Hey Rachel, what's the deal with Brew? I mean, he's brood, right? He should be

aliening around the air ducts with a ray gun, but instead he's super polite and I've never seen him try

to parasitically impregnate someone. So what gives?

Well, that's because he's a mutant brood, Miles. You know how Warlock is the only technarch who doesn't want to kill his father? It's the same basic deal.

But he was super bloodthirsty for like a year. He ate a dinosaur. I remember that distinctly. Well, that was after he got shot in the head and the brain damage sort of hard reset him to default brood behavior.

Biring head injuries, bruise a lover not a fighter.

Actually, I think he's more of a scholar than a lover, but the point stands.

So how do you recover?

Well, Dr. Xanatos star blood abducted Bruh from the Hellfire Academy.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, I thought he was at the Gene Grey School.

He is now, again.

And it's not like the Hellfire Academy was around for more than a few weeks, but anyway, Dr. Starblood abducted him,

while Brew was still feral, only a bampf had snuck aboard the ship. You remember the bampfs, right?

Yeah, yeah, those little blue teleporting dudes of demonic extraction who got turned good via night crawler's blood in heaven?

Yeah, those guys. Anyway, Brood bit the bamf.

Okay. And once he got its blood in his mouth, it opened some kind of gateway to the afterlife,

at which point Nightcrawler, who was still dead at this point,

convinced Brew to remember his true mellow vegetarian self.

What? I'm Rachel Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men.

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