O.o
So it's strongly implied that spoilers:end of spoilers
Prodigy and Tommy make out regularly. I wonder how Billy feels about that? xD Looks like there really wasn't anyone straight on Kieron Gillen's YA run lol
ANOLE [Victor Borkowski]
BLING! [Roxanne ‘Roxy’ Washington]
CULLEN BLOODSTONE
DAKEN AKIHIRO
HULKLING [Theodore ‘Teddy’ Altman]
KARMA [Xi’an Coy Mahn]
KAROLINA DEAN
LOKI LAUFEYSON, God of Mischief
MOONDRAGON [Heather Douglas]
MYSTIQUE [Raven Darkholme]
NORTHSTAR [Jean-Paul Beaubier]
PRODIGY [David Alleyne]
RICTOR [Julio Esteban Ricter]
SHATTERSTAR [Gaveedra-7]
WICCAN [William ‘Billy’ Kaplan], the Demiurge
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So it's strongly implied that spoilers:end of spoilers
Prodigy and Tommy make out regularly. I wonder how Billy feels about that? xD Looks like there really wasn't anyone straight on Kieron Gillen's YA run lol
I need Krystal M'Kraan and/or Shade/Darkveil to appear regularly... somewhere. Pls Marvel gods
Not that it matters, but it’s interesting that all of Vision and Wanda’s children are queer: Billy, Tommy and Viv.
Note: Viv’s mother’s brain patterns are based off of Wanda. Viv’s brother Vin died too young before he discovered his sexuality.
Darkveil . . . In the reading challenge, you snapped your fan and tossed your fellow queens into the Darkforce Dimension! But tonight on the mainstage, your powers . . . flatlined. Genosha you betta don't! Can Brooklyn's finest do more than throw Shade? I'm sorry my dear, but you are up for elimination.
Krystal M'Kraan . . . You may be the fashion nexus of this season, but your cracks are showing . . . and after a long night of hooking, you looked like you'd been gutted by Sabretooth and set on fire by Pyro . . . But you didn't die. You crystallized! And now you're a glamazon b*tch, ready for the runway! Shi'ar better werk! Your inner Phoenix has risen! You're safe. You may join the other Omega-levels in the White Hot Room.
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Teddy straight up said they make out, so yeah... sounds like a confirmation. I'm not sure what exactly their relationship status is, though. The issue didn't make it very clear.
Same. I really want the gay bar to be a recurring set for future Young Avengers stories. Like, whenever they go out to celebrate or something, they go there.
Do we even know if Krystal is a mutant, though? It's clear her and her friend like to present X-Men themed shows, but we know basically nothing about who they are under the costumes. It would be nice for that to be explored in future stories.
Emperor Hulkling was so good. My only nitpick was that the art was inconsistent.
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I didn't get the impression that Tommy and David are exclusive or even seriously dating, more like friends who occasionally make out with each other.
I went to Leah's Twitter to see what she was saying about it, and she said that she was a consultant on Emperor Hulkling and gave her approval on how David was going to be used. Now if she's gonna develop this relationship? That's a whole other story. People were flooding her with questions about it, and she simply said she didn't want to answer that because she didn't want to spoil the book. What I get from this is that either a) Thinkfast will be a thing in X-Factor and she doesn't want to reveal Tommy's role in the book OR b) Thinkfast won't be a thing in X-Factor and David might have another love interest, which she doesn't want to reveal right now.
What is making me think it might be option b) is the fact that Anthony said a while back on a podcast that he wrote Emperor Hulkling as a send-off to David before he goes back to the X-Men books. I interpreted this as ''David may not be interacting with these characters anytime soon, so here's a parting gift'', but I guess I could be wrong and the send-off actually refers to both David and Tommy going into X-Factor, but we haven't seen any evidence that Tommy will be included at all so far. I guess we'll find out sooner or later.
If anything I imagine David hooking up with the one of the sons of The Pretender Wanda Maximoff is likely to be a source of tension within the team, especially if Wanda's recent attempt to help the mutant race in X-men Empyre has left general sentiment around her at all time low and resparked old wounds.
Though it'd be equally amusing to see David on the receiving end of being tempted away from home, likely by Daken.
It be intresting to see how it'd parallel his attempt with Billy and Teddy, who much more established and devoted to each other vs him and Tommy who are clearly still in the early phases of their relationship and not as stable.
It would certainly make for some interesting drama.
Oh, I doubt Tommy/David will ever, ever be like Billy/Teddy, and I don't say this just because of my bias towards Wickling as a couple, but simply because I don't think any YA couple can reach the status Billy and Teddy did. It's much easier for a couple to make it when they are written to be together ever since their very creation and remain together ever since. They are the Reed/Sue of the group, so they're going to be a solid couple. The YA just don't have that with any other couple, and Thinkfast specifically will always be haunted by the fact that they are characters from different franchises, so much like Storm/Black Panther, it's very likely that editorial interference will be their downfall, unless they hit the jackpot and become the new Jessica Jones/Luke Cage, but that's the exception, not the rule.