, it would shock me. And it can be hard to get your emotions back under control when that happens…”
Lee's eyes had dropped down to look at their hands. As hard as all this still was for her, she had to have made progress since she was welcoming physical contact as comfort while these thoughts were so front and center in her mind.
”It took about six months before I would willingly touch people again. And even then, I still flinched if I wasn't expecting it…” When she did expect it, at least for a while, she stopped herself from flinching.
Lee didn't know how the meeting with a spirit had worked, how it happened, so Tarin explained his limited exposure. And Lee was shaking her head. ”No. Three times at least, I think, he was awake when it happened,” she told him. Honestly, Lee wasn't sure if any of the times it had happened when he was unconscious.
Then Lee's eyes snapped back up to Tarin's, looking straight up into his green eyes in confusion. ”Wait, what do you mean ‘they aren't ever close enough’?”
Tarin was apologizing, and Lee shook her head. ”It wasn't anything you said,” Lee told him, then stopped, head tilted slightly. ” You got mad, even though you just don't get mad about things, because of something that happened over 15 years ago?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 11, 2024 22:14:11 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin knew a thing or two about being afraid to be caught. He couldn’t know for sure, because he’d never been picked up by SUPER but from what he had heard, and even what Shin had said, Tarin had been right to be afraid.
It wasn’t the same though. Not at all. Lee had lived her nightmare. She had talked about the camps before, but never like this. Not with this detail about what it had been like for her specifically.
Tarin looked down at Lee’s hands in his. She talked all the time about how novel and…important touch was. How she’d spent so long thinking that she couldn’t do even as simple a thing as they were doing now. For six months after she’d been in that camp she hadn’t wanted to touch anyone.
Dammit, now he was mad again.
Lee was talking about merges again and how the other Tarin had been awake at least three times that she knew of when he’d ended up in a merge. She also seemed surprised when he said that the spirits weren’t close any other time.
He frowned a bit, ”Like, physically, spatially, whatever…they’re not close enough to get in my head. Ever. Unless they’re…invited?” It was hard to put it into words. ”When they’re close they try to strong arm their way in sometimes to get my attention. It was one of the first things I learned to do, otherwise I couldn’t think straight half the time.”
As for getting mad about something that happened 15 years ago.
”I’m still mad about it.” he said, ” All of it. That nobody who should have understood why you were so scared. That you had to go through all of that…it should made me mad. It should make anyone mad who hears about it.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 11, 2024 22:46:22 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee could only blink at Tarin for a few moments. There were never spirits close to him. Ever. Unless he ‘invited’ them?
”He,” Lee started, then paused as she tried to figure out how to say this. What it was she was saying. ”If there were spirits around, they were just…there. Most of the time, at least by the time I met him, he was able to ignore them, but they were there. Except for at home. For some reason, even though our first apartment was in an old building, he said that there were never really any there.
“So there’s just never any near you? You can just…keep them away from you? Wait…” Lee paused, thinking as she stared intently at Tarin. ”Is that how…on the island?” If that was the case, it did certainly explain some things, because she remembered him being snuck up on numerous times.
Not only had hearing the details about her fear of being caught and time in and after the camp made Tarin mad, but he was still mad. ”Well, Rachel definitely was,” Lee said softly with a slight shake of her head. ”I was staying with her when I went back to Toronto after getting out. When she found out I was collared, and it wasn’t just a ‘slight zap from a bracelet’ as it was reported, I thought she was about to march all the way here to rip someone a new one…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 12, 2024 7:06:23 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
The spirits had always been around? The mere thought of that made Tarin wince a little bit. ”I get bad headaches if I just let them around. It’s a lot of work to keep them from trying to link up. Especially if there’s a lot of them.
Something clicked for Lee and Tarin just nodded. ”Remember the story about the graveyard? That’s where I really got a handle on it. It’s definitely harder when there’s a lot of them and I’m not sure how it works when I’m asleep…but I don’t have nightmares like I used to either.”
When he finished speaking, Tarin frowned, ”Not that I recommend the same training regime…but did your Tarin never have any kind of training?”
