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mistressofmagnetism) wrote2012-08-26 11:06 pm
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Player NAME: Ophelia
Current AGE: 23
Personal JOURNAL:616
IM & SERVICE: aim | telepathing
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mutants
Current CHARACTERS: Charles Xavier, Loki Laufeyson
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Lorna Dane (Polaris)
Canon & MEDIUM: Marvel Comics Earth-616 (Comics)
Canon PULL-POINT: Uncanny X-Men: #443: Directly after she attempts to kill Charles Xavier to prove a point; as she is leaving what is left of Genosha.
Character AGE: Approximately 36. Marvel's main continuity is kind of a hard one when it comes to character ages, but this seems the most appropriate given her history and adjusted to make a bit of finer sense.
Character ABILITIES:
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» magnetic field manipulation | Lorna, like her father, can manipulate magnetism in the earth and the air. She can manipulate and move objects that are made of metal without touching them, and she can meld and shape objects that are made from metal at her will. Lorna is capable of manipulating metal in any objects or substances that contain metal; for example, she is seen reversing the blood flow in the veins of her enemies with the use of the iron in their blood.
» magnetic flight | Lorna is capable of flight, as an extension of her manipulation of fields of magnetism.
» magnetic force fields | Using her magnetic power, Lorna is able to create force fields -- or shields -- around herself and some of her team-mates while she is in battle to protect them from harm, using the effects of her magnetic manipulation.
Character HISTORY:
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Lorna Dane, or Polaris, is primarily from Marvel's X-Men comics continuity (later X-Factor as well). Lorna is a mutant, born with green hair and latent powerful, magnetic capabilities. We first meet her when she is discovered with the use of Cerebro and found by Bobby Drake, who is the one to discover that she as dyed her hair brown from its natural green -- the very first indication that Lorna Dane is truly another mutant. Lorna's background is riddled by the expected twists and turns of any Marvel character, but is unique in that it has its ongoing themes, notably of which: Lorna has an unfortunate tendency to become kidnapped and possessed, or to have her mind otherwise manipulated by villains. Because of this, Lorna struggles with a very weak sense of self and, while battling her problems with self-esteem, she has the added destruction of her mutation continually taking a toll on her psychologically. There are very many points to make in the history of Lorna as a character, and I will touch on those that I find the most important to her character and the most important to her history and inter-personal relationships. These three major points are as follows: Lorna has often been possessed and manipulated by villains. Lorna has a passionate, on-and-off relationship with Alex Summers, better known as the X-Man, Havok; and Lorna is the illegitimate daughter of the mutant terrorist Magneto.
Lorna has been possessed. A lot. In fact, her latent magnetic powers were only discovered after she was kidnapped and hypnotized by Mesmero, who hooked her up to a machine with which he intended to stimulate her mutant power and unleash it. Mesmero was the first to implant the seed in Lorna's mind that she may, in fact, be the daughter of the infamous mutant, Magneto; he hypnotized her and he tricked her into believing that Magneto was truly her father, and he revealed her magnetic power to her for that purpose. It would eventually turn out, however, that the 'Magneto' she thought she knew as her father was nothing but a robot -- and Bobby Drake, with the research he had done into Lorna's adoptive parents, reassured her that her true parents had died in a plane crash and that Magneto could not possibly be her father. Once she was convinced of the presumed truth of her true parents' death, Lorna was able to help the X-Men (even with her newly developing mutant powers) defeat Mesmero and take down his operation.
Early in Lorna's life with the X-Men, she develops affectionate feelings for Bobby Drake. It is only a little later that she meets Alex Summers, with whom she finds herself the most attracted. It is after a kidnapping event by Sentinels that Lorna begins to become closer to Alex and closer to the X-Men. She decides to join them, both with the benefit of evolving her powers and skills and with the benefit of spending more time around Alex. Lorna and Alex developed a relationship with one another, strengthened by the fact that they were two X-Men who were not often involved in major missions. They went on missions together and they spent most of their time with one another, as they shared interests in geophysics and closeness as mutants. It is when Lorna and Alex are on a mission together and they are kidnapped by a group called the Promise, wherein Lorna discovers her capabilities of flight using her powers. This was another event in Lorna's history where she was made to believe something because her mind was assumed to be meldable and open for manipulation, as the Promise intended to force Lorna and Alex to conform to their own views on mutant-human relations.
