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''This page is about the [[:Category: Phase 2|Phase 2]] incarnation of the character. For other uses, see [[Bobby Drake (disambiguation)]].''
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| name    = Bobby Drake
 
| name    = Bobby Drake
| image  = Bobby.jpg
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| image  = MOA Iceman2.png
| pb = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039162/ Shawn Ashmore]
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| pb = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3729721/ Dylan O'Brien]
 
| codename = Iceman
 
| codename = Iceman
| teams  = [[X-Men]]  
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| teams  = [[Generation X]]
| birthdate = April 22, 1985
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| birthdate = June 28, 1998
| journal =  [http://x-coldhands.livejournal.com/profile x_coldhands]
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| journal =  [https://xp-iceman.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_iceman]
| player = Available for application
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| player = Available For Applications
 
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{{Unplayed Character}}
 
  
One of the longest-term residents of the mansion, Bobby has grown from an insecure teenager into an X-Man and teacher. He is married to [[Theresa Cassidy]].
 
  
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''Someday, though, Milesy. Someday we'll hang a sock on that door.''
  
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A wisecracker and practical joker, Bobby has managed to find his feet in the world had gone out to experience it on his own.
  
 
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== '''Details''' ==
 
== '''Details''' ==
  
'''Character Journal:''' [http://x-coldhands.livejournal.com/profile x_coldhands]
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'''Character Journal:''' [https://xp-iceman.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_iceman]
  
'''Real Name''': Robert "Bobby" Louis Drake
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'''Real Name''': Robert Louis Drake
  
 
'''Codename''': Iceman
 
'''Codename''': Iceman
  
'''Aliases''':  
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'''Aliases''': Bobby
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'''First Appearance''': [https://xp-iceman.dreamwidth.org/548.html February 3, 2015]
  
'''First Appearance''': [http://x-coldhands.livejournal.com/2003/05/09/ May 9th, 2003]
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'''Date of Birth''': June 28, 1998
  
'''Date of Birth''': April 22, 1985
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'''Place of Birth''': Long Island, NY
  
'''Place of Birth''': Boston, MA
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'''Citizenship''': American
  
'''Citizenship''': United States
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'''Relatives''': William Robert Drake (father), Madeline Beatrice Bass-Drake (mother)
  
'''Relatives''': William Robert Drake (Father), Madeline Beatrice Bass Drake (Mother), Ronald "Ronnie" Drake (Brother)
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'''Education''': Graduate of Bayville Charter High
  
'''Education''': Graduate of [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]], some college--accounting courses
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'''Relationship Status''': Dating [[Miles Morales]]
  
'''Relationship Status''': Married -- [[Theresa Cassidy]]
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'''Occupation''': None
  
'''Occupation''': [[Elpis]] employee, Math Teacher; as of [[April 2007]], caretaker/bookkeeper - [[Cassidy Keep]]
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'''Team Affiliation''': [[Generation X]]
  
'''Team Affiliation''': [[X-Men]] (former member - on sabbatical leave)
 
  
 
== '''Biography''' ==
 
== '''Biography''' ==
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=== '''Childhood''' ===
 
=== '''Childhood''' ===
  
Bobby, the eldest of two sons, lived a relatively normal life until his manifestation as a mutant. Keeping his powers from his family, he eventually was enrolled in [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]], telling his parents it was a prep school. His parents, being the types to accept everything as normal regardless, asked no more questions.
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Bobby was always an attention seeker, practically from birth, even though he was a single child. He loved cracking wise and making jokes, which his mother would often laugh at and just shake her head, while his father would frown and scold him disapprovingly. Likewise, once he was old enough to attend school he made every effort to make his classmates laugh, while his teachers tried (and failed) to keep him in line.
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His powers first manifested when he was thirteen years old. Some of his fellow students were picking on him at school, which wasn’t unusual, however one day he’d had enough and started fighting back. It was in the winter months and there was snow around, and the bullies were pelting him with snowballs while holding him to the snow. When his powers kicked in the kids holding his arms down yelped in shock as Bobby’s body grew cold enough for them to feel through his clothes, one of them even getting frostbite on his fingers. Once he was free, Bobby leapt to his feet and starting throwing snowballs at his assailants with enough force to knock them down and backwards - it was only after they all fled that he realized he hadn’t actually picked up any snow.
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Bobby kept his powers secret after they manifested. He experimented with them in private when he could, trying to figure out just exactly what he could and couldn’t do, and what triggered them so he wouldn’t do it in public. Thanks to word getting out about his last fight he was mostly left alone by his classmates and he never had to use his powers in self defence again; however, he did use them to help with practical jokes and to annoy those who had picked on him in the past. While life at school had gotten better, his home life had not. His father was especially hard on him, and when his grades started to slip more and more as he got more popular by focusing more on joking and goofing off, his dad punished him for less and less. Tension between them grew to the point that they were fighting on a daily basis, which was extremely hard on his mother. When his father finally pushed him too far and Bobby used his powers on him, freezing his fists and decking him hard, his mother had no choice but to side with her husband and reluctantly started looking at boarding schools for her son.
  
