Post by Lorna Dane on Dec 3, 2006 10:25:58 GMT -5
Side: X-Men
Real name: Lorna Dane
Code name: Polaris
Gender:[/u] Female
Age:[/u] 17
Powers: Polaris' mutant powers enable her to control magnetism, including manipulating metals which are susceptible to that force. She can also manipulate the Earth's magnetic field to allow herself to fly, generate magnetic energy pulses and create force-fields. She has bright green hair, the first indication of her mutation. At first, she dyed her hair brown to hide this. In recent comics she appears with her characteristic green hair.
Earlier in her history, Polaris lost her magnetism power, but gained the ability to absorb negative emotions from the environment and use it as strength, endurance, invulnerability and increased size. She also became more violent during this time, presumably because of the negative emotions she was storing within. Those around her also became more volatile and aggressive. Under the Shadow King's influence, the range of this effect was vastly increased, reaching at least from Scotland to Egypt.
Appearance:
Personality: Lorna is a good person, no doubt about it. She's there for her teammates when they need her, but she can also become violent, especially when betrayed. She's had a hard past, and her on and off relationships with Havok haven't helped at all. Around a boy she likes, Lorna might become a little more timid if they're alone. But if there are other people around, she'll usually speak up more. When she has something on her mind that she considers important, she has no problem speaking up about it.
History/General facts: Polaris was first encountered by the X-Men when she, as the innocent orphan civilian Lorna Dane (then dating Iceman) was kidnapped by Samuel "Starr" Saxon; the master roboticist whose brain patterns were later preserved in the Machinesmith. Saxon had constructed an android duplicate of Magneto, the mutant with great magnetic powers who was then believed to be dead and a small army of androids with strange powers called the Demi-Men. Saxon's plans were to use these androids as his means of accumulating vast wealth and power, while deceiving the world into believing them to be examples of evil mutants who had become objects of widespread fear. Saxon decided he needed a few mutants to lead his army so he recruited Mesmero. Saxon also acquired a "psyche-generator," which has some features in common with Charles Xavier's Cerebro machine.
Mesmero used the psyche-generator to summon mutants in North America with latent powers. The nearest such mutant with latent magnetic powers, Lorna Dane, found herself compelled to travel to San Francisco where Mesmero was. Mesmero and his androids captured her and brought her to their desert headquarters where they placed her inside a "genetic stimulator," which altered her genetic structure so as to allow her to exercise her previously latent powers.
When the X-Men attempted to rescue her, Magneto revealed himself as the leader of the group behind her abduction--and, more importantly, claimed to be Lorna's father. Despite the X-men's assertions that Magneto was evil, Lorna agreed to join his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto's ruse did not succeed for long. Iceman provided evidence that convinced Lorna that her true parents had died in a plane crash years earlier. She then turned against Magneto and joined the X-Men. When the old and new X-Men together fought the island Krakoa, Lorna displayed her major power potential for the first time as she disrupted the Earth's magnetic field.
For a while, Iceman had a crush on her but Polaris didn't truly reciprocate the feelings. She did however, fall in love with her teammate Havok aka Alex Summers who is the brother of Cyclops. The two left the X-Men to pursue their mutual interest in geophysics. They moved to the Diablo mountain range in California.
Lorna received her former costume, which is of Shi'ar design, when her mind came under the domination of the Shi'ar Intelligence agent Davan Shakari, also known as Erik the Red. It was he who gave Lorna the codename Polaris, in The X-Men #97 (1976). At the time Shakari served D'Ken, the now deposed emperor of the Shi'ar Galaxy. This was previous to the reign of his sister Lilandra. Shakari kidnapped Alex Summers and Lorna and subjected them to a powerful form of mind control: they were turned against the X-Men and attempted to assassinate Xavier. A massive battle ensued at Kennedy International Airport with the duo battling the X-Men. Polaris was defeated by Storm but Shakari managed to escape with both her and Alex. Charles Xavier finally freed her from Shakari's control.
Lorna and Alex returned from time to time to assist the team. She remained in civilian life for a number of years. Polaris and Havok led a happy life. They settled down in New Mexico and completed their degrees until the Marauders ambushed her and Havok around the time of the Mutant Massacre. Lorna's mind was overtaken by an evil being known as Malice. Malice's energy matrix was very compatible with Lorna's powers and the two became grafted together, inseparable.
