#nakia x kamala

[aimmyarrowshigh]

Femslash February 2023

056. Femme - Kamala Khan/Nakia Bahadir - archiveofourown.org/works/45123661

[sobbingstars]

Watching Marvel Dude Bros get mad about newer marvel stuff is so funny. Oh no, most marvel heroes are WOMEN and they’re MINORS and LESBIANS so I can’t SEXUALISE them to cure my ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION, like calm down

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Ms Marvel Annual #1

MS MARVEL ANNUAL 2024

Hero or Villain? That’s the question Multitude must answer as he stands at the crossroads of his own destiny, bonded to one of the Infinity Stones and brimming with power but no purpose. Will a run-in with Ms. Marvel be enough to tip the scales toward good, or will Multitude’s guilt drag him down? Don’t miss out as the Marvel Universe-shaking saga continues here, True Believers! PLUS, Derek Landy and Sara Pichelli bring NICK FURY into the story. But what ties him to the INFINITY WATCH?!

Written by: Sabir Pirzada, Iman Vellani Art by: Giada Belviso Cover by: Salvador Larroca, Edgar Delgado Page Count: 28 Pages Release Date: July 31, 2024

[springs-art-fordays]

For some context someone held a Ms. Marvel shipping poll contest on Twitter and NAKIA WON!!!!

[comicwaren]

From Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #003, “Waking Nightmare”

Art by Carlos Gómez, Adam Gorham and Erick Arciniega

Written by Iman Vellani and Sabir Pirzada

[indigosabyss]

Unexpected Baggage (Pt 2) — X-Men First Class & Ms. Marvel Fic

Erik sorted through the piles and piles of loose leaf evidence he had piled up over the years, trying to find some connection to the address the man from the bank had given him.

Strange girl with suspicious origins he was now responsible for aside, he was still planning on hunting down Shaw. In fact, knowing that he was doing the same thing to other kids made him all the more urgent.

Which meant he was going to have to arrange fake papers for Kamala, too, once he had an idea on who exactly he was searching for.

Speaking of Kamala, he craned his neck around to look at her sitting on the exact same seat she had taken upon entering the room. She was being strangely quiet.

"Everything okay?" He asked, trying to decide if that was a bad thing and if he really wanted the chatterbox back.

She grunted, eyes fixed on a strange plastic and metal device she was holding in her hands. It had a glowing screen on it, and music coming from some source, even though it was not nearly thick enough to contain a voice box.

"Are you okay just sitting in that chair for three hours?" He asked uncertainly.

"Mhm." She replied, jamming her hand on a button, "You told me to entertain myself, and I figured, might as well complete my X Pokedex while I'm stuck with no WiFi."

"... Pokedex?"

Her eyes snapped up like a shark that had smelled blood, "You don't have Pokemon here?"

"Uh..." He was beginning to regret asking. Yet his silence told her the truth.

Kamala inhaled sharply, grinning excitedly, "Oh, you're going to love this-"

He could be hunting down Shaw and his accomplices. It was disgusting that he had been walking free for more than a decade and yet the man was still breathing. Every minute wasted felt like a personal failure.

Yet, he spent an entire two hours being introduced to a video game(???) franchise about cutesy animal fighting rings, by a strange time-traveling girl. And it wasn't particularly fulfilling, but he couldn't find it in himself to consider that time wasted.

[carolinahope]

The Best of 2022 - 7 friendships (5/7)

[the-widow-sisters]

You have Madani listed! If you can since its a hard one.... Madani and Kamala with oh yeah you really told him/her, didn't you or what does teen spirit smell like exactly?

(madani and kamala have similar family backgrounds so would have a meeting)

A/N: Challenge accepted 😎😂 This one really did throw me for a loop at first, because I never really considered the possibility of Kamala and Dinah interacting, but then this fic happened, and I feel like it turned out fairly well overall! 💖

Hopefully you enjoy! 😊💞💞💞 This one got a little longer than the ones that I usually do for these prompts, but I enjoyed it so crazy much that I couldn't help myself 😂

Word Count: 3.1k+

   Kamala checked the information she had written down on the piece of paper that she currently had gripped in her hand. She then checked the number on the apartment door before her.

