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Rogue (Marie D'Ancanto Darkholme)
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Real Name
Marie D'Ancanto Darkholme
Aliases
Anna Marie, Ace, Anna Marie D'Ancanto, Anna Raven, Marianne
Identity
Private
Citizenship
American
Place of Birth
Caldecott County, Mississippi
Date of Birth
August 26, 1988
Occupation
Adventurer, formerly terrorist, mechanic, waitress, partial law degree
Known Relatives
Owen (father [deceased]), Priscilla (mother [deceased]), Carrie (aunt), Mystique (Raven Darkholme, foster mother), Destiny (Irene Adler, foster mother), Rictor ( Julio Richter, self-appointed brother)
Group Affiliation
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Team-X
Education
High School diploma, partial law degree,
Physical Attributes
Height
5'8"
Weight
120lbs
Eyes
Green
Hair
Brown, white stripes
Powers
Rogue has the mutant ability to drain a living being's essence upon physical contact, giving them a biophysical shock while synthesizing into her body their physical skills, memories, personality traits, and superhuman matrices to a varying degree. Prolonged physical touch could be lethal to whoever she contacts. For each minute that she touches another mutant, she can retain their power for an hour. Prolonged contact will permenantly absorb the abilities, memories and personality traits into Rogue, leaving the victim comatose.
Rogue permanently stored Ms. Marvel's power template, which gave her flight, superhuman strength, endurance, reflexes, and durability.
Briefly, Rogue absorbed Quicksilver's powers while working with the Brotherhood, this gave her super speed at the time. Although the power has diminished, Rogue still retains some of Quicksilver's personality and memories.
While saving her mother, Rogue encountered Sunfire and utilised her powers to gain information from him. Subsequently, this gave Rogue the ability to generate super heated plasma from her body. After the power faded, Sunfire's memories remained, along with his understanding of the Japanese language.
Abilities
Varied strategic knowledge, multi-lingual and skilled mechanic. Rogue can pick up numerous skills by absorbing the memories on each skill from an individual.
Weaknesses
Unable to control power, emotionally vulnerable, prone to heat exhaustion.
Launch Credit
Marie was born in Caldecott County, Mississippi, to her newly wed parents, Priscilla and Owen. However her parents did not have a happy marriage. Married at a young age, Owen and Priscilla were having problems before Marie was born. After her birth the pair were whisked into a nature-loving commune where they joined in on an insane plan to reach the Far Banks, a dreamland from Native American mythology, where the rules of the physical world no longer applied. Owen had planned to sacrifice Priscilla to the spirits of the Far Banks, but she took control of them and angrily closed the mystical place behind her as she vanished. Grief stricken Owen pleaded with Priscilla’s sister Carrie to aid him in raising his daughter. Marie, who had been nicknamed Rogue, didn’t have a happy or even pleasant childhood with her aunt. Carrie was rough on her in an attempt to prevent her from making the same mistakes her mother made. Though Marie did not go entirely with out love as her beauty, like her mothers, was well recognized by the boys of her town. There was one boy in particular that was blessed with her affection, his name was Cody Robbins.
Sadly, Rogue’s powers manifested on the night that she shared her first kiss with Cody, under a beautiful full moon in a clear sky, and leaving her first love in a life long coma, while she absorbed his every thought, feeling and memory. Cody’s father, and a group of the townsfolk, gathered in a mod and ambushed Marie’s home. Owen fought them back long enough for the girl to escape out the back window, taking her father’s handgun with her. As she made her way through the forest, Marie stumbled across a woman, beautiful and helpful; Raven Darkholme.
Raven took Marie home with her, introducing her to her lover, Irene Adler, and offering Marie a home there with them. In a few short weeks Marie grew to trust the two women, and she would expose herself as a mutant; what was most shocking to her was that her foster mothers were themselves also mutants, Mystique and Destiny. With this information she grew to further trust them, and even love them.
