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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If he hadn’t been so damn impressed with everything Lee was saying, Tarin probably would have been feeling awful smug again. Things were getting to a point where Lee wouldn’t be able to deny the sheer awesomeness she had put on display.
Lee spoke and Tarin rolled his eyes, just a little bit.
Kevin spoke, and Tarin nodded, ”Kevin is absolutely right.” he said ”Sometimes the smartest thing a person can be is honest with themselves. You realized that you were at a potential disadvantage and had the ability to recognize that fact and even turn it to your advantage. You already said she had more formal training that you did…so that must meant that it was just sheer, undeniable smarts.”
There really wasn’t much else to say, so Tarin looked back to the game at that point, hoping he hadn’t said too much.
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Lee caught him staring and Tarin just shook his head. It wasn’t something he could explain with mouthed words.
Kevin ventured a guess towards what Lee was getting at and Tarin watched and listened as Lee gently corrected him. He’d gotten the what, but not the why.
The why was brilliant. Lee had realized that she might be outmatched in the speed category and been smart enough to accept the potential limitation and turn it to her advantage.
The other woman had pressed forward fast and harder and Lee had used that momentum to throw the other woman and end the fight.
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Lee spoke, and it became harder and harder for Tarin to focus on the baseball game. She wasn’t just good at fighting, she was smart.
Tarin had never learned how to fight. It had been highly discouraged when he’d come to New York and it just wasn’t a skill he’d been interested in after he’d gotten away. His powers were more mentally based so he’d done things to make sure he was as mentally strong as possible. Tarin had told Lee that and he’d meant it. Any physical training Tarin had ever done had been so he could focus better…have more stamina, improve his concentration under duress.
Lee was talking on a whole different level.
The fight had been so fast. It had looked like every single movement was made on pure instinct, but Lee was saying that she had thought through the movements. That it had been intentional.
Okay, he was staring now, partially because he wanted to know the answer, partially because it was…well, to overuse a phrase, pretty damn extraordinary.
Kevin for his part was really thinking the problem through. Tarin didn’t interrupt, just watched Lee intently as they waited.
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Tarin did not miss how gingerly Lee leaned forward when she spoke. She wasn’t going to be able to move tomorrow.
Did he hear, ”I did hear it. You’ve got a witness.” Tarin confirmed.
As for the little narrowed eyes Lee sent his way, Tarin just shrugged with a satisfied smirk on his face then went back to watching the game as Kevin and Lee chatted, feeling like his place in the conversation had ended. It wasn’t the Mets, but it was baseball and it was on in this apartment. Tarin would take it.
“Well, I learned little bits a lot of different places. And some from Blaine and people at the gym.”
Kevin seemed to be digest that information for a minute and nodded as if coming to a decision, ”I’m ready to learn how to fight like that.” Kevin said, ”You threw her right over your head. Twice.”
Again, Tarin had to swallow a laugh. It was clear Kevin had watched the video more than the twice he’d rewound it in here.
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”Really.” Tarin said with a quick glance in Lee’s direction before deliberately looking back at the baseball game on TV. Lee was blushing and she’d been biting her lip just a second ago, and none of it was lost on Tarin.
Lee spoke again though and Tarin had to laugh, ”I know I’m going to make sure there aren’t any dishes hanging out in the sink.” he added, unable to stay out of the fun.
Kevin was still in mild shock and disbelief though, and honestly Tarin couldn’t blame him. Lee had said that she’d sheltered her son from the darker aspects of his Father’s mutation as he’d grown up and it didn’t take much of a leap to see how that would extend to the darker parts of her own life as well.
Lee commented that she’d had a life before Kevin was born and the teenager sunk down on the couch in the empty middle spot, still looking at his Mother like he didn’t really know her.
”Well yeah, but you never told me you were…cool?” he said, ”This means you can teach me how to fight.” he said, excitement clear in his voice.
It was kind of hard not to laugh, Tarin decided, watching Kevin have the realization that Tarin himself had been having over and over again for the last couple of weeks.
”Pretty extraordinary, isn’t it?” he couldn’t help from saying with just the slightest bit of emphasis.
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Lee clearly had something to say in response to what Tarin had said, but what it was, he didn’t know. Because right as Lee started to talk, Kevin’s door opened and the little hermit came running down the hall.
