Milk and Tea: Petra & Sway Appreciation

[Chase_Stein]

Unlike most of the spoonfed mutants in Utopia right now, both Petra and Suzanne Chan had to deal with the manifestation of their powers alone in the midst of TRAGEDY. This is an appreciation thread for X-men's original Milk and Tea (alternatively Salt and Pepper) BFF's, PETRA AND SWAY!

I. SWAY aka Suzanne Chan
Let's start with X-men's FIRST EVER Azn mutant. Yay! (because Sage is European)

Suzanne Chan was born in Cali to naturalized Hong Kongese, David and Emily Chan. She had a pretty normal life and was about to enter Barnard College in New York when tragedy struck. During a trip in New York's Chinatown with her parents, Suzanne discovered that she has the inherent ability to stop time but she discovered it a fraction later after her parents were caught in a cross fire between China town's gangs. While this may be the case, Suzanne didn't know what just happened. She just knew that she stopped bullets and that "whatever she'd done, it hadn't lasted long, and it didn't saved her parents." *a million sad faces*


Azn posing while her powers manifested! <3

While the police tried to help her, none of them were competent to make China town's Azn community speak about their gangs. Left to fend for herself, Suzanne Chan's natural detective instincts started to kick in. With no help from the police AT ALL, Suzanne Chan decided to solve the case by herself. While pondering on her fate, another set of her powers began to manifest. At the crime scene, Suzanne found out that she could see phantom images of the past. She began to see how her parents were killed and where the perpetrators went.


Is Suzanne Chan Marvel's best detective or what?

Instead of being traumatized, Suzanne (being such a HBIC) decide to chase after the phantom image of the gang's car. While chasing after the car, "she passed other ghosts, other moments in time on these streets, and she began to understand what was happening. Somehow she held ~ SWAY ~ over time." In the process, she learned to rewind and slow down the images until ultimately, she found where the gang was having one of their ORIENTAL parties. Instead of taking matters into her own hands, she decided to call the police to make a point.


Ghost Detective, Suzanne > Ghost Whisperer fattie

During the confrontation between the police and the gang, Suzanne stopped time once again. When questioned about what happened, she simply answered, while giving the gang a stink eye, that she won't have anymore of the gang's BS! Such a HBIC! <3



Then, Moira found her and trained her for a suicide mission. Och! The best thing about being found by Moira was that she got a PG cleavage costume. The rest are too much of an abomination to mention.

FUN FACTS ABOUT SWAY!:

• If it wasn't for Moira and Professor X's training, Suzanne was going to have an illustrious career as an American Apparel model while juggling a career as New York's number one premier detective. Naturally, Madrox would probably hate her HBIC guts and superior talent.
  
• In a cut scene, Banshee found in Moira's notes that Sway was ~ FIERCE ~ in training.
  
• There are FACTUAL studies that suggest that during the battle with Krakoa, she time traveled back in time with Petra to save themselves from being killed by Krakoa. Their teammates were just too stupid to notice. They're currently with Marie Antoinette (aka Mary Anne) in 18th century France. Her title is the royal oriental.

[Chase_Stein]

II. PETRA aka PETRA
In grand Claremont fashion, it's now Petra's TURN!


Petra during her street smurt phase

Like Suzanne Chan, Petra was born in America to a family that immigrated from another country. This time it was Denmark. However, unlike Suzanne Chan, Petra wasn't given a surname. So, let's appreciate Petra and choose a surname for her from this database of 1000 Danish surnames. Vognsen, Brandstrup, Grønhøj, and Blaabjerg are my top picks! What are yours?

Anyway, Petra's powers began to manifest while she was on a hiking trip with her family. During the hiking trip, a rockslide occurred. Her family was killed by the boulders. According to young Petra, 13 y.o.then, the entire mountainside was at her command which is why she didn't get injured. After the tragedy, she was forced to live in a foster home, share bedroom with five kids, and live under the supervision of terrible foster parents.

As described, the wife was old and bitter and smoked all the time. While her husband was nicer, he needily touched her a lot...

And, indeed, during a trip with her foster family in Central Park, the creep of a husband tried to "touch" her. Out of fear, she attacked him with SOIL! but at the same time, the creep called her a "...mutant..." She ran away and cried because for the first time she began to realize that she probably killed her family or at the very least, she could have saved them.

She cried a lot that day but eventually, she got her sh*t together because she had to. While living in Central Park, Petra learned to make her own lair/ cave which she used as a way to hide from freedom hating policemen who arrests nature loving people like her. What's special about her lair was that she could close it and open it by herself because it was made of ROCKS!


