I'm Doing Just Fine

Earth-1100 Jimmy, Rictor, Ilyana, and Rogue making these for each other

aurora having memory lapses and dissociative tendencies, but then there's dazzler who's always writing in her diary and documenting every part of her life, no matter how mundane it gets

and alison has written or photographed documentary of jeanne-marie's recent lives, which grows abundantly the more time they spend together

and jeanne-marie hardly recognises herself most days, she especially finds it startling to read or hear dazzler's account of her because the woman describes alison is too good to be her

and yet, when aurora is confused about herself or who she is or what she likes, dazzler isn't -- because alison likes that people can be multifaceted, self contradictory, paradoxical, and like different things, she's always loving jeanne-marie, and doesn't think anything is wrong with jeanne-marie being confused or not remembering everything, because regardless, alison will be up every night, writing in her diary, talking about her day, all the people, and recalling every single thing she has heard aurora say or saw jeanne-marie do :)

and it's so easy to underestimate something small like that until aurora finds out there are decades' worth of dazzler's diaries, starting from when she was a kid to now as an adult and still going, and there are written and in depth documents of their entire relationship of the past two or three decades, and jeanne-marie trusts alison's accounts enough to be able to recall back to certain days and enjoy them, knowing that they did happen and they do matter because someone, aka her girl, wrote them down 🩵

I'm not going to lie this relationship might destroy Jeanne-Marie/Aurora.

No man has ever treated her this good...

She goes to therapy thinking there's something wrong because she's not worried about Alison leaving her, trying to hurt her, or using her and not being constantly panicked is freaking her out.

which is like, when aurora is coming back to earth from space after a mission with alpha flight or nasa, and dazzler is picking her up, but also kneeling with a ring and saying something cheesy like, "they say the northern lights are a dance in the sky. jeanne-marie 'aurora' beaubier, will you dance through life with me forever?" a beat - "i'd be very delighted to be your wife."

Northstar knew about both of these proposals in advanced and had to painfully keep the secret while hanging out with Dazzler as Jeanne-Marie decided on a ring.

He almost blew his cover while nodding smugly at Aurora over video chat.

I think Jeanne-Marie/Aurora would be hesitant towards ever becoming a parent.

Considering her childhood and her own feelings towards her mental illness she'd probably worry about accidentally hurting any of her children or traumatizing them in the process.

Growing up in an abusive environment will do that to you.

That being said I think Aurora is great with kids:

As seen with her students in Alpha Flight #1 and in volume five we can see her comforting several children as they adjust to being refugees.

civilian outfits

official suits & gear

friendships

dialogue

comic runs

Civilian Outfit:

I love when Kate sports her fellow heroes merch.

Official Suits:

I'm a big fan of the suit she wears in Marieke Nijkamp's run of Hawkeye. It's very tactical but also bright purple because she's a Hawkeye.

Friendships: Kate and America, Kate and Cassie, Kate and Billy, Kate and Tommy are all 10/10 friendships

Dialogue:

This scene when she calls out Dr. Doom has lived rent free in my mind for the past six years.

"Kate said what she was trying to say."

Comic Runs:

Young Avengers vol 1

Young Avengers: Children's Crusade

West Coast Avengers (vol 3)

Hawkeye: Kate Bishop (2021)