X-men: The First Divergence
What if time were broken not once, but over and over, by the one man cursed to remember every fracture?
Julian Marek was never meant to survive. Born with a golden clock-eye and a power that rewinds, freezes, and consumes time itself, he once believed he could change the world. That belief was shattered by the timeline he tried to save.
Now a jaded wanderer with a clock counting down in his chest, Julian drifts through decades, not to be a hero, but to outrun the ruins he left behind. From the jungles of war-torn Asia to the shadowy corners of Cold War espionage, he walks alongside legends like Logan, fights with Charles and Erik before they're icons, and rewrites history even as it tears him apart.
But time doesn’t forget.
From the first sparks of the X-Men to the bleak apocalypse of the Sentinel future, Julian stands at every breaking point — a phantom in the margins of history. He helps mutants in secret, kills when no one else can, and watches the people he once trusted call him a monster.
Then, in the final days — when the Sentinels rise and the world burns — Julian returns not to be forgiven, but to end the timeline himself.
He saves them. And none of them remember.
Awakened in a reset world where the young are innocent, the school is full, and the monsters wear smiles, Julian lives among strangers who were once family. Logan is gone. Xavier is kind again. But he remembers the blood, the betrayals, the silence.
And time is still ticking.
As the modern MCU looms, with gods, invasions, and universal collapse, Julian Marek — code-named Red Shift — watches from the edges. Not as a savior. Not as a villain.
But as the one man who already lived this once…
And won’t let it break again.
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