|
Emma Dumont as Lorna Dane |
|
Name: |
Lorna Dane |
Birthdate: |
03/17/1996 |
Faction: |
The Brotherhood |
Codename: |
Polaris |
Position: |
Mutant Activist, Brotherhood Leader |
Hometown: |
New York, NY |
|
|
Background
Lorna Dane grew up with adoptive parents, not that she knew it, but she was actually responsible for the death of her biological mother and her husband during a tragic accident brought about by her powers unleashing when she was a toddler. She was soon adopted by the Danes, who had her dye her hair brown, and drilled into her the importance of hiding the fact she's a mutant. She felt like something was wrong with her, and that her parents didn't truly love her, but she did as they asked. Life was mostly uneventful, until one day in her Sophomore year in High School, she lost control of her powers.
The incident ruined the school's trophy case with all the glorious sports achievements. A few students noticed Lorna was the source of the incident, and she instantly became a favored bullying target. The Danes didn't want to make a scene, and essentially confirm their adoptive daughter was a mutant, and so neglected to fend for her, and instead sent her to therapy. Eventually Lorna had enough and ran away from home, to avoid going to school, which was living hell for her.
Alone on the streets, Lorna had to learn to fend for herself, struggle for survival, and along the way saw how wide spread anti-mutant sentiment and incidents actually were. She took to training in the use of her powers, stopped dying her hair, and began to take pride in who she was. But she soon found out nobody would rally to the cause of a 21 year old who wanted to change the world.
To that respect she looked to the defunct Brotherhood. That group tried to fight for mutant's rights, had a name at least in Mutant Town, and then disappeared. She decided to adopt the name, and act as an active leader in the Brotherhood. While Polaris was a nobody at this point, the Brotherhood was a recognized name, and she used it to start and build up the resistance. She has no idea she was adopted, and that her father is actually not at all who she thought he was, but in the funny way genetics work, she was already following in his footsteps.
IC Events
- 01/30/1965 - Lorna has taken over the defunct Brotherhood, and started putting up recruitment drive posters about Mutant Town, her resolve set to take a stand for mutants.
- 02/03/1965 - One of Lorna's posters drew Manuel de la Rocha to find her, he in turn became her first recruit. Empath joins Lorna's Brotherhood.
Traits
- Mistress of Magnetism: Like her father, Polaris can manipulate metallic objects. She can levitate them, crush them, tear them apart. If a person is wearing enough metal on them, she can also levitate them in the air or toss them powerfully against a wall to knock them out. She could easily swat cars out of her way, bring airplanes down, and eliminate missiles in mid-air.
- Forcefields: Polaris can form spherical magnetic forcefields, to deflect projectiles and energy weapons. She can also suspend objects in mid-air (or people if they wear enough metal on their person). While normally her forcefield is enough to protect herself, she can extend it to protect a large group, roughly up to 10 people.
- Energy Absorption: Polaris has the capability to absorb energy through her magnetic forcefields, temporarily boosting her own power through attacks meant to harm her. Be it lightning, plasma, beam weapons, or energy blasts.
- EMP: Polaris can harness and control magnetic fields to unleash an EMP blast to disrupt and disengage robots, computers and electronic devices that are not appropriately shielded. She can also use this attack as a concussive charge against organics, or destroy vehicles. She can also unleash this attack in the form of lightning. Her range is roughly 12 city blocks.
- Electromagnetic Sight: Through focus, Polaris can see the world as patterns of magnetic and electric energies. Using this method she is a serious threat to stealthy and invisible threats, as she can spot them by the natural magnetic aura surrounding them.
- Flight: Polaris can use the Earth's magnetic field to soar the air, playing on attracting and repelling forces. She's far more maneuverable than winged creatures, or jets, able to turn, stop, and shift direction and altitude on a dime. She can generally fly at 400 mph.
- Organic Iron Manipulation: Polaris can control the natural iron in the blood of a living organism. Able to increase blood flow of people to provide a temporary physical boost, or reverse the blood flow of people to knock them out temporarily. This ability takes fine precision, and demands complete focus.