 
=== '''Living At The X-Mansion''' ===
 
=== '''Living At The X-Mansion''' ===
  
Bobby spent eight years at the school as both student and graduate/teacher. He steadily gained control over his powers over time, but the events of [[X2]] left his family situation a mess. Betrayed by his brother to the police, his parents frightened of him, Bobby took things very hard, becoming quiet and withdrawn. His relationship with [[Marie D'Ancato]] suffered as well, with the young couple breaking up only weeks after the invasion. This was partly spurred by Bobby's conflicting relationship with [[John Allerdyce]], who admitted romantic feelings for the other boy that were not returned. John's defection to the [[Brotherhood of Mutants]] almost destroyed the friendship entirely, with things being slowly mended via IM over many months. Things derailed further when, after [[X-Men Mission: Pyro| John's return]], Bobby was replaced by the shapeshifter [[Mystique]] for several months, who did her level best to emotionally torture John, as well as disrupting the school in general.
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As hard as he had tried to keep his secret under wraps, word about his mutant abilities reached Xavier’s somehow and strings were pulled to get him into the school. There he learned how to control his powers and how to push them even further, gaining enough control to turn his whole body into not just snow but ice, and how to travel quickly via ice sliding. Bobby is still working on the finer control and full extent of his powers, and became a member of [[Generation X]] at the school to help with that.
  
The deception was discovered in [[November 2003]], when, during [[X-Men Mission: Lowenstein| a mission to rescue the son of a senator]] from the [[FOH]], Bobby was found in a shed, having been physically and sexually abused. He was rescued and brought back to the school, but recovery was long in coming. He was helped by his friend (and later roommate) [[Angelo Espinosa]], who protected the older boy as much as he was able. An unfortunately encounter with the [[Psionics| empath]] [[Manuel de la Rocha]] in the kitchen set Bobby's recovery back and began a long-term enmity between Manuel and Angelo.
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Bobby lived a mostly quiet life at the school, participating in Gen X activities and classes and going to school with the other teens. He made friends easily with his fellow Gen X:ers, his easy going personality allowing him to fit in. He made especially good friends with his roommate, [[Miles Morales]], the two of them bonding over their lamentations of being single. In October they went to Homecoming together, cementing their epic bromance (and were easily the best couple at the dance). He even got to put his Gen X training to good use in December when a Gen X field trip was interrupted by a car accident, and they helped the victims.
  
Over time Bobby began to rebuild his life. The departures of both Marie and John from the school gave him the chance to focus on the future, rather than the past, and he was able to reconcile - to a degree - with his family, although his brother Ronny would never be fully comfortable with him and would eventually become interested in the FOH (a fact Bobby would discover Christmas of 2005). Given Bobby's experiences of the group, discovery of this was not taken well. The arrival of a new student with no memory of her past - [[Jane Doe]] - brought more change, but of a positive sort, as the two began tentatively dating. The relationship was strained by Bobby's frequent absences during this time, and eventually ended when Jane left the school to seek out her identity.
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=== '''2016-17''' ===
  
As a college student, Bobby remained at the school, teaching mathematics and training with the [[X-Men]], and later joining [[Nathan Dayspring | Nathan Dayspring's]] NGO [[Elpis]]. He also began a rather tempestuous relationship with fellow long-term Xavier's resident, [[Theresa Cassidy]]. All this was nearly jeopardised when Terry thought she was pregnant, with Bobby offering to marry her and getting it all wrong. Another blow came when Bobby was seduced by [[Not So Plain Jane| Jane]], [[Jean Grey| Jean Grey's]] alter ego, who sent video footage of the event to her husband and Bobby's team leader [[Scott Summers]]. Terry also found out, and the relationship only barely survived. However, after Terry's [[Emerald Isle| brief excursion]] with [[Tom Cassidy| her uncle]], the two reconciled. In August of 2007, they took a trip to Las Vegas, where they 'accidentally' got married.  When word leaked out, reactions were mixed, given the young age of both of them, and the rather rocky history of their relationship.
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Bobby and his roommate, [[Miles Morales|Miles]], continued to get on well in the beginning of the year. A bump in the road came up, however, when it was eventually revealed that Miles was in fact Spider-Man - at least one of the Spider Men, at any rate. The revelation that his roommate had been hiding this big secret from him hurt Bobby worse than he would've thought, and, while he was fairly quick to put it behind him (he was living with the guy, after all), it left him wondering just why it had hurt him so much in the first place.
  
