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backwaterbelle) wrote2000-07-14 07:34 pm
backwaterbelle) wrote2000-07-14 07:34 pm
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Name: Schist Age: 38 Contact: plurk: Schist | discord: .schist. Timezone: PST Other Character(s): N/A |
Name: Rogue Door: Door pass - Submissive Canon: Marvel 616 Canon Point: After Wonder Man appears in "Coda" (Uncanny Avengers #23) aka after making out with Deadpool. Don't knock it til you try it! Age: mid-30s (appears late 20s/early 30s) Appearance: x | x | x History: Here. Personality: [+] EMPATHETIC: With everything that she’s endured and survived, Rogue’s capacity for empathy has grown exponentially since her mutant power manifested. Not only can she draw from her own eclectic and often traumatic escapades, but she’s able to pull from the memories that she’s absorbed with her mutation, having experienced them through her touch. While caught in an alternate reality apocalyptic pocket dimension where mutants were fighting a losing war of survival against humans, Rogue was known as Legacy. As the name suggests, she acted as the compilations of all the mutants who they’d lost to the war, absorbing the remaining life force within them during their last moments. This way, they’d have a living memorial of memories within her mind. She also gave the dying peace of passage. The other survivors took to calling her Reaper instead, which she hated, but she continued to perform her duty until the X-Men broke free of the dimension. Once freed, many of the mutants involved in the Age of X chose to have one of the telepaths wipe those horrors from their minds, but not Rogue. She made a promise that she keeps to the present day: to honor the Legacy of the fallen. As a villain turned hero, she’s particularly empathetic to those in similar plights, folks that have lost their ways or who are struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel, the good within themselves. Most everyone deserves a second chance, a path to forgiveness if they’re willing to work at that. During her time with the Unity Squad, she’s able to show Wade a better path, relatively speaking, and they become closer than she expected. Her empathetic nature builds the platform for as well as allows her generosity and kindness to shine through her mess of negative traits, to fight for the hope of Xavier’s dream, and to even deescalate her own anger given time. [-] IMPULSIVE: Rogue's a firecracker of a woman. She tends to behave impulsively, often blinded or corralled by intense emotions and desires, both selfish and altruistic alike. As a child, her parents were absent and her maternal aunt was strict and cruel, so she decided to take care of herself and run away from home. She also impulsively initiated her first kiss as a teen, which triggered her life force sucking mutant abilities and traumatically put her crush in a coma. Later, she overhears that Ms. Marvel will be the cause of pain and suffering in her life from her precog adoptive mother, so she decides to protect herself and attacks Carol, which ultimately was the foreseen tragedy. For a large chunk of her adult life, Rogue’s been more or less invulnerable, which only cemented her often crass and cavalier attitude. She takes unnecessary risks in battle while goading foes and making offhanded jokes, brushing aside the seriousness of the situation because she’s accustomed to not facing direct consequences herself. Hell, she frequently bodily throws herself without abandon at threats like an undead Hulk or the physical barrier of the Dark Dimension. The southerner’s the same with her words, often speaking her mind with little tact or grace, such as when she calls out Iceman’s father for being a bigot or telling off Wanda on multiple occasions. To make things messier, that impulsivity affects her relationships heavily. Given her mutation, Rogue craves and chases intimacy and positive feelings, but will pull away and flee when things get hard or hurt, retreating with little warning. There’s the time where she rushed into a committed relationship with Erik after a hell of a one night stand (at the time she had control of her mutation), then as soon as it became more serious, she swiftly decided she needed to help Logan run the school in New York across the country. She’s also quick to judge, once abandoning her best friend, partner, and future husband in Antarctica without a means of returning home when she finds out about horrific deeds he’d done in the past. [-] INSECURE: Even with all she’s accomplished and overcome, Rogue still has some rather serious insecurities and fears that she struggles with on the regular. The most rooted fears center around her mutation, and it’s complicated. Time and time again it’s shown that her biggest fear is to accidentally touch those she cares about. Incidents in the Mojoverse and on the Astral Plane depict these fears in graphic detail. First it would be a violation of thoughts and emotions, of memories that would later haunt her to the end of her days, but not before she brought them to the end of theirs, leaving them a drained husk of the person she loved. While her touch destroys, it also protects her as The Untouchable Girl. When she’s captured on Genosha her powers are taken from her, and it’s alluded to that terrible things happen to her without her consent. Her mutation