Text; another poll

[alsohawkeye]

Hey everyone.

I'm sure some sort of demographics survey has been done in the past but I haven't seen one since I've been here and I'm curious. I've tried to keep it pretty basic. I know people are touchy about their privacy, and I know some aren't cool with being asked about special abilities/skills/powers/whatever, so obviously skip questions if you want to, no hard feelings. I'd rather just get name/age/planet than nothing at all, you know? Not like I'm going to hunt you down and force you to fill it out. But if you're willing to be more complete that'd be awesome and if there's something you think is important that I didn't include a field for, let me know.

Maybe there's a pattern here somewhere, maybe there's not, but at the very least it might be interesting or provide some useful data for department recruitment or something. Maybe you'll find some friends, whatever.

Thanks!

<font face=courier><b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> (if physical age =/= years lived please indicate? if you feel like it, whatever i can't make you) <b>Species?:</b> <b>Place of birth:</b> planet/country/kingdom, whatever <b>Place you were just pre-TQ:</b> <b>Date of the last moment you remember pre-TQ:</b> <b>Last thing you remember:</b> <b>Occupation pre-TQ:</b> <b>Special abilities:</b> <b>Relationship status:</b>

UPDATE: On request from several of our fellow passengers, I'm adding a 'relationship status' field. You're all welcome. Feel free to edit/update your entries accordingly if you want to.

(ooc: feel free to treat this as threadjack city as far as I'm concerned. if you squint it's kind of almost like an ic cr meme?)

Comments

[notmarieanymore]

Name: Rogue
Age: 18
Species?: Human. Mutant.
Place of birth: I'm not fully sure. Raised in Cadlecott County, Mississippi.
Place you were just pre-TQ: Xavier Institute, upstate New York
Date of the last moment you remember pre-TQ: November, 2007
Last thing you remember: Getting ready to go to bed.
Occupation pre-TQ: Student, X-Man
Special abilities: Life force absorption via skin-to-skin contact. There ain't really a good way to put it.

/kicks this off here

[iceboxed]

life absorption
like
you kill people by touching them?

[notmarieanymore]

...essentially. But it's kinda more complicated than that.
But if I touch someone long enough, yes. They can die.

[iceboxed]

can you stop it
turn it of and on or something

[notmarieanymore]

No. The only way to have it not happen is just to not touch people

[lucyandme]

A mutant? Through what means?

[notmarieanymore]

It's a genetic mutation

[lucyandme]

Natural or bio-engineered?

[notmarieanymore]

Natural

[askedtobe]

[ !!! ]

We've got similar abilities.

[notmarieanymore]

we do?

[askedtobe]

I don't take anyone's life force but I can mimic the abilities of people I touch.

[notmarieanymore]

yeah. That's part of it for me, too.

[prehendere]

Someone else who belongs to the group of unwieldy named mutations.

This might seem like a strange question, but are you a student of mine in the future? My name's Hank McCoy.

[He could still be teaching at sixty-eight, right?]

[notmarieanymore]

that ain't weird at all.

Yeah, I am, doctor McCoy. When you're in town.

[prehendere]

[Considering how bleak everything is at the moment, it's good to be reminded that some day things will get better.]

I've never encountered someone from the far future before; it's nice to meet you, in a manner of speaking.

Are you new on board? I'm guessing so, since I'd like to believe someone would have told me otherwise.

[notmarieanymore]

Yeah, it is.

I am. I came in on the last jump.

[newnova]

youre an x-man? -woman? ...person?

i have to ask, whose idea was the black and yellow?

[notmarieanymore]

Yes, I am.

Black and yellow? Sugar, I don't know what you're talking about. My uniform is only black with a little bit of green

[newnova]

huh. must be a different universe or time travel thing.

[notmarieanymore]

Ask the Professor about the yellow and black. He's from, like, 30 years at least before me.

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[mathematically]

[ oh. ]

As insensitive as this question is, how did you find out that was your ability?

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[notmarieanymore]

I put the first boy I ever kissed into a coma.

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[mathematically]

It seriously just showed up at that moment? Not any time before?

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[notmarieanymore]

Seriously. That's how it is with a lot of other mutants. Our abilities are triggered by some sort of high-stress event or something. It generally shows up around puberty.