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[PTabbedContent][PTab=GENERAL INFORMATION] CHARACTER INFO: NAME: Robert "Bobby" Louis Drake ALIAS: Iceman, Frosty, Popsicle, "Hey You!", Thing 1, Bobbo AGE: 26 OCCUPATION: Corrupter of young minds... err... Math Teacher MEMBER GROUP: X-Men POWERS AND ABILITIES: Thermokinesis - Bobby is a mutant with the primary ability to lower his external and internal body temperature, projecting intense coldness from his body. Like any normal human being's, the nerve centers for regulating the Iceman's body temperature are found in the part of the brain called the hypothalamus. However, Iceman can wilfully override his hypothalamus to allow his body temperature to be lowered by an unknown internal mechanism. This ability converts the latent thermal energies in and around his body into an unknown form of energy that is efficiently dissipated. A related mutation has rendered his body tissues unaffected by sub-zero temperatures. Iceman can consciously, immediately lower his body temperature from its normal 98.6 Fahrenheit to that of -105.7 F within the span of a few tenths of a second. As his body temperature falls, the surrounding moisture in the air that is in contact with him is similarly lowered. Ice Armor & Organic Ice Form - Just as condensed moisture forms frost, this moisture forms an icy covering which encompasses Drake's entire body forming a semi-pliable ice armor, also obscuring the finer details his facial features. As recently as two years ago, Bobby has shown increased capacity with his ice armor; instead of just creating a layer of ice on the outside of his skin, which was his normal go-to, he has learned to freeze every cell (being that the body is roughly 60% composed of water to begin with) in his body and turn it into organic ice, making him a literal living ice man. This organic ice form is able to take far more abuse than his ice armor could, and has also allowed him marginally augmented strength as well as the ability to alter his body (like the T-freakin'-1000!), he can make himself marginally bigger in size, add spikes to his form, look bald, etc. Whatever damage he takes in this form he is also able to heal and fix - albeit requiring adequate time and moisture. If his arm is blasted off he can just reform it with water; there are no bones to break or blood to spill. However, were he to return to his normal flesh and blood form without first healing, he'd be short one arm and rather stuck that way. Cryokinesis -Bobby can use his mutant ability to freeze any localized air moisture into super-hard ice. This ice can be formed into any object, or simply exist as a raw freezing blast, of his choosing: The only limitations are his own imagination, his budding skill as a sculptor, the amount of available moisture, and the ambient air temperature which determines how long his ice sculpture will stay icy. One of the common things that Iceman does with his powers is create ice slides that he travels around on. He normally starts by making a pillar of ice under his feet, then directing his powers to freeze the moisture in the space a few feet in front of him, forming ramps and slides that he moves over, via an icy-coating on the bottoms of his feet (thus negating friction), and being able to keep up with most flyers. He can travel with other people on his ramps though they often find it a little chilly and typically have to be carried - thus accounted for in term of added weight. PLAYBY: Colton Haynes OOC INFO: PLAYER NAME: Brody AGE: Old... (over-30... almost dust) GENDER: Male TIMEZONE: PST OTHER CHARACTERS: Patience ([singing] lil sister...[singing]) [/PTab][PTab=PERSONNEL ASSESSMENT] PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT: LIKES: Junk Food - Bobby Drake has never met a Ho-Ho that he didn't like. This holds true for all many of other sugary, salty, crunchy, candy-coated, deep-fried, microwaveable or processed food. He has a high-metabolism - and abuses it daily. Obscure Pop Culture - Even obscure things like one-hit wonders, one-off television shows, and B-rate movies. This is something he takes a very unnaturally large sense of pride in, like any true believer of the "Raised by TV" generation. Shopping - Well, not so much buying things as just going and browsing and playing with all the cool stuff. Yeah, Bobby got teased for being "a chick" a lot. Music - More specifically 80's hair metal ("butt rock"), bubble gum pop (he may or may not have coldcocked a baddie in the past while saying, "It's Britney, beotch!"), and he knows all 14 minutes of "Rapper's Delight" by heart. Sports - He's actually extremely terrible at them, barring hockey, but he's one of those extremely annoying fanatic types. Younger Kids - They're his spirit animal. He'd have made a great kindergarten teacher except that there's a good chance the kids would never learn anything. "Chick Drinks" - Bobby really can't hold his alcohol well to begin with, but all he tends to drink are appletinis, pina coladas, and the like. DISLIKES: Dead Silence - Like it completely irks him. Fortunately he has a hard time shutting up, so these are rare occasions. Killjoys - Or Debbie Downers. You're a sourpuss. Good for you. Doesn't mean you have to try and bring the rest of us down. Opera - Please! For the love of all that's good and holy, Hank. MAKE... IT... STOP! Tofu - Seriously, what's the purpose? Meat is so delicious. Bullies - Not many people do