Thinking About Erik’s Daughter Nina Górska’s Life In A World Where She Left That Forest Alive, Even

Thinking about Erik’s daughter Nina Górska’s life in a world where she left that forest alive, even if her mother did not. To escape the Polish authorities, she and her papa emigrate to Westchester and move into the mansion. She is quick to bond with Charles and her older siblings. She grows up at the school and develops an enjoyment of music, particularly singing, but her greatest passion is a natural result of her mutation, and she is determined to use her connection with animals to make a difference in the world. Her singing is like a beacon to the animals around her, and thus it only takes one viewing of Snow White to make her an ardent Disney Princess fan because she just gets it. With Charles gladly paying every cent, she eventually heads off to college for her degree in biology and music. She changes her legal surname to Lehnsherr to show her pride in being her father’s daughter, and most likely obtains American citizenship while never forgetting her Polish roots. She is fluent in Polish, English, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. It is she who helps Charles to realize his power does indeed extend to animals, thus they enjoy having three-way conversations with dogs and horses. Her mutation gives her unprecedented influence over the animal rights movement and she becomes an icon of zoological studies and veterinary practices, traveling the world decreasing poaching, encouraging vegetarian diets, creating new habitats, and saving multiple species from extinction, quite possibly reaching a global level of fame in the process. She becomes close friends with figures like Jane Goodall, to whom she is held in equal public regard, and Koko. Eventually in her travels, she meets a fellow activist who just may be a mutant as well, and they happily marry and have daughters (one of whom is named after Magda) to whom she sings the bedtime lullaby that her papa sang to her. I doubt she’s one of the actual X-Men; her powers aren’t very combat-worthy and she’s not interested in a violent lifestyle. But if ever trouble arises, she is quick to rally an army of the nearest birds and critters to protect her loved ones. Peter, Wanda, and Lorna insist she have a unique and proper mutant name of her own, team member or not, and so she becomes known as Fauna.