Marie frequently tested her limits. Mystique often needed to keep her in line, as Marie took her powers too lightly and enjoyed the use of her abilities for fun. Marie also dyed her naturally white streak brown, only two replace it with two white streaks on her temples, apparently in an attempt to look older. She felt pressured by Mystique to join her terrorist group, The Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants; but Marie wanted a normal life. When Marie was dared to kiss a boy named Freddy, her powers kicked in and she drained him of his life force too. After that she would never speak to him again, and with no sign of a normal life ever being possible she joined Mystique in the Brotherhood.
In time, Destiny received precognitive visions that warned her about the Avenger known as Ms. Marvel costing Rogue her soul one day. Destiny discussed her visions with Mystique, who then vowed to not allow Rogue to meet Ms. Marvel, even if it would kill her. Rogue only hearing the last part of the conversation decided to hunt down Ms. Marvel herself in order to protect her surrogate mother. Ms. Marvel had however vanished from Earth and the Avenger's active roster, having been taken to Limbo by Marcus, and was nowhere to be found. When Mystique’s Brotherhood of Mutants made their public debut, Destiny had convinced Mystique to keep Rogue back from the mission as a fail safe. Destiny proved to be correct, for all of the Brotherhood, except Mystique, were captured in their first mission by the X-Men.
During this incident, Marie learned that Carol had returned and was now living in San Francisco. Unaware that this would cause the danger that Destiny had predicted, she tracked down Danvers, and battled her on the Golden Gate Bridge. Carol resisted Marie’s powers like nobody before but something went wrong. Marie found that, somehow, her metabolism had permanently retained Ms. Marvel's mind and powers. Fearing for her own sanity and identity as she kept hearing Carol's voice in her head, Marie threw Danvers’ body off the bridge. Hoping that her physical death would also kill the voice in her head, unfortunately for Marie, she was rescued by Spider-Woman, who brought Carol to a hospital where Charles Xavier (Professor X) could partially restore her memories. Under Mystique’s guidance, Marie proceeded to attack the Avengers one by one, absorbing the powers of Thor and Captain America, with Raven impersonating Nick Fury; she tried to free the rest of the Brotherhood from prison. The remaining Avengers and Spider-Woman managed to prevent the breakout. As most of her stolen powers were already fading, Marie escaped with Mystique to avoid being captured as well.
For a long time, Rogue parted from her mother, joining with Stryker's team of mutants and feeling more at home than when she was with Destiny and Mystique. Rogue developed a quick and deep relationship with Julio Richter, who arrived along side her in Africa. With Ric, Rogue quickly felt at ease, trusting him and developing a sibling like relationship with him; Ric was protective, attentive and patient with both her power shyness and her introvert nature. Over time, Rogue forged bonds with members of the team, including Ric's future boyfriend, Martini. At one point, Martini and Rogue swapped powers, giving her a sense of touch for a brief while, but also an insight into the difficulty of another mutants powers beyond her own sense of denial of touch. The incident brought an understanding element to her relationship with Martini. In Rogue's relationships with Martini and Ric, her interactions with the feral brothers, Victor Creed and Logan are somewhat stilted due to personal instances. Rogue spent several months in Africa with the team, and then a few weeks in Russia. However, following a disturbing letter from Destiny, Rogue returned home to find Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in ruin and her mother missing. With Destiny's help, Rogue tracked down the members of a purist group responsible, and through it found out about numerous plots that the Friends of Humanity were hatching.
Absorbing memories from three of the key members, Rogue and the few members of the Brotherhood remaining decimated the headquarters of the FOH in New York and freed Mystique. While Mystique healed from her ordeal, Rogue stayed in New York to help reorganise and recruit the Brotherhood to a safer and more secure location, acting as leader while her mother regained her strength. While she was there, Rogue talked a lot with Destiny, finally figuring out that Irene knew that Rogue was planning to return to the Team when Raven was healthy, and that she approved.
After reconciling with her mother, and being given the new location from Destiny, Rogue began the long flight to Japan. Finding the team in Okinawa, somewhat changed but still the same in many aspects. Rogue's reunion with Rictor and Martini due to her abrupt departure was mildly tense and awkward, but the promise not to desert them again smoothed most of the way for all.