Piotr Rasputin has been a member of the X-Men for years, joining the second class of X-Men Xavier recruited. At that time, Piotr found meaning and joy in his work on the X-Men. However, recently, he has been struggling under the scrutiny of his teammates about his reckless streak and self-sacrificing tendencies, unable to see how dangerous his martyr complex is for himself, and how it affects the people around him, still unable to see how loved he is. 