==='''Further Information'''===
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2017 was a quiet one for Bobby. He largely flew under the radar, hanging with his friends and living a decent life. He graduated from Bayville Charter and moved into the senior suites when Miles moved out of the mansion to live in the dorms with his friend Ganke, and managed to avoid the drama of mansion life, lucky for him.
  
In 2007, a most unexpected Christmas gift from [[Sean Cassidy]] presented Bobby and his young wife with a dilemma. As Sean was returning to Interpol, he handed over [[Cassidy Keep]] to his daughter and her husband. With Terry still completing college, it was decided that Bobby would quit his place on the team and with Elpis and go live at the Keep, making sure things ran smoothly, with Terry visiting periodically. These plans were delayed, however, when Elpis' office in Tell Aviv was [[Kaiten| bombed]], requiring Bobby to stay on and help with things. When Elpis was sufficiently back on its feet, he left, although not without one last fight with Terry. The pair made up, however, and Terry joined Bobby at the Keep when classes.  They had their 'real' wedding in August while living in the middle of a full renovation/restoration of the Keep.
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=== '''Time Passes''' ===
  
In [[November 2007]], Bobby decided to go back to school and earn his teaching degree. However, mindful of his responsibilities to the Keep, he chose to do that degree by correspondence at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He and Terry continue their relationship long-distance, with her contacting him and visiting him regularly.  
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2018 was less quiet. Bobby was, unfortunately, one of the victims [[Sins of the Father | of a curse sweeping through the mansion to use as leverage against someone else]]. He spent several days in the med lab, feeling as if he was burning from the inside out, before the curse was finally broken.  He later got to assist in helping fight actual fires [[Set Fire to the Rain | when a fire android attacked the city]], and then was trapped in an illusion when a [[The Danger Room Paradox | Danger Room experiment went wrong]]. He earned a quiet 2019 and 2020 after that. He left the mansion in 2022 to move in with Miles and finally go back to school.
  
 
== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
 
== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
  
  
'''Height''': 6' 1"
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'''Height''': 5'10”
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'''Weight''': 150 lbs.
  
'''Weight''':  
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'''Eyes''': Brown
  
'''Eyes''': Blue
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'''Hair''': Brown
  
'''Hair''': Blonde-brown
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'''Other Features''': None
  
'''Other Features''':  In 2006, Bobby discovered his 'ice form' during a training session - in this form, he appears to consist of solid ice.
 
  
 
== '''Powers''' ==
 
== '''Powers''' ==
  
An Omega-level mutant, Bobby is able to lower his body temperature without causing harm to himself, reaching minus 105°F within a few tenths of a second. He is able to freeze any moisture in the air around him into unusually hard ice to various projectiles and shields including walls, slides and statues. Iceman is immune to sub-zero temperatures. He is also able to transform his body into pure organic ice (similar to the organic steel of Colossus) in which his strength and endurance were augmented to greatly enhanced levels. Iceman is also able to reconstitute his ice-form if any part of it is damaged without harm to himself.  He has very high level of control over ambient temperature as well as his own body temperature.
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Iceman is able to lower his external and internal body temperature without harm to himself, thereby radiating intense cold from his body. Iceman is able to reach -105 degrees Fahrenheit within a few seconds, and is immune to sub-zero temperatures around him. In addition, Iceman can freeze any moisture in the air around him into unusually hard ice, and thereby form simple objects such as slides, ladders, shields, and bats. Iceman can augment his ice form with extraneous moisture to enhance his strength and durability, and can reshape his body's ice form at will by using any available moisture from his surrounding environment. Similarly, Iceman can rebuild his ice form if any part of it is broken or if it is shattered completely without suffering any permanent damage.  
  
The outer limits of Bobby's power have not been explored, however he once used his powers to cool Haroun until a thin layer of ice for 2 hours straight before needing a break.
 
 
Bobby enjoys using his powers for the enjoyment of others, creating ice sculptures, making ice cream and playing in the snow with the kids.
 
  
 
== '''Equipment''' ==
 
== '''Equipment''' ==
  
None.
 
