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PLAYER INFO.
NAME: Carlee
PREFERRED PRONOUNS: She/her
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CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Lorna Dane
CANON: The Gifted
CANON POINT: Post-Season 2, episode 11 (meMento)
AGE: 29
GENDER: Female

HISTORY: Wiki

APPEARANCE: Portrayed by Emma Dumont. Her appearance in Santa Rosita would be closer to this.

ABILITIES: Outside of her magnetokinesis, Lorna has shown herself to be capable with throwing knives. She is athletic and quick on her feet and could probably adequately hold her own in a fight (early episodes of canon show her getting overpowered when outnumbered and she frequently relies on her abilities in combat, but she's portrayed by an athlete who is leanly muscular and flexible so if nothing else she could dodge and run, not that she would). She is also shown as being an organized, thoughtful, and efficient leader when it comes to the Mutant Underground (up until she leaves them for the Inner Circle). She is tenacious, quick to defensive anger, and there are times where she is shown to be ruthless, but she is shown to realize when she is in over her head and when to call on others for help. Having been institutionalized before (in mental health facilities, a mutant institution under the guise of a mental health facility, and prison), she will recognize immediately what behavior is considered acceptable and what isn't; she may struggle with the idea of playing house at first and historically is not the greatest at playing undercover (although another apparent ability of hers is that she never seems to get called out on this), but will do her best to play along for the sake of the people in the same situation she's in.

Regarding her magnetokinesis, this encompasses several capabilities that she could gain back gradually throughout her time in the game. They include:

- Ferromagnetism: the ability to magnetize metal and manipulate metal objects, sense the presence of metal (seen in an episode where Reed Strucker confronts her in prison and she's able to sense the screws in his knee from an old sports injury), and levitate metallic objects (seen in a later episode when Reed instructs her to tear the screws out of his knee to cut the ties binding them and escape; she is also able to levitate herself while wearing steel toed boots and metal bracelets several times in the series).

- Electromagnetism: the ability to use magnetic fields to manipulate electronic currents; she's been shown to be able to block cell and radio signals, hack into computers to obtain and change information, and use a limited form of telekinesis (if someone is wearing or holding metal, she can move them, if they have no metal on them she is out of luck).

Given how much she relies on her abilities and how much she considers them to be a part of who she is, being suddenly without them would be an adjustment for her that I'm interested in playing out. As far as her eventually gaining them back goes, I figure the process can be gradual - she starts with being able to sense metal again, progresses to that and being able to manipulate it, progresses from those and being able to manipulate electronics. I'm open to whatever you decide is fair.

SUITABILITY: While her canon isn't horror, it does touch upon some disturbing themes (institutionalization, violence, murder, genocide, and body horror to a certain degree). Lorna has survived a lot of what I mentioned while dealing with pregnancy, bipolar disorder, leaving the person she loves and the group she helped found and form behind, childbirth, and leaving her daughter with family to keep her safe, and would fare pretty well in the environment even if she wasn't thrilled about being there. She has sufficient motivation to survive and find her way home and would feel extremely protective of others in her situation and would try to keep them safe.

PERSONALITY.

● Your character has a chance to undo a terrible mistake, but in doing so, there could be unintended consequences for everyone they know. Is it worth the risk? Or should the dead stay dead?

I'm going to use an event in the season one finale where she tears apart a plane full of anti-mutant political figureheads and leaves no survivors as an example here: this is something she occasionally questions because of who the Inner Circle is and what their motivations turned out to be, but she ultimately would not take back her decision to take the plane down. At that point she definitely believed that she was taking the right course and had seen the Mutant Underground continue to lose battles and lose people, and as much as she'd invested in that group, she also believed that it was no longer working and no longer helping the people she was trying to keep safe and alive. Her regrets from doing what she'd done stem from being in a desperate place, seeing a potentially better way for her people to survive, and not being fully aware of the group she was aligning herself with (she is seen to have doubts about them as early as the first episode of season two, asking Andy Strucker to make sure her daughter remains safe if something goes wrong during the birth of her daughter because she doesn't trust that Reeva or the Frost sisters will and mentioning to him that he needs to prove that he is useful to keep himself safe). She does not regret actually ending the lives of the people on board the plane, since they were active in making the lives of mutants worse.

● If your character had the option to permanently lose the ability to feel certain negative emotions like fear or grief, or permanently forget certain memories, would they take it? What if they will never know that something has been taken from them? Does loss only matter if it's known what's missing?

