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.
The resentment on Evelyn's face was pretty plain to see but both Serena and the desk girl were relieved when she responded. Only a second later Serena froze. "Evelyn." She repeated, blinking. Her thoughts slowly formed together into something resembling a conclusion. "Is your last name Summers?" She ventured. There was no way this was Evelyn's kid, the similarities were just too stark. Was she a clone or something, was that even possible?
The girl behind the desk had pulled out some paper work to get things started, noting down the first name before pausing at the second name.
Serena giggled and shook her head in amusement. "Rebecca that is hardly big news compared to you having a baby~" She squeaked in excitement. Serena absolutely adored children, and she was so many different levels of excited for Rebecca, and simultaneously glad that she was never going to tackle the pregnancy thing. Becca was braver than her on that front.
"But thank you anyway. It's been a bloody long time coming." She admitted, pun not intended. "And after my time away and all the thinking I did, I figured it was time to stop pretending it wasn't a good idea and just accept it." She added with a small shrug. "You should've seen Maya when I said yes, I might have messed with her a tiny bit." She admitted coyly.
It was good that Becca was responding so well to the greeting and wasn't all that bothered about Serena vanishing... She felt immediately bad assuming that everyone was going to be furious with her over it, she'd been proven wrong with Mirror too. "Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. You guys are stuck with me." She smiled warmly at Rebecca once again. "I would love to~"
Serena took in a couple of shaky breaths while she carried Amelia through the mansion halls towards the medical bay office type area that the Doc worked in, her thoughts racing imperceptibly fast. Amelia had always been a little on the lighter side as far as Serena was concerned but she felt even more so now. Maybe that was just her imagination?
Serena barely remembered the actual process of making her way to the office, there had been people. Other staff that had stopped and asked her questions, she couldn't even recall the answers she gave for them.
Before she knew it she was in the office, yelling for Doc Prof and gently laying Amelia down on the bed. He came over and looked at her, tried to do his thing. And very gently and calmly explained to Serena that she was unhurt, and there was nothing that he could currently do to fix Amelia. While that might have seemed like a whole reasonable answer Serena recalled shouting back, accidentally activating her mutation again and the overwhelming urge to smash things.
Eventually, slowly she came back to her senses. She'd feel awful about the way she'd spoken to the old man later, but now wasn't the time for that. She stood back against the counter and closed her eyes, trying to take slow and steady breaths to calm herself.
It didn't help much.
When a definitely younger Amelia sat bolt upright Serena quickly opened her eyes and studied her. The Doc stepped forwards and held out a hand. "Easy now, you're safe. Relax." he soothed.
Serena took a breath and stepped more directly into view. "You're at the mansion, the one for mutants. What's the last thing you remember?" She worked very very hard to keep her voice from breaking.
Serena blinked a little, curious about the way the girl spoke at such a high level and the way she analysed everything... It reminded her so much of someone. Then it struck her like a slap. It reminded her of Evelyn Summers, she'd not thought about that particular person in a long time. And then several more, amusing and disturbing thoughts crept up on her wasn't Evelyn dating Mirror when she lived here? And Serena hadn't seen her in maybe 6 years? The child didn't look that old. Maybe between 6 and 8?
Serena leaned against the wall and listened while the girl went on her little tirade and then took a quiet breath. "Are you done for the moment?" She sighed. "I don't ridicule her because although what she's doing isn't professionally acceptable, not only is it a mistake countless people could make, and not only do most of the staff here dedicate so much of their time, energy and love into helping young mutants, but beyond that I'm sure she's already embarrassed and annoyed with herself enough already." The woman blushed again.
"As for being so 'nice' all the time. If I believed that, I'd suggest it's because there is enough hatred, anger and vitriolic behaviour in the world already. Why would I add to that? Kindness costs you absolutely nothing." She paused for a moment before lowering herself slightly, looking Evelyn in the eyes. "And unless I'm mistaken I've made absolutely no excuses for your behaviour, I don't believe there are any." She thought for a moment.
"As for the age not being important, I suppose in your case you're absolutely right. Even if your emotional maturity is still limited, your cognitive reasoning is quite high. Fair point. Now are you going to give us your name, so we can get you settled, or did you wish to continue your rudeness and dodging of the question?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
Serena's lips did that half amused, mostly excited smile thing she did when she was trying to contain a large amount of excitement. Showing some teeth if only because she was half biting her lower lip. "Well, a little birdie, which I'm told you are dating- congratulations by the way, I am so very thrilled for you." She chirped before pressing on. "Mirror came over and gave me the news, well she said it was to celebrate the whole X-men thing, but I think Maya was dying to tell someone else about your surprise~" She chuckled. Mirror excited was something new, and Serena thought it was adorable. She suspected this was an effect Rebecca had, and that was a very good thing.
