Not All Who Wander Are Lost

I am stalking the heck out of my canon right now. It's pathetic. They're announcing which side everyone's going to be on with this weird schism thing. I'd really like to know that in the future things do work out for Alex and I at home, but for all I know, I won't even survive to get back to Earth. It's kind of horrible and fascinating all at once. I'm going to have to talk Bobby into reading this stuff for me, I think.

It's kind of sad to realize that your life and all your happiness relies on the whim of some random person you've never met, who has no attachment to you, or care for you at all. I'd like to go back to thinking the universe is a set of really crappy coincidences. Then, at least, nobody's jerking me around for comic book sales.

Out of Character
NAME: Nyx


In Character
Name: Lorna 'Polaris' Dane
Fandom: Marvel Comics
History or Personality:
Lorna is a mess. Her psyche has been subjugated for years, and after that, it seems like things have been happening one after another. Stress and unhappiness are the rule for her, rather than the exception. In her eyes, she has no real friends, and major unresolved business that she hopes (but not too hard), will at least be settled. She's joined X-Factor to apologize to Alex, more than anything else.

Her time on Muir, post her possession, has helped her feel somewhat more like her excessively cheerful prior self. On good days, she can joke and laugh, losing herself in the good moments. On the bad days, and more than a few of the neutral ones, it seems as though the world is impossibly dark, and that she is a broken, ugly thing. She has a terrible body image, and constantly tries to control her surroundings by making attempts to alter herself. She knows she is reacting to things in an unhealthy manner, but is very defensive if anyone else brings it up.


Any special abilities: Lorna can control magnetism with her mind. She has good fine control, and is able to lift quite a bit more than her own weight. She can also see portions of the EM spectrum.
Journal: compassrose
PB: Bianca Beauchamps

Was this character held for you? no
Can this character be canon punctured? yes

<b>Who:</b> <b>When:</b> <b>Where:</b> <b>Rating/Warnings:</b> <b>Status:</b>

THE PLAYER
NAME: Nyx
AGE: 24
AIM: nyxnotnicks
E-MAIL: nyx.not.nicks@gmail.com
TIMEZONE: PST

CHARACTERS PLAYED @ RIDGEWAY: none
HAVE YOU READ THE RULES? AND DO YOU AGREE TO THEM? yes

THE CHARACTER
FULL NAME: Lorna Elaine Dane
SERIES/FANDOM: Marvel
AGE: 32
GENDER: Female
SPECIES: Human Mutant
SEXUALITY: bi-curious
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Good
JOB ASSIGNMENT: Bartender for the Buffet

PERSONALITY:
Lorna is a neurotic, stubborn, and somewhat paranoid person. She has good reasons for these personality traits, but she can come off as rude and presumptuous to people who don't know her. She also makes inappropriate jokes at exactly the wrong moment. This can seem like spite and anger, but it's really just her way of dealing with problems.

Despite some of her rougher edges, Lorna is a good woman. She's loyal and smart, and brave without being foolhardy. Deep down, she just wants to live as normal a life as possible, and see other mutants be able to do the same. It has been said that nobody believes in Xavier's dream of co-existence as much as Lorna (by her lover, but the point still stands).

Though she would never call herself a hero, Lorna will go around the world to help a friend or loved one in need. She's also very open to friendship and relatively forgiving, so it's not difficult to find yourself numbered among her friends. Fighting as a superhero doesn't appeal to her, however. Unless she is angry (which is a state she can be led to relatively easily), she wants to pursue a peaceful solution to ever problem.

When angry, Lorna can be ruthless. Like her father, Magneto, Lorna doesn't shy away from what she feels has to be done simply because it's distasteful. This, coupled with occasional possession-induced craziness, make her a terrible enemy. During the fight with Vulcan in War of Kings Lorna was quite eager to rip Vulcan's heart out, though he hadn't done anything particularly nasty to her (yet).

Most of all, though, Lorna just wants to live a normal life. She wants things to go well between her and Alex so they can ride out into the sunset and become ordinary people who just happen to be able to do extraordinary things.

HISTORY:
Lorna was created in a chance encounter between her mother and Magneto while her mother was traveling abroad that turned into an affair. Lorna's mother was married at the time, and when Magento found out about it he was so angry he crashed the plane Lorna's parents were flying in after realizing he'd been sleeping with a married woman.

The green hair that is Lorna's signature was present from birth. Her aunt and uncle raised her as their own, not telling her she was adopted until after she had run away to California under mind control and had her powers forcibly manifested.

