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AXM 1-24 is Kitty's arc (and Whedon's, for that story), I wouldn't bother past that as it's a totally different team and story. I know not everyone likes Whedon, and as someone who never saw buffy but has seen his other work, what's the issue with Whedon? I don't think Emma has ever hated Jean, but she does hate being considered second fiddle to her, and I think that's a bit fair. Depends on the writer though. Current canon has Emma and Jean seemingly friendly.

My issue with Whedon is largely a matter of taste, and it’s that I’ve noticed a distinct trend.  That trend is “when he has anything resembling creative control, his shit often degrades into stuff I’m not personally interested in dealing with,” usually featuring some pretty weird takes on Women With Power (Buffy and Willow among others in BtVS, Inara and River and in a slightly different way Zoe in Firefly, Natasha and Wanda in Age of Ultron) and romances that make me pretty profoundly uncomfortable.  I really, really do not like Spike/Buffy, and I’ve read enough interviews to be okay with Firefly getting cancelled before he completed his vision for Inara/Mal.  He does his best work when he has a leash on him, of some kind, because he actually does have a good sense of building tension and how to work with dialogue, but he has a bad sense of “how to keep an ongoing plot interesting” without getting into some pretty weird territory.  Also, he is someone who is very prone to making his projection-character obvious, which I consider something of a flaw in a writer.  Again, this is mostly me?  I think I would be far more neutral on him if I hadn’t lived through the time period where he was hailed as some kind of creative Messiah.  

His greatest flaw, socially speaking, is that Buffy was great feminism in 1997 and he hasn’t advanced that far from it in most of his writing that I’ve seen.

And I dunno dude there seems to be some sincere malice in AXM but then, like I said, I haven’t read that much with Emma in it?  And one of the other issues I’ve noticed arise with Joss Whedon is that while he can write female friendships, he often chooses to focus his attention on two women hating each other over a guy.  So that may be an artifact of the writer more than anything else.  I just find love triangles (even with a dead person) exhausting and obnoxious as a narrative device. 

As long as I’m on the subject, I also really hate the Logan/Jean/Scott triangle that everyone and their cousin expects me to care about.  Just let Logan and Scott be people who would die for each other but are so fundamentally different that they actually physically cannot have a civil conversation for more than ten minutes without popping a hernia.  If they don’t have a knock-down-drag-out on the lawn every couple weeks the rest of the crew starts to wonder if one of them’s been mind-controlled.  They work together great on the battlefield but cannot be left alone in the kitchen without getting into a fight about the coffee brand.  If one of them seems down the other one goes and picks a fight as a weird pseudo-helpful act of friendship, and the thing that really confuses and alarms everyone around them is that it usually works.  That’s so much more interesting to me as a dynamic.  

I’m glad Emma and Jean getting along in current canon, though, they should be the Telepaths Who Are Too Good For This Squad.  Also, something something polyamory, but I haven’t seen enough of Emma to actually say with any authority that she and Jean would be a good set of partners within that triad.  For an example of a love triangle that should NOT be resolved with polyamory, see above re: “if Logan and Scott don’t try to kill each other with some regularity, everyone worries that they’ve been Skrulled.”

EDIT: I will grant that I like Emma a lot more after the whole Breakworld plotline. The starting bar was low but also her conversation with Kitty was very good and the easiest way to get me to like a character is to have them interact in an interesting and engaging way with a character I already like.

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Headcanon: Ellie watches Archer when she gets really upset because it calms her down.

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     She shouldn’t have been driving, that’s for sure. Much less a bike. But she wasn’t about to call a cab when she was pretty much covered in blood. So she took it easy, made her way back at a safe speed, keeping in mind that she could stop and take a break if needed. Eventually she crossed the gates of mansion and parked to the side, climbing off her harley with a bit of difficulty. She’d have to clean away the dry blood that rubbed off on it later.

Surely, Logan and anyone else with an acute sense of smell would have picked up the coppery scent from miles away. And she really should get the wounds properly checked. But she was too raw to face anyone just yet, still choked up by the development in her relationship with Wade. Instead of going inside and heading to the medical wing, she walked along the pathway that Piotr had shown her the day she was meant to visit SHIELD’s headquarters.

Getting there took a little longer than she expected given her state, but as soon as the treeline opened up and gave way to the lake, Angel felt a wave of calm instantly washing over her, the crisp scent of the leaves mixing with the smell of water in the air. Walking a little closer, she sat down on the ground with a wince and a soundly groan, sinking her fingers on the earth.

She could recall almost every detail of that moment; the quiet, soft sound of his voice, sometimes at odds with his still thick accent, the cool breeze against her skin, the wondrous sight of the sunrise. That should have been the memory she tried to evoke in order to center herself. It was certainly helping now.

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Ellie let her expression soften into an easy smile and took the invitation gladly, settling in beside him. Color rose to her cheeks at the mention of Yukio. “Yeah, I just got off the phone with her so she could get some rest before her flight. She should be back late tomorrow- or tonight, I guess.” She corrected herself with a glance at her phone. She’d been gone for a week on a well-deserved vacation with her family, and Ellie’s anticipation at seeing her again was warding off sleep. Fuckin sap. “Anyway, what’s the muse for this morning?” She turned her attention to the sketchbooks he’d brought with him, silently asking permission to see.

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ah ah, aah

you look, feel, seem familiar.

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heh, we live and we learn!