Post by Gambit on Jun 30, 2007 2:18:44 GMT -5
Characteristics:
Real name: Remy Etienne LeBeau
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 179 lbs
Hair: auburn
Eyes: glowing red irises on black
Age: 33 (1978)
Ethnicity: Acadian/Cajun
Citizenship: USA
Education: no official schooling
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Other features: a tattoo on his back in the center between his shoulder blades - four playing card symbols against the background of a veve symbol
Known relatives: Jacques LeBeau (foster grandfather, deceased), Jean-Luc LeBeau (foster father, deceased), Rochelle LeBeau (foster grandmother, deceased), Bella Donna Boudreaux (wife, separated), Henri LeBeau (foster brother), Mercy LeBeau (sister-in-law), Theoren Marceaux (cousin), Etienne Marceaux (cousin, deceased), Marius Boudreaux (father-in-law), Julien Boudreaux (brother-in-law, deceased), Constance Lewis (daughter)
Powers:
- Ability to charge inanimate objects with explosive kinetic energy. Mental block prevents him from charging living tissue.
- Limited empathy and hypnotic charm. Ability to "charge" the kinetic energy within a person's brain, allowing a subtle influence over any sentient mind. This power allows Gambit to compel others to believe what he says and agree with anything he suggests.
- Static intereference that prevents his mind from being accessed by telepaths; added effect of destabilizing touch-based powers.
- Skilled hand-to-hand combatant and strategist, expert in parkour
- Master thief
Weapons: a deck of cards he uses for charging and throwing, and an adamantium bo-staff; sometimes uses firearms and various theft-related equipment.
Other pertinent information:
Alpha-Level Mutant, possible Omega-Level (Class 4 by the current classification)
Chain smoker
Notorious flirt
Filthy rich
Frequently moves from place to place
Prefers a bike
Bisexual
Extremely secretive
Supersticious and with an inclination towards mysticism
Played by: Zen Gesner
Drives this:
Wears this
History (with Gambit's approximate age at certain points in his life):
It is unknown for certain where Gambit was born and who his parents were; his history began as he was kidnapped from the maternity hospital right after being born and was placed in the custody of the Guild of Thieves of New Orleans because it had been prophesied that a boy with black-and-red eyes would bring peace between two warring guilds – of Thieves and of Assassins.
During those early childhood years, while living on the streets, he received his nickname “Gambit” and met his future wife Bella Donna Boudreaux, daughter of the patriarch of the Guild of Assassins. He also had to go through spiritual training given to him by a voudoun witch and the healer of the Guilds, Tante Mattie, who, in spite of being powerful enough to scare Gambit for the rest of his life, became almost like a mother to him, who is always the first one to know and to help about his problems and joys.
(10) At the age of ten, he was adopted by the patriarch of the Guild of Thieves, Jean-Luc LeBeau, was given a last name and was pronounced an heir to the Guild throne, so to speak; even though Jean-Luc had a younger son of his own, he put great faith in the prophecy. Soon after that, Gambit's powers manifested under circumstances yet to be revealed; he could explode both living tissues and inanimate objects until he gained some sort of control.
(18) The Guilds arranged the marriage between Gambit and Bella Donna to take place soon after Gambit would turn eighteen, in hopes to unite the Guilds and bring the desired peace, and even though both were reluctant to marry at such a young age, they agreed to it for the Guilds' sake. After the wedding, Bella Donna’s brother Julien, who disliked the very idea of that marriage, challenged Gambit to a duel, in which Gambit killed him. The Council of the Guilds thought that this death jeopardized the fragile balance, and it was decided that Gambit should be banished from New Orleans in yet another attempt to maintain the peace. He left, not asking Bella Donna to follow him because he thought she would be more needed with the Guilds than with him.
(20) After that, he traveled around and did various thieving jobs for various clients, eventually establishing a link with a man named Lynch who was good at finding good deals and keeping good secrets and thus became Gambit's intermediary. On one such job, Gambit ended up being followed and was eventually nearly killed by his target's thugs. He was left half-dead in the mountains and would have surely died, but his body became a host for a ghost-like entity that called itself Mary. She gave him his life and body back and used his powers for her own purposes, winding them up to the point where he couldn’t control himself.