Lorna and Alex continued to be involved in missions with the X-Men following these events. Lorna goes on to be mind-controlled into joining Eric the Red, before retiring in New Mexico with Alex and finishing up her Masters degree in geophysics; taking a much-needed break from superhero'ing for a time while she and Alex chose to lead normal lives as normal people. This doesn't last for long, however, as Xavier needs them once again. Lorna, of course, goes on to be possessed by Malice -- who shares her body for a long time following that event. It is when Zaladane convinces Lorna that she is her sister (seeing a pattern of lies and deceit here?) and uses a machine to transfer her powers that Lorna is finally purged of what remains of her possession by Malice. Insert more battles, a bit more craziness, but (thankfully) a bit less possession and mental manipulation here. Fast-forward to quite a few years in the future. Genosha.
Lorna sought out Magneto and joined him in Genosha, his own sort of country-for-mutants, under the premise of attempting to do good from the inside. However, it became clear that Lorna also had her own reasons for becoming a sort of protegé to Magneto, and that was to develop her magnetic powers beyond what she was already capable of. Lorna spent her time on Genosha with Magneto both in his good graces and out (at one point she was forced from the island after losing a fight with Magneto, only to return with the help of her half-brother, Pietro Maximoff). Ultimately, Lorna spent her time on Genosha under the guidance of Magneto and learning more from him than just training in her powers. When she snuck in the second time, however, she spent her time attempting to dismantle his rule from the underground. It was during this time (and during a time wherein Magneto was incapacitated due to a severed spinal cord) that Lorna stole some of the man's blood. It was with his blood that she finally had her proof, her confirmation from an unbiased source that she was truly the daughter of Magneto.
Lorna discovered that Magneto had effectively murdered her mother in the plane crash all those years ago. Enraged by her discovery, she returned to Genosha only to be hailed as their princess and greeted as though she were royalty. It was while she was adjusting to this new behavior and information that Genosha was attacked by Sentinels, completely massacreing all of the Genoshan people right in front of her eyes. It was in that moment that she became overwhelmed, surrounded by death and agony and unable to protect herself or protect the people of Genosha. It was in that moment that Lorna found herself suddenly sealing the truth of Magneto's words for her -- humanity hated mutants, and they were just as dangerous to them. Lorna was found on Genosha, naked and confused and calling Magneto "Daddy", and being utilized as a magnetic conductor for some sort of machine that was a black box containing the final memories of all of the former people of Genosha. Lorna was taken from Genosha before she was truly able to cope with the event, leading her to return to the X-Mansion in a violent and volatile state of mind. She finds that Alex's nurse, Annie, has fallen in love with him and she tries to attack and antagonize the woman in the infirmary. Her antagonism stems further as she proposed to Alex -- only to have her wedding called off on her wedding day, and her passionate anger enveloping her ever still. She became immensely angry, attacking Annie and Alex, before she was ultimately subdued by Juggernaut. Lorna was eventually given some much-needed mental therapy with the assistance of Xavier, to which she began to learn to control her anger.
Most notably, we come to Lorna's canon point. This is just before she's been de-powered after the events of House of M -- just as she's truly forming her own opinions, mixed with those of Magneto's. I am taking Lorna from after she meets with Pietro and Wanda Maximoff in the Avenger's mansion and asks them to come with her to Magneto's burial at Genosha (as he's assumed to be dead). It is in this issue that Lorna attempts to play devil's advocate, to argue her passionate points of mutant-human relations with Xavier. She attempts to kill him, to force him to fight back to save himself and prove her own point that one cannot sacrifice themselves for others to the degree that he does. Xavier does not give in, lets her know that he would rather die than fight back against one of his former students. Lorna, defeated, begins to cry and lets Xavier down to live. She then reconstructs the recently destroyed monument to Magneto (thanks, Wolverine) to feature both Xavier and Magneto together -- before walking out of frame. Her views have not been changed, but they've certainly been impacted.
