Bobby Drake/Iceman

Subject Facts

Full Name: Robert Louis Drake
Codename: Iceman
Age: Twenty-nine years
Gender: Cisgender man (he/him)
Archetype: Super Hero
Aliases: Bobby, Frosty
Marital Status: Single
Affiliation: X-Men

Subject Attributes

Superhuman Abilities:

• Thermokinesis: Bobby is able to lower his external as well as his internal body temperature. This allows him to project intense coldness and chill from his body.
• Thermal Vision: When he lowers his body temperature, he's able to see other people and living creatures around him by the heat signatures they give off due to the lack of heat around himself.
• Cryokinesis: He's able to generate and manipulate ice as well as snow and cold temperatures. He can fully control it and bend it to his will. He can even control moisture in the air in order to freeze it and form ice or snow from it.
• Organic Ice-Form: He's able to transform into an "ice form," which is in itself organic, living ice. His body becomes stronger and more durable when in this form than compared to his "human form."
• Hydrokinesis: He's able to manipulate water at a molecular level. This allows him to augment himself using the moisture around him to accomplish things such as traveling quickly through large bodies of water.
• Molecular Moisture Inversion: He's able to freeze water molecules in order to turn them into ice.
• Molecular Moisture Conversion: He's able to turn organic matter, most often the human body, into organic ice. This goes hand in hand with his ice form as he most often uses it on himself but has been able to use it on other people to temporarily turn them into organic ice and then back human again.
• Ice Clone Generation: He's able to create clones of himself made from ice. He's currently not tested how many clones he can create at once and thus the limitations of this ability are unclear.
• Cryokinesis Perception: He's able to spread his consciousness through icy matter and perceive all events occurring within that matter.
• Cellular Replacement: He's able to draw ambient moisture into himself and use that to replace cells and heal himself. 

Standard Abilities:

• Combat: Bobby has years of training and experience as an X-Man when it comes to combat, making him a force to be reckoned with even without his powers.
• Accounting: He's a Certified Public Accountant and is quite good at it.
• Ice Skating: As one might expect from someone whose powers are centered entirely on ice, he's become a talented ice skater.
• Bilingual: He's fluent in both English and Spanish.

Paraphernalia: N/A

Subject Weaknesses:

• Still Vulnerable: Despite all his powers, Bobby's not invulnerable. It's still entirely possible for him to die or be killed, let alone get severely injured.
• Heat & Fire: Being so reliant on the cold, he's more vulnerable to heat and fire related powers or threats than other mutants may be.
  
• Psychics: His powers don't protect him from psychic attacks.
• Limited: He seems to be unable to use his powers to their fullest. The possible reasons behind this ranges from lack of creativity and imagination to even fear of losing control. Whatever the reason, he seems to also be reluctant to even try to push the limits of his powers.
• Human Form: When not in his ice form, he has the body of an average, athletic man of his age. Any protection his ice form grants him is unavailable to his human form and thus he's considered at his most vulnerable in this form.
• Physical Health: The strength and endurance of his powers are linked directly to his physical health. The healthier he is, the longer he can use his powers for. At his healthiest, he has been known to be able to create ice for five hours straight before exhaustion, both mental and physical, hits him. When his health is affected negatively in any way, that time starts to dwindle.
• Mental State: Similarly to the above point, his powers are linked directly to his mental state. The health and stability of his mental state affects how long he can use his powers as well as how strong his powers are. The more unstable or distressed he is, the more his powers will reflect that as well.

Subject History

Bobby Drake lead a fairly normal life into his teens in Fort Washington, New York. When a bully from school and his buddies jumped Bobby and his girlfriend, he used his mutant abilities to stop them. The community formed a lynch mob, and would've attacked Bobby had the sheriff not intervened and taken him into custody for his own safety. Scott Summers recruited him and, thanks to Professor Charles Xavier's intervention that stopped Scott and Bobby from being hanged by the mob, he agreed and became one of the Professor's founding X-Men.

