Jean Grey (Synergy)

Note: All things marked with * refer to items that are strictly UXM-related, and have no basis in the Marvel Canon.

Alias(es): Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, Red, Madelyne Pryor, Maddy, Anodyne, the Goblin Queen, Synergy *, Her Royal Redness * :)
Parents: John and Elaine Grey
Other Known Relatives:

• Sister Sara(h) Grey & children Joey and Gailyn (Sara[h] presumed deceased, children alive)
• Cross-time daughter Rachel Summers [Phoenix]
• Adopted son Nathan Dayspring Askani'son [Nathan Christopher Charles Summers, Cable] (son of Jean's clone Madelyne Pryor and Scott Summers)
• Cable-clone Stryfe [the Chaos-bringer] (presumed deceased) -- confused yet? :)

Jean Grey was born approximately 30 years ago in a sleepy college town on the Hudson River. When she was just a child, she experienced the death of her playmate Annie. This awakened Jean's nascent telepathic powers, but left the poor child in a bad way. With the help of Charles Xavier, Jean's powers were put behind psychic circuit breakers, and she went back to her previous life.

After Jean reached adolescence, Professor Xavier invited her to join his School for Gifted Youngsters, completing the original team of the X-Men along with Scott 'Slim' Summers (Cyclops), Hank McCoy (Beast), Bobby Drake (Iceman), Warren Worthington III (Angel). Together, the youngsters were forged into a fighting team through defeating such villains as Magneto, the Vanisher, Unus, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and the Sentinels. When not battling evil mutants and aliens, Jean found time to pursue a deep relationship with Scott Summers, despite the fact that Warren was hopelessly in love with her as well.

Jean's life began to change shortly after the discovery of a whole island that was a single mutant entity named Krakoa. Steven Lang captured the new team of X-Men formed for the solution to the Krakoa incident and pitted them against Sentinels which nearly perfectly mimicked the original team of X-Men on a spacestation in Earth orbit. With the help of Cyclops, the new team of X-Men freed themselves and managed to scramble into a shuttle just as the space station was destroying itself. However, the shuttle's autopilot was damaged in the escape, and they had to fly it through a massive solar flare. As team leader, Scott started to take control, but Jean nailed him with a psi-bolt, knocking him out. She had the other X-Men take refuge in a shielded life capsule in the shuttle's hold while she telepathically raided Dr. Peter Corbeau's mind for the necessary information on safely crashing the shuttle on Earth. As the shuttle cruised to Earth, the radiation started eating away at Jean's telekinetic shield. Just before she died, the Phoenix Force, a cosmic avatar, offered to save her life. Having no alternative, the swiftly-dying Jean agreed to letting the Phoenix save her life. The shuttle crashed into the waters of Jamaica Bay, and Jean was placed in a cocoon to heal. The X-Men hauled themselves out of the sinking shuttle and the Phoenix rose in the form of Jean Grey to take her place amongst them.

Life went on for the X-Men. 'Jean' and Scott's relationship became at once more intimate and more strained, as the Phoenix's powers caused 'Jean's' personality to shift alarmingly. Scott, Charles, and Logan in particular were alarmed about 'Jean's' seeming unconcern about the amount of damage she caused in the course of her tenure on the team. During this time, 'Jean' had been the subject of 'timeshifts' in which she felt she was being shunted into the life of one of the real Jean's ancestors, who allegedly married someone named Jason Wyngarde. The 'shifts' became so real, 'Jean' found herself kissing a modern-day Jason Wyngarde in the middle of a club in New York City, where some of the X-Men (including Scott) had gone to track a new mutant (who turned out to be Alison Blaire [Dazzler]). Both sets of X-Men (the NYC group, and the Chicago group sent after Kitty Pryde [Sprite/Ariel/Shadowcat]) were captured by the Hellfire Club and transported to the Hellfire Club's New York institution. Once there, 'Jean' was fully converted to evil, becoming the new Black Queen of the Hellfire Club and turning on her friends in the X-Men. Jason Wyngarde was revealed to be Mastermind, a long-time foe of the X-Men. 'Jean' broke free of his control when he 'killed' Scott on the astral plane. This shock re-awoke 'Jean's' love for Scott and she turned on Mastermind, destroying the tool Emma Frost (the White Queen) had created to allow him to control 'Jean'. The X-Men escape the Hellfire Club, but the damage was done. 'Jean' could no longer control herself, and she transformed into Dark Phoenix.

