Jeanne Foucault

Jeanne: Mr. Maximoff? Pietro: Yes? Jeanne: What are you doing? Pietro: Watching “Downtown Abbey”. My sister enjoys it. I find it tedious. Jeanne: You find everything tedious. Pietro: This is true…You’re welcome to join me, if you like.— Remember this. For some these will be the best years of their lives. Yours will only get better.

Jeanne: I am not concerned about our enemy just now. Laura! You’re— Laura: I—will be okay.

Jeanne: First we must restore Laura’s powers. She will not survive much longer. Laura: I…am…fine. 

Avengers Academy #35 & 36 by Christos Gage & Andrea Di Vito

Hank: Juston…I’m not the kind of man who says empty words just to make people feel better. So when I tell you this, I mean it. You didn’t lose a machine today. You lost your best friend. And I will never forgive myself for failing to stop it. Pietro: Oh, spare me. I’m getting nauseated just listening to you all. Really, I had to do this for the sake of my own sanity. Juston: I-is that…? Pietro: Your sentinel’s central processing unit? Yes. Once I saw Emma levitating it, I switched it with a unit from one of our training robots. They’re quite similar. All faster than her eye could see, of course. And our defenses prevented her sensing my mind…remarkably, given the splitting headache your whining has given me.  Juston: You…you’re a mutant. You must hate sentinels. And you still… Pietro: The heart wants what the heart wants, yours wants the sentinel…and mine wants quiet. Juston: I don’t know how to thank you. Any of you. Pietro: I do. keep your excessive displays of emotion to yourself—Ah. Oh, very well. I suppose I can stay a few moments longer.  

I’ve been thinking, I don’t want you to teach me to be like him [Magneto] anymore… I want you to teach me to be like you. 

Avengers Academy #22 by Christos Gage & Sean Chen

Okay, this was quite a sweet scene! And I think perhaps may be my personal favorite moment of the series. I just LOVE these two!

I’m also very happy that Jeanne’s fascination with Magneto is over, and no longer wants to be like him and instead she wants to be like Pietro who she’s formed a very strong bond with. This scene just makes me smile and it was a really great turning moment for them. Their student/mentor relationship has developed quite nicely, it’s come such a long way from when she initially blackmailed him. She’s really grown to admire and respect Pietro greatly and I think looks up to him more than she does with anyone else. 

Jeanne: Mr. Maximoff? Pietro: Finesse. While I appreciate you coming to my defense today, it wasn’t necessary. And I’d prefer to be alone. Jeanne: You’re father’s very intimidating. Pietro: Yes. Jeanne: You defied him. Stood up to him. When you were just a kid. Pietro: It was Wanda who gave me the courage to do that. I knew I had to do better for us. For her. Jeanne: I always did what my parents wanted. It didn’t change anything. Just made them want more. Pietro: Your parents are criminals, like my father. It is best to put any thought of having a normal relationship with them out of your mind. To that extent that’s possible. 

Avengers Academy #22 by Christos Gage & Sean Chen

I think not only has Jeanne found a mentor in Pietro, but a father figure as well. And from questioning her parentage, to tracking down Taskmaster, it always seemed to me like Jeanne felt she was lacking a role model and was looking for someone to fill that role. And Pietro has taken that spot for her. Christos noted in one of his interviews that their relationship was becoming even father/daughter like and I’ve definitely felt that. Early on she attached herself to Pietro and although their relationship was first a bit antagonistic y’know with her initially blackmailing him, they’ve both grown to really care for each other and as seen this issue, are extremely protective and loyal to one another. And I think consider each other family which I just love. 

And I’m very happy that Pietro is close with someone because I can’t help but think how lonely he must feel. He’s divorced from Crystal who’s now remarried, his father is an ass to him to say the least, Wanda’s disappeared to whereever and Luna, his own daughter won’t speak to him. So Jeanne is like his closest thing to family right now. And it’s doesn’t seem like she’s had a good relationship with her parents either, they’re former criminals who used her to gain money and status, and just kept wanting more. But she looks up Pietro as someone who was able to break away from his father’s influence and create his own identity and she wants to do that too.