#honestly its not even that risque imo...

[zhaoluna]

January - Snowed In / Body Heat (@naruto-smut-monday)

(Not SFW stuff under the cut)

[tepkunset]

Are there any other indigenous people in X-men? Like islanders?

So here’s a list of every Indigenous mutant in Marvel Comics (Earth 616) that I know of. Unfortunately, some are just straight up offensive. But there are a number of underappreciated gems!

Dani Moonstar AKA Mirage (Obviously gotta start with my fave)

Cheyenne

Illusory powers (originally her powers were creating illusions of peoples’ fears. Overtime her illusions eventually expanded to pretty much anything she wants. After she gets fried by the High Evolutionary’s machinery, her illusions could become solid objects, but she could only have one at a time. And during her time undercover with the MLF she developed the ability to channel her illusions into psonic arrows that stun people, trapping them in their nightmares. This is what she mostly uses, currently. (TBH I’d really like to see writers remember her abilities have far more uses than just that... Like, remember that time she recreated Jimmy’s whole damn farm and family so he could ‘see’ them again?)

Dani is also a valkyrie with the ability to sense death

Original member of the New Mutants

Honestly the best character on this list IMO. I could ramble about how awesome Dani is for days...

Forge

Cheyenne

Superhuman mechanical ingenuity/genius (kind of a complicated power, but basically his mutation is that he can understand machines and create anything he can imagine. Like a mutant Tony Stark except better in every way, fight me.)

Back in the day he also dabbled in sorcery but turned out uh Not Good and he hasn’t since

He’s been a member of a bunch of different X-Men teams and none of them have ever given him the respect he deserves

I like Forge a lot TBH, especially after the sorcery thing was dropped and forgotten

A shame we will probably never get to know his real name

Lucas Bishop AKA Bishop

Indigenous Australian (Unknown Nation)

Energy absorption and redirection, subsequently super durability (if you blast him he will just blast you back)

Bishop isn’t technically from 616, being born in a dark future, but has existed in the main universe for as long as he’s been around. He’s been a team member in Uncanny X-Men and X-Treme X-Men but then went through a period as an enemy, mostly cause he has a That’s So Raven syndrome where he thinks he's shaping the future for the better and fucks things up. Can’t say I’m a fan in the way he was used as an inconvenience for Cable, but otherwise you can count on Bishop for being pretty damn cool.

Just a warning for anyone unfamiliar with him but wants to read up on him: His background may be triggering. The tattoo over his eye isn’t a choice, but a brand he received when put into the mutant concentration camp where he was born in.

Shard Bishop AKA Shard

Indigenous Australian (Unknown Nation)

Energy blasts from light

Shard is Bishop’s younger sister, and therefore also not technically from 616. She’s also not nearly as prominent a character, but was member of X-Factor for a while.

Honestly, Shard was never actually given a chance to do anything and her relationship with Fitzroy (green haired, slimy time travelling serial killer) is BS. 

James Proudstar AKA Warpath

Apache

Super strength, speed, senses, stamina, reflexes, durability, healing, and flight (everyone forgets the flight)

Also he’s over 7 feet tall which is its own superpower

John Proudstar’s younger brother

Sadly, Jimmy chronically suffers from writers not having a sweet clue what to do with him or how to write him. Swear to god, no one should be allowed to touch him before reading X-Force vol 1 after Liefeld left. James appearing to be scary to people who don’t know him and actually being a sweetheart is the whole deal with his character. He is not a violent raging edgelord! Everyone at Marvel just collectively forgot he rejected the name Warpath after starting to come to terms with the death of his family, too. 

Anyway, I love James with pure spite and venom and would love to fistfight all the writers who’ve done him dirty over the years...

John Proudstar AKA Thunderbird (speaking of getting done dirty)

Apache

Super strength, speed, senses, stamina, reflexes and durability

James Proudstar’s older brother

This poor bastard was created to die for shock value, and has been one of the few X-Men for which death has not been a revolving door. For the brief time he was around, he was portrayed as nothing but a jerk, too. It’s only in brief flashbacks that he’s ever been given more character. Also that one Chaos World mini.

Gloria Muñoz AKA Risque

Seminole

Can make objects implode (think the opposite of Gambit)

Risque was an anti-hero/anti-villain associated with the original X-Factor, and formerly James’ GF. She was a complicated character and deserved a redemption arc. That’s a hill I’m gonna die on.

John Greycrow AKA... I don’t even wanna say it

Unknown Nation

Technology manipulation (can like, turn a gun into a different gun for example), super healing

Scalphunter. His name is fucking scalphunter. And just like the other Indigenous Marauder member on this list, he’s been nothing but a lingering racist caricature. He is currently a protagonist in the running Hellions series and I honestly do not know what miracle Zeb Wells thinks he can pull to reinvent this character, but I guess we’ll just have to see.

