Confirmed WITH RECEIPTS: The RoLo future that was NEVER going to happen (and the T'Choro future that was)
Edit 5/22/26: Storm solo writer Murewa Ayodele read over this version of my post and approved of it before I hit submit.* After the whole "Furaha ain't Furaha" Klan stomp, I wound up writing more. But you'll see that his words weren't altered or misrepresented in any way. Also, see the notes at the bottom.
Posted under a blog I haven't used in years b/c all the salty-ass RoLo blogs who blocked me NEED to see this for their own mental health. For once, I'm not going to interject my smug commentary - I'm just stating the facts (for once).
It's time to put an end to this "T'Choro is the reason we didn't get Stormverine" lie to rest once and for all. And once again, it's coming straight from the writer himself. Note, however, that all opinions are my own, which is why I've worked hard to keep them to a minimum. Also, for anyone who wants to claim that I'm making all this up, go straight to the bottom first.
One of the main things I've criticized Ayodele about - and continue to criticize to this day - is that he, in my opinion, has not been vocal enough about the abuse Black Panther/T'Choro fans take from the Stormverine community. Along with the general anti-Blackness and vitriol we face, T'Choro fans are regularly accused of having "bullied" Ayodele into turning away from Stormverine in the Storm solo (like here and here just to name a few). This, despite the fact that...
It was pretty damn obvious where this ship was going to steer beginning with the very next issue and peppered throughout the series, and
Pandering to a ship that hates you over a ship that loves you (as small as it may be) is just dumb.
Above: How Stormverine describes Ayodele's writing, despite all evidence showing otherwise
But contrary to the aims of our former president, way too many children were left behind. Even Ayodele saying that the RoLo fandom was getting carried away with the claim of Storm being sad that she wasn't having Wolverine's baby (completely false) wasn't enough to get the point across. Finally, in March, I all but begged Ayodele to just say so. I embrace the anti-Blackness and bathe in vitriol, but misinformation about my ship is just too much.
Here is his response, dated 3/13/26:
I've actually cleared the air on this multiple times on livestreams. I said why I chose the sex scene and that to Storm it was a mistake. We've talked about BP, Sango, Hadad, and so many other ships on livestream and how I don't think I would explore any of them besides BP (possibly through the Vibranium armor).
Two months later, we know that's exactly what was going to happen. Recall that we saw Storm in the vibranium armor in Storm #2, which was confirmed as her "security blanket" despite being beat up to all hell. In fact, the next arc was going to be in Wakanda, with T'Challa confirmed as King of the Dead, and T'Challa and Ororo were going to reunite over her armor.
Now, everyone who knows me knows how obsessed I was with that armor - to the point that I started a fanfic and even had numerous art pieces commissioned for it. (Recall that my theory was that T'Challa gifted it to her between #5 and #6, which was just before the T'Choro crumbs started dropping). After finding out that we weren't going to get the story behind it, I asked Ayodele if I was right or not. Sadly, I was wrong. However...
"T'Challa didn't it give her. But he is supposed to help her improve it. And he will be incredibly sad when he sees how badly damaged the armor was -- hurt to his bones Storm had to fight whatever could do that to vibranium all by herself. It's the repair of the armor and the issues in Wakanda that'll bring them together. BP is supposed to redesign the armor to operate better than what Moon Girl and Shuri previously designed."
So! Stormverine. Let's review.
Your ship not sailing had nothing to do with Black Panther or with T'Choro fans. Ayodele never intended to make them a couple. Note that I am not claiming that Ayodele was going to reunite Storm and Black Panther romantically, but he sure as hell had no intentions to make RoLo a thing - or even bring him back at all, as he repeatedly said.
It's neither Ayodele's fault nor ours that you didn't read a single word past the sex scene. Had you done so - or had you listened to his Stormwatch chat a mere 48 hours later (or one month later or ever) you wouldn't have wasted over a year hating the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
Contining to insist that an Eisner Award-nominated comic writer was bullied out of writing RoLo isn't just unfair and unhealthy, it's insulting as hell. Stop treating Ayodele like he's the slow kid from The Blind Side.
Celebrating the end of the Storm solo because of Ayodele's future Wakanda plans is as hypocritical as you all no longer loving Furaha just because the creepy demon child you all wanted to be biracial showed up Black as hell. And denying her existence entirely is just...even *I* never suspected you all could stoop so low.
Y'all are never beating the allegations. Never.
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I'm going to address the T'Choro Tribe at r/tchoro - mostly likely next month when Storm #5 is published. (I thought I'd do it now, but I just don't have the energy.)
Also, I'm going to lock this post here on Tumblr. I'm not here to rub it in (for once) and I don't dialogue with RoLoers for any reason. I'm just here to do what I always do: present the facts and the evidence. Maybe now Stormverine can stop making their delusions and their alternate history the problem of the entire Storm fandom and leave the far larger and more popular ship alone. Because when I said...
....I meant it.
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*Ayodele also approved of the 5/18 version of my post after I hit submit, so the idea that I'm lying about what was said can also be thrown out the window. Call me obsessed or unemployed or racist or a bully or anything else, but don't call me a liar.
edit 5/22/26: Update to the accusation that I made this up for...whatever reason. I know Stormverine tends to believe whatever they want to, but damn.
