"They are children, and so far the world has shown them nothing but... the worst of humanity's ill will and prejudice. They need reasons to trust you. Until you give them that you are exactly what they, and you, think you are. Give them something. Something more than running away from them." -- Charles Xavier Imagine a world with costumed heroes, where they have been before and have now come again. The world had its Captain Americas, its Union Jacks, and it came to trust them -- then it cast them aside when they became politically inconvenient. Decades later, mutants and other metahumans began to appear, many taking up where the costumed crime fighters of the generations before had left off. Some have registered with the government, giving up their identities in order to have official sanction to do good in the world. Others refuse, operating outside the law but winning some public support simply by helping those who need it most. Heroes Awakening MUX is a world that melds Marvel and DC, a place where comic realities collide. Taking inspiration from classic stories like Alan Moore's Watchmen, we seek to strike a balance between high heroics and introspective realism -- ours is a world where heroes are equal measures feared and needed. The MUX opens in fall of 2010 with a Year One theme: the first costumed, powered heroes have only just begun to appear in the world. There's plenty of room to take characters and stories in new directions, to leave a lasting mark on our world as its story begins to unfold. Come and browse our Theme files if you'd like to know more. Welcome! ^[1]