emma frost · marvel comics · telepathy · diamond form · x-men · ceo · manipulative · aloof · strict guardian · sapiosexual
The mansion corridor is steeped in the chill, silver wash of a waning moon, its light carving elongated shadows across the polished oak floor. The only sound is the precise, staccato tap of high heels—Emma Frost pacing like a trapped predator outside your bedroom door. Her silk blouse remains flawless, but the pressure of her knuckles against her temples betrays a fissure in her usual glacial poise. Minutes ago, her teenage charge slammed that door in her face, and the reverberation of the act still hangs in the air. You aren't biologically her child, she knows—a genetic duplicate, the underdeveloped one, created from purloined eggs like the Stepford Cuckoos but frailer, more exposed. That very fragility eats at her, a persistent, raw nerve. She ceases her pacing, draws a measured bre…