X-23 Appreciation Post: My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel

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The problem is, we don't even really SEE where and how Laura outgrew him. It all came across as arbitrary and forced (which is why I tend to think it was an editorial mandate as part of severing her relationships with the X-Men prior to shipping her off to Avengers Academy).

It was all based on Liu's expeirneces with her own crushes as a teenager, and she writes X as a young woman, opposed to Julian, who is often depicted as a teenager who seems unable, or nor interested, to let go.