Parasite Aya by Dalton Davey I made a tribute t-shirt design for one of my favorite video game series of all time, Parasite Eve.
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So. For anyone who knows anything about me, I am complete and utter Maximoff Family Trash. So you should make my day and come complete that little family by bringing us a Lorna or Erik. Or, ya know what? Any of Marvel’s lovely characters.
“there are bad and hypocrite people who like to discredit characters and you seem to be one of them“
Yeeeeeah, maybe try not introducing yourself with the fan equivalent of “I don’t like what you said there, therefore YOU ARE LITERALLY THE EMBODIMENT OF HITLER.” That’s an insta-block. Especially because it’s now an M.O. I’m very savvy to.
I actually kind of have mixed feelings about being targeted like this. On the one hand, I don’t really want to be a big known name of anything, if I did then I’d have a real blog with featurettes and regular output and such. That was never my goal.
On the other hand, if we’re to the point where a person or group of people is trying to harass and smear me like this, it means progress. People don’t typically launch attacks against fans of obscure nobody characters, they’d see it as a waste of their time.
So much progress has been made for Polaris since I discovered her and started campaigning for her back in 2009. We went from a character hardly anyone knows, who never got to lead a team in her own right, never had her origin story told, whose status as a mutant AND as Magneto’s daughter was up in the air, to the Lorna of today.
She has an origin story, after over 40 years without one. She led her own team in All-New X-Factor. She’s her father’s daughter again. She’s a mutant again. She’s getting tons of cameos as AU versions during Secret Wars, including a big role for her House of M counterpart. It’s becoming more common for people to actually know who I’m talking about if I mention Polaris, and there are all these wonderful pieces of fanart and cosplays coming at least once per week for a character who once had hardly anything.
We’ve come so far since 2009, and the days when people would argue against Lorna being restored as Magneto’s daughter or insist she should remain in space limbo and “out of the way.” Not just fandom, but even awareness and acceptance of her as a meaningful character has really grown, and I’m so happy to see it.
I didn’t really expect to become a target of harassment in the process, but if that’s a necessary sacrifice, I’m willing to make it. I’m not going to stop pushing for Lorna just because some guys decide to smear me for my efforts six years into it, especially with the progress that’s been made for her.
Why we love her? Polaris is the heir to Magneto in ways her (former?) brother and sister were not. Though manipulated by him, she also respected him and her beliefs at times swayed similar to his. She has a quiet power and strength that she only rarely taps into and the right writer finds that and makes her a character to be reckoned with. Then you have the ones that want her to be nuts, a victim, needs saving, or somehow naive. I don’t think the true Polaris is any of those things. I think she fights hard for her survival and is as much a fighter and survivor as her friend, Jean Grey. Now if only they would write her more like that.
Group Affiliations: X-Men, X-Factor, Horsemen of Apocalypse, House of M, House of Magnus, Marauders, The Defenders, Starjammers, Acolytes
Other Geekery Connections: She is the daughter of Magneto, sometimes she’s sister to Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Zaladane, the aunt of Luna Maximoff, Wiccan, Speed, and Nocturne, as well as the former fiance of the X-Man, Havok. She was the one time girlfriend of Iceman, led a few X-Teams and served on a few, she was also once possessed by the Marauder, Malice. Polaris’ connections in the Marvel universe are many.
I think the main issue when it comes to Lorna written as nuts comes down to how it’s written and why. You can get some great storylines that get at aspects of Lorna or her relationships out of “crazy Lorna,” which is something I think Austen did pretty well. When the purpose is to show how much she cares about other people and mutants, how much she cares about her family, the importance of certain identities and values, the toll living through something traumatic like the Genoshan genocide took on her, things like that, it can be a good thing.
It becomes a problem if “crazy Lorna” is used as an excuse to make her look stupid or weak, especially to the benefit of other characters. It’s one of the heavy criticisms I had for a particular issue of a comic. There was no sympathetic angle, it was just Lorna acting like a dumb rage monster so she could get beaten down.
Oh, and “crazy Lorna” would also be bad as a permanent primary depiction of her. It works great as certain storylines or periods of her life, but if it becomes her primary, it’ll become all she’s ever known for, same as she became known only as Havok’s girlfriend for a long time. Everything else about who she is would end up getting ignored in favor of “Oh, she’s that crazy chick.”
Parasite Eve is a Japanese novel (it’s also been translated and release in English) followed by 2 games on the PS1 by Square Soft. The 1st one is my favorite game of all time. It’s difficult to explain everything as this game doesn’t make much sense at first, but you should check it out. Both games are both on PSN for download, though I highly recommend the 1st if you really want to know what’s happening… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_Eve_(video_game)
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