  
 
== '''Trivia''' ==
 
== '''Trivia''' ==
  
Bobby is known for making ice cream of unusual flavours, such as the Pastrami Swirl he created for [[Catseye]].
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Bobby is a huge New York Islanders fan, and his most prized possession is an old Mike Bossy jersey that his father gave him.
  
== '''Plots''' ==
 
  
===2003===
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=='''External Links'''==
  
[[X2]]
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+bobby+drake xp_communication posts]
  
[[X-Men Mission: Lowenstein]]
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+bobby+drake xp_journal posts]
  
===2004===
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+bobby+drake xp_logs posts]
  
[[British Invasion]]
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[https://xp-generation-x.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+bobby+drake xp_generation_x posts]
  
[[Love Potion Number Nine]]
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== '''Plots''' ==
  
===2005===
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===2015===
  
[[X-Men Mission: Hole in the World]]
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[[December 2015|Roadside Assistance]] - ''event''
  
[[X-Men Mission: Mutant Michelangelo]]
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===2016===
  
[[X-Men Mission: Nimrod]]
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[[Something Slender This Way Comes]]
  
[[Just One Drug]]
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[[Endangered Species]]
  
[[Upgrade]]
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===2017===
  
[[Mutants and Molotovs]]
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[[With Extreme Prejudice]]
  
===2006===
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[[Green-Eyed Monster]]
  
[[Not So Plain Jane]]
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===2018===
  
[[X-Men Mission: The Perfect Nanny]]
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[[Sins of the Father]]
  
[[The Rictor Effect]]
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[[Set Fire to the Rain]]
  
[[Buzkashi]]
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[[The Danger Room Paradox]]
  
[[Believing Is Seeing]]
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===2021===
  
[[Voices Carry]]
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[[A Fistful of Nanites]]
  
===2007===
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[[Potomac Calls to Chesapeake]]
  
[[X-Men Mission: Leverage]]
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[[Monster Mash]]
 
 
[[Kaiten]]
 
 
 
[[Homecoming]]
 
  
 
== Meta ==
 
== Meta ==
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'''Player''':  
 
'''Player''':  
  
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'''E-mail''':   
 
 
'''AIM''':
 
 
 
'''Player Icon Base''':  [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039162/ Shawn Ashmore]
 
 
 
'''Meta Trivia''': Bobby's first player was also one of the co-creators of the game, Queer as John, making his journal one of the oldest in the game. [[Jess]] picked Bobby up in 2003, and played him until 2007.
 
  
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'''Player Icon Base''':  [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3729721/ Dylan O'Brien]
  
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'''Meta Trivia'''
  
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Bobby was first introduced to [[:Category: Phase 1|Phase 1]] X-Project. That version was replaced by Jeff's version, who played him until 2022.
  
[[Category: Characters]]
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[[Category: 2015]]
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[[Category: Unplayed Characters]]

Latest revision as of 14:11, 23 October 2023

This character is currently unplayed, but is open for applications. If you are interested in applying for this character, you can contact the mods at x_moderators @ googlegroups . com and you can find the application form here.


This page is about the Phase 2 incarnation of the character. For other uses, see Bobby Drake (disambiguation).

PHASE 2
Bobby Drake
MOA Iceman2.png
Portrayed by Dylan O'Brien
Codename: Iceman
Affiliations: Generation X
Birthdate: June 28, 1998
Journal: xp_iceman
Player: Available For Applications


Someday, though, Milesy. Someday we'll hang a sock on that door.

A wisecracker and practical joker, Bobby has managed to find his feet in the world had gone out to experience it on his own.


Details

Character Journal: xp_iceman


Real Name: Robert Louis Drake

Codename: Iceman

Aliases: Bobby

First Appearance: February 3, 2015

Date of Birth: June 28, 1998

Place of Birth: Long Island, NY

Citizenship: American

Relatives: William Robert Drake (father), Madeline Beatrice Bass-Drake (mother)

Education: Graduate of Bayville Charter High

Relationship Status: Dating Miles Morales

Occupation: None

Team Affiliation: Generation X


Biography

Childhood

Bobby was always an attention seeker, practically from birth, even though he was a single child. He loved cracking wise and making jokes, which his mother would often laugh at and just shake her head, while his father would frown and scold him disapprovingly. Likewise, once he was old enough to attend school he made every effort to make his classmates laugh, while his teachers tried (and failed) to keep him in line.

His powers first manifested when he was thirteen years old. Some of his fellow students were picking on him at school, which wasn’t unusual, however one day he’d had enough and started fighting back. It was in the winter months and there was snow around, and the bullies were pelting him with snowballs while holding him to the snow. When his powers kicked in the kids holding his arms down yelped in shock as Bobby’s body grew cold enough for them to feel through his clothes, one of them even getting frostbite on his fingers. Once he was free, Bobby leapt to his feet and starting throwing snowballs at his assailants with enough force to knock them down and backwards - it was only after they all fled that he realized he hadn’t actually picked up any snow.

