I saw a comment awhile back about Tommy Shepherd and how they didn't understand why Tommy didn't stay with the Kaplan's. they're such nice, kind people, and they felt it was wrong that Tommy didn't stay. but I can't help thinking that that was the problem. They were kind, they were nice, and they were everything Tommy didn't get.
Imagine finding out you're the reincarnated child of the Scarlet Witch, and your brother got reincarnated too! But you got shitty parents who don't care about you and didn't fight for you when you were being turned into a human weapon. Then you meet your soul twins parents, and they are kind and loving to everyone, even you, and you just can't help but wonder. Why did my twin get kind, accepting parents, and I got ones that couldn't care less? What did I do to deserve what I got? So I think the Kaplan's were nice and kind and loving, and everything that Tommy didn't get was just too much.
Jeff and Rebecca met at the age of twenty-five. Rebecca's brother and Jeff's sister were put together by a matchmaker and decided to try and introduce the two families.
All of their sons are named after playwrights (William Shakespeare=William (Billy) Kaplan, Eugene O'Neill=Eugene (Gene) Kaplan, Samuel Beckett=Beckett Kaplan)
Billy is the oldest (nineteen), Gene is the middle child (seventeen), and Beckett is the youngest (fourteen).
Gene and Beckett are also mutants, but Eugene doesn't use his powers, and Beckett's haven't activated yet.
Jeff and Rebecca legally adopted Tommy when he was seventeen
Jeff has undiagnosed Autism. He and Rebecca agreed not to get a professional diagnosis.
Beckett is Autistic and has ADHD, Gene has dyslexia and Billy has dyspraxia and have all been diagnosed.
Gene is obsessed with dreams and sleep (like, he wants to study it at university and stuff)
Tommy likes arts and crafts and often makes bookmarks and gives them to friends as gifts. He doesn't like using hot glue guns, though.
Jeff knits to relieve stress and to keep his hands steady.
Gene does knitting and crochet, and Beckett does embroidery.
Rebecca calls herself Dr. Rebecca Oure-Klum (her maiden name) to her patients. And Jeff just tells them to call him Jeff.
Billy, Beckett, and Gene used to have a massive Minecraft world that they played on together, but now only Beckett plays on it.
Gene goes to a private boarding school for high achieving students.
Everyone at Beckett's school avoids him because of Billy and the John Kessler thing.
Beckett posts superhero fanfiction online (but never includes The Young Avengers because to him, that's weird). Jeff and Rebecca support it because they think fanfiction and fanart are healthy ways for teenagers to explore gender, sexuality and creativity; they do not read them, though, Gene does and occasionally does fanart for Beckett's fics, but keep them on the down low.
Gene has a crush on Marvel Girl (Jean Grey, not Rachel). Beckett has a crush on Iceman, Spider-Man, and Human Torch.
Jeff and Rebecca made a swear jar for English swears, a swear jar for Yiddish swears, a swear jar for Hebrew swears, and a swear jar for made up language swears. They have over 5,000 dollars in them.
Gene once got Northstars autograph. He also once got Jean-Paul Beaubier's autograph. So far, he's the only person to have figured out his identity by himself.
They live next door to William and Madeline Drake.
The reason Gene and Becket weren’t home when Mother took over is because they were both on multiday field trips to Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters.
Gene cries when dogs die in movies. A Dogs Journey broke him.
Like Billy, Jeff sleep talks. A lot. Mainly about the structure of a heart and different heart conditions. Often about Rebecca.
Wanda and Vision thought they were having one baby and chose not to learn the sex. They chose the name Thomas for a boy or Diana for a girl. Versions of Thomas and William have shown up in various alternate universes, but I've never seen a Diana Maximoff. On the one hand, the idea of cousins Luna Maximoff and Diana Maximoff having a tea party is adorable. On the other hand, girl, stop copying your brother.
They expected an enormous baby because, again, only one fetus showed up during exams.
Thomas was born first. William was a total surprise. William was completely undetectable by every bit of hospital equipment, including the scale. Wanda remarked that they would learn about Thomas's superpower(s) later. William, on the other hand, was born with the superpower of "I Do Not Wish to Be Perceived (By Any Machine That Is Not Daddy)."
Because William was an undetectable surprise, Vision declared him "my son." Like, my dude, you have two? It's low-key obvious that Vision already has a favorite child.
Wanda giving her reincarnated firstborn Thomas/Tommy superspeed and making William/Billy a magic-user feels like a deliberate slap in the face to Vision. "Who's your favorite son now, fuck-o?" Neither of the reincarnated Minimoffs got O.G. William's invisible to technology power. (In at least one AU, it was Thomas who became Sorcerer Supreme, so the powers are inconsistent around here.)
Given how fucked up and tedious the whole imaginary babies/Disassembled/House of M plotline(s) became, I would much rather read a story about Diana Maximoff OR a story where baby William was undetectable by every form of technology including Vision.
I did cry during the scene where Tommy and Billy reject our Wanda for her varient :(( . I just feel so bad for Wanda's character. Peace really was never an option. 😔
Tommy e se eu te disser que tem um universo onde sua mãe morreu?
Thomas: Acredito em você. Já viu o que ela faz? Se arrisca, salva o mundo, ganha inimigos... em algum universo ia cobrar o preço né? Mas fico feliz por não ser esse aqui. É egoísta da minha parte? Talvez, mas nem ligo.