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| name    = Lorna Summers
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| pb = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2934314/ Lily Collins]
 
| codename = Polaris
 
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| teams  = [[X-Factor]]  
| birthdate = November 18, 1983
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Former Brotherhood Member
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| birthdate = November 18, 1993
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Lorna betrayed the [[Brotherhood of Mutants]] when she started to give sensitive information to her sister and soon found herself looking for sanctuary at the Xavier School.
  
Lorna is the School Nutritionalist and executive chef for [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]], as well as an active member of the [[X-Men]]. She is back at the school following a long stay on [[Muir Island]].
 
  
<i>Be a coffee-drinking individual - espresso yourself!  ~Author Unknown</i>
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==Details==
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== '''Details''' ==
  
'''Character Journal''': [http://x-polarisstar.livejournal.com/profile x_polarisstar]
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'''Character Journal''': [https://xp-olaris.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_olaris]
  
  
  
'''Real Name''': Lorna Eileen Dane
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'''Real Name''': Lorna Eileen Summers (nee Lehnsherr)
  
 
'''Codename''': Polaris
 
'''Codename''': Polaris
  
'''Aliases''': None
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'''Aliases''': Lorna Eileen Dane
  
'''First Appearance''': [http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/7624.html May 20, 2003]
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'''First Appearance''': [https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/1551276.html January 21 2015]
  
'''Date of Birth''': November 18, 1983
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'''Date of Birth''': November 18, 1993
  
'''Place of Birth''': Camarillo, California
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'''Place of Birth''': Pescadero, California
  
 
'''Citizenship''': United States
 
'''Citizenship''': United States
  
'''Relatives''': [[Dane Family]]: Paul Dane (uncle/father-adoptive), Janice Dane (aunt/mother-adoptive), [[Zaladane Delgado | Zala Dane]] (cousin/sister-adoptive), Camile Sullivan (second cousin)
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'''Relatives''': Alex Summers (Husband), Susanna Dane (Mother - Deceased), Erik Lehnsherr/[[Magneto]] (Father), [[Wanda Maximoff]] (Half-Sister), Pietro Maximoff (Half-Brother), [[Scott Summers]] (Brother-in-Law), Kara and Alison Ross (Mother-in-Laws), Megan Ross (Sister-in-Law)
 
 
'''Education''': Graduate of La Reina High School (2002), Graduate of Westchester College - Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics (2007), University of California, Berkeley - M.A;M.S - Earth & Planetary Sciences (2010)
 
 
 
'''Relationship Status''': Single
 
 
 
'''Occupation''': Executive Chef/Nutritionalist
 
  
'''Team Affiliation''': Active team member- [[X-Men]]
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'''Education''': Graduate of Oxford Academy (2010), University of California, Berkeley - Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics (2015), University of Phoenix - Forensic Science in Criminal Justice (2018)
  
==Biography==
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'''Relationship Status''': Married to [[Alex Summers]] as of October 14, 2017
  
===Childhood===
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'''Occupation''': Boss Lady and Investigator at X-Factor (holds a genuine license since [[April 2018]])
  
Lorna's childhood history remains incompletely disclosed, including her place of birth and the names of her parents. She was adopted at an early age and took her adopted parents last name 'Dane'. The Danes never told Lorna that they were not her true parents for fear that the truth might have a traumatic effect on her. Lorna grew up unaware of her parentage and led a relatively normal life, except for the naturally green hair she was born with. To avoid unwanted attention, her parents, though later by her own choice, kept it dyed brown at all times. Since coming to the school, she has let it return to her normal green.  
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'''Team Affiliation''': [[X-Factor]]. Former Brotherhood Member.
  
Her family is small and close-knit and she has focused a great deal of her life on making her parents proud and living up to their expectations. The Danes are well-off, but by no means wealthy. Lorna grew up in southern California in a fairly exclusive gated community and attended a succession of small, private Catholic schools. She graduated from an all girls Catholic high school and is a national merit scholar. As of her graduation senior year, she had enough AP credits to apply for sophomore standing; this is unremarkable to her as many of her classmates could claim the same. She took four years of Spanish and some of it she even remembers. As well, Lorna took [[Chef Marcel| cooking lessons for 7 years]], becoming a gifted chef and gaining a passable mastery of French (mostly the swear words).
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== '''Biography''' ==
  
===Post High School/Xavier's===
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=== '''Childhood''' ===
  
After high school, Lorna took a semester of college in California before deciding that she wanted to learn more about her powers. Though she chose to go to [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]] and stopped dying her hair, Lorna never believed that she would ever have anything other than a perfectly normal life. When the school was attacked, Lorna had only been in attendance for about three months. She was not present for the events of [[X2]] as she was home for her cousin's wedding.  
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Susanna Dane was a young research assistant that focused on genetic mutation. She met the handsome Erik Lehnsherr during an open seminar and was taken right away by his charm. The relationship was short-lived, but it would forever change her life when she found out she was pregnant two months later. She was able to get in contact with him to inform him that she was both expecting and going to keep the child regardless if he was involved or not. Susanna never knew of Erik’s activities or that he was a mutant, so when Lorna was born with green hair it was a complete shock. When it came to light that Erik was indeed a mutant, Susanna came to the conclusion that her green haired babe would be the same.
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Despite it all, Erik supported the mother and daughter in hopes that Lorna would show more signs of being a mutant other than the green hair. His patience was rewarded when her powers manifested during the Great Headache on May 14th — when she was almost ten. After Lorna awoke from passing out, she learned that her powers had killed her mother but had saved her. Distraught, Lorna withdrew until Erik came for her and took her to live with him.
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Lorna was mostly kept in the dark about Brotherhood activities but knew that her father was into some bad things. He treated her well enough, giving her a place to live, food, education, and also training her personally as her powers were almost identical to his. She was placed into a prestige high school for the wealthy and started to dye her hair brown – mostly to fit in and to halt any gossip. Later in life, Lorna realized that Erik had placed her in that particular school to gain the trust of certain politician’s kids and to facilitate entry into their homes.
  
