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seriousficWhat says Thanksgiving like Emma Frost? So, here's an idea I had for a continuing Emma Frost project, either a comic series set in an alternate continuity or a TV show.
The X-Men are well-established, running a boisterous school. Emma, recently 'reformed', is a prickly member of the super-team. And while the post-human teaching methods at the school work wonders with the average confused, preppy mega-teen, there are certain students they fail to reach. The abused. The damaged. The exploited. Supervillains in the making.
To reach them, headmaster Scott Summers (Xavier is retired) forms a Special Class. Emma Frost will have free reign to run her own satellite school at the old Massachusetts Academy on her family property, with a little oversight. The Special Class will have first crack at juvenile mutant offenders taken in by the X-Men, Avengers, government, or even foreign powers. It's half school, half prison.
Although Emma is in charge, she isn't unchecked. Jean Gray is sent to back her as vice principal, while Agent Duncan of the Mutant Registration Bureau is ready to come down on any mutant who steps out of line, student or teacher.
But Emma has her own agenda. While she cares for her students, she has a very specific lesson plan in mind. One that will bring her revenge against her enemies, and usher in new power for her and the Special Class.
The characters - Teachers--
Emma Frost: A beauty being dragged kicking and screaming through her 30s, Emma is the eccentric but brilliant professional audiences love. Like House with tits and a teaching license. But there's more to her than a bottle of hair dye and a push-up bra. Long ago, she was what many would call a villain herself, training young mutants for the Hellfire Club--until a betrayal left most of her students dead. Now, she assigns her class 'field trips' that can entail anything from blackmailing a senator to stealing a secure hard drive, helping them out as much or as little as she sees fit. Underneath her icy exterior, there's enough bitterness and survivor's guilt to set the world on fire...
Scott Summers: Emma's boss. He checks in every so often. He believes in Emma, or is at least giving her enough rope to hang herself. First episode twist ending: he's having a psychic affair with Emma from across the country. That might have something to do with it.
Agent Duncan: A good man, just one who isn't comfortable with mutants. He'd rather come down on a proven hostile mutant than let one take out an innocent family. His superiors are worse, though, wanting to use the Special Class as an excuse to move against the X-Men. It puts him in the odd position of having to defend Emma Frost. She tends to congratulate him for this with expensive meals and dancing, a temptation he finds it hard to turn down (though he does). Although at first it seems there's a will-they-or-won't-they thing going on, it soon becomes apparent that Emma's attraction to him is that of a cat to a mouse. Not that it'll stop her from consummating the relationship if the right occasion comes up. If you've read Generation X, think of him as the Banshee to Emma's... Emma.
Jean Gray: Someone who wears her heart on her sleeve, Jean is put in the frustrated position of having her compassion for her students hit a stone wall, while Emma's tough love manipulativeness seems oddly effective. And does she know how close her husband is to Emma? Does she even care? At the end of the first season, she goes Dark Phoenix and only Emma, now something close to a friend, can shut her down. That has repercussions.
Kitty Pryde: Jean's replacement as vice principal from season two onwards, Kitty has it in for Emma, having been scarred by her back when she was a villain. Emma is unable or unwilling to apologize for it, but she'll have to if they're going to work together. Voted most likely to be the Isles to Emma's Rizzoli.
Adrienne Frost: Emma's sister and the new White Queen. Yeah, she's our Big Bad, and she'd like nothing more than to turn Emma's charges to the dark side...
The characters - Students-- A de-aged and appropriately diverse mix; part X-Men-in-training, part prisoners. Some will go bad. Some won't. There's a high turnover rate, as 'success' means a ticket to the X-Mansion proper.
Gambit: A young thief who was spotted taking something that didn't belong to him. He managed to stash it before he was caught, but the people he took it from want it back and aren't used to being told no. Gambit can leave the Academy at any time, but he's using them for protection.
Sooraya: A Muslim teen in post-9/11 America, Sooraya was falsely accused of being involved in a foiled terror attack. A quick psychic scan by Emma reveals her innocence, but Emma keeps it to herself, convinced the Special Class can be useful to Sooraya--and vice versa. The true perpetrators of the attack will do anything to keep the truth hidden...
Rogue: Daughter of the infamous Mystique and a member of her mutant terror cell, Rogue left the Brotherhood after being ordered to use her power on the Avenger Ms. Marvel. Doing so left the Avenger in a coma, and gave Rogue something close to a split personality, along with a new power she can't hope to control (and the white streak in her hair). Emma is very interested in Rogue's psychosomatic inability to control her power, but approves of the Mystique-cultivated ruthlessness Rogue disdains and is trying to redeem herself from.
Daken: Wolverine's son, who Logan feels a mix of protectiveness and avoidance for. Has a decided crush on Emma, which she cultivates. Most likely to go full-blown supervillain by the second season.
Archangel: The son of a wealthy anti-mutant activist, Warren Worthington III sought a way to stop his mutation. Unfortunately, he ended up with the enigmatic mutant scientist Sinister, transformed into a post-mutant evolution. Now a true freak of nature and killing machine, he stays with Emma because of her promise to cure him.
Effectively, the show is a mix of Boston Public, Misfits, Revenge, and anything on the CW. The students get into sexy teen situations, the teachers fight and conspire, and everyone fights Sentinels. Future plots include Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch joining the team, the X-Men leaving for Utopia and Emma staying to run the 'prison' under government control, Emma getting her revenge and then going a little crazy with unresolved issues, Scott leaving Emma for Madeline Pryor and the Goblin Queen joining the team, and, of course, sex. Marvel, if you're reading this, and you aren't, here's the part where you give me money.
The X-Men are well-established, running a boisterous school. Emma, recently 'reformed', is a prickly member of the super-team. And while the post-human teaching methods at the school work wonders with the average confused, preppy mega-teen, there are certain students they fail to reach. The abused. The damaged. The exploited. Supervillains in the making.
