#Marshall Ward

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Radiant Black #25-30 "The Catalyst War" covers by Marcelo Costa and Eduardo Ferigato

[aquaticcowboy69]

noone gaf abt radiant black but i love him lots

[damianbugs]

i wish more people would read radiant black so i can post my gay fanfiction

[comicsiswild]

Radiant Black (2021) #27/27A

[arrythmicdisaster]

i have returned from the grave with a new extreme interest. please read radiant black, it’s So good

[skidkiid]

GUYS!! we just reached ten radiant black fanfics (ok ao3)

[do-you-ship-this-comic-ship]

propaganda:

Marshall went on what was essentially a suicide mission to save Nathan from dieing.

In order to save him he had to admit the truth and what was this truth you may ask? "...no... I don't hate him. I hate...what he shows me is possible. What he is. What I'm not I love Nathan" After that whole debacle Nathan's ex shows up and they're sort of dating again for a time and Marshall is so fucking jealous the entire time.

There's so much more but I'm trying not to ramble too much

[radiantrookie]

Best of Radiant Black

[softgrungeprophet]

I think— I've just been thinking a lot lately about Radiant Black characters and queer-coding and subtext as I re-read and continue to read—

There is this fact that when we first meet Red it is in this idealized masculine form, and yes ostensibly we can say this is to prevent her true identity from being discovered (lol. lmao.) but we can also look at Satomi and note that her being is run through with emotion and I don't mean this in a "oh, girls and their feelings" way (god) but everything she does is steeped in anger and despite her conflict and like, uncertainty and trying to make the right decision and to fix everything, she still acts very impulsively, driven by her heart rather than her brain, in the same way that Marshall is an "act first, think never" kind of character—and her impulse is immediately a larger than life, muscular, very masculine form, and yes this hides her identity but then also—

Then also, again, we have the panels in Radiant Red where she is framed by chains, as just Satomi in the costume. And this is of course partly that she is shackled by her life; by her marriage/betrothal, by her expectations as a woman and a teacher, as a good Japanese daughter who can barely speak Japanese and never went to Japan despite all her talk. And also that she is shackled by her own powers, that where they make her feel, well, powerful, she is also uncertain (has always been uncertain) and feels trapped in the role that she has given herself through the use of her powers—but again. This is a politely punk woman who cannot cut her hair in weird styles or wear piercings anymore, who must always be the thoughtful one, who must always be the good woman, who insists she will go to grad school and who still hasn't—who was "never going to do it!"—whose alter-ego began masculine and who even after dropping that alter-ego initially continues to be masculine in its power-ups and armored forms, even as Satomi is surrounded by chains, thinking of an alternate future where she shaves half of her head, which cannot be.

And I have been thinking also about Marshall whose entire interiority is a tangled mess of codependence that hinges upon his male childhood best friend—on the fact that he is jealous of Nathan, wants to be like—wants to be Nathan—that he feels Nathan's judgment at all times, that he hates Nathan but no, he doesn't hate him. He loves him. And he says it over and over again. I love him, I love you. Of course Nathan says, "I love you too," but there is a different weight to it in Marshall's inner universe that is not reflected there, necessarily. Not entirely in the same way, at least.

And when JJ shows up, he's sarcastic and catty. And it's obvious. And when she comes over at the bar, and Nathan is happy to see her, Marshall's entire demeanor changes, an immediate depression. And he went to Nathan's hospital room every. single. day. But when he snapped and disappeared and people thought he killed himself, not a single person was relieved to see he was alive, they all just thought he was a worthless asshole just like always. The wastoid, irresponsible, selfish. God forbid he snap under the weight of his entire universe being potentially destroyed. And none of them do seem to get that. I mean, if Nathan had not been brought back (if the timeline remained as it was meant to be?) — We saw him, you know? He was dream-hallucinating Nathan's ghost, presumably via the traces in <existence>, and crucially he was also wasted on the floor with his dog. I mean, they thought he must have killed himself because, presumably, if all of that had failed and he hadn't been able to face truth in existence, he would have.

Of course Nathan understands to some extent, because he knows the truth, to some extent, but still always has this metaphorical arm up to put this distance between them even when they are essentially sharing existence together by copiloting (and breaking) this radiant. And there's still this kind of constant denial of truth after Marshall brings him back, this friction between them. Barriers and boundaries from one (Nathan) that the other (Marshall) cannot entirely tolerate, (though Nathan's ability to establish boundaries is (as we see when he goes to LA a second time) is important to his maturity as a person and as a writer, but that is admittedly kind of a separate topic lol)

And I just think.

God.

The gender-bending is not nothingness, and Marshall is not just a loser. Existence is a mirror and that extends to the Radiants of course. Satomi's mirror is a man, and Marshall's truth culminates in "I love him."

What that ends up meaning in the future (if anything), I don't know, but I do think it's something (technically two things, I guess) that I want to acknowledge even if they fade away into spacetime as nothing more than aesthetic and drama, or whatever else, you know? Is it Canon, is it Lore, is it the Real Truth? Well I don't know about any of that but I know that to me as the reader I think it's legit lol and that's worth acknowledgment of some kind, as with any other textual analysis that might pop up over time

[dearduke]

RADIANT BLACK X SALMAN TOOR PARALLELS

[bi4bihankking]

Felching (803 words) by BookofOdym Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Radiant Black (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Nathan Burnett/Marshall Ward Characters: Nathan Burnett, Marshall Ward Additional Tags: Felching, Rimming, Jealousy, Kinktober Summary: Marshall gets jealous.

(the promised Radiant Black kinktober fic)

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Radiant Black #29

[raan-miir-tah]

radiant black vote blinkies! tag urself I'm voter fraud

[sillypinkboy]

The way grief changes a person. Holy shit

[comicsiswild]

Radiant Black (2021) #19

[abbeevee]

Started reading radiant black. So like nathan dies again right? Theres no way he doesn't Marshall loves that dude way too much for him to stick around. Also marshall is in love with him right I'm not crazy?