So it being Valentine's Day I figured, why not. Why not enter the Laura ship discourse.
Nothing in comics lasts, and everything is malleable. Including relationships. This is a turn off for a lot of people, and I don't blame people for being put off by this. Everyone drops in and out of comics all the time, sometimes dropping the media all together for a time.
For the most part I'm willing to give comic writers the benefit of the doubt until their run is over and done. And I'm ok with them taking characters or stories in directions I wouldn't personally have done as long as I enjoy the story in the end and can see their reasoning/or they showed their logic/thought process.
And that extends to ships too. I do have personal preferences, but even those change from time to time. For example, I used to be super into Katayana, but Krakoa and Exceptional have made me obsessed with Emkate at the moment. I've liked Laura with Julian and Jubilee and Kiden and Angel at different periods of her comic book history because those writers made me get invested in those relationships at those times.
Also, during ship wars people like to point out bad things one character did to another as proof that ship is toxic and bad, and should not be together. . . not like their personal favorite ship of course which is pure and good .Or they argue the author who made the character do the toxic thing was a hater who didn't know what they were doing so it's invalid.
Like: "Julian called Laura an emotionless robot, this ship is toxic and Laura should be with BLANK instead." Or: "Angel told their friends Laura committed self harm and made her feel dehumanized."
I can cozy or mostly clean relationships. I also can like it when ships have a bite to them.
I like to see messy characters who can still be sympathetic and three dimensional.
I like reading and watching stories about people who grow and develop, not necessary in a linear way.
I like seeing characters who make the wrong choices even as you continue to wish they do better, sometimes either ending in some form of self destruction or self improvement.
I like toxic romances where you know the best outcome is for these two to break up, because holy shit they should never have even gotten together in the first place.
I like turbulent relationships with ups and downs and twists and turns.
Cyclops has constantly been asshole to Jean. They've been married and broken up a few times. But they always end up getting together again, and the best stories are the ones that don't try to whitewash his behavior but instead have him deal with his own shit.
. . . And do I even need to explain Emkate? Lol
TL;DR: Whatever ends up happening in NYX with Julian and Laura (and potentially Kiden), I don't particularly care in the sense that I want one ship to be canon over the other. I just want it to be juicy. Give me the drama and the complicated emotions and hurt feelings and angst and longing. Inject it into my veins.