Now you made me wonder how Varel's family tree would look like. Would it be his niece or nephew at Ostagar, maybe brother? Does he have a big family, would your Surana meet them one day and have a dinner with all of them?
i think seneschal varel is one of those guys who has a very clear boundary between work and home and never says anything abt his family life, to the continual frustration of every gossip in amaranthine, and only drops ground-breaking information to make the unhinged weirdos he works with lose their minds. they all have freakish grey warden backstories and he’ll drop smth completely normal like “oh highever that’s where i got married” and they won’t shut up about it for a month. he would never admit it but he does this on purpose. for the enrichment in their enclosure
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Since I have now watched all of X-Men Evolution, I have many thoughts that will probably come out in random bursts posted on Tumblr, but for now.
I was glad to see Spyke come back at the end, especially to have a moment with Storm, and I was glad to see him with the team in the future, but it also felt a little bit like seeing Morph in Graduation Day in TAS - the writers saying, "Okay, the show is ending so we can bring back this character we previously wrote off." I have a lot of thoughts about Spyke but maybe in another post.
I was a little disappointed that Gambit and Pyro didn't show up for the final battle, when even the Brotherhood got to jump in at the last minute. I know Pyro is one of the bad Acolytes, like Sabretooth, but I find it hard to believe that Wolverine wouldn't drop by the Acolyte headquarters to say, "Hey, you violent idiot, you wanna burn things? Come help fight Apocalypse and you can burn things," and I find it even harder to believe that Evo Pyro would refuse. The dude was excited for a fight when Wolverine showed up in Cajun Spice. Maybe Pyro wasn't there. Pyro is gonna wake up in Key West after going on a multi-day bender, and be really disappointed that he missed the chance to burn Apocalypse. And I guess Gambit is too self-interested to show up in this series. Both Evo and Wolverine and the X-Men seem determined to make Gambit worse than he actually is in the comics. He's basically a manipulative, amoral thief in both series (and even an Acolyte in Evo, although we never find out why), and yeah, he's that in the comics, too, but he's also an X-Man and a hero who consistently tries to fight the good fight and cares about his team-mates. I think the worst thing Gambit has done in the comics is his retconned participation in the Morlock Massacre, and even that was before he joined the X-Men, and Gambit didn't realize what was going to go down when he led the Marauders into the tunnels. As soon as he saw people were getting slaughtered, he was horrified, saved Marrow, and got the fuck out of there. At least Gambit is on the Evo team in the future shot.
Maybe Evo Pyro and Gambit were on a bender in Key West together during the Apocalypse fight. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Nice to see Rahne and Jubilee were back, too, in the future shot. I hope that Rahne is with some nice foster parents in this universe, and very far away from Reverend Craig.
Not even commenting on the whole Jean-Phoenix thing, I guess they were gonna do that next season. We all know the drill, every adaptation has to do Jean-Phoenix.
And then there's the Brotherhood future shot, and Xavier's very judgemental "Some people never change," and I get really annoyed. I guess maybe I can assume that Xavier is just giving his biased opinion, because he has never treated the Brotherhood kids like they were worth anything at all. But it especially bugs me that we see Wanda and Pietro (two characters who have been heroes in the comics for decades) still with the Brotherhood, being written off as garbage by Xavier, while Magneto is now with the X-Men. I know there are many thorny issues around "redemption," and it's kind of pointless to really talk about who "deserves" redemption, although that doesn't stop anyone, including me. But it really bugs me when characters who have been abused don't get redeemed, but their abuser does. That's basically what Evo is doing here with Magneto vs. Pietro and Wanda (and to some extent, the rest of the Brotherhood). Magneto is a "good guy" in the future, but the kids that he used, threatened and manipulated as still the trashy super-powered team because "some people never change." Spoken by the guy who completely dismissed these kids and never really gave them a chance. Yeah, I have lots of issues with how the show handled the Brotherhood.
Nice to see Pyro with them in the future, though. I'm assuming that after Magneto leaves, the Brotherhood decides to use the Acolyte headquarters for their own and finds Pyro just hanging around there like a feral cat, so they basically adopt him.
Actually, I just realized something. The Avengers don't seem to exist in the Evolution universe. In the comics, Wanda and Pietro joined the Avengers, and in Evolution they appear to be SHIELD-sponsored. They are the Avengers. No, don't tell me it's Freedom Force, Wanda and Pietro are there, it's the Avengers. The Brotherhood, including Blob and Toad, will become Earth's Mightiest Heroes in the future, and Xavier will be eating his words when they save the planet from Galactus and Kang and Doom. Choke on that, Xavier. And Magneto.
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I like to believe that the reason we never saw a Huntlow kiss/confession/anything of that sort and that it was left to subtext/everything we did get to see, was that it’s a parallel of how queer relationships are typically portrayed in media
How many times has the queer relationship been left to subtext, or confirmation after the fact, or restrictions from networks limits it to only hand holding/blushes, if that? While the straight relationships usually have no such restrictions?
Now the owl house can come here giving us all the queer confessions, kisses, hand holdings, confirmed marriages, everything we could want. And the straight relationship is left in “subtext”. Idk, it’s a weird poetic subversion of the trope and idk if it’s intentional or not, but I’m going to pretend it is and make the most out of the situation
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