Originally Posted by
sungila
Storm has died though. She dies. Seasonably.
There was that time with the Brood, there was LIFEDEATH, there was her transformation in the Morlock tunnels, the haircut, the tensions and challenges with Yukio, with life in the mansion, with humanizing her Goddessness, with her origin from the rubble into the streets a thief who goes on a walkabout home, home being a place she's never been, her powers on off and how that's influenced everybody who has lost their powers and struggled with that identity (most notably Dani), with being team leader, her full cast Adversary into Outback thing, there were/have been so many of these progressions throughout Storm's life, with Nanny and Gambit in that thing too...transformation, weather system, she's always dying these character deaths and that's part of what makes her so iconic and heroic. Storm is least knowable and readable and relatable when she's forced into a stationary role. When she's queened and crowned. When she's not one second leading the team, next second walking away, next second all of a sudden scary powerful and gigantic and feral as a hurricane...a force so irrepressible and certain that it nulls petty argument and indoor complaints...dark skies and power outages and her in the eye of it all...
But yes, there's something really earned and awesome about her not dying when she dies. Like she's unwilling or simply unable to play the tragedy or comedy or mythological trope. She's somehow and almost paradoxically so very mortal and human...sometimes I forget this, all this about her - someday, maybe...when the Earth is seen from space during some huge crossover dystopian reboot opera...maybe discovering a molecule from the original big bang won't seem so significant...when everybody looks and sees one hero struggling to save one planet...with her powers and herself, too busy to even turn around and...someday the only threat and every threat is a global threat and the only globe we know we can go to and get to and give to is this one where we are and am...it has died a few times, like Storm, without dying...perhaps she and Earth can only die that way once. Extinction isn't the end. But our extinction...for us...is the last extinction also for Earth. Without a 'language' like ours...that distinction and revolution in evolution...ends.
Storm is awesome.
UXM #16 2019, a little of everything...hmm, it can feel crowded and ironically empty...too much of not enough.