Character PERSONALITY:
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Lorna was originally a quiet and friendly member of the X-Men, and of X-Factor. Unfortunately that is no longer the case. She has just confirmed that a well-known terrorist is her real father, witnessed the deaths of hundreds in the destruction of the "mutant utopia" of Genosha, sworn to herself that Magneto was right all along -- and has just tried to prove the passion of her point by attempting to kill Professor Charles Xavier. Lorna is angry, volatile, and wrought with personal issues; confused with who she really is in a whirlwind of interpersonal and super-villain problems. In her life, Lorna has gone through exceptional amounts of trauma. Because of being possessed more often than not, Lorna was not only the target for further possession and manipulation, but that put her in a position where she didn't have a lot of confidence in her own self. Who was she? Was she herself, or was she the crazy supervillain that had taken a hold of her mind and was making decisions for her? Lorna did not feel confident in her mind and in her body, and this was often taken advantage of by several villains. Lorna was originally very distrustful of those who attempted to help her cope with the traumatic experiences and memories left over from prior possessions. She did not trust the psychiatrist who attempted to help her, and she did not want to open her mind to anyone after all that she had gone through and how prone to manipulation she seemed to be. Lorna struggled desperately with her self-image and with trust issues. However, once Lorna joined X-Factor and allowed their superhero psychiatrist to assist her, she narrowed down her own feelings about herself (after much dieting and struggling with her self-image) and became the empowered Lorna Dane that we know today. She felt better about her image -- she felt a growth in her self-worth and she felt a beaming confidence, something that showed in her enthusiasm on the team.
At Lorna's canon point, she has just come from the most traumatic event of her life -- the massacre of 16 million people right before her eyes. She felt a helplessness then that she'd never felt before. A connection to the people who hailed her as a princess, and she couldn't do anything for them but watch them die. Even with her incredible mutant powers, Lorna was shaken with fear beyond the ability to help and that absolutely crushed her. She had just spent years training under Magneto, listening to his own beliefs and his own ideas and taking them into her own mind and heart. All it took was that culmination of events; discovering Magneto was truly her father, discovering herself hailed as royalty on Genosha, and being wrought completely helpless as 16 million people were slaughtered around her. Lorna now truly believed that humanity was evil -- and that Magneto was right, all this time. Lorna is struggling with an incredible amount of confusion and anger when she returns to the X-Mansion after this event. On top of her Genoshan trauma-fest, she finds out that her on-and-off boyfriend, Alex, has been in the care of a nurse who is very much in love with him. Being a rather manipulative and selfish person, Lorna just cannot handle this information. Her anger with this and with her previous circumstances makes her violent, and she lashes out at the woman instantly and threatens her with her powers. She starts to lash out at everyone, actually, making herself the most dangerous chick in the X-Mansion with all her ridiculous issues.
Lorna had become vindictive, her trauma overpowering her sense of self to such a degree, her discovery of her true relation to Magneto giving so much more weight to his terrorist-like beliefs in her mind. She now trusted this guy who everyone else always told her was the bad guy. She understood where he was coming from; fuck everyone else. She was his daughter, it was her place to live on in his name and fight for mutant rights in his footsteps. Her residual violence and her rage come to their peak just months later, where she is left at the altar by Alex (after being the pushy one who manipulated him into marriage in the first place). Lorna's just a tiny, meager, little bit manipulative. She always wore the pants in the relationship with Alex and always took the front seat and made him do things for her. She was the driver, he was the passenger. And when she told him to marry her even though he was totally crushing on sometotally stupid obviously nurse, well, by God, he was going to marry Lorna anyway. Lorna attacks Alex in her rage at being abandoned (her own fault, really), melding for herself a mockery of Magneto's own uniform as a demonstration of her dedication to his sparkle motion mutant cause. She chases and hunts Alex and Annie with full intent to kill them both -- the first time that Lorna's new shift as a murderous character comes to light. Lorna's newly violent and volatile behavior leads her to be given a short session of therapy with Charles Xavier, with that damn nurse present, where she demonstrates her continued antagonism by showing Annie scenes of herself in bed with Alex to taunt her. Yeah, she's kind of a jerk. But that's an understatement.
