Mr. Majestic is supposed to be aroace. Here's why.
Majestros Being Aromantic:
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #25; Alan Moore (writer), Travis Charest (art), 1995
As an aroace guy myself, this is one of the most relatable lines of narration I have read in my life. A "it's not me, it's them" situation. I'm not broken, they're just immature.
Three thousand years. He doesn't really dwell on it. He never laments about what-could-have-beens because he never considers pursuing a relationship. From what I have observed, normal people like to yearn for others, or yearn for a relationship, or yearn for the idea of a relationship. Majestic does not.
"And yes, three thousand years without love is a long time, but one must have standards."
Maj builds up "standards" to explain why he's single, but they're really excuses. He says he'll never date a human, and that he would prefer to remain pure, and only date Kherabim. But he says that he refuses to date inside the ranks, when Khera is a war-focused nation and culture, and nearly every Kherabim is in the ranks, and nearly every Kherabim on Earth is in the ranks, or has been in the ranks.
He actively critiques Zealot, Savant, and Harmony for leading more active lifestyles than him. Of course they do. The only other people to life a lifestyle as active or less active than him are people who are aroace or celibate. Still, the amount of relationships they have is a jarring contrast to his own. He has had two children, and only had intercourse with their mothers to conceive them. The first one was reported stillborn. The second would die on the crash to Earth. He has only had one reported love before Nemesis was created (a different essay for a different day, but in short: we disregard everything after 2005, especially when it comes to Mr. Majestic, including the existence of Nemesis), and her name was Elan. I'll talk about her more in future rambles.
Aside from Elan, Majestros has had other "encounters";
Mr. Majestic (1999) #6; by Joe Casey (writer), Brian Holguin (writer), and Ed McGuinness (artist)
Majestic is being mindcontrolled by the Ultravixens, who act as extraterrestrial sirens of a sort, luring powerful beings (like Mr. Majestic) and making them fall in love with them.
He originally is able to break free only only from the fact that the sisters are squabbling over him (therefore their focus on their power that's controlling him is greatly diminished) but also because he simply doesn't understand what it's like to be in love. It's a strange and foreign feeling that clues him into the fact that something is wrong.
He's never genuinely felt romantic love before. He doesn't know WHAT it is, and he doesn't understand how he knows that the alien emotion he's been forced to feel is love.
"What is love?" he asks himself, more than once.
The interesting thing about this interaction is that Mr. Majestic doesn't contemplate it afterwards, and immediately heads back to Earth thinking about the next crisis. He doesn't ruminate the topic at all, and would rather busy himself with work than attempt to find an answer to what love is.
What is love?
He's actively awkward when it comes to flirtatious comments as a whole, as seen with Savant's friend, Mabel, who won't stop throwing suggestive comments towards Majestic;
Savant Garde #1; by Barbara Randall Kesel (writer), and Ryan Odagawa (artist), 1997
He's not even flustered by Mabel's comments, just outwardly uncomfortable and seeks for a conversation change. It doesn't help that Mabel is Savant's friend. Savant was the closest thing Maj ever had to a daughter, aside from Maxine (more on his relationship with both Savant and Maxine in future rants). It's nice that Savant tries to help Mr. Majestic out by trying to reroute Mabel to the topic at hand over making Majestic uncomfortable.
Majestros Being Asexual
It would be crude for me to include the panel with Majestic being uncomfortable with Mabel, yet purposefully exclude his interaction with Cybernary later in the same issue;
Savant Garde #1; by Barbara Randall Kesel (writer), and Ryan Odagawa (artist), 1997
This feels like a similar situation to the Ultravixens. Sexual attraction is a foreign feeling that leaves Majestic overall uncomfortable, and he only continues to hold onto Cybernary because he has to. He lets her go as soon as possible, and never touches her again or makes any actual comment on her body or appearance.
It's an awkward experience. He's pretty uncomfortable. Don't ask me about Cybernary or her lore, it's pretty weird and 100% 90s.
Aside: God, he's such a dad. "You should have said so. I can't read your mind."
Speaking of Dad-jestic, Majestros walks in on Savant (who again, is "basically" his daughter) and her partner, TAO. Savant confronts him afterwards;
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #28, by Alan Moore (writer), Dave Johnson (artist), 1996
Holy Asexuality, Lord Emp! Did you hear that?
"Have you remained chaste all that time?"
"Of course" Majestic said, as if someone asked him if the sky was blue. Then he spins this tale about why he hasn't partaken in intercourse, and blames it on the war. He is the only Kheran warlord to act like this. As if we don't see or hear about other warlords leading active lifestyles, which further singles Majestros out.
He has a negative view on intercourse as a whole, claiming that it would "weaken" him, and goes straight back to business with the Khera/Daemon war.
Of course.
So yeah. Maj is aroace. EXTREMELY aroace :)
We'll talk about his children Kenesha and Majestrate on another day.
Take that, Robbie Morrison and Christos Gage. Eat my boot, Charis.
