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Name: Rogue
Fandom: X-Men: Evolution
Gender: Female
Age: 18ish
Time Period: Post Cajun Spice
Wing Color: White - soft, glowy white, like angel’s wings.
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Adopted at age four, Rogue has little-to-no memory of her birth parents. The woman who adopted her was kind and loving, apparently doting on her in every respect. But she had to travel for her work a lot, and so when Rogue was twelve, she was left with her Aunt Irene - although Rogue came to just call her Irene. Her mother would still visit, but she became more and more distant and Rogue began to look up to the blind Irene as a second mother. Twelve was a momentous year for Rogue, because it was shortly after she was placed with Irene that it was discovered she had a ‘skin condition,’ one where she would be harmed if anyone came in contact with her skin. Irene was concerned, took council with the doctor, and immediately determined that Rogue should take care to keep herself covered from head to foot at all times.
In Mississippi, is there any wonder that set her apart as a freak from that time forward? While Rogue apparently came to embrace it, there was also a deep longing to be ‘just like everyone else.’ This longing was easily seen by the fact that she would still torture herself by occasionally attending the parties she was still invited to - since Irene moved a lot, Rogue was always ‘the new girl,’ and sometimes it took a while for the ‘Nos’ she’d give to sink in. It was at one of these parties where Rogue’s world was turned upside-down for the first time. A boy named Cody asked her to dance.
Evolution’s world is kinder to Rogue in this respect than other canons - in every other world she discovered her power with her first kiss. In this one, it was her first dance. One touch of skin-on-skin, and Cody in a coma, and inside her head. She was him - she moved like him, thought like him - and she was herself at the same time. Confused and scared, she rushed out of the party only to be attacked by the X-Men. This was even more confusing, one minute they’d be trying to kill her and the next they’d be attempting to get her to listen, saying that they wanted to be her friends. After briefly absorbing some of Nightcrawler’s powers and memories, and learning that she can take powers too, Rogue eventually lands at Irene’s feet, confused and beaten - why was Irene there even though she’d told her to run? Irene promises that she can send Rogue to someone who can help, someone who will keep her safe…
And that is how Rogue ends up in Bayville, New York, under Raven Darkholme aka Mystique’s tender care - a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and in the same high school as the X-Men. The X-Men, especially Scott Summers, did not give up on her and Rogue found herself appreciating Scott’s genuine kindness and the way that the X-Men watched each other’s backs, like they were a real family. A few months after her move, she and Scott were on a fieldtrip together and Mystique tried to kill Scott in front of Rogue; Rogue would have none of that and in touching Mystique uncovered the first truth which rocked her world: Mystique had been the one to attack her, using the X-Men’s bodies.
That was the end of Rogue’s friendly association with the Brotherhood and the beginning of her tenure as an X-Man. She continues to struggle with where she belongs, and how she fits in as an X-Man and along the way she helps Kurt discover the identity of his biological mother, takes down Sabertooth with Spyke and Shadowcat, defeats Toad to be Chosen in one of Magneto’s mad schemes, grows to both resent and admire Jean Grey (though she’ll instantly risk her life to save Jean’s) and officially begins to crush on Scott Summers. She meets Warren Worthington on Christmas and joins with him and Scott to take on Magneto, and as darker forces begin to stir she works alongside with the rest of the X-Men to discover why Jean was possessed by Mesmero. She is captured, briefly, and taken to Area 51, a place where the government experiments on mutants. When she is rescued, she along with the other X-Men, manage to take down Juggernaught despite Professor Xavier’s absence.
