#aaron rayner

Basically, I borrowed the GL Rebirth e-book from my local library app, and it has an opening "Introduction" written by Brat Meltzer and ends with a bit of an interview segment with Geoff Johns and the original (or at least a previous) outline of the Rebirth storyline. Unfortunately, I didn't screenshot the whole thing, just parts the stuck out to me, but I've borrowed it and may put the full thing in the reblogs or another post later maybe.

The interview contains stuff like:

In the outline, there is a whole part involving his dad across multiple parts of the story which I am kind of very glad didn't go through

(The funniest part is definitely comparing Kyle VS Sinestro to Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader, I literally cannot stop laughing about it whenever I think about it. Sinestro: Kyle, I am your father-in-law)

There's also this other weird arc that never made it in which is that Parallax possessed Batman who then proceeds to SHOOT ROBIN Tim (struggling not to go into a rant about why would that be a fear response instead of like playing of his fear of his Robin's getting hurt and shooting anyone going near Robin or something)

There's also some other stuff like we were originally supposed to have more Roy and Connor (and Nightwing), although Hal is mean to Roy which is :((

My favourite part is that even though he was trying to make the distinction between Parallax and Hal Jordan, in the outline itself there is still this statement which is an irony of its own

Samantha: Obviamente que não nesse exato momento, afinal eu já tenho uma equipe nova. E hoje em dia seria mais complicado por conta do meu trabalho, para eu manter o meu namoro com o Nereus. Sem falar que eu não gosto muito de ficar tanto tempo fora da Terra.

I’ve decided to do a fancast for these individual people for a live action movie or tv show, if it were to happen right now.

Kyle Rayner

We’ll start off with the main man himself, Kyle Rayner. Kyle’s dad is “Aaron Rayner,” real name Gabriel Vasquez, and his mom is Maura Rayner. He is half Irish, on his mother’s side, and half Mexican, on his father’s side. The guy is perpetually in his 20s, so the actor that plays him has to be in his 20s as well. And since I’m trying to do a fairly accurate fancast, it’s important, to me at least, that the actor also has some Mexican and Irish descent. So, I decided to go with a fairly popular fancast for him, who is half Mexican and part Irish, English, Scottish, German, and French:

Tyler Posey

Maura Rayner

Next, let’s go with the most important woman in Kyle’s life, his mom Maura. Now, Maura hails from Ireland, so I went with an actress who is a first-generation American with two Irish immigrant parents. She also needs to be old enough to believably have a son who is in his early to mid 20s. So I went with:

Moira Kelly

Gabriel Vasquez/Aaron Rayner

Finally, the last member of the “Rayner” family (I put Rayner in quotes because that’s not his real name) and quite frankly the one I had to be more picky with, Gabriel Vasquez aka “Aaron Rayner.” Gabriel Vasquez was born in Mexico to two Mexican parents, and he immigrated to the United States when he was still a baby. He would eventually grow up to be an agent in the CIA. I looked at actors between the ages of late 40s to late 50s who had some Mexican heritage. I also had to narrow down my list by height, because Tyler is 5′10 and Moira is 5′4 so Kyle had to have gotten his height from his father. I also had to eliminate anyone who I think couldn’t pass as being a current, or more likely former, CIA agent. In the end, I decided to go with:

Demian Bichir

Bonus Casting!!! Kylie Rayner

This one is more for fun. Now, we have been, briefly, introduced to a gender-bent version of Kyle who hails from Earth-11, named Kylie Rayner. This one, I didn’t have to be that exact, seeing as, at best, she would probably on show up in a tv show or movie for a little bit, or, at worst, doesn’t show up at all. She still has to be in her 20s though. Now, I did say I didn’t need to be that exact, but it did end being up that way. I present to you all, an actress who is half Mexican and half Irish:

Lindsey Morgan

Samantha: Obrigada, é sempre bom ser relembrada que eu e o Nereus somos o melhor casal por aqui.

Aaron: Eu discordaria disso Sam.

Aaron: Além de mim temos a Aleea Strange, filha do Adam Strange e nossa líder. A Amanda Carter, filha do Gladiador Dourado. A Jenny Quantum, filha adotiva do Apolo e Midnighter. O Shung Li-Men que é filho da Swift. E por último o Francis Ngengi, filho da Flint.

Aleea: Nós somos uma mistura de alguns filhos dos antigos membros com alguns novos.