what do you think of northstar's time in the circus?
Like most parts of his life, I think Northstar's time in the circus was definitely interesting.
According to his solo series, the circus was a front for Cell Combattre, where he met his terrorist buddies and likely Mariel and Yves. Combine that with the information we get from Marvel Fanfare and the concept's introduction in Alpha Flight #22, we get an interesting story.
According to Northstar he was recruited by his friend Jaques while he was homeless, but in Alpha Flight #41, he also claims that Raymonde was the one who got him involved.
Regardless if he temporarily left Raymonde to join the circus or if he left the circus to later go into the care of Raymonde, I think everything plays out quite similarly.
Jean-Paul meets several people he considers close friends (wether or not these feelings are reciprocated are up for debate). However he does make lifelong friends with Clementine D’Arbanville and keeps up with Jaques over the years.
According to the solo series Northstar enjoys his time at the circus. He becomes an acrobat and gets a taste for fame. The circus is later revealed to me a front for a terrorist group and exploring Jean-Paul's anger the manage to get him to use his powers to help them.
However he does end up changing his mind when the group tries to bomb a bus station and risks his life to help the passengers caught in the crossfire.
Despite the fact that nobody died, when brought back to the site of the attempted bombing Jean-Paul begins to panic and claims that he killed them.
Granted he also hadn't slept in days, so he's not in the greatest mindset.
After betraying his group and the police closing in on Cell Combattre I think from here Northstar moved to Paris with Mariel and Yves, and after that relationship fell apart he moved back to Montreal to be with Raymonde and became a skier.
The rest they say is history.
However I do think Northstar thwarting the bombing resulted in the fracturing of many of his relationships in Cell Combattre. Or revealing what they were actually doing, using him to achieve an end goal.
I don't think Jean-Paul realizes this, because he's not panicked or concerned in Marvel Fanfare when he tries to rescue two of his old colleagues from a serial killer and they try to shoot him out of the belief that he's gone fully turncoat.
So wether or not Northstar realizes just how messed up his "friends" were or wether they actually cared about him is up for debate.
All in all I think his experience in the circus formed Jean-Paul into the person he is in comics today.
It gave him the love and adoration of the crowd. Introduced him to formative relationships as well as politics. It also completely messed him up for life.
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the best thing a man can be is gay and suicidal and miserable and utterly unlikable and unpleasant to be around and prone to addiction and abused and traumatized and not breaking the cycle and
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I think there's something to be said about Rogue whose forged relationships with several people over the years (Kurt, Gambit, Storm, the other X-Men) being able to recongize that what Mystique and Destiny put her through was really messed up.
VS.
Shiro who hasn't really hung out with anyone outside his immediate family and other than that keeps himself isolated from others and can't recongize just how bad his childhood was.
by the way I didn’t post about it at the time but I am still thinking about that panel of Dani wearing fishnet stockings to bed. I get that she was just like, sleeping in her clothes but that is an insane thing to do. nobody is doing it like her. the character ever
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