Bobby kept his powers secret after they manifested. He experimented with them in private when he could, trying to figure out just exactly what he could and couldn’t do, and what triggered them so he wouldn’t do it in public. Thanks to word getting out about his last fight he was mostly left alone by his classmates and he never had to use his powers in self defence again; however, he did use them to help with practical jokes and to annoy those who had picked on him in the past. While life at school had gotten better, his home life had not. His father was especially hard on him, and when his grades started to slip more and more as he got more popular by focusing more on joking and goofing off, his dad punished him for less and less. Tension between them grew to the point that they were fighting on a daily basis, which was extremely hard on his mother. When his father finally pushed him too far and Bobby used his powers on him, freezing his fists and decking him hard, his mother had no choice but to side with her husband and reluctantly started looking at boarding schools for her son.

Living At The X-Mansion

As hard as he had tried to keep his secret under wraps, word about his mutant abilities reached Xavier’s somehow and strings were pulled to get him into the school. There he learned how to control his powers and how to push them even further, gaining enough control to turn his whole body into not just snow but ice, and how to travel quickly via ice sliding. Bobby is still working on the finer control and full extent of his powers, and became a member of Generation X at the school to help with that.

Bobby lived a mostly quiet life at the school, participating in Gen X activities and classes and going to school with the other teens. He made friends easily with his fellow Gen X:ers, his easy going personality allowing him to fit in. He made especially good friends with his roommate, Miles Morales, the two of them bonding over their lamentations of being single. In October they went to Homecoming together, cementing their epic bromance (and were easily the best couple at the dance). He even got to put his Gen X training to good use in December when a Gen X field trip was interrupted by a car accident, and they helped the victims.

2016-17

Bobby and his roommate, Miles, continued to get on well in the beginning of the year. A bump in the road came up, however, when it was eventually revealed that Miles was in fact Spider-Man - at least one of the Spider Men, at any rate. The revelation that his roommate had been hiding this big secret from him hurt Bobby worse than he would've thought, and, while he was fairly quick to put it behind him (he was living with the guy, after all), it left him wondering just why it had hurt him so much in the first place.

2017 was a quiet one for Bobby. He largely flew under the radar, hanging with his friends and living a decent life. He graduated from Bayville Charter and moved into the senior suites when Miles moved out of the mansion to live in the dorms with his friend Ganke, and managed to avoid the drama of mansion life, lucky for him.

Time Passes

2018 was less quiet. Bobby was, unfortunately, one of the victims of a curse sweeping through the mansion to use as leverage against someone else. He spent several days in the med lab, feeling as if he was burning from the inside out, before the curse was finally broken. He later got to assist in helping fight actual fires when a fire android attacked the city, and then was trapped in an illusion when a Danger Room experiment went wrong. He earned a quiet 2019 and 2020 after that. He left the mansion in 2022 to move in with Miles and finally go back to school.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'10”

Weight: 150 lbs.

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Brown

Other Features: None


Powers

Iceman is able to lower his external and internal body temperature without harm to himself, thereby radiating intense cold from his body. Iceman is able to reach -105 degrees Fahrenheit within a few seconds, and is immune to sub-zero temperatures around him. In addition, Iceman can freeze any moisture in the air around him into unusually hard ice, and thereby form simple objects such as slides, ladders, shields, and bats. Iceman can augment his ice form with extraneous moisture to enhance his strength and durability, and can reshape his body's ice form at will by using any available moisture from his surrounding environment. Similarly, Iceman can rebuild his ice form if any part of it is broken or if it is shattered completely without suffering any permanent damage.


Equipment

Trivia

Bobby is a huge New York Islanders fan, and his most prized possession is an old Mike Bossy jersey that his father gave him.


External Links

xp_communication posts

xp_journal posts

xp_logs posts

xp_generation_x posts

Plots

2015

Roadside Assistance - event

2016

Something Slender This Way Comes

Endangered Species

2017

With Extreme Prejudice

Green-Eyed Monster

2018

Sins of the Father

Set Fire to the Rain

The Danger Room Paradox

2021

A Fistful of Nanites

Potomac Calls to Chesapeake

Monster Mash

Meta

Player:

E-mail:

Player Icon Base: Dylan O'Brien

Meta Trivia

Bobby was first introduced to Phase 1 X-Project. That version was replaced by Jeff's version, who played him until 2022.