Alongside Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Cyclops, Bobby, codenamed "Iceman," he learned to hone his abilities. He went on numerous adventures, not just with fellow X-Men, but also the Fantastic Four's Human Torch and more. Bobby was among the members of the team to be captured by Krakoa, and following their rescue by the second generation of the team, he joined the others (save Cyclops) in leaving the X-Men. Bobby went to UCLA to become a CPA and, while there, joined Angel, Black Widow, Hercules and Ghost Rider as the "Champions of Los Angeles" for several adventures.

The team was highly volatile and quickly disbanded, though. Following several other super-heroic adventures, Bobby briefly joined the Avengers but, after finding out this decision was due to Moondragon's mind control, he quit super work and returned to college. During a summer break, Bobby became associated with the Defenders and helped keep it cohesive and organized following the original roster's departure. Later a possessed Moondragon seemingly killed most of the Defenders, and the remnants disbanded.

Bobby lead a life in his professional field for a time. Once it was discovered Jean Grey was alive after being believed dead for years, he joined with the original X-Men as part of X-Factor. The new team went on several adventures. Loki abducted Iceman and tried to enhance his powers. Though he was saved and returned home by Thor, after this Bobby's powers started spiraling beyond his control. Following the X-Men and X-Factor's joint defeat of Shadow King on Muir Island, the latter rejoined the former, with Bobby being assigned to Storm's Gold Team.

During this time, Bobby's powers began to evolve, with him turning to living ice rather than just coating himself in it. Following months spent in a coma, Emma Frost awoke and possessed Iceman and used his powers to their fullest potential. She refused to teach Bobby how, though, and, disheartened, he went on a road trip to clear his head with Rogue. Only after a battle with Onslaught did Emma teach Bobby how to change to his living ice form and back, enabling him to survive a wound to his chest which formerly kept him in his glacial mode.

When Graydon Creed campaigned for the presidency, Bobby infiltrated his staff to find information to discredit him. Iceman's father spoke out publicly against Creed, and Graydon had Mr Drake severely beaten. Bobby took another break from the X-Men to be by his father's side, but came to their aid during Bastion's Operation: Zero Tolerance, bringing Marrow into the X-Men at the time. He returned to the X-Men on the quest to embrace his powers's full potential. Black Tom Cassidy dealt a severe injury to Bobby's chest soon after, triggering his secondary mutation and locking him in his living ice form. This state made Bobby resentful of his powers again, and bitter at life on the whole for many months.

Following the events of M-Day, Iceman was on of the ten-percent of the mutant population of earth to retain his powers. Bobby was recruited onto Rogue's team of X-Men, and seemingly destroyed by Aurora and Northstar during the group's fight with the Children of the Vault. Fortunately, Iceman was able to reform from steam to ice to his normal body. Mystique became a temporary teammate, feigning reformation, and she and Bobby pursued a brief romantic relationship. Predictably this ended in emotional trauma and tragedy when Mystique's ulterior motives were revealed and she betrayed the X-Men.

Iceman joined the X-Men when they moved to the island civilization of Utopia off the coast of San Francisco. Following the schism that split the X-Men, Logan relocated the majority of the students back to the original X-Mansion grounds and asked Bobby to help him. Iceman agreed and became the bookkeeper for the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. He supported and defended the student body for the following months. During the Avengers vs X-Men events, Bobby briefly allied with the Phoenix Five, but ended up switching to the Avengers's side by the conflict's end.

Shortly after, Bobby was infected by a Death Seed of Apocalypse. Losing control of his mind, he wrought havoc that caused many deaths before the X-Men could shatter him, purging him of its affects. Bobby began piecing back his psyche, but the sins he'd committed while out of control severely haunted him. Iceman worked under Storm spiriting mutants endangered by the Terrigen Cloud to X-Haven. After a confrontation with Colossus, who was a horseman of apocalypse, Bobby joined the X-Men's side in a war against the Inhumans when it was discovered in a matter of weeks the entire planet would be uninhabitable for mutant kind.