Serena tilted her head, giving Rebecca another amused smile. "Also you look great by the way, the ears are adorable too." She chirped before jangling the bag again. "I have brownies, ice cream, some ginger tea that is wonderful for any potential stomach issues you might suffer, and some plain old chocolate. From the UK. Because I'm not a barbarian." She mused.
The blonde was scrambling, scraping her knees on the icy concrete as she did. Amelia looked to be okay. She was breathing at least, but something was going on. She was changing before Serena's very eyes. The breathless blonde tried to shake Amelia awake but she seemed firmly routed in unconsciousness. She was breathing. Breathing meant alive.
Blue eyes once again flashed with anger as she quickly stood and twirled to face the slowly rising woman. Serena reached into her pocket and pulled out a small silver hip flask, quickly unscrewing the top and activating her mutation as she stepped towards the woman. An Eerie blue glow surrounding her and the crimson liquid now spilling out of the flask, also surrounding by the same glow.
Taking a few more quick steps just as the woman got to her feet Serena flung out a palm aimed at the woman's shoulder, trying to knock her off balance. The woman saw the move coming and ducked out of the way, thrusting a fist at Serena's stomach. The Brit's second arm came down like an axe, deflecting the other woman's blow deftly. A hard sphere of blood slammed into the woman's hip with the same motion causing a winded gasp to escape her, she tumbled to the side.
Serena quickly fell back into a fighting stance, glancing around and assessing their surroundings, only to find that a small crowd of students were gathering. The woman from her disheveled position on the ground had noticed it too. "D-Dammit get back!" The blonde cursed as the woman pulled out a second gas grenade and lobbed it, scrambling to her feet as she did.
Turning all of her attention to the students in danger she flung her blood forwards, completely enveloping the grenade and hardening into a tight sphere, which she subsequently moved carefully away from the students. "Is everyone okay? All still conscious?" She asked, injecting as much authority into her voice as she could manage.
"Y-Yes, but..." One of the students stammered, pointing past Serena.
"But what?" She turned and saw no signs of the woman that had gassed Amelia. "DAMMIT!" She cursed, stopping 2 seconds to take a quick breath before turning back to the situation. "Students, INSIDE! All of you!" Her voice cracked like a whip and they swiftly began dashing inside, she quickly turned her attention back to Amelia, scooped up her unconscious body in both arms and began carrying her inside, towards the Doc.
Okay. That was a lot to unpack, she was still in love with Serena. Serena still loved her, at the very least on some level. They really had something to talk about. Serena took a long, shaky breath, choking out laughter again through her tears. She reached up and wiped her face again. Shaking her head in amusement. "That has to be the lamest one yet." She kissed back gently, feeling the cold feeling that had been gripping her slowly dissipating.
Her lips had turned into an unashamed smile. Sue her, Amelia could make her smile.
The funny thing was Serena had imagined meeting Ami again so many times. She was a writer, she had a vivid imagination. She'd imagined all the excuses, all of the screaming, the rage, the making out. But the one thing was, she'd never actually expected it to happen. She had this pit, this feeling deep in her stomach that if her and Amelia had bumped into one another it would be exceedingly short lived or awkward, or she'd have some super model on her arm or something.
But here she was. They had a lot to talk about. But at the very least Serena knew that the feelings were still there, and even if it didn't work out... She'd have closure. Was that selfish?
Ice in her veins. Who the hell was that woman? She was like a cartoon villain! Before Serena had any real time to process the situation she was being dragged across the icey grounds by what she assumed was Amelia's power. She flung her arms out, trying desperately to do something, anything to help, to stop Ami doing something stupid.
Something rattled across the floor. Time froze, it was a cylinder of some kind. There was a missing pin, was that a grenade??? The remaining kids in the area immediately scarpered, Serena didn't even have time to process what was happening, training and reflexes began to kick in and in the instant that the woman was cackling she'd crossed the grounds with surprising speed and did her utmost to punch through the woman. There was a meaty thunk and Serena felt a flash of pain as she'd cleanly decked the assailant to the ground, landing with a gasp and a the little crunch of frost.
The blonde spun on her heels and ran over to Amelia now lying on the floor and immediately moved to turn her. "You idiot! What did you do?!" She covered her mouth and held her breath with the other hand, frantically trying to check if Amelia was okay.
