Katherine Pryde and Opul Lun Sat-Yr-9: A love story

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

In Excalibur #5, written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by Alan Davis, Opul Lun Sat-Yr-9, the deposed dictator of Earth-794, killed her Earth-616 counterpart Courtney Ross and took her place.






This is from Excalibur #10. The art is by Marshall Rogers.


Later on, the Cross-Time Caper storyline had the Excalibur team going through several alternate realities trying to find their way home. In Excalibur #19, Kitty Pryde gets separated from the rest of the team and finds herself back on Earth-616. The art is by Rick Leonardi.


This is from Excalibur #21. The art is by Chris Wozniak.




This is from Excalibur #24. The art is by Alan Davis.




















This is from Excalibur #25. The art is by Chris Wozniak.




Then, in Excalibur #32 Sat-Yr-9 spies on Kitty as she stands up to some of her bullying classmates. The art is by Ron Wagner.


Chris Claremont left the title at #34, and the Sat-Yr-9 storyline was dropped. Alan Davis returned to the series with #42, as the writer and the artist.  One of the things he did was resolve some of the dangling plotlines that had been left.

In Excalibur #55, the team is having a housewarming party at Braddock Manor.




Later, Sat-Yr-9's forces attack everyone at the party.




Then, in #56...













And then...


Jamie Braddock is defeated by Psylocke, but before the team can do anything he and Sat-Yr-9 are rescued by her soldiers and taken away.

Over at his forum, Alan Davis talked about Sat-Yr-9's relationship with Kitty. "Although I knew Chris had some plan for Sat Yr 9 to corrupt Kitty and that the various Cross time versions of Saturnyne were attracted to Kitty, I had no idea what, if any, the goal of this relationship was to be. I just played it as a lesbian affair. Kitty the innocent victim of a wicked woman-- I thought all of scheming was just a ruse to keep Kitty interested. I mean, the Hellfire Club isn't really into world domination thats just a ploy to get the women to dress up as dominatrix... Isn't it?"

Comments

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Oh, thank you. I always wanted to know the end of the story. (Also, Kitty the demon ninja at prep school was _awesome_.)

[unknownscribler.insanejournal.com]

It always gets me when people say "Oh, I knew the previous writer had a plan but I didn't know what it was" when surely all they had to do was pick up the phone and ask.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Well, perhaps he didn't want his default assumption corrected? I mean, I can't imagine Claremont's reasoning being more sound than his in this case. ^_^

[unknownscribler.insanejournal.com]

Heh. That cake scene is just pure sex. Why? Largely because of where Kitty's hands are. It's such a tiny detail that completely changes the nature of the scene from a kid eating cake to a girl licking her sugar mummy's finger.

[gabyrips.insanejournal.com]

So cool! I love Excalibur and Alan Davis. Does anyone know what he's working on now? Excalibur generally looked like crap when he wasn't doing the art, but his work is great.

[steverodgers5.insanejournal.com]

Jeez Sat-Yr-9 really picked up where the White Queen left off didn't she?

And I gotta say I really have a hard time believing Kitty was only 15 by this point. I mean didn't she end up sleeping with Pete Wisdom later in this run?

[starwolf_oakley.insanejournal.com]

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Sat-Yr-9 *was* her reality's Kitty Pryde, just older and with her hair dyed platinum blond.

This was hinted in one of Excalibur's alternate universe adventures. They save a young woman they *think* is an alternate, unpowered Kitty Pryde from thugs, only she says her name is Courtney Ross.