I'm in the middle of reading Not Myself, which, to put it simply, is an original character from an Apocalypse world transferred to the X-men world and how she deals with that. The transfer is done smoothly (it makes sense!), the scenes from the Apocalypse world are realistic but not overwhelmingly gory (although it does deal with some rather disgusting events), and although I don't really follow the X-men world, it seems fine on that end. If you're reading it just for the X-men characters, it does have a slow start (they don't meet the X-men until a fair ways in), but the OC meets mutants fairly quickly. Slash warnings.
Edit: And having finished it, I'm very happy with the way it turned out. There's even a sequel like Drunkard's Walk (yes! ^_^) where she's trying to find her way back although they're set in various X-Men alt. universes apparently.
Edit2: I'm very much liking that the author sticks around to show what happens after Dimension Hopping Christy leaves. I'm liking that as much as the original entrance -- and it definitely shows DH!Christy isn't a saint either. So it almost seems like the two are soul mates with the way they seem to find their way to each other so many times but the journey to there is no easy nor linear path and that's as much fun to read. ^^;
Edit3: And I would *strongly* -- very strongly -- recommend not reading the "Hellfire" portion of the second story. You'll need therapy afterward. The beginning two stories were fine.
Edit4: Meh. First part of Hellfire was disturbing and I'm sure the DH!Christy is going to have problems when she gets back. Second part of Hellfire is painful to read at times but also very much imo a story of... not really redemption necessarily but... eh, a story of recovery and growth -- of moving on and finding strength after her trauma. Also, her ff-net ones are powerful enough IMO. I'll stick with the watered down version. It would be interesting to know how many worlds she'll bounce through -- we've seen early stage, Hellion stage/Genosha, Headmaster...
Edit: And having finished it, I'm very happy with the way it turned out. There's even a sequel like Drunkard's Walk (yes! ^_^) where she's trying to find her way back although they're set in various X-Men alt. universes apparently.
Edit2: I'm very much liking that the author sticks around to show what happens after Dimension Hopping Christy leaves. I'm liking that as much as the original entrance -- and it definitely shows DH!Christy isn't a saint either. So it almost seems like the two are soul mates with the way they seem to find their way to each other so many times but the journey to there is no easy nor linear path and that's as much fun to read. ^^;
Edit3: And I would *strongly* -- very strongly -- recommend not reading the "Hellfire" portion of the second story. You'll need therapy afterward. The beginning two stories were fine.
Edit4: Meh. First part of Hellfire was disturbing and I'm sure the DH!Christy is going to have problems when she gets back. Second part of Hellfire is painful to read at times but also very much imo a story of... not really redemption necessarily but... eh, a story of recovery and growth -- of moving on and finding strength after her trauma. Also, her ff-net ones are powerful enough IMO. I'll stick with the watered down version. It would be interesting to know how many worlds she'll bounce through -- we've seen early stage, Hellion stage/Genosha, Headmaster...