The X-Men begin to attend high school as exposed mutants, dealing with open hatred, fear, and bigotry. One of Rogue’s few friends outside of the X-Men, Risty, returns at a key point when Rogue is feeling overwhelmed by all of the personalities that she’s absorbed, crushed by the fact that it looks as though Jean and Scott are getting together, and so when Risty suggests that they go to the concert that night, Rogue accepts against her better judgment. She doesn’t do well in crowds, and over the course of that concert Rogue ends up crashing into Risty, where they are in contact for over three seconds. This is more than enough time for Rogue to absorb Risty’s memories… and her powers. It turns out that Risty was Mystique all along, and not only that had she befriended Rogue in order to ‘get close to her’ to use her, but she’d befriended Rogue because she genuinely wanted to get close to her - because Mystique was her adopted mother. All of Rogue’s life from as far back as she could remember had been based upon what she looked at as a lie - Rogue had been adopted because Irene, the mutant named Destiny, had seen the nature of her powers and had seen Rogue in their futures. This shock - that she’d been adopted only to be used - is enough to push Rogue over the edge and her hurt gives the absorbed psyches the strength they need in order to act independently. Every power, every personality she has absorbed starts to manifest and in the end Rogue is just attacking blindly out of her hurt and rage. It takes Wolverine identifying her to calm her down enough so that she can allow Professor X access to her head so that the two of them can work on eradicating the accumulated psyches.
This experience leaves her emotionally and physically trained, as well as psychically defenseless. Mesmero takes full advantage of this when, in an attempt to save herself and Rogue, Mystique goes to Mesmero to work out a deal: Rogue’s powers in exchange for their safety. Mesmero possesses Rogue and uses her to take out the Brotherhood, the X-Men, and the Acolytes, absorbing their powers and then delivering them like a human battery or memory chip to Apocalypse. In the process, Mesmero betrays Mystique and uses her as a key to unlock the way to Apocalypse, turning her into stone.
The X-Men show up too late to stop Rogue, but in time to save her. They take her and the stone-Mystique back to the mansion where it is later discovered that Rogue is the only one who can save Mystique and free her from this self-imprisonment. Rogue, destroyed from being used so many times by her ‘mother,’ and blaming both herself and Mystique for quite literally unleashing the end of the world, does not want to save her. Kurt persuades her to try, but as she approaches Mystique to touch her she is overcome with rage at everything that’s happened - and ends up shoving her off a cliff where Mystique shatters.
Though Mystique shatters literally, Rogue is shattered figuratively. The guilt of murdering her own mother, on top of everything else, and the reject from her ‘adopted brother,’ really causes her to withdraw and begin to self-destruct. She is ‘rescued’ from this by being kidnapped - yet another mutant has use of her abilities: Gambit. Although he presents it in a charming enough way, the truth of it was that he took her so that she would help him rescue his father. …but Rogue can’t hold this against him. Apparently she’s tired of being angry and hurt, and in the end as Kurt came to reconcile with her, Rogue starts taking her first steps towards healing and doing what needs to be done in order to save the world.
Personality:
Rogue is X-Men Evolution’s first Goth. She’s embraced ‘darker things’ as a form of solace - since no one can get close to her, she’s going to make it that no one wants to in an effort to protect both others and herself. She can be bitingly sarcastic and puts out a very ‘tough’ persona - is very willing to both start and finish a fight as seen in her many confrontations with the Brotherhood.
Underneath it all, however, Rogue is actually a total softie - she loves her romances and just as much as she loves her hard metal, she really genuinely wants to be friends with people, to be liked and admired - but she feels like that’s impossible, that no one would like her for her. It doesn’t stop her from trying. When she sees that the X-Men are like a family, she wants that - when Scott treats her like a person, she responds to it, and when Kitty and Kurt just won’t quit trying to befriend her… she accepts them and appreciates them, in her own way.
She plays the guitar and loves music; she was born and raised in Mississippi and speaks with an outrageous Southern drawl, and she cooks up some mean grits. She’s willing to make friends with other ‘outsiders’ and can’t really stand the popular crowd. Rogue gets jealous, particularly of Jean Gray, and sometimes says hurtful things and won’t apologize for it - but she’ll not hesitate to lay down her life for her friends, even the ones she doesn’t get along with. Her issues with Mystique and with her powers are elaborated on in other section, but the greatest battle that Rogue is fighting is with herself. She hates her powers, but they’re a part of her at the same time. She can’t stand the way they leave her isolated from everyone, she hates having to cover up from head to toe (as can be seen in the provocative way she still manages to dress) and she is often extremely insecure - not only about her powers and her place in the world, but also about things like her physical appearance. She has a sardonic sense of humor, and can be morbid, but can occasionally also just laugh at the goofy antics of the people around her.
She’s an angry, hurting, but good-hearted teenage girl.
