Originally Posted by
rutog98
Had to respond to a poster on another board and thought I would add what I said to this post:
This is the first time she's ever lost a lover. Before losing Logan, she just recently lost Xavier. She lost Nightcrawler to only get him back recently and Jean is still gone. So this thing with Logan is probably the straw the broke the camel's back. Not only that, but Wolverine is the one person in her life that has been a constant throughout her career as an X-Man. He was a solid bedrock of strength for her and she could always count on him
Every other member of the second generation X-Men left the team at some point. Nightcrawler, Colossus and Shadowcat joined Excalibur. Cyclops left after Jean died, came back and then left again with X-Factor. Banshee lost his powers and left the team to be with Moira. Heck, even Xavier left for about 75 issues.
Wolverine and Storm were the only two mutants to stay with the X-Men. They became the heart and soul of the team and drew especially close to each other when Storm lost her powers. That bond of friendship continued and grew until the day he died. Whenever one of them went through a rough patch, the other was there right beside them. They supported each other. Marvel can try and call Jean Grey Storm's best friend all they want, but truth be told, they were hardly on the same team together until the 90s. Canonically, Wolverine was really Storm's best and most trusted friend. They became lovers (I would have supported such a move for the two IF Wolverine did not have that ongoing obsession with Jean Grey) and now he's dead.
Wolverine was arguably also like an older brother figure for Storm. He enhanced her already formidable H2H combat skills, taught her how to shoot making her an excellent marksman in the event she ever found herself in a position where she could not use her elemental powers, he shared her passion for the natural world (in their own way), both were ferociously primal and of all the X-Men, he was the only other member besides Ororo (and Xavier) to have an "old soul." Storm and Wolverine bonded closely in so many ways as friends.
I don't have a problem with this reaction to that fact for these reasons alone. On top of all of this, look at what Storm has been going through in terms of "deaths in the family".