Le Diable Blanc, the White Devil. Remy LeBeau. Gambit. A many of many names, and as many titles. Thief, X-man, Scoundrel, Rogue, Gambler, Trickster. This is his story, or rather, my telling of his story in movie-verse. Heavily reliant on canon in the early parts of Remy's life, but very divergent in the X-men years because of the changes to characters such as Rogue in movie-verse. This is not a Romy story, as forewarning.
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The first whispers and rumors of Le Diable Blanc go back to the late 70's, but those rumors are only to be found within the hallowed halls of the Thieves and Assassins Guilds of New Orleans. Both legendary crime syndicates in their own rights, renowned the world over as home of the best of the best in each of their respective fields. It's no surprise that the first rumors of Le Diable Blanc originate within the Thieves Guild, all coming from one of three men. Jean-Luc LeBeau and the two men he had with him the night he stole an infant.
That is one secret even Jean-Luc never lets a whispered word of from who or where Gambit had been stolen from. As a mutant infant, he was stolen for the Antiquiary. A subset of the Guilds who was collecting mutants even before the world realized there were such a thing as mutants, years before even one Jean Grey would have a mental break down or be found by Charles Xavier.
It was a daring theft though, but one which Jean-Luc LeBeau topped with an even more daring Theft. He stole the infant back from the Antiquary no less then two weeks later, unable to live with himself at pushing a child into that kind of life that he had haunted nightmares about. So it was that the young infant would temporarily find a home to be raised in, but the Patriarch had a plan even if no one else knew about it. A cruel plan, but a plan none the less. He needed the devil eyed child to be strong, and he knew only one way to ensure that.
And thus begins Gambit's tale.