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Happy belated 4/13 and happy birthday, June Egbert!
(If you know what happened in the recent upd8s, you know)

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Revolutionary Girl Utena
A full piece I did for my Patreon a while back, along with some of my thumbnail process
"Someday together...we'll shine."
Love reading through your analyses and I was wondering if you had insight on something I noticed with Hank/Beast and Kurt/Nightcrawler: writers often use both of them in the visible mutation metaphor and emotional cores, but Kurt's approach is more from faith and Hank's is more from curiosity. Often when one or either are gone/dead/changed, things seem to get worse for the Team overall.
Do you think those two would benefit each other's characters? Even just to have spirited philosophical discussion?
So, this actually touches on a funny thing that I've noticed with Beast and Nightcrawler over time - which is that they're almost never on the same team together, probably precisely because they serve an extremely similar function in a team composition, for the reasons you've kind of touched on here.
They are, after all, both heavily visibly mutated individuals who were, or are, considered figures of great integrity and morality, with a strong code of ethics and a depth of feeling that expresses itself in a deeply vivacious personality - romantic, friendly, charming, and erudite.
Therefore, having them both on a team is, unfortunately, somewhat redundant.
That being said! They do still interact, and they're shown to be sources of great comfort and friendship for one another. Their first meetings were - somewhat inauspicious . . .
See, this is the funny thing about old comics - storylines just flow and flow and flow. Comics didn't stop after ten issues and get restarted with a new #1 every few months, they just ran and ran and ran, and the pacing reflected that.
There aren't usually month long gaps where you can assume nothing happened and people just got to hang out, they're working hard! Hank has been working with the Avengers so much that he literally hasn't even had time to meet the new X-Men properly! Wild.
But, eventually, things did slow down, and they got a chance to properly socialise, and, as expected, they got along like a house on fire.
Like, these two are just born to be friends. They have so much in common. Where Hank leans more to the obscure, the erudite, and the scientific, Kurt leans more to the dashing, the swashbuckling, and, of course, the religious, but they're still both fundamentally cut from the same cloth - acrobatic, charming, philosophical, heroic, fun.
But, that same alike quality means you don't get a ton of interaction between them, so I cling to what they do have. One of my favourite interactions between them is in Nightcrawler's 2004 solo series.
First off, absolutely adore Hank in this art style. The fact that the artist decided to include the detail of his fur poking out of the shirt like that is just. It transfixes me. I really want to go over and just. Run my fingers through his side fur. But mostly, I just like their chemistry? Hank's a great supporting character because he's so emotionally intelligent and reflective, and he's great at giving people perspective, usually with a healthy dose of sarcasm and teasing.
That being said, this scene is always the one I point to whenever I say that the X-Men really have no idea what's going on in Hank's head a lot of the time, because this took place after Hank had been psychically brutalised, nearly beaten to death, and one of his best friends had just been murdered - and he's doing a really very good job of hiding that trauma.
So much so that Kurt thinks he's just fine. He's just fine. There's nothing to worry about. But it's not Kurt's fault, and it's nowhere near unique to him, either. He had no way to know, he had his own stuff going on (the subject matter of this solo series, as it happens), and Hank is doing well enough that it isn't interfering with things, so, let him deal with it in peace, I suppose.
At least on this occasion.
Kurt is, after all, an emotionally intelligent and caring individual. You can't stop Nightcrawler from trying to help where he can. And I think that even just the reaching out, just the show of support, can be enough for a character like Hank.
Moments like these matter, in my opinion. It's important to show that teammates and friends care about each other, in the moment to moment stories, otherwise it can all feel very impersonal and like no-one cares about one another. This is how you establish dynamics over years, even between characters who have, technically speaking, never really been on a team together before.
The next big milestone I can think of comes after the X-Men's move to Utopia, where, again, Hank and Kurt don't share a ton of panel time together, but . . .
This is one of the few times you'll ever hear anyone say that Hank was right. And it's not really a surprise that it comes from Kurt, because, again, these men are cut from the same cloth. They come at it from different angles, but they believe in much the same things.
And . . . that's why it hits so hard when Kurt dies.