Gambit had to seek help and found a geneticist Nathaniel Essex who seemed to know a great deal about mutant powers. Essex promised to help, in an exchange for a service in the future. Gambit had little choice but to agree, and Essex performed a brain surgery on him, inserting something [that Gambit doesn’t know of] that blocked his powers to some extent, decreasing the potential of his powers to the point where even Mary couldn’t boost them up any longer. In exchange, Essex asked Gambit to make a map of Morlock Tunnels, assemble a team of mutant thugs and lead them inside the Tunnels. Gambit gathered said team (later known as the Marauders), gave them some basic training and lead them inside the Tunnels, not knowing for what purpose, but just to get rid of his debt.
Essex had a plan of wiping out the Morlock population, being obsessed with the idea of cleaning up the mutant race to leave space for more aesthetic mutations. During the massacre, Gambit realized his mistake and tried to save some of the Morlocks; Mary, who had still been inhabiting his body up to that point, found a better host in the face of Typhoid and switched from Gambit to Typhoid, leaving him free. Naturally, he keeps the fact of his "participation" in the Massacre a well-hidden secret.
(24) As his thieving skills reached their full range and his wealth grew, he was welcomed at the Hellfire Club, a place where rich and influential mutants nourished their own little kingdom of intrigues and world-scale ambitions. Although not accepted as the member of the Inner Circle because of his obviously criminal background, Gambit managed to make his way into the Circle with the help of his charms and significant immunity to telepathy, starting a daring fling with Emma Frost, the White Queen, although that made him the object of antipathy on the part of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King and head of the Club, since Frost was also Shaw's official lover. When the situation became too precarious, Gambit left the Club, severing his connections with it. During that time, his foster father died, leaving him as the patriarch of the Guild that meant a partly undercover leadership since Gambit was still officially exiled.
(28) After several years, Gambit met Storm and the two struck a friendship that started out first on the grounds of their thieving background, then evolved into a closer connection. When the X-Men felt it was time to make Xavier’s mansion a better protected place, she suggested Gambit’s knowledge of how security worked for that purpose. He stayed at the mansion while doing that job and even joined the X-Men for a brief time, becoming involved with Jean Grey in a temperamental but short-lived relationship that ended at her attempt to read his mind, after which Gambit left the mansion.
(29) The next time he encountered the X-Men was during the events on the Alcatraz Island where he ended up having received a commission to steal several samples of the Cure. Using the Island’s terrain to his advantage, he managed not to fall victim to the Phoenix’s rage but saw Jean being killed by Wolverine. After everything calmed down and the X-Men left, he went down to the place of the fight, gathering the Cure he needed [he gave his client as much as had been asked and still keeps the rest just in case] and also finding partly frozen Pyro. More out of curiosity than sympathy, he took the young mutant under his care, eventually making him his apprentice in thieving activities, but it didn’t last long until Gambit left Pyro into the hands of cops during an unsuccessful heist.
(30) Soon after that, Gambit found out that the Hellfire Club had been abandoned and was being sold by a real estate agency. Figuring he was more or less, even though temporarily, settled in New York and deciding to have some fun with the place, Gambit bought it, turning it into a nightclub for mutants only.
G&I timeline: Gambit bought the Hellfire Club and re-opened it as a mutants-only nightclub. When the Brotherhood visited the club, he met Shade and also spoke to her a while later. Pretty quickly he got involved in the Institute's affairs when Xavier called him and asked to help the Institute in the light of a recent attack by Sinister. He arrived to the Institute to discuss the incident and his possible help.
Gambit had a weird connection to Typhoid at some point who was possessed by the same psyonic entity that had once used Gambit as a host.
When Shade visited the club again, Gambit took her out for a pizza, which started their relationship. The next day he left to look for Sinister and re-appeared at the Institute a few days later, bringing the information that Xavier needed. He was treated in the lab and took up temporary residence in Shade’s room.
After passing the information to Xavier, he watched an old movie with Shade and Rogue, had a dinner in the kitchen with Shade and Eaglewing and the next day even shared a drink with Xavier. After spending the last night in Shade’s room, he left the mansion.