will always be an intrinsic part of her. But, it’s a double edged sword, both safety and danger tangled together, and she fears unraveling that and facing the reality of what having control would finally mean. And so she runs from that control, from that fear. There’s also the fact that people viewing her as a hero unsettles her. She’s done horrible things. Her powers have done horrible things. And she typically was of sound mind and body when they happened. Despite being a long standing member of the X-Men and now the Avengers, Rogue still doubts whether she deserves to be held in such high regard even after saving Earth from being destroyed by a Celestial (and countless other sacrifices). She displays leadership qualities in the field with the Unity Squad fighting the Undead Hulk, and again when benching Wade to gather reinforcements and be their support if the Red Skull took out the first team. That decision was pivotal in taking the Skull down, yet Rogue still tends to deflect and push back against folks calling her a hero or leader. [-] PETTY: Rogue has and will hold a grudge and be petty, but the former tends to be reserved for deeper betrayals. 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, that 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. Rogue eventually works through that grudge and forgives (mostly) Wanda, but not after murdering her with borrowed bone claws in a now erased branch of time. On a less all or nothing level of ire, the southerner consistently puts the P in petty by creatively sprinkling in her displeasure to her own delight, a quick return karmic kickback. She yeeted Wade (Deadpool) into a seafood truck rather than a pillow truck when she was angry with him, and pulled the alarm on Remy (Gambit) after she crashed his heist to ask for advice (that he gave her). After the Avengers and X-Men fought, an Avengers Unity Squad was formed--with Rogue as a member--to show the normal humans everything was Just Fine, and the mutant brought a large framed painting of the Charles Xavier to replace the one in the Avengers Mansion of the founding members. It was inspired, honestly. Powers and Abilities: Life Force Absorption Rogue has the ability to use skin-on-skin physical contact to absorb the powers, energies, memories, knowledge, talents, personality, and physical abilities (superhuman or otherwise) of another human, mutant, or even some sentient alien races. In gaining another person’s memories, she also gains the emotional responses connected to them. Her mutation only works on living organic beings, and may possess the powers of several superhumans at once. If two of these beings maintain skin-on-skin contact while she touches either person, Rogue (when she has control) is able to absorb from both beings. The transfer is usually temporary to the duration of physical contact at a 60:1 ratio, but can be permanent in some cases. No upper limit has been determined in regards to the number of superhumans’ power she can maintain simultaneously, or the amount of power she can absorb. However, during Uncanny Avengers Rogue absorbed the powers of nearly all the X-Men and Avengers in order to save Earth from a certain death at the feet of the Celestial Exitar, but that much power drove her mad. It’s been documented on smaller scales (relative to the aforementioned event) that her control over absorbed abilities and powers decreases the more she possesses. Duplicity Nerf: My preference is for her mutation to stay active and for her to be forced to creatively work around it in game. However, there could be a limitation of the quantity of power absorptions she can manage at once as well as a curb of her ability to absorb the entirety of a person and effectively kill them. I'd like her to still be able to take on enough life force to render the donor unconscious. There is an ooc permissions/opt out option for other characters in her journal. Wonder Man Since Rogue has permanently absorbed Simon Williams aka Wonder Man, she now has superhuman strength, durability, stamina, reflexes, speed, and agility. She's also able to fly at speeds rivaling that of speedsters, as she's shown racing Quicksilver and keeping pace. It's argued that she's more or less functionally immortal and no longer visibly ages due to the ionic energy from Simon. Duplicity Nerf: None of these will be world breaking. General Combat Skills While she's spent a large chunk of her adult life with permanent durability, super-strength, and flight due to fully absorbing Carol Danvers and later Simon, Rogue's able to hold her own in physical combat without them. Thanks to Gambit she's learned to handle a bo staff and Nightcrawler has taught her how to handle swords. Thanks to both she's now quite acrobatic. The rest of her combat skills have come from years of Danger Room simulation training and fighting against all sorts of threats from the mundane to the extremely freaking weird. Lockpicking Her on again off again boyfriend is a lifelong thief and the King of the Thieves guild. Since they've both been captured more times than they care to count (together and solo), he's taught her how to pick locks and escape various restraints. It's canon foreplay for them. Inventory: - Magneto's helmet from when she fought the telepathic Red Skull - Her Reaper/Legacy costume. - Power dampening tennis bracelet Samples: TDM Top Level Another |
