Bobby Drake/Iceman (movie canon)

[Warren Worthington III]

(Oh, all right, fine. I'll app for Bobby, too. It's incomplete -- no sample yet. But figured I'd post what I had.)


Name: Robert (Bobby) Alvin Drake
He's starting to dislike "Bobby", thinking it too juvenile, but hasn't yet decided what he wants to be called instead... "Bob," "Rob," and "Robert" all sound wrong. He's kinda liking "RA" but is afraid if he starts using it his middle name will become known (it's named after his maternal grandfather and he keeps it a closely guarded secret). He's considering legally changing his name when he turns 18.

Codename: Iceman

Age: 17 (born April 18, 1989)

Mutation: Cryokinesis and thermal perception
Simply put, Bobby can suck heat-energy out of his environment. In its simplest form, he can lower the temperature of his own body and everything nearby, which sometimes happens without his intending it to.
With practice he has learned to use his power in more interesting ways:

• Lower the temperature of specific objects, even at a distance, without affecting anything else. (This makes most materials brittle and easy to shatter, so it's a dangerous thing to do to living things, but it isn't in and of itself damaging... he can put living things, including himself, into cryostasis this way.)
  
• Create shaped low-temperature fields, causing water vapor in the air to crystallize into ice in any shape he wishes.(Limitations: He has to be able to visualize the shape, so he's restricted to relatively simple shapes. Also, the edges of the field are not very precise, so he can't create sharp-edged objects. Finally, this depends on the presence of at least _some_ atmospheric water vapor... in a desert or similarly dry environment his ice-shaping ability would be practically nonexistent.)
  
• Create a translucent ice-sheath around his body (or parts of it). This moves along with him, but is otherwise rigid. It functions like rigid body armor, but can also be slippery when he wants it to be, allowing him to speed-skate across most surfaces.
  

Relatedly, Bobby can perceive heat-sources within about 20 meters of him. This is similar to infrared vision, but does not rely on his eyes... he just knows where the heat-source is.

Despite its superficial simplicity, Bobby's power is actually rather mysterious. The X-Men have yet to establish where the heat-energy goes when he drains it, and Hank in particular has been known to pull out handfuls of fur while muttering darkly about the Laws of Thermodynamics when he thinks about it. Perhaps relatedly, he is able to create ice in quantities far out of proportion to the amount of water vapor actually present in his environment.

Physical Description:
(Bobby)
Bobby is a fairly average-looking teenager with slightly wavy light-brown hair and greenish-brown eyes. Until Alcatraz, he kept his hair trimmed short, dressed in button-down preppy-type shirts and slacks, and maintained a reasonably athletic physique with a bit of a belly -- your typical cleancut suburban kid.
Since then, his appearance has changed somewhat. He's let his hair grow out so it's currently approaching shoulder-length and shaggy. He hasn't been shaving, though the result is some wispy stubble on his chin and upper lip rather than an actual beard. He's started wearing a lot of black. He hasn't been eating much and has been working out a lot, so he's developing a more ripped physique. Other residents are starting to notice but, beyond teasing him about his inability to grow a beard, it hasn't been an issue.

(Iceman)
While armored, Iceman looks like a humanoid ice-statue. His facial features and expressions are visible through the ice, which also follows the contours of his body, but distorted enough that he isn't recognizable. He can change the shape of his armor, and sometimes does so for fun, but usually doesn't bother.
Since learning the ice-armor trick, Iceman has stopped wearing the X-Men uniform... his own powers are more comfortable and provide better protection, and the uniform tends to shatter when he moves around too much while "iced up." He does wear uniform-style shorts in a lighter material, though, so he doesn't end up naked if his armor melts for any reason. Also, pockets come in handy some times. He has taken to wearing them under his street clothes.

Personality:
Bobby is going through what is politely called "a difficult adolescence." More bluntly, he's a bit of a headcase at the moment. You can hardly blame him, really.