   “Perfect match,” Kamala whispered, excitement gripping her as she paused before knocking on the door. She took in a deep breath and then knocked.

   She really hoped this was the right house. She had not gone all this way for nothing, and she had been extremely excited about this ever since she found out that she had a relative here in New York City of all places, which was the literal superhero capital of the universe.

   She desperately hoped that maybe her relative would maybe be some kind of a concealed superhero. Nakia had been explaining to her all the way there that this relative was definitely not going to be a superhero, but Kamala could not quite quell the excitement and hope. After all, if she had something special on her mom’s side, then she could possibly have something on her dad’s side, too.

   The door suddenly opened, and Kamala put on her best smile.

   “Hello?” a lady answered the door, and Kamala puffed up a bit with excitement. It appeared that this woman seemed to be of a similar background to Kamala, so that already meant that it was extremely likely that this woman was the person that Kamala was looking for.

   However, she did not quite look like a secret superhero. At the same time, Kamala did notice that the woman had a suspicious scar near her hairline that was exposed a little despite the mess of prettily curled hair.

   She figured she would wait to get into the secret superhero stuff later, though. She needed to at least get through the front door.

   “Hi!” Kamala greeted, waving to her. The woman blinked, looking out into the hall around Kamala before leaning back in the doorway and addressing Kamala once more.

   “Umm… How can I help you?” the woman questioned uncertainly, looking Kamala up and down as she seemingly tried to figure her out.

   “Are you,” Kamala paused to look at her piece of paper before looking back up at the woman who had answered the door, “Dinah Madani?”

   The lady looked uncertain, but she reluctantly nodded slowly.

   “Yes…?”

   Kamala instantly grinned widely, hopping a little with the excitement. The woman before her looked as if Kamala had grown two extra heads as she stared at her in utter bewilderment.

   “Oh, my gosh, I am so excited to meet you! I didn’t know I had family in NYC because most of my family is right around Jersey City or overseas, so it’s so super cool that you’re actually here! NYC’s like super cool because it’s practically the superhero capital of the world!” Kamala excitedly told Dinah.

   Dinah closed her eyes, shaking her head before reopening them and squinting at her.

   “What are you talking about?” Dinah asked, and Kamala instantly threw out her hand.

   “I’m Kamala Khan! Turns out, we’re related!” Kamala excitedly introduced herself, and Dinah just gaped at her. Kamala kept her hand held out expectantly, and Dinah kept staring at her.

   After a few more moments, Kamala let her hand drop.

   “Okay! Not a hand-shaker…”

   “What… How are we even…”

   “Okay, so stick with me, this is gonna be a little bit of a ride,” Kamala told her, laughing a little as she grinned widely and held her hands up. She looked back down at her paper to make sure she had it all written down, and she began her tale.

   “So my dad’s grandma had a brother, right? Now, listen, that brother had a daughter and she had a husband that had a daughter from another marriage and then that daughter got married to this other guy and his cousin is your mom Farah Madani,” Kamala explained, taking in a deep breath as she finished off that mess of a family tree.

   Dinah just stared at her blankly and Kamala honestly wondered if the woman was short-circuiting. Kamala simply shrugged.

   “Kinda complicated, but that’s the gist of it. Basically, we’re cousins!” Kamala laughed awkwardly.

   “Wh…”

   “By the way, you have a super nice place. From what I can see of it anyway,” Kamala complimented.

   Dinah seemed to somehow get control over her mind as she stepped to the side to allow Kamala to come in. Dinah was simply staring at her, and Kamala grinned as she headed over to get a closer look out the windows.

   “Wow… It must be crazy looking over the city like this. I mean, I know this is not a penthouse, but like, you’re so high up. That must be really cool,” Kamala expressed her honest opinion, unable to hold back her enthusiasm.

   “Um, yeah,” Dinah agreed as she sounded like she had responded just after swallowing, running her hands up through her hair. Kamala turned to look at her cheerfully, and Dinah offered a strained smile in return.

   “How did you find me exactly?” Dinah questioned, and Kamala was swift to reply to her.

   “Oh, it was easy. My dad went on that Ancestry website and had to spit into a tube or something, I don’t know. My mom didn’t like it, but he did it. And then he got back results and that’s when I traced our family and found you!” Kamala told her.