like them, but they've always rubbed Bobby particularly raw. Blame Pyro. Mimes - Don't ask. He just has issues with them. And it's not pretty. STRENGTHS: Math - He hid his natural skill with maths and numbers for most of his adolescence, but now embraces it. He's making math fun, damnit! Temperature Tolerance - Iceman is immune to extreme cold temperatures. He doesn't have to worry about hypothermia, even if he was dancing in Antarctica in his boxers (which he hasn't... sadly). Spatial Thinking - A bit surprising for someone who can be such a monumental klutz; honestly, it just makes the clumsiness all the more sad. Teaching - Let's face it, Bobby's an overgrown kid who thinks on the same wavelengths as most of his students still. That also allows him to relate the material quite well to them. Breaking Tension - He's a very accomplished clown. Hell, he's a walking flesh-and-bone cartoon character. He's just got an innate ability to crack a joke (not always intentionally) that deescalates tense situations. WEAKNESSES: Moisture Dependent - It’s the lack of moisture that’ll start to hurt Bobby when it comes to ability to use his powers; 100 degree tropical heat with humidity is fine by him, but 100 degree heat in a desert is a killer. Hand-to-Hand Combat - To be fair... he's gotten better. But calling him a brawler in close-quarters is a massive exaggeration, given that what little technique he has is crudely copied from video games, kung fu flicks, and professional wrestling. Overly Trusting - Bobby gives out second chances like candy at the dentist's office - even when they make about as much sense as candy from a dentist. The Wrong Kind of Woman - His failed relationship with Rogue did a number on him. He's still a hopeless romantic but always falls (hard) for the emotional unavailable or ones just trying to use him. Surrogate Family - Ever since being "cut loose" by his family, he is extremely protective of his closest friends and mentors (like siblings), and they are something that can be exploited to hurt him. Terrible... Terrible Timing - Bobby's the king of walking into awkward situations. Not always awkward for him, so much as him suddenly showing up is awkward for others. Moments of sentiment? Bah. Here's a fart joke! Oblivious - Like completely oblivious! This goes hand in hand with the listed-above terrible timing. GOALS: To play Spider-Man in the movie version of Spidey's life. (He doesn't care if people tell him he's too old!) Beating level 425 of Candy Crush. Grrr. Oh yeah... and that whole mutant equality business Charles goes on and on about. FEARS: Losing any more "family." Being trapped in ice-form and not being able to get back to flesh-ness. Also, the mime in the gold tuxedo that's usually on the corner of 46th and Lincoln; he creeps Bobby out... and he knows it, too. OVERALL PERSONALITY: Emotionally, Bobby is devastatingly honest or perhaps blunt might be a better term. He is very up-front with his emotions and his thoughts all the time, though has found wit and wise-cracking humor to be the device best served for delivery without rubbing others raw. That said, he's generally a total goofball. He lets on that he's less intelligent than he actually is - for most of his time at Xaviers he acted as though school was more of chore for him than it actually was. Basically, he's the walking embodiment of the expression "smart people are perfectly capable of doing stupid things." Even as he starts to round towards thirty, he has more moments where he comes across as an overgrown kid than an adult. Get him some green tights and a feathered cap, and you've got yourself one hell of a Peter Pan. Bobby is compelled to explore his powers to the fullest and has been repeatedly disappointed in his inability to achieve new heights on his own to master his gifts, feeling as though he's more or less stagnated of late. He persistently feels like he's letting others down by not being as far along in his development as others his age, or even younger. (Seriously, Kitty! Stop being such an overachiever. Gah!) Paramount among everything is being liked; this is one of the main driving forces behind his constant joking and cracking wise. The general rejection by his family still stings below the surface, even if he tells himself he's moved on from it. Iceman is deathly loyal to his friends and his family. He wants to be able to protect the people he cares about from coming to harm. If he can’t do that he’ll at least make sure they have a friendly face to see when they’re injured or in any sort of trouble. Not being there for the people he loves is the biggest blow he can take. He feels like he’s let someone down when he’s not there for them and he hates that feeling. Bobby has spent countless restless nights beating himself up for something that has happened to his friends that he couldn’t stop. Anyone who has had to deal with Bobby when he’s in a relationship or right after one knows the guy falls in love with people incredibly easy. He is utterly devoted to his girlfriends and is willing to do just about anything for them - most definitely to a fault. Bobby throws himself into relationships that stand almost no chance of working out with everything he's got. The guy isn’t just looking for physical relationships, he wants something more stable than that, someone who can put up with all his proverbial ish and love him back as much as he loves them. Let's face it, he watches as