Kodiak Noatak AKA Harpoon

Inuit

Can supercharge his harpoon with energy

That’s right, the Marauders don’t have just one, but two racist as fuck caricatures! He also... for some reason... speaks... like this a lot... I sure... wonder why...

Gateway

Indigenous Australian (Unknown Nation)

Teleportation portal creation

Oh look, it’s the X-Men’s bus ticket. Seriously, Gateway is nothing but a silent teleporter for the X-Men to travel around by, and another racist caricature. However, there is one good thing to come out of Gateway’s existence, and that’s that without him, we may never have gotten...

Eden Fesi AKA Manifold

Indigenous Australian (Unknown Nation)

Teleportation portal creation (and some interesting ways of using it too)

I swear Hickman must have looked back at Gatway and thought, you know what, let’s try that again except not offensive. Eden is pretty cool, and one of the three reasons I read Avengers vol 5 (the other two being Bobby and Sam). It’s a shame he’s never gotten the chance to interact with the X-Men, what with being a mutant and all. I would love to see him on Krakoa. Given that Hickman is at the helm and Eden is a Hickman character, I don’t think it’s too far-fetched of a hope?

Yeah, that’s all I can think of, unfortunately. Really makes you wish there were more, huh.

BONUS:

Julio Richter AKA Rictor

Listen. I will fight to my last dying breath to defend what I have always seen as the obvious; Julio was created with the intention of him being an Indigenous Mexican boy. I legit have a half-done powerpoint presentation about it that I never finished upon realizing no one would take me seriously when I sound like this mapping out all the evidence -

[lanzhn]

the last chapter makes this post relevant again

I love Jiang Cheng cause he’s really not fundamentally a bad guy, he’s just trying to live and stay out of trouble, he’s truly not malicious or cruel. but time after time he makes just not quite the right decision, he takes a path safer and not bad but also that’s also not the right one. there’s resentment and jealously deep inside that’s not motivating him but also that’s still definitely influencing his actions… but those feelings are not really wrong or misplaced to begin with. even if wei wuxian never tried to overshadow him he did, even if he never tried to be the favourite child he was, even if he never meant to make madame yu feel like jiang cheng was insufficient he did. and if jiang cheng blames wei wuxian for the destruction of lotus pier and the death of jiang yanli and jin zixuan, he may not be right, but it’s definitely understandable at least to some degree. he’s interesting cause none of his feelings are exactly wrong, none of his reactions are irrational or evil, none of what he does it what a bad character would do, but he’s still not a good one either. he really defies the good vs evil model. you want to love him but fuck he’s an asshole, you want to hate him but fuck he’s really just trying.

[excusemyhomosuck]

alright, i finished lanques route and i have... opinions.

i know it would be homestuck without the “the fandom is shit and dumb, eat this dumbasses and learn your lesson” attitude, and i mean, thats fine, but... imo such things should be left for discussion outside of the source material. it really feels like a slap on the face to read this sort of thing when you were expecting like... actual characterization instead of another dose of pointless 4th wall breaking (im mostly reffering to lyneras “itd be problematic if i had feelings for a guy” line here)

and also... that whole content warning thing was a slap in the face too. its an implication that just some people personally might be not comfortable with certain themes, it means that they automatically are pansies and should only get sterilized content in return instead, which isnt the point that should be made. like, just because im personally triggered by rape doesnt mean that i want to read books for 8 year olds all of sudden, thank you very much.

also, lanque. i have a feeling that they left him for the last volume literally just for the whole “damned if we do, damned if we dont” attitude regarding characterizing him, because they did an oops and confirmed him as trans before thinking about it (because lets be honest, after seeing this im pretty sure they just said “yes” to the question of lanque being trans bc they didnt want to disappoint anybody. it has happened before.)

like, i get it. ive seen some really dense people complain about the most mundane shit when it comes to characterization of trans characters. but sometimes they also have a point, and characterizing lanque, who has been confirmed to be trans way before his route, and who a LOT of trans people, even those not caring about homestuck, were excited about, because there is so little trans representation out there, as a lowkey daterapey party-junkie in one route, and then... an uwu flowercrown child, which are two separate trans stereotypes, isnt a good look whatsoever. 

also, i know the whole “it has been a 18+ game the whole time lmao” argument, and i would agree with it if not one fact.... literally none, well, okay, except for one of the characters have no confirmed ages, and the fact that “alternia is populated by children” has been pointed out again and again in friendsim. theres no “dont like dont read” argument happening if theres content involving minors concerned, when it comes to the more sexually risque scenes.

im honestly disappointed and disheartened. and the worst part is, i know that thats what they were going for so... good going, i guess?