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Applications Two
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Canon Characters:
Sample Application (Faith Lehane)
Sample Application (Iroh)
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Sample Application (Mors)
Sample Application (Vera de Barr)
Sample Application (Malkus Iverwelling)
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Sample Application (Abel Nightroad/Mayfield RPG)
Sample Application (Bolin/Discedo)
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Applications will be open on the following dates (from 7pm EST):
12th-19th December
16th-23rd January
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Rogue | Marvel Comics | Reserved 1/3
Contact Info: skyward strike (AIM)
Other Characters Played: N/A
Requested apartment: N/A
Character Name: Anna Marie (Rogue)
Canon: Marvel Comics (Earth-616)
Canon Point: Uncanny Avengers #4
Background/History: Wiki!
Previous Game History: N/A
Rogue | Marvel Comics | Reserved 2/3
Rogue is a strong willed and down to earth woman who has no shame in her game. She knows how to work her charm-- how to "flaunt it if you got it". She's fiery, passionate, strong-willed and independent. She is a true maverick among the X-Men: someone who unquestionably belongs on the team and is comfortable there, but has never stopped being her own woman and following her own instincts. There's a limit to how far you could ever get her to tow the company line, whatever that happened to be, as Cyclops found during the events of Second Coming. She is the southern bombshell who over time has become one of the team's most valued members--she's deeply woven into fabric of the team, proving that wrongdoers can live down the mistakes of their pasts and mutants whose powers have estranged them from the rest of the world can transcend their limits and find control and, in the process, community.
What's most important to Rogue is people. Her personal loves and loyalties are the very essence of her, as well as what motivates her to push through the hard times. Though she had to learn reserve and containment over many years, because of how her powers worked, the passion that underlies that self-control is immense. The guy who wrote X-Men: Schism said it best: "Like all true southerners, she just wants some peace and quiet... and the occasional opportunity to beat someone up."
Being raised by super villains and becoming a villain herself has influenced the decisions Rogue has made has an X-Man. When she was a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, she fought and permanently absorbed the memories, powers, and psyche of Ms. Marvel. This action ruined both women's lives permanently. It was also what prompted Rogue to join the X-Men in the first place. Messing up is the privilege of the young. Rogue doesn't bear the terrible burden of guilt for the time she spent in the Brotherhood, as much as she is grateful for the second chance to re-invent and redefine herself. More importantly, she cherishes being able to extend the same opportunity to others just like her. The emotional distance she's had to deal with due to the requirement of physical distance is nothing short of torment. Even among the X-Men, she was dealt a bad hand. At the same time, people know that and respect that about her-- if not admire her. It's that inspiration she offers to the new generation as a veteran X-Man.
Rogue is too strong of a character to be defined by her love interests, but her notorious bad boy syndrome is difficult to ignore. Many potential love interests (all snubbed out quickly for the obvious reason) have come and gone in Rogue's life, but the two most notable examples are Gambit and Magneto. She's not even slightly defined by the man's she with, however. A big part of Rogue's character is that she's such a touchstone for other characters, especially the ones who love her. Her own nature is vivid and indelible, passionate and stubborn, that it's difficult for them to make a mark on her-- which is ironic considering the nature of her powers.
Her charm wins over everyone. She's charismatic. But having said that, she doesn't depend on peoples' good opinions of her. She has and always will do what feels right to her, and doesn't need to seek approval from anyone.
Rogue | Marvel Comics | Reserved 3/3
Power Absorption: Rogue can absorb the powers, energies, memories, knowledge, talents, personality and physical abilities (whether superhuman or not) of another human being (or members of some sentient alien races) through physical contact of her skin with the skin of the other person. She is not limited to absorbing superhuman abilities: for example, she has absorbed the strength, agility, and sharp reflexes of an enhanced human. She can also absorb psionic abilities. In absorbing another persons memories Rogue also gains the emotional responses connected to them. For the transfer of abilities to be accomplished, Rogue’s skin must contact the skin of her victim. Rogue can only absorb abilities and memories from living organic beings. She can possess the powers of several superhuman persons at once. No upper limit has yet been determined for the number of superhuman beings whose power she can maintain simultaneously, or for the amount of power that she can absorb. Rogue can even absorb gross physical characteristics from a victim. Her physical appearance does not change when she absorbs abilities and memories from a normal looking human being. The victim's abilities and memories are absorbed for a time sixty times longer than the period of time Rogue was in physical contact with that person. Those touched are rendered unconscious by contact with her, though some beings, including Juggernaut and Mojo have resisted this effect. While for most of her life, her use of this power was involuntary, Rogue has recently gained full control over it.
