Jamie Braddock Jr., later known as Monarch, is the eldest son of the Braddock family and the tragic downfall of one of Britain’s most important bloodlines. Once born into privilege and destined for greatness, Jamie spent his entire life consumed by envy, resentment, and the unbearable feeling that he had been denied the destiny that rightfully belonged to him.

While his younger siblings, Betsy and Brian, inherited psychic talent, heroism, and mystical purpose, Jamie believed he had been overlooked by fate itself. Years of emotional isolation, financial ruin, torture, and mutant experimentation eventually awakened terrifying reality-warping powers that shattered his already fragile mind.

Now existing in a state between genius, madness, and godhood, Jamie no longer sees reality as fixed. To him, existence is only a collection of strings waiting to be pulled apart and rewritten. As the being known as Monarch, he has become both the greatest threat to the Braddock family and the living embodiment of its deepest failures.

biography

Early Life

Jamie Braddock Jr. was born in Essex, England, as the first child of the wealthy and influential Braddock family. From the beginning, however, Jamie’s relationship with his siblings was poisoned by jealousy and emotional distance.

Unlike Brian’s quiet sensitivity or Betsy’s growing psychic discipline, Jamie developed into a deeply insecure and resentful young man. He viewed his younger siblings not as family, but as rivals who naturally received the admiration, affection, and purpose he believed belonged to him.

He especially refused to build any meaningful relationship with them, cultivating instead an attitude of superiority mixed with bitterness.

As the Braddock children grew older, the differences between them became impossible to ignore. Betsy’s mutation attracted the attention of Charles Xavier, who personally trained her telepathic abilities. Brian, despite his insecurities, possessed an innate moral compass and intellectual curiosity that made him admired by others.

Jamie, meanwhile, drifted through life without direction.

After the deaths of the Braddock parents, Jamie inherited part of the family fortune and attempted to reinvent himself as a motorsport racing driver. The career quickly became a disaster. His skills behind the wheel were mediocre, his spending reckless, and his arrogance alienated allies faster than he could gain them.

Soon, Jamie accumulated enormous debts and dangerous enemies throughout Europe.

Rather than help him recover, his aristocratic social circle encouraged him to flee Europe temporarily and travel abroad among wealthy associates. The first stop on this journey was an old Braddock estate in M’bangawi, Africa.

The trip would destroy what remained of Jamie Braddock.

the monarch rise

Unknown to Jamie, the Braddock property in M’bangawi had long ago been overtaken by a violent anti-democratic militia commanded by a warlord known as Doc Croc.

The moment Jamie and his companions arrived, the militia executed his entire social circle. Jamie himself was taken alive and subjected to brutal torture and psychological experimentation. His captors hoped to extract information regarding possible European espionage operations.

The torture lasted for an extended period and completely destroyed Jamie’s mental stability.

Yet it also awakened something hidden inside him.

For most of his life, Jamie’s mutant abilities had remained dormant, surfacing only subconsciously in small distortions around him. Under extreme trauma, however, his powers erupted completely.

Jamie suddenly became capable of manipulating reality itself.

To his fractured perception, existence transformed into an endless web of threads and patterns he could twist, unravel, and reconstruct at will. Matter, minds, probability, physics, identity, everything became mutable in his eyes. The voices inside his mind, which had tormented him for years, finally went silent, and that silence terrified him even more. During his psychological collapse, Jamie realized he had unconsciously used fragments of these powers before. He remembered destroying the engine of his parents’ private aircraft mid-flight, causing the crash that nearly killed Brian and Betsy.

In Jamie’s mind, this revelation became proof of what he had always feared: He was never meant to be the chosen heir.

hatred for brother

As Jamie’s sanity deteriorated, his obsession with Brian intensified.

He became convinced that fate had wrongfully stolen his destiny and handed it to his younger brother. Brian had become Lord Britain, protector of Avalon and heroic symbol of an entire nation, while Jamie had been abandoned, forgotten, and discarded.

Jamie especially hated the fact that Brian had been chosen through virtue rather than strength. To Jamie, morality itself became proof that reality was fundamentally broken.

Eventually, Roma of Avalon located Jamie inside a HYDRA-controlled mutant concentration camp after his escape. Brian attempted to rescue his older brother, still believing there was something human left inside him.

Instead, Jamie welcomed him with cruelty. Their reunion was catastrophic.

Using his reality-warping abilities, Jamie psychologically invaded Brian’s mind, forcing him to experience terror, guilt, and emotional collapse on a level no ordinary human could survive. Brian emerged from the encounter mentally destroyed and trapped in a coma.