Here’s a question: What are your LEAST FAVORITE X-Men comics/iterations of Gambit from them, if you have any?
// Ooof yeah there's a few. Working so I can't pull up the exact issues but I might add them later.
Mostly in his older solo comics. I understand it's because they're a product of their time (60s...70s...type deal). He was depicted as a womanizer and smoked heavily, mainly because that was what was considered cool at the time. He was supposed to be the mysterious, suave newcomer to the X-men, so that was the character trait they used.
tw: s.exual a.ssault & pe.do shit under the cut
Also the way that they emphasized him being handsome/a beautiful man led to some really creepy interactions, some were him being s.exually a.ssaulted and it was played off as a joke (because back then people only associate that with women). He's 22/23 and a senior woman is blatantly drooling over him and commenting on how she'd rather see him in less/no clothing. He's groped w/o his consent and a cop smacks him on the butt.
Another instance is when he's 15/16 and Candra, an adult, is flirting with him while she's cradling his face. At 17 he's encouraged to use sex as a way to complete his thieves guild trial/heist. It's different when he's an adult but like he's A MINOR at the time. IT'S A LOT.
I have qualms about his most recent comics too but that's mostly because of the writers he gets. Some are better at depicting him than others; like he's always been head over heels for Rogue, and we joke about him being a male-wife with her being the stronger one of the two of them, but some writers take that too far with domesticating him. As much as I love the Outliers, Remy is the Guildmaster of an international crime ring of thieves but he's mostly at home looking after kids, even in his old age. Wasted potential imo.
That's part of the reason why I have his main verse take place around the time he first becomes an X-man and just before Krakoa because of the weird writer's shift lately.
❝ dear lord, when I get to heaven, please let me bring my man. when he comes, tell me that you’ll let him in ━━━━━ father, tell me if you can. ( @krosakis. )
since childhood. hanamaru kazama & ichigo kurosaki. / commission done by lenaffin.
Grimmjow had managed to cross over from the spirit realm to the human realm. The oni had heard that the humans had shrines for spirits that they would bring offerings to. If he could claim a shrine as his own then he could have humans worship him. Easy enough in his mind. He'd travel through the night and searched for a shrine he wanted to claim as his own, the biggest most elaborate shrine should be his.
Though the one he found already belonged to a deity and a fight ensued. The oni was vicious, in the spirit world he was known for his ferocity. Over the course of many nights the oni would fight the guardian of the great shrine, frightening the local humans in the process. On the seventh evening Grimmjow defeated the guardian and claimed the shrine for his own. Finally he could enjoy the spoils of his new home and rule over the humans.
"I see you know my buddy Spike. He's one of the coolest people I know, just think jus' like that he can go all black kimono and that bitchin' sword in jus' a second. Didn't know you were in cahoots with the reapers."
Approach my muse about another muse they've interacted with. || OPEN
theyre gossiping about @krosakis!
"Cahoots? Oh no no no, those guys are absolute duds. A bunch of party poopers with rules I don't much care for." She quickly dismisses the idea of being in league with them. Mostly because she's not too sure how fond they are of fae or spiritual beings in general that weren't just souls. "The Dandelion's a good kid though, I know he's doin' all that heroic crap for the right reasons. Just wish he'd take care of himself more, he kinda reminds me of you in that regard.....
He doesn't know about us by the way and since he felt the need not to bring up his cute little girlfriend (fiance) I'm inclined to do the same."
Mukuro blinks rapidly a few times, not realizing that she had been zoning out。 She must've been more exhausted and wounded than she originally thought, a soft huff leaves her lips as her gaze is directed elsewhere。
「I was。」 She states and another little huff leaves her as she closes her eyes, the bright lights of the clinic agitating her headache, 「do you always ask so many questions?」
"Proposing on the holidays ain't enough? Ya gotta find another way t' embarrass me?? Ya know whaat? Fine, get yerself a chair."
"Yeah, Sakura's hot. She's got the prettiest eyes I've ever seen, gentle cheeks..ya know the ones up top which are jus' perfect for kissin'. Though it was frustrating it turned into something I liked about her in the end and that's the fact that she's romantically dense, when I tell ya I made things soo obvious t' her..it's like throwin' a line with the best bait and not gettin' a bite. BUT there's somethin' endearing abot it, makes ya realize that sometimes ya gotta stop playin' games and jus' say what ya mean. I haven't even covered the fact that she's a hard worker too, swear if I don't see her get a raise her boss'll hear from me, might have t' take 'em on a walk. There's also the fact that she's a martial artist, that shit just means somethin' t' me. Eh I already talked yer damn ear off." Meaning Yusuke's getting into that stone walling habit of his.
"Damn, didn't even get t' mention how cute way of givin me a nickname, or how she interacts with Puu, or that dance of hers, the fact that she's good with my mom too and-" He goes on.
--- " I've wielded a sword before, but I doubt I could even lift that behemoth off the ground. " As a witch, Emily very rarely needed to use WEAPONS per say -- her own magic & broom were quite sufficient, thank you very much. There was the odd time where she would hold a sword, a rapier being a favourite of hers due to its simplicity and delicate appearance. Ichigo's sword, however? That was reminiscent of a butcher's knife, really, and it was MASSIVE ; how he wielded it with such ease was nothing short of amazing to the woman.
"Yeah, that's why I'm just wary instead of hostile. She could just be neurodiverse like myself and my siblings. Yusuke's been helping her find Jin and our uncles." Ai Jian looked thoughtful. "So maybe it's just her not knowing how to react to like long lost family?"
