Originally Posted by
CRaymond
My friends and I are volleying an MCU X-Men movie plot with Jubilee and Storm as the central protagonists. Positioning "Jubilation Lee" as a central point of view character requires a bit more humanizing and consideration. Points of interest: Her parents are still alive, she's discovered living in an abandoned mall, and she blows up a house!
The goal is to give Jube a backstory of an only child born to middle-aged Chinese immigrants. They'd tried for years for a child... only when she was finally born, they named her the Chinese word for celebration for how happy they were at her arrival. She's young and childish, so she kinda hates her name and goes by an Anglicized nickname instead. It's not until she embraces her found family of freaks that she also embraces her birth name, and chooses its translation for her Mutant Name.