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oddlittlefrostgiantAPPLICATION
Player Name: Amit!
Plurk Handle: captainfanboy
Other characters: None…yet.
Character Name: Robert Louis "Bobby" Drake
Fandom: X-Men
Character Journal:oddlittlefrostgiant
OU, AU, or OC? Original universe, alternate universe, or original character? OU
If canon, canon point: All-New X-Men Volume 2 #2
Superhero Name: Iceman. (What else?)
History: http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Drake_(Past)
Personality: Outwardly, Bobby is a fast-talking, quippy, light-hearted teenager. He's always quick with a light response, and he generally tends to be the last one in the group to catch up with what's going on. More often than not, Bobby tends to end up playing the little brother role in a group. There's a lot more underneath that than he lets on, though.
Bobby has recently come out as gay - well, if your teammate telling you that you're gay qualifies as coming out, at any rate. He has accepted this thing that he was trying not to think about, though, and he wants to see where it takes him. But it's not something he's entirely comfortable with. In All-New X-Men volume 2, issues 1 and 2, he's seen talking to Beast, who asks Bobby how he's dealing with his sexuality. Bobby tells him that he's trying not to think about it, showing that it's not something he's truly ready to deal with yet. At least, not with his friends. In time, he probably will more easily accept who he is - it's a direction that I intend to take him with - but having had a conversation with his future self in which his future self implied that he stayed in the closet because he wanted one aspect of his life that he didn't want to be persecuted for has probably affected the younger Bobby a great deal, as he's realized that he'll be a target on all friends - because of the genetic lottery and the sexuality lottery.
One of his most defining traits is how unerringly honest he is with the people around him. Maybe he's been dishonest with himself about things, but when it comes to others, Bobby tends to be very straightforward. He doesn't beat around the bush, and part of this is probably because he doesn't have the filter to be able to hold things back. He thinks it, he says it. Let the consequences be what they may. This doesn't mean that he's a mean person, though. Quite the opposite, he's warmer than his icy powers let on, and he cares deeply about the people around him.
Loyal to a fault, Bobby is always there for his friends. He stuck through with his team when they were pulled forward from the past, and even with dealing with his own personal issues, he didn't abandon them. He tends to put others before himself, trying to sequester his own issues so he can deal with them personally, even while he's outwardly trying to be there for the ones he cares about.
Bobby also lacks a good deal of confidence in himself. Though he has the capacity to be one of the most powerful mutants in the world, until now, he's always clamped down on his creativity and imagination. A lot of that stems from the fact that his father is a terrible, old-fashioned, conservative type who doesn't see the merit in creative types and imagination, and a lot of that is because Bobby himself is scared of losing control of his powers. He knows his potential, and he's worried about what could happen if that potential is tapped. Given what he's heard about Jean's future, he's doubly scared of what could happen. This will slowly change, though, as he accepts everything that held his future counterpart back for so long.
Canon Powers:
Thermokinesis
* Thermal Vision
* Cryokinesis
*Organic Snow-form
There's a more in-depth look at his powers here.
Game powers: 1 Super Badass Power: Cryokinesis. This will work as it does for Bobby in the comics - he can pull moisture from the air, freeze things, create ice slides, that sort of thing. He will NOT be able to create sentient ice golems or anything of the sort yet. He lacks the confidence, and possibly the knowledge, to do something that extreme.
Abilities: Bobby is a skilled ice skater, and he is also fluent in Spanish. He's also really cool. Literally.
Setting: With Bobby, there is going to be a great deal of "Oh no, not this again" when it comes to the fact that he's been pulled from his home. After all, this is the second time he's being pulled from a setting, and this isn't the second time he's dealing with time travel either, considering he's met the far-future version of himself as well. Eventually, though, Bobby is going to take in the fact that he's in the future of another universe, and that's going to throw him a little bit. Depending on what the history of the setting is, I also wanted to have an ongoing running joke of how Bobby is - to this world - just a poor knock-off of Polar Boy (though if that's not possible, it's not an integral thing that I can't live without). It'd give him something silly and external to fight against - another ongoing fight for identity versus his internalized one has he deals with being gay, and trying to find out what that means to him. For years, in the comics, Bobby's always been sidelined as the joke character or the friend. Eventually, I'd like to see Bobby realize his full potential within this setting, becoming more of a leader. Maybe he's not your typical Cyclopian leader, but with his personality traits and his heart, I think he has it within him to be someone who doesn't always need to be cracking jokes on the sidelines.
SAMPLES
Prose Sample: sample one!
sample two!
Network Sample: 200 word minimum. You may use the following prompt or make up your own. Links to RP samples at other games are not accepted, you must write up a new prompt, but you may use them to supplement your samples. If your character is a quiet character, introspection or inner monologue in action brackets is fine.
Welcome to the Legion, rookie. As a way of helping your character cope with their circumstances and have an optimistic outlook towards the future, the existing Legionnaires want them to record a message to their future self with their thoughts on their current situation, what they hope to accomplish in their time with the Legion, and the first thing they want to do when they get sent safely home or to the dimension of their choice.
