“So, please, don’t call us mutants. The “M” word represents everything I hate! Is what I might say if I was a total sellout. But I’m not, so if you have a problem with mutants you can f### off!”
Lorna Dane is a mutant, born of an affair between her mother Suzanna and Magneto. Her mother’s husband, Arnold, later learned of this affair and confronted his wife while he was flying her and Lorna on his plane. An argument erupted, upsetting the infant Lorna whose desperation to make her parents stop fighting caused an early manifestation of her immense magnetic abilities, which caused a magnetic pulse that destroyed the plane and killed her parents, as well as giving her hair its iconic green colour. Lorna survived the crash and was found by her true father, Magneto, who had been drawn to the location by her magnetic pulse. Believing that she was not ready for her abilities or the life he could offer her, he had his associate Mastermind use his illusionary powers to re-write Lorna’s memories of that day, leaving her to believe that her parents died in a plane crash when she was an infant. Lorna was raised by Arnold’s sister and her husband, and grew up thinking that they are her real parents until she was informed of the truth when she was almost twenty years old – Lorna’s foster parents had feared it would cause her extreme stress and trauma if they told her before.
Powers Lorna is an Alpha-mutant[17] with both a primary and Secondary Mutation. After her sister Wanda’s M-Day, Polaris lost all of her mutant abilities. Polaris then became Pestilence and had Celestial technology grafted to her spine by Apocalypse, which has somehow reactivated her X-Gene and her powers.
Magnetic Field Manipulation
Magnetic Force-Fields
Magnetic Flight
Electromagnetic Sight
Magnetic Pulse
Energy Absorption
Geomagnetic Link
Organic Iron Manipulation
Metal/Matter Manipulation
Electromagnetic Spectrum Manipulation
Her personal polarity is opposite that of Magneto’s.
Former powers
Polaris has a latent secondary mutation. Manifesting when her powers were stripped and taken by her half-sister Zaladane. This mutation was later deactivated by the Scarlet Witch’s M-Day.
Negative Emotion Absorption
Size Addition
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Stamina
Invulnerability.
Negative Emotional Release
Meta-Plague Manipulation
Abilities
Lorna possesses expertise in geophysics, and has earned a Masters degree in that field.
Strength level
Polaris possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. When possessed by Malice, Lorna had superhuman strength with an unknown upper limit.
Weaknesses
Lorna and her other siblings appear to have inherited their father’s propensity for mental illness and depression. Lorna has at various times suffered mental breakdowns, episodes of mental illness and severe depression.
Equipment
She was grafted a cybernetic nanobot in her right eye by Serval Industries, allowing Harrison Snow to see what she saw at any time.
Bio-hazard containment suit. At one point Lorna wore a metal belt with her costume that she would manipulate as a weapon or tool.
Transportation
Capable of flying under her own power, which she tends to do most of the time, formerly Starjammer, X-Men Blackbird, X-Men Stratojet, Sentinel Air Transport
Notes
Lorna’s green hair is a quirk of her mutation.
I’ve always felt that Lorna’s “secondary mutation” was not entirely her real secondary mutation. She “received” the mutation when Zaladane stole her powers, and I really think the nature of the secondary mutation is 1) not really fitting in who Lorna actually is as a character, and 2) more in line with what a villain would want her to be stuck with.
I mean, seriously, negative emotion absorption and negative emotional release? That’s basically “Polaris becomes a symbol of everything horrible in the world and ‘inspires’ everyone around her to be the absolute worst they can be.” It’s the sort of thing a cruel bitch like Zaladane would want to inflict on Lorna just to make her life miserable.
That’s not to say there’s no potential there, and I think Lorna getting chosen as Pestilence was based on those negative emotion powers. But to say those powers were really her secondary mutation, it would take a hell of a lot of insightful work by an amazingly talented writer for that to seem like it fits her.
When spoken word artist Brenna Twohy tells you that she is an unabashed devotee of all things “Potterotica” — erotic fiction based in the magical universe of Harry Potter — your response probably shouldn’t be that her taste is “unrealistic.”
I’m happy to be getting to the point where I don’t have to feel weird about enjoying fanfiction, or having written a bunch of it. Partly it’s that the fandom experience has become more broadly shared. Partly it’s that I stopped giving a shit.
And as for why I like the porny sort of fanfiction, see above. She says it better.
I like sex with context. I like sex when it involves fully fleshed out characters. I like the backstories. I like feeling like these people do other things when they aren’t having sex.
Also, I’d just like to point out that it is incredibly empowering that thousands upon thousands of women, girls and non-binary folks have rejected an abusive porn industry designed by men and catering to men and benefiting men and instead created a safe space to explore their sexuality on their own terms. Sex with context, sex with characters they know, sex that is approachable and enjoyable to them,and completely without the help of a very small group of men telling them what to like, how to like it and how to feel about their own sexuality.
That is healthy. That is positive. That is glorious. Defend erotic fanfiction and defend the people who read it.
There might be historical details that I’m missing, but I’m just going to give what I know. Don’t just glance at only one part of this, because it’s more complex than one statement.
My experience with the written porn side of things is that it was mostly men writing, reading and sharing pornographic fics for a couple decades. That does not mean there were no women writing, only that it was very male-dominated.
I’m talking back before the internet was as fast and accessible as it is today, when downloading a song could take an hour and loading a photo gallery could take several minutes. Most of what I’ve seen from this time period came from men, and there’s a simple reason for it: it was an extension of porn at a time when text was the quickest, easiest way to create what you want.
People posted fanart and amateur porn online, sure, but there were a lot more barriers to sharing it. The idea of actually commissioning someone for fanart or fanfiction? It was a far cry away. In fact, when I started writing porn, there was only “request it” or “make it yourself,” and I started writing because no luck with the former meant I had to do the latter.
BUT, outside of erotic fanfics, women were (and I think always have been) the dominant ones in regular fanfiction. Erotic fanfics in the past were mostly about being porn. It was rarely about having an actual story. Women are more interested in exploring characters, relationships, settings, the things that really matter to a fictional universe. For women, fanfiction wasn’t an attempt to fill a porn need that couldn’t be filled well in the early internet, it was about satisfying narrative desires.
Fast-forward to today. Every year, I see more and more women getting into erotic fanfiction, while the guys are kinda slipping out of it.
I think this is why. Now that a guy can simply commission drawn porn or look at some drawn by hentai artists, there’s less demand and desire for written porn from men. Needs that were filled in long stories can now be filled in a single picture. There isn’t even a need to do it yourself, because you can pay someone to do it for you. You can go to sites like Hentai-Foundry and browse up to a hundred made and uploaded in a single day.
On the flipside, women are starting to want to explore adult themes and some of their own kinks and fetishes. A single picture isn’t enough for them, because it’s not about the visual, it’s about the details. I think most guys, if they want a mind control story, they want it to be pretty basic: woman is controlled to give oral, that’s it. Most women, though, I think want to go into things like how it feels to be mind-controlled, or to watch someone in that state, and what it actually means to the characters involved beyond a sudden sex act.
And then of course, there’s yaoi. I think a lot of interest in erotic fic is a result of interest in yaoi.
These days, I see a lot more female writers, as well as more yaoi, femdom and actual character-building, on sites that used to be purely yuri or straight porn often with gangbang involved. I think online erotic fanfiction is a previously male-dominated space that has become female-dominated in the past decade. And I mean that in a good way.
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