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Rogue is recovering from a fight where she was temporarily blinded, and sitting up on the rooftop feeling sorry for herself. Of course Gambit comes along to remind her that she's supposed to be in bed. They have a conversation about how she wants to have someone to comfort her, run his fingers through her hair, and tell her everything will be all right. But of course, at this point in her history, she has no control over her powers and can't let anyone get that close, even if she wanted to.

This just gets me right in the feel-for-yous. I was a teenager at this time, just 16 years old, and I really wanted to be there for her. I wanted to have a convenient immunity to her powers so could I hold her, comfort her, run my fingers through her hair, and pet her and love her and call her Rogue tell her everything would be all right. And that even if it wasn't all right, I'd be there with her for the shitty parts.

I spent two hours and $1500 at the dentist's office today getting my old bridge removed, having some decay cleaned up, and getting a new temporary bridge. If I had a time machine, I would go back to my teenage self and smack him with a sack of tooth brushes.

And since it also came to mind, does the invulnerability Rogue got from Carol Danvers extend to her nails, hair, and teeth? Does that mean she'll never have cavities, no matter how much sugar she eats? I'd imagine she still brushes her teeth and goes to the dentist for a proper cleaning, since she'd still get bad breath if she let things go. But every time she goes to a new dentist she has a conversation like this...

A couple years ago I wrote a self-insert fanfic, where Rogue came from 1994 in her world to 2024 in our world and crash landed in my back yard. And in the story I am, of course, conveniently immune to her powers and that gets my foot in the door for a romantic relationship.

For season 14, I've rolled up a Rogue and... well, here she is.

People use different words to describe carbonated non-alcoholic beverages. Soda, pop, soda pop, and (most relevant to this post) Coke. Yes, as I understand it, many people in the southern US refer to any flavor of fizzy drink as Coke, whether it's cola, root beer, lemon-lime, whatever.

Yesterday on Discord (see previous post regarding Gambit in video games) I had someone get on my back about my Rogue obsession. This is a different Discord and a different person than another post from recent days.

That's an animated GIF, where he also says "Stop it." Anyway, I wish I could be all "Haters gonna hate" and just ignore it, but this shit hurts. I've blocked this person in the past, then removed the block for a while after I had a chance to cool off, but I'm thinking I may just keep them blocked permanently at this point.

Also, it's closer to 30 years and not 40. 40 years would've put me in my Voltron years, I think. Or maybe Thundercats. Certainly well before I'd heard about Rogue. Back in my school days, circa 1988, I had people tease and bully me about the characters I was obsessed with, so I got to a point where I was more careful who I would talk to about them. I felt comfortable enough on these Discords to let that freak flag fly, as it were, but then this shit happens.

I think one of the best parts about my fantasy coming true (Rogue comes to our world from the comics circa 1994, I'm conveniently immune to her powers, and we become a couple) would be showing the haters on Discord that they can fuck right off with that bullshit. Of course, they'd probably accuse me of paying someone to dress up, or of using AI to generate the image/video.

Someone on a Discord shared a video of some guy talking about other X-Men characters he'd like to see in the upcoming Wolverine game that Insomniac is producing, and really about 80% of the video was him saying how cool it would be to have Gambit in the cast.

It got me thinking that yeah, a Gambit-centric game could work quite well in the style of Insomniac's Spider-Man games, with a bit of thievery for the stealth missions and such. And even I have to admit that using Remy's skillset to fight bad guys would be pretty fun.

Rogue does the "Catapult Nightmare" trope, where she wakes up with a gasp and maybe sits up in bed.

Me: "What's wrong, sweetheart?" Rogue: "I just had a dream that I was married to Remy." Me: "Wow, that sounds like a rough one. Do you want to talk about it?" Rogue: "Not really. It's fading already, but I could use some cuddles." Me: "Anytime you want."

Earlier today in one of the Discord servers I'm on, I mentioned a poll that I saw over here asking if Rogue is an Alpha, Beta, or Omega. I thought about it along the lines of "Well she's powerful, but not world-endingly so, unless she grabs the powers of someone who is. So maybe put her at an Alpha mutant." Then I saw the Omegaverse tag on the poll and realized... that's not what they were asking at all.

I mentioned this on Discord, that got us talking about Rogue and how her power levels have fluctuated over the years, much of which I've missed because I stopped buying comics back in 1997 around the time of Operation Zero Tolerance. The conversation lasted about a half hour, then about seven hours later someone else came in and picked up the thread, so we talked about her some more. That lasted another hour and a half or so, and then after another four hours of silence someone pipes up and tells us to find something else to talk about that isn't Rogue.

Now to be fair, I have been known to go on and on about how much I love Rogue. And to repeat a bit I stole from Parks and Rec, when I say "I love Rogue" I'm afraid what you hear is "Rogue is my favorite character, she's just so amazing." What I say is "I love Rogue." So yeah, my obsession can get out of hand. But still...

And then I think they blocked me.

Self-shippers have it kind of rough. It's the rarest of rare pairs, we can count on one hand (if not one finger) the number of people who ship it. And I tend to get jealous. I feel like I have no one I can talk to about it because most (sane) people are shipping her with Gambit or Magneto, and whenever I see her with either of them I get angry. You can imagine how thrilled I was to learn they tied the knot in the comics a few years ago.