[There's a moment of silence as the image of a teenage snowman comes into view. Curiosity furrows his brow, as he blinks, the snowform melting to show a brown-haired teenager who's curiosity is even clearer without the snow covering him up.] Uh. This whole hopping between timelines and realities has got to stop at some point now, right? It's bad enough being pulled like however many years into the future I'd been pulled the first time, but this time is even...crazier. It's not even my own universe or whatever. What? And which future me is gonna see this? Me future me, or other future me that probably isn't actually future me anymore because decisions. I mean. Does any of this mean that I can ever go home again?
[Worry marks a forehead that's more used to being carefree than anything else.] I'm learning a lot about myself, though, being away from where I'm technically supposed to be in time and space. Some of it stuff I wanted to learn. Other stuff that I didn't really want to learn. More stuff that I tried not to think about. I mean. Like, eventually? I'll be able to form little living snow people. Like that one animated princess with the really annoying song. Animated fairy tale princesses. I'm supposed to be all knowledgable about them now, right? I don't...I don't know how this works.
I hope that by the time you see this, future-me - whichever future-me it is - that you've figured all of this stuff out. Who you are. That I've become who I'm supposed to be, and that you can look back on this and kind of smirk at how adorably lost I am or something. At least don't react the way that the last future-me did. He never wanted to be in the same room as me. But, you know. I hope you're better about your powers, and more confident about them. There's really cool stuff that we can do that aren't just ice-slides. We just gotta work on doing them. Letting ourselves be creative. Because the other future-us becomes an accountant, and dude. I majorly am not about that life.
Mostly...I hope we come out of this unscathed. Because the future is already scary, but at least for a little while, it was certain. Kind of. Now it's not and that's...I mean, that's scarier than knowing what was going to happen.
[As he speaks, he starts to slide back into his snowman form.] And hey, if you're lucky enough - or unlucky enough - to see this? Don't show it to anyone else? This whole messy snowball of insecurity thing? It's not the thing I want people to see. Someone's gotta be the wisecracking funny one. I can figure my stuff out on my own. We both can. I just don't wanna burden anyone else with it. I know you probably don't either.
And hey. Maybe we'll come out of this super awesome. Maybe I'll do the ice form that future-me can do. And, you know. Maybe I'll let myself find love.
It's all about embracing change now, right?
Additional info: Any additional info you think it's important to include.
Player Name: Amit!
Plurk Handle: captainfanboy
Other characters: None…yet.
Character Name: Robert Louis "Bobby" Drake
Fandom: X-Men
Character Journal:
oddlittlefrostgiantOU, AU, or OC? Original universe, alternate universe, or original character? OU
If canon, canon point: All-New X-Men Volume 2 #2
Superhero Name: Iceman. (What else?)
History: http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Drake_(Past)
Personality: Outwardly, Bobby is a fast-talking, quippy, light-hearted teenager. He's always quick with a light response, and he generally tends to be the last one in the group to catch up with what's going on. More often than not, Bobby tends to end up playing the little brother role in a group. There's a lot more underneath that than he lets on, though.
Bobby has recently come out as gay - well, if your teammate telling you that you're gay qualifies as coming out, at any rate. He has accepted this thing that he was trying not to think about, though, and he wants to see where it takes him. But it's not something he's entirely comfortable with. In All-New X-Men volume 2, issues 1 and 2, he's seen talking to Beast, who asks Bobby how he's dealing with his sexuality. Bobby tells him that he's trying not to think about it, showing that it's not something he's truly ready to deal with yet. At least, not with his friends. In time, he probably will more easily accept who he is - it's a direction that I intend to take him with - but having had a conversation with his future self in which his future self implied that he stayed in the closet because he wanted one aspect of his life that he didn't want to be persecuted for has probably affected the younger Bobby a great deal, as he's realized that he'll be a target on all friends - because of the genetic lottery and the sexuality lottery.
One of his most defining traits is how unerringly honest he is with the people around him. Maybe he's been dishonest with himself about things, but when it comes to others, Bobby tends to be very straightforward. He doesn't beat around the bush, and part of this is probably because he doesn't have the filter to be able to hold things back. He thinks it, he says it. Let the consequences be what they may. This doesn't mean that he's a mean person, though. Quite the opposite, he's warmer than his icy powers let on, and he cares deeply about the people around him.
Loyal to a fault, Bobby is always there for his friends. He stuck through with his team when they were pulled forward from the past, and even with dealing with his own personal issues, he didn't abandon them. He tends to put others before himself, trying to sequester his own issues so he can deal with them personally, even while he's outwardly trying to be there for the ones he cares about.
