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❥ Character Information

Character Name: Rogue (Anna Marie)
Character Age: mid-30s (appears late 20s/early 30s)
Character Species: Mutant (Homo superior)
Current Health: Alive
Outfit: Here.

Character Canon: Marvel 616
Link to History: Here.
Canon Point: After Wonder Man appears in "Coda" (Uncanny Avengers #23)
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: n/a

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills:
- Proficiency with swords and big sticks (bo staff)
- Throwing cards as weapons
- Hand to hand combat & acrobatics
- Lock picking & slight of hand
- Mental fortitude against telepaths and mental manipulation
- Fixing things at a mechanic level
- Adaptability & relatively improved self control
- Getting under someone's skin (pun intended)

Rogue can also temporarily absorb learned skills from others through skin on skin touch.

Canon Abilities: Her mutation is life force absorption. With the life force comes memories, powers, skills, physical attributes, and sometimes personality traits. At this current canon point she does not have control. If she obtains consent to borrow powers, the process is fluid and not painful, but if there is no consent to take life force, the process will be painful and jarring. If she takes too much she can put the other person in a coma and potentially kill them. She also currently has Wonder Man's ionic powers and these are permanent. More on her mutation and the Wonder Man's powers are here.
Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: Striped skunk as it's always been a running joke with how her hair looks, but the skunk is also a very "look don't touch" animal. Given her aptitude for picking up new skills and powers on the fly, she will pick up form changing fairly quickly as well. When her temper flares, cute little skunk ears might appear, fighting her hair volume for visibility by others.
Role Reasoning: Having walked the path of a villain to hero, Rogue knows that wrong and right are often a matter of perspective, and that often a little moral flexibility is required to solve a problem. Take how she utilizes her mutation in conflicts by stealing powers and either incapacitating the threat or bolstering her position by power stacking. The goal is always to stop the fight quickly and avoid noncombatant casualties and injuries. She's also defied orders from her leaders, teamed up with questionable characters, and made the decision to sacrifice one to save billions.

At her canon point, she's still working on maturing her way to a leadership role in the Avengers. In Folkmore, the goal is for her to continue those efforts, working on her intimacy issues, power control, and confidence in herself as a hero to the point where she'd take an opportunity to role switch to Legend seriously.

❥ Personality

What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?

Among her litany of traumatic experiences--both hers and those she's experienced of others when she touches them--there are two key events that alter her and her path. The first was the activation of her mutation. While kissing her childhood crush Cody Robbins, she absorbed enough of his life force to put him in a coma. Instead of coping in any sort of healthy manner, she threw herself into her adopted mothers' terrorist cause: The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

Following her mother Mystique's lead, Rogue took it upon herself to attack Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) to horrifying results: Carol in a coma left for dead and Rogue permanently absorbing the other woman's powers and persona. This is the second traumatic experience that completely shifts her as a person. As one can imagine, having another person and their traumas knocking around in her head really fucks her teenager self up.

After a tour of angry, terrorist-lyfe behavior, which includes lashing out by defeating most of the Avengers and fighting the mutant heroes the X-Men, Rogue finally concludes that she needs proper help. She leaves the Brotherhood and goes to Professor Xavier, the leader of the X-Men, begging for assistance with her mutation. He accepts and her redemption era began.

These two traumas will continue to affect her for years, the guilt of both lingering heavy on her self-worth. Is she only a hero because of Carol's influence? How much of what's good in her is from Ms. Marvel? Can she ever be forgiven for such a horrific violation? Rogue's still working through all that.

What are your characters dreams and nightmares? Do you believe they are more likely to obtain one rather than the other?

Both her dreams and nightmares are rooted in her mutation. She dreams to regain autonomy over her powers without the aid of others. Recently and with the help of Professor X's telepathic powers, Rogue experienced a large stretch of time where she had control over her mutation. It allowed her to grow her confidence as an integral member of the X-Men as well as work on her intimacy issues without the constant fear of hurting others.

While she wants to be able to touch others normally, Rogue does not want to 'cure' her mutation.

Since the slightest brush of her skin to another's can pull life force, it's no surprise that the bulk of her nightmares consist of a repeat of Cody or Carol, a childhood crush and a stranger respectfully. The idea of scaling the violation and trauma of those experiences up to a lover or a close friend was already terrifying, but what if she lost control to the point of a coma or worse? There are panels that depict this, showing her best friend and love as a skeleton husk due to her touch.

Her absolute worst nightmare? That her powers somehow become worse, growing to the point where she no longer requires touch to activate them while she still doesn't have control. That she would just suck the life force out of anyone within a certain radius from her. We know this because exactly this happens and she describes it as her worst nightmare.

What does your character feel like they struggle with still? Where could they improve? This could be physically, mentally, emotionally, or otherwise.

While she puts on a good face as an Avenger, she struggles with feeling as though she deserves to be part of the Unity Division, a squad put together by old man Steve Rogers to show humans that the Avengers and X-Men were on good terms again after nearly destroying the Earth fighting each other. No stress there. With her past full of muddy moral waters and after losing control of her powers, she doesn't always feel like the best choice for a such an important marketing campaign.

In fact, the mutant still has quite a bit of guilt she should probably work through properly. Just before arriving at Folkmore, Rogue's fresh from finally defeating a telepathic Red Skull by way of almost killing a teammate with an insanely high healing factor due to the fact that she 'let' the Red Skull into her mind. Though Wade more than forgives her for turning him into Deadpool Burger, she feels as though she failed her team, her friend, and someone she cares about. It doesn't exactly make her feel like a good person, or Avengers material

She would also really like control of her mutation again. It was both maddening and devastating to lose control of her powers again after having control. She feels it's something that she needs to do on her own for it to stick, though.

Is your character capable of forgiveness or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind?

Rogue has and will hold a grudge, but she will also forgive and give others a second chance. There's some inconsistencies in the comics regarding the intensity of grudge holding, but that can be attributed to having multiple writers over the years.

The most recent example is that of her relationship with her fellow mutant Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), who while entrenched in grief of losing her children decimated the global mutant population with her reality changing abilities. Millions of mutants suddenly became only hundreds in an instant. With three words, the mutants were an endangered species.

On top of hating Wanda for what Rogue views as genocide, the looming extinction led to the events of the Phoenix Force returning to Earth, the war between the X-Men and the Avengers, and ultimately the murder of her father figure Professor Charles Xavier. Unsurprisingly, she blames Wanda for not only the murder of Xavier, but for unleashing the telepathic Red Skull onto the world. As one can imagine, Rogue's absolutely delighted when Wanda's assigned to the Unity Squad with her.

Through the course of the Uncanny Avengers series there are ups and downs, but most importantly, Rogue eventually puts aside her grudge at first for the greater good, then because she eventually forgives Wanda.

In most cases, Rogue goes by current actions and intent rather than previous failures. She was given a second chance after the horrible things she did, so she tries her best to extend that grace in honor of Charles. And it's the right thing to do.

❥ Player Information

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