First, when the government came after the Institute (and yes, it was a rogue faction, but Bobby doesn't completely believe that) he brought his friends home, thinking they'd be safe. Instead, his family called the cops on him.
So, OK... so much for family. No problem, though... he can cope. He's got the Institute, Scott and Ororo and Jean and Professor Xavier are like surrogate parents, John and Marie... well, he's not exactly sure what they are but they're as close to family as he's got.
But John dumps him leaves the Institute and becomes some kind of fucking terrorist, which is actually kinda cool crazy, the bastard tried to kill him! And Jean dies (twice!) and Scott and Xavier die and it's like being abandoned all over again.
Then his fucking girlfriend (well, except they never have, they'd never really even touched for God's sake, not even as much as she had with Logan and-he-wasn't-going-to-think-about-that and sure he tried to be a Nice Guy about it but, well, a guy has urges and jerking off under the covers only goes so far, especially when he knows his roommate is watching sleeping in the other bed) cuts off her powers, and there's nothing between them anymore (and it's the mutant thing, of-course-it-is, it's not like anything else had changed between the three two of them, it's not like she'd grown so distant she didn't even talk to him about it before she did it, except that's exactly what happened). So, OK, no problem... it's great, actually, they get to cuddle and stuff like a real couple, except he's not that into it she gets her powers back and he's relieved stuck in the infirmary for days.
It's all gotten to be a bit much.

So he's thrashing a bit, and his personality is in flux.
His classwork is suffering (well, to be honest, he hasn't been doing it at all). He's traded his usual preppy look for a kinda goth thing... wears black all the time, doesn't shave, barely eats, sits in his room a lot playing bad guitar and writing truly atrocious poetry.
Pretty much the only thing he's still doing regularly is physical training... if anything, he's thrown himself into it, spending hours running, weightlifting, studying martial arts (mostly with Logan, who has some idea what the kid is going through and is ignoring the temper tantrums and the other acting out during training).
Storm has dropped hints that maybe his responsibilities with the X-Men should be suspended until he's gotten his grades back up, but Logan has thus far convinced her to lay off. So he's still an X-Man and still officially enrolled as a student, though unofficially he's on an academic leave of absence.

Maybe Logan's right, and this is just a phase, and he'll eventually return to being the responsible clean-cut kid he used to be.
But really, it's anybody's guess how he's going to turn out.

Background:
Bobby was your basic upper-middle-class suburban overachiever for most of his life... popular, outgoing, good grades, involved in all the right extracurricular activities, polite to his elders, all that good stuff.
His powers first manifested overtly when he was 14... he woke up during a nightmare to find he'd covered half the bed in ice. He had no idea what happened, and his brother Ronnie got blamed for it. This happened a couple of more times over the next several months before Bobby figured it out, by which time Ronnie had figured it out as well.
He kept his mutation secret for about three months, subject to ongoing blackmail demands by Ronnie, until he accidentally blew his cover during a football game. Xavier stepped in at that point, erasing everyone's memory of the event, and Bobby ended up at the Institute, and some time afterwards was invited to join the X-Men.
His stay at the Institute was relatively uneventful until the Liberty Island Incident, and has been pretty much insane since.

Current Affiliation: X-Men, Xavier Institute Student

Sample:
(Not yet written)

[Bobby Drake]

Modifications to application based on recent events.

Name: Robert (Bobby) Alvin Drake
He's starting to dislike "Bobby", thinking it too juvenile, but hasn't yet decided what he wants to be called instead... "Bob," "Rob," and "Robert" all sound wrong.

After his kidnapping and rescue he starts going by "Bob", for reasons that aren't clear even to him. He doesn't make a point of correcting anyone, though.

Codename: Iceman
Current Affiliation: X-Men, Xavier Institute Student

Officially this is still true, although he's now an inactive member (due to power-loss) and he doesn't use the codename at all.

Mutation: Cryokinesis and thermal perception
Bobby was given a dose of Cure in mid-November 2006; he's now powerless. It remains to be seen if his powers will return. Most do, but not all.

Physical Description:
After losing his powers, Bobby affects a semi-military look... cleanshaven, buzz-cut light-brown hair, sunglasses over his (hazel) eyes.
On his own time he wears loose-fitting fatigues; otherwise he tends to dress just a little better than the occasion requires as well as much more warmly than most people.
He's still in excellent physical shape; in fact he's been exercising more than he did before the Cure.

Personality:
Bobby is an intensely loyal person, even against his own better judgment.

One of his strongest loyalties is to the Institute, or more properly to the memory of Professor Xavier. This makes him one of the more dyed-in-the-wool X-Men around; enough so that even without powers he still thinks of himself as one of them.

He’s also personally loyal to friends. In particular this has been an issue with John (Pyro), his relationship with whom is creating a conflict of loyalties he’s having significant trouble coping with.

The flip side of that is his serious abandonment issues. Not that he has any deep traumatic childhood issues to account for them or anything, he’s just a bit neurotic. He has real trouble letting go of things, is always mildly afraid his friends will get tired of him and walk away, and tends to over-react at any hint that they are doing so.