- Brawling: Lorna has been fending for herself ever since she ran away from home as a 15 years old. She didn't have a choice but to learn how to fend for herself. Over the years she picked up some brawling skills, not fancy martial arts, but good enough fighting ability for surviving on the streets. Admittedly, having her powers at her side, tends to tip the scales in her favor.
- Street Smart: Running away from home at 15, Lorna didn't finish high school, but she has managed to survive out on her own and gain herself an education in street smarts. She tends to have a good sense at reading people, knows some schemes street charlatans and pickpockets use. Has a good idea of when to expect the police to pass by different sections of the city, and how to avoid them. Good spots to score food and the likes.
- Leadership: While it may not come naturally, Lorna's experience in trying to rebuild the Brotherhood into activity have given her exposure to what leadership takes, and while she's still building her skillset, she is getting better every day, facing new problems and being forced to deal with them. Simply because as of now there's no one else.
- Intimidation: One of the very first skills Lorna honed while fending for herself on the street was avoiding conflicting by intimidating potential threats. While true that she heavily relied on her powers at first, just the knowledge that she has the means to destroy most everyday thugs, has given her a true sense of confidence and a penchant for a menacing glare. She may not be all that without her powers, but one would be hard pressed to guess at that fact even before she displayed her powers. She knows how to sell that she's dangerous.
- Brotherhood: While Lorna could never expect anyone to rally to the cause of a 21 year old, the fact she's leveraged the Brotherhood name and made herself the new face of the Brotherhood had lent her some credence. She didn't create the Brotherhood's name and stories told about them, but she had taken the mantle of resistance and standing up against anti-mutant sentiments and actions. There are those who may not participate directly, but will still aid the cause in other ways, providing Lorna with some donations and potential resources. More importantly, a name. People may not be concerned with Lorna Dane, or Polaris as she came to call herself, but they know about the Brotherhood.
- Mental Disorder: Whether as a result of her life experience, such as being bullied in high school to the point of running away from home to avoid school, or due to her powers interfering with electrical signals in her brain, Lorna suffers from a bi-polar disorder. Going through periods of notable swings in mood and energy level. She can be elated and energized for a period, and then depressed and hopeless at others. At times she's stable for periods of time, and seems normal, at others she can experience more rapid swings due to stress or an otherwise easy to overlook trigger.
- Mutant and Proud: In early childhood, Lorna was forced to dye her hair brown by her parents. She was constantly warned not to stand out, and not to let anyone know she's a mutant. Until one fateful day at high school she largely succeeded. Once her secret was out, however, she suffered a barrage of bullying that sent her running away from home. As she encountered life head on, she came to an understanding. If something is wrong, you don't shy away from it and hide. You stand tall, you stand proud, you face it head on and demand a change. Be a force to enact that change if need be. Now she doesn't hide her green hair, she doesn't hide the fact she's a mutant (to a degree), and she's taken upon herself to revive the Brotherhood and take the fight to 'The Man'. As such she tends to be vocal and reckless at times, and can land in a world of trouble for standing up for her beliefs.
- Furious Anger: Likely a side effect of her mental condition, but Lorna can be a cool cat for one moment, and then explode in anger like a short fuse because someone expressed something against mutants or did something wrong. This is a problem she is aware of and tries desparately to control, but the wrong word, the wrong look, can easily drive up her anger. In that respect, she might be quite easy for empaths or astute observers to manipulate.
- Magneto: Polaris is fairly new as a name standing up for mutant rights. Part of the reason she choose to adopt the name of the Brotherhood. But Magneto is a far more notable name, with much more history. Due to her power signature, it's very likely she could wind up hunted by enemies of Magneto, erroneously thinking they locked on him when they happen by her.
- Brotherhood: Defunct for over a year, Lorna took it upon herself to revive the Brotherhood and take the good fight for mutant rights and against prejudice. Unfotunately, she had no one to ask permission to do it. It's not inconceivable that the original members of the Brotherhood might not be happy with her actions, and pay her a visit. She also runs the risk of being dubbed a terrorist and facing serious repercussions.
Gallery
Logs