Gabby Kinney

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1. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?

Gabby cares very deeply about the people who she claims as family. Along with the obvious (the other sisters, Laura, Jonathan the actual wolverine) that includes other Wolverine clones, other clones in general, the other kids on Krakoa, and Deadpool. She’s already lost too many people, so she will protect anyone she still has fiercely, even if it means going behind their back and getting a little underhanded. It’s not that Gabby’s a bad person, exactly. It’s that she finds moral quagmires almost as boring as the traditional Wolverine machismo. She knows, for instance, that Laura couldn’t/wouldn’t accept an apartment as recompense for saving New York, so she just accepted while Laura wasn’t around. She’s simply deeply practical.

While Gabby is only heroic in the traditional sense because of Laura, there are things she cares very deeply about, and one of them is other clones. Is it wrong that people keep cloning Logan and Laura (and others) without their permission? Of course. But that’s not the clone’s fault. And Gabby wants to help other clones as much as she can. She’s gotten to become her own person. They should get to too.

2. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take: best, worst, most likely?

In the Old Woman Laura possible future arc, she’s now Wolverine and has a really really gay haircut, so that’s a thing.

But really, the most likely future for Gabby is one where she continues to be a hero. She loves Laura and her mutant family, and this is what they do as a family, so she’s there for it. She isn’t especially innately heroic, and she doesn’t feel the urge to make up for her past misdeeds, but she still throws herself into heroics 110% because that’s how she does everything.

Bad end would be what would happen if something happened to Laura, something permanent and irreversible. Gabby would not hesitate to take bloody, bloody vengeance and could, if pressed the right way, end up going to a very dark place. Supervillain Gabby would be terrifying because she still isn’t interested in following the usual tropes. For instance, she will not evil monologue her plan and she’s perfectly cool with an underling killing her. She doesn’t do things for pride. She doesn’t care if you know how clever she is. She just wants you dead.

Wacky future that isn’t likely but would be hilarious is teaming up with Wade as Kid Deadpool. It’s not exactly likely, but they’ve teamed up before, so one can dream! He showed her how to use chloroform.

3. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?

Gabby acts about the same around friends and strangers: cheerful, colorful, and adorable. This is the real her, in most ways, but it also is a bit of a shield. People underestimate you when you’re covered in butterfly stickers. She has more going on inside than she wants to let on, most of the time. But she’s observant as hell, and when she sees someone who needs help or seems to be in trouble, especially if it’s someone being used, the way she’s been used so many times in the past, she will step in and say something. She cares too much not to.

4. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?

Right now, Gabby mostly just wants friendship and understanding and safety. She gets it by being a ray of sunshine and utterly adorable. Who wouldn’t love a kid as cute as her? Again, this isn’t exactly a lie, but it’s not the whole truth either. She really is genuinely the person she appears to be. She’s just also entirely aware of how she comes off and the ways it can be useful.

She isn’t really looking for closer friendships than the ones she has. She likes casual friendships because casual friendships can be all fun and no drama and no digging deep into past traumas that may be painful to explore.

5. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?

Gabby’s a very go-with-the-flow type person. She lives in a world with gods and talking trees and other ridiculous nonsense. Her best friend is Deadpool. So she doesn’t really understand the world, but she’s cool with that. The world is an incredibly weird place, but she’s the clone of a half-clone of an ancient mutant who was dead for a while and now isn’t anymore, so who’s she to talk?

6. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions?

Gabby would say that she relies more on her gut than her mind because she doesn’t think of herself as an intellectual, but in some ways it is her mind that drives her. She’s just very good at slicing through to the meat of an issue and approaches issues without too many preconceptions. For better or for worse. She certainly thinks for better.

7. What is something others might find intolerable about them? cw: self harm

Well, some people HATE FUN so they’d clearly struggle to tolerate her. BUT THEY ARE WRONG.

More seriously her rather lax attitude towards morals and general nonchalance about her dark past could disturb people. Especially since she’s a thirteen year old girl and people don’t really expect thirteen year old girls to have murdered people and to be fairly blase about this fact. She also cut off her middle finger as a present to Deadpool once and that’s her sense of humor. She doesn’t feel pain and it grows back but like. She cut off her finger. Lightly. That attitude would absolutely get under a lot of peoples’ skin.