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characters in abax: Rogue, AU Amy Pond
in character information.
series: XFC
name: Raven 'Mystique' Darkholme
age: Unknown, roughly ~30
sex: F
race: Mutant
weight: 125 lbs
height: 5'8
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: n/a
canon point: After a debriefing in England, roughly seven years working with the CIA.
previous cr: n/a
history: Straight up movie canon (XFC bit only).
alternate history:
Starting off by saying this is a modern AU. When she's pulled to Abax, it's the year 2012.
This story starts out like any other. Two humans weren't exactly the smartest and nine months later ended up with a bundle of joy. Only this baby wasn't like any other. No, Raven Darkholme was a mutant, homo superior. She wasn't born "normal". While other babies were cute and cuddly, Raven was blue.
She doesn't remember much from the early years by choice. What she does recall is a family that not only abandoned her, but tried to kill her. Whether she was kicked out or ran away, it doesn't really matter. At a young age she had to learn to fend for herself. Living on the streets and stealing were her only means of survival.
One day she happened upon the mansion of the Xaviers. Using her abilities to gain access, she was caught by one ten year old Charles Xavier. She disguised herself as his mother, but he caught on rather quick seeing as his mother was not as kind as Raven was presuming. She turned into her natural form, expecting him to be frightened. But he was not. He wasn't even remotely scared. While human, Charles was the first to show her any kindness. The talked for awhile; Charles interested in what she could do and if there were others like her.
This is where we divulge from the canon story. That and the fact that Charles is not a telepath. He never was. He simply deduced she was not his mother and was insistent upon it.
Soon she was adopted by him, his stepfather, and mother despite the fact Charles felt bad for using his parents. As a result, she constantly felt like a burden. However for a few years, they had each other. Never having a proper family, Raven latched on to Charles and, he became her everything.
Things were tough on the family. Without Charles' telepathic abilities, he could not control his stepfather, he couldn't hide her. Charles wound up in a fight with his father at the age of fifteen. It resulted in physical abuse and the hospitalization of her closest friend. Injured, she came to him, knowing it was her fault. Even though he insisted it was not her fault, though the argument, at its base, was about her, Raven left. She felt it would be safer for him.
She ran away to New York City. Living on the streets was much harder at this point and so she found herself using her ability to look older and attain some sort of income as a waitress. However her ability was never fully controlled. About a year after acquiring a waitressing job (roughly at the age of nineteen), Raven had a "slip up".
In the middle of a stressful shift, she accidentally took the form of someone else. Raven couldn't control it; she simply transformed into the middle aged man while serving him a Reuben and curly fries. The entire diner noticed.
She tried escaping -- clearly no longer was employed by the diner, but she stayed in New York. It wasn't much longer before the CIA was knocking on her door. Of course they knew what she was. Of course they had plans. There was a division within the government specifically set up for to put mutants to work, simple tools or weapons to be developed. Or test on them. They really only left her with one option.
That was years ago though. She went through her training. It was rigorous, but Raven had to do what she had to do. They trained her for field work. She learned about guns and about self defense. It did help with focus, especially dealing with being captured. However training on her powers was neglected.
Now she either helps to find other mutants and commit them to what could only be called slavery or she does some other meaningless task. At least meaningless for her. She went through her training and then even more in her specific branch. Her job was to infiltrate places at first to gain military intelligence. This was helpful in the War Against Terror.
Most of her missions went successfully. And if she could tell they were heading south, Raven had enough training and cunning to get out of there. It didn't help she could turn into whomever she wished.
In 2010, after a severally traumatic experience in which her powers faltered, yet again (given no real training with her abilities), she was transferred to another branch within the Mutant Initiative. With no one pushing her, war had become too much. While she had the cold exterior that had built up, she'd cracked under the pressure in the middle of an assignment. It was meant to be routine, but the briefing she was given wasn't complete and when she was stuck in a room with the man she was supposed to be interrogating, facial features started flickering. It was enough to freak out the man she was charged with getting details on weapons locations and thus barely escaped.