As he promised, he took Shade to the Laserzone, which was followed by a breakfast in the city. Then he turned up in a stolen car near the mansion and took Shade to the Six Flags amusement park. This resulted in them planning a vacation together, during which Shade was kidnapped and then rescued. After the vacation, Gambit went to New Orleans, where Tante Mattie gave him instructions to open up his heart and also gave a protective charm for Shade. After he met her upon his return, they went to play in Central Park and then to dance in Webster Hall.
Shade went to see Gambit after another attack on the mansion. This was (when Shade left to visit her family) followed by Jean’s visit to the Hellfire where she made out with Gambit “for old time’s sake”. When Shade returned, she and Gambit went on a roller-skating date.
Both Wanda and [Pietro Maximoff visited the Hellfire in a short span of time, with Gambit trying to flirt with Wanda and inviting Pietro on an explosive session in a scrapyard.
After Gambit and Shade stole a boat to have a date on Hudson, Gambit moved to the Institute for a short while to install the new security system at the mansion. He took up residence at the boathouse, just like back in his X-Men days. He had some conversations with the mansion’s residents, with his best friend Storm, with some of the staff. He also conducted two training sessions for Shade in Danger room. After celebrating Shade’s birthday, he concluded his job in the mansion by sleeping with Jean.
As he and Shade decided to go on a road-trip, they left the mansion together but crashed on Gambit’s bike, which resulted in
Gambit breaking his spine and being in a coma and Shade breaking her arm. Shade found him when he was moved by his brother to Hartsdale Hospital and remained by his side until he regained his consciousness and his ability to move. After that they lived in a hotel in Westchester. Gambit returned to the mansion to leave his instructions on how to manage the new security system.
While Gambit was recovering from his trauma, he and Shade entertained themselves by a posh dinner with a spy roleplay, and after that he went to New Orleans to settle some matters between the Guilds. When he returned, he met Emma Frost at the Hellfire.
Following his instinct that told him he needed to hide, he met Shade on the Brooklyn Bridge and they went to a hotel where they lived until things calmed down. In the meantime, they found a car that Gambit wanted to steal for Shade and then actually stole it. Repainted and everything.
Gambit met thief Victoria and made her an offer to become his apprentice, which she reluctantly accepted. He also helped Seer to get her son back.
When Project Wideawake was unleashed, Shade got into some Sentinel trouble and Gambit rescued her. He insisted that she stayed in his place until it became safer on the streets, and drove her to the mansion so that she could speak to Xavier and pick up her things.
After the [url=http://godsandinsects3.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=city&action=display&thread=780[/url]protests in Washington Square Park[/url], he and Shade went to get tattoos. He was teaching Victoria some useful thieving tricks, but when he left to visit his daughter and make sure she was taken good care of, he left Victoria at his apartment where she met Shade.
He also spoke with Nimrod about Sentinels, paid his annual visit to the Morlock Shrine and made a deal with Morph and Brady about helping them to start a magazine for mutants.
He and Shade saw the news coverage of the Washington, D.C., battle with Sentinels. They spent Christmas in a cabin in the mountains. After that, Gambit returned to his Hellfire business: spending time with Victoria, meeting Tabitha, who would later become his employee, taking Victoria on a large and profitable heist in Atlanta. They celebrated Shade’s birthday by
visiting the Atlantic city.
After his next thieving job turned out to be a set up, he and Shade had to flee his apartment in a hurry and under gunfire, during which Gambit was wounded and retreated to his friend Donnie’s place for recovery and some emergency treatment. After his return to business, he, Shade and Tabitha had a conversation at the Hellfire; he met Pietro on a random night in the city and had a one-night stand with Tabitha at the Hellfire.
When the Prophecy was announced at the Hellfire, Gambit was surprised to hear his name mentioned. But he soon had other matters to worry about, when Shade killed a man and he found her in the city, amnesiac. He brought her to his apartment and went looking for some information to help her. First he found the man who caused her to kill and to lose her memory; then he spoke to Storm about the predicament; then he asked an acquaintance from the police for some info; and finally Xavier arrived to the apartment to see if he could help Shade with her memories.