   Dinah narrowed her eyes a little as she seemed to be trying to piece this all together, and Kamala sighed as she looked around, the awkwardness finally starting to set in a little more fully as she realized that she had sort of just barged into this woman’s house and started word-vomiting on her.

   “My gosh, I’m sorry… You’re probably super busy, and I just randomly showed up on your doorstep when I should have at least emailed or called or something first. I don’t know, I just get excited sometimes,” Kamala laughed in self-deprecation as she looked at her nervously, still rambling just a little too much.

   Dinah offered her a tight-lipped smile, and Kamala offered one in reply.

   “Umm… Why don’t you sit down? Do you want wine? Or,” Dinah started to offer. However, she looked at Kamala skeptically for a moment, and she shook her head.

   “How old are you?” Dinah questioned curiously.

   “Not the right age for alcohol,” Kamala confessed, and Dinah nodded resolutely.

   “Okay, um… Can I get you a coffee? Or what do you drink?” Dinah questioned, and Kamala was beginning to see that Dinah was floundering a bit.

   “Oh, water’s fine,” Kamala nodded to her with a smile, and Dinah nodded slowly as she headed over to take care of it. Kamala looked around, noticing how everything appeared to be spotless.

   “You have a very clean house. It’s very modern,” Kamala complimented, looking at how pretty, sleek, and pristine that it all was.

   “Thank you,” Dinah responded, and Kamala could hear a lilt of something almost confused in her voice, and Kamala spoke up.

   “Sorry, we just have a very not-modern house, so it’s kind of cool to see something so different,” Kamala explained.

   Dinah turned around, nodding a little as she came over with two cups. She handed Kamala her water before settling in the armchair across from the couch where Kamala was sitting.

   “Thanks,” Kamala expressed, taking a sip. Dinah was silent as she drank her coffee and there were several moments of quiet as they both enjoyed their drinks.

   Kamala cleared her throat.

   “So… How old are you?”

   “Did it not say that on the website?” Dinah questioned, and Kamala smiled at her somewhat awkwardly.

   “It did, but I was trying to make conversation,” Kamala replied.

   Dinah swallowed some coffee before speaking up and echoing the inquiry back at Kamala.

   “How old are you exactly?”

   “Oh, I’m sixteen.”

   “A little young to be traveling to stranger’s houses by yourself,” Dinah acknowledged, and Kamala shrugged as she waved a dismissive hand at her.

   “Nah, don’t worry. I had my totally mature and responsible friend drop me off here,” Kamala assured her, thinking of Nakia where she was likely driving around the block right now.

   Dinah raised her eyebrows, looking down at her mug as she took another drink.

   Kamala figured that now was probably a safe time to start asking Dinah in a roundabout way about the possibility of her being a secret superhero. Kamala sucked in a breath, trying to look as casual as possible.

   “So what do you do for a job?” Kamala questioned, trying to be cool with it.

   Dinah let out a soft breath through her nose as she gazed at Kamala for a long moment, seemingly debating her answer.

   “Law enforcement,” Dinah told her simply, and Kamala was instantly excited. At least Dinah was in the right line of work to possibly be close to a superhero.

   Dinah glanced at her weirdly, offering her a onceover.

   “Oh, sorry, I was just thinking of something,” Kamala dismissed as she tried to look a little less strange to Dinah.

   Now she just had to figure out how exactly that she was going to ask her about being a secret superhero.

   “Soo… Do you do anything… special at your job?”

   “Nothing overly special. Just office work and some field work,” Dinah informed her. Kamala nodded with a hum.

   “I see…”

   “Why are you so interested?” Dinah asked, squinting as she regarded her. Kamala was quick to deny it, feigning nonchalance.

   “No reason. I just was curious about what you do. Need to get to know my super cuz,” Kamala hinted, and Dinah simply looked at her, completely lost.

   Kamala took a big drink of her water, trying to dispel the slight awkwardness that was left in the wake of Kamala’s comment. She looked down in her glass before glancing around.

   “Umm… So where’s your bathroom?” Kamala asked, thinking that this would be the perfect time for her to go and look around a little without Dinah knowing. She also did have to pee, so it served as a good excuse.

