Iceman - CoMUX

Iceman

Iceman

Portrayed by Shawn Ashmore
Statistics
Full Name	Robert L. Drake
Age	22
Height	5'8"
Build	Trim
Eyes	Brown
Hair	Brown
Factions	X-Men: Red
Occupation	Physicist, Student
Alignment	Hero

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Claim to Fame

About the closest Bobby has ever come to fame - outside that one incident - was graduating Magna Cum Laude from UCLA. He's known to his employers as a bright physicist, though not a genius by any means, and does pretty competent lab work.

Reputation

Bobby is a relative unknown outside his hometown in Ft. Washington, NY and his reputation there is a bit stained, for it was there that he was violently mugged with a childhood friend and subsequently nearly killed by a lynch mob. Outside that small place, though, he's just a young guy with a hard science degree and an easy smile who happens to be a mutant if you know enough to ask. Most don't.

Biography

Publicly Available Dossier
Name:	Robert 'Bobby' Drake
Codename:	Iceman
Born:	April 5th, 1992 (Age 22)
Abilities:	Cryogenisis
Team Role:	Scientific Analysis, Crowd Control
Nationality:	US Citizen
Likes:	Science, Escrima, Hockey
Dislikes:	Norse Trickster Gods, French Roast Coffee, Frozen Puns not made by Me.

Born to William and Madeline Drake in a small burgh just outside New York (so small it didn’t have a proper school), Robert “Bobby” Drake went undiagnosed as a latent mutant and grew up relatively normal except for a noted tendency to ‘run a bit cool’ whenever he had doctor’s appointments or checkups. His childhood was as normal as such things ever are in modern day America, a typical small town story of hanging out with friends, going to school and wishing to be a part of the wider world outside of the insular little world that all small towns are to one degree or another.

Bobby got his wish when he turned 18, his grades had earned him a place at UCLA. Excited and nervous the way all young men that age are, Bobby packed off to the big city. Once he got over the culture shock, the kid from Fort Washington found he fit in quite well amid the hustle and bustle of
the campus. It was perfect.

And so, it could not last.

At the end of the first year Bobby was home for the summer and visiting family and old friends. Even small towns have some problems and in an alley near the town diner, he and his childhood friend Judy Harmon were violently mugged. It might have gotten worse from there, but the sudden physical and emotional stress shocked his mutant nature uncontrollably to the fore, encasing their attacker in a block of ice. Judy was scared out of her wits. The mugger narrowly avoided freezing to death.

And then it did get worse. Tensions between man and mutant had always run kind of high under the surface in the little town and the incident was all it took them to bring them boiling violently to the surface. In under an hour a literal lynch mob had formed and broken into his house. It was only the providential arrival of the local sheriff with an actual honest to God posse that saved his life. Even then, the sheriff had to take him into protective custody.

News travels fast in the right circles and so when the Sheriff released Bobby two days later with quiet advice to get out of town quick and go back to LA, a representative from Xavier’s school was waiting for him. The offer was fairly simple, come spend some time at the school and learn how to be a bit more in control so this doesn’t happen again. Thoroughly rattled by the whole ordeal, he accepted.

He spent a total of eight weeks there. It was the middle of summer and most of the student population was away. At the end of that time he was offered a more permanent place there, but declined politely in favor of finishing his time at UCLA. He returned to California, buried himself in his studies and never went back to Fort Washington again… but he never forgot those who came to help him on the worst day of his life.

Three years later, after graduating with honors, he’d taken a job with an energy R and D corporation, there being a lot of application in the energy sector for an intimate knowledge of how energy, particularly thermal energy, flows from one place to another and what happens when things get hot or cold. Being back in the area has brought his memories of his time at Xavier’s flooding back. The thought’s been growing in the back of his mind that maybe he can give something back – help, teach, maybe even learn a bit more…

Character Details

Bobby is in most ways just a more mature version of his high school self. He still enjoys a beer with his friends, nights out on the town and having a good time just about as much as he did when he was girl watching at the diner with his friends Johnny and Pete. In fact one thing that hasn’t changed appreciably over the years is the fact that a cute face goes a very, very long way with him.

These days of course, it’s not quite the same. His experiences have given him a hard and wary edge and an icy temper that he didn’t have before. Upset him and he’s more than capable of giving your average Joe a very bad night. For all that though, mostly he’s still just whose always ready with a smile and hand to lend to whatever needs be done at the moment.

Cryogenesis
Bobby can create dense, very durable ice by drawing from ambient sources of moisture, including moisture in the air. What is more he can shape his creations simply as an act of will and do so at some distance. Though the basic ability has really only one function - create and shape ice - the applications are limited really only by Bobby's imagination. Barriers, ramps, weaponry and such are all within the realm of possibility. This power can't create anything with moving parts, obviously.
Thermal Regulation
Bobby is able to regulate the temperature of his body with extreme precision. This has a few uses and effects. The most readily obvious is rendering him completely immune to extremes of cold. Dump him in Antarctica in his skivvies and he'll… well, he'll be uncomfortable but he won't freeze. Secondly, because lowering his body temperature (and he can take it all the way down to within a fraction of a degree of absolute zero) affects the air around him he can use himself as a giant energy sink. Making things cold or being very cold himself may have other uses to the imaginative mind.
Icy Coating
<A side effect of lowering his body temperature enough is that his body becomes covered in rime as water crystalizes out of the air around him. Depending on how much and how fast is temperature plummets this can coat him in either ice or snow. He can still move like this, though it makes an almighty racket as the ice cracks and refreezes around him. It’s possible with some tweaking and extra effort that this could be used either as armor and armament, but he’s never had occasion to try and the notion has only vaguely occurred to him before.
Thermal Attunement
Bobby is able to see differences in heat if he concentrates on them, effectively giving him thermal vision on demand. Unfortunately this is not a supernatural sense and can be foiled by anything that would defeat mechanical thermal vision.
Evolving Abilities
Bobby's X-Gene complex isn't yet fully expressed. As time progresses and he is exposed to more and more extreme stimuli (See 'Locked Power'), he will gain new abilities and new expressions of his existing ones.