many rom-com's as the girls do... and he wants that. Of course he’s a twenty-six year old who still acts like he's a teenager half the time, and has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth and acting like a spaz. When his relationships end, he mopes about for a while, pining for his lost love as if they were soul mates before slowly getting over them and moving on. It also doesn't help matter that he has a bad habit of falling for the wrong type of, and most emotional/intimacy unavailable girls. This is an incredible pain when you're really, really, really ridiculously good-looking (and modest, too!). HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: BIRTHPLACE: Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts RESIDENCE: Faculty floor, end of the hall (while he's proud of this room like it's some sort of prize, he only got it because no one wanted to listen to him sing along with his TV theme songs... including the ones that don't have words) PARENTS: William and Madeline Drake (estranged parents) SIBLINGS: Ronald "Ronnie" Drake (younger brother; estranged) IMPORTANT RELATIVES: N/A IMPORTANT PERSON: N/A OVERALL HISTORY: Robert Louis Drake was born in the Beacon Hill burrough of Boston, Massachusetts to William and Madeline Drake. Even at a young age Bobby was a rather special kid; the issue being that his parents questioned whether he was the other kind of "special." He was a handful to take care of with his constant need for attention, praise and anything that was funny. At school he was well-liked and had already gained the reputation for being a class clown. Having a clown for a son was the last thing William wanted and made sure Bobby knew that from a young age. William wanted a son who was smart, witty, handsome, athletic and suave; instead he got one who seemed to have ADD, laughed at body noises, and was terrible at most sports. Bobby thought things would get easier for him when his brother turned out to be more like the son his father wanted, instead William tried to push Bobby harder. Things only became worse for the Drake family as Bobby hit puberty. The boy was constantly sick; he was always shivering and cold, so cold that even others could sometimes feel the chill coming off of him. Bobby’s illness was a side-effect from mentally rejecting his mutant powers. He spent days and weeks in hospitals as people tried to figure out what was wrong with him. With the doctors unable to help him, his parents kept him at home doing what they could as his body slowly froze from the inside out. Help came in the form of Charles Xavier. After a trial period with the first group of students, the professor decided to invite more mutants to his school to help them. Xavier first spoke to Bobby, informing the young man that he was a mutant and his illness was due to the effects thereof - more specifically due to his subconscious rejecting his mutancy. While at first Bobby was horrified by the idea of being a "freak," Xavier was quick to reassure him that there was nothing wrong with him, that once he accepted the fact that he was special and stopped fighting it, his sickness would go away on its own. He explained his school to Bobby, offering him the chance to be around others his own age who were mutants as well. Bobby jumped at the opportunity, finding the idea of other mutants neat once he heard of some of the other powers he would encounter at the school. Convincing the Drakes to send their oldest child off to a boarding school was a little harder. Xavier realized that if William and Madeline found out Bobby was a mutant, the situation would be bad for the young man, so he explained his school as one that helped students who were having trouble in traditional school. He appealed to their sense that Bobby was an intelligent young man who was just bored with classes and acted out because of that. And when he mentioned that Bobby would be offered a scholarship there and the family wouldn’t have to pay for anything, the Drakes decided to go with it. Within a few days at his new school, Bobby was already fitting in and making friends. He was behind when it came to using his powers but he was eager to make up for lost time, though not in the way that Xavier and the rest of the teachers would have wanted. Instead of doing the simple Danger Room simulations that other new students were doing, Bobby was developing a reputation for being the newest and a most-accomplished prankster. His antics, and what seemed to be direct attempts to sabotage his own grades (or at least to let on that he was dumber than he was in order to avoid being labeled a "nerd"), found him referred repeatedly to Professor Xavier, who in turn passed him along to Scott Summers (aka Cyclops), his second in command. Though Scott's by-the-book tendencies rubbed Bobby more than a little raw initially, he slowly began to form a bond with the elder, coming to see him as the big brother he'd never had. These were the days of the calm before the storm, so to speak. His first summer break at Xavier's he had made an excuse to his parents to not go home, because he was so jazzed about life at school that he didn't want to leave. It seemed his distractions had kept him from noticing that there had been no efforts from his family to come visit and that the emails he got from home were becoming increasingly more and more generic. The second summer break he told himself he was going home because it was