   Dinah instantly looked strange as she glanced quickly in the direction of the hall nearby. Dinah then looked back at Kamala just as swiftly. She blinked before answering.

   “Just through that hall. You go through my room and there’s a bathroom there,” Dinah explained as she pointed, raising her voice just a little. Kamala was not quite sure why she did that, but nevertheless, Kamala got up from the couch, looking at Dinah gratefully.

  Kamala could not help a slight bit of giddiness. She would go to the bathroom first and maybe investigate there, and then she would investigate Dinah’s room briefly to see what she could see.

   “Thanks! I’ll be right back, cousin,” she told her, and Dinah let out a deep breath as Kamala headed down the hall.

   Little did Kamala know, Dinah really had not wanted Kamala to go back there.

   Before the kid so strangely and randomly appeared on her doorstep, Frank had been there at Dinah’s place. He had stopped there to return a t-shirt that he had borrowed from her, and somehow, they had ended up actually stopping and talking for a little while.

   When Kamala had come to the door, Frank had hidden in Dinah’s room somewhere. At this point, she was just hoping that he had chosen somewhere like under the bed or in her closet. Honestly, she was not quite sure how he would fit in her closet, but it was nevertheless an idea.

   Dinah drank her coffee, trying to resist the urge to go into her room and at least check around on a surface level if not more in-depth.

   However, she figured that if Kamala would have found him, she likely would have already seen him by now in the living room because he had been busted.

   Just as she had that thought, there was a sudden blood-curdling scream from the bathroom, and Dinah winced as she instantly knew what had happened.

   She hurried back toward her room, opening the door as she quickly moved into the bathroom.

   To her shock, the shower curtain was open, Frank’s back was facing Kamala, and Kamala looked like she had seen a ghost from where she was still sitting on the toilet.

   “What is happening in here?” Dinah demanded, trying to avoid looking at the kid. The awkwardness of the situation was definitely not lost on her.

   Kamala looked horrified as she adjusted her shirt so that it was covering herself a little more effectively as she started to speak.

   “I went in here and sat down and then I started looking at your magazines because I wanted to learn more about you, and then I saw your bookmark in one of them and it was Nirvana and it said ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ and then I was like, ‘what does teen spirit smell like exactly?’” Kamala babbled, and Dinah’s eyes got a little wide as she took in Kamala’s crazy story. She did her best not to look at her all the same despite her temptation to do so.

   “So then because I thought about smells, I thought about your shampoo and soap and then I decided to look in your shower because I was curious about what kind that you use because your hair is so freaking great, and then there’s some man in your shower!!!” Kamala cried, looking positively mortified.

   Frank’s back was turned as he tried to avoid looking at the kid. Dinah sighed tiredly, her hands on her hips as she tried to keep her eyes on the shower curtain instead of on the kid that was currently still sitting on the toilet.

   This was most definitely not at all how she had thought today was going to go. Random relatives showing up at her door, Frank Castle hiding in her shower…

   “Listen, just finish up, okay? Pete, come on,” Dinah beckoned, using his fake name.

   Frank kept his back explicitly turned to Kamala as he stepped out of the shower and headed out of the bathroom quickly where Dinah had the door held open for him. Dinah sighed deeply, shaking her head as she muttered something to herself and shut the door behind her resolutely.

   “You couldn’t have found a better place to hide yourself?” Dinah whispered to him as they came into the living room. Frank furrowed his brow, looking off in the direction of Dinah’s bedroom.

   “Who is that?” he asked before gazing back at Dinah. Dinah wet her lips.

   “That’s my,” Dinah paused as she tried to remember exactly what Kamala had said she was as far as relation to Dinah. She finally groaned, deciding not to even try to repeat all that mess.

   “She’s some relative of mine that supposedly found me on one of those DNA websites.”

   “You believe her?” Frank questioned.

   Dinah just moved her head from side to side, debating it as she weighed out her intuition versus her paranoia. She leaned forward, trying to see if Kamala was coming out of her room yet.

   “I don’t know. She seems normal. Well, normal enough… and she’s way too open. She seems just like some dumb kid, so I guess?”

   “How is she related to you? Did she give any kind of specifics?”

   “Yeah, she did, but I’m not sure if I can even remember all that she said,” Dinah raised her eyebrows.

