Tbh I don't understand anyone who denies their favorite character's flaws and acts like they've never done anything wrong when that is like consistently the most interesting part of any character ever
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Tbh I don't understand anyone who denies their favorite character's flaws and acts like they've never done anything wrong when that is like consistently the most interesting part of any character ever
Let's play a game:
But make it Gambit!
Post your prompt and see the magic happen!
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Whatif_GambitEdition/profile
Okay!
Hey, is rogue a major part of gambit's life that he couldn't breathe without her?
Weird. Gambit seemed to be breathing just fine long before Rogue.
Rogue is his great romantic love, but she isn’t the absolute center of his life. She doesn’t define his existence.
Gambit was already a fully developed character before his relationship with Rogue. He has his own identity, past, and conflicts. Many of Gambit’s most important stories don’t revolve around her.
There are people just as influential—or even more so—in his life:
Jean-Luc LeBeau: The patriarch of the Thieves’ Guild who raised him. He adopted him when he was an abandoned child and trained him as a thief. He defines his cultural identity: New Orleans, the guilds, the thief’s code of honor. To Gambit, Jean-Luc is real family.
Tante Mattie: She is practically Gambit’s mother figure. A balm amid the harshness of being part of the guild. She is one of the few people around whom Gambit doesn’t pretend or manipulate. With Mattie, a different Remy emerges—more relaxed, more vulnerable, more son than thief.
Bella Donna: His wife from his youth. Their relationship unites the thieves’ and assassins’ guilds. The chaos of that marriage shapes Gambit’s life. For years, Bella was as emotionally important to him as Rogue.
Storm: An underrated connection. She trusted Gambit when no one else did. He helped her when she lost her powers and became a child again. They share a relationship of deep loyalty.
Laura Kinney: One of Gambit’s most interesting relationships.
He acts as a mentor and protector, an older brother or father figure. Laura respects and trusts him more than she usually trusts others, and this is significant because Laura distrusts almost everyone.
Rogue is not Gambit’s emotional center. Gambit is not the man who lives for her. That is a very “romantic,” very reductionist, and very ridiculous interpretation.
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Time for a Faustian Deal
https://archiveofourown.org/works/79983206/chapters/210520836?view_adult=true
Rogue Mystique Charles and Toxic Parents
I want to talk about rogues parent figures. Particularly mystique and Charles. Starting with Rogue and Charles. They have one of the more underrated father-Daughter relationships in the X-Men they are actually extremely close. (As opposed to the Logan-rogue father-daughter myth) this is why when she found Charles dead and mutilated by red skull she had a strong reaction (TW gore+Body horror)
Rogue wasn’t the same for a while. wanda said it was although a child lost her parent.
And of course she wasn’t the same. No matter what some stories or retcons try and say Charles was truly the first to give her a chance when even the X-Men scorned her and questioned Charles decision.
RAHHHHHH some Gambit art muhahahahaha
Someone said it could belong as a comic book cover, do you agree?
Wine, angst, Marguerite Duras and Rogue setting things right in her own way.
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Given the mini's preview, this sums up pretty well what i think
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After that Horrible Magik AOA comic I've seen some people (on twt, unsurprisingly) saying
'So what? Bad things can't happen to characters now?'
No. Bad things can absolutely happen to characters, and they DO happen. Bad things are an opportunity for growth, depth, storytelling, and so on and so on.
The problem here is there is nothing narratively impactful here. The men who wrote this have nothing meaningful to say about SA or SA victims or their abusers. Age of Revelation exists on a timeline that will be wiped from existence come January.
They did this for nothing more than, Id argue, shock factor, and providing a reason for illyana to become a villain, in order to justify the xmen beating her ass in three issues.
Bad things can happen to characters, of course, but when a man who has said to HATE Magik
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Has control over the narrative, this is what you get. This is not a story dealing with rape (bc there is nothing dealing with it intelligently here). This is a rape fantasy and everyone involved is a fucking weirdo.
