Rogue

Rogue is a wandering young Southern woman who seems to know a thing or two about repairing motorcycles.

Background
The Mutant now known as Rogue was born in Caldecott County, Mississippi. Her birth name was Anna Marie and she was born into a free-spirited family that lived as a part of what some would simply call a "Hippie Commune". The truth really wasn't far from that. Even from an early age, Anna was head strong and stubborn. When her mother disappeared during one of the commune's failed dabblings into Native American mysticism and rites, it only got worse. Unfortunately the worse she got, the worse the discipline of her aunt Carrie, now her primary care giver, became. As bad as things were with her aunt looking after her, her relationship with her father was all but non-existent. He didn't try to understand her and she couldn't understand why he was never around. When she was 15 she'd had enough of the belittling verbal (and sometimes physical) abuse and ran away from home. She knew how to live off the land and how to make it on her own - she'd essentially been doing it since her mother died when she was 9.

While wandering through Mississippi, she met a boy named Cody. She carefully hid from him the fact that she was a homeless runaway and over a few months her feelings for him grew to be very strong. Emotionally confused, given her lack of stability, she began to think she loved Cody. One night while the two were standing under the trees in the moonlight, Anna impulsively kissed Cody. As with her poor fortune in life to this point, fortune again turned its back on the now 16 year old girl - her mutant powers manifested in that instant and without knowing how she did it, or how to stop it, she absorbed Cody's psyche and almost killed him, leaving him in a permanent coma. Horrified and scared that his parents would try to have her arrested, she ran.

Once more on her own Anna, now calling herself Rogue because it was a more descriptive title than her given name, began to wander the United States. When Rogue was 19, she encountered Mystique. The woman was unlike anyone she'd ever met. Strong, self confident and more than capable of taking care of those she considered family. It seemed too good to be true. Someone who was interested in Rogue for herself. Finally! Rogue agreed to live with Mystique and the quirky group of mutants she'd surrounded herself. Mystique began to slowly initiate Rogue into the life and beliefs of the Brotherhood but, as the months went by, things began to trouble Rogue. She tried to put the concerns out of her mind and was largely successful at deluding herself until, after nearly a year with this new 'family', Mystique tried to get Rogue to use her powers to absorb someone during the first 'mission' Rogue was brought on. Rogue panicked. She refused to do it, forcing the situation to become more deadly than it supposedly would have been. Rogue blamed Mystique for lying to her. Mystique seemed to blame Rogue for being too weak to do her part for the "family". Feeling betrayed, Rogue turned her back on the Brotherhood and the group she'd begun to care for and the only woman she'd ever allowed herself to consider a mother.

For the past year, Rogue has again been wandering the nation, making her own way as she always does. After all, she knows how to survive. It's the one thing she does best.

Personality
Rogue is a Southern girl with a Left Coaster's free spirited ways thanks to her parent's choice to live in a commune. She's as happy tiptoeing through the tulips as she is stripping down the head on her Harley or cooking up a batch of fried chicken and okra.

She is very loyal to her friends and family. When she feels like she has them. Most of the time she believes she's on her own and that she has no friends. Over time she will be surprised who her friends are when she has a time of need. Especially since she is almost always ready to help those she cares about, even if she doesn't know them very well.

Another thing that could be surprising about Rogue is that she is a voracious learner. She only has an 8th grade formal education and it's one of the things about herself she hates the most. She reads everything she can get her hands on - repair manuals, old Reader's Digests, even old religious tracks - the kinds one finds in truck stops. She may not have the years of formal 'teaching' but it's made up for in determined real-world experience.

The one thing she will not tolerate is discrimination. She's been the focus of it enough times that she simply will not abide it. Even if it gets herself in trouble.