All right. If you're sure. [Here goes everything.] Mystique is mah mother. Not by birth, but she adopted me. Raised me. Ah know she loves me, but she's done things ta me that...

She didn't like mah boyfriend so she posed as a student at the school we teach at ta seduce him and break us up. She joined the X-men later, shot me, put me in a coma, and then risked killin' an infant ta bring me back. All on the chance that Ah'd love her again, because that's what some prophecy told her.

[There's a whole lot more to it, but that's Mystique's part of the mess in a nutshell. Let the awkward commence.]