There were several incidents in Lorna's first year at the school that would impact heavily on Lorna's life at the school, and beyond. She met and fell in love with [[Alex Summers]], three years her junior. Lorna initially resisted her attraction due to Alex being a student while she was a graduate and teacher, but after nudging by Alex's brother [[Scott Summers]] and [[Betsy Braddock]] and a screaming match in the hallways, they began a relationship in [[July 2003]]. Their happiness proved short-lived - in a powers accident, Alex lost control and severely burned Lorna, running away and disappearing for several months before being rescued from the clutches of [[Selene]].
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After Lorna graduated high school, she was accepted into the Geology program at UC Berkeley. It was then she confronted her father about the Brotherhood, but found the only way she could learn anything was to fully accept membership into the group. Against her better judgment, she agreed. Lorna was then allowed access to knowledge of all of the Brotherhood's activities and, furthermore, her father's plans about the world he envisioned for all mutant kind. Most critically, she stumbled upon knowledge of her half-sister, Wanda.
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Time passed with Lorna mostly accepting what she had learned. That is, until one mission did not sit well with Lorna and she finally reached out to Wanda. She wanted to know how her sister was able to stay away from the Brotherhood without them bothering her. This long-distance relationship was not easy at first as neither trusted each other fully, but solidified when until they take the chance to meet each other in real life. Lorna had never been obvious about the Brotherhood's activities, but her guilt about being involved had started to mount. This is why she choose to begin feeding Wanda intelligence on the group's missions — until the Brotherhood found out that there was a mole within their order. Lorna, fearing the worst, needed out. Wanda was her answer.
  
Lorna's recovery was slow, aided by her strong friendship with suitemate [[Alison Blaire]] and her new friendship with the enigmatic young Cajun [[Remy LeBeau]], but hindered by her worry and guilt about Alex's departure and her eating disorder. A disastrous encounter with [[Manuel de la Rocha]] in the kitchen resulted in her anorexia spiralling out of control, a severely burned hand (Healed at Remy's behest by [[Amanda Sefton]]) and a lifelong antipathy of the empath. After a fight with Alison about her anorexia which had her move briefly out of their suite and an encounter with Amanda that almost sparked the teenage witch killing herself, Lorna began to try to address her various issues and rebuild her relationship with Alex.
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==='''Entering Xavier's'''===
  
Approaching their first anniversary and her first year at the school, Lorna considered joining the [[X-Men]] full-time. She had been on several smaller missions in a volunteer capacity and felt she had more to offer. Alex, already facing the possibility of his long-lost, now-found brother Scott being injured or killed on a mission, reacted badly to the idea, and a new source of tension rose between the two. Several months later, they had a very public break up. Lorna began dating Brent, a nice, normal guy from [[Salem Center]] while Alex's friendship with [[Shiro Yoshida]] showed tendencies of being more, with Shiro kissing Alex as a way of proving their friendship. Despite their apparent coping, their friends knew better, rallying around and trying to get them to see sense. It took the [[HeliX]] fundraiser ball to prompt Alex to confront Brent and the two finally make up. Only two weeks later, Alex accompanied Lorna back to California when [[Dane Family| her mother]] was in a car accident, giving [[Dane Family| Lorna's father]] the chance to have a 'talk' with Alex about the powers accident that had injured his baby girl so badly.
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Lorna arrived at [[The Mansion|the mansion]] after Wanda re-routed a trip to to one of the Brotherhood the safe houses. She was little wary at first about meeting other people but opened up when she meet [[Adrienne Frost]]. After a few more meetings, Adrienne offered Lorna a job at X-Factor as a junior investigator. Lorna also started to form a close bond with [[Warren Worthington]]. She joined [[X-Factor]] on a couple of investigations, making a home for herself. She was overjoyed when [[Alex Summers | her fiancé]] was set to return home from his extended school trip, but his return was complicated [[The Caged Bird|due to being kidnapped]] by the [[Brotherhood of Mutants]] as her father wanted to bring her 'home'. With the help of X-Factor and the [[X-Men]], Alex was rescued, but not before he blew himself - and the building - up.
  
Upon her return, Lorna was shocked to discover Alison was offering to help train Manuel in his powers by letting his practice on her, leading to Lorna to move out of their suite again and eventually to Alex and herself contemplating moving in together. When Manuel [[Heiress Discordia| had his memory wiped]], he still continued to cause issues for Lorna, with Alex declaring he wanted to try and help Manuel by befriending him and a tense discussion with the empath's stricken girlfriend, Amanda, in the kitchen as she tried to convince Lorna Manuel was a changed man. Small steps were made, but with the return of Manuel's memory, things reverted back to the way they were.
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That fall she started online classes to get an Investigator License part-time while working. She ended the year [[Case File: A Better Mole Trap | getting seriously hurt during a mission]], which left her nearly blind and incapacitated for a few weeks.  
  
===With Malice Aforethought===
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==='''2016 & 2017'''===
  
2005 began constructively enough. Lorna's tendency to overtrain and thus injure herself was addressed by [[Madelyn Bartlet]] and she told her parents about her anorexia. With the sudden return of [[Jean Grey]] and the [[Stigmata|gradual nervous breakdown]] suffered by [[Paige Guthrie]], plus the beginning of Alison's relationship with [[Haroun al-Rashid]] and catering for the wedding of [[Nathan Dayspring]] and [[Moira MacTaggart]] and Remy's deliberate absence from the event, Lorna had plenty of other things to focus on. She and Alex continued to disagree about her status as an X-Man, but managed to gloss over it enough - as was usual for them with difficult issues - to plan to attend class in geophysics in Hawaii together.  
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2016, thankfully, went a little smoother. Lorna and Alex continued to repair their relationship working at X-Factor together. In January, she worked a case to [[The Two Sided Coin of Ambition | help prove that Hope Abbott was innocent of espionage]]. In August, she and Alex organized a trip Appalachian Trail, which ended with them getting re-engaged. In October, Lorna made it clear that Halloween is not her time of year as the kids can be brats. When December came by, Lorna wanted was reminded once again why she hated living on the East Coast — snow.
  
