This is my only Hank/Raven story.

[sabinetzin]

sabinetzin: it's kind of a shame [that I have a massive hate-on for this pairing], because I do have a really great idea for an anatomy fetish story, where he's like you are blue and naked, I MUST KNOW HOW THIS WORKS.
sabinetzin: and I feel like his opening line is "I have been thinking about your labia a lot."
sabinetzin: I feel like he would do it somewhere wildly inappropriate, because he's thinking about science, like at the dinner table
sabinetzin: and she slaps him and walks out, and Hank just looks confused
sabinetzin: and then Alex is just like... other people did hear that, right? that just happened?
sabinetzin: and then ten minutes later, Hank is eating his mashed potatoes, and he drops his fork and he's like OH FUCK ME
sabinetzin: and Erik is like, yeah, well, Raven's not gonna do it. ::cockblocker smile::
sabinetzin: Erik does have a trollface.
sabinetzin: so many missed opportunities to indulge my mad scientist kink.

Later somewhere down here he does apologize, and mad scientist type things are accomplished. IDK. I can't decide if it's super hot or she's like, BORED NOW halfway through it. Could go either way.

That's all I got.

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[sabinetzin]

I'm just gonna have to, like, look at him and Jennifer Lawrence doing couple things for the pretty. But then, because I haven't seen him in anything else, every time I have this weird kneejerk where I'm like "FUCK OFF, HANK." And I have to remember that, no, he is just an innocuous tall hipster-y guy, and that is legit.

There's just, like, this really insidious unspoken core that I find in it, that way down in the center of it, if a man wants you, you have to overlook his faults and/or help change him, because he doesn't mean it, honest, and he'll redeem himself, you'll see. And my girl is neither his momma nor his shrink and she does not have to put the fuck up with shit. Like, maybe he can call in a couple of years and we will fucking see.

(It does not escape my notice that she swings in exactly the opposite direction and heads for the emotionally unavailable (to her) mysterious older man type. Or that she headed to Hank from the paternalistic figure who loved her very much, but who knew best and kind of wanted her to pipe down.

But Lawd, just keep her away from Azazel.)

I fucking love Beast so much- like, as a kid, he was my favorite after Storm- so it bugs the absolute shit out of me. Hmph. Now I'm stuck on what my all-star X-Men dream team would be. Storm, Beast, and Rogue are a lock, I think that's obvious to everyone. But I would probably want Wolverine? But if you've got Wolverine, you got to have Colossus, because, Fastball Special, but tbh I don't like Colossus enough to put him on my A team.

Damn. All my other favorite characters are in the Brotherhood. I think it's totally legit that they could recruit Pietro and Wanda though, right? FFS they're Avengers. It would be a promotion.

[cesare]

But Lawd, just keep her away from Azazel

The one good thing about that would be the implication that she breaks away from Erik for a while and (hopefully? please?) gets a chance to figure out who she is on her own. I guess Azazel/Raven has to happen because Nightcrawler, but maybe it's one impulsive night of victory fucking and then she drops him flat? Wish on a star.

Whoa, and now I'm thinking Raven and baby Kurt and stepdad Erik.

I'm 99% sure it'll never happen, but I would really love to see Irene Adler show up for Raven in the next movie. Oooh, the Marvel wiki says "Creator Chris Claremont has stated that he originally intended Mystique and Destiny to be Nightcrawler's biological parents (with Mystique having morphed into a man for the act of conception)..." *wants*

[sabinetzin]

God, all the stuff with Azazel, it was stupid in the comics and only got stupider in XMFC. Kiiiiinda holding out for mpreg at this point. IT'D MAKE AS MUCH SENSE AS ANYTHING ELSE TODAY.

If the stuff with Destiny had just gone down the way it was supposed to have gone down (which, epic storyline, but srsly Claremont, sad to say that you should have known that'd never happen) we wouldn't be having this problem at all (a lie: that would also never make it into a movie. But at least we wouldn't have seen Azazel at all).