Not to mention APPARENTLY this is pre-split, meaning this could be the ACTUAL fate Marvel is deciding Illyana will face when she dies ??? What
The child SA survivor, who spent her entire childhood being tormented in a hell dimension, dies and is condemned to being abused by her abuser over and over again ?
Comics take so much approval to get made SO MANY PEOPLE APPROVED THIS. HOW??
So yeah and both the writer tom seeley and artist Phillip sevy have left twitter and are on blue-sky talking ab ppl being mean. Good god get a grip. So yeah fuck them and fuck tom breevort
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To those who criticized this wretched mini but bought it anyway to 'collect the variant covers':
I said it before, but I will say it again:
There are TWO editorial lines about Rogue right now. The current one in UXM and the sexy-nostalgia-bait that stems from xm97 and, not coincidentally at all, rolls her character decades back in development and agency. This is, I repeat, not an idle choice.
It happened before to set Rogue as a 'jerkable' sex symbol in the early nineties. The original Savage Land is a testament to that: her looks change (some say Jim Lee based her appearance in a porn star from the 80's) and she fully incorporates the Southern Belle routine and the "untouchable temptress' archetype. It lent her character both the sex appeal and the vulnerability they needed to make her a "sex symbol" she wasn't until the end of the Outback Era. Then, in AoA, she's pushed as low as to become "child bride" to cult leader Magneto (again) in a very Woody-Allen moment.
(One thing the newer fans must understand is that, back in the day, neither Jean or Ororo were "jerkable" enough for the male audience: to the average cishet white boy from the 90's, Ororo was "too strong, too intimidating", and Jean was Scott’s. So, to fill in the gap, they redesigned two characters: Rogue and Psylocke.)
Rogue has come a long way ever since, but given the current zeitgeist, I completely see Tom Brevoort and his "team" rolling her back to what she was in the nineties because "Sex Sells". But the minute he turns this pitch into reality, her current narrative as a mature woman in full control of her powers, her emotional life and as a female leadership role is jeopardized to a point of no return.
"Jerkable', remember?
So, yeah. Hope y'all are pretty happy now.
So.
To NO ONE'S surprise, the next character to go down the "sexy-nostalgia-but let's ignore the problematic and racist bits of it" bait is Psylocke.
The current x-office is so. predictable.
A revelation in the light of day.
You can't choose what stays and what fades away
I love that Ker implies that Kanon ISN'T evil.
He told Saga to kill Shion and Athena, he said that he was going to kill Athena but when Ker gives him the possiblity in exchange of freedom...
....he can't do it.
Did Ker suggest that everything Kanon said to Saga was just words, and that he didn't really think what he said?
Honestly, Kanon is pretty much a morally grey character. He's not fully evil, but not even fully good, he did awful stuff, but also tried to make up for them while being a saint. It is interesting that he hesitated when given an opportunity to get out of there, I do think he was sincere when he proposed to kill them and get ahold of Sanctuary, he did use Poseidon to kill a lot of people on earth, and Athena along with them. But, it's interesting when you think about the fact that the majority of the people who were killed were not killed directly by Kanon, but he used someone else to do that, he proposed that Saga should do it, but the moment someone mentioned that he could take matters into his own hands, he just froze and hesitated. Just a very interesting dude, maybe they were just words, but that doesn't really align with his actions later on with Poseidon, or maybe he realised that telling someone to kill vs actually killing is a bit different and he is not as evil as he thinks he is in the end
She's okay. She's okay. She's okay.
Remy's mind looped the phrase on repeat as his grip around Rogue tightened. She was still warm, still soft, still his.
She couldn't leave him.
Not now.
Not when they fought so long for this, for them.
Not when they tasted happiness, so briefly.
Not when they only just had started making real memories together.
This was his fault. If he'd only been faster, better. If there had been some way he could have stopped her.
He couldn't have.
He never had been able to stop Rogue from doing anything.
It was part of what made him fall for her in the first place.
And ultimately the thing that had ripped her away from him.
His eyes stung as the tears fell.
In that moment he swore he would not love again.
Not like this, with his entire heart.
For it had been broken, fractured in a way that while it would still beat it would never be the same.
I'm no crying you are crying!