   Frank set his jaw a little, but at that time, Kamala was coming out of the bedroom, looking rather awkward and embarrassed indeed. He moved toward the couch, ambling away as Kamala approached Dinah.

   “How exactly are we related again?” Dinah asked, and Kamala nodded as she started to do her explaining all over again.

   “Okay, so my dad’s grandma had a brother, right? Now that brother had a daughter—”

   “The simple version. Please,” Dinah tiredly requested.

   “We’re cousins!”

   “That’s how we’re related,” Dinah turned to tell Frank, and Frank raised his eyebrows as he looked between them.

   “Also,” Kamala stopped herself, looking at Frank and Dinah apologetically.

   “I’m sorry, I know we had that whole unspoken agreement about not ever talking about that situation in the bathroom again, but can I ask why you were in the shower with clothes on?” Kamala questioned Frank uncertainly. Frank and Dinah shared a glance, and Frank clenched his jaw a little, looking down at his hands where he was sitting on the couch.

   “Uh… I like showers,” he stated simply.

   Dinah groaned, shaking her head as she spoke up.

   “This is my friend Pete, and he’s the plumber,” Dinah told her, lying through her teeth as she tried not to think of the strangely funny resemblance of the plumber to the Punisher.

   Kamala nodded her head quickly, surprise written in her gaze.

   “Oh, okay! Got it. If you would’ve warned me, I would’ve been totally cool with waiting to pee,” Kamala assured them, and Dinah just forced a slight chuckle as she stood there uncomfortably.

   Kamala then checked her phone, raising her eyebrows before looking back at Dinah.

   “Hey, I’m sorry, I’ve gotta go. My ride’s back and she says we’ve got something to go take care of,” Kamala said, and she wasted no time in hopping forward and hugging Dinah quickly.

   Dinah froze uncomfortably, looking at Frank as she noted he was almost grinning as he kept his eyes averted down toward his hands. She gritted her teeth before Kamala released her quickly.

   “I’ll see you around, cuz!” Kamala happily told her. “And I’ll call next time, okay?”

   “Yes. That would be… ideal,” Dinah nodded, and she followed Kamala over to the door as the kid bounced over to it. She waved to her happily before looking beyond her to Frank.

   “See you, Pete! I’ll be sure to check the shower next time I visit,” she called, offering him a thumbs-up. He waved back to her with a simple extension of his hand.

   “Oh, and thanks for the water,” Kamala told Dinah, and the older woman smiled to her, the motion tight-lipped and nearly like a grimace.

   “Wait, wait, wait, you need my phone number!” Kamala cried, and Dinah paused, as Kamala stood in the doorway to leave.

   “Oh, wait, I’ve got your email. I can just send you my number,” Kamala laughed.

   Dinah was borderline weirded out by the knowledge that Kamala had her email. Of course, the kid had already mentioned something that led her to believe that earlier, but it was still a scary thought.

   “Yeah, I’ll call you,” Dinah said as Kamala headed out the door finally.

   “Bye, Dinah!” Kamala called.

   Dinah wasted no time shutting the door behind Kamala. After a beat, she let out a long sigh of relief as she dropped her chin to her chest and closed her eyes, her hands on the door still.

   Frank let out a chuckle, and Dinah tried to ignore the slight tug in her stomach in response to the sound as she set her jaw and opened her eyes.

   “I’m the plumber now, eh, Madani?”

   “Don’t start with me, Castle.”

[themarysuep]

Some interesting extracts from Iman's interview about her comic...

She discusses people judging before actually reading the comics but that she's happy people care that much. Which is true. She actually isn't a big x-men fan! I'll take that as meaning inhuman supremacy.

I was actually a little unhappy with Kamala's behavior after the resurrection so I'm really happy that these issues will explore the effects of what happened to her. Iman confirms that a lot of what happens will take place in Kamala's dreams and that she's been having reoccurring nightmares.

Sabir also created a new character for the series. Nitika? A desi girl finally? 👀Excited to see if she's an older villain or a high schooler/ college aged girlie. Kamala needs female villains. This could potentially be one of the coolest parts.