This transfer is usually temporary, lasting for a period of time relative to how long contact is maintained, but the transfer may become permanent in certain cases. For example, she absorbed Ms. Marvel's powers permanently due to unknown reasons (Ms. Marvel's strange mix of human and Kree DNA may have had something to do with it) and she absorbed Sunfire's powers permanently when she absorbed the last of his life force by accident. Most often the process happens instantly when Rogue touches someone, but in certain instances where a being has possessed an extraordinary level of power they are able to resist her, and she may only share part of their memories and power.
Her power is proved to be lethal. Mutants are proved to be stronger than humans because mutants have mutated genetics, which means that her power does less lethal effects for most mutants than humans. Her flirt, Cody Robbins, was put into a coma for years. If she had touched Cody a bit longer, he have died then. It proves that if she touches her victim too long, she may kill her victim because of too much loss of energies due to the absorption, except if she voluntarily kills her victim with her deadly touch. Although mutants are stronger than humans, she can still voluntarily kill mutants with her deadly touch as she wishes. Although currently her power absorption power is much more controllable as she activates it by her own will because of her contact with Hope Summers, she can still make her touch lethal for her enemies but not lethal to her friends and/or allies.
As Rogue is absorbing the total psyche of a person, there is a risk of a personality overwhelming her and taking control of her body, including Spiral and Mr. Sinister who both proved to be the dominant personality. It has also been shown that even though Rogue forgets the memories she has absorbed when a psyche returns to its body, 'echoes' of their personalities remain buried in her mind.
Rogue is able to absorb psyches and abilities of several beings at once, though the experience can be confusing and disorienting for her.
Robotic beings are mostly immune to her power. Depending on the amount of organics left, she can usually affect cyborgs. She seems able to affect techno-organic beings. Powerful enough beings can withstand her touch and attempt to impose their own will on her or cause a feedback loop.
Although she is capable of absorbing his powers, Colossus in metal form was able to make physical contact with her with no ill effects in one issue. However, Rogue has shown the ability to absorb him while he is in metal form in various other issues.
During X-Men Legacy, her powers were greatly enhanced by Pandemonium. Her powers returned to their normal levels after the mutant baby touches her in X-Men: Messiah Complex. This also returned her mental status to normal, as the baby purged all previous templates and mental impressions from her being. It appears after the events in X-Men Legacy that Rogue is now able to voluntarily use her powers, now kissing Gambit and not hurting him or absorbing his powers. This appears to be because, before Professor Xavier helped her break them down, her power had formed many mental walls within her mind every time she used her abilities. As such her powers were crippled in their development freezing them in their nascent stage which severely limited Rogue's control. Yet when she, Gambit and Danger fought Ares in Utopia, her power absorption was still strong enough to weaken Ares some level for Gambit to give the final blow, hinting that she can finally control her lethal touch to be very deadly for enemies without hurting her friends. She later uses the much more lethal version of her powers against the Avengers during her fight with the Avengers to defend Jean Grey School from Avengers' invasion, even making Falcon and She-Hulk immediately unconscious without any negative feedback on herself (besides the green skin from She-Hulk), stealing their powers and rendering them unconscious for quite a long time as she stated herself as "so it's time to get old school".
A new twist in Rogue's powers consists of prompting her victims of her skin-to-skin contact, for a consent on the process. Rogue's victim can either resist the absorption and suffer, like originally with Rogue's powers, or instead submit to the absorption, and so the process instead becomes entirely fluent without consequences. Rogue has used this twist extensively in the Legacy series; just two examples of it are when aiding the victims of a subway collapse absorbing all rescuers' abilities in X-Men Legacy 274, and also when quenching a riot in a prison of mutants absorbing the existence of some mutant-volunteers in X-Men Legacy 275.
Items/Weapons: Just her uniform and a leather jacket, please!
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