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Moira MacTaggert

First Appearance: The X-Men #96 (December 1975)

The Scottish geneticist Moira Kinross was one of the leading authorities on the subject of mutant development. It was for this reason that she met with a young Charles Xavier during his post-graduate studies at Oxford University and became an early ally in his fight for mutant rights, but the two bid farewell for a period when Moira married her longtime boyfriend and budding politician Joseph MacTaggert and became Moira MacTaggert. Their union was short lived, however, and they divorced only a few years later, pushing Moira back to Xavier's fold, which now included his former college professor--the mutant holocaust survivor Erik Lehnsherr--and two other mutants by the name of Hank McCoy and Sean Cassidy. Together, the five of them laid the foundation for both Xavier's institute in the United States, as well as Moira's own research facility dedicated to mutants on Muir Island off the coast of her native Scotland.

The center of a love triangle with both Xavier and Cassidy vying for her affection, Cassidy won out and joined her on Muir Island. Over the years the two became close enough to become engaged, but it was broken off when Moira learned Cassidy had been having an affair with a young grad student who had been working as their research assistant named Cecilia Reyes. This led to Moira rekindling the flame with her ex-husband Joseph, but that relationship also fell apart for reasons the scientist was not willing to divulge with her friends. Despite the drama her romantic ups and downs had brought, Moira continued to be a steadfast ally of Xavier's, helping troubled mutants he found better control their powers if her expertise was necessary, while her island also became a safe haven for mutants that needed extra help that Xavier's institute could not bring. But Moira had her secrets, and was known to spend most of her time treating a patient known only as "Mutant X," a project that seemingly held a great level of personal significance to her.

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Those who know Moira think she has a really... listless personality. There's something tired about her, like she has the personality of someone who has lived nine lives before hand and has seen it all, despite being in a really cutting edge field... but most just attribute it to her overworking herself. Yeah, I'm sure that's all it is. She's just... tired. Yeah. Nothing suspicious about her at all.

So of course Moira is now known as Moira X and everyone knows her as the secret mutant who has the power of reliving her life over again when she dies that jump started the whole Krakoa thing (and is now evil?), but for most of the character's existence she was the X-Men's primary human ally and a long time love interest for both Professor X and Banshee. So I didn't want to jump into Moira X right from the get go, so for now she's just Moira MacTaggert. For now. So a lot of her bio there is me recapping a lot of my established history of Xavier's early years before the institute as well as her years with Sean Cassidy. The new info here is mostly on her first husband, Joseph MacTaggert, as well as "Mutant X," who, if you're unaware, is actually her son, Proteus, in the comics. We'll see where that leads.

Anyway, because this is Moira MacTaggert pre-Moira X, I decided to base her look on something recognizably from her classic stories, and zeroed in on the yellow and pink jumpsuit that she was typically seen wearing on Muir Island back in the day, I think it was supposed to be some sort of containment suit. Which is how I reinterpreted it here, as a baggy hazmat suit of some sort, something that she wears when dealing with experimental procedures on various mutants--you can see the letters "MU-X" on it which probably means this is for when she's dealing with Mutant X. Fully suited up I'm imagining she has some sort of mask and hood but she's currently not wearing one so you can see her face. She's decidedly middle aged here to match Professor X and Banshee's ages, but I also really wanted her to look tired and unimpressed, a stare of someone who's lived more than a single lifetime before.

Description

Moira MacTaggert

First Appearance: The X-Men #96 (December 1975)

The Scottish geneticist Moira Kinross was one of the leading authorities on the subject of mutant development. It was for this reason that she met with a young Charles Xavier during his post-graduate studies at Oxford University and became an early ally in his fight for mutant rights, but the two bid farewell for a period when Moira married her longtime boyfriend and budding politician Joseph MacTaggert and became Moira MacTaggert. Their union was short lived, however, and they divorced only a few years later, pushing Moira back to Xavier's fold, which now included his former college professor--the mutant holocaust survivor Erik Lehnsherr--and two other mutants by the name of Hank McCoy and Sean Cassidy. Together, the five of them laid the foundation for both Xavier's institute in the United States, as well as Moira's own research facility dedicated to mutants on Muir Island off the coast of her native Scotland.

The center of a love triangle with both Xavier and Cassidy vying for her affection, Cassidy won out and joined her on Muir Island. Over the years the two became close enough to become engaged, but it was broken off when Moira learned Cassidy had been having an affair with a young grad student who had been working as their research assistant named Cecilia Reyes. This led to Moira rekindling the flame with her ex-husband Joseph, but that relationship also fell apart for reasons the scientist was not willing to divulge with her friends. Despite the drama her romantic ups and downs had brought, Moira continued to be a steadfast ally of Xavier's, helping troubled mutants he found better control their powers if her expertise was necessary, while her island also became a safe haven for mutants that needed extra help that Xavier's institute could not bring. But Moira had her secrets, and was known to spend most of her time treating a patient known only as "Mutant X," a project that seemingly held a great level of personal significance to her.

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Those who know Moira think she has a really... listless personality. There's something tired about her, like she has the personality of someone who has lived nine lives before hand and has seen it all, despite being in a really cutting edge field... but most just attribute it to her overworking herself. Yeah, I'm sure that's all it is. She's just... tired. Yeah. Nothing suspicious about her at all.

So of course Moira is now known as Moira X and everyone knows her as the secret mutant who has the power of reliving her life over again when she dies that jump started the whole Krakoa thing (and is now evil?), but for most of the character's existence she was the X-Men's primary human ally and a long time love interest for both Professor X and Banshee. So I didn't want to jump into Moira X right from the get go, so for now she's just Moira MacTaggert. For now. So a lot of her bio there is me recapping a lot of my established history of Xavier's early years before the institute as well as her years with Sean Cassidy. The new info here is mostly on her first husband, Joseph MacTaggert, as well as "Mutant X," who, if you're unaware, is actually her son, Proteus, in the comics. We'll see where that leads.

Anyway, because this is Moira MacTaggert pre-Moira X, I decided to base her look on something recognizably from her classic stories, and zeroed in on the yellow and pink jumpsuit that she was typically seen wearing on Muir Island back in the day, I think it was supposed to be some sort of containment suit. Which is how I reinterpreted it here, as a baggy hazmat suit of some sort, something that she wears when dealing with experimental procedures on various mutants--you can see the letters "MU-X" on it which probably means this is for when she's dealing with Mutant X. Fully suited up I'm imagining she has some sort of mask and hood but she's currently not wearing one so you can see her face. She's decidedly middle aged here to match Professor X and Banshee's ages, but I also really wanted her to look tired and unimpressed, a stare of someone who's lived more than a single lifetime before.