While the colonialism will probably be super cringy, many pirates historically were people of colour, formerly enslaved people, and women who rebelled against government powers.
Yeah, real pirates.
Kitty's boat is owned by Hellfire Trading Company, which is a stand-in for the British East India Company, you know, the anti-pirate colonizers/slavers.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
If Storm steals Emma's boat and mutiny's Kitty's command, I'm back onboard.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
Thus proving yet again that Kitty is a great leader who has learned from the failures of all those before her that she's been working under all this time to avoid such mista--nvm we're gonna show kitty as an inept leader again because they can't let any of their characters grow in any meaningful way, as that would piss off long time readers.
I don't want to agree with you, but I don't see how Emma would ever choose to hang out on a team with Kitty. Even if they aren't outright hostile to one another anymore, they still aren't even friends. They have gained some respect for each other, but they're totally different people who don't mesh.
"Even in this glorious new dawn, Mutantkind faces hardships and oppression from their human counterparts. Led by Captain Kate Pryde and funded by Emma Frost and the Hellfire Trading Company, Marauders Storm, Pyro, Bishop and Iceman sail the seas of the world to protect those hated and feared!"
I think some of you are reading too much into the pirate theme.
If they are funded by a faux British Trading Company then they deserve to be hated and feared for being raiders
Last edited by Tofali; 07-23-2019 at 04:25 AM.
Not from the looks of the solicit I read...
A group still facing hardship and oppression is not a stand-in for the British East India Company. At least not in any way past a naming convention.Even in this glorious new dawn, Mutantkind faces hardships and oppression from their human counterparts. Led by Captain Kate Pryde and funded by Emma Frost and the Hellfire Trading Company, Marauders Storm, Pyro, Bishop and Iceman sail the seas of the world to protect those hated and feared!
Why name it the Hellfire Trading Company if not to invoke or allude to the British East India Company aka "Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies"? They could have just went with the already established "Mutantes Sans Frontières", or even "X-Corporation", and put them in a jet or airship, but instead they chose a boat and the name they chose that looks and sounds like the real world historical colonization/slaver boating entity.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
Instead of Marauders they should have called it something less aggressive sounding like "Empathisers".