Bobby also lacks a good deal of confidence in himself. Though he has the capacity to be one of the most powerful mutants in the world, until now, he's always clamped down on his creativity and imagination. A lot of that stems from the fact that his father is a terrible, old-fashioned, conservative type who doesn't see the merit in creative types and imagination, and a lot of that is because Bobby himself is scared of losing control of his powers. He knows his potential, and he's worried about what could happen if that potential is tapped. Given what he's heard about Jean's future, he's doubly scared of what could happen. This will slowly change, though, as he accepts everything that held his future counterpart back for so long.
Canon Powers:
Thermokinesis
* Thermal Vision
* Cryokinesis
*Organic Snow-form
There's a more in-depth look at his powers here.
Game powers: 1 Super Badass Power: Cryokinesis. This will work as it does for Bobby in the comics - he can pull moisture from the air, freeze things, create ice slides, that sort of thing. He will NOT be able to create sentient ice golems or anything of the sort yet. He lacks the confidence, and possibly the knowledge, to do something that extreme.
Abilities: Bobby is a skilled ice skater, and he is also fluent in Spanish. He's also really cool. Literally.
Setting: With Bobby, there is going to be a great deal of "Oh no, not this again" when it comes to the fact that he's been pulled from his home. After all, this is the second time he's being pulled from a setting, and this isn't the second time he's dealing with time travel either, considering he's met the far-future version of himself as well. Eventually, though, Bobby is going to take in the fact that he's in the future of another universe, and that's going to throw him a little bit. Depending on what the history of the setting is, I also wanted to have an ongoing running joke of how Bobby is - to this world - just a poor knock-off of Polar Boy (though if that's not possible, it's not an integral thing that I can't live without). It'd give him something silly and external to fight against - another ongoing fight for identity versus his internalized one has he deals with being gay, and trying to find out what that means to him. For years, in the comics, Bobby's always been sidelined as the joke character or the friend. Eventually, I'd like to see Bobby realize his full potential within this setting, becoming more of a leader. Maybe he's not your typical Cyclopian leader, but with his personality traits and his heart, I think he has it within him to be someone who doesn't always need to be cracking jokes on the sidelines.
SAMPLES
Prose Sample: sample one!
sample two!
Network Sample: 200 word minimum. You may use the following prompt or make up your own. Links to RP samples at other games are not accepted, you must write up a new prompt, but you may use them to supplement your samples. If your character is a quiet character, introspection or inner monologue in action brackets is fine.
Welcome to the Legion, rookie. As a way of helping your character cope with their circumstances and have an optimistic outlook towards the future, the existing Legionnaires want them to record a message to their future self with their thoughts on their current situation, what they hope to accomplish in their time with the Legion, and the first thing they want to do when they get sent safely home or to the dimension of their choice.
[There's a moment of silence as the image of a teenage snowman comes into view. Curiosity furrows his brow, as he blinks, the snowform melting to show a brown-haired teenager who's curiosity is even clearer without the snow covering him up.] Uh. This whole hopping between timelines and realities has got to stop at some point now, right? It's bad enough being pulled like however many years into the future I'd been pulled the first time, but this time is even...crazier. It's not even my own universe or whatever. What? And which future me is gonna see this? Me future me, or other future me that probably isn't actually future me anymore because decisions. I mean. Does any of this mean that I can ever go home again?
[Worry marks a forehead that's more used to being carefree than anything else.] I'm learning a lot about myself, though, being away from where I'm technically supposed to be in time and space. Some of it stuff I wanted to learn. Other stuff that I didn't really want to learn. More stuff that I tried not to think about. I mean. Like, eventually? I'll be able to form little living snow people. Like that one animated princess with the really annoying song. Animated fairy tale princesses. I'm supposed to be all knowledgable about them now, right? I don't...I don't know how this works.
I hope that by the time you see this, future-me - whichever future-me it is - that you've figured all of this stuff out. Who you are. That I've become who I'm supposed to be, and that you can look back on this and kind of smirk at how adorably lost I am or something. At least don't react the way that the last future-me did. He never wanted to be in the same room as me. But, you know. I hope you're better about your powers, and more confident about them. There's really cool stuff that we can do that aren't just ice-slides. We just gotta work on doing them. Letting ourselves be creative. Because the other future-us becomes an accountant, and dude. I majorly am not about that life.
Mostly...I hope we come out of this unscathed. Because the future is already scary, but at least for a little while, it was certain. Kind of. Now it's not and that's...I mean, that's scarier than knowing what was going to happen.
[As he speaks, he starts to slide back into his snowman form.] And hey, if you're lucky enough - or unlucky enough - to see this? Don't show it to anyone else? This whole messy snowball of insecurity thing? It's not the thing I want people to see. Someone's gotta be the wisecracking funny one. I can figure my stuff out on my own. We both can. I just don't wanna burden anyone else with it. I know you probably don't either.
And hey. Maybe we'll come out of this super awesome. Maybe I'll do the ice form that future-me can do. And, you know. Maybe I'll let myself find love.
It's all about embracing change now, right?
Additional info: Any additional info you think it's important to include.
