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JEAN GREY X-MEN AGE: 18 DOB: 6/23/1965 HOMETOWN: Westchester, NY BUNGALOW: #58 The Chilton with Logan Howlett PB: Sophie Turner HAIR: Red EYES: Blue HEIGHT: 5'10" COMPLEXION: pale ♪♪♪ ✉ © Jean is, by nature, a quiet girl. She isn't shy, necessarily, but the nature of her abilities isolates her from most of her peers because she has a leg up on the conversation; Jean can hear thoughts, feel emotions and be completely immersed in a person while not losing her sense of self. That sort of ability sets a person apart and makes them different, even in a room full of mutants. She doesn't trust herself. One of the most powerful telepaths and telekinetics on the planet, Jean has trouble controlling the scope of her powers and struggles with being able to filter out the noise of everyday conversation and chatter while trying to hone her gift to do good. She knows the other students have felt her nightmares, terrors that come to her in the middle of the night that are so strong they shake the entire Xavier Mansion, and she knows they're afraid. Their fear feeds her own, magnifies it, and makes her feel like she's on an island all alone. Jean likes to think of herself as mature and level-headed and in some ways, she is. She's able to think quickly and improvise on the fly, able to evade Colonel Stryker and his entire SWAT team in order to stow away on his plane and make it back to the Weapons X facility to help free Mystique, Quicksilver and Beast in spite of only being 17-18 years old at the time of Apocalypse. She doesn't rattle easily when faced with a psychotic Wolverine and, instead is able to utilize his pain and rage to create a diversion for the rest of her team to get in and out. Jean is empathetic. While she doesn't always demonstrate it, carrying the burden of feeling others' emotions weighs heavily on her and she almost always knows how others around her feel. She feels their joys and their sadness, their rage and their pain and it colors the way she views the world. It is both a skill and a weakness; it can be crippling and terrifying, especially with her lack of control, but it can also be a great gift. Jean feels sympathy for Wolverine when others would label him as less than human; she goes out of her way to give him enough of his good memories back when he's freed from Weapon X so that he can go and start his life anew. Still, in spite of all that, she can be a teenage girl. She's sullen when she first meets Scott Summers and reminds him, snippily, that he's "not the only one they're afraid of." She carries her insecurities just beneath the surface and pushes people away as much as they push her away; when she's afraid, Jean can be cold and impersonal and come off more than a little haughty. Jean finds it easier, in some ways, to interact with her elders than her peers. She seems to have a warm, trusting relationship with Charles Xavier and appears to carry a great respect for Hank McCoy, one of her teachers.