As Malice, Lorna led the Marauders for several years. After Mister Sinister was seemingly killed, Malice's hold over Polaris weakened and Lorna was able to place a phone call to the X-Men in Australia for help, but they arrived too late. Lorna was with her alleged half-sister Zaladane, a priestess for the Savage Land's Sun People. The X-Men arrived in time to witness Zala's get away, but Havok managed to infiltrate her army in disguise while the X-Men followed. There the X-men had found that Zaladane had amassed an army of Savage Land natives who were being mentally controlled for her by Worm, one of the Savage Land Mutates. Zaladane revealed that she was in fact Lorna's sister and, using the Evolutionary's machinery, stripped Polaris of her magnetic powers and took them as her own. The process also managed to finally separate Lorna and Malice. Zaladane and her forces clashed with Ka-Zar and the X-Men who were trying to free Lorna. During the encounter, Polaris' secondary mutation kicked in. She grew in height (towering over Alex Summers), was invulnerable & had superhuman strength. Zaladane's army was released from Worm's control, and Lorna regained her freedom.
Having nowhere else to go, Lorna headed for Muir Island. On her way there her secondary mutation kicked in again (as was evident by her increased size). Upon examination even Moira Mactaggert was at a loss to explain Lorna's new mutation, although she did confirm that the only way Zaladane could have taken her powers away was if she were a biological sibling. Lorna was on hand to help Moria & Banshee defend Muir Island from the attacking Reavers (who were there looking for Wolverine).
At the time it was not clear that she drew her strength from being a nexus for negative emotional energies. Lorna's new status as a nexus however was perceived by the villainous Shadow King. The Shadow King used Polaris as a gateway to allow him access to the mortal realm from the astral plane, causing a world-wide increase in anger, hatred and violence in the process. Lorna was freed of his influence with the help of X-Factor and the X-Men during the Muir Island Saga. Upon the defeat of the Shadow King, Lorna's powers returned due to a combination of Zaladane's death a short time before and the neural-disruptive psionic blade of the X-Man Psylocke leaving no trace of her increased size, strength or emotion control powers.
She was then asked to join the newly formed X-Factor by Valerie Cooper, and tired of hiding out on Muir Island, she accepted. Lorna and Alex were set as its leaders. Her joining X-Factor offered her the chance to reunite with Alex, but their relationship remained largely unresolved. Since this time X-Factor has changed dramatically, and so has Polaris, growing stronger and more sure of herself, and more independent from Alex. They tried to maintain the relationship but they broke up and reconciled multiple times. Polaris became a mainstay of X-Factor and became the government's secret weapon against a possible attack from Magneto. Malice returned to bother her once more but Havok and Polaris, out of their love for each other, each tried to absorb her, preventing the other from being possessed. In the end, Malice perished at the hands of Mister Sinister.
X-Factor's atmosphere changed as renowned criminals Mystique and Sabretooth were forced by the government to join. Lorna began to question her place on the team and finally found her suspicions to be justified after Sabretooth ran amok almost killing the whole team.
When Havok finally revealed that his "terrorist" activities had been a front for his true undercover work, Lorna forgave him although she rejected him romantically. She also rejoined X-Factor only to watch as Havok was seemingly killed in the explosion of a faulty time machine constructed by the mutant from the future, Greystone.
Weeks later, Nightcrawler encountered Lorna in a church and she confided in him that she felt she was being followed and that she was sure Alex was still alive.
A group of Skrulls working with Apocalypse were indeed shadowing her and broke into her apartment to retrieve the headgear from Havok's original costume. Lorna then learned that she was one of "The Twelve"; a team of mutants destined to usher in a new golden age for mutantkind.
Polaris journeyed with the X-Men to Egypt to battle Apocalypse. During the encounter, Magneto, another member of The Twelve, discovered that he could use Lorna to tap into the Earth's magnetic field with incredible force effectively hiding his current reduced-power state.