En route to Hawaii via LA, Lorna was waylaid by [[Mystique]] and forced to wear a collar containing the essence of a dead telepath called [[With Malice Aforethought|Malice]]. While controlled, she joined [[Magneto]] and his [[Brotherhood of Mutants]], believing Magneto's assertion that he was also her biological father. As Malice, Lorna murdered Alison Blaire's father, lobotomized two [[Salem Center]] [[FOH]] youths named Josh and Karen, kidnapped [[Forge]] and [[High Cost Of Living|nearly killed Remy]]. It was Forge's use of the Neutraliser that Magneto insisted he create against Lorna that freed her of Malice's influence and allowed the X-Men to rescue the pair.
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The beginning of the year was a slow start but she spent the time focusing on her wedding planned for the end of year. She found a dress to dye for and shared it with the rest of the mansion. A few weeks later she saw a post by Amanda about mysterious rocks and reached out to her to let her see it, as she had a degree in Geology. After several days or researching, all that Lorna and Alex could find out that it wasn't anything they had seen on Earth.
  
Back at the mansion, Lorna had to face what she had done. Her sense of personal responsibility was at odds with the general reaction that nothing had actually been her fault, that she had been mind-controlled and wasn't to blame. Only Manuel insisted she had been responsible, having witnessed her attack Josh and Karen in Salem Center with both his eyes and his powers. In talking about Malice to Manuel, Lorna made the discovery that she was no longer terrified of him - that didn't mean they would be friends, as the empath had his own version of events and continued to feel he was the one who had been wronged. Alex's firm belief she was innocent also made things difficult for her, but at the core of their issues was the fact that Lorna had realised that she was also in love with Remy, crippled from Malice's attack. The feeling was reciprocated, but the pair agreed it could not work and they would not act on their feelings. With Remy's departure back to New Orleans with Amanda in December, Lorna felt things had moved on, enough to accept Alex's Christmas proposal of marriage (and the [[Pets|King Charles Spaniel puppy]] that came with it). She also overcame her fear of her powers enough to accompany the team on a [[X-Men Mission: Merry Christmas Magneto|mission against the Brotherhood]], albeit very reluctantly.
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In May, while running errands with Alex, Lorna was part of a group of hostages at a bank. She was able to talk the guy down to learn that he just wanted the law enforcement to look for his mutant son. XFI ended up taking the case and found Collin in Center Park. After discussion with the mother, they decided to help him move forward and helped him into a safe house that was part of the Underground Railroad. It was also during this time that was the anniversary of her mother's death, when Lorna's powers first emerged, and she needed to take a few days off because the last case and the memory of her mom. Later in the month, Alex brought home a puppy named Magnus. Lorna and Alex went to investigate anti-mutant graffiti.
  
===Falling Apart===
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October approached quickly as she ready for the wedding. Despite her cool demeanor Lorna was freaking out. Thankfully, Warren had hired a wedding planner to help her out and it was relatively stress-free. After some people mentioned Friday the 13th and rehearsal dinner, Lorna hoped it wasn't jinxed. The next morning it seemed that the Friday the 13th gods had been listening when her father appeared at their wedding. He wanted to see her married and took hostages in order to do so. Though his appearance was changed, there were a select few that knew of his presence. It seemed he really wanted to see her married (and to try to get her to come back to the Brotherhood) as Lorna and Alex were officially husband and wife an hour later. They spent their honeymoon in Ireland, much to their delight.
  
2006 was a bad year for Lorna.  Beginning in January when she broke off her engagement to Alex in favor of Remy and moving back to the mansion instead of actually continuing the "normal" life that she claimed to want, Lorna's decisions were often erratic and overly emotional.  She rejoined the [[X-Men]] but found herself confronted with situations that often overwhelmed her including causing the [[X-Men Mission: Haunted House|death of a mutant that had taken over F.O.H. offices]].  Her relationships were equally turbulent whether it be with Remy or with her friends (Alison and Jamie moved to California and Lorna replaced these two best friends with two to five new ones in the person of [[David Haller]]).  Perhaps most devastating of all was the death of her beloved mentor, [[Chef Marcel]], who succumbed to a heart attack in June.
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==='''New Chapter in 2018'''===
  
But it was the discovery that her adoptive parents had a [[Zaladane Delgado|biological daughter]] that consumed Lorna. For the next several months, Lorna would [[40 Days (in the Desert)|search for Zala]] without pause. She broke up with Remy [[Drop of Nightshade| after finding out he had been married before]], relapsed into anorexia, had an ill-advised fling in Cabo San Lucas and found herself benched from the X-Men as a result of her eating disorder. She also had her shoulder dislocated ([[Thermopylae|again]]) when Haller snapped from the pressure of [[The Rictor Effect|helping hold back a tsunami]].
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The New Year brought in a busy time for Lorna as she focused on her studies and registered to take the PI exam in the Spring. She passed and became one of the two actual licensed PIs in X-Factor. However, her relationship with Warren was strained when he came into the office one night under, what Lorna believed, to be drugs and alcohol. The conversation turned violent when Warren dared to say that her father must had pimped her out to the Brotherhood Members. She ended up breaking his nose and dismissing him on leave until he sorts his shit out. When he refused to leave, Lorna tied him to the chair with metal objects and pushed the chair out of the back door.
  
Spending Thanksgiving in Hawaii with Alex, an unexpected kiss [[Living Pele|almost resulted in the destruction of the island]] by Alex's [[Vida Rocca|new girlfriend]] and the return of Alex to the mansion. Things were tense between the former lovers, especially as Alex began to have a physical relationship with his best friend and roommate, Shiro; Lorna made the connection on her own, when [[When It All Goes Wrong Again| she caught Shiro making out with someone who looked just like Alex as part of a shared dreamworld]].
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In December she gave her husband, Alex, tickets to his favorite band playing in Las Vegas. They spent the last week of December and part of the New Year together in the desert.
  
