Rachel Summers and Kitty Pryde: A Like-Like Story

[auggie18]

Okay, so one of my favorite not-really-a-canon-couple couples is Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers. (I guess her switching it to Grey didn't stick?)

Not there haven't been canon moments that hint at a slightly more intimate relationship. If you look at them in the right way. And are willing to see things that were probably not super intentional. (Then again, Claremont.)

ANYWAY!



What? Just some perfectly innocent full body hugging.



Yep. Just some good old heterosexual tucking in. Nothing more than that.



I, um. Huh.



...well.




Yep.






...hmm. (I know, I know, wrong Phoenix.)





D'aw.



I think I've figured out why Rachel's relationships tend not to last.




Ladies, take as much time as you need.
 

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

Rachel came up with those scenarios kinda fast. Planned forward to this, has she?

[mrstatham]

I like how Aaron seems to give himself something of a backdoor with his general laziness when it comes to relationships in WATXM. That said, lampshading it doesn't make it any better or make it work.

[stolisomancer]

Yeah, late-era Claremont seemed to be hinting rather broadly that either Kitty was bi but in denial about it or Kitty's presence made every woman around her bi. Off the top of my head, you can make a pretty solid case for Kitty/Xi'an, Kitty/Illyana, and Kitty/Rachel.

One of these days I'm going to sit down and read through a big pile of his comics and write some big essay about what he contributed to superhero comics and Marvel and how it's disappointing that he went absolutely bugfuck crazy in 1997 or so.

[icon_uk]

A case can also perhaps be made for Kitty/Sat-Yr-9 (When Sat was pretending to be Courtney Ross), though that was perhaps more "corrupt, evil, sexually decadent, predator attempts to seduce virginal young girl"

[jlbarnett]

I kinda got a hint of Kitty/Rahne

[salinea]

Yeah always saw Kitty as bi (and a bit in denial/repressing about it). There's a panel early in Excalibur that's a clincher for me:

the "boy, I can!" seems too spontaneous and too immediately regretted.

[shadur]

How about Kitty/Ororo? Although that one's probably more maternal/mentorial, come to think of it...

[kurenai_tenka]

Oops, for a second there I thought they were crying in the first scan due to a broken neck.

[glprime]

Motto.

[blue_bolt]

What does "unglaublich" mean?

[arilou_skiff]

"Unbelievable".

[shadur]

Literally, "Unbelievable". In context, "Oh, my."

[arilou_skiff]

Doesen't Claremont write all women as bi though?

[stolisomancer]

Not precisely. For some of them, like Mystique/Destiny, it's clearly a high-stakes game he was playing called Let's See What I Can Sneak Past Jim Shooter.

For others, like Storm/Yukio, it's even money whether he was actually going for a sexual relationship or not. Modern readers look at that and it's the gayest thing since gay came to gaytown, but back in the day it's coded as Yukio happening to be there when Storm ditched some things about herself that were holding her back.

Then when he comes back in the 2000s for X-Treme, all bets are off by the end of the volume and wackiness ensues. I honestly think that his being an Important Writer mixed with what was really a very experimental time at Marvel and you end up with the Claremont equivalent to Heinlein's Time Enough for Love: a perfectly decent plot that's heavily marred by characters expressing some eye-raising ideas.

[lieut_kettch]

I shipped Kitty/Xian myself. Especially since Xian's attraction to Kitty is canon.

[doomisay]

Kitty/Shan was adorable. Even her sibs were trying to make it happen in New X-Men.

[captainbellman]

This being Claremont, it's fairly unsurprising that Callisto's skillset is credited as "Tactical Brilliance", because "Tentacles" go without saying.

Also, whoever Marie is, I got the impression from that pic that she's some kind of pet human the X-Men drag around in order to patronise.

"Aw, look! She lost an eye! Silly human with no healing factor." *Nuzzle* "Who's a good lil human? Who wants a human treat?"

[auggie18]

From what I remember of that run, you're not too far off.

[sevarem]

I always liked the idea of them as a couple. Definitely more than I like Kitty with Peter.

So... have Rachel and Kitty still not spoken to each other in WatXM?

[icon_uk]

I'd put most of the class Mammalia ahead of Piotr in the "Who I'd like to see Kitty with", and would be prepared to hear arguments for candidates from the phyla Arthropoda and Chordata, just to be on the safe side.

[wizardru]

I'm really conflicted here: that one scene of Kitty "rescuing" Rachel is terribly male-gaze oriented and kind of ridiculous...but also incredibly HOT. Also: that partial up-skirt with Rachel in a leather...is that even long enough to call a mini-skirt? Kind of amazed what can be printed in the mainstream, now. That whole sequence is kinda porntastic, really.

[cainofdreaming]

It's Manara, so that's to be expected.

[salinea]

It was drawn by Manara. It wasn't trying very hard not to look like softcore porn. I maintain that the saddest thing about it was how dull and boring softcore porn it was.

[jkcarrier]

"I was on the Champions, I know when something's not working." Oh, Bobby...if Warren heard you say that, he would give you such a beatdown.

Speaking of Kitty/Whoever, I can't be the only one who read the Kitty/Emma sniping in Whedon's Astonishing X-Men as pure Belligerent Sexual Tension.

[salinea]

This is scans_daily, so, nope, not just you :3