Thinking with Portals - A BH6 Character Analysis
You know, I laughed at this when I posted these two together last week, but now I’m been thinking about it a bit too much.
So...a normal day for me.
Everybody knows who the person on the right is. That’s Celine Simard (aka Sirque), the acrobat thief that showed up for one episode, made a splash, and then never came back ever again sans a mention by Hiro in “Go Go the Woweroo”.
The person on the left? Well, that’s a little bit more interesting. I could give you one reason why, but instead...
(Spoiler: I don’t actually have six.)
That would be Rita Wayword, aka Spiral.
Now, I know that you guys are probably thinking, “Jason, you’re on the sauce again, aren’t you? These two don’t have anything in common.”
Which I would say “No...because I have to work tomorrow.”
Spiral is a mutant, once known as Ricochet Rita and a professional stuntwoman (similar to Celine’s background as a circus performer). In a very long, very convoluted backstory that I’m totally not going to go into, she was attacked by her future self, went to the Mojoverse to be with her boyfriend, genetically modified to be Mojo’s bodyguard, and then sent into the past to close the time paradox.
This is why I hate time travel.
Oh yeah, and this is Mojo:
Ain’t nobody got time for that thing, though. Moving on.
Spiral is a sorceress and was once on the shortlist to be the replacement to Dr. Strange as Sorcerer Supreme. The magic that she’s most well known for, however...
So we have a stuntperson/circus acrobat who can make/steal portals into other dimensions with white hair.
Now, let’s add another wrinkle to that.
Spiral at some point would join up with the Sisterhood of Mutants with a bunch of other people (mainly Jean Grey’s clone Madelyne Pryor) in an attempt to steal a lock of Grey’s hair to resurrect her and have her body be Pryor’s body. Another member of that team?
Lady Deathstrike (on the right).
I would also like to note that both the names Celine and Rita mean “moon” and “pearl” respectively (Celine being an alternate spelling of Selene, Greek for moon and French for “heavenly body” and Rita being a shortening of Margarita, Greek for “pearl”).
Take that into account with Spiral and portals, and...
Everything comes back around, doesn’t it?
(Yes, that was a circle joke. You’ll have to forgive me; it was almost one AM when I was typing this.)
Now, I know what you’re also thinking. “Jason, aren’t you forgetting the most obvious part? The whole ‘six arms’ thing?”
No, imaginary person, I didn’t. That’s because I...don’t really have an explanation for that. The only thing I can say is that they can’t really give her six arms in the show, now can they? It’d sort of give it away.
“Also, didn’t you have a six-armed person in your fanfics already? Coat of Arms?”
Yes, I did, and Hiro did learn a lot from fighting her back in The Straight and Arrow. But that’s not the point. She’s got a coat.
But the imagination starts to run wild at some point, and my mind but can’t help but go back to Momakase’s situation with Sycorax and how she was “enhanced” to fight Big Hero 6. If she can go from this:
Just imagine if Di Amara was able to get her hands on Sirque.
Is it really that hard to believe that there’s another villain in the Big Hero 6 universe that can go from this:
*taps head* See? Now you’re thinking with portals.