AxedMannequin

like it's fine in a vacuum, it's a cool piece of sci-fi tech that works with her power suit

but for most average non-metroid fans all they know about samus is that she's the sexy lady in the skin-tight suit from smash bros and that's reflected in pretty much every 'fandom' space available for metroid. The overwhelming majority of metroid fics on ao3 are smut where samus is nothing more than a sex object for the reader to jerk off to and it's just so disappointing as someone who deeply cares about her character.

Can't I have smut that also treats her with the interiority she deserves? or do i not get that because she makes your willy hard and you don't need her to be anything deeper than that so you never bother trying.

problem is there probably IS smut that treats her character with dignity but i'll never find it cuz it just gets drowned out by the overwhelming reduction of her to a bimbo barbie doll

Samus Aran and Nora Armstrong for the SexyPeopleContest!

Fun fact: Armstrong, canonically(!) does around 250-300 push-ups per workout, so she would absolutely be able to lift Her Wife Samus in full armor!

Samus and her (fan)girl.