Real name: Remy Etienne LeBeau
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 179 lbs
Hair: auburn
Eyes: glowing red irises on black
Age: 33 (1978)
Ethnicity: Acadian/Cajun
Citizenship: USA
Education: no official schooling
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Other features: a tattoo on his back in the center between his shoulder blades - four playing card symbols against the background of a veve symbol
Known relatives: Jacques LeBeau (foster grandfather, deceased), Jean-Luc LeBeau (foster father, deceased), Rochelle LeBeau (foster grandmother, deceased), Bella Donna Boudreaux (wife, separated), Henri LeBeau (foster brother), Mercy LeBeau (sister-in-law), Theoren Marceaux (cousin), Etienne Marceaux (cousin, deceased), Marius Boudreaux (father-in-law), Julien Boudreaux (brother-in-law, deceased), Constance Lewis (daughter)
Powers:
- Ability to charge inanimate objects with explosive kinetic energy. Mental block prevents him from charging living tissue.
- Limited empathy and hypnotic charm. Ability to "charge" the kinetic energy within a person's brain, allowing a subtle influence over any sentient mind. This power allows Gambit to compel others to believe what he says and agree with anything he suggests.
- Static intereference that prevents his mind from being accessed by telepaths; added effect of destabilizing touch-based powers.
- Skilled hand-to-hand combatant and strategist, expert in parkour
- Master thief
Weapons: a deck of cards he uses for charging and throwing, and an adamantium bo-staff; sometimes uses firearms and various theft-related equipment.
Other pertinent information:
Alpha-Level Mutant, possible Omega-Level (Class 4 by the current classification)
Chain smoker
Notorious flirt
Filthy rich
Frequently moves from place to place
Prefers a bike
Bisexual
Extremely secretive
Supersticious and with an inclination towards mysticism
Played by: Zen Gesner
Drives this:
Wears this
History (with Gambit's approximate age at certain points in his life):
It is unknown for certain where Gambit was born and who his parents were; his history began as he was kidnapped from the maternity hospital right after being born and was placed in the custody of the Guild of Thieves of New Orleans because it had been prophesied that a boy with black-and-red eyes would bring peace between two warring guilds – of Thieves and of Assassins.
During those early childhood years, while living on the streets, he received his nickname “Gambit” and met his future wife Bella Donna Boudreaux, daughter of the patriarch of the Guild of Assassins. He also had to go through spiritual training given to him by a voudoun witch and the healer of the Guilds, Tante Mattie, who, in spite of being powerful enough to scare Gambit for the rest of his life, became almost like a mother to him, who is always the first one to know and to help about his problems and joys.
(10) At the age of ten, he was adopted by the patriarch of the Guild of Thieves, Jean-Luc LeBeau, was given a last name and was pronounced an heir to the Guild throne, so to speak; even though Jean-Luc had a younger son of his own, he put great faith in the prophecy. Soon after that, Gambit's powers manifested under circumstances yet to be revealed; he could explode both living tissues and inanimate objects until he gained some sort of control.
(18) The Guilds arranged the marriage between Gambit and Bella Donna to take place soon after Gambit would turn eighteen, in hopes to unite the Guilds and bring the desired peace, and even though both were reluctant to marry at such a young age, they agreed to it for the Guilds' sake. After the wedding, Bella Donna’s brother Julien, who disliked the very idea of that marriage, challenged Gambit to a duel, in which Gambit killed him. The Council of the Guilds thought that this death jeopardized the fragile balance, and it was decided that Gambit should be banished from New Orleans in yet another attempt to maintain the peace. He left, not asking Bella Donna to follow him because he thought she would be more needed with the Guilds than with him.
(20) After that, he traveled around and did various thieving jobs for various clients, eventually establishing a link with a man named Lynch who was good at finding good deals and keeping good secrets and thus became Gambit's intermediary. On one such job, Gambit ended up being followed and was eventually nearly killed by his target's thugs. He was left half-dead in the mountains and would have surely died, but his body became a host for a ghost-like entity that called itself Mary. She gave him his life and body back and used his powers for her own purposes, winding them up to the point where he couldn’t control himself.