Well Iman confirms that Bruno will play a huge role in the comic. Which is really sad because if anyone was going to give the best friend role for this arc to Nakia FOR ONCE, it would probably be Iman since I mean.... yeah. But she also discusses that Bruno is a representation of her own support system in these issues. No mention of romance so that's good too. But also that a lot of moments are an adaptation of extracts from her journal.

[samasmith23]

Sigh… typos… ya gotta love ‘em, right?

NADIA???? Her name is Nakia. Lanzing & Kelly can’t even get this right.

NYX (2024) #5

[phoenixlionme]

Marvel Muslim Superheroes

1. Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel

2. Faiza Hussain aka Excalibur

3. Josiah al Hajj Sadiq/Josiah X aka Captain America

4. Kareem aka Red Dagger - last name unknown

5. Fadi Fadlalah aka Amulet

6. Monet St. Croix aka Penance

7. Monica Chang aka Black Widow

8. Navid Hassim aka Arabian Knight II

9. Sooraya Qadir aka Dust

10. Amir Khan - brother of Kamala Khan

11. Tyeehsa Hillman-Khan - the sister-in-law of Kamala Khan and wife of Amir Khan

12. Molek - real name unknown; Ghost Rider

13. Abdul Qamar aka Arabian Knight I 

14. Nakia Bahadir - friend/ally of Kamala Khan

15. Faith Shabazz - mother of Josiah X

16. Sirocco - last name unknown; mutant

17.  Haroun ibn Sallah al-Rashid aka Jetstream

18.  Taj Nital - member of Quincy Harker’s group of vampire hunters

19.  Scimitar - real name unknown

20. Jamila St. Croix - mother of Monet St. Croix

21. Isaiah Bradley aka Captain America

22. Elijah Bradley aka Patriot - NOTE: this hasn’t been confirmed but given his family are Muslim, it’s highly likely he is too. As such, I have decided to see him as Muslim.

23. G.W. Bridge aka George Washington Bridge 

24. Yusuf Khan - the father of Kamala and Amir Khan

25. Muneeba Khan - the mother of Kamala and Amir Khan

26. Malala Windsor aka Spider UK of Earth-835

Please list any more if you don’t see any on the list. Be respectful with the comments.

[heckcareoxytwit]

Kamala Khan, Sophie Cuckoo, Laura Kinney, Anole and Prodigy as well as the Morlocks, work together in rallying for mutant rights by gaining support from human allies and other forms of activism through their hearts and minds. Then, they have a showdown with the anti-mutant humans in Central Park as they hold a stand-off over the fate of the Krakoan X-Treehouse. During the stand-off, Sophie Cuckoo cuts herself off from her wayward sisters and she uses up her telepathic powers to coerce the congress into cancelling the signing of the mutant deportation bill. However, since Sophie had used up too much of her telepathy without her sisters, she burns out her powers. Kamala Khan gives a speech on live broadcast to the humans and mutants present all over New York. Aamir Khan is moved with his sister's speech that he cuts ties with his cousin. This ends with the mutants winning their rally, they get to keep the Krakoan Treehouse as a monument and the mutants can stay in New York without getting deported. As well as the anti-mutant humans are forcibly dispersed by the police.

NYX v2 #5, 2024

[beermanoftana]

Just finished Ms. Marvel and I surprisingly enjoyed it so much!!! Of course now I am Kareem x Kamala obsessed (and low key Kamran x Bruno and Nakia x Zoe). I didn’t expect it to like it so much because of one gif I saw before that annoyed the hell out of me for some reason. But aside from that, really pulled me in!

Though tbh I do not like Kamala being a mutant (if they’re going with that??). I have a thing for Inhumans (Daisy) so I was kinda hoping they’d stick to that. But anyways…

Thor L&T (tom evening!!!), She-Hulk, I am Groot, Werewolf by Night, and GotG Holiday Special and I am back on track! WF not counted for obvious reasons.

[mamaspidershit]

👀👀👀 if you guys want… send me a prompt, I’ll write something <3

Welcome to the June Writing Challenge! Each day you’ll be given a prompt to be turned into a piece of writing.

Parade

Meeting someone at dusk

“I sent you so many letters, did you not get them?”

Having a much needed bath

Hand painted mugs

Tradition

“I’m sick of being ashamed of who I am”

“When did you get back?”