just the thing he ought to do, though in the back of his mind he was recalled the cold and distant nature of the relationship between his parents, as well as how they had doted more than usual on his younger brother Ronnie while treated him like an also-ran of a son. As Bobby would discover, his parents had been "made aware" of his "condition" by news outlets - news outlets which hadn't exactly painted mutants in a positive light. Though the words were never said, the message was made crystal clear and when Bobby returned to the Institute a week later he brought with him every personal possession he might have otherwise ever gone back to Narragansett to retrieve. He now had the unique distinction of being an orphan with two living parents. The stress of this coupled with his senior year of high school took its toll on the normally light-hearted Drake. As a means of coping, or rather avoiding dealing with his unresolved angst over being discarded by his own family, Bobby took his Danger Room sessions and other training more seriously, working harder at them than before and actually expanding on his powers for once. Training, for a while, became a crutch. Life wasn't quite as bad as he was making it out to be. He was growing into himself and his abilities. While he wasn't formally assigned to the X-Men reserve team, he was looked to by Scott and the Professor as someone who could "hold down the fort" in their absence (why?... we'll never know) and play welcome wagon to new students. One such, Anna Marie, or Rogue, was particularly captivating. They began dating and while it was certainly inconvenient to not be able to hold his girlfriend's hand without it being gloved or hold her without making sure wherever he touched was clothed - "for his own safety" - Bobby was in this for the storybook romance. She saw him through the loss of his best friend, John Allerdyce - who, in hindsight, Bobby can see that he definitely ignored much more once he started dating Rogue, but that only served to put John's less likeable traits on display. She also saw him through the harsh reality that his relationship with his biological family was well and truly dead. While seeking refuge after the Mansion was invaded by black-ops mercenaries, Bobby, John, Anna Marie, and Logan escaped to Bobby's childhood home in Boston... where his little brother proceeded to call the cops on them. Bobby's and Rogue's relationship faced its first truly hard test when the announcement of a "mutant cure" sucked Rogue in. For a time things were at an all-time high: Bobby'd layed the smacketh down on John/Pyro as the X-Men fought off the Brotherhood's attack on Alcatraz, he could actually kiss his girlfriend without her being completely self-conscious about killing him, and they were rounding their way towards graduation. ...Then her powers started to resurface; the cure was only temporary. To Bobby this really didn't make much of a difference - he was in love (or at least infatuated enough to believe it was love - the way most teenagers get). But to Rogue this had always been so much more of a big deal. She broke up with him. She broke his heart. And nothing that he said, or could say, was able to make a difference. He spent a good couple months in a massive funk, most memorable by others because they could always tell when Bobby entered a room since the temperature dropped a good 30 degrees even in the dead of spring. It was Kitty Pryde, who had the void of best friend left by John, who dug Bobby out and built him back up. She was the yang to his yin; they were both dorks, but Kitty made being nerdy seem cool. For the first time in... well... ever, he actually began to apply himself in school. Too little, too late it seemed. After graduation, Bobby found that he had dedicated so much time to putting on the facade of the underachiever that he had actually managed to only get marks good enough to merit admittance to junior colleges - which pretty much anyone who graduates high school can get into. While he wasn't exactly keen on a nine-to-five job that forced him to wear a suit and work in a cubicle, he did know that whatever he wanted to do with is life it was probably going to require more than a high school equivalency. The one good thing about only being in JC as opposed to a full-blown university, or so Bobby found, was that it wasn't so difficult that he wasn't been able to handle its workload thrown in along with the responsibilities of being promoted to a full-fledged X-Man and an asset to the next generation of mutant kiddos. Junior College made way to Empire State University, a degree in Statistics, and a senior thesis that explained - mathematically - why Joss Whedon television series were cancelled prematurely despite being all levels of awesome. In New York there are typically two things a person can do with a Math Degree: Accounting & Finance (aka "major boring shizz") and Teaching. Bobby opted for the later, returning to Xavier's School to become the coolest mathlete ever. There have been several failed relationships along the way - and despite what Bobby insists, Kitty is right that Rogue didn't "ruin him for all other women." With the recent "recruitment" of the X-Men into SHIELD, someone really needs to tell Bobby that this doesn't mean he's going to get to be James Bond with his own Aston Martin and jet pack. [/PTab][PTab=IMAGE]  [/PTab][/PTabbedContent={width:485px;border:0px;margin-left:-2px;}] |