2007 wasn't much kinder.  Though officially returned to active status and apparently doing better, Lorna's search for Zala only became more intense.  When the agency Lorna hired to find her adopted sister refused to continue, Haller connected Lorna with [[Sofia Mantega-Barret]] who used her skills to connect the last few dots.  Her discovery of the fact Zala was involved in the weapons black market didn't shake Lorna's desire to meet the older woman and she flew out before Easter to do so. To her surprise, her sister/cousin offered her a job - after a night of reflecting on the decision, Lorna turned the offer down and went to spend Easter with her parents, seemingly content with how things turned out.
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==='''2019 in a Nutshell'''===
  
Finding her sister, however, didn't have a lasting effect on Lorna's volatile emotional state. Following the discovery that Alex's dog [[Pets|Crush]] had gotten her dog [[Pets| Lili]] pregnant and on the heels of [[Cain Marko|Cain Marko's]] announcement of a kennel for the mansion's pets, Lorna moved into a house in Salem Center. The move startled and confused her friends. An incident a few months later, in which Shiro's addiction to Alex's powers came to light in a particularly ugly way and led to Alex seeking refuge with Lorna, was far more serious. Furious at what had happened to Alex, Lorna confronted Shiro in the lobby of the school, using her powers to physically restrain him in the ensuing fight. The incident had a number of effects, with Lorna and Shiro both compelled to talk to Charles and Lorna directed to seek help with her self-control while Shiro was compelled to address his addiction. It also created issues with the students, with one, [[Yvette Petrovic]], transferring out of Lorna's classes due to her discomfort with the display.
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Lorna continued into the New Year with multiple people coming up to her saying that she should give Warren a chance. However, her stubborn nature wouldn't allow her to be the one to confront him first. If he was truly sorry, he would apologize to Alex and then come talk to her.  
  
===Moving On and Return===
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In April a series of missing people kept XFI busy until a visible mutant named Michelle said that her boyfriend Cain Marko had gone missing. Fearing it might be Brotherhood related, Lorna reached out to Garrison and Scott letting them know the situation. A few days later, Cain made his way back to District X but he was dressed in Asgardian gear and calling himself Kuuth. XFI alerted the XMen and decided to help the people get away and distract Juggernaut aka Kuuth from causing more destruction. They succeeded, but Lorna ended up with a sever dislocated shoulder. She stayed in the hospital for a short while and was in a sling for the better part of the rest of the year.
  
With the end of her course at [[Westchester College]] nearing in 2008, Lorna considered her options for the next year, deciding to apply again for post-graduate work at Berkeley in California. This time she was accepted and during the intervening months, Lorna became more remote to casual interaction outside of her friends than before. The return of [[Manuel de la Rocha]] to the school following a lengthy coma upset her serenity, and caused a resurgence of her eating issues for a short time. Leaving was further complicated by a mysterious prankster, who managed to cancel her enrollment at Berkeley temporarily, hide various items she needed and booby-trapped her office in an attempt to stop her leaving. The efforts proved fruitless - with one last night spent with Alex after their long estrangement, Lorna left for California in [[May 2008]].
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She was left behind during the battle of their world in [[Fear in the Dark]] as she was still injured from fighting Cain.  
  
Noticing issues with her powers - a decrease in her range and her multi-tasking abilities, Lorna returned to the school in [[March 2010]]. A stranger now, with many of her friends and cohorts leaving or already left, Lorna kept largely to herself, interacting mainly through the venue of the kitchen. She rejoined the team despite her powers problems, the most notable mission being [[Lakshmibai Raj| preventing a war between India and Pakistan]]. The strain was telling, however, and in [[March 2011]] she left again, this time for [[Muir Island]] and hopefully some answers as to the deterioration in her abilities.
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At the end of the Summer, Warren finally came to visit her and they made up. Lorna apologized for hurting him. But it took a sharp right when Warren said he was leaving the country and leaving XFI in her hands.
  
===A New Start===
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She's been extremely busy since taking over, only resurfacing once or twice for various emergencies. She's being kept alive by the steady supply of caffeine Alex brings her.
When Lorna first arrived at Muir Island, she was there just to find out one answer: what was wrong with her powers? The first couple of weeks were the hardest as she was under surveillance twenty four –seven. They took her anorexia very seriously and wanted to first deal with that before getting into her decrease in powers, much to Lorna’s displease. She didn’t like the feeling of being an insect under a microscope, but towards the end she was thankful for it. She was put on Dietary supplements, like zinc and omega-3 fatty acids. She took those three times a day with a meal.  
 
  
Her therapy started as she sat down and discussed her emotional state to a doctor. It felt weird to be telling someone her secrets but it was for the best. The main concern was her eating disorder and the failing of her powers. Where they connected? Or was it all in Lorna’s head or was it something more serious. She was also put on medication to help her sleep at night. Lorna had found comfort in meditating near the ocean. She had never done so before and she was able to clear her mind from the troubles of the world. Lorna was put in nutrition counseling and then put on a schedule to help maintain a healthy eating pattern. Lorna struggles a lot but with the support from her parents who called daily. She was also put on Olanzapine.
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==='''From then Until Now'''===
  
After her eating had gotten back to normal, next came the testing of her powers. Lorna who was once able to pick up naval cruiser could barely lift up car. After each test, Lorna felt weak and had to rest before she was able to start up again. During those weeks of testing were the hardest weeks for her. Outside of the testing, she would take small metal objects and continue to bend them to her will, it was her only little training course, and if her body and mind would allow it.  
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Lorna decided to step back from being the Boss Lady as she was becoming burnt out from the long hours. She focused her time on her mental health and nature. After a reset, she returned to school to get her Masters in Forensic Psychology. This degree would provide her with a better insight into people’s actions, and when she was ready to go back to XFI, she would have a new set of skills to help her in her PI. She graduated with her Master’s in 2024 but didn’t return immediately to XFI. Instead, she and Alex had renovated a van, stuck everything in storage, and went on the road with Magnus.  
  