Strengths:
Physical:
Rogue has the strength and physical agility of a highly-trained gymnast (as seen when she runs up walls to hit a racquetball and in other and in Stuff of Heroes when she escapes the military SWAT team by throwing a bunch of newspapers at them as a distraction and then running, avoiding their wild shooting. She’s somewhat unique among the X-Men in that in order for her to use her powers, she has to get within touching distance. It’s reasonable to assume that Wolverine would have trained her so that she can do that effectively.
Her mutant ability is a bit of an anomaly, even among mutants. Her entire body is a weapon: if she touches any organic thing she absorbs their powers, memories, and lifeforce. This becomes what we can refer to as a ‘psyche’ and exists - for the rest of her life - inside Rogue’s head. The pysche’s memories and personalities are still accessible to Rogue, although not consciously, long after she’s already touched the person. This is demonstrated in ‘Shadowed Past’ when Rogue has dreams of Mystique’s memories of abandoning Kurt weeks after touching her.
Canonically, a touch for one second equals the ability to carry that person’s powers for sixty seconds, and there are some mutants of immense physical power such as Blob or Juggernaught where she needs much longer than that in order to knock them out. She can take and use more than one power at a time. If Rogue holds on to you long enough, your lifeforce will be completely absorbed into hers. Your powers will become hers permanently, while she retains her own original power. You will - for all intents and purposes - die from just a touch.
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Mental:
Rogue has extremely good mental defenses. She’s been working with Professor Xavier to ‘strengthen the walls’ in her mind so that she can control her psyches and not be driven crazy by them (again.) She’s smart, though no genius, and she only pursues what’s interesting to her in school. She evidently does care about her finals and is frequently seen reading everything from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to trashy modern urban romance novels. In a fight, she’s shown to think inventively and to be completely willing to put herself in harm’s way.
Emotional:
Rogue is, at her core, intensely loyal and good-natured. Her first response to seeing Irene on the scene when she was being attacked was to do all that she could to get her foster-mother out of there, and even though she does not like Jean Gray and is jealous of Scott’s attention for her, she does not hesitate to volunteer to go into harm’s way in order to help her. Even before Rogue joined the X-Men, when Jean was kidnapped by Blob, Rogue is the one who eventually rescued her - when Scott asks her why she did it, she replies that she just didn’t know, but the truth of it is that she can’t stand to see someone taken advantage of.
Weaknesses:
Physical:
Rogue, when not using anyone else’s powers, is just a normal highly trained teenage girl. She can be cut, broken, beaten like anyone else.
While Rogue’s powers are very powerful indeed, they also come with an incredible downside: she can’t turn them off. This means that even if she was touching you to save your life, even if she was just kissing your cheek - she’d hurt you. She can also be overwhelmed by them, if she’s absorbed someone with a very strong personality then even if she’s able to fight them immediately after, as is the case with Juggernaught in ‘Stuff of Heroes,’ she still has to take time to find a way to ‘place them in her mind,’ afterwards.
Mental:
It is sometimes hard for Rogue to tell if she is the one wanting to do something… or if it’s one of the psyches she’s absorbed. They stay in her mind and sometimes get very, very loud if she’s not constantly meditating and ‘putting them away.’
There is an also extreme down-side to absorbing someone’s life-force, and that is that once they are in her mind, they don’t go away. The more Rogue’s absorbed of a person, the louder and stronger their presence in her mind is. It takes a powerful telepath to help Rogue control the psyches if they grow too numerous, or hours of daily meditation to keep them contained.
The many times that she has been betrayed and use have also affected her perspective - she tends to be more cynical and less trusting, even of her friends.
Emotional:
Rage, rage, rage. As stated in her history, Rogue has a problem with anger. She’s a hurting and isolated teenage girl who has been consistently used for her powers by the person she should have been most able to trust. Isolation, the feeling of being misunderstood - common to most teenage girls and extremely amplified in the girl who knows that she can’t even touch anyone. What kind of monster must she be?
She also has deep, deep, ‘I have been used’ and ‘mother issues,’ due to Mystique’s actions explained in her history. These issues effect her perspective on how she sees everyone else, often leading to hurtful comments towards others.