Xavier discovers that Magneto is Lorna's father, something she'd been trying to hide from the X-Men so they wouldn't think she was crazy and harmful (uh, whoops) and pinpoints her issues. Xavier finds out what's causing Lorna to be so violent and so angry: she has not truly dealt with the experiences she's lived through on Genosha, dwelling on them and packing them away until they slowly eat at what little sanity she has left. She is eventually calmed, and she is helped through her anger -- and her pain and her trauma that would shut down any normal human -- is "healed" by Xavier. Lorna promises to get a hold on her anger for the professor, and it is obvious in her future that she does just that. Lorna's views do not change, however. The point where Lorna comes from is where she's demonstrating her own, newly solid beliefs, based on those of her father's. She is much less violent, but her anger has turned itself into sadness -- think of the five stages of grief, but in a different order. We see Lorna as she attempts to convince Xavier that Magneto's violence has forced humanity to listen to them, that Magneto must have been right (with the appropriate tut-tuting of some jerk Xavier, what a butthole). We see Lorna, passionate about her own beliefs, confident in herself and her beliefs. She still has her anger, as she demonstrates by attempting to kill Xavier to prove her point -- but rather than it manifesting itself into the same, violent and villain-like behavior, she is ultimately subdued by Xavier and recognizes that he is not going to back down. She's shocked by that. She realizes then, hey, I'm pissed off, and I just tried to kill Charles Xavier. Whoa. 'Let's take a step back', she's thinking.
When she leaves, she's respectful. She's kind, but she's in tears; she has seen so much and she has learned so much, but there is still so much more for her to experience. Lorna is in a place where she does not have Alex with her and has become much more emotionally independent. She is coping with the rage and the anger that have enveloped her and taken over her since her experiences in Genosha and her acceptance of Magneto's ultimate rightness. She's slowly healing from an incredible series of events, but she's building her way out of a darker hole and making her way out of it and it is a journey that she must make on her own, but she's definitely learning.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Magneto's helmet; it will have the ability to boost her power, albeit only a little; though eventually it will become more powerful given time.
Chosen SKILLSET: Fighter through and through, this one. Then again, that really depends on her mood. We'll just have to see about the missions, hm?
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
( Samples provided are recycled from Cape & Cowl. )
Third PERSON:
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
Lorna will be coming in with sparse memories from![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
capeandcowl, as well as sparse memories from her time in singularityrpg. Essentially, she'll know about events that occur in her canon past her canon-point so they won't need to be explained to her again (liiiiike M-Day). Additionally, she's used to X-Men: First Class characters being a thing, though she perhaps won't have the same run-ins in Exsilium as she had in her prior games.
Player NAME: Ophelia
Current AGE: 23
Personal JOURNAL:
616IM & SERVICE: aim | telepathing
Player PLURK:
Current CHARACTERS: Charles Xavier, Loki Laufeyson
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Lorna Dane (Polaris)
Canon & MEDIUM: Marvel Comics Earth-616 (Comics)
Canon PULL-POINT: Uncanny X-Men: #443: Directly after she attempts to kill Charles Xavier to prove a point; as she is leaving what is left of Genosha.
Character AGE: Approximately 36. Marvel's main continuity is kind of a hard one when it comes to character ages, but this seems the most appropriate given her history and adjusted to make a bit of finer sense.
Character ABILITIES:
» magnetic field manipulation | Lorna, like her father, can manipulate magnetism in the earth and the air. She can manipulate and move objects that are made of metal without touching them, and she can meld and shape objects that are made from metal at her will. Lorna is capable of manipulating metal in any objects or substances that contain metal; for example, she is seen reversing the blood flow in the veins of her enemies with the use of the iron in their blood.
» magnetic flight | Lorna is capable of flight, as an extension of her manipulation of fields of magnetism.
» magnetic force fields | Using her magnetic power, Lorna is able to create force fields -- or shields -- around herself and some of her team-mates while she is in battle to protect them from harm, using the effects of her magnetic manipulation.
