I didn't know that he didn't have a secondary mutation - oops. I heard that after House of M he was 'depowered' until Emma got him to realise it was all in his head.
It was the secondary mutation and being depowered that were in his head. If he'd actually had a secondary mutation to make him all ice all the time, he wouldn't have been able to trick himself into thinking he was bog standard human again. (Not that he ever was.)
It's very weird to me that he was sucked along into both trends, and I therefore think someone was messing with his head, or else he's got an undocumented receptive empathic sensitivity, which would make a hell of a lot more sense for his character, in some ways. And having telepaths romping around your brain for so many years might mess you up that way. I mean, Xavier brainwashed him from the start -- Bobby didn't want to join up, and his parents didn't want to let him, and Xavier made them go along with it while he was busy making everyone else forget about the whole "Bobby Drake is a mutant and we tried to kill him" thing.
Like I said, I'm not sure I'm going to come back to this story. I have other ones I'm working on, and some of them involve skiing. <.< I'm always working on many more things than I actually finish, though.
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Date: 2008-03-17 07:45 pm (UTC)It was the secondary mutation and being depowered that were in his head. If he'd actually had a secondary mutation to make him all ice all the time, he wouldn't have been able to trick himself into thinking he was bog standard human again. (Not that he ever was.)
It's very weird to me that he was sucked along into both trends, and I therefore think someone was messing with his head, or else he's got an undocumented receptive empathic sensitivity, which would make a hell of a lot more sense for his character, in some ways. And having telepaths romping around your brain for so many years might mess you up that way. I mean, Xavier brainwashed him from the start -- Bobby didn't want to join up, and his parents didn't want to let him, and Xavier made them go along with it while he was busy making everyone else forget about the whole "Bobby Drake is a mutant and we tried to kill him" thing.
Like I said, I'm not sure I'm going to come back to this story. I have other ones I'm working on, and some of them involve skiing. <.< I'm always working on many more things than I actually finish, though.