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Name: Soubi LJ: kami_llama E-Mail: KamisButterflies[at]hotmail[dot]com IM: AvadaCadavre Character Name: Rogue / Anna Raven Series: X-Men Timeline: I'm taking Anna from the end of her 4-issue miniseries Rogue. In this series, it is explained that once yearly on the date that she sent him into a coma, Anna visits Cody at his hospital bedside. Bella Donna, Gambit's ex-lover, sends an assassin to end Cody's vegetative misery as part of poorly-contrived revenge against Anna. In the final issue, Anna is able to contact Cody's spirit through a psychic medium, and he tells her that he bears her no ill will, and asks that she move on before he crosses over. She still has the Carol Danvers power set. Canon Resource Link: Marvel.com profile. Character Background: There are sooo many different X-Men continuities which involve Rogue, as she is one of the most popular X-Men characters. It is difficult, therefore, to sift through some of the knowledge of what happened when and where and why. However, the most "official" background story for Anna brings us to a hippie commune in Caldecott County, Mississippi. Anna was born into a small family, the only child of mother and father Pricilla and Owen. Her mother's sister, Carrie, also took a large role in raising young Anna. After the commune's failed attempt to contact a dreamrealm, Pricilla died and Carrie stepped in as Anna's mother-figure. However, Anna was always a bit rebellious, and her disdain for her father caused her to run away from the commune, resulting in her nickname -- and later mutant name -- Rogue. Anna became involved at with a boy named Cody, whom she proceeded to kiss, as teenagers are wont to do. It was at this point that her mutant powers emerged -- the ability to absorb the memories, abilities, personalities and life energy of anyone with whom she makes skin-to-skin contact. This experience put Cody into a coma from which he would never wake. Rogue was understandably traumatized, but was found by a shapeshifting mutant named Mystique, who took the girl under her wing, and adopted her as a sort of daughter. Mystique wasn't the most savory of characters, though, and often engaged in terrorist activities for mutant rights. While Anna was initially not so into the idea of being a terrorist, she developed a sort of apathy after absorbing the personality of another boy, and was eventually inducted into the Brotherhood of Mutants under Mystique's supervision. Under Brotherhood orders, Rogue engaged in several very-less-than-lawful activities, and began to butt heads with another mutant named Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers.) Rogue confronted Carol on the woman's doorstep one night, and the resulting scuffle saw Anna permanently absorbing Carol's abilities and personality. This drove Anna temporarily insane, and she tried to kill Carol by throwing her off the Golden Gate Bridge. Fearing for her life and sanity, she turned to Charles Xavier, and much to the chagrin of the other members, was inducted into the X-Men team while Charles worked with her to help control her abilities. She earned the trust of the rest of the team after risking her life several times for them and people close to them, adequately branding her one of the "heroes." While she never learned to fully control her inability to touch people, she was finally able to fully be herself again after transporting to another dimension and having Carol Danvers' personality removed from her psyche. The X-Men were divided into two teams, and Anna was assigned to a team with the mutant Gambit (Remy LaBeau.) They were immediately attracted to each other, and began an on-again off-again relationship that has spanned over several arcs and continuities, deviating now and then because of Remy's difficulty coping with a non-physical relationship. In the most recent canon, Rogue has been "fixed" and is able to control her ability to absorb. In personality, Anna calls herself a southern belle, and being raised in Mississippi, she has a very distinct accent. However, from an early age, we were shown that she has a bit of a rebellious streak. This is what drove her away from her home in the first place (along with the bad relationship she had with her father.) Despite this, she doesn't seem to have a very hard time at all trusting men. In fact, her relationship with Cody was really kind of sweet up until the point that she sent him into a vegetative state. She is obviously a likable girl, as Mystique grew fond enough of her to treat her as a daughter. And indeed, Anna viewed Mystique as her mother, even going so far as to adopt Mystique's given name (Raven Darkholmme) as her own last name. (However, it is important to note that -- unlike most characters -- Anna's real name is not revealed. She often introduces herself as Rogue, and everyone is content to call her that. This is probably due to Mystique's influence on her views of mutant rights; that they should be the magnificent creatures they truly are rather than hiding behind a human name.) Rogue is quick to put her trust in people, but not stupid enough to let it linger if she's betrayed. In fact, later in the series she grows to despise Mystique after her adoptive mother morphs into a student at Xavier's school and seduces Gambit while Rogue is away on a mission. As far as family ties, Anna is still very close to her Aunt Carrie in Mississippi, unable and unwilling to sever ties with the woman who raised her after her real mother's death. It was also revealed later in the series that Nightcrawler is in fact one of Mystique's biological children, and Rogue and Nightcrawler come to view each other as siblings. In a completely different continuity, Gambit and Rogue marry and have two children, so it is clear that they could have quite a strong loving relationship were it not for Remy's hangups. Rogue is also impulsive. She will look before she leaps only if someone holds her back and shows her reason, doubly so if she is getting emotional. Her typical "heroic" streak shows her risking her own life -- unquestioningly -- several times in order to protect others, even those she doesn't know very well. You know, the sort of stupid heroics that make people jump into a burning building to save a child and a kitten. Though while she is very kind, it's rare to see her completely happy. Above almost anyone else in the series, Rogue truly considers her abilities to be a curse, and the denial of physical interaction often leaves her feeling very lonely and depressed, and her subsequent break-ups with Remy always left her feeling worthless and angry for not being able to give him what he wanted. The times in the comics when she is happiest are the few times that her powers are actually taken away, or when she meets someone she is able to make contact with and not send comatose. She also has a penchant for calling everyone -- even enemies -- by the affectionate title "Sugah" (sugar). So figure that one the heck out. Abilites/Special Powers: When Anna touches another person -- bare skin to bare skin -- she immediately begins to absorb into herself almost everything they are. Their memories, their abilities, their personality, and their life force are all transferred to her. If contact is maintained for long enough, these aspects will become a permanent part of her, and may very well send the other person into a vegetative state, or kill them very horribly and painfully as everything they are is sucked from them through their very skin. In the case of Carol Danvers, with whom she maintained the most contact of anyone, she absorbed Carol's abilities of flight, seventh sense, etc., and subsequently developed an entire alternate personality from residual spirit transfer. Third-Person Sample: It took a few moments for Rogue to realize that she was not in her bedroom. Her brow was furrowed as she sat up slowly. She'd never had a room this nice and proper, not even at the Institute. Granted, her room at the Institute seemed extravagant at first too, after months of hitchhiking and sleeping in uncomfortable big-rig passenger seats. She didn't recognize this, though... that made her more than a little uneasy. She threw the blankets back and hurried over to the window, only to be baffled further by the landscape outside. She was definitely not in Boston anymore. This had to be a joke, right? Early April Fools. Somehow, Kurt probably transported her into the Danger Room in her sleep, and any minute a Sentinel would come clomping over those checkerboard hills, and they'd all have a good laugh around the breakfast table when Rogue came stomping downstairs to throw a robot head at them. So she stared. She stared, and squinted into the horizon, and eventually she slammed her fist against the windowsill. "What in blazes is goin' on?" First-Person Sample: [ recorded ] Well I'm pissed as a rubber-jawed gator. I kinda' assumed the kids were pullin' my leg, but now I dunno' what on god's green earth's goin' on! This ain't Boston, don't think it's the States... hell, I got a feelin' this ain't even the same dimension. ...not too bright, messin' around with different dimensions. [ sigh ] Anyone wanna' fill me in?