30 Days of Scans Day 28 - Favorite Canonical Romance

[generator_rex]

So I have two favorite cannon romances and they both are from The Legion of Super-Heroes.




First up is Bouncing Boy and Triplicate Girl (Duo Damsel/Duplicate Damsel. The reason is because I though it was awesome. Bouncing Boy was the chubby kid who scored the hottie. And they worked. I hated the version that dated the three guys at once.





Next is Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl. I don't know why I like it. I just do.

Comments

[kamino_neko]

Looks pretty broken up to me. Neither of them is happy about it not working out, but the fact remains that it didn't work.

[perletwo]

Huh. I read it totally the opposite way, that they were still committed, however doomed. Guess it's a glass half full/glass half empty kind of thing.

[kamino_neko]

Guess it's a glass half full/glass half empty kind of thing.

Kinda, yeah. It just reminds me of a couple break-ups I've had - 'I still love you, but this isn't working, and that's killing me'.

I'm not discounting that they could get back together in the future...

[perletwo]

Part of what led me there is that they're drawing a deliberate parallel between themselves and Blok and Mysa, earlier in the story.

Mysa's made an unimaginably difficult and painful choice, to make herself the crucible that changes all Mordru's dark magic to light; but the bright side is she and Blok can be together if she does. In fact, she needs Blok's love and support to make it possible. Blok doesn't give it a second thought, or even a first thought - he loves her, and he's with her.

In my reading, Drake is saying, if he were in Mysa's position and he had an option, however horrible, that would let him be Dawny's lover, he'd do it; and she's saying she'd take Blok's part and be his partner in that choice. Trouble is, the universe (and Paul Levitz) seems determined not to present them with one.

[kamino_neko]

In my reading, Drake is saying, if he were in Mysa's position and he had an option, however horrible, that would let him be Dawny's lover, he'd do it; and she's saying she'd take Blok's part and be his partner in that choice. Trouble is, the universe (and Paul Levitz) seems determined not to present them with one.

Yeah, see, glass half-empty, glass half-full. I'm reading the exchange in pretty much the same way, but coming to a different conclusion.

The 'could', specifically, leads me to the opposing interpretation - the choice that Blok had to make was not an ideal one, but it's the only one he could make to be with Mysa. So, for the parallel, if there was anything Drake could sacrifice that would allow him to be with Dawny, he'd sacrifice it, and she knows it. But, there isn't, so they're unable to be together.

If they were together, I would expect the exchange to be 'if I had to', not 'if I could'.