So this is a bit long but bear with me. I have been doing some reaserch and I think I have a way to gauge Storm's abilities as they pertain to the cosmic.
Now this is blackstarr she is a Jew born in Nazi Germany that was tourtured and brainwashed by them. She came to America and worked as a physicist, where she discovered a scientific principle which allowed her to tap into and manipulate the primal cosmic forces of the universe.
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Just like how storm in space can perceive and manipulate the primal natural forces of the universe.
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Blackstarr can manipulate these forces to create quasars, meteor showers, black holes, electromagnetism, gravity storms etc. She has nigh unlimited power due to this.
Now I know storm has been toted as a weather manipulator for as long as she has existed... But we as her fans know there is something much deeper than that going on, what if weather is but an aspect to her true mutant abilities. Because I have a theory that due to storm experiencing claustrophobic trauma before the onset of her powers she yearned to breathe hence her powers as they usually do adapted to enable her to govern the very element to breathe air and atmosphere. But as she has done over the years she has demonstrated that her powers adapt to the environment, regardless of whether there is weather or not such as the trion where she manipulated time and space rifts, and in the world where she created a nanobot storm.
She literally experienced sexual assault in the dessert just before her powers manifested and I as a sexual assault survivor knows exactly how suffocating that is. It makes perfect sense why she is able to apply her self to do things beyond weather such as manipulate ocean currents and channel the power of a galactic core a region which has millions of stars, a supper massive blackhole and an unfathomable amount of cosmic energy. Storm absorbed the totality of all that power no problem becoming celestial body for the briefest moment. That is not weather manipulation that is something else entirely something much more profound than even weather manipulation itself. She Saying the cosmic forces gives her material and spiritual sustenance makes me believe that storm doesn't really need air to be able to survive in space but has tricked herself into believing that because of her fear of crushing suffocation. I mean she told silver surfer she does her best work in an atmosphere meanwhile her single greatest mutant feat channeling the galactic core only happened when she surrendered herself to the primal cosmic forces for the briefest moment. This shows how deep this mindset really has her expression of power.
This would be an excellent storyline for storm in xmen red if it is a storm led book where she is told by tarn that she is suppressing aspects of her mutant abilities from fully expressing themselves because of her past trauma. It would make sense the set up is there from sword 8. And would be a perfect way to bring back the more edgier aspects of storm which warrants the new costume due to her now fully and totally engaging with all aspects of her abilities and herself.
Remember black vortex when stork saw her self in the mirror and she was literally going super nova and destroying a planet? I always wondered why was that in her repertoire what has supernovas got to do with weather. Till I realized her power might just go deeper than the weather itself. I mean she herself made this realization in her solo which pushed her to directly manipulate the entire planet's geomagnetic field. Something we all thought was a magneto at his most powerful thing.
But as surely as the sun rises and sets I know this storyline would never cross the mind of the xoffice.
So I implore any of the fan fic writer's here to kindly take this idea and give it life. so at least we get the storm story we all truly deserves as her fans, like what Coates was giving us with her divinity. I would like to do it but I don't think I have the writing talent to handle something like this. And a story of this magnitude needs talented writers.