I don't necessarily agree with the decision to have Hank break from the literal funeral procession to call Scott out for Kurt's death. Some fans of Nightcrawler really appreciate that moment, because it shows how much Kurt's death affected Hank, but I personally just. Don't think it tracks, for Hank to be quite that disrespectful.
After the funeral, or even before, but during it? Nah. Matt Fraction made a good few Hank characterisation choices I don't agree with, and this was one of them.
This felt a bit more apropos.
Remember what I said about how little moments build to dynamics between characters who have never been on teams together? I buy this moment so much more with the context of that moment from Endangered Species, where Kurt is literally positioned as the light trying to pull Hank out of the dark path he's following with obsessive fervour. The fact that he was trying went a long way. Hank felt it, even if he didn't take him up on it at the time. That moment mattered.
And that's why I absolutely buy Hank's reaction when Kurt came back to life.
Hank believes in Kurt. He believes the very best of him. On teams where Hank can often feel alone or isolated, someone like Kurt will reach out, and make him feel connected, and welcome, and pull him back. Temper his scientific pessimism and realism with optimism and belief. Restore his fervour, and remind him of simpler, happier times.
A lot of the best scientists, who have contributed the most to scientific inquiry, were religious, because for a lot of them, there's no real conflict between science and religion, they're both two sides of the same coin, in a way - a belief in a higher power. It's just how they react to that higher power that changes.
And while Hank was explicitly religious for a while, I always interpreted him as losing that faith over the years, becoming bogged down in the real over the sublime as what he went through wore him down. Someone like Kurt was able to spark that in him again. Maybe not his faith, per se, but at the very least belief in the human spirit.
It's important. As you say, massive benefit to each other's characters. Underrated dynamic, these two. Absolutely love 'em.
Do you mind if people draw fan-art of the Good Samaritans?
dude of COURSE we wouldn’t mind!! my group & i would all lose our minds over fanart of our crew hahaha!
This might’ve already been asked but what happened to Alagon’s hand?
It’s a lot to explain but long story short some awful Fuck Shit during the challenges the party had to overcome getting through Geb’s fortress. There was a section where each party member had to write down one of their deepest desires, and then were presented with a condition that had to be met and the desire would come true, with the power of a Wish spell. Everyone’s conditions were pretty awful, but the catch was at least ONE person HAD to agree to their condition for their desire to come true, because if everyone denied their condition we would be stuck in Geb’s fortress for eternity. We didn’t know who was accepting their condition, and we didn’t know what each other’s condition was, only our own. Alagon and Rin were the only two who accepted their condition, and the party then had to vote on which one would achieve their desire. Both conditions were god awful, but we picked the one that did what we perceived as the least damage - that was cutting off Alagon’s hand, which was the condition for Rin’s wish (which was to know what happened to her parents).It’s a bunch of bullshit that was no doubt put in place by Geb to tear our party apart, but they stayed strong throughout the fortress and managed to defeat Geb. Unfortunately, since Alagon’s hand was sliced off at the hands of a wish spell, nothing but maybe another wish spell or a few other things could bring it back, but Alagon was fine with that and local engineer Lupum built him a cool prosthetic! So Alagon is getting by. (And by the way, just to give you guys some insight into how sweet of a boy Alagon is, he voted for Rin’s wish to be granted, knowing it would result in his hand being taken. He just knows that knowing what happened to her parents meant that much to her. I love this damn family.)

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In the same way that Rick Riordan gave ADHD/Dyslexic kids a fantasy lens with demigods, I think reclaiming the changeling myth/fairy folklore has potential for autistic/queer identification that would empower people to see themselves differently.
"Oh, you're not good at social cues because your brain was designed for navigating the fey laws which are alien and often deceptively literal"
"Your strong sense of self helps you resist fey glamour"
"Yes, you draw power from these intense focii of joy and amusement, which you can use for bartering time and attention more easily"
"Of course you're uncomfortable in human clothes! They grate on your skin like cold iron"
And, if you wanna go there,
"Yeah of course physically abusing a child would drive them away - it'd be the same for a human kid or a fairy kid, asshole!"
Just.
Even the autistic desire for fairness speaks for itself.
Idk I think it'd be neat
Genuine question:
If Bruce Wayne was a suspiciously wealthy furry, would he have a bat fursuit or choose something else to avoid the suspicion of Batman?
Discuss.
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