To reach them, headmaster Scott Summers (Xavier is retired) forms a Special Class. Emma Frost will have free reign to run her own satellite school at the old Massachusetts Academy on her family property, with a little oversight. The Special Class will have first crack at juvenile mutant offenders taken in by the X-Men, Avengers, government, or even foreign powers. It's half school, half prison.
Although Emma is in charge, she isn't unchecked. Jean Gray is sent to back her as vice principal, while Agent Duncan of the Mutant Registration Bureau is ready to come down on any mutant who steps out of line, student or teacher.
But Emma has her own agenda. While she cares for her students, she has a very specific lesson plan in mind. One that will bring her revenge against her enemies, and usher in new power for her and the Special Class.
The characters - Teachers--
Emma Frost: A beauty being dragged kicking and screaming through her 30s, Emma is the eccentric but brilliant professional audiences love. Like House with tits and a teaching license. But there's more to her than a bottle of hair dye and a push-up bra. Long ago, she was what many would call a villain herself, training young mutants for the Hellfire Club--until a betrayal left most of her students dead. Now, she assigns her class 'field trips' that can entail anything from blackmailing a senator to stealing a secure hard drive, helping them out as much or as little as she sees fit. Underneath her icy exterior, there's enough bitterness and survivor's guilt to set the world on fire...
Scott Summers: Emma's boss. He checks in every so often. He believes in Emma, or is at least giving her enough rope to hang herself. First episode twist ending: he's having a psychic affair with Emma from across the country. That might have something to do with it.
Agent Duncan: A good man, just one who isn't comfortable with mutants. He'd rather come down on a proven hostile mutant than let one take out an innocent family. His superiors are worse, though, wanting to use the Special Class as an excuse to move against the X-Men. It puts him in the odd position of having to defend Emma Frost. She tends to congratulate him for this with expensive meals and dancing, a temptation he finds it hard to turn down (though he does). Although at first it seems there's a will-they-or-won't-they thing going on, it soon becomes apparent that Emma's attraction to him is that of a cat to a mouse. Not that it'll stop her from consummating the relationship if the right occasion comes up. If you've read Generation X, think of him as the Banshee to Emma's... Emma.
Jean Gray: Someone who wears her heart on her sleeve, Jean is put in the frustrated position of having her compassion for her students hit a stone wall, while Emma's tough love manipulativeness seems oddly effective. And does she know how close her husband is to Emma? Does she even care? At the end of the first season, she goes Dark Phoenix and only Emma, now something close to a friend, can shut her down. That has repercussions.
Kitty Pryde: Jean's replacement as vice principal from season two onwards, Kitty has it in for Emma, having been scarred by her back when she was a villain. Emma is unable or unwilling to apologize for it, but she'll have to if they're going to work together. Voted most likely to be the Isles to Emma's Rizzoli.
Adrienne Frost: Emma's sister and the new White Queen. Yeah, she's our Big Bad, and she'd like nothing more than to turn Emma's charges to the dark side...
The characters - Students-- A de-aged and appropriately diverse mix; part X-Men-in-training, part prisoners. Some will go bad. Some won't. There's a high turnover rate, as 'success' means a ticket to the X-Mansion proper.
Gambit: A young thief who was spotted taking something that didn't belong to him. He managed to stash it before he was caught, but the people he took it from want it back and aren't used to being told no. Gambit can leave the Academy at any time, but he's using them for protection.
Sooraya: A Muslim teen in post-9/11 America, Sooraya was falsely accused of being involved in a foiled terror attack. A quick psychic scan by Emma reveals her innocence, but Emma keeps it to herself, convinced the Special Class can be useful to Sooraya--and vice versa. The true perpetrators of the attack will do anything to keep the truth hidden...
Rogue: Daughter of the infamous Mystique and a member of her mutant terror cell, Rogue left the Brotherhood after being ordered to use her power on the Avenger Ms. Marvel. Doing so left the Avenger in a coma, and gave Rogue something close to a split personality, along with a new power she can't hope to control (and the white streak in her hair). Emma is very interested in Rogue's psychosomatic inability to control her power, but approves of the Mystique-cultivated ruthlessness Rogue disdains and is trying to redeem herself from.
Daken: Wolverine's son, who Logan feels a mix of protectiveness and avoidance for. Has a decided crush on Emma, which she cultivates. Most likely to go full-blown supervillain by the second season.
Archangel: The son of a wealthy anti-mutant activist, Warren Worthington III sought a way to stop his mutation. Unfortunately, he ended up with the enigmatic mutant scientist Sinister, transformed into a post-mutant evolution. Now a true freak of nature and killing machine, he stays with Emma because of her promise to cure him.
Effectively, the show is a mix of Boston Public, Misfits, Revenge, and anything on the CW. The students get into sexy teen situations, the teachers fight and conspire, and everyone fights Sentinels. Future plots include Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch joining the team, the X-Men leaving for Utopia and Emma staying to run the 'prison' under government control, Emma getting her revenge and then going a little crazy with unresolved issues, Scott leaving Emma for Madeline Pryor and the Goblin Queen joining the team, and, of course, sex. Marvel, if you're reading this, and you aren't, here's the part where you give me money.
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Date: 2012-11-23 08:21 pm (UTC)My Emma obsession is lacking fic. Start the script, I'll be waiting eagerly
I've gotten so desperate for new Emma stuff, I'm writing my own, except I've gone nuts and I'm crossing her over. Don't let me ruin her, put up some new hotness!
add dash of Suicide Squad
Date: 2012-12-01 03:31 am (UTC)*kaboom*
Re: add dash of Suicide Squad
Date: 2012-12-01 04:05 am (UTC)