Barricaded Emma Frost Defense Zone

24 • It/Hymn • Weird little dyke • ♿️🏳️‍⚧️ • deeply opinionated

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Hi I’m Medusa! Welcome to my X-Men (and related media) side blog lol

My main is @medusas-rockin-tits

Raven Darkhölme and Emma Frost are two of my favorite characters ever so if that’s gonna bother you, I don’t think this is the blog for you! /g

Autistic as fuck, cane user, trans lesbian, snake enjoyer, mental illness haver, morally dubious woman enthusiast

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Both Emma Frost and Logan hide their capacity for softness behind gender stereotypes. In this essay I will…

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Mystique canonically being Sherlock Holmes in Marvel comics and Irene being there and also knowing how the mysteries are all gonna go but letting Raven solve them anyways was peak “proving your AuDHD murder spouse with enrichment” huh?

Look at them, they’re so excited to be solving mysteries and wearing that silly hat

How to keep your impulsive trigger happy spouse occupied: riddles and mysteries

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I think the ideas that

“Raven is a bad parent”

And

“Raven loves their children”

Can and should co exist. I will never sit here and say Mystique is a good parent, but I think acting like they don’t love their children is just being willfully ignorant of their characterization since the 80s.

I see a lot of people try to claim Raven doesn’t care about their kids. I actually think they care a LOT, it just, doesn’t deter their actions. And they’re not a good parent, don’t get me wrong, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love Kurt and Rogue and I think trying to claim they don’t actually does away with a lot of Raven’s character nuance.

A lot of the tragedy and depth of their relationships come from the fact that Raven DOES love their children, but it’s not enough. And Kurt and Anna Marie know that, and that’s part of the tragedy of it too.

I’m not a Mystique defender, but I am a Raven Darkhölme characterization realist. A lot of people flatten their character to add more sympathy to Kurt’s story especially, which feels kinda iffy to me. But that’s for another post.

From a storytelling perspective, it adds so much more depth and tragedy to all characters involved to not make the relationship so shallow and one sided as “Oh Mystique doesn’t love them”, and even to juxtapose Raven’s relationship to them with Irene’s is a whole other thing I may talk about one day. But like, you do the story injustice to flatten it down to just “Oh Mystique sucks”

Tl;dr - Raven Darkhölme is a shitty parent but they do love their kids. And that’s the whole tragedy of the thing