4/23/10 11:01 am
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Name: Lorne Dane
Age: 20
Fandom: X-men AU
Point In Fandom Taken From: precanon
Brief History:
Life with the Danes was idyllic. Lorne had a pair of loving parents, and a best friend who would see him through thick and thin. He was fairly good at baseball and swimming, and enjoyed both immensely. His father worked at a custom computer design shop, and his mother was a secretary at a genetics lab. But Lorne had a secret. For all of his life he'd had to dye or shave his hair, including his eyebrows. This didn't ever seem like a big deal to the young man, though he was very careful to always keep it touched up, afraid that he would loose everything. After all, if people made fun of the kid who always had food on his shirt, how bad would they tease him about his hair?
He went to a public high school and enjoyed a much broader social circle than he'd had in the private grade school his parents had sent him to. The surfers quickly claimed him as one of their own, and Lorne found that he enjoyed surfing a great deal. He also began riding his bike, taking advantage of the country's friendliest city for bikes.
Until a car ran into him. His left leg was shattered, beyond hope of repair. A specialty doctor came in, and offered him and his parents a procedure that was particularly risky, but may well be Lorne's only chance of walking without a prosthesis. After much debate and tears, the Danes all agreed to go for the procedure. It required that new leg bones be 'grown' from Lorne's genetic code, and the fragments of the old bone removed. It was excruciating, even though it was successful, and Lorne didn't walk a step for his entire sophomore year. But in the middle of his junior year, thanks to exhaustive physical therapy, Lorne was on his feet again. Within months he walked with only the slightest limp, and soon even that faded. But Lorne soon found that he had much bigger problems.
While his leg was healing up remarkably, weird things were happening. In the course of two weeks he went through three cell phones, each one dying from some kind of magnetic interference. A brand new laptop was turned into twisted scrap during an argument with his parents. He was afraid that something horrible was happening, but he didn't know what.
Everything came to a head when Lorne was coming home from a particularly frustrating session of therapy. He managed to get home okay (he'd just gotten his learner's permit, and had been driving with his dad), but he had a migraine that just wouldn't leave him alone. Everything seemed to be irritating, and finally he lashed out, yelling out the window at a bunch of kids making noise on their way home from school. Nothing appeared to be wrong at first, until he looked around the kitchen, where he'd been standing, and saw that all the metal in the room was twisted and bent, looking as though it were part of some tortured art installation, instead of a suburban living space. His parents wanted to know what had happened, and Lorne argued with them again, trying to hold back his raging emotions, afraid that he might hurt them, even as he wanted them to just stop yelling. He didn't get them to stop, but after about half an hour of off and on yelling the metal in the room moved again, putting a solid wall between the parents and their child.
Confused and afraid, Lorne stepped out into the night, unsure where he would go, or who would help him, realizing that something was terribly wrong. It was then that he was taken in by Xavier, and not a moment too soon. An hour later the doctor who had healed his leg came to visit the Danes, and demanded that Lorne come to her lab for further tests. The Danes realized something was not kosher in this picture, and refused. This ended with their house in ruin ruins, and their location unknown, though no trace of their bodies was found in the remains of the house.
Personality:
Lorne is a bubbly, geeky young man. He's had a wonderful childhood, and is open to new people and new challenges. His powers are a source of wonder (and frustration), for him. He doesn't enjoy the fact that there is no ESD bracelet in the world that makes him static proof, so working on computers with his hands is nearly imposible. He is eager to help his friends, and hopes to make many friends and fit in while still being himself, which is a new and exciting concept on its own.
There is a stubborn streak in him that's at least a mile long. Once he's set his mind to something, very few things will make him give up on it. He is also unfailingly cheerful, and it's difficult to bring him down.
He is loyal to his family, and a little awed at the new view of the world he has gotten from all of his experiences. The idea that he could have gone from a typical California boy to something more exotic makes up for the pain and frustration caused by his powers. Mostly, anyway. Some days it all becomes too much for him, and he becomes despondent upon occasion, with or without reason. Partly this is because he feels guilty about leaving them to an uncertain fate, and wishes that they'd just be found, dead or alive, so he can move on.