Lee pointed out that Rachel had been mad when she’d found out about the collars. But had Rachel been okay with the idea of the bracelets that gave a “slight zap”? None of it had been okay, but Lee wasn’t dwelling on that detail so Tarin let it go.
Rachel had been about to come down here and rip someone a new one? Knowing what he knew about Lee’s sister, it made sense. When Rachel involved herself in something, she didn’t do it half way. None of the Smith siblings did, for that matter.
”It’s still absolutely wild to me that almost everyone acts like it never happened. Even mutants...and that things are so different now.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 12, 2024 8:48:19 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded. He had gotten a lot of headaches, especially when she’d first met him. And the nightmares, though those had gotten better the longer they had been together, too.
”Yeah, he would get headaches and have nightmares, too,” Lee said. ”The nightmares were far less common the more the more that I siphoned from him during the day.”
Then Lee saw Tarin grown, though not that any of this conversation was smile worthy, and asked if he'd had any training.
Lee shook her head. ”No, not really,” she said. ”Neither of us had really met many mutants before coming to New York. We'd started looking into the mansion to see if they could help, and then the coma happened. Though somehow, he seemed to have more control after that…”
But Tarin was surprised that everyone seemed to have forgotten about the Registration Act and the camps. ”In a way, I’m not…” Lee whispered, her eyes dropping to their hands again. ”For those, us, who were there, you really just want to forget about it. Easier said than done. Those not there, and weren’t with the resistance for the breakout…There’s no way they can actually understand. As for the humans…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 12, 2024 9:25:40 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin supposed that having never really been in a position to meet mutants before coming to New York would explain things. It was easy to forget that not everyone had been in a major hub like New York for most of their lives, and while he wouldn’t have considered his experiences a blessing, it did seem like maybe there was a silver lining in the whole thing.
It would have been awful to live with the spirits close by all the time. The mental strain alone would have made a lot of things very difficult. It didn’t make everything right, but it did make more things make sense about the experiences that Lee had gone through with the other Tarin and his powers.
Lee pointed out that after the whole coma out of body experience thing, the other Tarin’s control seemed to be better and this Tarin supposed it made sense. The problem was, he’d never done anything like that so he couldn’t be sure.
As for the camps and peoples’ willingness to seemingly forget that they’d happened. Lee explained her thoughts and Tarin listened.
What Lee said made sense, but there was still a deep sense of wrongness about it all. What had happened should have been viewed as a tragedy, an embarrassing and humiliating mark that would be talked about for decades so the same mistakes weren’t made again.
Lee was right though. Even hearing her speak about what it had been like, Tarin knew that he couldn’t ever really understand what it had been like. It wasn’t something in him like it was for Lee.
As for humans…”An individual person can be good, people tend to suck.”
They were getting into big deep ideas now, and that was when things just got depressing because it never felt like there were actionable solutions.
” I guess we just have to keep trying to make sure that things get better…” Tarin said a bit bleakly and uselessly, ”I wish I was better at saying the right thing.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 12, 2024 10:45:55 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded. People really did suck. She had come to that realization many years ago, but unfortunately had to stay in places around a lot of people.
Lee shook her head, giving Tarin’s hands a squeeze. ” Honestly, I don't think there are any right things to say about this,” she told him. ”But when you can, you have and do make me feel better about things. And like I’ve told you, a lot of things are easier to deal with when you’re not alone.”
But now that the emotions and memories weren’t as strong and in focus, Lee sat there wondering how they had gotten here so quickly. She’d come into the building playfully having Tarin chase her up the stairs, but by the time they got to the apartment, this… ”Thank you,” she ended up saying.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 12, 2024 12:03:58 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”For what?”
”For listening,” Lee said. ”For understanding. For being here.” Because it was true, Tarin did really seem to understand a lot of the things she talked about. He seemed to understand a lot of things that others didn’t seem to.
Then Tarin said that she still needed the ice pack, and Lee glanced down at her arm. Yeah, there was a bruise already forming there from where she had blocked Tony’s kick. ”You’re right. Also a shower.” Then she directed a small smirk at Tarin. ”Which would the doctor recommend first?”