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Rogue's name is Rogue

While Anna Marie is Rogue's birth name it's something she hasn't used since she was very small, didn't remember for a long time, and has no real attachment too, in some ways it's closer to a dead name than anything else and she's very uncomfortable with people using it. Rogue has a very set concept of who she is out of necessity. Rogue is Rogue. Anna Marie is not Rogue. Please do not call her Anna Marie, the only people who really can are those like her mothers, Xavier and maybe her partners but it's the kinda thing that would need to be discussed before it was whipped out.

Rogue and the X-Men

Rogue has a weird relationship with the X-Men. She goes to them begging for help at 17 and is met with hostility and an ultimatum. She goes from being a child soldier for her mothers to a child soldier for Xavier. Even when the initial hostility dies down, Rogue's relationships are very fraught and she's generally kept at a certain distance intentionally or no. We see on several occasions in comics set during this time (and when anyone cares to remember how her powers work and effect her life) Storm (and others but I remember Storm the best because it was a plot point) recoil from Rogue and generally are scared of being too physically close to her.

Rogue's powers both make her a mutant and are exactly the kind of thing that make mutants want to keep her at arm's length. She painfully steals your mutation and some of your identity, it's natural for people to not want to get too close. But it does create issues. She may be considered a valued member of the team and all that but how she's treated socially inside of mutant circles is inconsistent. Some see her power as inherently evil, some are just scared of being touched and it shows. Even when people do their best to include her she can tell when people are scared and trying to act like they're not and it incentivizes her to stay on the fringes. So while she has a few people in the X-Men she's close to and loves dearly she's largely an outsider from them socially.

Rogue's Politics and Ethics

Following on that last part another reason Rogue is on the fringes of x-society is her politics. While she's unlearned some of the radicalism she was raised on she's still more on the end of people like Mystique and Magneto because no matter what you say about them, their methods etc — they have some very good points. Rogue's own life experiences in places like Genosha and during the Morlock Massacre, as well as her work as both a member of the Brotherhood and an X-Man have led her to holding some of Xavier's optimism and desire to solve things peacefully when able while also being more than willing to kill if needed. She's usually not as radical as her mother or Magneto but she's also one of the first to suggest something radical or Kinda Iffy as a plan of action. Basically, if Wolverine asked her to join the X-Force she would say yes without blinking.

Along with this Rogue's ethics are inconsistent. She contradicts herself and seems to function almost entirely on vibes from the outside and she knows this. This is in large part a bi-product of her powers. Her powers leave her with huge amounts of accumulated psychic residue from everyone she touches and there's very little indication anyone actually helps her with this in the comics (Xavier even calls himself out on this in the comics lol rip). This means that even while she's working very hard to simply Be Rogue™, her thoughts, feeling, opinions and memories can be affected by that residue without her being aware. So her opinions and ethics can change within a breath. She is aware of this. It's part of why she HATES when people try to use her as a tie-breaker.

Rogue is Mentally Ill

Related to the ethics thing and how psychic residue effects it. Rogue is not stable mentally. Even when she's the only person in her head she's not really 100%. While there's literally nothing in real life that maps out to her issues the closest would likely be the very board categories of dementia, delusion and psychosis related illnesses or DID. Rogue can wake up utterly convinced she is a completely different person and then have a meltdown when she sees her own face in the mirror. Her understanding of the world can be extremely confused and disjointed. For all her propensity to loner behavior and isolation she's realistically someone who actually does need something like a caretaker or Designated Person™ to help her keep track of things and work with her when she struggles. This can leave her open to manipulation/exploitation and why she tends to go back to her mothers or the X-Men.

Rogue has a tendency to Go Rogue