#dani x rahne

[amageish]

And now, perhaps the nichest shitpost I have ever made.

I spent way too long on this and it still looks bad lol.

(If you count adaptations, then Dani actually has two and Pryde has three, as X-Men Evolution made Dani and Kitty the pair with a soul-bond... I want more soul-bonds in X-Men adaptations. Give us more gals who have their souls become intertwined before their first kiss.)

[slightlycomicobsessed]

moonclair collection — love and grief

[loisfreakinglane]

The New Mutants (2020, dir. Josh Boone)

[flo-nelja]

Femslash February, day 2

Friends to lovers: Dani/Rahne (New Mutants)

I shipped it wildly in the eighties comics. They were best friends and soulmates.

And then, they got in different teams, were far less close when they talked. But when I read Vita Ayala's arc it was all I loved again.

Please Marvel?

I know they're together in the movie, but it's not the same. They don't have years of friendship as backstory.

[i-am-trying-my-best-okay]

I'd like to think Dani, upon learning how to better control her fear powers, likes to tell Rahne about fears she thinks are interesting, to which Rahne categorizes.

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They're so cute.

The New Mutants (1983) #38

[readsalot1]

Just found out that the ship name wolfstar is actually used for 2 different ships??? Like I was opening the hashtag for lesbian mutants and ended up with Sirius x Remus, which wasn't a bad thing, but not expected. Although there are a bunch of parallels (sad werewolf, more socially skilled bestie they eventually fall for, boarding school setting, etc.)

[scores-of-antiheroes]

@marvelmyriad : Rahne Sinclair

Dani Moonstar was crouched down in the brush in the forest near her house in Colorado. She stalked through the forest hunting her prey. Dani her something to the right of her, it caused her to abruptly stop in her tracks. She held her breath and became still. Dani looked about to see what she could with her eyes, and then she reached out with her mind to feel what or who was around her, with her telepathy.

Hmmm there was the deer that she was stalking, no but a few yards away. A few birds, chipmunks, squirrels, a wolf..... wait no. Not a wolf. This was and wasn't a wolf. Waaait this wolf seemed familiar.

"Rahne!"

[scott-summers2]

"-Rahne, I’m tired of the bullshit the Reverend put in your head. You are a great friend, a great X-Woman and a great person. Believe it, because I mean it. I admire you, and I desire you. And I am not going to let you chicken out again.

Dani desired her? How? That wasn’t possible.

But it was. With an assertive pull forward, Dani kissed her. A decided kiss, knowing well that Rahne would reciprocate. 

Rahne’ stomach shrank. An electric discharge ran through her spine. It wasn’t like any other kiss."

Dani and Rahne come clean in the last chapter of my fic "Angels and Demons". Check it out here:

[darthmatthewtwihard]

The New Mutants

what movie do y’all know front to back like it doesn’t even have to necessarily be Good,, it’s just something you’ve seen so many times that the dialogue is printed into the very core of your being

[cookiekeko]

some teens keep staring at me

[amageish]

I was clearing out my phone photo album for the new year and realized I have way too many screenshots of queer Dani stuff, so let's talk about it.

Danielle Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair are a duo who stand out to me, even among all the many "this is clearly meant to be gay" characters and pairings that populate the X-Men, because of how explicit it is? They are not the only Claremont women to call each other their "soul mate" or "soul-mate," but they are the ones still doing it into the modern day.

They have a psychic rapport with each other which is constantly used to advance the plot. The fact they specifically can find each other is important to their stories... Here, you can even see Warlock pondering the nature of their relationship, though whether he is speculating on them being gay "I know what you are"-style or still learning about the concept of love in general is up to interpretation.

They smooch! They hug! They cuddle!

They go on date-like activities together! Dani won her a teddy bear!

I feel like you could have them be a queerplatonic thing and/or a romantic gay gay homosexual gay thing - either works - but it feels kind of silly to me that we've hit 2024 and these two are still not officially life partners in some form...

... though I do feel like there's a third person worth mentioning here too.

When Kate Pryde ran out on Xuân Cao Mạnh, doing her signature move of "abandoning a Sapphic relationship right when it gets serious," Danielle Moonstar was the one who showed up to replace her... Literally. Xuân Cao Mạnh was getting her college diploma and Dani literally showed up to take her seat at her graduation.

Dani brings Xuân back to Xaiver's Academy, with her becoming one of the main teachers at the academy for that era. Rahne, at this point, was busy going through a "What if this Good Christian Girl... went BAD?!?!?" phase and the less spoken about that the better, but Xuân and Dani got to be the main duo for a bit.

Xuân was already an out lesbian by now, so there's a weird subplot where Dani meets a lesbian barista and tries to set Xuân up with her in a "I know two lesbians, therefore they should kiss" way.

It's weird, but feels relatively realistic as something for a closeted queer girl to do to her openly-gay BFF in the early 2000s... also the fact that Dani claims to be straight to Prodigy, bisexual icon who knows everyone's sexuality because of his superpowers, is very funny to me.

Xuân and Rahne don't really have much going on between each other specifically, but you can take this panel from the first issue of New Mutants out-of-context and make it look like they do... Like, this is gay werewolf culture in a way, right?

It also probably merits mentioning that, in the modern era again now, the Infinity Comic Karma in Love had a fake-out where Xuân thought that Dani was hooking up with her girlfriend, Ellie Diwa AKA Galura...

And in the latest New Mutant series, Karma, Galura, Dani, and Rahne are the leaders and have big dad energy... all four of them are the dads. I stand by this characterization.

ANYWAY. Point being. Dani and Rahne should be able to kiss on-panel on the lips by now and maybe Xuân and Elle can join from time to time too... They're cute. They're fun. They were explicitly gay in the movie. This one feels really overdue.

[slightlycomicobsessed]

there’s a universe where in academy x instead of what happened in canon it’s all the new x-men kids attempting to set up dani and rahne in increasingly cartoonish fashions while both women remain oblivious and confused

[loisfreakinglane]

rahne sinclair + holding dani moonstar

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All my New Mutants redesigns :0

[i-am-trying-my-best-okay]

They're in a hurry.