OOC: Ororo Headcanons and Some Important Things Explained.

Basically, if you have ever read my RP blaaag, you will possibly want to read this. It shores up what I have in my mind when I write Ororo and just why I do some of the things I do.

I realise, however, that you will probably scroll past this because you follow me as Dash-Filler, and that’s fine. Because I will have a magnificent garden party and you, my faux friend, are not invited.

Ororo Munroe:

• There was a panel in one of the comics, quite a long while back (the 80s Australia shebang), where Ororo noted that she, like Logan, was a Berserker. She had exactly the same temper as him, but had better control due to her pacifist nature and her disbelief in violence.

This does not mean that she would not use violence, let that nature go, and become in her own way, as wild and untamed as the Wolverine and the Storm she takes her codename from. This is evidenced by her ripping out the heart of the 13-year-old Morlock girl from Gene Society with her bare hands.

My Headcanon for this is basically derived from this unexplored aspect of her nature:

Ororo Munroe is a diehard pacifist, but once she has decided that someone is too much of a threat to too many lives or someone dear to her, she will, without hesitation, end them. Both ruthless and efficiently.

• In an Origins oneshot about Ororo in the 90s, it was established that Ororo hears a very special song in her mind to calm her to guide her in times of great stress, it is her Mother’s song and her Mother’s voice she hears sing it every time. It is a song sung in a mixture of Swahili, English and the Tribal language of which peoples N’Dare was Princess.

My Headcanon is this: She hums its tune to those she feels need calming. If Kitty is frantically worried about, say, Ogun, Ororo will hug her and hum the tune lowly to soothe the fears and make the worry subside to give way to normal thought. If any of her family and friends feels the same, young or old, from Xavier to Lehnsherr, she will do the same.

To have her sing it with the words, those magical and wonderful words that only N’Dare, David and she understood, that is a different matter. To have her literally sing you the song of her people, the song that guides her, that soothes her and is always with her, in her heart. You have to be 7 or under.

• Some of you that are eagle-eyed may have realised that I never type with contractions on Ororo’s account, you probably have also realised that I capitalise all of the irregular nouns on her account too. Nouns like ‘Student’ and ‘Brother.’

The contractions thing comes from the very early appearances of Ororo in the comics, where she was very regal, very above-everything, even while being a grounded and savvy member of the X-Men. She didn’t use contractions and nor did she swear, obviously since she has now lived in the Western World for such a long time, she swear a little, but not often and still has yet to shake the ‘No-Contractions’ rule.

The second, the irregular noun capitalisation, is more psychologically based.

Take this sentence for instance: 

“Kitten is my daughter and Raven is my sister, if anyone harms them, they do so at risk of their own lives.”

It’s fine really, right?

Well yes, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that sentence. Nothing at all, in fact. But it’s a little bland psychologically speaking. These are capitalised titles that, when uncapitalised, still get across the point. however, if we compare it with this:

“Kitten is my Daughter and Raven is my Sister, if anyone harms them, they do so at risk of their own lives.”

It just looks better, huh? By capitalising the irregular nouns here, I’ve put the terms ‘daughter’ and ‘sister’ on and importance par with ‘Kitten’ and ‘Raven’ their names.

This is also visible by Ororo’s speaking and transition of ‘lover’ to ‘Lover,’ the lower-case is for when starting out and being unsure of a true title, the uppercase is when she is sure and committed to then give such a title.

• With Ororo’s opinion of you, you start out with a little sort of…Starter Pack. Let’s look at what it contains:

• Honest love, not so much affection, but a degree of love.

• Honest concern for your wellbeing.

You see, the tricky thing for most people to grasp in this situation is ‘How can you have Love without Affection?’ And that’s answered very simply.

Do you have one of those relatives? The one that you love, but you have no wish to be around? The one that could probably die and you wouldn’t be too shaken by it, but that you’d feel a nagging sense of loss for?

That is how you can have love without affection. To Ororo, affection is more intimate than love. She loves all living things, how can it possibly be selective when she says ‘I love you?’ That doesn’t cheapen the ‘I love you,’ god no, but it does mean that she loves everyone and everything.

Affection, however, is different. Affection is the words that are spoken in the dead of night at 3AM and soothe the heart, affection is when you wake up in the morning and feel that such of something in your heart at seeing the other person doing whatever. And that, to Ororo, is more potent and more reserved for Lovers than everyone.

• Ororo is a Nudist. It’s Canon, and not even Headcanon. She always has been and she always will be more comfortable with her body covered only slightly by sheer fabrics, but out of respect for those around her, she will wander around in ‘ridiculous scraps of cloth.’
• Ororo writes. I loved this aspect of her from Ultimate X-Men and decided to carry it over into my 616 portrayal of Ororo. She is a creative person, always needing to get her emotions out on paper, or in paint, or in words, or in gardening rather than causing a flash flood on the West Coast.
• Ororo has always talked to her plants and referred to them as ‘Her Children.’ She lost them all when Westchester fell and she truly feels like a Mother who has lost her children in one fell swoop. She knows the others would call it silly, but it is true. She still visits the ones at the gardens in New York, the ones she donated to them in the 80s after her ‘change.’
• Yukio and Balder, while two opposite sides of the coin personality-speaking, are the only two people on Earth who can bring their own designated sides to Ororo out. Yukio coaxes out the side that goes wild, has fun, stops caring. It is Ororo’s heart’s desire (as shown in the Crystal Palace, out of everything she could have seen, it was Yukio and Tokyo). I won’t lie, I would kill to have a Yukio RPer, and I know for a fact my excellent Logan would too. HINT HINT HINT HINT.

Balder brings out the side of her that knew there were truly good and kind people that were worth fighting for. It doesn’t matter to Ororo that he is an Aesir rather than a Human, it just matters that he is a sentient being of Adult age and has still retained his sweetness and a wiseness that only those who have lived lives so far removed seem to have.

• Ororo is canoninically Pansexual. Yes, yes she is. Yukio was her lover in Tokyo, it has actually been confirmed by Claremont, but in much the same way that Raven/Irene was hushed up, at the time, a lesbian relationship being explicitly noted was a no-no. I say ‘Pansexual’ because she has been with Aliens, Vampires and ect. However, mainly she will go for males.
• Ororo loves Erik.
  
  I tend to get a lot of questions on this subject, mainly because I interact with Eriks far more on this account than Ororo does in the recent comics, but I shall note a few things and link a few posts.
  
  Firstly, Chris Claremont (whose Ororo I have heavily based mine on) wrote that Ororo and Erik would have been a ship in the 80s, and most likely were, even through her power-loss. He left before all the hints and character-interaction build-up could come to its conclusion.
  
  Secondly, Ororo has, canoninically (that’s a word now), always held Erik dear to her. Because she has always believed that people are inherently good, and merely lose their ways. She’s the Reverse-Machiavelli, if you will.
  
  Thirdly, I link you to these posts from my personal account:
  
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