Be the clown, turn the frowns upside down. Spout lame puns so they roll their eyes, and hopefully they won't meet your sad ones.
Be loud, be wild be the life of the party, so others won't know how dull your life really is.
Be a snowman, be a Popsicle, build an icy wonderland, and maybe, just maybe, they can't see how frozen numb you are inside
To be labeled as one of the most powerful mutants, an omega level mutant, but still unable to show why. Having younger mutants strolling around saving the world while you still struggle to be half as good as they are.
In possession of a force of nature for your entire life, only to have someone else exploit them in ways you never knew. And because of that you try so hard to find your place in the team only to insult your team mates and be despised by many.
You try, you try really hard to keep it in, but your ice walls still fail, just like everything you've done. So you made a decision, to use your gift to cast a mask, so others can't see you. Then you encased yourself so others can't feel you. And finally, you completely solidified yourself so you can't feel.
Forever overlooked, forever brushed past. But at least the others are happy, at least you're not in their way.
To always be called the "Iceman", but forever known as the "that guy".
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[AN]
I've always felt Robert Louis Drake has often been misunderstood and misinterpreted as just a simple goofy jock, his character is much more complex than that. He's always felt the need for humor, so the people around him doesn't feel the pain he feels. I don't know, that's just my interpretation, but somehow I'm able to relate to him ¯\(°_o)/¯ .