After Apocalypse was defeated, Lorna returned to Genosha with Magneto to supply him with power and help him keep order. She believed she was doing it for the greater good, but also knew that she enjoyed the education in her powers that she was receiving. In the end, Magneto launched a full-scale assault on Carrion Cove, the last city opposing his rule, in order to gain access to technology that would restore his full abilities. Polaris attempted to stop him, but was defeated and left the country with the Avengers. She later sneaked back in with Quicksilver to help oppose Magneto's tyrannical rule.
Polaris later went to Genosha to help out Magneto and monitor him. When Sentinels destroyed Genosha, she was one of the few survivors. She was left emotionally scarred after witnessing the massacre while being unable to save them.
Later, some of the X-Men went to Genosha to survey what occurred there. They encountered a nude and unhinged Polaris in Genosha some time after its population was massacred by Cassandra Nova's Sentinels. When Polaris rejoined the X-Men, the extremely traumatic experience had left her with a darker, more ruthless personality, even killing some members of the Church of Humanity. Havok broke up with Polaris after they were about to be married, leaving her for the nurse Annie Ghazikhanian. Traumatized and humiliated, the unstable Polaris went berserk and commenced to go on a rampage that nearly resulted in her killing Alex. Juggernaut succeeded in knocking her out, though only temporarily. She remained this way until some psychic therapy with Professor Xavier. Polaris promised to do no more harm and she was accepted back to the X-Men.
Polaris also told the X-Men that she had discovered that Magneto was her true father after all. Before the destruction of Genosha, she had a blind genetic test performed and this demonstrated her real paternity.
Home: X-Mansion
Sample RP (sorry,I can't find any good long posts I've made)
Lorna Dane walked into the concert hall,in hopes of hearing some good music. As she entered, she saw a woman and a band on stage. Ask and you shall receive... The woman on stage seemed so familiar, but at the same time was a complete stranger to her. Maybe her mind was just playing tricks on her, seeing as she had plenty to think about, with this war coming and whatnot. Lorna stood there along with a few others, watching them on stage until they finished. When the younger woman sat down and asked her a question, she shrugged. "I don't know, kind of. I'm Lorna, Lorna Dane."
if you're with us, be with us
Real name: Lorna Dane
Code name: Polaris
Gender:[/u] Female
Age:[/u] 17
Powers: Polaris' mutant powers enable her to control magnetism, including manipulating metals which are susceptible to that force. She can also manipulate the Earth's magnetic field to allow herself to fly, generate magnetic energy pulses and create force-fields. She has bright green hair, the first indication of her mutation. At first, she dyed her hair brown to hide this. In recent comics she appears with her characteristic green hair.
Earlier in her history, Polaris lost her magnetism power, but gained the ability to absorb negative emotions from the environment and use it as strength, endurance, invulnerability and increased size. She also became more violent during this time, presumably because of the negative emotions she was storing within. Those around her also became more volatile and aggressive. Under the Shadow King's influence, the range of this effect was vastly increased, reaching at least from Scotland to Egypt.
Appearance:
Personality: Lorna is a good person, no doubt about it. She's there for her teammates when they need her, but she can also become violent, especially when betrayed. She's had a hard past, and her on and off relationships with Havok haven't helped at all. Around a boy she likes, Lorna might become a little more timid if they're alone. But if there are other people around, she'll usually speak up more. When she has something on her mind that she considers important, she has no problem speaking up about it.
History/General facts: Polaris was first encountered by the X-Men when she, as the innocent orphan civilian Lorna Dane (then dating Iceman) was kidnapped by Samuel "Starr" Saxon; the master roboticist whose brain patterns were later preserved in the Machinesmith. Saxon had constructed an android duplicate of Magneto, the mutant with great magnetic powers who was then believed to be dead and a small army of androids with strange powers called the Demi-Men. Saxon's plans were to use these androids as his means of accumulating vast wealth and power, while deceiving the world into believing them to be examples of evil mutants who had become objects of widespread fear. Saxon decided he needed a few mutants to lead his army so he recruited Mesmero. Saxon also acquired a "psyche-generator," which has some features in common with Charles Xavier's Cerebro machine.