Name: Rogue
Fandom: X-Men: Evolution
Gender: Female
Age: 18ish
Time Period: Post Cajun Spice
Wing Color: White - soft, glowy white, like angel’s wings.
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Adopted at age four, Rogue has little-to-no memory of her birth parents. The woman who adopted her was kind and loving, apparently doting on her in every respect. But she had to travel for her work a lot, and so when Rogue was twelve, she was left with her Aunt Irene - although Rogue came to just call her Irene. Her mother would still visit, but she became more and more distant and Rogue began to look up to the blind Irene as a second mother. Twelve was a momentous year for Rogue, because it was shortly after she was placed with Irene that it was discovered she had a ‘skin condition,’ one where she would be harmed if anyone came in contact with her skin. Irene was concerned, took council with the doctor, and immediately determined that Rogue should take care to keep herself covered from head to foot at all times.
In Mississippi, is there any wonder that set her apart as a freak from that time forward? While Rogue apparently came to embrace it, there was also a deep longing to be ‘just like everyone else.’ This longing was easily seen by the fact that she would still torture herself by occasionally attending the parties she was still invited to - since Irene moved a lot, Rogue was always ‘the new girl,’ and sometimes it took a while for the ‘Nos’ she’d give to sink in. It was at one of these parties where Rogue’s world was turned upside-down for the first time. A boy named Cody asked her to dance.
Evolution’s world is kinder to Rogue in this respect than other canons - in every other world she discovered her power with her first kiss. In this one, it was her first dance. One touch of skin-on-skin, and Cody in a coma, and inside her head. She was him - she moved like him, thought like him - and she was herself at the same time. Confused and scared, she rushed out of the party only to be attacked by the X-Men. This was even more confusing, one minute they’d be trying to kill her and the next they’d be attempting to get her to listen, saying that they wanted to be her friends. After briefly absorbing some of Nightcrawler’s powers and memories, and learning that she can take powers too, Rogue eventually lands at Irene’s feet, confused and beaten - why was Irene there even though she’d told her to run? Irene promises that she can send Rogue to someone who can help, someone who will keep her safe…
And that is how Rogue ends up in Bayville, New York, under Raven Darkholme aka Mystique’s tender care - a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and in the same high school as the X-Men. The X-Men, especially Scott Summers, did not give up on her and Rogue found herself appreciating Scott’s genuine kindness and the way that the X-Men watched each other’s backs, like they were a real family. A few months after her move, she and Scott were on a fieldtrip together and Mystique tried to kill Scott in front of Rogue; Rogue would have none of that and in touching Mystique uncovered the first truth which rocked her world: Mystique had been the one to attack her, using the X-Men’s bodies.
That was the end of Rogue’s friendly association with the Brotherhood and the beginning of her tenure as an X-Man. She continues to struggle with where she belongs, and how she fits in as an X-Man and along the way she helps Kurt discover the identity of his biological mother, takes down Sabertooth with Spyke and Shadowcat, defeats Toad to be Chosen in one of Magneto’s mad schemes, grows to both resent and admire Jean Grey (though she’ll instantly risk her life to save Jean’s) and officially begins to crush on Scott Summers. She meets Warren Worthington on Christmas and joins with him and Scott to take on Magneto, and as darker forces begin to stir she works alongside with the rest of the X-Men to discover why Jean was possessed by Mesmero. She is captured, briefly, and taken to Area 51, a place where the government experiments on mutants. When she is rescued, she along with the other X-Men, manage to take down Juggernaught despite Professor Xavier’s absence.
