you should learn when to go

jeanne-marie beaubier. ‘aurora’. 21. tragically separated from her twin brother due to a mistake in the foster care system, jeanne-marie spent the first few years of her life as the adopted daughter of a pair of loving catholic parents. when she began to act out at around age eight, she was pulled from her private school and sent to a stricter boarding school, which promised to straighten her out and curtail her disturbing emotional outbursts. instead, they made it worse; at school, jeanne-marie was relentlessly bullied by her peers and abused by her teachers and caretakers. when jeanne-marie attempted to jump off the roof at the age of thirteen, she instead discovered she could fly, triggering the formation of her first alternate personality — aurora. aurora was everything jeanne-marie wanted to be; she was her protector. loud, flirtatious, brash, and aggressive, aurora refused to be cowed by the authority figures in her life, but her wild, impulsive behaviour quickly caught the attention of the police, and she was eventually institutionalised and diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. for the rest of her adolescence, she was in and out of the hospital, kicked out by her parents, crashing with friends, staying with older men, and all the while plagued with missing time and fugue states. it would only be years later that she would be correctly diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, with four alters identified. ‘aurora’ is the dominant alter and the one who fronts the most often, and it was aurora who caught the attention of department h; she was quickly recruited into their new alpha flight program, in exchange for their promise they would find and reunite her with her long-lost twin brother.