Consequentially, she tried to escape. Agent Darkholme had had enough of this life, of being someone else's tool. But Raven didn't get far. They found her (some time later she learned exactly how). Her mental stability wasn't fully broken, so they decided after some leave time, they would send her elsewhere.
This time, she was assigned the task of "recruiting" mutants. There was another mutant there that could locate others with abilities. He had been faced with the same choices she had, that they all had. And now she had to give the same speech to her race. To be enslaved or captured.
It's been two years, and it's eaten into her. However, what she doesn't know is during this particular trip Britain, she was to come into contact with an old friend getting his doctorate in genetics.
personality:
There is really two sides to Raven. The girl who was buried and the CIA Agent she's become. The girl who wants to be accepted and the woman who's reality is anything but. She's been forced into a position she never wanted to be in, has killed to stay alive, persecuted her own kind under orders, and still searches for a person, anyone to accept her.
At the core of who Raven is, she is adaptable. It transcends her ability to morph into any person, but who she is as a person. Not much is known about her early life, but she lived and survived on the streets for some time. Then she goes to live with Charles. He needs to have someone else in his life. Raven fills that need. She is the little sister, because he wants her to be. She takes his inability to look at her in her true form. Raven hides for him. She believes what he says about what could happen.
She cares deeply and wants someone to understand her. Charles did that for awhile, but in the CIA, she's learned what humans are truly capable of, and it's hardened her. She's essentially alone and isolated. Raven has experienced war and the only way to process it is to not. It's how she's also reconciled turning over her own kind. She can't think about it. It gets her through and allows her to do what the CIA needs. She is whatever they need her to be.
Raven is immensely loyal though. She stuck through Charles and his arrogance. She kept her nose to the ground while working for government. It only took a traumatic event to get her to pull away. But she's driven by the fear, the fear that she was different -- the one that Charles had helped instill in her, to not react. This was her job, this was what she did, and she protected who she needed to.
Unlike XFC, there is no journey to acceptance. She still despises her true form and takes to being a brunette (she was no longer a blonde after leaving Charles). She's never blue, and no one but her superiors know about that. It's a part of her she still hides. It probably only got worse being in the "Freak Division" as it was often called.
Her relationships are complicated. When younger, Charles was literally her everything. She used him as a crutch. Her years before the CIA were much like when she was young where survival was key. Keeping to herself meant no one would judge her. This transferred over to life in the government. She couldn't trust those around her, not much more than that they had her back as much as she had theirs. She isolated herself because she had to. There was no fill in for Charles, so she latched onto her job. It became her crutch. She learned what she had to, she became what she had to.
But that isn't to say she was as hard and cruel as she made herself out to be. Certainly her life had changed the girl she was, but there were moments in the break room where her and maybe one other person would commiserate. She'd smile, brush a lock behind her ear, and for a moment belong. But it helped. For as much as she hated being there (especially after they reassigned her), Raven could still find herself longing. Maybe it helped, maybe it only hurt even more, but it's her life.
abilities/powers: Raven is a shapeshifter. In her true form, she's also much more agile. She's also had years of training in the CIA, including fighting and weapons skills.
first person sample:
[She'd been there about a day, maybe a bit less. Raven had taken in her surroundings: a city. There also seemed to be mutants there. She'd discovered her communication device and went through it, trying to learn as much as she could.]
It seems I've been taken to some city by no power that I know of. And I'm not the only mutant. [This was odd. It wasn't like people acknowledged what they were back home. No one wanted the government to come after. No one wanted her to come after them.]
I'm Agent Darkholme, and while I've realized my superiors are not here, I wish to speak to any affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency. [It would be helpful to get more information from the people here.
But there was something else bothering her.]