Mesmero used the psyche-generator to summon mutants in North America with latent powers. The nearest such mutant with latent magnetic powers, Lorna Dane, found herself compelled to travel to San Francisco where Mesmero was. Mesmero and his androids captured her and brought her to their desert headquarters where they placed her inside a "genetic stimulator," which altered her genetic structure so as to allow her to exercise her previously latent powers.
When the X-Men attempted to rescue her, Magneto revealed himself as the leader of the group behind her abduction--and, more importantly, claimed to be Lorna's father. Despite the X-men's assertions that Magneto was evil, Lorna agreed to join his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto's ruse did not succeed for long. Iceman provided evidence that convinced Lorna that her true parents had died in a plane crash years earlier. She then turned against Magneto and joined the X-Men. When the old and new X-Men together fought the island Krakoa, Lorna displayed her major power potential for the first time as she disrupted the Earth's magnetic field.
For a while, Iceman had a crush on her but Polaris didn't truly reciprocate the feelings. She did however, fall in love with her teammate Havok aka Alex Summers who is the brother of Cyclops. The two left the X-Men to pursue their mutual interest in geophysics. They moved to the Diablo mountain range in California.
Lorna received her former costume, which is of Shi'ar design, when her mind came under the domination of the Shi'ar Intelligence agent Davan Shakari, also known as Erik the Red. It was he who gave Lorna the codename Polaris, in The X-Men #97 (1976). At the time Shakari served D'Ken, the now deposed emperor of the Shi'ar Galaxy. This was previous to the reign of his sister Lilandra. Shakari kidnapped Alex Summers and Lorna and subjected them to a powerful form of mind control: they were turned against the X-Men and attempted to assassinate Xavier. A massive battle ensued at Kennedy International Airport with the duo battling the X-Men. Polaris was defeated by Storm but Shakari managed to escape with both her and Alex. Charles Xavier finally freed her from Shakari's control.
Lorna and Alex returned from time to time to assist the team. She remained in civilian life for a number of years. Polaris and Havok led a happy life. They settled down in New Mexico and completed their degrees until the Marauders ambushed her and Havok around the time of the Mutant Massacre. Lorna's mind was overtaken by an evil being known as Malice. Malice's energy matrix was very compatible with Lorna's powers and the two became grafted together, inseparable.
As Malice, Lorna led the Marauders for several years. After Mister Sinister was seemingly killed, Malice's hold over Polaris weakened and Lorna was able to place a phone call to the X-Men in Australia for help, but they arrived too late. Lorna was with her alleged half-sister Zaladane, a priestess for the Savage Land's Sun People. The X-Men arrived in time to witness Zala's get away, but Havok managed to infiltrate her army in disguise while the X-Men followed. There the X-men had found that Zaladane had amassed an army of Savage Land natives who were being mentally controlled for her by Worm, one of the Savage Land Mutates. Zaladane revealed that she was in fact Lorna's sister and, using the Evolutionary's machinery, stripped Polaris of her magnetic powers and took them as her own. The process also managed to finally separate Lorna and Malice. Zaladane and her forces clashed with Ka-Zar and the X-Men who were trying to free Lorna. During the encounter, Polaris' secondary mutation kicked in. She grew in height (towering over Alex Summers), was invulnerable & had superhuman strength. Zaladane's army was released from Worm's control, and Lorna regained her freedom.
Having nowhere else to go, Lorna headed for Muir Island. On her way there her secondary mutation kicked in again (as was evident by her increased size). Upon examination even Moira Mactaggert was at a loss to explain Lorna's new mutation, although she did confirm that the only way Zaladane could have taken her powers away was if she were a biological sibling. Lorna was on hand to help Moria & Banshee defend Muir Island from the attacking Reavers (who were there looking for Wolverine).
At the time it was not clear that she drew her strength from being a nexus for negative emotional energies. Lorna's new status as a nexus however was perceived by the villainous Shadow King. The Shadow King used Polaris as a gateway to allow him access to the mortal realm from the astral plane, causing a world-wide increase in anger, hatred and violence in the process. Lorna was freed of his influence with the help of X-Factor and the X-Men during the Muir Island Saga. Upon the defeat of the Shadow King, Lorna's powers returned due to a combination of Zaladane's death a short time before and the neural-disruptive psionic blade of the X-Man Psylocke leaving no trace of her increased size, strength or emotion control powers.
