#terrylorna

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Thinking about how Terry taking on the Morrigan is framed in X-Factor (2020) as “Terry did this so Lorna wouldn’t destroy the world” but when you actually read the arc in X-Factor (1986) it’s actually “Terry did this because Lorna was hurting and she wanted to help her.”

Lorna is in pain, she’s traumatized and is so overcome with grief that she’s gone nonresponsive - and Terry who knows what it is to grieve so completely wants to make things better for her- so she takes on the mantle and in doing so has to leave Lorna behind.

The arc is fundamentally “Terry is willing to sacrifice her humanity to give Lorna comfort, even if it means removing herself from Lorna’s life.”

Both tellings are good and gay AF, but like the actual arc from X-Factor (1986) just hits different yknow?

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: X-Factor (Comics), X-Men (Comicverse) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Theresa Cassidy/Lorna Dane Characters: Lorna Dane, Theresa Cassidy Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Reference Suicide Attempts, This is based heavily on the events of X-Factor (2020), except unlike Leah Williams I actually read X-Factor (1986), And unlike Leah Williams I actually know things about the Morrigan, Post Shatterstar killing Morrigan, HAROLD THEY’RE LESBIANS, well Lorna’s and lesbian and Terry’s bi but semantics, Porn With Plot, this is not...the most Alex Summers friendly fic, I do love Alex but...he deserves this, Angst Summary:

"You have me floatin' like a feather on the sea/ While you're as heavy as the world/ That you hold your hands beneath/ Once I wondered what was holdin' up the ground/ But I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down." - I, Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier ------------------------- Lorna seeks out Terry after Shatterstar has freed her from the Morrigan’s influence. They do a little more than talk.

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I'm a bug fan of your Revenant series! It's such a cool team 😁

One thing that struck me was that on learning the shadow king was back Lorna specifically asked for her brother and shot down seeing her father. She was even reluctant to tell Wanda what was happening until Pietro convinced her.

What was going on in her head at that moment and how do you feel about her respective relationships with her father and siblings (In the story and in cannon)

YESSSSSSSS I’ve been waiting for someone to ask this 🥰🥰🥰also thank you so much for enjoying Revenant, I have literally so much more of it to write (you have no idea this has gotten way out of control, this entire AU was created for a silly oneshot TerryLorna idea I had and I am STILL NOT EVEN AT A PLACE WHERE I CAN WRITE THE TERRYLORNA)....anyway this is about to be word vomit bc I have a LOT of thoughts

Okay so one of the big things here is that Lorna and Pietro have both had pivotal moments in their stories where they were mind controlled and made to do things that hurt people they cared about and neither of them really ever got a whole lot of support in recovering from that. And Pietro is, for all his faults, incredibly protective and incredibly loving of his sisters and while Lorna has spent a LOT of time pushing back against that protectiveness because she really and truly can handle herself and she and Pietro don't have that kind of history where he's seen her almost burned at the stake etc etc.... this is a moment where she wants someone to be ride or die in her corner and to be ride or die in her corner after it's all said and done even if she is controlled again...... and Pietro's fatal flaw is loyalty. She wanted someone who would come in and try to make it better even though there was nothing they could do, and she knew that if she called Pietro would come running. It's more an act of desperation than of familial love? But it's something that's really going to set the stage as the story progresses for how their relationship is going to evolve. We also know that Lorna is very afraid of seeming weak in front of her father- he has these grand expectations of her and when she doesn't meet his impossible standards she cracks under that weight and for as much as I love Erik and as much as I appreciate the steps he's taken to repair his relationship with her, being his daughter is not easy. And with Wanda, they arguably have the easier relationship within this group of siblings, where it really has become more genuinely sisterly and almost...dare I say? normal? But Wanda isn't really involved in X-Men stuff and hasn't really been to any grand extent barring her intro and M-Day (and much more recently Trial of Magneto)- her very presence on Krakoa is enough to inspire hatred and anger, with the Shadow King there Wanda as a first choice is probably not smart, and Wanda herself has so much baggage with mutantkind thanks to M-Day that it puts her in a weird position too.

I'm playing a lot with Wanda, Lorna, and Pietro's relationships with each other and with their father. I feel like Pietro is very underutilized and that he's not taken seriously by writers or by fans and so I really wanted to build on this Lorna-Pietro relationship that was starting to get established in All New X-Factor and to really kind of I guess force my readers to remember that Pietro isn't a bad guy? Which sounds stupid bc he's a hero but like people don't read for Pietro and take wildly ooc shit as fact. Like it's important to me that my readers know that it was Pietro who pushed for he and Wanda to leave the Brotherhood, and that Pietro tries so so so hard for his family and just wants to keep his sisters and daughter safe and that like he is a victim of much of the same trauma as Wanda and he's allowed to have responses to it without being whiny or having to get over it (no matter what Wanda said in Quicksilver: No Surrender).

But yeah, I have lots of Revenant thoughts, and feel free to dm me or send me asks about it anytime I love talking about it!

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I don't want to be rude but sometimes I see all those relationship tags and it's an inconvenience. Like I know it's for reach and stuff but when I'm in specific character relationship tags and I see what I'm looking for is like 7th in a list of 10 I'm immediately going to skip because I'm going to assume it's not major enough to warrant reading and it's an absolute walk of text to scroll through repeatedly 😭 sorry if I'm coming across as policing it just puts me off from actually reading your work sometimes which I'm sure isn't the intended effect.

I tag relationships that have a major impact on the plot. I don’t care about reach, I write for me and do my best to tag appropriately.

Given that I just posted a new chapter I’m going to assume that this is in reference to In the Lost Myth of True Love. This is a fic that is likely going to be well over 50,000 words and has a larger cast that is getting utilized. There are plenty of more minor relationships and many characters that are NOT getting tagged because they are not vital to the plot or explored in any real depth within the narrative.

Many of my stories have larger casts that interact with each other and I do my best to balance focus around their relationships and the relationships that I tag. I’m not saying that everyone has to agree that I do that, but I do put in effort to do so. Not everyone is going to agree with me on what I deem “important” and that’s okay. The order in which I tag relationships has nothing to do with their importance in the story but rather just where I happened to type them.

If your assumptions about my writing are stopping you from reading something that is tagged appropriately based on what OTHERS have done while trying to expand their reach that is not something I can control. I’m a rare pair lover, I know how much is sucks when people are trying to get more views on ao3 and so they tag everything possible. I’m not not going to tag something important just because it creates a wall of text, I’m writing a large cast there’s going to be more tags, that’s the name of the game I’m afraid.

But I also cannot stress enough that things like “Táin AU X-Men focusing around TerryLorna with the theme of mourning” and “X-Men dream team I created for the express purpose of making those 8 bastards interact and exploring the untapped potential of their interactions” are not things I’m writing for anyone but myself. I am DELIGHTED that people enjoy them, but ultimately I’m writing for me and I’m not interested in expanding my reach beyond just sharing the fics in several places. The people who want to read it will and that’s enough for me.

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You are dropping ONLY correct takes.

The meta on Charles? You have killed that man and dumped his body in the street via words. Hell yes.

I like Ruth and David, and that post honestly made me re-examine some of it.

CORRCT TAKES WITH THE QUIVER.

PLUS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING WRITING!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

I’ve got a new X-Men WIP that should be posted tonight if all goes to plan

It’s not more X-Men: Revenant - BUT it IS gay TerryLorna like immediately post X-Factor (2020) so……. Hopefully you’ll like that too

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My brain is so evil to show me the perfect way to start a TerryLorna fic when I am so very sleepy and have to be awake at like 5:30am tomorrow 😭😭😭😭😭