How are there two Charles Xaviers here? [Not that she specifically wanted to address him -- there was far too much emotion right now for one, let alone two. On one hand, she did want to see him, want to know what he was up to, if he was okay. But she also felt guilty for leaving. So for now, she'd wait and see if he'd come to her.]
third person sample: A psl over at IJ.
case no: 07-15-82
name: Kimmie
are you over 18?: Yes.
personal dw:
whisperswltzemail/msn/aim/plurk/etc:
characters in abax: Rogue, AU Amy Pond
in character information.
series: XFC
name: Raven 'Mystique' Darkholme
age: Unknown, roughly ~30
sex: F
race: Mutant
weight: 125 lbs
height: 5'8
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: n/a
canon point: After a debriefing in England, roughly seven years working with the CIA.
previous cr: n/a
history: Straight up movie canon (XFC bit only).
alternate history:
Starting off by saying this is a modern AU. When she's pulled to Abax, it's the year 2012.
This story starts out like any other. Two humans weren't exactly the smartest and nine months later ended up with a bundle of joy. Only this baby wasn't like any other. No, Raven Darkholme was a mutant, homo superior. She wasn't born "normal". While other babies were cute and cuddly, Raven was blue.
She doesn't remember much from the early years by choice. What she does recall is a family that not only abandoned her, but tried to kill her. Whether she was kicked out or ran away, it doesn't really matter. At a young age she had to learn to fend for herself. Living on the streets and stealing were her only means of survival.
One day she happened upon the mansion of the Xaviers. Using her abilities to gain access, she was caught by one ten year old Charles Xavier. She disguised herself as his mother, but he caught on rather quick seeing as his mother was not as kind as Raven was presuming. She turned into her natural form, expecting him to be frightened. But he was not. He wasn't even remotely scared. While human, Charles was the first to show her any kindness. The talked for awhile; Charles interested in what she could do and if there were others like her.
This is where we divulge from the canon story. That and the fact that Charles is not a telepath. He never was. He simply deduced she was not his mother and was insistent upon it.
Soon she was adopted by him, his stepfather, and mother despite the fact Charles felt bad for using his parents. As a result, she constantly felt like a burden. However for a few years, they had each other. Never having a proper family, Raven latched on to Charles and, he became her everything.
Things were tough on the family. Without Charles' telepathic abilities, he could not control his stepfather, he couldn't hide her. Charles wound up in a fight with his father at the age of fifteen. It resulted in physical abuse and the hospitalization of her closest friend. Injured, she came to him, knowing it was her fault. Even though he insisted it was not her fault, though the argument, at its base, was about her, Raven left. She felt it would be safer for him.
She ran away to New York City. Living on the streets was much harder at this point and so she found herself using her ability to look older and attain some sort of income as a waitress. However her ability was never fully controlled. About a year after acquiring a waitressing job (roughly at the age of nineteen), Raven had a "slip up".
In the middle of a stressful shift, she accidentally took the form of someone else. Raven couldn't control it; she simply transformed into the middle aged man while serving him a Reuben and curly fries. The entire diner noticed.
She tried escaping -- clearly no longer was employed by the diner, but she stayed in New York. It wasn't much longer before the CIA was knocking on her door. Of course they knew what she was. Of course they had plans. There was a division within the government specifically set up for to put mutants to work, simple tools or weapons to be developed. Or test on them. They really only left her with one option.
That was years ago though. She went through her training. It was rigorous, but Raven had to do what she had to do. They trained her for field work. She learned about guns and about self defense. It did help with focus, especially dealing with being captured. However training on her powers was neglected.
Now she either helps to find other mutants and commit them to what could only be called slavery or she does some other meaningless task. At least meaningless for her. She went through her training and then even more in her specific branch. Her job was to infiltrate places at first to gain military intelligence. This was helpful in the War Against Terror.
Most of her missions went successfully. And if she could tell they were heading south, Raven had enough training and cunning to get out of there. It didn't help she could turn into whomever she wished.
In 2010, after a severally traumatic experience in which her powers faltered, yet again (given no real training with her abilities), she was transferred to another branch within the Mutant Initiative. With no one pushing her, war had become too much. While she had the cold exterior that had built up, she'd cracked under the pressure in the middle of an assignment. It was meant to be routine, but the briefing she was given wasn't complete and when she was stuck in a room with the man she was supposed to be interrogating, facial features started flickering. It was enough to freak out the man she was charged with getting details on weapons locations and thus barely escaped.
