So some interesting updates on what I've learned about the whole living again thing. First off Finley is probably some made up name cause I'm Anna Marie/ Rogue, well I'm her but a guy which is a nice thing to keep would have been a bit weird otherwise but we're good I kept my manly bits. My memory of her is limited to a couple fanfictions I read when I was bored after watching some of the X-men movies and a few quick scans of her wiki page to figure out who she was. Good news is she has a super strong ability. Bad news is she couldn't control it until some mental blocks of some sort were lifted I was somewhat curious to know if I would have these same mental blocks considering they were probably from the trauma of the sudden absorption of her boyfriends life as I remember. More bad news was mutants aren't always born with their abilities active and the fact that my parents are still breathing means I'm much the same. Good news Is I vaguely remember stressful situations being a way to activate a mutants latent powers which is why I'm climbing a tree with a box holding a squirrel I caught with a trap in it.
Ok what does that have to do with awakening your powers Nate? You may be asking well yes that is still my name and very simple. Falling out of a tree is very stressful and I'm 60% sure that Rogue could absorb any living creatures abilities meaning that if I hold the squirrel while jumping out of this 40 foot tall tree I should activate my powers and squirrels are one of the few animals able to survive a fall from any height so I should be able to use some of that to not die! Ok yea not my brightest idea but seeing a 5 year old jump out of a tree to try to become part squirrel is probably pretty entertaining! So enjoy the show godly dude!
Once I reached the top of the tree I pulled the box out from where I stuffed it up the back of my shirt and slowly reached my hand inside taking care to not let the squirrel out once I had a good grip on its head so it couldn't bite me I reached my other hand inside and wrapped it around the back of its torso to prevent it from wiggling free from my grip and then pulled it out and letting the box fall to the ground. Then jumped off the top of the tree without preamble.
Once I started falling I quickly realized how stupid of an idea that was. I smacked into a branch that was lower and longer then the rest causing the squirrel to escape my grasp and me to probably break my arm, continued my free fall now panicking cause my plan to use the squirrels abilities was now shot considering it was no longer in my grasp and I was probably going to die. This was definitely not the plan but maybe it would get a chuckle from the god when I died, that was when, by some stupid luck I slammed onto another branch that just so happened to have a birds nest with a mother bird trying to protect her young hatchlings from the falling debris with her wings, until that debris was me and I fell on top of her more specifically the part of my stomach that had ridden up fron the air pushing it slightly up my torso just enough for me to land on the mother bird and for just a split second, drain enough lifeforce that my bones hollowed out my body threw feathers and my arms morphed into a mix of wings and arms.
And then I used them to barely break my fall before the power I had drained in that split second ran out and I fell the last 5 feet to the ground where I fell hard and slowly faded from consciousness to the sight of my mom running over with a worried look in her eyes.
I was definitely going to get chewed out later but.. I unlocked my powers! Oh shit I unlocked my powers.
The sudden adrenaline rush of realizing I'd likely kill someone if they touched me to move me shocked me back into an aware mind where I then scrambled to my feet and put on a tough face the adrenaline definitely helped out a lot and I was just barely able to convince my mom that I was totally fine and she didn't need to put my face in her hands or grab my arm to inspect me.
"You're sure you're alright sweetie." My still concerned mother asked me as we walked through the door to our house.
"Yes mom I'm totally fine." I responded, 100% a lie but one I needed to sell. "I need to get some gloves through, so I don't lose my grip again, can I use dads old gloves?"
My dad had skipped out when I was 2, said I was a fucked up kid because I never cried complained and just sat quietly most of the day unlike his friends kids. He did leave a bunch of his old stuff amongst which I knew where a pair of leather gloves that while being too big on me were better than nothing.
"Yea sure sweetie their upstairs attic in the box with his stuff." She looked conflicted but ultimately agreed seeing my hopeful expression. Sometimes I felt bad lying to her but ultimately I just wanted to live a life of fun, she was a comic book character who barely had any actual significance to universe besides birthing Rogue.
From that day on I never let anyone touch me, always wore long pants and long sleeves, and I never took off my gloves. I became untouchable from that day on.
That's not to say I didn't ever use my powers again, Quite the contrary actually, Everything and everyone a battery I could use to strengthen myself. Quite a few people were found randomly collapsed around town after that day with seemingly no reason why they had just suddenly died on the spot.