“You did that today?! OMG, Tarin! Did you see the video?”
There was a video? Casting a quick look in Lee’s direction to see she was every bit as surprised as everyone else in the room, Tarin shook his head.
”I definitely did not. I just got home a few minutes ago. Let me see what you’ve got.”
Kevin obliged and Tarin scooted just a little bit closer to Lee so that the three of them could all see the video.
And boy was it a video.
Lee and the woman on the screen were moving faster than either of them should have been moving. There were hands flying, and arms flying, and elbows flying…Tarin noted as the blow that had to be responsible for the bruise on Lee’s face connected and he visibly flinched. He’d known from grim personal experience that Lee could take a hit, but my god, he’d had no idea exactly what she could do.
The video ended and Tarin couldn’t help but look over at Lee, eyes slightly wide and open admiration on his face. ”Wow.” was all he could say. ”That’s…just impressive.”
Kevin was practically bouncing as the video finished and he turned his phone away, clearly starting the whole thing back over.
”But Mum’s can’t do that.” he said, eyes flicking back and forth between Lee and the phone, almost as if trying to confirm that it really was her.
Tarin couldn’t help but chuckle just a little as he moved back to the other side of the couch, ”Yours can.” he said simply.
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God, she was so excited. Every time Lee talked about the sparring match she smiled and seemed almost giddy. It was a side of Lee he hadn’t really seen before and Tarin couldn’t help but shake his head as a small smile of his own appeared in spite of himself.
And she’d thought he would be angry with her. At that, Tarin frowned just a little bit as he looked over at Lee from across the couch.
”Why would I be angry with you?” he asked. Sure, his initial reaction had been anger, as was evident by the fact that it was still simmering in the back of his mind and his heart was racing just the slightest bit…but he hadn’t been upset with her.
”You’re a grown woman Lee. If you made a choice to spar like that, I don’t know that I’ve got a right to much of an opinion on it.” It wasn’t that he didn’t have an opinion on the matter, because as he sat there Tarin realized he did…but he just didn’t see how it was relevant at the moment.
”Now, if this…” he gestured to, well, all of her, hadn’t been something you signed on for. I’d have an opinion whether it was my business or not.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 14, 2024 11:37:01 GMT -6
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Fine was such a loaded word.
Clearly, Lee was not fine.
People who were fine did not have bruises covering their bodies like they had been in a prize fight.
Lee spoke, and Tarin listened, he really did. It was just hard over the roaring in his ears that had started the second he’d seen her sitting there so clearly injured. As a general rule, Tarin simply just did not get angry. There was generally very little point and it had literally been knocked out of him at a young enough age that his first instinct was usually something else.
Seeing Lee like that though, it made him angry, and it took just a minute for him to reign that in. As had become more and more since the day Tarin had acknowledged the fact that he was feeling something for Lee beyond the overwhelming gratitude she was owed for saving his life, Tarin realized he was in serious trouble.
He did move to sit on the couch though, and he even remembered to sit a reasonable distance away after a glance in the direction of Kevin’s room. Surely he was home.
Lee was still smiling, though Tarin had to imagine that couldn’t feel good with the shot she’d obviously taken to the face and he couldn’t help but shake his head just a little bit.
She’d gone to the gym and found someone to spar with her. Another woman, it appeared, who had not felt the need to hold back while they fought.
”She better look just as bad as you do.” he said finally, heaving a sigh and looking Lee up and down again. ”At least you remembered the frozen veggie trick…and are actually using it.”
He sighed again, just physically unable to make even a half-hearted attempt at scolding Lee for doing this to herself, not when she was so happy. ”So did you win?” he asked, shoving the rest of what he was feeling away and into a tight little box.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 14, 2024 10:38:52 GMT -6
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The rest of the day had gone pretty much exactly as Tarin had expected after the takeout had been put away, the plates had been cleaned and Lee had left the shop. The remaining clients for the day had been regulars and that had all been fine except for the last older couple, the husband dead, who couldn’t even stop bickering now that one of them had shucked their mortal coil. The man had literally died in his easy chair while being harped at by his wife to get up and do something.