Character HISTORY:
Lorna Dane, or Polaris, is primarily from Marvel's X-Men comics continuity (later X-Factor as well). Lorna is a mutant, born with green hair and latent powerful, magnetic capabilities. We first meet her when she is discovered with the use of Cerebro and found by Bobby Drake, who is the one to discover that she as dyed her hair brown from its natural green -- the very first indication that Lorna Dane is truly another mutant. Lorna's background is riddled by the expected twists and turns of any Marvel character, but is unique in that it has its ongoing themes, notably of which: Lorna has an unfortunate tendency to become kidnapped and possessed, or to have her mind otherwise manipulated by villains. Because of this, Lorna struggles with a very weak sense of self and, while battling her problems with self-esteem, she has the added destruction of her mutation continually taking a toll on her psychologically. There are very many points to make in the history of Lorna as a character, and I will touch on those that I find the most important to her character and the most important to her history and inter-personal relationships. These three major points are as follows: Lorna has often been possessed and manipulated by villains. Lorna has a passionate, on-and-off relationship with Alex Summers, better known as the X-Man, Havok; and Lorna is the illegitimate daughter of the mutant terrorist Magneto.
Lorna has been possessed. A lot. In fact, her latent magnetic powers were only discovered after she was kidnapped and hypnotized by Mesmero, who hooked her up to a machine with which he intended to stimulate her mutant power and unleash it. Mesmero was the first to implant the seed in Lorna's mind that she may, in fact, be the daughter of the infamous mutant, Magneto; he hypnotized her and he tricked her into believing that Magneto was truly her father, and he revealed her magnetic power to her for that purpose. It would eventually turn out, however, that the 'Magneto' she thought she knew as her father was nothing but a robot -- and Bobby Drake, with the research he had done into Lorna's adoptive parents, reassured her that her true parents had died in a plane crash and that Magneto could not possibly be her father. Once she was convinced of the presumed truth of her true parents' death, Lorna was able to help the X-Men (even with her newly developing mutant powers) defeat Mesmero and take down his operation.
Early in Lorna's life with the X-Men, she develops affectionate feelings for Bobby Drake. It is only a little later that she meets Alex Summers, with whom she finds herself the most attracted. It is after a kidnapping event by Sentinels that Lorna begins to become closer to Alex and closer to the X-Men. She decides to join them, both with the benefit of evolving her powers and skills and with the benefit of spending more time around Alex. Lorna and Alex developed a relationship with one another, strengthened by the fact that they were two X-Men who were not often involved in major missions. They went on missions together and they spent most of their time with one another, as they shared interests in geophysics and closeness as mutants. It is when Lorna and Alex are on a mission together and they are kidnapped by a group called the Promise, wherein Lorna discovers her capabilities of flight using her powers. This was another event in Lorna's history where she was made to believe something because her mind was assumed to be meldable and open for manipulation, as the Promise intended to force Lorna and Alex to conform to their own views on mutant-human relations.
Lorna and Alex continued to be involved in missions with the X-Men following these events. Lorna goes on to be mind-controlled into joining Eric the Red, before retiring in New Mexico with Alex and finishing up her Masters degree in geophysics; taking a much-needed break from superhero'ing for a time while she and Alex chose to lead normal lives as normal people. This doesn't last for long, however, as Xavier needs them once again. Lorna, of course, goes on to be possessed by Malice -- who shares her body for a long time following that event. It is when Zaladane convinces Lorna that she is her sister (seeing a pattern of lies and deceit here?) and uses a machine to transfer her powers that Lorna is finally purged of what remains of her possession by Malice. Insert more battles, a bit more craziness, but (thankfully) a bit less possession and mental manipulation here. Fast-forward to quite a few years in the future. Genosha.
Lorna sought out Magneto and joined him in Genosha, his own sort of country-for-mutants, under the premise of attempting to do good from the inside. However, it became clear that Lorna also had her own reasons for becoming a sort of protegé to Magneto, and that was to develop her magnetic powers beyond what she was already capable of. Lorna spent her time on Genosha with Magneto both in his good graces and out (at one point she was forced from the island after losing a fight with Magneto, only to return with the help of her half-brother, Pietro Maximoff). Ultimately, Lorna spent her time on Genosha under the guidance of Magneto and learning more from him than just training in her powers. When she snuck in the second time, however, she spent her time attempting to dismantle his rule from the underground. It was during this time (and during a time wherein Magneto was incapacitated due to a severed spinal cord) that Lorna stole some of the man's blood. It was with his blood that she finally had her proof, her confirmation from an unbiased source that she was truly the daughter of Magneto.
