#MAGIK SWORD

[kc5rings]

[spookydarlingsstuff]

Peak character design is lady with big sword

[illyanarasputinfan]

Artist Spotlight - Peach Momoko

[browsethestacks]

X-Women: Swords

Art by Peach Momoko

[streetmed1c]

my girl Magik since people are starting to learn more about her cause of Rivals :D

[ffverr]

Now wait a damn minute....

Same thing different fonts

[jack-ing-o-ff-valentine]

Im sorry for the freaky post but. Why hasn't anyone tonight about Magik x Psylocke ESPECIALLY in their Marvel rivals designs... Guys am I crazy. I need them to kiss and make out sloppy style HARD

[the-insidious-dr-grey-matter]

Given that Marvel characters all seem to be learning how to shape their powers in swords, I thought I’d give Cyclops cutlass vision because he was sort of a pirate for a while so this makes perfect sense and doesn’t look stupid. Think of how stabby he could be! Stab! Stab! He could be the best there is at what he does and what he does may or may not be pretty. He can’t tell because there’s a cutlass in front of his eyes.

[rei-ismyname]

X of Swords - Saturnyne's Tarot Read

The inciting incident for X of Swords was Amenth/Arakko conquering the Otherworld province of Dryador, killing everything that lived. Saturnyne used their boastful ownership of Dryador to have them agree they were her vassals - consent being a key element of the Fae's operations.

When they announced their intent to keep conquering until they reached Earth and Krakoa, she rules lawyered them into a contest of Champions. Being Otherworld, she did a tarot reading to preordain the future and lock them into her rules. Here's the cards...

Judgment, spelt the British way, as Britain is where Otherworld touches Earth. It portrays Apocalypse and his Grandchild through War, Summoner, standing on the cusp of the External Gate. It also references Krakoa and the resurrection protocols - alluding to the enemies it will bring them.

The Four of Wands. It portrays Apocalypse (and Genesis') four children and original Horsemen. Death, War, Pestilence and Famine. Four is also the most important number in mutant magic, representing the four points of the X.

The Hanged Man. It portrays Siryn, Archangel, Polaris, Rictor, Rockslide, Summoner, Beast, Apocalypse and Havok. All on the Otherworld side of the External Gate. A LOT was suspended for and by this event, but the card is not just for those pictured. That applies to all players, even Saturnyne.

The Eight of Cups. It portrays a symbolic picture of Genesis/Annihilation, foreshadowing the tension between the two and the fluidity of alliances/desires/values. The description applies to both of them equally, which is rather elegant IMO.

The Ten of Swords. It refers to the contest, the two groups of ten swordbearers, and metatextually to the event itself. It portrays Cable with The Light of Galador, Apocalypse with Scarab, Wolverine with Muramasa, Magik with the Soulsword, and Betsy with the Starlight Sword.

I believe the obscured forms in the background are the other Krakoan swordbearers - Cypher with Warlock, Storm with Skybreaker, Brian Braddock with The Sword of Might, and Gorgon with Grasscutter & Godkiller. Though Krakoa had only nine swordbearers, with Gorgon's two blades made the total ten. It could be Bei, The Blood Moon, who switched sides upon marrying Cypher. Isca, the Unbeaten switched sides as well though she didn't have a choice in the matter. Neither seem to match the silhouettes, so perhaps it's just lampshading how stacked the deck seems against them.

Tarot, one of Emma Frost's old students, drew the same cards as she explains in this data page.

She knows more about tarot than I do (not a difficult thing) and she adds some context for us. Something I think about often is the confirmation that Apocalypse is into both astrology and tarot. A funny concept, but he also pulls off some wild magic. 616 is inherently more fantastic than our universe and operates on story logic. I think I'd prefer it to what we have, even with all the downsides, but that's just a daydream. Shout-out to Chinese numerology there too BTW.

[dailydamnation]

Illyana Rasputin in Midnight Suns #3

I love a good Sword Girl character. (As I do Witch Girl characters. And Morally Compromised But Trying To Be Good characters. Hm. Funny how this character I started reading about during my formative years embodies so many of the tropes I enjoy. Must be a coincidence.)

This is exactly what I was talking about when I wondered if Illyana was getting to be this cool as a trade-off for her stepping disks being blocked again.

[rzc11]

Magik and the soul sword

[viaov]

Uwe de Witt, Magik

[vertigoartgore]

2013's Uncanny X-Men Vol.3 #4 (LGY : #568) cover by cover artist Chris Bachalo and inker Tim Townsend.

[illyanarasputinfan]

Pepe Larraz

[mrcowboyreturns]

The marvel wiki didn’t neither confirm or denied the fact her soul sword has the ability to change in size.

So I’m gonna head canon it for the sake of this art post, because it looks cool.

[jadynwaymire1997blog]