The X-Men begin to attend high school as exposed mutants, dealing with open hatred, fear, and bigotry. One of Rogue’s few friends outside of the X-Men, Risty, returns at a key point when Rogue is feeling overwhelmed by all of the personalities that she’s absorbed, crushed by the fact that it looks as though Jean and Scott are getting together, and so when Risty suggests that they go to the concert that night, Rogue accepts against her better judgment. She doesn’t do well in crowds, and over the course of that concert Rogue ends up crashing into Risty, where they are in contact for over three seconds. This is more than enough time for Rogue to absorb Risty’s memories… and her powers. It turns out that Risty was Mystique all along, and not only that had she befriended Rogue in order to ‘get close to her’ to use her, but she’d befriended Rogue because she genuinely wanted to get close to her - because Mystique was her adopted mother. All of Rogue’s life from as far back as she could remember had been based upon what she looked at as a lie - Rogue had been adopted because Irene, the mutant named Destiny, had seen the nature of her powers and had seen Rogue in their futures. This shock - that she’d been adopted only to be used - is enough to push Rogue over the edge and her hurt gives the absorbed psyches the strength they need in order to act independently. Every power, every personality she has absorbed starts to manifest and in the end Rogue is just attacking blindly out of her hurt and rage. It takes Wolverine identifying her to calm her down enough so that she can allow Professor X access to her head so that the two of them can work on eradicating the accumulated psyches.
This experience leaves her emotionally and physically trained, as well as psychically defenseless. Mesmero takes full advantage of this when, in an attempt to save herself and Rogue, Mystique goes to Mesmero to work out a deal: Rogue’s powers in exchange for their safety. Mesmero possesses Rogue and uses her to take out the Brotherhood, the X-Men, and the Acolytes, absorbing their powers and then delivering them like a human battery or memory chip to Apocalypse. In the process, Mesmero betrays Mystique and uses her as a key to unlock the way to Apocalypse, turning her into stone.
The X-Men show up too late to stop Rogue, but in time to save her. They take her and the stone-Mystique back to the mansion where it is later discovered that Rogue is the only one who can save Mystique and free her from this self-imprisonment. Rogue, destroyed from being used so many times by her ‘mother,’ and blaming both herself and Mystique for quite literally unleashing the end of the world, does not want to save her. Kurt persuades her to try, but as she approaches Mystique to touch her she is overcome with rage at everything that’s happened - and ends up shoving her off a cliff where Mystique shatters.
Though Mystique shatters literally, Rogue is shattered figuratively. The guilt of murdering her own mother, on top of everything else, and the reject from her ‘adopted brother,’ really causes her to withdraw and begin to self-destruct. She is ‘rescued’ from this by being kidnapped - yet another mutant has use of her abilities: Gambit. Although he presents it in a charming enough way, the truth of it was that he took her so that she would help him rescue his father. …but Rogue can’t hold this against him. Apparently she’s tired of being angry and hurt, and in the end as Kurt came to reconcile with her, Rogue starts taking her first steps towards healing and doing what needs to be done in order to save the world.
Personality:
Rogue is X-Men Evolution’s first Goth. She’s embraced ‘darker things’ as a form of solace - since no one can get close to her, she’s going to make it that no one wants to in an effort to protect both others and herself. She can be bitingly sarcastic and puts out a very ‘tough’ persona - is very willing to both start and finish a fight as seen in her many confrontations with the Brotherhood.
Underneath it all, however, Rogue is actually a total softie - she loves her romances and just as much as she loves her hard metal, she really genuinely wants to be friends with people, to be liked and admired - but she feels like that’s impossible, that no one would like her for her. It doesn’t stop her from trying. When she sees that the X-Men are like a family, she wants that - when Scott treats her like a person, she responds to it, and when Kitty and Kurt just won’t quit trying to befriend her… she accepts them and appreciates them, in her own way.
She plays the guitar and loves music; she was born and raised in Mississippi and speaks with an outrageous Southern drawl, and she cooks up some mean grits. She’s willing to make friends with other ‘outsiders’ and can’t really stand the popular crowd. Rogue gets jealous, particularly of Jean Gray, and sometimes says hurtful things and won’t apologize for it - but she’ll not hesitate to lay down her life for her friends, even the ones she doesn’t get along with. Her issues with Mystique and with her powers are elaborated on in other section, but the greatest battle that Rogue is fighting is with herself. She hates her powers, but they’re a part of her at the same time. She can’t stand the way they leave her isolated from everyone, she hates having to cover up from head to toe (as can be seen in the provocative way she still manages to dress) and she is often extremely insecure - not only about her powers and her place in the world, but also about things like her physical appearance. She has a sardonic sense of humor, and can be morbid, but can occasionally also just laugh at the goofy antics of the people around her.
She’s an angry, hurting, but good-hearted teenage girl.
