livingforever (livingforever) wrote in avalon_ooc, @ 2015-01-22 03:51:00 |
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Marvel is back. :D He left a few months ago to join SHIELD and he's coming back into town for what he thinks will be a few weeks for some additional training.
For all the new people who only know him as an Avenger leader: long story short, Marvel is Wiccan and Hulkling's kiddo (thanks for the uterus, Kate Bishop) and was dmab - designated female at birth. Until Marvel graduated high school in 1997, he presented exclusively female. He transitioned for college, living exclusively male until he was 27 and coming out as genderfluid and trans while he was an Avenger (and dating Owen Rogers, who was leading the team at the time).
Immediately after the District X incident in April, 2009 that nearly killed Owen and Aleks and did kill Ivy Logan, Marvel took Owen's identity and let the rumor spread that he had been badly injured instead. The lie both kept the Avengers from looking defeated, and ensured that Owen was allowed to be treated and recover in safety and privacy -- but what had started as a short term solution just kept going, and Marvel lived as Owen (in and out of costume) for about a year, only turning back into himself if he was home at the mansion or in private with friends or immediate family. In May 2010, the Machinist exposed him, and the backlash against Marvel was excessively harsh. He just barely managed to stay out of prison (because wow, guys, so much fraud), but his registration was suspended and he became the media's favorite punching bag. It almost goes without saying that transphobia was everyone's favorite way of ragging on him at the time.
In September 2010, he ended up working for the Academy as the sociology teacher, and stayed until November 2014. He was scouted by SHIELD and decided espionage work was better than what he was doing. Turns out he was right, too. He loves his new job.
Which naturally means it's going to blow up on him, but that's gamewide plot.
I'm going to be putting up a gamewide plot post soon. :D There are so many new characters that we could all use the change to touch base.