Dark Phoenix battled the X-Men and the then-Avenger Beast in Central Park, but departed after thrashing all concerned. She went into space and crossed the universe with a stargate. Hungry, she sank into the D'Bari sun and consumed it, thus destroying the D'Bari homeworld, a planet with roughly 5 billion sentient beings on it. Only a few who were off-planet at the time survived the tragedy. Dark Phoenix returned to Earth to finish off the X-Men, but was temporarily stopped with the aid of Jean's teacher, Professor Xavier. He installed psychic circuit breakers into 'Jean', and she renounced the power of the Phoenix. However, the Shi'ar kidnapped the X-Men and Xavier to put 'Jean' on trial for the D'Bari massacre. Xavier forced the Shi'ar to allow a trial by combat, X-Men versus the Imperial Guard. The Guard was winning when Scott was struck down. This freed 'Jean's' psychic circuit breakers, and she became the Phoenix again. Knowing that she couldn't stop the further transformation into Dark Phoenix, she forced the X-Men into attacking her, weakening her enough so that an alien cannon left on the moon was strong enough to vaporize her.

Years later, the real Jean Grey was found in Jamaica Bay and returned to the X-fold. She and Warren started X-Factor, recruiting the original X-Men team to join them in their act of mutant hunting. Scott, Jean's supposed true love, had married and had a son in the years that Jean was presumed dead, and for a long time, Scott was divided between the two. Madelyne Pryor, Scott's wife, and his son Nathan Christopher Charles, were presumed dead, and so Scott returned to Jean. Later, Madelyne was revealed to be a clone of Jean, and Madelyne's latent powers were awakened, and she became the Goblin Queen. In the course of Inferno, the attempted demonic takeover of Earth, Jean and Madelyne battled, and Jean was victorious. However, Jean gained the memories belonging to the Phoenix and Madelyne.

Shortly thereafter, Scott and Jean returned to the X-Men to stay, along with the rest of the original X-Factor lineup. X-Factor was turned over to Scott's brother Alex (Havok). Some time after rejoining the X-Men as a member of the Gold Strike Team, Jean was apparently killed, only she transferred her consciousness into the body of Emma Frost, the White Queen of the Hellfire Club and the Massachusetts Academy. The X-Men rescued her and restored her. About a year after that, Stryfe kidnapped Jean and Scott and trapped them on the Moon.

[Note: All of the following character history information is based on RP on the MUSH, not on the canon. The MUSH's continuity diverges in the middle of the X-Cutioner's Song crossover.]

As the assembled talents of both X-Men Strike Teams, X-Force, and X-Factor and others attempted to free the erstwhile pair, they were separated, and everyone's least favorite murderer Arcade captured Stryfe and Jean. For months, he held the pair captive. Finally, Jean decided to get free or die while Arcade babbled on and on about putting Stryfe on trial. Garnering every iota of her telepathic powers, she struggled to override the psychic dampeners Arcade had on her. The first time, she succeeded in sending an astral image to Ororo in Westchester. The second time, she reached Logan and her life crystalized. The link she had once shared with Scott dissolved as a special link with Logan formed in its place. Shortly thereafter, Logan came to free Jean from Murderworld, only he was captured as well. The pair spent some quality time, and Jean convinced Logan that she didn't love Scott the same way anymore. Jean felt that Scott had abandoned her on the Moon, as he'd abandoned her so many times before, to the Phoenix, to Madelyne, and so she turned to Logan, who had always remained. Logan also had the sad duty of informing Jean that Professor Xavier was dead, murdered by Stryfe.

After a pile of convincing, Jean proposed to Logan, and he accepted. However, they were still in Murderworld, and it took the power of the Phoenix (thanks to the timely arrival of Rachel Summers' astral self) to save the two from the machinations of Arcade, who wanted to let only one of them go. The two went to Japan and were married legally and spent a week there on a honeymoon. Needless to say, their return to Westchester startled a lot of people.

These days, Jean and Logan spend their time at Xavier's re-integrating with the rest of the X-Men. Scott has returned and has taken their marriage surprisingly well, especially after Jean explained things to him and asked to remain friends, albeit very close ones. Some of Logan is rubbing off on Jean, for she has started acting like him in small ways. One day, she came home in leather with her left ear suddenly having 5 piercings in it, going up all the way around her lobe. She is also assuming a teaching role within the School, helping to fill her mentor's shoes.

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