This is a nice twist showing a human side to things. Granted the same sex affection takes a bit for me to get use to sometimes, but this only makes it miore appealing. He was iconic with powers/abilities and looks that made him the all american role model; but just as how life is not a black and white why should a hero be as well!
Drawing the same sex affection was difficult for me at first, but once I got a handle on who these characters are it seemed natural. I’m glad we live in a modern USA where people rarely think twice about these matters anymore.
Wow! Brian is made of sterner stuff, much more than I’d've given him credit for. Most people would’ve had to have had a week or so more of moping before they could embrace the alternatives like that.
God knows I would.
You’ve made Louis come off as a wise individual indeed, too, Scott. Not everyone knows how both to give their partner some space and know what will help them redirect towards the positive, as well as when to bring it up.
If Elect is this bad at reading people, he must be a virtual god. I can see nothing else that could prevent him from having gotten his ass handed to him, or his life taken long, long ago.
Thanks, Rob! I must pass the credit to Benita, who wrote this scene. She’s a remarkable writer and partner, and she has a real feal for more delicate interplays.
Really, Elect is a virtual god. As with Zeus, gods always have blind spots too.
I don’t know, Louis dying might actually make U either go psycho or turn into a vegetable. I subscribe to the “Utopian is a reality manipulator” theory. Both the Elect and Utopian’s powers seem to have major psychological components.
The closer you come to the ideal image you have of yourself, the more powerful you become. The more you fail, the farther away you fall from that image, the more you second-guess and recriminate against yourself, the weaker you become. So Utopian going back to school and getting his degree will probably help boost his confidence and his powers should (theoretically) return.
Nice to see the U getting somewhere. I suppose he still doesn’t know about Symphony/”Dark Requiem” being back in action. Maybe that might get him to rethink his ideals?
Totally off topic:
I just had a thought after reading the character list again. I wonder what Molly and Tara would do if/when they meet each other. A serious cyborg and a sometimes frivolous robot. JS2 vs Molly vs Tara would be an interesting fight
This is a nice twist showing a human side to things. Granted the same sex affection takes a bit for me to get use to sometimes, but this only makes it miore appealing. He was iconic with powers/abilities and looks that made him the all american role model; but just as how life is not a black and white why should a hero be as well!
Drawing the same sex affection was difficult for me at first, but once I got a handle on who these characters are it seemed natural. I’m glad we live in a modern USA where people rarely think twice about these matters anymore.
Wow! Brian is made of sterner stuff, much more than I’d've given him credit for. Most people would’ve had to have had a week or so more of moping before they could embrace the alternatives like that.
God knows I would.
You’ve made Louis come off as a wise individual indeed, too, Scott. Not everyone knows how both to give their partner some space and know what will help them redirect towards the positive, as well as when to bring it up.
If Elect is this bad at reading people, he must be a virtual god. I can see nothing else that could prevent him from having gotten his ass handed to him, or his life taken long, long ago.
Thanks, Rob! I must pass the credit to Benita, who wrote this scene. She’s a remarkable writer and partner, and she has a real feal for more delicate interplays.
Really, Elect is a virtual god. As with Zeus, gods always have blind spots too.
My bet is on a reprisal attack by Tactical either endangering Louis or killing him that gets Utopians power back, if ever.
I don’t know, Louis dying might actually make U either go psycho or turn into a vegetable. I subscribe to the “Utopian is a reality manipulator” theory. Both the Elect and Utopian’s powers seem to have major psychological components.
The closer you come to the ideal image you have of yourself, the more powerful you become. The more you fail, the farther away you fall from that image, the more you second-guess and recriminate against yourself, the weaker you become. So Utopian going back to school and getting his degree will probably help boost his confidence and his powers should (theoretically) return.
Nice to see the U getting somewhere. I suppose he still doesn’t know about Symphony/”Dark Requiem” being back in action. Maybe that might get him to rethink his ideals?
Totally off topic:
I just had a thought after reading the character list again. I wonder what Molly and Tara would do if/when they meet each other. A serious cyborg and a sometimes frivolous robot. JS2 vs Molly vs Tara would be an interesting fight