Strengths:
Physical:
Rogue has the strength and physical agility of a highly-trained gymnast (as seen when she runs up walls to hit a racquetball and in other and in Stuff of Heroes when she escapes the military SWAT team by throwing a bunch of newspapers at them as a distraction and then running, avoiding their wild shooting. She’s somewhat unique among the X-Men in that in order for her to use her powers, she has to get within touching distance. It’s reasonable to assume that Wolverine would have trained her so that she can do that effectively.
Her mutant ability is a bit of an anomaly, even among mutants. Her entire body is a weapon: if she touches any organic thing she absorbs their powers, memories, and lifeforce. This becomes what we can refer to as a ‘psyche’ and exists - for the rest of her life - inside Rogue’s head. The pysche’s memories and personalities are still accessible to Rogue, although not consciously, long after she’s already touched the person. This is demonstrated in ‘Shadowed Past’ when Rogue has dreams of Mystique’s memories of abandoning Kurt weeks after touching her.
Canonically, a touch for one second equals the ability to carry that person’s powers for sixty seconds, and there are some mutants of immense physical power such as Blob or Juggernaught where she needs much longer than that in order to knock them out. She can take and use more than one power at a time. If Rogue holds on to you long enough, your lifeforce will be completely absorbed into hers. Your powers will become hers permanently, while she retains her own original power. You will - for all intents and purposes - die from just a touch.
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Mental:
Rogue has extremely good mental defenses. She’s been working with Professor Xavier to ‘strengthen the walls’ in her mind so that she can control her psyches and not be driven crazy by them (again.) She’s smart, though no genius, and she only pursues what’s interesting to her in school. She evidently does care about her finals and is frequently seen reading everything from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to trashy modern urban romance novels. In a fight, she’s shown to think inventively and to be completely willing to put herself in harm’s way.
Emotional:
Rogue is, at her core, intensely loyal and good-natured. Her first response to seeing Irene on the scene when she was being attacked was to do all that she could to get her foster-mother out of there, and even though she does not like Jean Gray and is jealous of Scott’s attention for her, she does not hesitate to volunteer to go into harm’s way in order to help her. Even before Rogue joined the X-Men, when Jean was kidnapped by Blob, Rogue is the one who eventually rescued her - when Scott asks her why she did it, she replies that she just didn’t know, but the truth of it is that she can’t stand to see someone taken advantage of.
Weaknesses:
Physical:
Rogue, when not using anyone else’s powers, is just a normal highly trained teenage girl. She can be cut, broken, beaten like anyone else.
While Rogue’s powers are very powerful indeed, they also come with an incredible downside: she can’t turn them off. This means that even if she was touching you to save your life, even if she was just kissing your cheek - she’d hurt you. She can also be overwhelmed by them, if she’s absorbed someone with a very strong personality then even if she’s able to fight them immediately after, as is the case with Juggernaught in ‘Stuff of Heroes,’ she still has to take time to find a way to ‘place them in her mind,’ afterwards.
Mental:
It is sometimes hard for Rogue to tell if she is the one wanting to do something… or if it’s one of the psyches she’s absorbed. They stay in her mind and sometimes get very, very loud if she’s not constantly meditating and ‘putting them away.’
There is an also extreme down-side to absorbing someone’s life-force, and that is that once they are in her mind, they don’t go away. The more Rogue’s absorbed of a person, the louder and stronger their presence in her mind is. It takes a powerful telepath to help Rogue control the psyches if they grow too numerous, or hours of daily meditation to keep them contained.
The many times that she has been betrayed and use have also affected her perspective - she tends to be more cynical and less trusting, even of her friends.
Emotional:
Rage, rage, rage. As stated in her history, Rogue has a problem with anger. She’s a hurting and isolated teenage girl who has been consistently used for her powers by the person she should have been most able to trust. Isolation, the feeling of being misunderstood - common to most teenage girls and extremely amplified in the girl who knows that she can’t even touch anyone. What kind of monster must she be?
She also has deep, deep, ‘I have been used’ and ‘mother issues,’ due to Mystique’s actions explained in her history. These issues effect her perspective on how she sees everyone else, often leading to hurtful comments towards others.