Quixotic
While not given to literally tilting at windmills, Bobby does have a strong sence of right and wrong and is given to rushing to the defense of those who appear in need with perhaps less thought than might be warranted in some situations. He is, consequently, given to getting in a bit over his head and a canny opponent might manipulate him in this fashion.
Romantic
There is a part of Bobby that longs for a meaningful connection to someone else. You might call him a bit of a romantic at heart. He's not prone to skirt chasing. He's too polite for that, really, but he's most certainly a sucker for a pretty face or a lady in distress. It doesn't make him out and out stupid, but a woman can certainly find ways to override his usual good sense that a man could not.
Locked Powers
A quirk of Bobby's X-Gene complex has caused it to not fully manifest, which means, effectively, that Bobby has a fair chunk of his aberrant genetic potential locked away. To make matters worse, that potential won't ever express itself without extreme physiological and emotional stimuli. It literally takes extreme life or death situations when a very great deal is on the line. Alternately, the intervention of a sufficiently powerful psychic might trigger it, though odds are good that would also not be pleasant.
People Suck
Having an honest-to-God lynch mob come after you is a pretty damn frightening experience, especially after having been attacked by a mugger and acted in perfectly legitimate self-defense. Suddenly evincing the power to manipulate ice is frightening enough without the addition of being nearly killed for it. To say that this has colored his opinion of humanity at large is a bit of an understatement. There's a lot of resentment built up in Bobby about the way 'normals' treat mutants and he's always ready to assume the worst when the authorities or population at large clashes with mutants or mutant groups. The way this interacts with his hero complex is amusing at best and downright dangerous at worst.
Snap Freeze
Bobby is a pretty even guy most of the time. Everyone has a breaking point of course. That’s only human and to be fair Bobby’s breaking point is a lot further out than many peoples. Pass it though and he goes from cool to icy with almost no warning at all.
Anchored Down
The very fact that Bobby has a normal life can be used against him. He has attachments, employment, legal standing. All of that can be attacked by a sufficiently canny opponent, and the systems he’s integrated himself into turned against him.

Relationships

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Notes

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Logs

A Cyborg in the Park
February 10 2015: Bobby is helping some folks finish up the Central Park reconstruction… and Victor drops in
(log: 20150210-a-cyborg-in-the-park | tags: cyborg iceman | posted: 16 Feb 2015 21:54)

Silver Lining
February 07 2015: Bobby invites Pepper over to DCI to show some possiblilities for working together, a silver lining in the Atlantean Storm
(log: 20150207-silver-lining | tags: iceman pepper_potts | posted: 03 Mar 2015 07:30)

Longshot for Lunair
January 29 2015: Iceman goes looking for Lunair. Both get found by Longshot
(log: 20150129-longshot-for-lunair | tags: iceman longshot lunair | posted: 16 Feb 2015 22:00)

Mac and Cheese Fiends
January 28 2015: There's a limbo demon on the loose in TC while Misfit cooks
(log: 20150128-mac-and-cheese-fiends | tags: iceman jay_donohue misfit titans | posted: 29 Jan 2015 11:07)

Souleaters
January 25, 2015: Something is coming to M-Town and Scarlet Witch is on the case. Nyx and Iceman arrive to do all the heavy lifting.
(log: 20150125-souleaters | tags: iceman nyx scarlet_witch | posted: 08 Feb 2015 09:51)

Basketball NYC Style
January 19, 2015: A Basketball Game in Central Park and Audrey is targetted
(log: 20150119-basketballnycstyle | tags: human_torch iceman lunair lux sunspot vorpal zatanna | posted: 20 Jan 2015 11:40)

Fire and Ice
January 25, 2015: Beacon calls Zee for a coffee, Zee invites a friend
(log: 20150116-fireandice | tags: beacon iceman zatanna | posted: 26 Jan 2015 05:17)

Friends Abroad
January 15 2015: Bobby Storm and Roberto catch up a bit
(log: 20150115-friends-abroad | tags: iceman storm sunspot x-men | posted: 16 Jan 2015 11:48)

Sunday Roast at the Stark Symposium
January 4, 2015: There were surprises a plenty at the Stark Symposium.
(log: 20150104-sunday-roast-at-the-stark-symposium | tags: ant-man defenders howard_stark iceman iron_man ms_marvel nyc pepper_potts stark_industries stark_tower | posted: 05 Jan 2015 02:33)

Clockwork Conflagration
January 03 2015: Nyx, Bobby and Wanda investigate the latter's premonitions of trouble in the sewers.
(log: 20150103-clockwork-conflagration | tags: iceman nyx scarlet_witch | posted: 06 Jan 2015 04:40)

Psychics and Rockets
January 2, 2015: Professor X sends a psychic message and tries to recruit a young speedster.
(log: 20150102-psychics-and-rockets | tags: iceman mimic professor-x quicksilver rocket-red-iv | posted: 12 Jan 2015 03:16)

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