In my tiny shipper heart I want their common law marriage to last for a million billion years. In my realistic, I think canon is better when it doesn't follow my ship way, I think they make more sense as sort of drifting back and forth with one another. I think by the time we see them later, they've pretty much solidified, into y'know, evil mastermind and silent, loyal assassin, but before that they got all kinds of their own shit going on.

And then I end up back at the door of the Servalan Problem. Eesh.

Raven and baby Kurt and stepdad Erik get my seal of approval (no, really, I brought my fist down on the keyboard as if to stamp it, I want you to have visuals). I did write the one with baby Kurt and adopted dad Erik. But. There was ~drama~, in a surprisingly canon-appropriate way, and Mystique wasn't raising him.

This is all leading me down the inevitable path of writing the completely cracked out Kurt/Wanda story (where they hook up at the Lehnsherr-Darkholme-Maximoff family reunion, because they are common law step-siblings- we even have a kinship chart around here somewhere) that has been in my head for quite some time now. But fuck it, they have a daughter in Exiles, so it is COMPLETELY LEGIT.

[cesare]

And then I end up back at the door of the Servalan Problem

...? I know that's a Blake's 7 villain, but otherwise I'm mystified. Ahem.

[sabinetzin]

It's this whole thing I have that I need to finish this meta post on that I have been sitting on for, like, a billionty years.

To boil it down, the Servalan Problem re: Mystique is this: there is no there there. I like her as the strong, silent killer in the first three movies. I dig that, both because it is appealing to watch her fight (in X2, because the fight choreography got WAY better, even though Ray Park left) and because it's an inversion of a trope- the quiet assassins are always men. I project onto her and explain her- she doesn't have to talk to you, because she's too busy fucking up your shit to care about you.

But there's no Mystique. There was nothing there before the writers got there- go back as far as you like, and there still won't be anything. So what I'm interpreting is just (largely if not all male) projection. And their motives are not my motives. And you can say anything you want about poaching and reinterpretation, but you can't ever steal those characters entirely. The only way to win is not to play.

So. That's the Servalan Problem. This is the non TL;DR version, if you can believe it.

PS It took me until just now to get "mystified." But earlier I couldn't remember how to fucking uninstall programs. So I'm not hitting all six today.

[cesare]

Still not sure I get it ^_^;;;

Reinterpretation-wise... as I see it... any original character you make up is still going to be created within a culture and within a patriarchy/hierarchies, is still going to be compared, contrasted and resonate with existing stereotypes and precedents, so depending on how you define 'winning', "the only way to win is not to play" would apply to any creative act, not just reinterpretation of existing characters...

But I am the layest of laypersons when it comes to this stuff (or pretty much anything) so, what do I know.

[sabinetzin]

The difference is agency- if I create a character, that's my decision, and it's my decision what goes into it. It's enmeshed in culture and patriarchal/etc. structures, but I have ultimate control. If I create the same silent female assassin, it's a subversion. Other people do what they want with it, but my intentions remain pure, in a sense.

If I accept someone else doing it who is doing it for unsavory/ignorant reasons, that sends back a message, and it reflects poorly on me. It says that I'm okay with a strong female character ("strong female characters", another rant) being literally silenced by someone who is doing it with bad, misogynistic, or at least stupid and lazy intentions. And then there's this whole other thing about representation, and- it turns into this really massive GRAND THEORY OF EVERYTHING argument really quickly.

Pfft. There is nothing fancy here that requires ~citations~. Opinions are opinions. Though I do have my head stuck firmly up my own ass, so. YMMV.

[sabinetzin]

A billion comments later I have a terrible thought:

Getting walked in on by your kids is bad enough.

Mystique's son is a teleporter.

And I know Kurt's problem is that he can't teleport to a location unless he can see what he's doing, or otherwise he might get splinched. But I've gotta believe little Kurt would be okay with teleporting into Mama and Papa's room, because he totally knows it well enough.

I think this is maybe when Erik sits Kurt down and tells him "You can't teleport somewhere you can't see, because you might get splinched." This may or may not be a huge lie, but at least Kurt believes him.