Consequentially, she tried to escape. Agent Darkholme had had enough of this life, of being someone else's tool. But Raven didn't get far. They found her (some time later she learned exactly how). Her mental stability wasn't fully broken, so they decided after some leave time, they would send her elsewhere.
This time, she was assigned the task of "recruiting" mutants. There was another mutant there that could locate others with abilities. He had been faced with the same choices she had, that they all had. And now she had to give the same speech to her race. To be enslaved or captured.
It's been two years, and it's eaten into her. However, what she doesn't know is during this particular trip Britain, she was to come into contact with an old friend getting his doctorate in genetics.
personality:
There is really two sides to Raven. The girl who was buried and the CIA Agent she's become. The girl who wants to be accepted and the woman who's reality is anything but. She's been forced into a position she never wanted to be in, has killed to stay alive, persecuted her own kind under orders, and still searches for a person, anyone to accept her.
At the core of who Raven is, she is adaptable. It transcends her ability to morph into any person, but who she is as a person. Not much is known about her early life, but she lived and survived on the streets for some time. Then she goes to live with Charles. He needs to have someone else in his life. Raven fills that need. She is the little sister, because he wants her to be. She takes his inability to look at her in her true form. Raven hides for him. She believes what he says about what could happen.
She cares deeply and wants someone to understand her. Charles did that for awhile, but in the CIA, she's learned what humans are truly capable of, and it's hardened her. She's essentially alone and isolated. Raven has experienced war and the only way to process it is to not. It's how she's also reconciled turning over her own kind. She can't think about it. It gets her through and allows her to do what the CIA needs. She is whatever they need her to be.
Raven is immensely loyal though. She stuck through Charles and his arrogance. She kept her nose to the ground while working for government. It only took a traumatic event to get her to pull away. But she's driven by the fear, the fear that she was different -- the one that Charles had helped instill in her, to not react. This was her job, this was what she did, and she protected who she needed to.
Unlike XFC, there is no journey to acceptance. She still despises her true form and takes to being a brunette (she was no longer a blonde after leaving Charles). She's never blue, and no one but her superiors know about that. It's a part of her she still hides. It probably only got worse being in the "Freak Division" as it was often called.
Her relationships are complicated. When younger, Charles was literally her everything. She used him as a crutch. Her years before the CIA were much like when she was young where survival was key. Keeping to herself meant no one would judge her. This transferred over to life in the government. She couldn't trust those around her, not much more than that they had her back as much as she had theirs. She isolated herself because she had to. There was no fill in for Charles, so she latched onto her job. It became her crutch. She learned what she had to, she became what she had to.
But that isn't to say she was as hard and cruel as she made herself out to be. Certainly her life had changed the girl she was, but there were moments in the break room where her and maybe one other person would commiserate. She'd smile, brush a lock behind her ear, and for a moment belong. But it helped. For as much as she hated being there (especially after they reassigned her), Raven could still find herself longing. Maybe it helped, maybe it only hurt even more, but it's her life.
abilities/powers: Raven is a shapeshifter. In her true form, she's also much more agile. She's also had years of training in the CIA, including fighting and weapons skills.
first person sample:
[She'd been there about a day, maybe a bit less. Raven had taken in her surroundings: a city. There also seemed to be mutants there. She'd discovered her communication device and went through it, trying to learn as much as she could.]
It seems I've been taken to some city by no power that I know of. And I'm not the only mutant. [This was odd. It wasn't like people acknowledged what they were back home. No one wanted the government to come after. No one wanted her to come after them.]
I'm Agent Darkholme, and while I've realized my superiors are not here, I wish to speak to any affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency. [It would be helpful to get more information from the people here.
But there was something else bothering her.]
How are there two Charles Xaviers here? [Not that she specifically wanted to address him -- there was far too much emotion right now for one, let alone two. On one hand, she did want to see him, want to know what he was up to, if he was okay. But she also felt guilty for leaving. So for now, she'd wait and see if he'd come to her.]
third person sample: A psl over at IJ.
case no: 07-15-82