Luckily, in the middle of it all, she found Bobby Drake, who took her to the X-men. There she met Alex Summers, and after fighting a giant carnivorous island, they left to get their degrees together.

They weren't really active as heroes again for quite some time. Eventually they worked together for X-Factor, up until Alex's 'death'. Lorna didn't believe he was actually dead, but didn't have time to deal with that, since she then found out she was one of the twelve mutants who would be used by Apocalypse to achieve Celestial level power.

After Apocalypse was defeated Lorna went to Genosha to help Magneto rule his country and incidentally get a firmer grasp on her powers. It was here that she learned he was her father, and they became close enough for her to call him father.

Of course, when Genosha exploded into a fiery death trap, this deeply effected Lorna, who was manipulated by Magneto to carry a magnetic recording of his voice making a final speech. Lorna was found wandering around the rubble in Genosha completely naked and rambling, desperate to let the recording she carried be heard.

Alex came back to life after that, while Lorna was still seriously crazy, and Lorna pounced on him, announcing that they would be married. However, Alex had fallen in love with his nurse Annie, whose son had taken her to the Astral Plane to be with him, and he wound up leaving Lorna at the altar to confess his love to Annie. Lorna chased after him, wearing a helmet like Magento's, but made out of flatware. She might have even killed Alex, if she hadn't been knocked out.

After that she was in therapy, and flirted with Bobby. However, the thing with Alex was still hanging over her head, so she couldn't really commit to Bobby in a real way. Despite that, when Alex told Lorna he still loved her after Annie left, Lorna pushed him away.

After M day and its craziness, Lorna lost her powers. This gave Apocalypse a chance to use Lorna's persistent crazy to steal her away and force her to become Pestilence. Ironically, the transformation into Pestilence helped Lorna work past all of her issues, and that gave her the ability to resist him the first chance she got, though she then went out to try to kill him.

It didn't work out too well for her, and she was in the middle of dodging a fight with some cultists when Alex rescued her and asked her to go into space to stop Vulcan with him. She accepted, though it took some time to convince her that she deserved a second chance to be a good person after all the things she'd done.

In space she works on convincing Alex to give their relationship a second chance, and proves that her inclusion in the mission was merited, since her powers are quite useful. The group meets up with the Starjammers, and Alex and Corsair, his father, are temporarily reunited.

After Corsair is killed by Vulcan, Havok takes charge of the Starjammers, and Lorna is always at his side, attempting to persuade him not to let his self-confidence issues get in the way of his leadership.

While being pursued by the Shi'ar, Lorna saves everyone's lives by demanding to see her sister-in-law's wedding. She spends a lot of time with Crystal and Luna, feeling out Crystal's reasons for her marriage to Ronan the Accuser. She even helps Crystal, when the Kree and Inhumans are attacked by the Shi'ar, getting footage of the Inhuman woman helping injured Kree broadcast far and wide.

After their tine on Kree-lar, the Starjammers go back to rescue Lilandra. Lorna helps them burrow into a Shi'ar ship, which they commandeer. Using the ship, the Starjammers rescue Rocket Raccoon and the other Guardians of the Galaxy.

After this fight between Black Bolt (leader of the Inhumans), and Vulcan, the Shi'ar surrender to the Kree. Alex gives the Starjammer up to Ch'od, and the three human Starjammers and one Shi'ar headed back for Earth.


ABILITIES:
Lorna is in control of nanites that mimic her original powers. She has control of ferrous material and magnetic waves. This enables her to fly, shape and move metal objects, and even manipulate some things by their EM fields (which is how she flies).

On top of that, she is moderately skilled in self-defense, and she has a masters in geophysics, as well as years of experience in field work for said course of study.

After being possessed multiple times, Lorna has some resistance to psychic attack. She also metabolizes toxins and medicines quickly. Her powers resist standard dampeners, and she has a heightened immune system due to her time as Pestilence.

WEAKNESSES:
Without her powers, Lorna's pretty useless in a fight. She is also prone to all the energies she can manipulate, since her powers aren't natural. Her mental state is also variable, and her sanity can sometimes be quite brittle.

Lorna also has little in the way of brain to mouth filtering, and wears her heart on her sleeve. She is fairly easy to manipulate and control, even without telepathy.
CANON POINT: Post the end of War of Kings, prior to her return to Earth (which hasn't happened yet in canon, anyway).

THIRD-PERSON RPG SAMPLE:
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PB: Bianca Beauchamps
JOURNAL: compassrose

WAS THIS CHARACTER HELD FOR YOU?: Yes

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