Lorna health had greatly improved the next couple of months with eating properly; she had one relapse in the month of July. She had heard from someone that Remy had married [[Ororo Munroe]] after he left Muir Island. After a couple of sessions with her therapist Lorna learned to let it go and just simply be happy for someone she once loved. She may be unlucky in the world of love and that didn’t mean that she should feel sorry for herself, especially since things had been rocky with Alex and she hadn’t seen him in years. She often found herself thinking of where he was and how he was doing. That month was hard for Lorna but with the help with therapy, meditation and the staff she bounced back and recovered in August, where she was back on a normal eating schedule.  
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They tried to visit every national park and State but only stopped for gas and grocery shopping. Lorna loved the nomad life, with all of its ups and downs. They spent the next several months meeting other nomads, visiting state parks, hiking, and enjoying nature. It was the end of January when they stopped in Nevada after a call from Kara and Allison and so that was their next stop.
  
Lorna has turned to the future now; her main concern is her powers as she wishes to continue to fight with the x-men for a better world. Another part of her wants to know if she would ever settle down. Unsure where her path will lead her outside the island as everyone probably has moved on with their own lives. Lorna has no idea what to expect. Feeling that she has learned to come to reality with her own personal demons, Lorna is left the [[Muir Island]] that she has called home for most of the year and returned back to the school in [[January 2012]]. But Lorna’s journey is still not over as she starts a new chapter in her life. She accepted a non-teaching staff position at the school as the schools Official Chef and the School's Nutritionist.
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The moms had decided to move to New York and had been searching for the perfect house. They put in a bid, and their offer was accepted. It surprised Lorna as they always held off that discussion for so long, but was thrilled nonetheless. They extended their stay and helped the family pack everything and move across the country. It became a family trip as they stopped at iconic landmarks and Lorna’s favorite spots. The trip took about three weeks but still arrived in New York before the moving van arrived.
  
==Physical Characteristics==
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Lorna helped her in-laws move right in, to a lovely fixer upper home just 30 minutes outside New York City, before discussing returning to XFI with Alex. Feeling supported after the conversation, Lorna would continue to do her best to protect her family while going back to work to help support them. Putting away the van, Lorna started to get back into the stationary lifestyle before heading back to the mansion without Alex, who decided to stay behind and help his moms.
  
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== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
  
 
'''Height''': 5'7"
 
'''Height''': 5'7"
  
'''Weight''': 118 lbs*
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'''Weight''': 125 lbs
  
 
'''Eyes''': Green.
 
'''Eyes''': Green.
  
'''Hair''': Green.
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'''Hair''': Green. She used to dye her hair brown but started growing it out in the recent years.
 
 
'''Other Features''': An accident in December 2003 left Lorna with severe burn scars over her right shoulder, most of her back and right thigh. Her right hand has scarring on the palm (a burn mostly healed by Amanda). She also has a massive claw scar on her chest (courtesy of [[Sabretooth]] during [[With Malice Aforethought | Malice]].  She tends to shrug just one shoulder at a time first because of the burns then because her left shoulder has been dislocated twice (once during [[Thermopylae]] and once during [[The Rictor Effect]]).
 
 
 
(*)Lorna suffers from anorexia nervosa and her weight can fluctuate wildly depending on how well her recovery is going. She has recently gotten help on Muir Island is doing fairly well. Only time will tell.
 
 
 
==Powers==
 
 
 
 
 
Lorna has the power over magnetism. She has the ability to conduct magnetic pulses as bolts, create force fields, fly, manipulate ferrous materials, and absorb electricity to charge her own electromagnetic fields. If she concentrates, she can see the world only as patterns of magnetic and electrical energy. Lorna can also see the natural magnetic aura’s around living beings. Her sensitivity towards magnetic fields hasn’t been as strong as in the past, but it is still there even if it is faint. Things she once could do with easy haven’t been the same. She can still tell the different EM fields and could name the different metals.
 
 
 
Lorna can lift herself and fly and can move (throw) other people around. Because a lot of people have weak magnetic fields surrounding them, and to not overdo it, she’ll use whatever metal they have on them instead. Lorna can also lift mental objects with ease, she once able to pick up air craft carriers, but now only as big as small planes (or airliners), with some training she may be back to where she was but only time can tell.  She can also block anything metal thrown at her. Creating a shield will block most objects and she can leave it up for a while, but with constant things being thrown into the shield will cause it to weak with each hit.
 
 
 
Lorna biggest weakness is that she is still recuperating from health issue that may have been a factor to the drastic decrease in her powers. She still feels exhausted after each session where they are testing to see where her strength lies and were her weakness are. One able to carry a navel cruiser in the past, Lorna has trouble lifting a car at first. But over the sessions she was able to lift a private plane.  She has been told to not go past her limits or reach it as it could have a horrible effect on her, to the point where it could seriously harm her. The powers Lorna had displayed in the past, she can no longer do.
 
 
 
==Equipment==
 
 
 
Lorna, like many of the X-team, has modified her uniform. While it weighs about 40-60 lbs (about as much as a suit of armor), owing to having been worked through with dense metal plates, she uses her power to keep them close to her and supple. In a fight, she'll fling the metal at an enemy or use it to pull a [[Paige Guthrie]] or [[Piotr Rasputin]] and sheath her fists in it for hand to hand work (which she tries to avoid).
 
 
 
==Trivia==
 
 
 
 
 
* Though you couldn't get her to admit in under pain of torture or death, Lorna was once active in a Vampire: the Masquerade LARP.
 
 
 
* Like [[Forge]], Lorna doesn't like cilantro.
 