Lorna discovered that Magneto had effectively murdered her mother in the plane crash all those years ago. Enraged by her discovery, she returned to Genosha only to be hailed as their princess and greeted as though she were royalty. It was while she was adjusting to this new behavior and information that Genosha was attacked by Sentinels, completely massacreing all of the Genoshan people right in front of her eyes. It was in that moment that she became overwhelmed, surrounded by death and agony and unable to protect herself or protect the people of Genosha. It was in that moment that Lorna found herself suddenly sealing the truth of Magneto's words for her -- humanity hated mutants, and they were just as dangerous to them. Lorna was found on Genosha, naked and confused and calling Magneto "Daddy", and being utilized as a magnetic conductor for some sort of machine that was a black box containing the final memories of all of the former people of Genosha. Lorna was taken from Genosha before she was truly able to cope with the event, leading her to return to the X-Mansion in a violent and volatile state of mind. She finds that Alex's nurse, Annie, has fallen in love with him and she tries to attack and antagonize the woman in the infirmary. Her antagonism stems further as she proposed to Alex -- only to have her wedding called off on her wedding day, and her passionate anger enveloping her ever still. She became immensely angry, attacking Annie and Alex, before she was ultimately subdued by Juggernaut. Lorna was eventually given some much-needed mental therapy with the assistance of Xavier, to which she began to learn to control her anger.
Most notably, we come to Lorna's canon point. This is just before she's been de-powered after the events of House of M -- just as she's truly forming her own opinions, mixed with those of Magneto's. I am taking Lorna from after she meets with Pietro and Wanda Maximoff in the Avenger's mansion and asks them to come with her to Magneto's burial at Genosha (as he's assumed to be dead). It is in this issue that Lorna attempts to play devil's advocate, to argue her passionate points of mutant-human relations with Xavier. She attempts to kill him, to force him to fight back to save himself and prove her own point that one cannot sacrifice themselves for others to the degree that he does. Xavier does not give in, lets her know that he would rather die than fight back against one of his former students. Lorna, defeated, begins to cry and lets Xavier down to live. She then reconstructs the recently destroyed monument to Magneto (thanks, Wolverine) to feature both Xavier and Magneto together -- before walking out of frame. Her views have not been changed, but they've certainly been impacted.
Character PERSONALITY:
Lorna was originally a quiet and friendly member of the X-Men, and of X-Factor. Unfortunately that is no longer the case. She has just confirmed that a well-known terrorist is her real father, witnessed the deaths of hundreds in the destruction of the "mutant utopia" of Genosha, sworn to herself that Magneto was right all along -- and has just tried to prove the passion of her point by attempting to kill Professor Charles Xavier. Lorna is angry, volatile, and wrought with personal issues; confused with who she really is in a whirlwind of interpersonal and super-villain problems. In her life, Lorna has gone through exceptional amounts of trauma. Because of being possessed more often than not, Lorna was not only the target for further possession and manipulation, but that put her in a position where she didn't have a lot of confidence in her own self. Who was she? Was she herself, or was she the crazy supervillain that had taken a hold of her mind and was making decisions for her? Lorna did not feel confident in her mind and in her body, and this was often taken advantage of by several villains. Lorna was originally very distrustful of those who attempted to help her cope with the traumatic experiences and memories left over from prior possessions. She did not trust the psychiatrist who attempted to help her, and she did not want to open her mind to anyone after all that she had gone through and how prone to manipulation she seemed to be. Lorna struggled desperately with her self-image and with trust issues. However, once Lorna joined X-Factor and allowed their superhero psychiatrist to assist her, she narrowed down her own feelings about herself (after much dieting and struggling with her self-image) and became the empowered Lorna Dane that we know today. She felt better about her image -- she felt a growth in her self-worth and she felt a beaming confidence, something that showed in her enthusiasm on the team.