Gambit had to seek help and found a geneticist Nathaniel Essex who seemed to know a great deal about mutant powers. Essex promised to help, in an exchange for a service in the future. Gambit had little choice but to agree, and Essex performed a brain surgery on him, inserting something [that Gambit doesn’t know of] that blocked his powers to some extent, decreasing the potential of his powers to the point where even Mary couldn’t boost them up any longer. In exchange, Essex asked Gambit to make a map of Morlock Tunnels, assemble a team of mutant thugs and lead them inside the Tunnels. Gambit gathered said team (later known as the Marauders), gave them some basic training and lead them inside the Tunnels, not knowing for what purpose, but just to get rid of his debt.
Essex had a plan of wiping out the Morlock population, being obsessed with the idea of cleaning up the mutant race to leave space for more aesthetic mutations. During the massacre, Gambit realized his mistake and tried to save some of the Morlocks; Mary, who had still been inhabiting his body up to that point, found a better host in the face of Typhoid and switched from Gambit to Typhoid, leaving him free. Naturally, he keeps the fact of his "participation" in the Massacre a well-hidden secret.
(24) As his thieving skills reached their full range and his wealth grew, he was welcomed at the Hellfire Club, a place where rich and influential mutants nourished their own little kingdom of intrigues and world-scale ambitions. Although not accepted as the member of the Inner Circle because of his obviously criminal background, Gambit managed to make his way into the Circle with the help of his charms and significant immunity to telepathy, starting a daring fling with Emma Frost, the White Queen, although that made him the object of antipathy on the part of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King and head of the Club, since Frost was also Shaw's official lover. When the situation became too precarious, Gambit left the Club, severing his connections with it. During that time, his foster father died, leaving him as the patriarch of the Guild that meant a partly undercover leadership since Gambit was still officially exiled.
(28) After several years, Gambit met Storm and the two struck a friendship that started out first on the grounds of their thieving background, then evolved into a closer connection. When the X-Men felt it was time to make Xavier’s mansion a better protected place, she suggested Gambit’s knowledge of how security worked for that purpose. He stayed at the mansion while doing that job and even joined the X-Men for a brief time, becoming involved with Jean Grey in a temperamental but short-lived relationship that ended at her attempt to read his mind, after which Gambit left the mansion.
(29) The next time he encountered the X-Men was during the events on the Alcatraz Island where he ended up having received a commission to steal several samples of the Cure. Using the Island’s terrain to his advantage, he managed not to fall victim to the Phoenix’s rage but saw Jean being killed by Wolverine. After everything calmed down and the X-Men left, he went down to the place of the fight, gathering the Cure he needed [he gave his client as much as had been asked and still keeps the rest just in case] and also finding partly frozen Pyro. More out of curiosity than sympathy, he took the young mutant under his care, eventually making him his apprentice in thieving activities, but it didn’t last long until Gambit left Pyro into the hands of cops during an unsuccessful heist.
(30) Soon after that, Gambit found out that the Hellfire Club had been abandoned and was being sold by a real estate agency. Figuring he was more or less, even though temporarily, settled in New York and deciding to have some fun with the place, Gambit bought it, turning it into a nightclub for mutants only.
G&I timeline: Gambit bought the Hellfire Club and re-opened it as a mutants-only nightclub. When the Brotherhood visited the club, he met Shade and also spoke to her a while later. Pretty quickly he got involved in the Institute's affairs when Xavier called him and asked to help the Institute in the light of a recent attack by Sinister. He arrived to the Institute to discuss the incident and his possible help.
Gambit had a weird connection to Typhoid at some point who was possessed by the same psyonic entity that had once used Gambit as a host.
When Shade visited the club again, Gambit took her out for a pizza, which started their relationship. The next day he left to look for Sinister and re-appeared at the Institute a few days later, bringing the information that Xavier needed. He was treated in the lab and took up temporary residence in Shade’s room.
After passing the information to Xavier, he watched an old movie with Shade and Rogue, had a dinner in the kitchen with Shade and Eaglewing and the next day even shared a drink with Xavier. After spending the last night in Shade’s room, he left the mansion.