Serena felt an involuntary blush spread across her pale skin. "Was that just a reflex, or did you mean it?" Her eyes were still all teary, dammit. "A new nickname, now. Really?" She choked out a little laughter, and leaned her head gently into Amelia's hand, closing her eyes for a moment. "There is definitely more of you in there than you think. Nobody like the woman you described can have as bad timing or your sense of humour." She murmured.
Serena took a breath and gently reached out, taking Amelia's hands in her own very gently. "We have stuff to talk about. Come on, I still know where they keep the tea." She really wanted to kiss Ami again, but everything was all muddled and confused. They needed to work things out.
"W-Why did you come here anyway?" She raised an eyebrow.
Serena really didn't know what she was thinking. She was mad, she was sad and both of them were so confused. Especially Amelia. But her body just moved. It was weird, thinking about punching your girlfriendex in the face while you were busy kissing them. But hey, Serena had never been a particularly normal person, neither was Amelia for that matter.
Some, small distracted part of her brain was mentally dissecting the comment about her power not staining. That wasn't the sort of thing that you tossed out without thinking about. The thought of Amelia having to get blood out of her clothes filled her with a fresh little surge of despair.
A little shocked at her own movement, and more shocked that Ami had reciprocated so willingly, Serena explored the kiss with raw affection and need she'd not realised was lying beneath the surface. She still loved Amelia, somewhere deep down. Her hands tangled in Ami's hair and she practically melted into the activity. Serena wasn't one to initiate this sort of thing normally, at least she thought she wasn't. It had just all happened so fast.
The blonde was pretty breathless when the kiss finally parted. Amelia seemed similarly taken aback. Took the wind right out of your sails. Serena thought to herself, a little amused.
It definitely hadn't been her finest kiss of all time, face being absolutely covered in tears and all that. Serena was glad she wasn't wearing much makeup.
"I'm furious." She whispered, her voice cracked with emotion and tears. "I suppose my love just overpowers my anger."
Serena shook her head in amusement. Of course that's what Alice was spending the money on. She was enjoying getting to know Alice and learning more about her personality steadily and was as a result swiftly discovering the way that Alice operated. She was very goal and pleasure centric. Which Serena honestly though was fine. She'd had plenty of people suggest she should really lean more in that direction herself, and she didn't think they were necessarily wrong.
Serena laughed happily. "Good. I'm glad you get on so well." She mused. "I wish me and dad got on like that, he never seemed that happy or interested to be perfectly honest." And he had a hell of a sordid romantic history, that was for sure.
Serena glanced over at her sister as the blue haired girl eagerly tore into the little boxes wrapping and unfurled it. She was pretty certain Alice hadn't been expecting it, and she was more certain once her sister actually opened it that she didn't understand it. Serena laughed again and took a seat next to Alice, popping a can and glass of cider on the table in front of the other Brit, taking a sip of her iced tea at the same time.
"Well..." She turned and gave another one of those amused, excited little smiles to her sister. "I did mean to. I'm very excited and happy for you moving out, and I was already planning this." She admitted. "It's a key to this apartment. There is a spare room I never really use, and it's yours." She replied softly.
Serena glanced away for a moment, thoughts on the situation were making her watery eyed again and Alice had seen more than enough of that when she first got back. "I don't want you to ever feel pressured to live here or anything. That's not the intent. But... You're my sister, and this is just as much your home as it is mine. If you ever need it, for any reason if you ever need a place to stay, a place to call your own or just somewhere to hide out for a few days. It's yours." She added, looking back to her sister, eyes somewhat dryer.
It was as much an honest gesture to Alice of Serena's acceptance and affection towards her as it was an expression of trust. "Oh, and for the record if you need a co-sign on your lease and don't want to deal with your Mother at the time, I'll be happy to do that for you." She added softly.
Serena's face twisted a little in pain. Ami had gone through all of that, without her. Why had Serena not spent longer searching for her girlfriend. Why had she not pressed Mirror for details about what had happened to her. She was just as guilty as Amelia, in so many ways. "What, you couldn't have found a way to send me a letter? I'm a writer, not a ninja it's not like I don't have a social media profile." She murmured.
"An- And-" She gulped. Words. Hard. "And you didn't think that the one person that could help you sort out your personalities would be your girlfriend?" She practically whispered.
Serena laughed a little through her tears, it was an odd sound. "You think? Clearly you weren't yourself if you thought pretending to be a super spy and infiltrating an evil organisation to try and take them down would help anyone." She shook her head. "Even I'm not that stupid. And I write fantasy."
The Amelia spoke again. Hand on chest. Serena's tears welled even further. She wanted to kiss Amelia almost as much as she wanted to punch her. "Amelia if I didn't hold back with my power I'd kill people." She murmured.