 
 
* Lorna continues to plot ways to get the men of the school into compromising positions, whether it be through a cross-dressing fashion show or a swimsuit calendar.  She's been unsuccessful so far at getting any of the males to cooperate and appears to have dropped it.
 
 
 
* Lorna is also infamous for welcoming newcomers with "Welcome to the Madhouse", to the point if someone else uses it, people will point out that was Lorna's phrase.
 
 
 
* Lorna has taken up meditation, which she found out she really enjoys.
 
 
 
==Plots==
 
 
 
===2003===
 
 
 
[[Hurricane Isabel]]
 
 
 
[[X-Men Mission: Syria]]
 
 
 
===2004===
 
 
 
[[Love Potion Number Nine]]
 
 
 
[[Trojan Horse]]
 
 
 
[[X-Men Mission: Firefountain]]
 
 
 
[[Sound and Fury]]
 
 
 
[[Day In The City]]
 
 
 
[[Reavers (plot)]]
 
 
 
===2005===
 
 
 
[[Thermopylae]]
 
 
 
[[X-Men Mission: Adirondacks]]
 
 
 
[[X-Men Mission: Sangue Puro]]
 
  
[[X-Men Mission: Mercy Flight]]
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'''Other Features''': Has several earrings in each ear.
  
[[X-Men Mission: A Mirror Darkly]]
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== '''Powers''' ==
  
[[X-Men Mission: Mutant Mole People]]
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Lorna has power over magnetism. She has the ability to conduct magnetic pulses as bolts, create force fields, fly, manipulate ferrous materials, and absorb electricity to charge her own electromagnetic fields. If she concentrates, she can see the world only as patterns of magnetic and electrical energy. Lorna can also see the natural magnetic aura’s around living beings. She can even control the natural irons inside a person. Her sensitivity towards magnetic fields is very strong, but she still has trouble blocking solar storms when they hit the earth. Even the faintest one can give her a little headache.  She can recognize different EM fields and can name different metals by their feel.
  
[[With Malice Aforethought]]
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Lorna can lift herself to fly and can move (throw) other people around. While many people have weak magnetic fields surrounding them, prefers to instead use use whatever metal they are carrying instead. Lorna can also lift metal objects with ease, but currently has the upper limit of a medium to large size airplane. She can block anything metal thrown at her. Her force field shielding will block most objects and are not hard to leave it up for a while, but constant impacts will weaken the shield with each hit.
  
[[X-Men Mission: Merry Christmas Magneto]]
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== '''Equipment''' ==
  
 +
Lorna always carries metal on her, no matter what.
  
===2006===
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== '''Trivia''' ==
 +
* Lorna is skilled at playing chess.
 +
* Lorna is a closeted cook.
 +
* Lorna is a gym rat, a yoga junkie, and meditation expert.
 +
* Likes to surf.
 +
* Lorna has a large collection of rocks that she has with Alex.
  
[[House of Wind]]
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=='''External Links'''==
  
[[X-Men Mission: Haunted House]]
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+lorna+dane xp_communication posts]
  
[[X-Men Mission: The Empty Quarter]]
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+lorna+dane xp_journal posts]
  
[[Publish or Perish]]
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+lorna+dane xp_logs posts]
  
[[Masque (plot)]]
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[https://xp-staff.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+lorna+dane xp_staff posts]
  
[[The Rictor Effect]]
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[https://xp-teams.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+polaris xp_teams posts]
  
[[Search and Rescue]]
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== '''Plots''' ==
  
[[Drop of Nightshade]]
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====2015====
  
[[Believing Is Seeing]]
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[[Case File: The Sting]]
  
[[X-Men Mission: Alcatraz]]
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[[Case File: The Triskelion Files]]
  
[[Mommy Dearest Redux]]
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[[Patent Pending]]
  
[[Living Pele]]
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[[The Caged Bird]]
  
[[Vitiation]]
+
[[Case File: A Better Mole Trap]]
  
===2007===
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====2016====
  
[[When It All Goes Wrong Again]]
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[[The Two Sided Coin of Ambition]]
  
[[X-Men Mission: Leverage]]
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====2017====
  
[[40 Days (in the Desert)]]
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[[Case File: Cat Scratch Fever]]
  
[[This Savage Land]]
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====2018====
  
[[Remix]]
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[[Morningstar]]
  
===2008===
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====2019====
  
[[The Shadow King (plot)]]
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[[Fear in the Dark]]
  
[[Shakespeare Syndrome]]
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[[Case File: Take Me to Church]]
  
===2010===
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[[House of Horrors]]
  
[[Lakshmibai Raj]]
+
====2020====
  
===2011===
+
[[Potomac Calls to Chesapeake]]
  
===2012===
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== Meta ==
  
==Meta==
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'''Player:''' [[Rei]]
  
'''Player''': [[Rei]]
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'''Player Icon Base''': [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2934314/ Lily Collins]
 
 
'''E-mail''': lornaedane@gmail.com
 
 
 
'''AIM''': lornadane
 
 
 
'''Player Icon Base''': [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1092227/ Sienna Miller]
 
  
 
'''Meta Trivia'''
 
'''Meta Trivia'''
  
Lorna was played by Sil from [[May 2003]] and made available for applications in [[June 2009]]. She was picked up by [[Da'mien]] from [[February 2010]] to [[March 2011]]. [[Rei]] brought her back to X-Project in [[January 2012]].
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This is Phase 2 - Lorna. Brought in in [[January 2015]] after the effect of the Dark Phoenix Plot.
 
 
  
[[Category:Characters]]
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[[Category: 2015]]
[[Category: X-Men]]
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[[Category: X-Factor]]
[[Category: 2003]]
 
[[Category: 2010]]
 
[[Category: 2012]]
 

Latest revision as of 11:41, 29 March 2025

PHASE 2
Lorna Summers
LornaWiki1.jpg
Portrayed by Lily Collins
Codename: Polaris
Affiliations: X-Factor

Former Brotherhood Member

Birthdate: November 18, 1993
Journal: xp_olaris
Player: Rei


Lorna betrayed the Brotherhood of Mutants when she started to give sensitive information to her sister and soon found herself looking for sanctuary at the Xavier School.



