I Love Rogue. Sometimes that Sucks
Earlier today in one of the Discord servers I'm on, I mentioned a poll that I saw over here asking if Rogue is an Alpha, Beta, or Omega. I thought about it along the lines of "Well she's powerful, but not world-endingly so, unless she grabs the powers of someone who is. So maybe put her at an Alpha mutant." Then I saw the Omegaverse tag on the poll and realized... that's not what they were asking at all.
I mentioned this on Discord, that got us talking about Rogue and how her power levels have fluctuated over the years, much of which I've missed because I stopped buying comics back in 1997 around the time of Operation Zero Tolerance. The conversation lasted about a half hour, then about seven hours later someone else came in and picked up the thread, so we talked about her some more. That lasted another hour and a half or so, and then after another four hours of silence someone pipes up and tells us to find something else to talk about that isn't Rogue.
Now to be fair, I have been known to go on and on about how much I love Rogue. And to repeat a bit I stole from Parks and Rec, when I say "I love Rogue" I'm afraid what you hear is "Rogue is my favorite character, she's just so amazing." What I say is "I love Rogue." So yeah, my obsession can get out of hand. But still...
And then I think they blocked me.
Self-shippers have it kind of rough. It's the rarest of rare pairs, we can count on one hand (if not one finger) the number of people who ship it. And I tend to get jealous. I feel like I have no one I can talk to about it because most (sane) people are shipping her with Gambit or Magneto, and whenever I see her with either of them I get angry. You can imagine how thrilled I was to learn they tied the knot in the comics a few years ago.
Monsoon is a character I created for the Marvel Superheroes paper-and-dice system that TSR produced way back when, expressly to represent myself in the Marvel setting and for me to vicariously have a relationship with Rogue. I've used that handle in games and online spaces for decades now My profile picture is a version of Monsoon that I created in City of Heroes, and this Discord server is full of people from that game's community. So someone over there telling me to not talk about Rogue feels like an extra slap in the face. I thought we were friends.
