Context is king.
X-23's most basic surface level characteristic that any idiot should grasp: Stoicism.
I don't demand that her every minor appearance be a nuance in-depth examination of her character, but is it to much to ask she be written in Archetype?! This is storytelling 101! If you want people to stay invested in a character, you need to, at the bare minimum, write them such a way that they can plausibly be believed to be the same character!
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Well, maybe not a romance but I think Laura and Nathan have lots of things on common. I'm curious about their interactions
As I said on the other thread, Twitter isn’t canon, so it’s no good reading into it. All that matters in the end is what’s on the page.
TBH, I sometimes wonder about just leaving her asexual altogether. It’s underrepresented in media for the very reason that everyone — writers and readers alike — wants to put characters into a relationship. And after the Warren debacle it all just seems extraneous with everything else she’s dealing with.
why are people talking about Laura and Nate as if they might be a thing. Id hope she learned her lesson after Warren. A romance with a time displaced X-man is a dead end and only good for some shortlived sex
Same here. I think they could develop a strong connection that need not be romantic. Laura and Nathan were both byproducts of someone else's agenda. They were both manipulated and dehumanized. They both had to rebuild relationships with their parents. They share a similar struggle and I think they could help each other in that effort. Again, it doesn't have to be romantic, but I can understand why some shipping might occur, depending on how things play out in this book.
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Exactly this. Shippers gonna ship.
I DON'T ship X-Fi, I just recognize that putting them on a book together is going to make shippers' heads explode (and from what I've seen on social media already, I'm right). Wolverine's daughter and Cyclops' son is just too juicy for them to pass up, and I can VERY MUCH see Marvel doing it for many of the same reasons that the shippers are drooling. Marvel isn't stupid (Laura being introduced in ANXM by plastering her leaping into Tyke's arms on the cover of #20 was no accident. Marvel knew EXACTLY what they were doing). Most readers would be "Kwannon who?" But even if casuals may be confused over seeing a young Cable, they'll still know exactly what's going on.
I thoroughly expect them to milk this for all it's worth.
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
Hard pass on shoehorning Laura into yet another dead end relationship.
I’m thrilled if she’s not stuck with Gabby in her next book, though.
Incidentally, I posted a question to Hill on Twitter about balancing Laura's introversion with developing her interpersonal relationships, noting how most writers have tended to treat her introversion as an "illness" to overcome rather than part of what makes her Laura (which being an introvert IS; it's part of our personality). He didn't answer the question, but he DID give it a Like. So at the very least he seems to be aware of it.
So, basically Kwannon is "replacing" Betsy Braddock?
Seconded. Some of us may need to be better about interacting with people in certain ways, but it's our feature, not a bug.
(Funny fact: introversion doesn't mean "loner" by default, it just means that we find social situations draining and alone time energizing. So you can have introverts who would seem extroverted in public, just because their's doesn't manifest in the same way as the common perception. Suppose in theory that Laura could written like that, but the trend for her to seem to gravitate towards smaller groups of people seems to work better, IMHO.)
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)