POV: You are an X-Men (or Simon) and your beloved teammate is about to infodump to you about genetic mutations with literature quotes sprinkled in.

also, happy autism acceptance month!!! here’s some scotts

missed drawing X-Men: Burning Bright Scott and wanted to practice drawing hands, thus

people watching x-men 97: woah Scott Summers is actually kind of cool??

me (a Scott fan since I started reading the comics that has written several fics analyzing his character): I KNOW

do you know if we got think about Scott's loneliness.right now

pov you are about to get blasted by the percussive force beam of cyclops xmen

god scott must be so annoyed all the time with how much his glasses get dirty . (wears glasses and they get horrifically dirty all the time)

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o5 x-men as textposts #25

some fun redraw :)

how we feeling guys

printing this image out and putting it on my fridge it's an honour

based on that one crawfishcomic post....xavier is faking his death or something and left scott in charge.hes at the end of his rope

Here’s the thing about Scott:

He likes to blame his powers, the glasses for his inability to let loose and relax and not be so uptight and just have friends in general, but the secret is that Scott thinks that maybe he was always like this. Always on this edge of too weird. Scott doesn’t really remember his life before the accident, before the brain damage, but even back then he had a near encyclopedic knowledge of planes and a tendency to take things way too literally. Even before red took over his vision, he was called off putting and too serious. An alien in a world that spoke a second language of social cues he didn’t understand. The paranoia around the destruction his powers could cause just made what Jean calls his little quirks and others call his weirdness worse.

Scott knows there’s something wrong with him, that the brain damage changed him in ways he doesn’t realize but he knows Corsair and Alex know and don’t want to tell him. But there are things he fears are just him. Because he is weird. Because there is something wrong with him, his self not just his head, that makes people say that he’s off or a loner or just plain weird.

So Scott doesn’t take up the offer of fixing his brain when he is resurrected. He keeps the off-putting weirdness and red lenses that hide the fact that he doesn’t like making eye contact. Would he even be himself if he didn’t?

Here’s the thing about Scott:

He likes to blame his powers, the glasses for his inability to let loose and relax and not be so uptight and just have friends in general, but the secret is that Scott thinks that maybe he was always like this. Always on this edge of too weird. Scott doesn’t really remember his life before the accident, before the brain damage, but even back then he had a near encyclopedic knowledge of planes and a tendency to take things way too literally. Even before red took over his vision, he was called off putting and too serious. An alien in a world that spoke a second language of social cues he didn’t understand. The paranoia around the destruction his powers could cause just made what Jean calls his little quirks and others call his weirdness worse.

Scott knows there’s something wrong with him, that the brain damage changed him in ways he doesn’t realize but he knows Corsair and Alex know and don’t want to tell him. But there are things he fears are just him. Because he is weird. Because there is something wrong with him, his self not just his head, that makes people say that he’s off or a loner or just plain weird.

So Scott doesn’t take up the offer of fixing his brain when he is resurrected. He keeps the off-putting weirdness and red lenses that hide the fact that he doesn’t like making eye contact. Would he even be himself if he didn’t?