PB: Ed Speleers
Job: owner of Penny Arcade, a video game store
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Character Information
Name: Lorne Dane
Age: 20
Fandom: X-men AU
Point In Fandom Taken From: precanon
Brief History:
Life with the Danes was idyllic. Lorne had a pair of loving parents, and a best friend who would see him through thick and thin. He was fairly good at baseball and swimming, and enjoyed both immensely. His father worked at a custom computer design shop, and his mother was a secretary at a genetics lab. But Lorne had a secret. For all of his life he'd had to dye or shave his hair, including his eyebrows. This didn't ever seem like a big deal to the young man, though he was very careful to always keep it touched up, afraid that he would loose everything. After all, if people made fun of the kid who always had food on his shirt, how bad would they tease him about his hair?
He went to a public high school and enjoyed a much broader social circle than he'd had in the private grade school his parents had sent him to. The surfers quickly claimed him as one of their own, and Lorne found that he enjoyed surfing a great deal. He also began riding his bike, taking advantage of the country's friendliest city for bikes.
Until a car ran into him. His left leg was shattered, beyond hope of repair. A specialty doctor came in, and offered him and his parents a procedure that was particularly risky, but may well be Lorne's only chance of walking without a prosthesis. After much debate and tears, the Danes all agreed to go for the procedure. It required that new leg bones be 'grown' from Lorne's genetic code, and the fragments of the old bone removed. It was excruciating, even though it was successful, and Lorne didn't walk a step for his entire sophomore year. But in the middle of his junior year, thanks to exhaustive physical therapy, Lorne was on his feet again. Within months he walked with only the slightest limp, and soon even that faded. But Lorne soon found that he had much bigger problems.
While his leg was healing up remarkably, weird things were happening. In the course of two weeks he went through three cell phones, each one dying from some kind of magnetic interference. A brand new laptop was turned into twisted scrap during an argument with his parents. He was afraid that something horrible was happening, but he didn't know what.
Everything came to a head when Lorne was coming home from a particularly frustrating session of therapy. He managed to get home okay (he'd just gotten his learner's permit, and had been driving with his dad), but he had a migraine that just wouldn't leave him alone. Everything seemed to be irritating, and finally he lashed out, yelling out the window at a bunch of kids making noise on their way home from school. Nothing appeared to be wrong at first, until he looked around the kitchen, where he'd been standing, and saw that all the metal in the room was twisted and bent, looking as though it were part of some tortured art installation, instead of a suburban living space. His parents wanted to know what had happened, and Lorne argued with them again, trying to hold back his raging emotions, afraid that he might hurt them, even as he wanted them to just stop yelling. He didn't get them to stop, but after about half an hour of off and on yelling the metal in the room moved again, putting a solid wall between the parents and their child.
Confused and afraid, Lorne stepped out into the night, unsure where he would go, or who would help him, realizing that something was terribly wrong. It was then that he was taken in by Xavier, and not a moment too soon. An hour later the doctor who had healed his leg came to visit the Danes, and demanded that Lorne come to her lab for further tests. The Danes realized something was not kosher in this picture, and refused. This ended with their house in ruin ruins, and their location unknown, though no trace of their bodies was found in the remains of the house.
Personality:
Lorne is a bubbly, geeky young man. He's had a wonderful childhood, and is open to new people and new challenges. His powers are a source of wonder (and frustration), for him. He doesn't enjoy the fact that there is no ESD bracelet in the world that makes him static proof, so working on computers with his hands is nearly imposible. He is eager to help his friends, and hopes to make many friends and fit in while still being himself, which is a new and exciting concept on its own.
There is a stubborn streak in him that's at least a mile long. Once he's set his mind to something, very few things will make him give up on it. He is also unfailingly cheerful, and it's difficult to bring him down.
He is loyal to his family, and a little awed at the new view of the world he has gotten from all of his experiences. The idea that he could have gone from a typical California boy to something more exotic makes up for the pain and frustration caused by his powers. Mostly, anyway. Some days it all becomes too much for him, and he becomes despondent upon occasion, with or without reason. Partly this is because he feels guilty about leaving them to an uncertain fate, and wishes that they'd just be found, dead or alive, so he can move on.
PB: Ed Speleers
Job: owner of Penny Arcade, a video game store
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