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Tales of the Twilight Menshevik(Tilman Stieve's Val/Raven series) |
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Tales of the Twilight Menshevik(Tilman Stieve's Val/Raven series) |
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A close look at Rogue's history, her inner conflict with Carol Danvers' personality, and her time with Magneto in the Savage Land.
In the first of the Tales of the Twilight Menshevik series, Val Cooper and Raven Darkholme have a baby daughter named Irene.
A turning point in Mystique and Valerie Cooper's lives from A Year in the Life is shown through both women's eyes.
A typical day at an international NATO conference on superpowered beings, with Val Cooper, Nightcrawler, Nick Fury and Captain America among the speakers, and Rogue re-establishing contact with Magneto.
Hawk and Dove and their families are thrown into our dimension by a battle with their enemies -- with a hitchhiking Illyana returning also -- where they join X-Factor in battling Stryfe and his MLF.
During their affair, Logan goes out to a fancy restaurant with Jean Grey-Summers.
Rogue hosts a Hannukah celebration in Westchester with Magnus, Kitty and Pete, and Kurt and Amanda among the guests, while Val and Raven celebrate with Val's relatives in Germany before joing the others for a big Christmas with he much-changed X-Men.
Bobby Drake spends Christmas getting to know Emma Frost better in several ways.
Logan and Rogue go to Harry's Hideaway to relax and talk about recent events in their lives.
Hank McCoy's wedding is the occasion for meetings of members from the various mutant teams, or at least those who are not detained by their duties.
A companion poem to Val's sonnet in Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Someone Blue.
Catching up on some things that have happened in the 4 and a half months since "...Someone Blue" to the primary characters (Rogue, Magneto, Val & Ray, Emma and Bobby, Trish & Hank), as well as a few others...
After yet another extended stay at the Muir Island research centre, the Beast is reunited with his spouse.
Rogue comes to visit Raven and Valerie and baby Irene, then gets to know Magnus better.
After a grueling period during which Hank and Moira finally discovered the cure for the Legacy virus, Trish Tilby writes a letter to her husband.
A response to Kielle's challenge to write a story in the style of Kipling's classic Just So Stories...
In a letter to her unborn grandson, Mystique reflects on how she first met Irene Adler.
Ororo slowly comes to terms with her romance with Yukio after breaking up with Forge and, now at peace with herself, attends the wedding of Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom in Manchester.
This is a "between-the-panels" short story that attempts to figure out what Mary Jane Watson's thoughts would have been after the end of Amazing Spider-Man #149.
At the close of her eventful stay in Pittsburgh (ASM #291-292), Mary Jane visits her mother's grave.
In a rare quiet moment, actress and mother Mary Jane Watson-Parker muses about her life with Peter, what it means to be the wife of a superhero, and her friends. (sequel to Point of No Return and Before the Plunge)
One possible ending for Raven and Val, far in the future...
About a year after the X-Men's death, Logan and Raven sit down in a bar to talk about lost friends and loved ones and the difficulties of raising children. Mystique has something to tell Wolverine...
Seven years after the deaths of Rogue and Magneto, a friend relates his personal reminiscences of them to Rogue's foster sisters, Irene and Hope.
If you've read The Survivor Has a Different Kind of Scar and wondered what happened to the other X-Men in that timeline, you'll find some answers here, as Bobby Drake tells about his life and that of the Original Five.
Set in the alternate future of The Survivor Has a Different Kind of Scar and The Iceman's Tale, in 2022: Girl (Hope Cooper, 2nd daughter of Mystique and Val Cooper) meets Girl (Marygay Parker, eldest daughter of Spider-Man and Mary Jane) and they fall in love.
After the events of Getting To Know You, Hope Cooper and Marygay Watson visit Hope's family's Thanksgiving gathering in Washington, allowing a look at the state of the Darkhölme family ten years before The Survivor Has a Different Kind of Scar.
A guided tour through an exhibition of Piotr Rasputin's realistic art in ca. 2026. The drawings, prints and paintings tell a story of the lives of the artist and his friends.
When Val Cooper is mortally injured in action, Rogue tries to rescue her by permanently absorbing her personality and memories, initiating major changes not just to her own life but to those of her lover Magneto and Val's life-partner Mystique. This story is set in the year 2001 in a new timeline, Twilight Yet to Come (I've started the work on plotting at least two follow-up stories). Technically, the timeline has been seen before, albeit briefly, during Robert Drake's timetravelling in The Iceman's Tale -- in it, Maddy survived, Jean is married to Logan, and Kitty is with Alistaire (please don't hit me, Luba!). The opening scenario is somewhat foreshadowed by Rogue's dream in Late Summer Interlude(R).
After Rogue absorbed Val Cooper's personality, two minds have to learn to share one body. In spite of the inherent frictions, Rogue and Magneto discover that thanks to the new situation they can fulfill a dream on which they had already given up; on the other hand the pain of the enforced separation of Mystique and her former life-partner Val Cooper does not go away as easily...
At the end of Strange Headfellows, Valerie Cooper's consciousness was transferred to a cloned body. But the course of events leads her to a decision that shocks her loved ones...
In the sequel to Between the Winds, Mystique deals with losing the two great loves of her life, Destiny and Val Cooper. Through her eyes, readers see the years up until 2014, when Val and Raven's younger daughter Hope graduates at the School in Snow Valley and Val's clone-sister Heloise becomes the classmate of Rogue and Magneto's daughter Harriet. Real-life events are interspersed with dream sequences.
Two sestinas tell the stories of Mystique and Val Cooper and how they found each other. The story related here fits in both with the main timeline (and, by extension, the "Days of Future Twilight") and with that of "Twilight Yet to Come".
Rogue encapsulates her romance with Magneto in the mandatory 14 lines, in a poem written during Rogue's pregnancy in "Strange Headfellows".
Hank McCoy explores his love for Trish in a sonetto doppio. This fits in both with the main timeline and with that of "Twilight Yet to Come".
Hank McCoy expounds her beauty to his wife in intimate detail, ending up with an erotic poem of 20 stanzas. This fits in both with the main timeline and with that of "Twilight Yet to Come".
After a long break, Val and Ray return to review "The Fellowship of the Ring", "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and many other well-known and less well-known US and European movies of the past two years. (March 2002)
Val and Ray review "Star Wars: Episode Two". Because there is no Spider-Man Movie in their reality, it is reviewed by Tilman Stieve in the postscript. (July 2002)
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