Surgery

Changing something small

11:11

Drinks with little umbrellas

“Where did all these ribbons come from?”

Abandonment

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard you lie”

An audition

A third date

“Process of elimination, right?”

Trying really hard to deliver a package.

The importance of manners

House sitting

Custom neon signs

“This is your final warning”

Bucket lists

A series finale

An old hobby

“I don’t believe in luck”

Opening night

A second hand dress

“How is this not enough for you?”

“I want you to come with me”

[sign-seeker]

Just read the first issue of the new NYX series and I am... Oddly disappointed. LOVELY ART, absolutely enamoured of the depth of expressions on those faces, and the way it manages to capture dynamic action without making the page nonsensical, and the dialogue writing is fun, but the choices made about the characters... Hmm.

So, the series appears Kamala focused, and right off the bat, we're stripping her of her established supporting cast, by having her study in New York away from her family in Jersey City, having her quasi-boyfriend Bruno be studying abroad in Amsterdam, and no mention at all of her other friends like Nakia or Zoe. This is... Irritating, because I always find it off-putting when a new creative team throws the old supporting cast out the window, but I get that they need to free up space to focus on the people that Kamala meets in New York. However, the people that she meets...

So, Sophie Cuckoo is going off into the world on her own terms, without her sisters. This feels like a really odd choice, character wise, as Sophie has previously been established as the "deciding" member of their Hivemind: where she goes, the others follow. When Esme had her face-heel turn back in the day, she literally had to plant subliminal suggestions in Sophie that drove her to her actual death in order to be able to be free to leave the group and go off with Xorn/Magneto. Additionally, once Sophie and Esme were both dead, the remaining three sisters had a long period of trying to distinguish themselves from each other, embracing different hair colours and styles in an effort to stop being identical. I'm just saying, of the five sisters, Sophie is the only one who doesn't have a mindset of desiring independence or individuality. Why is Phoebe Cuckoo not the one striking out on her own? Phoebe, who drove a wedge between herself and her other sisters during the Krakoan Era by dating Quentin Quire, who was kinda sorta responsible for the whole fucking mess that resulted in Sophie's original death? Phoebe, who was traumatized by Quentin's brutal death at the hands of Sabertooth in the dying days of Krakoan? Now that's a girl in need of some space and personal re-invention! Send Phoebe to college on her own in New York!

Following this, we run into David Alleyne, who's a college professor now! We last saw David as a member of the X-Men team running around the many timelines of Moira's life, trying to track down pertinent information to help Xavier win the war against the Enigma Dominion during the Fall of X. What's really important to note is that everyone publicly thought all the members of that team had died at the Orchis attack on the Hellfire Gala, and what's important about that is, David's boyfriend Tommy thought he was dead. Tommy appeared recently in the Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver series, absolutely torn up with guilt about the fact that he wasn't present at the Hellfire Gala to save David's life. That relationship was very clearly still ongoing and extremely meaningful, which is why it's really fucking weird that NYX establishes that David has a boyfriend named Dante? Who he appears to live with? I'm sorry NYX, but why are you throwing out relationships that have been built up across multiple series with no explanation? Young Avengers, Marvel Voices Pride, X-Factor and Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver have all been cohesive in bringing this relationship together, why has it just been discarded? Half the point of working in a shared universe is you have to share the characters! If you're going to change stuff up, go for it, but at least acknowledge what you're changing! Explain yourself on the page!

So the girls go out on the town and meet Victor Borkowski! Yay, Anole content! He's a bartender at a club in New York. Okay, so, I know that he tended bar on Krakoan, but the writers remember he has other skills, yes? He's an expert in economics and business? He was installed as the interim CEO of Worthington Industries while Angel was indisposed? He's a guy with a hell of a lot to offer? I can kinda-sorta see why he's not associated with any of the X-Teams at the moment: head his personal "I need to be away from all this" periods before, notably after the collapse of the Xavier Institute and the X-Men relocating to California, even if he does always come back eventually. But why is he tending bar? Why not introduce him as trying to establish himself in business or finance? Something with some level of security, which is something he's always been pretty desiring of given the fucked-up-ed-ness of his childhood? Also, the girls start a fight which prompts the bar to establish a new No Mutants policy, and then it is absolutely not addressed what is happening with their obviously-a-mutant bartender.