Bobby’s experiences since Xavier’s death have led him to appreciate his leadership potential more than he used to. He’s started studying again with eventual team leadership in mind… primarily military history, tactics, and strategy, but also starting to look into weapons technology (and branching out from there into physical sciences and engineering), criminal law, and criminology/aberrant psychology. He’s a much more dedicated student than he used to be and is making impressive progress. (That said, he’s no genius and is developing no more than a solid college-equivalent background in these topics over time.)

Bobby’s rekindled relationship with John forced him out of the closet. However, that relationship is currently rather strained, to say the least. He’s not looking for other relationships at the moment, but is emotionally vulnerable; on the flip side he’s still strongly attached to John despite his belief that their relationship is over. So as things stand his sexuality is a bit up in the air.

Bobby’s gone through a number of personality changes between the Liberty Island incident and his rescue from the Brotherhood. His most recent changes constitute almost a complete reversal from his previous acting-out behavior… he’s becoming a more supportive friend, a more focused student, a more consistent team player, and is in general significantly easier to deal with at the Institute than he has been recently.
This isn’t altogether a healthy thing… mostly, it’s the result of his focusing all his anger and frustration and desire for vengeance on a single target, rather than lashing out randomly with it as he used to. That target is Magneto, and to a lesser extent the Brotherhood in general… he wants to take Magneto down, preferably permanently, preferably getting to fire the shot himself. This is becoming something of an obsession.

Background:
(as above through arrival at the Institute)
Once there, he become friends with a number of the other students, in particular Rogue (whom he dated semi-platonically for a long time) and Pyro (his roommate and best friend). The events of X2 and X3 (especially John’s betrayal, and Rogue’s Cure, and Xavier and Scott’s deaths) left him in an emotional fugue state for months, during which he essentially dropped out of school (though retained his X-Man affiliation) and began a secret affair with Pyro.
Some months later, Pyro sedated Bobby at Magneto’s orders and unknowingly dosed him with Cure. Magneto held Bobby hostage, tortured him, and threatened to kill him. Meanwhile Pyro had a falling-out with Magneto, leading him to attempt to rescue Bobby; along with a rescue team from the Institute they succeeded.
Since then, he's been trying to compensate for his powerlessness with military weapons training, with minimal success.

[Bobby Drake]

Still another modification!

Mutation: Cryokinesis and thermal perception
Bobby was given a dose of Cure in mid-November 2006, removing these powers. It remains to be seen if they will return. Most do, but not all.

A few weeks later, (during the Baxter Building mission) Bob, still under the influence of the Cure, was dosed with Mutant Growth Hormone. This doesn’t reactivate his “Iceman” powers but rather activates an entirely different latent ability: cyberpathy.

More specifically, he can:

• detect/analyze computer systems and software
  
• interface with hardware and software: monitor output, control input, etc.
  
• reprogram software (more difficult than simply interfacing with it).
  
• access data stored in hardware/software systems, both explicitly (databases, text files, stored graphics, etc.) and implicitly (e.g., the target temperature of a digital thermostat).

His power works like telepathy – he can access a target system with his mind, from a distance, with no visible intermediary. However, he’s not a telepath in the normal sense – he cannot interface with organic thinking systems at all, just electronics and computers. Also, the more primitive an electronic system is, the less he can do with it… a simple mechanical switch is almost entirely outside his control, for example, whereas a fully computerized environmental control system is trivial by comparison.

His range is extremely variable, depending a lot on how large the target system is and how many distractors there are. In general, the closer he is to the system the better a link he can form. Actually seeing the hardware is mostly irrelevant.

As long as he’s interfacing with a computer system, his psychology is significantly distorted. One effect is severely blunted affect – unemotional and analytical. (think Star Trek’s Data, or the original Vision. If this were a comic he’d talk in square yellow monotype word-balloons.) Another is that his mind is difficult to read telepathically.

His power does not increase his intelligence, but as long as he’s interfacing with a computer system he can “offline” certain kinds of processing, including data retrieval. For example, if there’s an on-line encyclopedia in range, he has effectively encyclopedic knowledge, making him seem a lot smarter than he is. (It’s a lot like looking things up via Google while IMing with someone.)

NB: As with all MGH users, Bob’s ability will grow more powerful with time and use, until it eventually becomes a threat to his life and/or sanity.

[Bobby Drake]

Yet more mods!

