#kinneyscreature

[urfavesareautistic]

Laura Kinney from Marvel Comics is autistic!

Requested by @kinneyscreature

[ndscottsummers]

okay I read your thoughts on Mutant names and since I’m me I’m thinking: for people who survived some crazy alt future and or the weapon x program, how would they identify with their Mutant Names? Specifically I’m thinking Laura, who went only by x-23 for YEARS, and still does so now, but also has expressed discomfort with the name? Like how do you think that works overall

ooh that’s a good question. i think it’s going to be largely dependent on how the name was acquired - in laura’s case it was a name someone else gave her, not even really a name but just an identifier (and a dehumanizing one at that), so it makes sense that she’d feel better about ‘talon’ or ‘wolverine’, respectively a name she chose for herself and a name she took to honor a loved one. for alternate universes, there’s any number of sources a mutant name could have: a dehumanizing identifier like laura or something used to otherwise keep them down/mock them; or it could be self-chosen or given by the community, in which case it’s likely to have a positive connotation and maybe be even more of a revolutionary thing than it is on 616; or it could be a mark of a violent/traumatizing past that they want to leave behind.

mutant names are super cool and we see a lot of variability in how different communities use them (morlocks use them as a rejection of mainstream society, x-men use them as a name that overlaps with superhero codenames but also serves a separate purpose as a marker of belonging to the mutant community at large, etc) and tbh i hadn’t thought too much about how alternate universe/future stuff ties into that but now i have something new to chew on hmmmm

[carrionkid]

Lucas I aspire to be as freaking aesthetic as you one day

I’M HONORED BUT ALSO YOU’RE COOL, ZANDER, WHAT COULD BE COOLER THAN LAURA KINNEY AND FRANKENSTEIN???

[carrionkid]

you NAMED YOURSELF HARBRINGER that’s so metal

IT WAS MORE OF A NICKNAME TBH, I WAS WEIRD AND EDGY AND KIND OF CREEPY IN HIGH SCHOOL

however i DID apply to 4 year universities with my email of harbinger.[REDACTED] and my license plate IS also a derivative of harbinger

[cly-art]

Your Magda art took my breath away. Amazing job.

Comments/Asks like this one mean the world to me. Thank you so much, I’m really happy you liked it ❤

[hyqerdontia]

ROSE

i love ur writing and ur art so much!! u make very cool ocs and ur love for laura kinney is so powerful

[jewelianism]

i love love love your art!!! also i cannot believe you made me start being okay with heliX as a ship but HERE WE ARE. how dare /sarcasm

its 2019 & im still ride or die helix past me would have been so proud.

also thanks!!