And then Laura shows up, and is angsty. And refuses to let Kamala investigate the violent racists. Even though "let's be very direct and aggressive towards violent racists" has always been her policy before. And she's absolutely shitting on the Avengers for not backing mutantkind up, which would have made perfect sense at any point other than right now, when the Avengers have just done the right thing for once and put themselves massively on the line to kick the shit out of Orchis. "Fuck the Avengers" had it's place in the wake of M-Day and AvX, not now. Her whole "rrrragh I'm angry stay away" vibe makes no sense for a character who's grown as much as Laura has over the years, who is a surrogate parent to her little sister Gabby, who's found weird but comfortable family with Logan, who's been an elected X-Man on behalf of her fellow mutants. She knows what it is to be a leader and inspiration, and seeing her act like... Well, like a poorly written Logan, feels very off.

I will say that The Krakoan appeals to me. I've seen people objecting to Julian Keller taking up a villainous role, but while it's sad because I like him, it doesn't feel wrong as a character beat to me? We know when the X-Men fell apart previously he went running to Magneto for purpose, so playing at terrorism isn't beyond him. We know that he considered himself a leader of the Student Body at the Institute and was crippled by grief when so many of them were killed by the Purifiers, and that Krakoa gave all those people back to him. And more directly, he was a teenage boy who had both his fucking hands blown off, and Krakoa gave him his body back, while and hearty. The Krakoan Age gave him back his body, and gave him back all the friends he believed dead and gone forever, and I can absolutely believe that losing Krakoa to human violence would drive him completely round the bend.

With regard to our heroes, I'm really hoping that following issues will dive into what's brought these characters to these places, instead of just playing the "here's the new status quo, deal with it" card that seems to happen so often in comics.

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On a more serious note, I'm a closeted, broke aspec genderqueer guy in an extremely queerphobic household, and the discomfort is choking me.

I'm rewriting this post bc I got a bit venty in the last one, so let me cut to the chase. I need to get out. But I don't like begging for money, so I'm offering the one service I can provide: writing.

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Fics Sponsored (1/12)

[Dr. Stone] High school student council QPR SenGen based off Bloom Into You. I've written some of it here. (Gay, and aromantic feels. And alterous attraction discussion.)

[Naruto] A "Team Minato time travels to the era of the Rokudaime Hokage" fic except in this Kakashi's a trans guy whose egg cracked after Minato died. So there are some identity shenanigans. (Obvs trans themes.)

[Bloom Into You] The entire student council is aspec except for Doujima. (aromantics and asexuals from all ends of the spectrum)

[Crossover: Way of The HouseHusband x The Disastrous Life of Saiki K] Kuboyasu is taken under the wing of Tatsu (Kubokai features a heavy part of this, so the gay themes are undeniable.)

[Inside Job] Brett Hand is AroAce. That's it. That's the fic. Someone has to explain to him what attraction is. (aromantic. asexual.)

Since Marvel ones take up half the post, I'm separating them over here:

Kamala, Nakia, Bruno, and Zoe going to pride together each thinking they're the only queer ones in an otherwise straight-but-ally friend group. (Not romance. Mostly about community. Very queer.) [Spoken For By Patron]

Gwenpool and Kid Omega from Earth-616 get teleported into X-Men First Class (sapphic relationship between Gwen and Raven, Gwen realizing she's aroace and working through that journey, and a lot of gender feels)

Shipfic: Miles Morales, Sam Alexander, and Kamala Khan meet in Princeton researching multiverse stuff like Miles mentions in ITSV (polyamorous throuple, and also all three of them are bi.)

Carol Danvers character study fic, regarding parenthood and authority, and her relationship to both. (Danbeau. Lesbians.)

Samkamiles Bingo - additional list of prompts all centering around the Sam, Kamala, Miles ship. Pick any from that, or just have me do a random one.

Samkamiles Shipfic: Teenage Love Triangle In Space AU

Monica Rambeau-as-a-kid fic. Growing up with Carol and the shenanigans she got up to while her mother made S.W.O.R.D. and that kinda deal. (Lesbians. Bc Maria and Carol)