As he promised, he took Shade to the Laserzone, which was followed by a breakfast in the city. Then he turned up in a stolen car near the mansion and took Shade to the Six Flags amusement park. This resulted in them planning a vacation together, during which Shade was kidnapped and then rescued. After the vacation, Gambit went to New Orleans, where Tante Mattie gave him instructions to open up his heart and also gave a protective charm for Shade. After he met her upon his return, they went to play in Central Park and then to dance in Webster Hall.
Shade went to see Gambit after another attack on the mansion. This was (when Shade left to visit her family) followed by Jean’s visit to the Hellfire where she made out with Gambit “for old time’s sake”. When Shade returned, she and Gambit went on a roller-skating date.
Both Wanda and [Pietro Maximoff visited the Hellfire in a short span of time, with Gambit trying to flirt with Wanda and inviting Pietro on an explosive session in a scrapyard.
After Gambit and Shade stole a boat to have a date on Hudson, Gambit moved to the Institute for a short while to install the new security system at the mansion. He took up residence at the boathouse, just like back in his X-Men days. He had some conversations with the mansion’s residents, with his best friend Storm, with some of the staff. He also conducted two training sessions for Shade in Danger room. After celebrating Shade’s birthday, he concluded his job in the mansion by sleeping with Jean.
As he and Shade decided to go on a road-trip, they left the mansion together but crashed on Gambit’s bike, which resulted in
Gambit breaking his spine and being in a coma and Shade breaking her arm. Shade found him when he was moved by his brother to Hartsdale Hospital and remained by his side until he regained his consciousness and his ability to move. After that they lived in a hotel in Westchester. Gambit returned to the mansion to leave his instructions on how to manage the new security system.
While Gambit was recovering from his trauma, he and Shade entertained themselves by a posh dinner with a spy roleplay, and after that he went to New Orleans to settle some matters between the Guilds. When he returned, he met Emma Frost at the Hellfire.
Following his instinct that told him he needed to hide, he met Shade on the Brooklyn Bridge and they went to a hotel where they lived until things calmed down. In the meantime, they found a car that Gambit wanted to steal for Shade and then actually stole it. Repainted and everything.
Gambit met thief Victoria and made her an offer to become his apprentice, which she reluctantly accepted. He also helped Seer to get her son back.
When Project Wideawake was unleashed, Shade got into some Sentinel trouble and Gambit rescued her. He insisted that she stayed in his place until it became safer on the streets, and drove her to the mansion so that she could speak to Xavier and pick up her things.
After the [url=http://godsandinsects3.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=city&action=display&thread=780[/url]protests in Washington Square Park[/url], he and Shade went to get tattoos. He was teaching Victoria some useful thieving tricks, but when he left to visit his daughter and make sure she was taken good care of, he left Victoria at his apartment where she met Shade.
He also spoke with Nimrod about Sentinels, paid his annual visit to the Morlock Shrine and made a deal with Morph and Brady about helping them to start a magazine for mutants.
He and Shade saw the news coverage of the Washington, D.C., battle with Sentinels. They spent Christmas in a cabin in the mountains. After that, Gambit returned to his Hellfire business: spending time with Victoria, meeting Tabitha, who would later become his employee, taking Victoria on a large and profitable heist in Atlanta. They celebrated Shade’s birthday by
visiting the Atlantic city.
After his next thieving job turned out to be a set up, he and Shade had to flee his apartment in a hurry and under gunfire, during which Gambit was wounded and retreated to his friend Donnie’s place for recovery and some emergency treatment. After his return to business, he, Shade and Tabitha had a conversation at the Hellfire; he met Pietro on a random night in the city and had a one-night stand with Tabitha at the Hellfire.
When the Prophecy was announced at the Hellfire, Gambit was surprised to hear his name mentioned. But he soon had other matters to worry about, when Shade killed a man and he found her in the city, amnesiac. He brought her to his apartment and went looking for some information to help her. First he found the man who caused her to kill and to lose her memory; then he spoke to Storm about the predicament; then he asked an acquaintance from the police for some info; and finally Xavier arrived to the apartment to see if he could help Shade with her memories.