The woman had been coming for years, and the husband. Kept. Showing. Up. There was no accounting for taste. Apparently his unfinished business was to be perpetually miserable.
Finally though, they were gone and Tarin took the few required minutes to get the shop in proper shape to close up and close out the day. Lee had said she didn’t have any plans and Tarin hoped he could potentially prevail upon her to watch at least a little of the game.
To that end, he pulled on his jacket and ballcap and headed out the door for home.
The walk past the park still made Tarin shiver a bit, but it was getting easier every day. Maybe in some world there would come a time when he could cut through again to get to the apartment…but not for now.
Lunch had been…interesting. It had started off easy and comfortable, and him and Lee had actually sat and talked for a while. Tarin had learned things, lots of things both easy and hard to hear and easy and hard for Lee to tell. The problem had arisen, however, when Lee had tried to turn things around on him.
Everything had ultimately been okay, but Tarin still had a little pit of unease in his stomach at the thought of how he’d completely frozen when she’d simply wanted him to share a fraction of what she’d shared to him. It was a problem, but he literally could not think of a way to solve it. Not right now at least.
Those thoughts brought him to the apartment building and as Tarin let himself inside and made his way up the stairwell, he wondered what he might do to start getting more comfortable with…just…talking.
In the door Tarin went, almost instantly catching the unmistakable sounds of a baseball game on the TV as he made his way inside and dropped his keys on the table, mood significantly lighter than it had been a few moments before, especially when he saw the game that was on the TV ”I didn’t know you were Giant’s fa-” Tarin started, then his eyes fell on Lee on the couch.
Lee, who had just left the shop a few hours before.
Lee, who had acquired significantly more frozen corn than had previously been in the apartment and was using them to ice various parts of her body. Lee, who had a rather spectacular bruise already darkening her jawline as she watched.
Tarin realized he had stopped dead in his tracks and was just standing there staring, still in his jacket and hat, pulled his eyes from Lee to glance around the apartment for signs of Kevin before bringing his eyes back to Lee’s. Why was she smiling?
”What. Happened?” he said, very very softly. And who do I need to find? He didn’t say it out loud, but it was implied.
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Tarin shrugged when Lee asked if she should leave the food there or take it home, ”I’d eat it for lunch the next few days if you don’t want it…” he said, scooping up the boxes and already taking them towards the kitchenette. They hadn’t talked about the food much, but it had been good.
Then Lee was once again dashing dreams of baseball and Tarin actually groaned, ”I’m not going to get to watch a single Mets game this season, am I?” he said, just a touch dramatically, ”I know they’re bad, but come on.”
He was only halfway joking. If Lee really didn’t want to watch, he’d just check the scores on his phone and watch the highlights tomorrow. But still…how could she dislike baseball this much?
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”I guess that means we should get the rest of lunch cleaned up, doesn't it?”
Tarin didn’t want to do that. Tarin really didn’t want to do anything. All he’d really done was listen and he felt drained. Work was really autopilot at this point though, and if he remembered correctly he was just meeting with some regulars this afternoon. Nothing too out of the ordinary.
Still…even if there was no crystal ball or mood lighting, takeout on the table was probably the wrong vibe for a place of business.
Lee stretched up for a kiss and Tarin obliged, more things he’d rather do than work for the rest of the afternoon popping into his head. He kept it brief though and reluctantly stepped away, moving to the table to start closing up boxes.
”Any plans for tonight?” he asked, ”There’s always baseball on this time of year…”
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The things that had caused him to be the way he was…they loomed in the back of Tarin’s mind. It wasn’t really anything compared to the stories that Lee told, the things that she had seen and done.
Still, Tarin wondered if all of those small, dark places had broken something inside of him that just couldn’t be fixed.
Lee said she understood though, and that was enough. When Lee grabbed his hand, Tarin didn’t pull his away even though he kind of wanted to.
She smiled and he gave a little smile back to assure her that everything she had said had landed. He didn’t ask the question lingering in the back of his mind though.
What if I’m never ready?
As if on cue, Tarin’s watch buzzed, the 15 minute alert he had set before every appointment notifying him that he’d completely lost track of time.
”Ugh… he said, giving Lee’s hand another squeeze, ”Fifteen minute warning.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.