#fav: no one owns me! i’m not a thing. i’m laura kinney! i’m the daughter of sarah. i’m the daughter of logan. i’m wolverine!!

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god I love them...

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literally the younger version of Kurt and Logan

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ohhh my god this is so good.

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The X-Men never beat Nimrod...

...but a bunch of kids did!

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I feel like something changed in Laura here. something about Sooraya's devotion to Allah and her faith in him. Because this has to be the moment that Laura decides to take her place. I think she finds Sooraya's faith in Allah as some sort of sign of strength, something that she herself could not achieve due to her past. She decides here that Sooraya needs to live, because she believes that Allah does not want her to die.

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live your goth girl truth Laura!!!

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i hope NYX utilizes Laura well. She desperately needs something new to her story. A new villain, a new arc, a new direction, whatever it ends up being. I wouldn't even be mad if there was a new characterization, something to get away from how recent writers have been making her personality just like Logan's.

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how tf is Laura gonna get into college. Is she going to tell them she was educated by people in the lab she was created in by mad scientists. and briefly went to a "high school" but then dropped out to be on a murder squad

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Laura is like a cringe Wolverine OC concept but actually cool Akihiro is like a cool Wolverine OC concept but cringe

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oughggh something that makes me insane about the dynamic between Akihiro and Laura is that they're both outcasts who see themselves as Different than everyone else but the contrast is that Laura in the early days doesn't understand a lot of social skills and societal rules even if she has some idea she has a hard time following by them. but she Wants So Badly to be like other people, to be Human, she wants to fit in and she tries so hard to because she wants to be good, she wants to be better than her upbringing.

Meanwhile Akihiro has always understood societal rules and expectations, social skills, etc and is able to use them to fit in perfectly into whatever role he is playing at the moment, but he doesn't actually Care about following them at all. He's an outcast who has always viewed himself as being different than everyone else and he doesn't care at all about fitting in or trying to live in human rules. Because he doesn't care about anyone else, he doesn't want to do good, he likes hurting people because he has lost sight of their relevance.

It sets up such an interesting contrast between the two of them, Akihiro can fit in but he doesn't want to, Laura can't fit in but she wants to. Akihiro was groomed to be a killer and it's all he wants to be, Laura was created to be a killer but she wants to be good. Akihiro doesn't understand why Laura wants to do good and wants to fit in when she has such power, Laura doesn't understand why Akihiro limits himself by separating himself from society. They intrigue each other because they come from such similar places but have such different values and goals. But Akihiro is especially intrigued by why she is like this, and seeing this in her is what helped him change to be more like her.

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Even if I don't like the way she had Academy X treat her, I think Liu was right in that Laura needed to get away from Utopia and the X-Men at this point in her life. After Academy X and X-Force there was just too much she had been through, and they all only knew a certain version of her that she needed to move past. If she was going to heal, she couldn't be around the people who only knew her as X-23, the vicious weapon that they had controlled and directed at certain targets instead of treating her like a human being. That had to be the next step in her story, so that she could come back to the X-Men later on as a changed person.

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ough...

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ough I feel like Laura could've had the biggest crush on Sofia because she would've seen all the Good things in Sofia, the fact that she never gives up hope that people will like her, that she sees the best in everybody, that she's able to Help people, and she would be so attracted to Sofia's hyper empathy and hyper emotional side, but she would be So blind to the parts of Sofia that are violent and selfish because what she thinks of as violent and bad traits are so different to the way Sofia exhibits these traits. And I feel like she would kind of lose herself in falling for Sofia because Sofia is straight and such a completely different person who ultimately wouldn't be good for her. Just thinking.

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I really love this outfit. I love the pants, the fingerless gloves, I love how it's a lot more masculine and a covering a lot more of her skin than most of her outfits from her early days. this is so much closer to the goth Laura I imagine in my head.

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laura for the blorbo game...

yayyy bingo

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lmao