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“Tried it Dad's way. Tried it Xavier's way. Think I'm trying it my way this time.”
C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T  _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y Lorna Dane _________________________________________________________ Teacher (Xavier Institute) | 24 | Acolytes, X-Men, X-Factor _________________________________________________________ Westchester | New York | United States of America C H A R A C T E R N O T E S C H A R A C T E R N O T E S - C O D E X ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ The Acolytes Originally led by her father, the Acolytes are the people she knew the best and helped her hone her powers before she defected to Charles Xavier's X-Men. ◼ X-Factor Lorna has quietly been building up a proposal for a secondary response team with her pinned as the leader. She's not sure Charles will go for it, but given the right scenario, she might not have to. ◼ X-Men Charles Xavier's central mutant counterterrorist response team. Lorna served as a member between 2017 and 2022. Technically still pinned as a "reserve member" Lorna knows when she's been replaced, hard not to when there's a literal teenager taking her spot now. - - A L L I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Banshee (Sean Cassidy) TBD ◼ Beast (Hank McCoy) Lorna and Beast have had their misgivings, though she still respects Hank as he has taught her a lot in the past. His pragmatic intellectual side is often paired with a warm cheerfulness that Lorna finds helpful and she considers him a part of the family she really never had. ◼ Cyclops (Scott Summers) Given how close Scott’s brother and Lorna were before he switched sides, there was always bound to be some kind of relationship between Lorna and Scott. Lorna blamed herself for not being able to stop Alex and Scott made sure she didn’t blame herself for long. Ever the optimist, but sometimes a little naive and stubborn, Scott is one of the people from the team that Lorna still could consider a close friend. ◼ Havok (Alexander Summers) Probably the person barring her father that Lorna has been close to in her life. Unfortunately, he's serving out his sentence in The Raft. ◼ Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) Lorna’s Best Friend. The first one to welcome her to the team and the only one who never gave up trying to reach her when she was on the other side. In many ways she’s like an older sister (not that much older though!) and is probably the person Lorna talks to the most even with her removal from the team. She is concerned about Lorna’s obvious bitterness, though. ◼ Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) TBD ◼ Professor X (Charles Xavier) Professor Charles Xavier. The world’s leading expert on the X-Gene and founder of the X-Men. Lorna hates him; admires him; respects him. She isn’t sure if he’s a master manipulator or not, but her relationship with Xavier… is always strained, especially when you consider Lorna’s perspective. She’ll listen to him, but there are limits. ◼ Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) TBD - - E N E M I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr) Dad. It's complicated. - T I M E L I N E T I M E L I N E - T I M E L I N E ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ 2014 Erik Lehnsherr intervenes in an incident that manifests Lorna's x-gene. He tells her he is the father she has not seen in years. It starts off their rocky relationship, but she agrees to go with him. ◼ 2017 Charles Xavier convinces her she is the only one who could bring her father down to earth and stop innocent lives from being taken. She is conflicted, but eventually this escalates into a standoff with her father and she joins the X-Men. ◼ 2018 M-Day Occurs. Her father reminds her he has more control over his mutant abilities than she does. Havok, who had fostered a relationship with her, snaps and stops her father from enacting his plans. The remaining Acolytes are imprisoned at The Raft. ◼ 2022 Xavier removes Polaris from the X-Men team, claiming she needs to lead the younger students as well as take a break. She takes this poorly, but remains at the school. - | C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T When Lorna Dane turned against her father, she thought it was the right move. She was a teenager and Charles Xavier just knew how to appeal to the sense of good inside her, assuring her that her father - whom she had just reconnected with - did not have her best interests at heart. Translation: He was really good at manipulating her. And for years, she listened to the telepath’s advice. Attended Mutant High School. Even served on the X-Men for awhile. That is, until the elder mutant realized how Lorna was struggling with her own thoughts. The longer her father sat under watch at The Raft the more she doubted herself. Eventually, Charles suggested some time away from the team to get her bearings and focus on leading the younger students and to lead by example. Translation: She no longer was needed to play in Erik and Charles’ sordid little chess match. She obviously didn’t take it well. For the past few months Lorna has taken the role of a teacher at the Xavier Institute as well as one of the rotating Danger Room instructors. Since her time as an active member of the X-Men has ended she has continued to act independently when needed, though generally she’s starting to think as the world is getting more dangerous for her kind that Xavier’s going to need to greenlight other teams. This led her to the idea of proposing a team of her own, not only to give her autonomy but so she doesn’t feel like she’s sitting on her thumbs all the time. Unbeknownst to her, she’s even more right than she realizes. P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) With this game focusing heavily on the mutant conflicts what I want to do here is tap into that. With a few friends asking me to make a mutant-oriented character to help bounce off of them, I’ve also taken a long look at the mutant lore presented as well as other active characters. I think Polaris is the right fit for me here. If I can coordinate with the Havok player there’s some personalized stuff to handle, but I can also engage with the active X-Men team in scenes where both of us are present, so there’s that. Overall, this is more of a reactive character than a solo character – but I do have plans for forming X-Factor, coming to blows with The Purifiers, the Brotherhood of Mutants, and other antagonists. I won’t just be waiting to see what is happening. If the RP is lively, I can collaborate and contribute. That’s my pitch. |
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Location: The Raft
Post #1: His Penance
She never stopped ticking. The marker had faded on the calendar Lorna kept on her wall.
