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Medusa by Peach Momoko

#medusalith amaquelin #peach my beloved

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#black bolt #medusalith amaquelin

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Sandman will pay for this!

#lockjaw #my boy!!!

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Don’t think about their age.

#ahura boltagon #luna maximoff

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Father and daughter in Scarlet Witch Vol. 3 #09

#luna maximoff

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Crystal and Lockjaw at Hellfire Gala by Mark Brooks

#!!!! #crystalia amaquelin #black bolt #medusalith amaquelin #lockjaw #my good boy is wearing a bow tie!!

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Everyone say thank you to Steve Orlando for giving us our once yearly Luna Maximoff appearance 🥰

#luna maximoff

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DAY 13 marveltober: MEDUSA

#medusalith amaquelin

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#crystalia amaquelin

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I was doing something completely unrelated when I came across this

I had no idea

#silence or death

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Superpower Transformation Whump

Suddenly gaining super-hearing and not being able to block anything out. Whumpee lives in a constant state of sensory overload, and cannot sleep for weeks; because they can hear the clocks ticking in every house of their block, city traffic from down the street, the garbage truck beeping from five blocks away, and every cough, sneeze, baby’s cry, and human voice within a mile radius. Earplugs barely help.

The most horrible growing pains from rapid muscle development cause Whumpee to writhe in bed so much that they break things and hurt people. This scares the shit out of Caretaker, who ultimately decides to restrain them for everyone’s safety; but Caretaker gets injured in the process, but is successful. However, Whumpee becomes so strong that they manage to break through their restraints.

Slow and agonizing transformations that involve the sloughing off and decay of healthy body parts I need to watch The Fly with Jeff Goldblum in it

Whumpee suffers an identity crisis and debilitating dysphoria because they no longer look or sound like themselves

When the mind transforms but the body does not; everyone thinks Whumpee is fine when they try to tell people there’s something wrong with them.

#a refuge divided #i just feels this belongs here

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can you imagine trying to play tug of war with lockjaw....

#i just imagined. a group of guards tasked with it. testing their strength #lockjaw

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so marvel topp's has been having these throwback thursday events. and this week's is -- very excitingly!!!! -- the inhumans!!!!!!!

which is REALLY FUN!!!

the only problem being the comments that aren't people asking for trades are almost exclusively ppl complaining about the fact that the inhumans have a set.

and also! more than that one problem! these are meant to be the same cards as the old set, but with like a special filter. which sounds fine. except that this:

is not gorgon's common card, due to the fact that this is not Gorgon Petragon. this is actually tomi shishido. a mutant who goes by the gorgon.

and THIS:

is not black bolt's common card. this is not black bolt. this is so not black bolt that this specific image, in comic, is a panel of him revealing himself to not be black bolt.

i know marvel kinda hates the inhumans but they messed up TWO of the ten cards by mixing up characters,,,, 😭

#aah. time to go spend all my coins! #but what the fuck #oh well at least they usually fix stuff

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look through

#wow! so cool! #maximus boltagon #black bolt

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#triton

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romeo got a feature in marvel's weekly pulse email!! he has a little article!!!!

#romeo

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Obviously this isn’t going to happen for multiple reasons but if Kamala’s being resurrected as a mutant-inhuman hybrid I would love to see some interaction between her and Luna. If Luna was still one herself.

Luna should be/have been a reserve member of the champions. She can’t be much younger than Pinpoint. Idk I just want to see the baby

Luna and Kamala's situations read very differently, but I think you could fudge the details enough to make them line up nicely.

As I recall, the original concept for Luna was that her mutant and inhuman genes actually cancelled each other out, and left her as just a normal human. Later, she did undergo an unregulated, abnormal form of terrigenesis which unlocked her latent Inhuman powers. Kamala, also underwent spontaneous, unregulated terrigenesis-- and this, allegedly, gave her Inhuman powers at the expense of suppressing her X-gene. When you frame it this way, Luna does provide a nice precedent for Kamala's case, which would be helpful for writers to make this new mutant retcon feel less forced.

Unfortunately, none of that is applicable to canon any more because Luna's dad was, allegedly, never a mutant, and Luna, allegedly, never had an X-gene in the first place. I don't think she and Kamala have ever met, which is too bad-- Kamala did used to spend a lot of time with the Inhumans, so they easily could have crossed paths. It would be nice to for Luna to have a relationship with an older Inhuman girl who's out in the world, doing her own thing, and being a hero-- it would be a nice, organic way to set Luna to grow into a superhero role, if anybody wanted to take her in that direction.

Luna's age continues to be a source of confusion and frustration. She's definitely, canonically, a teenager at this point, but it's hard to place her age in relation to other characters. I'm not sure if she has any direct peers-- characters who were born right around the same time as her-- other than her cousins, who have all been aged up supernaturally. She doesn't get usually get to spend much time around other kids, so she's not really part of a "generation," the way X-Men characters are, for example.

It doesn't matter-- I would guess, based on her most recent appearances, that she's between 13 and 15, which is old enough by Marvel standards to be an active super-person with a costume and codename. Lots of characters start out at that age, for better or for worse-- Cassie Lang was only 14 at the start of Young Avengers.

#luna maximoff #kamala khan