Eight Scans of Solstice - Favourite friendship

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Let's hear it for platonic ideals!

Dick Grayson and Donna Troy

These two have been friends forever, and despite them occasionally pondering what might have been, have been purely platonic team-mates in all that time.



The first and only person she thought of to walk her down the aisle at her wedding.



(Okay, it's a slightly outdated idea that she needs anyone to walk her down the aisle, but...)



Then there's my other go-to couple.

Kitty Pryde and Doug Ramsey

Okay, it started out with Doug clearly having a massive crush on Kitty and obviously wanting to take it further,





...but when that didn't happen (and given how often she bent his ear about her problems with Piotr, and his ability to read between the lines, it couldn't have taken him THAT long to realise it wouldn't, they remained good friends and the scourge of the Westchester video arcades (It WAS the 80's)



Even after he joined the New Mutants and thu became her kinda rival (since she and the New Mutants tended not to get along) this, I imagine, was typical of their interactions...



Right up until... well, THAT happened in NM #60.

And, okay, well, I HAD to mention my other favourite friendship with one of the saddest images I have ever accidentally inspired someone to draw...


Does Selffriend Want to Build a Snowman? by RMan021 on DeviantArt

To THESE smug lil shits! :)



I could continue indefintiely for ages with others like Bruce and Clark, Diana and Lois, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, Tim and Kon, but these will do for now I think.

Comments

[nyadnar17]

Dick Grayson and Donna Troy is one of my all time favorite friendships and the lost of it with nu52 was pretty crushing.

A guy and a girl being good friends. No unrequited feelings, no fears of "messing up the friendships, no uncompatible sexuality. Just two beautiful, wonder people who good two each other.

Not only was it rare in fiction, during that time period of my life it was rare socially. Being friends with the opposite sex with no romantic/sexual intentions was seen as weird. Their friendship was so affirming for me.

[coldfury]

The Titans show is *such* a mixed bag, but they get Donna & Dick's friendship 100% right. It was amazing, and also the most likeable Dick was the entire season.

[qalchemist]

The scans above are a perfect use of platonic 'I love you' that even today we almost never get to see.

[cygnia]

Is it wrong I now wanna see Doug & Warlock team up with Rocket & Groot?

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Not in the slightest!

I know I've seen fanart of Groot and Doug chatting (tri-syllabically of course), with a VERY jealous looking Warlock glaring at this shapeshifting alien who's making a move on HIS human. I just can't find it right now.

But in looking for it, I found this I wrote about five years ago now;

"After meeting Groot for the first time, the New Mutants team couldn’t understand why Cypher was standing there, with tears rolling down his cheeks. When he was finally able to compose himself enough he explained that he’d never heard anyone speak a language so rich, so profound and so just plain beautiful that he could never do it justice the way Groot did. It took him another half hour to convince the rest of the team he wasn’t joking.

To this day, when trying to express a complex concept he has a tendency to say “I am Groot” and forget that he’s speaking Groot rather than English, because English just doesn’t cut it sometimes."

[flo_nelja]

Oooh I love this!
(And I also love Doug and Kitty's friendship, also Doug and Warlock's, even if I have more leanings to ship the second one)

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I think we all do, especially since Kitty is a much more natural ship-fit with Illyana (and Rachel) whilst as friends Kitty and Doug just... work.

[powerpb13]

I really liked what little we got of Lois and Selina.

[bradygirl_12]

I agree! Lois and Selina are pure snark BFFs! :)

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Oh heavens yes, I forgot about them! :)

[bradygirl_12]

For a minute there I thought Kitty was bringing down Groot Chips. :)

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Crunchy!

[sarahnewlin]

I wonder if Betsy has interacted with Doug since he came back?

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Canonically, no, or at least not as far as I'm aware and i try to keep an eye out for these things.

Some have speculated though

I had to write my own Doug/Kitty and Doug/Magneto reunions so i may have tho work on my own Doug/Betsy scene