Petra's LAIR

However, as a runaway, life wasn't ideal. Petra panhandled, dumpster-dove, and stole (such a true hobo! <3). But unlike angry street punx in New York, Petra didn't do drugs! At the age of sixteen, she learned to transform sh*t into diamond, like Emma Frost. After the discovery, she sold the diamond, got into a motel, rented a room for an hour, and had her first shower in two years. <3 Such a success story!



But in the end, her trick made some freedom hating clerk call the police. They caught her, she was imprisoned, Moira found her, and trained her for a suicide mission. Her costume included a diamond necklace.


Petra Fails

FUN FACTS about PETRA:

• She loves to accessorize. Her fave is her diamond bl!ng necklace. She wore it during her first and last mission
  
• Her rock architecture rivals Frank Lloyd Wright's achievements in architecture.
  
• She's currently alive with Sway living the life wih Mary Anne in 18th century France. She's currently the royal appraiser.

[Chase_Stein]

How to properly appreciate Petra and Sway:
1. Talk about their dreams and their future as X-men
2. Talk about how they will come back/ survived. (i.e. time travel, Petra's connected with mother Earth etc.)
3. Talk about their relationship with one another. (BFFS, Frenemies, Shopping, Open-minded about their sexuality)
4. Talking highly of the following characters, Charles Xavier, Moira MacTaggert, Darwin, Gabby Summers) is HIGHLY DISCOURAGED.
5. Talk about Petra's surname and her accessories.
6. Talk about Sway's career as a detective. Is she Marvel's answer to lipstick lez, Kathy Kane?
7. POST fan art and other appearances!

SAMPLE FAN ART

[jeansbff]

Sway and petra would have made great x-women. Hopefully we'll see them during the x-men chaos war storyline. I don't think they appeared in necrosha, did they? Its pretty unfair that both of the guys made their comebacks while the girls are still dead. Sway and petra were way cooler than vulcan and darwin.

[tornshattered]

<3 the thread!! I agree with jeansbff. The decision to kill the girls, but leave the guys alive was purely chauvinistic.

[Chase_Stein]

I don't think they appeared in necrosha, did they?

They're not dead, jeansbff.

Sway and petra were way cooler than vulcan and darwin.

Vulcan and Darwin have terrible bed wetting and daddy issues.

[jeansbff]

They're not dead, jeansbff.

Sway and petra are very much dead. Sound as a pound in the ground. We can mourn them in this thread.

[antidote5]

This thread is made of awesome.

[Chase_Stein]

Sway and petra are very much dead. Sound as a pound in the ground. We can mourn them in this thread.

I refuse.

Get your Darwin whoring self away from this thread! Post here instead.

[jeansbff]

I refuse.

Get your Darwin whoring self away from this thread! Post here instead.

I dislike darwin and vulcan and i ain't no "darwin whore". I prefer sway and petra. I was just merely mentioning the fact that they are dead characters. If it helps...they may be resurrected in the future...

[Luck911]

Sway and petra would have made great x-women. Hopefully we'll see them during the x-men chaos war storyline. I don't think they appeared in necrosha, did they? Its pretty unfair that both of the guys made their comebacks while the girls are still dead. Sway and petra were way cooler than vulcan and darwin.

Vulcan and Darwin where more important to the story so they lived and the writers where trying to maintain some tragedy so somebody had to stay dead,All four surviving does not make for the intended Professor X screw up so badly.

I don't know if i would say they where cooler but Sway and Petra have powers that no current X-men have and Hong Kong and Denmark represent some thing different too which was a good thing for example i think Gen H already a speedster and somebody controls fire and ice powers that have been done to death in comics.

[Chase_Stein]

and the writers where trying to maintain some tragedy so somebody had to stay dead,All four surviving does not make for the intended Professor X screw up so badly.

Professor used them and forgot about them after they saved Scott Summers. He screwed up. The real tragedy here is that Petra and Sway saved Darwin and Gabriel from their imminent deaths. The X-men and the Marvel universe would be better off without those two.

I don't know if i would say they where cooler but Sway and Petra have powers that no current X-men have and Hong Kong and Denmark represent some thing different too which was a good thing for example i think Gen H already a speedster and somebody controls fire and ice powers that have been done to death in comics.

Don't fret. Petra and Sway are already on their way to the present from their time traveling escapades.

[Mind_Witch]

I appreciate Sway. Less so Petra, although neither were particularly fleshed out characters. Interesting powersets however.

[Chase_Stein]

I appreciate Sway. Less so Petra, although neither were particularly fleshed out characters. Interesting powersets however.

Ed Brubaker was all ready to develop a Gotham Central type of book for Sway but Marvel decided that they needed another Lifeguard in the X-men. It's really unfortunate that they chose Lifeguard 2.0 over Suzanne Chan.

[Brian M.]

You know I actually really liked this team quite a bit.