At Lorna's canon point, she has just come from the most traumatic event of her life -- the massacre of 16 million people right before her eyes. She felt a helplessness then that she'd never felt before. A connection to the people who hailed her as a princess, and she couldn't do anything for them but watch them die. Even with her incredible mutant powers, Lorna was shaken with fear beyond the ability to help and that absolutely crushed her. She had just spent years training under Magneto, listening to his own beliefs and his own ideas and taking them into her own mind and heart. All it took was that culmination of events; discovering Magneto was truly her father, discovering herself hailed as royalty on Genosha, and being wrought completely helpless as 16 million people were slaughtered around her. Lorna now truly believed that humanity was evil -- and that Magneto was right, all this time. Lorna is struggling with an incredible amount of confusion and anger when she returns to the X-Mansion after this event. On top of her Genoshan trauma-fest, she finds out that her on-and-off boyfriend, Alex, has been in the care of a nurse who is very much in love with him. Being a rather manipulative and selfish person, Lorna just cannot handle this information. Her anger with this and with her previous circumstances makes her violent, and she lashes out at the woman instantly and threatens her with her powers. She starts to lash out at everyone, actually, making herself the most dangerous chick in the X-Mansion with all her ridiculous issues.
Lorna had become vindictive, her trauma overpowering her sense of self to such a degree, her discovery of her true relation to Magneto giving so much more weight to his terrorist-like beliefs in her mind. She now trusted this guy who everyone else always told her was the bad guy. She understood where he was coming from; fuck everyone else. She was his daughter, it was her place to live on in his name and fight for mutant rights in his footsteps. Her residual violence and her rage come to their peak just months later, where she is left at the altar by Alex (after being the pushy one who manipulated him into marriage in the first place). Lorna's just a tiny, meager, little bit manipulative. She always wore the pants in the relationship with Alex and always took the front seat and made him do things for her. She was the driver, he was the passenger. And when she told him to marry her even though he was totally crushing on some
Xavier discovers that Magneto is Lorna's father, something she'd been trying to hide from the X-Men so they wouldn't think she was crazy and harmful (uh, whoops) and pinpoints her issues. Xavier finds out what's causing Lorna to be so violent and so angry: she has not truly dealt with the experiences she's lived through on Genosha, dwelling on them and packing them away until they slowly eat at what little sanity she has left. She is eventually calmed, and she is helped through her anger -- and her pain and her trauma that would shut down any normal human -- is "healed" by Xavier. Lorna promises to get a hold on her anger for the professor, and it is obvious in her future that she does just that. Lorna's views do not change, however. The point where Lorna comes from is where she's demonstrating her own, newly solid beliefs, based on those of her father's. She is much less violent, but her anger has turned itself into sadness -- think of the five stages of grief, but in a different order. We see Lorna as she attempts to convince Xavier that Magneto's violence has forced humanity to listen to them, that Magneto must have been right (with the appropriate tut-tuting of some jerk Xavier, what a butthole). We see Lorna, passionate about her own beliefs, confident in herself and her beliefs. She still has her anger, as she demonstrates by attempting to kill Xavier to prove her point -- but rather than it manifesting itself into the same, violent and villain-like behavior, she is ultimately subdued by Xavier and recognizes that he is not going to back down. She's shocked by that. She realizes then, hey, I'm pissed off, and I just tried to kill Charles Xavier. Whoa. 'Let's take a step back', she's thinking.
When she leaves, she's respectful. She's kind, but she's in tears; she has seen so much and she has learned so much, but there is still so much more for her to experience. Lorna is in a place where she does not have Alex with her and has become much more emotionally independent. She is coping with the rage and the anger that have enveloped her and taken over her since her experiences in Genosha and her acceptance of Magneto's ultimate rightness. She's slowly healing from an incredible series of events, but she's building her way out of a darker hole and making her way out of it and it is a journey that she must make on her own, but she's definitely learning.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Magneto's helmet; it will have the ability to boost her power, albeit only a little; though eventually it will become more powerful given time.