Details

Character Journal: xp_olaris


Real Name: Lorna Eileen Summers (nee Lehnsherr)

Codename: Polaris

Aliases: Lorna Eileen Dane

First Appearance: January 21 2015

Date of Birth: November 18, 1993

Place of Birth: Pescadero, California

Citizenship: United States

Relatives: Alex Summers (Husband), Susanna Dane (Mother - Deceased), Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Father), Wanda Maximoff (Half-Sister), Pietro Maximoff (Half-Brother), Scott Summers (Brother-in-Law), Kara and Alison Ross (Mother-in-Laws), Megan Ross (Sister-in-Law)

Education: Graduate of Oxford Academy (2010), University of California, Berkeley - Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics (2015), University of Phoenix - Forensic Science in Criminal Justice (2018)

Relationship Status: Married to Alex Summers as of October 14, 2017

Occupation: Boss Lady and Investigator at X-Factor (holds a genuine license since April 2018)

Team Affiliation: X-Factor. Former Brotherhood Member.

Biography

Childhood

Susanna Dane was a young research assistant that focused on genetic mutation. She met the handsome Erik Lehnsherr during an open seminar and was taken right away by his charm. The relationship was short-lived, but it would forever change her life when she found out she was pregnant two months later. She was able to get in contact with him to inform him that she was both expecting and going to keep the child regardless if he was involved or not. Susanna never knew of Erik’s activities or that he was a mutant, so when Lorna was born with green hair it was a complete shock. When it came to light that Erik was indeed a mutant, Susanna came to the conclusion that her green haired babe would be the same.

Despite it all, Erik supported the mother and daughter in hopes that Lorna would show more signs of being a mutant other than the green hair. His patience was rewarded when her powers manifested during the Great Headache on May 14th — when she was almost ten. After Lorna awoke from passing out, she learned that her powers had killed her mother but had saved her. Distraught, Lorna withdrew until Erik came for her and took her to live with him.

Lorna was mostly kept in the dark about Brotherhood activities but knew that her father was into some bad things. He treated her well enough, giving her a place to live, food, education, and also training her personally as her powers were almost identical to his. She was placed into a prestige high school for the wealthy and started to dye her hair brown – mostly to fit in and to halt any gossip. Later in life, Lorna realized that Erik had placed her in that particular school to gain the trust of certain politician’s kids and to facilitate entry into their homes.

After Lorna graduated high school, she was accepted into the Geology program at UC Berkeley. It was then she confronted her father about the Brotherhood, but found the only way she could learn anything was to fully accept membership into the group. Against her better judgment, she agreed. Lorna was then allowed access to knowledge of all of the Brotherhood's activities and, furthermore, her father's plans about the world he envisioned for all mutant kind. Most critically, she stumbled upon knowledge of her half-sister, Wanda.

Time passed with Lorna mostly accepting what she had learned. That is, until one mission did not sit well with Lorna and she finally reached out to Wanda. She wanted to know how her sister was able to stay away from the Brotherhood without them bothering her. This long-distance relationship was not easy at first as neither trusted each other fully, but solidified when until they take the chance to meet each other in real life. Lorna had never been obvious about the Brotherhood's activities, but her guilt about being involved had started to mount. This is why she choose to begin feeding Wanda intelligence on the group's missions — until the Brotherhood found out that there was a mole within their order. Lorna, fearing the worst, needed out. Wanda was her answer.

Entering Xavier's

Lorna arrived at the mansion after Wanda re-routed a trip to to one of the Brotherhood the safe houses. She was little wary at first about meeting other people but opened up when she meet Adrienne Frost. After a few more meetings, Adrienne offered Lorna a job at X-Factor as a junior investigator. Lorna also started to form a close bond with Warren Worthington. She joined X-Factor on a couple of investigations, making a home for herself. She was overjoyed when her fiancé was set to return home from his extended school trip, but his return was complicated due to being kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Mutants as her father wanted to bring her 'home'. With the help of X-Factor and the X-Men, Alex was rescued, but not before he blew himself - and the building - up.

That fall she started online classes to get an Investigator License part-time while working. She ended the year getting seriously hurt during a mission, which left her nearly blind and incapacitated for a few weeks.

2016 & 2017

2016, thankfully, went a little smoother. Lorna and Alex continued to repair their relationship working at X-Factor together. In January, she worked a case to help prove that Hope Abbott was innocent of espionage. In August, she and Alex organized a trip Appalachian Trail, which ended with them getting re-engaged. In October, Lorna made it clear that Halloween is not her time of year as the kids can be brats. When December came by, Lorna wanted was reminded once again why she hated living on the East Coast — snow.

The beginning of the year was a slow start but she spent the time focusing on her wedding planned for the end of year. She found a dress to dye for and shared it with the rest of the mansion. A few weeks later she saw a post by Amanda about mysterious rocks and reached out to her to let her see it, as she had a degree in Geology. After several days or researching, all that Lorna and Alex could find out that it wasn't anything they had seen on Earth.

In May, while running errands with Alex, Lorna was part of a group of hostages at a bank. She was able to talk the guy down to learn that he just wanted the law enforcement to look for his mutant son. XFI ended up taking the case and found Collin in Center Park. After discussion with the mother, they decided to help him move forward and helped him into a safe house that was part of the Underground Railroad. It was also during this time that was the anniversary of her mother's death, when Lorna's powers first emerged, and she needed to take a few days off because the last case and the memory of her mom. Later in the month, Alex brought home a puppy named Magnus. Lorna and Alex went to investigate anti-mutant graffiti.

