#kid ignition

[despair-the-zero]

AITA for not using my son’s chosen name?

for context, i (54M) have been struggling with my son (17M) for a while now. he recently came out as transgender, which i fully support, but unfortunately he has chosen the name “Kid Ignition”. any advice?

[idonttakethislightly]

Heavy, if you keep on doing this we’re not going to have anyone left.

[daydreamerdrew]

The Power Fantasy (2024) #12

[despair-the-zero]

(he’s not really)

[idonttakethislightly]

MASTERPOST: man who calls himself "Heavy" doing everything he can to avoid telling other people his son's name is "Kid Ignition"

[idonttakethislightly]

This moment gets more heartbreaking when you remember that Valentina basically doesn't get to interact with non-Superpowers. The last two people to enter her social circle were the Queen and Eliza, and that was a decade ago. She just wants a new friend! Too bad that new potential friend is a grumpy teenager.

[idonttakethislightly]

So we've got these four pages, right? They're about Magus trying to talk Valentina and Eliza around to his side- leading up to his point about how there needs to be a balance between the Superpowers, how disrupting that balance will burn the world. And simultaneously, they're about Heavy, revealing (to the reader) that he's got a secret son who can disrupt that balance. (By burning the world, but that's not my main point here.)

The point is, look at each page as a whole. Pages one to three, as Magus progressively argues Valentina and Eliza down to silence, start out loosely symmetrical and progressively get closer to actual symmetry. Balance! Meanwhile, the most asymmetrical panels in pages two and three are of Heavy, leading up to Kid on page four being entirely off-balance in a visual sense. The same metaphor, both visually and textually!

[idonttakethislightly]

oh heavy. oh buddy