#lightmare

Brady Mason’s Perfect Fit by Nicole Melleby (January 13th) Brady Mason couldn’t care less about fashion. She likes what she knows: baseball, comfortable clothes, and pork roll with egg and cheese. When Brady’s friends notice that she looks strangely like fashion editor Elena Lavigne, they start the rumor that Brady is Elena’s long-lost daughter. They’ll make a few TikTok videos, get some fun buzz…

The updated Lumii Family Tree~

I've been meaning to create a family tree for Lumii that was a bit more expanded outside of her direct family, so I finally settled on doing on.

(The different colors in the 'Alpha' titles means different flock alphas.)

Let us move swiftly on to the final part of the best story in the issue, in which Pyjamas has learned the truth about their new friend the hard way

We get a lot happening very quickly. Super Sonic’s memories have been unlocked and he remembers everything about who he is, but before we can see how he reacts to that, Ebony apologises to Pyjamas for not believing her and asks Super Sonic the truth about himself. But before he can answer…

…Biohazard answers the question for him

Ebony and Pyjamas looking at each other like, “Is that a rhetorical question, or…?”

We then get the reveal of the next major plot point: When Pyjamas unlocked his memories, Super Sonic’s powers returned to him. However, Super Sonic has the self-awareness to know that if he uses his powers, he could be overcome with the controllable urge to destroy once again. So he chooses not to use his powers

Super Sonic chooses to be good

I knew I remembered that cop guy appeared again at some point! Here he is, solving the trio’s problem without realising that’s what he’s doing

We then get a really nice moment between Super Sonic & Pyjamas where she apologises for not trusting him earlier and he once again vows that he won’t use his powers, no matter what the danger

All’s well that ends well! Thus, the best trio in StC has now been formed, yahoo!

The sad part is that we don’t actually get that many more stories with them after this one, which I’m sure wasn’t due to a lack of fans asking for them. They were always characters I wanted to see each time I picked up an issue and they’ve remained some of the most popular from StC to this day. It always felt like a missed opportunity to me not to give them more. Then again, I guess there’s that one quote from that Disco Elysium interview that was like “something something desire is strongest when it’s not wholly satisfied something something”. All the same, I just… wanted more of them

I get that she was genuinely loyal to him, but you’d think that if she recognized how completely obsessed he was with Super Sonic’s power, then she would’ve left him in the right moment.

Thoughts?

Given that she was a willing accomplice of his and only turned on him once it was clear he was getting into something way, way over his head with potentially apocalyptic consequences? I'm not sure what the 'right circumstances' could hypothetically be. We don't really have much of a clue about Lightmare's personality beyond the fact she IS loyal to her father and has limits, but otherwise we cannot guess at those limits.