She was then asked to join the newly formed X-Factor by Valerie Cooper, and tired of hiding out on Muir Island, she accepted. Lorna and Alex were set as its leaders. Her joining X-Factor offered her the chance to reunite with Alex, but their relationship remained largely unresolved. Since this time X-Factor has changed dramatically, and so has Polaris, growing stronger and more sure of herself, and more independent from Alex. They tried to maintain the relationship but they broke up and reconciled multiple times. Polaris became a mainstay of X-Factor and became the government's secret weapon against a possible attack from Magneto. Malice returned to bother her once more but Havok and Polaris, out of their love for each other, each tried to absorb her, preventing the other from being possessed. In the end, Malice perished at the hands of Mister Sinister.
X-Factor's atmosphere changed as renowned criminals Mystique and Sabretooth were forced by the government to join. Lorna began to question her place on the team and finally found her suspicions to be justified after Sabretooth ran amok almost killing the whole team.
When Havok finally revealed that his "terrorist" activities had been a front for his true undercover work, Lorna forgave him although she rejected him romantically. She also rejoined X-Factor only to watch as Havok was seemingly killed in the explosion of a faulty time machine constructed by the mutant from the future, Greystone.
Weeks later, Nightcrawler encountered Lorna in a church and she confided in him that she felt she was being followed and that she was sure Alex was still alive.
A group of Skrulls working with Apocalypse were indeed shadowing her and broke into her apartment to retrieve the headgear from Havok's original costume. Lorna then learned that she was one of "The Twelve"; a team of mutants destined to usher in a new golden age for mutantkind.
Polaris journeyed with the X-Men to Egypt to battle Apocalypse. During the encounter, Magneto, another member of The Twelve, discovered that he could use Lorna to tap into the Earth's magnetic field with incredible force effectively hiding his current reduced-power state.
After Apocalypse was defeated, Lorna returned to Genosha with Magneto to supply him with power and help him keep order. She believed she was doing it for the greater good, but also knew that she enjoyed the education in her powers that she was receiving. In the end, Magneto launched a full-scale assault on Carrion Cove, the last city opposing his rule, in order to gain access to technology that would restore his full abilities. Polaris attempted to stop him, but was defeated and left the country with the Avengers. She later sneaked back in with Quicksilver to help oppose Magneto's tyrannical rule.
Polaris later went to Genosha to help out Magneto and monitor him. When Sentinels destroyed Genosha, she was one of the few survivors. She was left emotionally scarred after witnessing the massacre while being unable to save them.
Later, some of the X-Men went to Genosha to survey what occurred there. They encountered a nude and unhinged Polaris in Genosha some time after its population was massacred by Cassandra Nova's Sentinels. When Polaris rejoined the X-Men, the extremely traumatic experience had left her with a darker, more ruthless personality, even killing some members of the Church of Humanity. Havok broke up with Polaris after they were about to be married, leaving her for the nurse Annie Ghazikhanian. Traumatized and humiliated, the unstable Polaris went berserk and commenced to go on a rampage that nearly resulted in her killing Alex. Juggernaut succeeded in knocking her out, though only temporarily. She remained this way until some psychic therapy with Professor Xavier. Polaris promised to do no more harm and she was accepted back to the X-Men.
Polaris also told the X-Men that she had discovered that Magneto was her true father after all. Before the destruction of Genosha, she had a blind genetic test performed and this demonstrated her real paternity.
Home: X-Mansion
Sample RP (sorry,I can't find any good long posts I've made)
Lorna Dane walked into the concert hall,in hopes of hearing some good music. As she entered, she saw a woman and a band on stage. Ask and you shall receive... The woman on stage seemed so familiar, but at the same time was a complete stranger to her. Maybe her mind was just playing tricks on her, seeing as she had plenty to think about, with this war coming and whatnot. Lorna stood there along with a few others, watching them on stage until they finished. When the younger woman sat down and asked her a question, she shrugged. "I don't know, kind of. I'm Lorna, Lorna Dane."
if you're with us, be with us
Anywho, it's there.