Roxanne Washington

Roxanne Washington was born into hip-hop "royalty" as the daughter of Roy "Daddy Libido" Washington and Angel "Sexy Mutha" Depres. Having appeared in her parents' rap videos from a young age, Washington was often targeted by would-be kidnappers and assassins.

Destined to follow in her parents' footsteps, Washington turned her back on that life and enrolled as a student at the Xavier Institute under the tutelage of Gambit. Washington was more concerned with improving herself rather than the escalating human/mutant situation. Her school record showed her to be a good and attentive student with a strong sense of responsibility.

As a member of Gambit's squad, the Chevaliers, Washington was forced to deal with the arrival of newcomer Foxx's infatuation with her teacher. Until Foxx was revealed to be the shapeshifting Mystique, Bling! also nursed an attraction towards the villain's disguise.

Bling! retained her powers after M-Day. She helped Havok's squad during the Sentinels' arrival and Apocalypse's return due to lack of members, Polaris' de-powerment, Wolverine's frequent disappearances, and Gambit's betrayal. Bling! was captured by Belasco in Limbo, alongside most of the other students.

When the X-Men moved to San Francisco and set up a new base in California, Bling! followed. She helped to control the riot surrounding the Proposition X, legislation which attempted to limit mutant reproduction, pushed by Simon Trask and his anti-mutant group, the Humanity Now! Coalition. During the final fight on Utopia, Bling! teamed up with Frenzy and Nekra in taking on Ms. Marvel.

Eventually Roxanne and a host of other mutants on Utopia chose to split from Cyclops's group to side with Logan's X-faction instead during the Schism. Logan's group became a part of the new Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Bling, while still a student, would come to terms with a number of personal issues: her lesbianism when she tries to consort with Mercury; battling an old X-Foes sibling Arkea; joining a teen strike force against evil alternate universe doppelgangers aligned with the Young Avengers; dealing with a future Brotherhood of Evil Mutants during the Battle of the Atom; and helping Jubilee babysit and retrieve her kidnapped adopted child Shogo.

Bling! was one of the many mutants that joined the mutant nation of Krakoa upon its creation.