Stepford Cuckoos - Tumblr Posts - Page 2
I had no power during a tropical storm so I wrote a bunch of shit by candlelight, like a Victorian ruler. So I'm sorry for the spam posts but...
Enjoy I guess.
Let's start with one thing that has been on my mind for a while; if Emma had been able to raise the Cuckoos from day one, she would've put an emphasis on them all being different, not just a hive mind. She maybe would've stuck with the matching outfits but she wouldn't have let anyone group them up. They had names. It's something I see in a lot of twins or parents of twins (being a twin myself) is that eventually, you want to be different. And the Cuckoos were all different at one time, two dead, three dying their hair. But then the Krakoa era started and I understood in a way why they all went back to looking the same. They were a complete set again.
But I think that if Emma had raised them, they'd all be individuals in their own way. Even their rooms, which are important to any kid, are your first chance to portray and discover your interests and a safe haven for you. In the White Palace, they share one room, by choice. And I think they would do that in any universe. They want to be close and probably never slept separately until Phoebe and Sophie (? I think) died. So I think they'd have one room together. But they'd have different decors and aesthetics if they were only allowed to have a character arc outside of being evil, dead, or a hive mind. More than just a few interests shown or spats between them.
I would imagine they'd get to decorate the space by their beds and that would be that. Kind of like the og X-Men dorms, if you've seen that panel, where it's the boy's dorm and everyone has a section of the floor and walls to decorate to their tastes (and sadly, Scott's is empty and barren). But their room would have that vibe.
And Emma would be so organized with them. She's a good mom. On top of her shit, not like Hazel. Not overbearing and with unreachable standards that her father. Everything would be in certain folders, certains baskets, certain bags, their names on each thing. Or even just their initals. Her assistant would have to keep with all of their after-school activities just as well as Emma does because the driver shoulder never be late. Emma would have a fit if her daughters ever thought she forgot. Meaning every dance practice, gymnastics competition, swim meet, beauty pagent, whatever the Cuckoos wanted to join, had to be put in the calander next to Emma's meetings and such. Only the best private schools but Emma is not afraid to pull them out if they want, unlike her parents when she was telling about her being the outcast, or letting her girls pass because of how much money Emma gave the school to improve.
Just let Emma be a mom. Not just an at-arms-length mom.
(The Emma mini-series in the comics really is one of my favorite things, despite the weird teacher thing. It was a wonderful insight into her character and why she acts the way she does with her students/children. Mainly because of how her parents were. I also think Emma enjoys seeing how close the Cuckoos are as sisters because the only sibling she's close to is Christian and all her sisters tried to kill her and they never recovered from it.)
#whiteQueenWed
‘We want to go shopping…’
‘Oh god yes, yes like normal people. Let’s go’
From Uncanny X-Men #15 by Brian Michael Bendis and Kris Anka
Sugar, spice, and everything nice
These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girl
But Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction:
Chromosome Y
All right, so, just hear me out here...Meg Donnelly as the Stepford Cuckoos
One of these days, I wanna sit down and have a discussion about how the Stepford Cuckoos were OBVIOUSLY not meant to all be identical 'clones' in their very early appearances.
And it makes me wonder what, if anything, Grant Morrison had in mind for their origins beyond being Weapon XIV.
I could EASILY see an early version of them as five completely unrelated blonde girls who developed telepathy, that bonded together because of that, which Emma eventually takes under her wing. And "Cuckoos" literally coming from kids mocking them for being similar to the Midwich Cuckoos novel
I was looking something up about cuckoos, the actual birds, for a change, and this came up in the recommended topics:
Is the cuckoo an intelligent bird This Cuckoo and its entire clan of birds are called the 'Cuculids' from the family of Cuculidae — the supposed dumb and crazy birds. In fact, these are really cunning and crafty birds. They can easily fool and trick other birds into doing what they were supposed to do.
And like...how perfect is that for the Stepford Cuckoos? At first glance, everyone looks at them as the bimbos, the Barbie dolls, thinking they're nothing much beyond their blonde perfect looks, not looking beneath the surface.
But you could argue they are some of the more cunning and crafty characters amongst the X-Men. And Esme pulled one of the biggest tricks on the entire X-Men, and she almost got away with it.
Xoftpower#5 X-Files: Pitch Portfolio
Xavier: My god...even my filing system is a hacky rip-off.
Magneto: I think perhaps it’s time to bring in some help on this one Charles?
Bobby: I dunno, I would totally watch like all of these.
Xavier: My god you’re still here.