bitchybeautyboy:
gaknar:
Ugh, these two. I hope something terrible happens to them. (X-Men #97 – Feb 1976)
Haters Gonna Hate Ha
The bedrock of their relationship actually IS horrendous, as illustrated vividly in these two panels.
While there are occasional moments where their relationship looks good, most of the time, it’s set up in such a way that Lorna looks like a pathetic hanger-on that lives and breathes exclusively for Alex. She ends up being written with no thoughts, feelings or values of her own, as someone that appears to have no worth or reason to exist in her own right. In most depictions with him, Lorna is nothing but a trophy girlfriend around for the sole purpose of boosting Alex’s prestige by his having a woman devoted to him.
That’s why they need to be apart right now, and continue to be for the next 7 years or so at least.
Fans and writers alike need to recognize that even if they’re in relationship, they’re still unique characters. They need to build character development that doesn’t depend on each other. Lorna especially needs this, and you need look no further than how it took over 40 years for Marvel (via Peter David) to let her have her origin story told and lead a team of her own as proof of this.
Her recent time in space proved how bad the relationship is for both characters until they’re properly developed separately. In the beginning, Lorna kept asking for permission to use her powers, and an entire potential storyline of Lorna dealing with an anti-Apocalypse cult was merely used as an excuse to get her into space. Her best scenes were with Crystal and Luna, but by the end, Lorna merely mimicked Alex’s defeatist depressed attitude, serving as merely a representation of Alex’s failure between her reaction and the fact she was tortured to get at him. With Alex, she was his extension; away from him, she had wit and political savvy.
Not to mention the entire premise of their getting back together while in space can be boiled down to “Lorna could die at any moment, she’s light years away from all she’s ever known, Alex is the only familiar man around she could get intimate with, time to settle so she can cope.”
If they do get back together in ten years, and they’re brought back together as equals instead of Alex as the dominant force and Lorna as his submissive girlfriend, imagine how great their dynamic could work. Instead of Lorna acting sad because Alex is sad, Lorna could push him to stop acting sorry for himself and be the man she saw he can be. While Lorna’s struggling to prove herself as a leader, or dealing with personal demons like the Genoshan genocide, Alex can give her moral or fighting support.
That’s why I don’t reblog stuff of Lorna and Alex together. Currently, their relationship is bad for both of them, but especially for Lorna. In the future, when enough time has passed, they may have another shot and look good for it.
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