She could barely see clearly, she heard onlookers muttering. It didn't matter, her thoughts were racing so hard they almost blocked out her hearing entirely. "Moron. Idiot. Dumb." Her voice was cracking, she reached out slowly, unsure if she was preparing to punch Amelia.
"Idiotic. Unbelievably stupid..." Her words weren't even making much sense. Her hands softly reached around to Amelia's neck, and rested against her, Serena's body moved wholly of it's own accord. Her tear stained face and lips were suddenly much closer in distance to Amelia, and then there was no distance at all.
Serena hadn't even really meant to let that previous comment out. But it was true. Amelia... Her Amelia, was the best. She was so unique and quirky and clever and the best cop Serena could have imagined. It was so hard to think that somebody could kidnap her and hold her for an entire year.
"Of course I'm bloody right!" She spat, still feeling the searing rage but also feeling terribly weary. She'd not reflected on all of that alternate reality insanity in a while. Seeing that version of herself had been so many different kinds of disturbing all at once, like a twisted reflection. She understood where Amelia was coming from on that front, her evil twin had been clever and scary and an exceedingly dangerous encounter.
"Now you want to talk." She croaked. She raised an arm and wiped the tears from her face. God. This was humiliating. She could feel eyes on her from students gawking at the encounter.
Serena shuddered at the next explanation. She'd left the city by that point, no wonder Amelia thought her evil clone had done something to her. The thought of merging minds with one was even scarier. She couldn't imagine fusing minds with Hel, that would have been traumatic on so many levels.
She blinked, tears coming back. Amelia had left messages fro Rebecca and Mirror AND called her brother. She hadn't even let Serena know she was alive. "Y-You what..."
She closed her eyes, more streaks of tears streaming down her pale skin. "For someone behaving like an insane super spy, you're a moron!" She yelled. "Amelia Mellitus is smarter than that! For F---- sake! I've distanced myself from so much the last 2 years from all this pain and bull, you clearly didn't try very hard to find or contact me." Her voice lowered and radiated pain. "Yours is the one call I would have answered."
Holy. Fuck. How did you deal with that? Kidnapped and held for a whole year?? Serena didn't know how that would effect her. One thing was for sure though, she'd speak to her F------- girlfriend about it. Or at least let her know she wasn't dead. "I doubt they looked better than you." She muttered absentmindedly. Clearly some of that was still there, beneath layers of bitterness.
The meeting halfway was interesting. Amelia was basically spewing a barrage of verbal exposition and Serena was responding with rage and screaming. There were definite on lookers now. Serena absentmindedly closed the gate behind Ami.
Serena had a sudden urge to find and maim somebody, anybody that worked for SUPER. As furious as she was at Ami, she was even angrier with the people that had done that to her.
Serena's own hands clenched into fists. "Wow. Ami. That's really shitty. But you knew that." Her voice was soft for a moment, quiet, slowly picking up in intensity again. "The rift alternate reality evil twin thing is a lot. Trust me. I F------ know." She spat, picking up volume again.
"Do you know what my first thought was when I finally made it back to our reality, and wasn't busy dealing with the serial killer that was my alternate self?" Her voice had an edge to it. "Where is my girlfriend. I should let her know I'm okay. I'm alive. But I couldn't." Even if that particular moment wasn't Amelia's fault, what followed definitely was.
"And if I'd been there for a year, Do you know what I still would have done? I WOULD HAVE FOUND YOU!" The words hurt. So damn much as they came out of her. Her rage was twisting with a deep, intense sadness she'd forgotten and tears were streaming down her face. Great. Some badass X-man she was.
Everything Amelia was saying probably would have made sense to another person or an outsider. Not to Serena, she was too wound up, bitter, angry and concerned over the whole ordeal. "PROTECT ME?!" She basically rocked on her heals at that one, moving closer to the gate, her voice lower and colder than it had been before. "I don't know if you noticed, Amelia, but I'm not made of F------- paper!" She cursed.
"Started seeing me again? You couldn't pick up a phone, drop me a message??" She moved to unlock the gate, intent on either dragging Ami over to her side, or getting in her face on that side. "Or, write me a letter? Leave me a note? It's not like you couldn't get into my apartment. Contact me through somebody else? Or are you trying to tell me you didn't speak to literally anybody else you knew the last 2 years? Mirror, Rebecca, Sam? Did you contact any of them in any way shape or form?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. She was pretty confident she knew the answer.
As Amelia began explaining more Serena cut her off, feeling physically smacked again. "KIDNAPPED?! WHEN!?" She was really losing it now, the gate started opening automatically and Serena just yanked it aside, stepping forwards.