M-Day continued to be a ghost that followed her, that deprived hero of air, suffocating her every night. She was turning 25 soon, yet everything about the world seemed to be getting worse and the more it got worse the angrier she got. But then again that was a component that she had struggled with her entire life.
Her parents hadn’t even been her real fake parents. Her powers at the tip of her fingertips. Dangerous. A mutant. Her real father didn’t even want her until it seemed convenient to take her under his wing, but even then it was hard to tell if she was a pawn or a daughter. Her father had been aloof, hard to talk to. In those early days with the Acolytes he cared more about the liberation of mutantkind than he did helping her along. He regretted it. He had to. She supposed that’s why she kept trying to reach him.
But she hadn’t come to The Raft for her father.
For the last five years now she had come for Alex. Every month she found a way to get some time to see the person who had been one of the few that helped make the rotten and awful world they lived in seem a little less rotten and awful. It was a strange relationship. They were enemies then teammates then came the romance and then her father got into his head like Xavier had gotten into hers and they were enemies again. She always tried to reach him and it wasn’t until M-Day where he saw how far her father was willing to go. How little he refused to compromise for his so-called liberation.
Would her father have actually killed her? She still didn’t know that answer. Alex did save her, though, and when he surrendered himself to The Raft it broke something in her.
The only thing that kept her going was helping people. Stopping bad guys. Being a member of the X-Men. Until Xavier took that away from her, too. She had been lacking thought, not following Scott’s example. She was too stressed. She needed to “take some time off”. She screamed at the Professor. Threatened his life. Stormed out of his office. Didn’t take long for him to replace her with a literal child on the team. It took her months to process it. Had she? She still wasn’t sure.
But it wasn’t the time to process it.
It was time to see her boyfriend while a bunch of fascist cops kept an eye on her. Even during visitor hours and privileges they still didn’t trust the “daughter of Magneto”. She supposed that was never going to change.
As she was guided into the corridor she took a seat as she waited to see her fucking boyfriend.
Five years. Over one thousand days. Her boyfriend was in super-prison. Was this going to be forever? Because he wanted to be punished? She sighed, as her hands clasped together. She was a cliché.
“Alex…” She mutters under her breath.
M-Day continued to be a ghost that followed her, that deprived hero of air, suffocating her every night. She was turning 25 soon, yet everything about the world seemed to be getting worse and the more it got worse the angrier she got. But then again that was a component that she had struggled with her entire life.
Her parents hadn’t even been her real fake parents. Her powers at the tip of her fingertips. Dangerous. A mutant. Her real father didn’t even want her until it seemed convenient to take her under his wing, but even then it was hard to tell if she was a pawn or a daughter. Her father had been aloof, hard to talk to. In those early days with the Acolytes he cared more about the liberation of mutantkind than he did helping her along. He regretted it. He had to. She supposed that’s why she kept trying to reach him.
But she hadn’t come to The Raft for her father.
For the last five years now she had come for Alex. Every month she found a way to get some time to see the person who had been one of the few that helped make the rotten and awful world they lived in seem a little less rotten and awful. It was a strange relationship. They were enemies then teammates then came the romance and then her father got into his head like Xavier had gotten into hers and they were enemies again. She always tried to reach him and it wasn’t until M-Day where he saw how far her father was willing to go. How little he refused to compromise for his so-called liberation.
Would her father have actually killed her? She still didn’t know that answer. Alex did save her, though, and when he surrendered himself to The Raft it broke something in her.
The only thing that kept her going was helping people. Stopping bad guys. Being a member of the X-Men. Until Xavier took that away from her, too. She had been lacking thought, not following Scott’s example. She was too stressed. She needed to “take some time off”. She screamed at the Professor. Threatened his life. Stormed out of his office. Didn’t take long for him to replace her with a literal child on the team. It took her months to process it. Had she? She still wasn’t sure.
But it wasn’t the time to process it.
It was time to see her boyfriend while a bunch of fascist cops kept an eye on her. Even during visitor hours and privileges they still didn’t trust the “daughter of Magneto”. She supposed that was never going to change.
As she was guided into the corridor she took a seat as she waited to see her fucking boyfriend.
Five years. Over one thousand days. Her boyfriend was in super-prison. Was this going to be forever? Because he wanted to be punished? She sighed, as her hands clasped together. She was a cliché.
“Alex…” She mutters under her breath.
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