Lorna would not take the opportunity to lose negative emotions or memories (first of all, her losing memories doesn't mean the other people involved would lose memories and whether or not she'd know about it, that's something she would never want done to her or would want to do to anyone else, and discovering that it had happened would make her furious). She's lived through experiences that were difficult and awful but living through them made her recognize how to avoid ever experiencing them again and how to protect others from living through the same thing. Additionally, she has lived with a mental illness (bipolar disorder) and would hate the idea of someone messing with her head, especially if they claimed they were doing it for her own good; she would believe that that's her decision and not someone else's.

Regarding emotions, things like fear, grief, and anger have all been significant motivators for her throughout the series (especially in season one, when she discovered she was pregnant and was threatened with the possibility of her daughter being taken from her and never seeing the father again), and I don't believe she wouldn't be herself without them so much as I don't know if anyone would be themselves without them. Anger especially has been a hinderance to her at times, but without it she couldn't have used it to escape situations that have threatened her and her family's safety.

● Could your character ever forgive themselves for something morally wrong that they've done? No matter how much time has passed? No matter how much penitence has been done? Is being sorry enough to be a good person?

I mentioned this earlier, but there's a scene in the season one finale where she brings down a plane transporting anti-mutant political figures. This is absolutely morally wrong and it's also not the first time she's ended or harmed the lives of someone who was threatening her and her people (she is recruited to form the Mutant Underground from an institute where she'd been sentenced to after a protest had gotten violent and she'd 'accidentally' sent a group that was threatening her over an overpass), but as I also mentioned before, the only regret she has about the incident at her canon point is who she ends up aligning herself with. I think that with every violent action she commits or has committed, she knows it's not something she can take back so she does her best to live with it and atone for it, depending on who it was she hurt. She doesn't view the people that she hurt as innocent, but another mutant in season two murders a room full of hostages and it shakes her to her core, both that someone thinks nothing of innocents getting harmed and that those in charge of the Inner Circle don't seem bothered by it until said mutant is about to turn on them. There's a scene in the season two finale where she seems to regret it when Andy mentions that her bringing down the plane was something he admired and something that lead him to follow her; this wasn't something she'd done to inspire others to violence.

● Your character has a secret they have been sworn to, but revealing this secret could save the lives of countless others. Is it worth breaking the promise to save others, or is betrayal never justifiable?

It largely depends on what the secret is, how keeping it could threaten lives or revealing it would save lives, and also who was asking her to reveal the secret. If the person asking her to keep it was one of her people and the person asking her to reveal it was someone she considered untrustworthy, yes, she would probably keep it; if she barely knew either person involved, she'd probably tell it. Lorna puts a lot of value in trust and knows that it takes a lot of it to decide to reveal something personal. At the same time, she is fighting for a peaceful world for herself, her kind, and her family and that means she values life, both human and mutantkind. If revealing something means that countless lives are saved, she would likely ultimately reveal it, but not without serious bargaining with herself and possibly discussion about the situation (without going into specifics) with others.

She is, however, capable of keeping a secret if needed (she does not give up the location or names of the Mutant Underground) and if it was just her life at stake and not multiple innocents or anyone she loved, she would keep the secret indefinitely.

● Has your character ever gotten joy out of hurting others, physically or mentally? If they have, does it scare them?

Once again I'm going to use an example from canon here: she and Marcos kidnap a Sentinel Services officer who's been responsible for taking their friends to a prison where the scientists in charge were reprogramming mutant prisoners to fight against their own. Lorna takes an opportunity while she and Marcos are escaping and while the officer is in their custody, she manipulates a metal rod that's hidden in concrete until it's wound around his neck. She also taunts the officer, bringing up times he'd done this to her while she was imprisoned, and gets the idea to have a friend with psychic abilities draw information about the prison out of him when it becomes clear he won't give it up willingly.

Short answer: yes, she's harmed others physically and mentally and enjoyed it, but the people she's done this to have harmed or threatened to harm her or people she feels responsible for. So no, she isn't frightened by this behavior in herself, but others will recognize when she's getting out of hand and she knows it frightens them. I think that prior to her arrest in the beginning of season one and maybe even post season two, it would be a different story, but she's definitely more ruthless in the time in between, when she and her people are being threatened.

WRITING SAMPLES.

SAMPLES: Log, network.

NOTES.

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS: I mentioned before that Lorna has bipolar disorder, this is confirmed within the series but only brought up occasionally. In canon she manages it well enough that neither a manic episode nor a depressive one is suffered in spite of a truly insane amount of stressors (there is a six month period we don't see, but an episode of either form is not mentioned). This may be something she brings up as a concern with people she comes to trust, but overall something she will try to keep under wraps, especially when she realizes she's in the 1960s. I don't intend to have this become something that harms her or anyone else; I simply mention this due to it being a significant piece of her character's history.