Originally Posted by
BobbysWorld
I love Hellion, but he is way too young for Bobby and that would squick me, lol.
But also, I get that they've done next to nothing with Bobby and Christian, and that's annoying as hell, but funny thing is, I've been shipping them for years, long before Christian was ever brought back, because fun story:
So other long time readers might remember this, but there was a time in the 90s, where for a very, VERY brief moment, the powers that be contemplated a Bobby/Emma pairing. It was right after Emma hijacked his body after her Hellions died, and this led to Bobby and Emma interacting in various Gen-X stories as he tried to get her help with his powers and she taunted him about not pushing his potential.....but there was like, a weird kinda flirtation in a few issues as the Gen-X writer toyed with the idea of teasing that Emma was interested in Bobby because of how well she knew him after being in his mind, like she was able to see things in him that nobody else did, and some people at Marvel briefly thought there might be some potential in Emma being with someone as unconventional as Bobby. This never went anywhere, obviously....at least not in 616. Like, there was an issue were it was implied that Emma was going to ask Bobby to be her date when chaperoning Gen-X's prom, but that was about it. After that, the plotline was dropped.
But again, that's in 616.
Around the same time as this was being toyed with, Marvel's 2099 line was pretty successful. Enough so that its X-Men 2099 comic launched a spinoff called X-Nation. It only ran for six issues, and was supposed to be the Gen-X to the 2099 X-Men, with future X-Men member Shakti Haddad, aka Cerebra, gathering together various young mutants for their protection and to train them.
One of these young mutants created for this spinoff comic was a young blonde girl codenamed Winter. Her look was very clearly inspired by Emma Frost, though she was drawn in a Bachalo-esque style....
But also of extreme significance is that Winter had ice powers....and her real name was December Frost.
Anyway, point is that there was a brief window in time where Bobby/Emma almost happened, but never did....BUT it was on the brain of several writers right at the time when they needed new teen characters for their 2099 line, and so somebody pitched a future descendant of Bobby and Emma, with his powers and her look/attitude and lineage.
I've always been partial to the 2099 line, and the X-Nation book in particular while short-lived had some great characters.....and its always been really funny to me that for completely unrelated reasons to the Bobby/Emma teased romance.....decades later, Bobby was written coming out, and ultimately paired up with Emma's brother Christian.
And given the focus on the 2099 line lately in the form of 2099 X-Men villain Brimstone Love appearing in the upcoming Marauders Annual and the 2099 books being brought up and mentioned by a lot of writers and editors as being old faves of theirs.....
Idk, its really interesting and funny to me that long-established minor character December Frost STILL WORKS as Bobby's future descendant.....just with it 'turning out' to be that she's descended from Bobby and CHRISTIAN Frost, with them perhaps asking one of his sisters to be their egg donor when having a kid via in vitro/surrogacy.
*Shrugs* I've long said that the Summers shouldn't get to hog all the future and time traveling descendants, and its past time for Bobby to have a wtf moment of meeting some future kid or descendant, and December Frost already exists and has for over two decades. It'd actually be especially funny if in a story the X-Nation kids popped up in the present for a brief visit NOW, precisely because of the fact that Bobby and Christian have barely even dated much yet and still are in that undefined part of an early relationship.....the perfect time to be thrown a curveball in the form of 'what do you mean you're our great great grand-daughter?? We haven't even been dating a year!'