Tales of the Twilight Menshevik
By Tilman Stieve,
aka the Menshevik

Sisters under Their Skins - Fantastic Four, written in dialogue.
Author's Note: This, my very first attempt at fan-fiction, dates back six years, (it first appeared in Westchester Menshevik Annual #1, Feb. 1992), so please be gentle. What prompted it was Fantastic Four #358, where Johnny Storm's wife, shortly after having been unmasked as a Skrull, apparently died. Now read on...
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Midnight Sun - A between-the-panels tale of Rogue and Magneto during their time in the Savage Land, circa UXM 269-275.
Warning: Sexual content

A Year in the Life - An X-Factor story centering on Val Cooper and Mystique. Rogue appears as a supporting character. Author's Notes
Warning: Mature themes
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October 6: A Night 2 Remember - A turning point in Mystique and Valerie Cooper's lives from "A Year in the Life" is shown through both women's eyes."
Warning: Mature themes, sexual content

A Day's Work - Events at a big international conference on superpowered beings. Among the cast of thousands are Rogue (interacting mainly with Val Cooper and Magneto), Mystique, Kurt Wagner et al. Author's Notes
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Late Summer Interlude - Rogue visits Val & Ray and their baby daughter, then spends time with Magneto.
Warning: Sexual content.
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The Time the Twain Shall Meet - Big crossover involving Rogue, Magneto, X-Factor and DC's Hawk & Dove. Divided into sections for faster loading.
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Message to a Grandchild - In a letter to her unborn grandson, Mystique reflects on how she first met Irene Adler.
Warning: Mature themes

Ergo Bibamus 1: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry - During their affair, Logan goes out to a fancy restaurant with Jean Grey-Summers.
Rating: R (sexual content)

Lights in the Dark - Christmas/Hanukkah with the X-Men and their friends. Among other things, Rogue and Magneto celebrate Hanukkah with Kitty Pryde.
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Between the Woods and Frozen Lake - An White Queen/Iceman love story. Author's Notes
Warning: Sexual content.
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Ergo Bibamus 2: There's a Tavern Near the Town - Logan and Rogue go to Harry's Hideaway to relax and talk about recent events in their lives.
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Oboro: Hatsuhau - Ororo tries to come to terms with herself and her break-up with Forge. (part of a larger story arc)

Oboro: Yukaze - A night on the town for Ororo and Yukio turns into something more. (part of a larger story arc)
Warning: Sexual content.
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Someone Blue - Hank McCoy's wedding is the occasion for meetings of members from the various mutant teams.
Warning: Some mature themes, sexual references.
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A Ghazal for Valerie - Mystique's response to Val's poem at the end of "Someone Blue."

Oboro: Miyuki - Ororo and Yukio are reunited, and Ororo has a religious experience (or is it a drug-induced dream?). (part of a larger story arc)
Warning: Sexual content.

Valentine Allsorts - About four months after Someone Blue, the usual suspects celebrate Valentine's Day in their own inimitable ways.

The Ballad of Trish and Henry - After yet another extended stay at the Muir Island research centre, the Beast is reunited with his spouse.
Rating: R (sexual content)
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Reflections - 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.
Rating: PG-13 to mild R (a few sexual references, but nothing too explicit)

Oboro: Ariake - Ororo, now at peace with herself, attends the wedding of Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom in Manchester. Supporting cast of thousands supplied by various X-Men, Meddlers, Excaliburites and hangers-on. (part of a larger story arc)
Check out artwork of the wedding reception by Glockgal in the Fan Art section.

Rogue's Fairy Tale - Rogue tells her sisters Irene and Hope a special bedtime story.
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To My Dark-Haired Lady - Hank McCoy explores his love for Trish in a sonetto doppio. Fits in both with the main timeline and with that of "Twilight Yet to Come."
Rating: G to PG

The Raven and the Oriole - 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."
Rating: G to PG

Trish -- A Rapture - Hank McCoy expounds her beauty to his wife in intimate detail, ending up with an erotic poem of 20 stanzas. Fits in both with the main timeline and with that of "Twilight Yet to Come."
Rating: PG-13 to R; erotic poetry

Val and Ray at the Movies - Val Cooper and Raven Darkholme team up to review recent film releases:
• March 2002 - Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
• July 2002 - Star Wars: Episode II (plus, a Tilman Stieve review of Spider-Man

Tales of Future Twilight

Ergo Bibamus 3: Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes - 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...
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They Will Always Be Penny and Max to Me - 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.

Getting to Know You - Hope Cooper, daughter of Valerie Cooper and Mystique, meets Marygay Parker, daughter of Spider-man and Mary Jane Watson-Parker. The "typical" American "girl meets girl, falls in love" story, told in the form of an on-line comic.

Fourth Thursday in November - Hope Cooper brings Marygay Watson-Parker home for Thanksgiving to meet the family. A chance to look at the state of the Darkholme family ten years before the events in "The Survivor Has a Different Kind of Scar."

The Iceman's Tale - Iceman returns home from a mission with the Avengers, only to learn of the deaths of the X-Men -- and his wife Emma. He then resolves to go back in time to try to avert the tragedy.

Pictures at an Exhibition - 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.

The Survivor Has a Different Kind of Scar - Taking place in a possible future reality of this timeline, Mystique dwells on the deaths of Rogue and Kurt while trying to avoid facing the impending death of Valerie Cooper.

Twilight Yet to Come

Hang on to Your Ego - When Valerie Cooper is mortally injured in battle, all Rogue can do is absorb her essence permenantly. But what will be the ramifications of voluntarily sharing her mind with another -- not just for Rogue herself, but also for her lover Magneto, and for Mystique, Valerie's life-partner?
Rating: R (sexual content)

Strange Headfellows - 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...
Rating: PG/PG-13? References to sexual situations (M/F) and to Emma Frost's nipple-rings, but nothing explicit.
Check out the related artwork by Eckart Breitschuh and Stefan Dinter in the Fan Art section.

Sonnet for Magnus - Rogue encapsulates her romance with Magneto in the mandatory 14 lines. A poem written during Rogue's pregnancy in "Strange Headfellows."
Rating: G to PG

Between the Winds - At the end of "Strange Headfellows", Valerie Cooper's consciousness was transferred to a cloned body. But the course of events leads her to decision that shocks her loved ones...
Rating: Possibly PG-13 for mature-ish themes (suicide?)

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