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X-Man
Real Name: Nate Grey

First Appearance: X-Man #1 (March 1995)

One of the most powerful psychic mutants to have ever existed, Nate Grey seemed to come out of nowhere when the world needed him most. Believed to be the lost son of former X-Men Scott Summers and Jean Grey, he came to a world trapped under the heel of the dreaded Master Mold and used his omega level powers to save humans and mutants alike from the scourge of the Sentinels. His work done, Nate left just as suddenly as he had arrived, leaving the world he saved telling tales of the "X-Man" who freed them from their metal tyrants and ushered in a new age.

But this savior's righteousness was a matter of perspective. The Exiles, in their run from the Time Variance Authority, heard tales of this supposed mutant messiah from interdimensional hoppers like themselves all throughout the multiverse. Hoping his powers could be used to help bring back their home reality, the Exiles pursued Nate in turn. But when they found a world the X-Man had rescued, they found desolation. He was not saving people, but trapping them, using his psychic powers to cage their consciousnesses within a collective mindscape, letting them be at peace as their universe collapsed around them. Nate's own timeline had been the first to fall to the age of X-Man, and upon finding the way to hop universes, made it his mission to "liberate" as many as he could from their pain and suffering.

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Per TVA records the Exiles come across, his timeline was a direct result of the destruction of theirs (the "age of apocalypse"), a new branch grown from their trimmed one. His world was dominated by a war between Apocalypse and Mister Sinister, and Nate was actually a creation of Sinister's using Cyclops and Jean Grey's genetic material to be the perfect weapon against Apocalypse. Only... he ended up a little *too* perfect, an incredibly rare "omega level" mutant, something very few Sinisters across the TVA's purview had ever managed to make.

Alright, here's Nate Grey, sometimes known as "X-Man." Another child of Jean and Cyclops (sort of) from an alternate timeline like Cable and Rachel Summers, he originated from the actual Age of Apocalypse universe in the comics before moving to the main 616 world at the end of the event. With Cable, Rachel, and Bishop all being timeline hopping mutants I was struggling to figure out a role for Nate that didn't feel redundant, and decided to go in a very different direction. So here, he's not really relevant to my "main" universe and is instead something that the Exiles and TVA are dealing with in the multiverse... and he's basically a villain here, based more like on his much more recent depiction in the Age of X-Man story. He fashions himself as the "mutant messiah" who goes about "saving" worlds by stripping them of their actual wills as their universes die around them. And yes, he did it to the days of future past timeline at some point after Bishop and Rachel left, just to tie all of these different timelines together. Also, the term" omega level" mutant in my GMU is limited to true reality warping level mutants like Franklin Richards and Nate here, so they are super, duper rare.

Unlike the grungy post apocalyptic badasses that Cable, Rachel, and Bishop are, my Nate is made out to be more of a savior, a traveling messiah and hero. So this look combines aspects of a lot of his more major looks to get that across. The blue and yellow color scheme, as well as his pants, are based on his original 90s look, but he's shirtless with a tattoo and coat like his look from the 2000s "shaman" era stories. But he's got really long hair like his messiah look from the Age of X-Man. It's all made to look very fantastical, a hero from another world with powers beyond your reckoning type of thing.

Description
X-Man
Real Name: Nate Grey

First Appearance: X-Man #1 (March 1995)

One of the most powerful psychic mutants to have ever existed, Nate Grey seemed to come out of nowhere when the world needed him most. Believed to be the lost son of former X-Men Scott Summers and Jean Grey, he came to a world trapped under the heel of the dreaded Master Mold and used his omega level powers to save humans and mutants alike from the scourge of the Sentinels. His work done, Nate left just as suddenly as he had arrived, leaving the world he saved telling tales of the "X-Man" who freed them from their metal tyrants and ushered in a new age.

But this savior's righteousness was a matter of perspective. The Exiles, in their run from the Time Variance Authority, heard tales of this supposed mutant messiah from interdimensional hoppers like themselves all throughout the multiverse. Hoping his powers could be used to help bring back their home reality, the Exiles pursued Nate in turn. But when they found a world the X-Man had rescued, they found desolation. He was not saving people, but trapping them, using his psychic powers to cage their consciousnesses within a collective mindscape, letting them be at peace as their universe collapsed around them. Nate's own timeline had been the first to fall to the age of X-Man, and upon finding the way to hop universes, made it his mission to "liberate" as many as he could from their pain and suffering.

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Per TVA records the Exiles come across, his timeline was a direct result of the destruction of theirs (the "age of apocalypse"), a new branch grown from their trimmed one. His world was dominated by a war between Apocalypse and Mister Sinister, and Nate was actually a creation of Sinister's using Cyclops and Jean Grey's genetic material to be the perfect weapon against Apocalypse. Only... he ended up a little *too* perfect, an incredibly rare "omega level" mutant, something very few Sinisters across the TVA's purview had ever managed to make.

Alright, here's Nate Grey, sometimes known as "X-Man." Another child of Jean and Cyclops (sort of) from an alternate timeline like Cable and Rachel Summers, he originated from the actual Age of Apocalypse universe in the comics before moving to the main 616 world at the end of the event. With Cable, Rachel, and Bishop all being timeline hopping mutants I was struggling to figure out a role for Nate that didn't feel redundant, and decided to go in a very different direction. So here, he's not really relevant to my "main" universe and is instead something that the Exiles and TVA are dealing with in the multiverse... and he's basically a villain here, based more like on his much more recent depiction in the Age of X-Man story. He fashions himself as the "mutant messiah" who goes about "saving" worlds by stripping them of their actual wills as their universes die around them. And yes, he did it to the days of future past timeline at some point after Bishop and Rachel left, just to tie all of these different timelines together. Also, the term" omega level" mutant in my GMU is limited to true reality warping level mutants like Franklin Richards and Nate here, so they are super, duper rare.

Unlike the grungy post apocalyptic badasses that Cable, Rachel, and Bishop are, my Nate is made out to be more of a savior, a traveling messiah and hero. So this look combines aspects of a lot of his more major looks to get that across. The blue and yellow color scheme, as well as his pants, are based on his original 90s look, but he's shirtless with a tattoo and coat like his look from the 2000s "shaman" era stories. But he's got really long hair like his messiah look from the Age of X-Man. It's all made to look very fantastical, a hero from another world with powers beyond your reckoning type of thing.