Chosen SKILLSET: Fighter through and through, this one. Then again, that really depends on her mood. We'll just have to see about the missions, hm?
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
( Samples provided are recycled from Cape & Cowl. )
[ VOICE ]
[ Facing the camera is one exceptionally angry-looking green-haired woman, a fire of irritation in her eyes. Her communicator is obviously mid-flight, held suspended in the air with a lasting gesture of her dominant hand as she addresses the network. That is some passionate apathy we've got going on here.
Her voice most certainly illustrates her disdain, lilting with the ups and downs of her displeasure. She leans forward a bit, narrows her eyes at the screen. ]
This is new, blah, blah, where am I, what's going on? Right?
[ A sigh, then she's shaking her head. She tucks a bit of her hair behind one ear and picks up a silver candlestick holder with nothing but a flick of her wrist, floating before her in the camera's view. Then, she crushes it, with a smooth gesture of her fingers clamping inward -- inward around nothing but air. ]
Nice digs. For now. All of this craziness aside… [ Lorna drops the silver, mangled sphere immediately and leans forward ever still ] and I do mean craziness -- I was not in the mood for this. Hell, I'm pretty fucking sure that nobody was in the mood for this.
You're lucky. I could go on -- [ She stops, but her eyes have not ceased narrowing. ] but I've got better ideas with which to occupy my time. [ A pause, and she lets up. She's sitting back and she's grinning, eyebrows raised. ]
Now. Where's a good place to get a little bit pleasant?
[ Lorna flashes an expression as though she's daring someone to give her bad advice before the feed shuts off. ]
Third PERSON:
Lorna Dane was hurrying down the streets of the City with a rush of wind tossing her green hair around her solemn face. She was battling an incredible amount of emotion. Anger. Regret. A sudden dip in confidence. She had been so convinced, so absolutely certain that Magneto -- her father -- had been right. But what if Professor Xavier had his own points to make? Lorna stopped abruptly as she found herself at a crosswalk, her expression distant. The signals changed for her, but she did not move, ignoring the irritated honking of the stopped cars beside her. "Move, lady!" she was told, but her mind was much too distant. Lorna crossed her arms over her chest and exhaled a deep breath, watching the fog of it swirl and twirl in front of her face. There must be a reason that she was here now, no longer in Genosha. No longer at the X-Mansion. Was it a punishment, or a lesson? A dream? Lorna often found herself in a mix of confusion when she was less certain about her surroundings. After all, being possessed would do that to you. So would being kidnapped, especially as often as she had. One could never trust their surroundings when they were always so volatile.
She crossed the street then, a twist of her wrist moving the indicators of the walkway into her favor. A guilt was weighing itself heavily on her mind from her last encounter with the professor. She had intended to apologize; she could not get it out of her mind. While she absolutely had no intention of reversing her stance or of watering down her own passionate beliefs by admitting that Xavier'd had a good point, she could not, in good conscience, let him believe that she would have truly killed him. But he knew. He was a telepath, for God's sake. After all, she couldn't kill him, and that much was obvious on its own from her final moments there on Genosha. Lorna was shaking her head at herself once she'd made it to the other side of the street. She didn't know where she was going. Sometimes, when she was her most exhausted, she would find a solid line of magnetism to follow. Like its own lead, projected from the earth itself. It was comforting, in a way, and Lorna would trace them as she thought, letting herself immerse herself in her own surroundings and within the earth.
She had to get home. Somewhere, there was an apartment for her. The MAC? Yes, that's right. She would have more time to herself once she was home; it was obviously getting much too late. Lorna stopped after another moment and looked up, finally focusing on her environment with the intent of making her way home and breaking her way out of her magnetic focus. Well, there was certainly one thing she could count on here just like she could back home: she was alone. Very, regrettably alone.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
Lorna will be coming in with sparse memories from
capeandcowl, as well as sparse memories from her time in singularityrpg. Essentially, she'll know about events that occur in her canon past her canon-point so they won't need to be explained to her again (liiiiike M-Day). Additionally, she's used to X-Men: First Class characters being a thing, though she perhaps won't have the same run-ins in Exsilium as she had in her prior games.