The Bobby of the then-time-displaced original X-Men was outed as gay by the time-displaced Jean Grey. He confronted Iceman about it, and Iceman admitted to having known about it for some time, but fearful of the world being prejudiced against another part of him. To focus on himself, Bobby stepped out of the limelight and even declined membership to Kitty's new X-team. Instead he was a reserve member and taught classes at the new Xavier School. Bobby went on several adventures with the goal of self-discovery, dating a man named Judah briefly before his superheroic lifestyle became too dangerous for Judah to live with.

Emma Frost approached him next to help in regards to her brother, Christian. Despite Kitty's protests, Bobby went with and helped Emma reconcile with her brother, who had manifested powers and a fractured psyche due to a lifetime of emotional and physical abuse from their father. Bobby then encountered a version of himself from an alternate future timeline, as well as confronted Jean Grey for the actions of her younger self in outing him, using both to gain more understanding and confidence of himself as a person.

Most recently, Bobby joined his fellow X-Men to oppose Nate Grey's reality warping, which culminated in X-Man apparently wiping himself from existence.

Subject Interview

Finding out about this black market hadn't been easy - confirming the rumors had taken some favors owed from S.H.I.E.L.D. which he hadn't even known were owed prior. Figuring out how to sneak in without being recognized had been just as hard. He'd dressed the part - This was attended by the upper-class (that felt like an understatement) so he needed to look like he belonged. Thankfully he always somehow found a nice black suit lying around when he needed it. He was equally thankful over the fact that the suit had been clean. He'd practiced his cover story in the mirror longer than he'd care to admit in case he got caught but not recognized.

Sneaking in itself had been... Too easy. It set him on edge. Maybe this place was so top secret that they didn't expect to get infiltrated. He ran a hand over his hair to make sure it was still successfully slicked back. He grabbed a drink the second he could, wanting to blend in, and subtly sniffed it just to be safe. He focused on looking around - He needed to assess what and who were here. However he also needed to do so without bringing suspicion on himself. He didn't need any unwanted attention.

Others had volunteered but he'd insisted he could do it. Surely his experience as a long time X-Man helped qualify him for this. Besides, it was just scoping up some black market - albeit a very expensive black market but were any of them ever cheap or affordable? He didn't think there was too much that could go wrong and anything that could, he could handle himself.

There was a rumor that there might be some Sentinel technology here. Did that mean pieces of a Sentinel or full fledged new Sentinels up for auction - Was there going to be an auction or was it just first come first serve? How did the rich buy their illegal merchandise? He had no clue; he'd never been rich unfortunately. The rumor also could have been just that: a rumor. There was a good chance there'd be no evidence to back it up. Still it wasn't as if he could risk it being true on the off chance it wasn't.

"Presenting the White Queen of the Hellfire Club."

Bobby almost choked on the champagne he'd grabbed. Had the Hellfire Club ever been anything but a thorn in the X-Men's side? It'd been so long. The last he could recall, that title belonged to Emma Frost - If there had been another White Queen, they hadn't stuck in his mind which when compared to Emma Frost was understandable. Crap, he couldn't help thinking and then grimaced. Emma would definitely recognize them and could definitely read his mind. She probably wouldn't rat him out right away - They'd both be interested in why the other was here so he certainly had some questions for her too - but there was a chance she'd just complicate things, annoyingly so.

Still, he and Emma had worked together in the past. He didn't think they were on bad terms.

He looked over at where he expected her to be, after all she'd just entered, unaware that his startle had cause him to freeze the champagne he held. But it wasn't Emma who his eyes fell on - Who they looked with. No, who he saw even confused him more. He'd helped Emma with her brother, Christian, before but he didn't recall him being part of the Hellfire Club. Seeing Christian stirred something in him - concern because he wasn't sure how the other man was doing after they'd last seen each other and... Something else. Something he couldn't quite place. He should have ducked his head and continued on because Christian was likely to recognize him but... That something else kept him in place, eyes curiously watching the other man.

Author's Notes

Player Alias: Wiccan / Anna

Other Characters: Billy Kaplan

How did you find MFT?: Personal invite.