What should Rachel's code name be?

**Uncle Nobs** · 05-06-2009, 10:44 PM

She's been known by several names & titles:

Rachel Anne Summers, Rachel Grey, Phoenix, Marvel Girl, Mother Askani, Bright Lady, Alyzr'n Summerset, White Warrior Princess, Hound, The Celestial Avatar, The Cosmic Avatar, R'Chell :rolleyes: , Starchild(e), Executioner, Scrapper...

Her most recent change was to call herself Rachel Grey/Marvel Girl after her dad pissed her off, her mom croaked, and her family was slaughtered (which, come to think of it, didn't provoke much of a response).

Assuming she remains an active member of a current X-team after War of Kings, what code name would you like her to use?

**eurazn** · 05-06-2009, 10:46 PM

LOL, I'd love for it to be R'Chel!

But on a more serious note, I think Starchild(e) or Askani (minus the "Mother") would be the best.

**psychic_therapy** · 05-06-2009, 10:48 PM

Young Phoenix? We just had Young X-Men after all...

**The Black Guardian** · 05-06-2009, 10:49 PM

She made a better Phoenix than her mom ever did.

**Uncle Nobs** · 05-06-2009, 10:52 PM

Right? Her mom was like the DYINGEST lady I ever knew!

"Jean, quick! Double-back around Magneto and use your TK to nope she's dead."

**Joe Franklin** · 05-06-2009, 10:52 PM

Firelight.

**Uncle Nobs** · 05-06-2009, 10:55 PM

Familykiller?

**Slung** · 05-06-2009, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by Uncle Nobs

Right? Her mom was like the DYINGEST lady I ever knew!

"Jean, quick! Double-back around Magneto and use your TK to nope she's dead."

Ummm...how often has Rachel "died"

or more importantly been brainwashed?

**Cerridwen** · 05-06-2009, 11:18 PM

Askani, it may give her back the 'maturity' she needs lol

**eurazn** · 05-06-2009, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Slung

Ummm...how often has Rachel "died"

or more importantly been brainwashed?

You speak the truth. She's been brainwashed WAY more times than Jean has died.

**Uncle Nobs** · 05-07-2009, 12:11 AM

I voted for Starchild.

It's time she stepped into the limelight with a prominent place on a prominent X-team.

Define her powers a little better (Phoenix Force: yes/no? Time-travel: to what extent?), make them distinct. Give her a costume that plays on her history and doesn't scream B-list. Give her a name that does the same.

Askani has possibilities, too. I just don't have much interest in revisiting that whole world and all the baggage that goes with it.

**Uncle Nobs** · 05-07-2009, 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by eurazn

You speak the truth. She's been brainwashed WAY more times than Jean has died.

Death-prone = quitter, drama queen, necessitates overblown stories with predictable outcomes.

Brainwashing-prone = sympathetic, allows open-ended storytelling.

She's one big raw nerve, susceptible to emotional upheavals, never really able to put her past behind her and find lasting peace.

Sorry, Jean. You still make a mean asparagus flambe.

**Pro** · 05-07-2009, 01:30 AM

If she's named Starchild then she needs to be in deep space or at least on the fringe of earth's solar system.

I still think restoring the mutant race and relocating the majority of them to a brand new planet on the edge of the Shi'ar empire would work wonders. Or maybe that planet filled with alien mutants that X-Factor visited years ago.

If they don't restore the mutant race then call her Askani and let her use her time manipulating powers to travel the multiverse collecting the remnants of the mutant race from all the other timelines in order to give them a new chance to thrive elsewhere. Could bring her into conflict with the Exiles for messing with timelines.