Background/History:
In mid-April 2007, the MGH in Bobby’s system finally took its toll. Hank and Reed managed to save his life, and he Bobby fell into a coma. Two weeks later he awoke with both the Cure and the MGH in his system neutralized; he no longer has cyberpathic abilities and his original powers are back, with modifications.

One side-effect of all this hormonal manipulation is that the degree of control he has over his power has backslid considerably; he is working on re-establishing control. Also, since he’s been slacking off on physical therapy during his time on MGH, he’s lost some of his physical conditioning; he’s working on retraining. At the same time he is trying to recover from a lost academic semester, and has started seeing a therapist regularly.

Fortunately for his schedule, if not his pride, Storm took Bobby off active X-Men duty shortly after his MGH dose, for rather obvious reasons. He remains so for the moment, if for no other reason than his lack of power-control.

Also, either as a side-effect of all the hormone treatments he’s been getting, or as a natural consequence of getting older, he can actually grow a beard now!

Mutation: Cryokinesis and thermal perception, as described in his initial application. In addition, he has developed an ice form – he can literally change his body into a humanoid, animated chunk of ice; in this state his body is not flesh and blood at all, much like Colossus in steel form.

In most ways this form behaves like his previous ice-armor did, but there are some significant differences:

• Most biological functions are suspended: He doesn’t breathe, he doesn’t have a heartbeat, he doesn’t need to eat or sleep, he is resistant to most organic toxins and similar bioweapons.
  He doesn’t exactly feel pain, but he still responds psychologically more or less the way he would in his human body; similarly, his endurance and strength are more or less the same as in his human form.
  
• In some ways, he is more fragile than he used to be: his ice-form frequently cracks and loses chips and pieces, especially in combat. In other ways, he’s tougher: a laser could punch a hole right through his body without really hurting him.
  
• When he transitions, simple physical injuries tend to heal themselves -- scratches, chips, cuts, etc. It's not clear what happens to larger ones; he hasn't experimented.
  
• Toxins and physiological needs like hunger and thirst are “translated” back and forth, even though he doesn't feel them in ice-form. So, for example, if he's poisoned in human form he can transition to ice-form to save himself, but as soon as he returns to ice-form the poison will continue to affect him.
  
• He can “heal” damage to his ice-form by patching holes and cracks with additional ice. It is unclear how far he can take this process – for example, it’s unclear whether he could regrow a limb this way – and he has been understandably reluctant to experiment.
  
• Because his body is being maintained psionically, he is physically vulnerable to sufficiently hostile psychic manipulation in this form – e.g., a psionic attack might do him physical harm. (He doesn’t know this at first, and might never find out, but it’s true.)

Thus far, this ability to “animate” ice applies only to his own ice-form, which he can move only in the ways he would ordinarily move his body. Bobby thinks he ought to be able to extend this power further, reshaping his ice-body or animating other chunks of ice with his mind or even “hopping” psionically from one ice-body to another, but thus far has not been able to make any of that happen.

Personality:
Bobby has grown up quite a bit in the last year, and seems to be continuing to do so. He’s become a lot more mature, centered, and focused; he has lost his earlier obsession with killing Magneto; and while his relationship with John continues to be strained for a variety of reasons, he’s doing his best to deal with the situation like a grownup. In large part this is due to therapy, and in some part due to a sense of perspective brought on by a whole lot of stress and a near-death experience.

Physical Description
(Human Form) Bobby is a fairly average-looking teenager with slightly wavy light-brown hair and greenish-brown eyes. He’s a little under six feet tall and, as of early May, a little bit heavyset; he will lose the extra weight over the next month or two of regular exercise. He keeps his hair neatly cut, nothing fancy, mid-length or a little longer. For a while he grew a beard, but he's taken to shaving regularly now.

(Ice Form) Iceman is a humanoid ice-statue without much surface detail… facial features, fingers, and other body features are somewhat blurred and indistinct. His body is a bluish-white, lustrous and slightly translucent; he is perfectly visible, but bright lights can be seen through him and he sometimes refracts white light into little rainbows. When he moves, the ice forming his body cracks and reforms.

Note that, unlike his previous ice-armor, Bobby's iceform is roughly the same volume as his flesh-form and doesn't necessarily superfreeze his surroundings. This means he can transition while wearing clothes without shattering the clothes, and consequently he starts wearing his old X-Man uniform instead of the uniform shorts as soon as he loses enough weight to fit back into it.