October approached quickly as she ready for the wedding. Despite her cool demeanor Lorna was freaking out. Thankfully, Warren had hired a wedding planner to help her out and it was relatively stress-free. After some people mentioned Friday the 13th and rehearsal dinner, Lorna hoped it wasn't jinxed. The next morning it seemed that the Friday the 13th gods had been listening when her father appeared at their wedding. He wanted to see her married and took hostages in order to do so. Though his appearance was changed, there were a select few that knew of his presence. It seemed he really wanted to see her married (and to try to get her to come back to the Brotherhood) as Lorna and Alex were officially husband and wife an hour later. They spent their honeymoon in Ireland, much to their delight.

New Chapter in 2018

The New Year brought in a busy time for Lorna as she focused on her studies and registered to take the PI exam in the Spring. She passed and became one of the two actual licensed PIs in X-Factor. However, her relationship with Warren was strained when he came into the office one night under, what Lorna believed, to be drugs and alcohol. The conversation turned violent when Warren dared to say that her father must had pimped her out to the Brotherhood Members. She ended up breaking his nose and dismissing him on leave until he sorts his shit out. When he refused to leave, Lorna tied him to the chair with metal objects and pushed the chair out of the back door.

In December she gave her husband, Alex, tickets to his favorite band playing in Las Vegas. They spent the last week of December and part of the New Year together in the desert.

2019 in a Nutshell

Lorna continued into the New Year with multiple people coming up to her saying that she should give Warren a chance. However, her stubborn nature wouldn't allow her to be the one to confront him first. If he was truly sorry, he would apologize to Alex and then come talk to her.

In April a series of missing people kept XFI busy until a visible mutant named Michelle said that her boyfriend Cain Marko had gone missing. Fearing it might be Brotherhood related, Lorna reached out to Garrison and Scott letting them know the situation. A few days later, Cain made his way back to District X but he was dressed in Asgardian gear and calling himself Kuuth. XFI alerted the XMen and decided to help the people get away and distract Juggernaut aka Kuuth from causing more destruction. They succeeded, but Lorna ended up with a sever dislocated shoulder. She stayed in the hospital for a short while and was in a sling for the better part of the rest of the year.

She was left behind during the battle of their world in Fear in the Dark as she was still injured from fighting Cain.

At the end of the Summer, Warren finally came to visit her and they made up. Lorna apologized for hurting him. But it took a sharp right when Warren said he was leaving the country and leaving XFI in her hands.

She's been extremely busy since taking over, only resurfacing once or twice for various emergencies. She's being kept alive by the steady supply of caffeine Alex brings her.

From then Until Now

Lorna decided to step back from being the Boss Lady as she was becoming burnt out from the long hours. She focused her time on her mental health and nature. After a reset, she returned to school to get her Masters in Forensic Psychology. This degree would provide her with a better insight into people’s actions, and when she was ready to go back to XFI, she would have a new set of skills to help her in her PI. She graduated with her Master’s in 2024 but didn’t return immediately to XFI. Instead, she and Alex had renovated a van, stuck everything in storage, and went on the road with Magnus.

They tried to visit every national park and State but only stopped for gas and grocery shopping. Lorna loved the nomad life, with all of its ups and downs. They spent the next several months meeting other nomads, visiting state parks, hiking, and enjoying nature. It was the end of January when they stopped in Nevada after a call from Kara and Allison and so that was their next stop.

The moms had decided to move to New York and had been searching for the perfect house. They put in a bid, and their offer was accepted. It surprised Lorna as they always held off that discussion for so long, but was thrilled nonetheless. They extended their stay and helped the family pack everything and move across the country. It became a family trip as they stopped at iconic landmarks and Lorna’s favorite spots. The trip took about three weeks but still arrived in New York before the moving van arrived.

Lorna helped her in-laws move right in, to a lovely fixer upper home just 30 minutes outside New York City, before discussing returning to XFI with Alex. Feeling supported after the conversation, Lorna would continue to do her best to protect her family while going back to work to help support them. Putting away the van, Lorna started to get back into the stationary lifestyle before heading back to the mansion without Alex, who decided to stay behind and help his moms.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'7"

Weight: 125 lbs

Eyes: Green.

Hair: Green. She used to dye her hair brown but started growing it out in the recent years.

Other Features: Has several earrings in each ear.

Powers

Lorna has power over magnetism. She has the ability to conduct magnetic pulses as bolts, create force fields, fly, manipulate ferrous materials, and absorb electricity to charge her own electromagnetic fields. If she concentrates, she can see the world only as patterns of magnetic and electrical energy. Lorna can also see the natural magnetic aura’s around living beings. She can even control the natural irons inside a person. Her sensitivity towards magnetic fields is very strong, but she still has trouble blocking solar storms when they hit the earth. Even the faintest one can give her a little headache. She can recognize different EM fields and can name different metals by their feel.

Lorna can lift herself to fly and can move (throw) other people around. While many people have weak magnetic fields surrounding them, prefers to instead use use whatever metal they are carrying instead. Lorna can also lift metal objects with ease, but currently has the upper limit of a medium to large size airplane. She can block anything metal thrown at her. Her force field shielding will block most objects and are not hard to leave it up for a while, but constant impacts will weaken the shield with each hit.

Equipment

Lorna always carries metal on her, no matter what.

Trivia

  • Lorna is skilled at playing chess.
  • Lorna is a closeted cook.
  • Lorna is a gym rat, a yoga junkie, and meditation expert.
  • Likes to surf.
  • Lorna has a large collection of rocks that she has with Alex.

External Links

xp_communication posts

xp_journal posts

xp_logs posts

xp_staff posts

xp_teams posts

Plots

2015

Case File: The Sting

Case File: The Triskelion Files

Patent Pending

The Caged Bird

Case File: A Better Mole Trap

2016

The Two Sided Coin of Ambition

2017

Case File: Cat Scratch Fever

2018

Morningstar

2019

Fear in the Dark

Case File: Take Me to Church

House of Horrors

2020

Potomac Calls to Chesapeake

Meta

Player: Rei

Player Icon Base: Lily Collins

Meta Trivia

This is Phase 2 - Lorna. Brought in in January 2015 after the effect of the Dark Phoenix Plot.