What was I going to say...?
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eliyesMary Hewlett has a blog, and the most recent entry is about her son David's squirrel antics. XD Yes, that David Hewlett.
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apathocles. I can't decide whether to take it to the end or leave it when Ted's still alive. Hell, I could cut out all the stuff about Ted's heart and call it done with what I have. It'd be short... :/
There was more... *thinks*
Okay, so I've been wanting to do something with the pre-sent-off-to-school, i.e. still-living-on-Ship X-Terminators (much as I kid of adore Rictor's post-sent-off-to-school makeover, I just can't deal with Taki). At the moment I'm toying with having them somehow wind up in the X-Men: Evolution universe. But can reality withstand two Boom-Booms? And how much antagonism between Rictor and Lance would I really want to indulge in? It would make more sense for Rusty and Skids to be RAR at him, because Avalanche was one of the members of Freedom Force that tried to arrest Rusty when Skids met him. Even if I never write anything, it's been a useful thought exercise. For example, since Skids was a Morlock, she's probably heard of or even seen some of the X-Men. Kitty, for example, since she knows Caliban. I'm sure she's heard of Storm, as well, since by the point Skids is introduced, Storm is leader of the Morlocks and all.
It occurred to me to wonder how much these kids would know about other superhero teams, like the Avengers or the Fantastic Four. Boom-Boom and Skids are both from NYC, but I'm not sure how much access to media Morlocks have, and there didn't really seem to be a TV in the place Boom-Boom lived with the Vanisher's other girl thieves. On the whole, I could expect Boom-Boom to have been exposed to more info, but less likely to really care. Rusty is difficult to say -- I think news of the big world-shaking events would probably have reached his Uncle's farm in Iowa, or after that, his ship, but maybe not most other things. I mean, at the beginning of X-Factor, two of Bobby's coworkers are discussing mutants at the watercooler, and one of them doesn't think they really exist. (Until Bobby slides by in ice form and freezes their mugs. Way to protect your identity there, Bobster. *facepalm* He's actually really bad at it throughout a lot of X-Factor; people see his un-iced face and recognise him as Iceman and know his first name is "Bobby". He has fanboys! But I digress.)
Rictor... is a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a teddy bear. He's obviously seen X-Factor on TV, and he earnestly tries to explain to them (when they're reassuring him that they aren't the bad guys he thinks) that the world sees them -- X-Factor, the mutant hunters -- as heroes, and mutants as "bad guys". I think he also calls himself a "monster". Considering the torture machine and drugs and other things The Right did to him, I wonder when he had time to see them on TV? Then again, X-Factor has spots all over the world -- they were called to Russia! -- so maybe he saw them on TV in Mexico. However, he tells X-Factor that he didn't know he was a mutant (before The Right got him), "only that it was terrible". So I doubt that's it. I bank on Hodge; he was the brains behind the PR campaign, after all.
*growl* ...If it was Mexico. Let me look at the pre-X-Force evidence here, again. Rictor doesn't start slipping any Spanish into his speech until X-Force; actually, he seems to speak very good English even when very, very upset. The find him in San Francisco, but that's probably because The Right positioned him in the most tectonically unstable but populous part of America they could think of, to do the most damage. We know before that, he was held in Virginia, and we know The Right's underground compound was front by a science museum that was a popular visiting spot for schools -- and that the exhibits and learning games subtly tested visitors to see if they were mutants. I don't think that's how they got him, though.
He confesses to Skids and Rusty that he "destroyed a city" "back in Mexico". Possibly the strongest indication of a Mexican origin that X-Factor offers. However, here's also this exchange, after Rictor fires a machine gun at guards in The Right's compound:
Rusty: Where'd ya learn ta fire that thing?
Rictor: Central America! They couldn't wait to make kids into soldiers there!
Is this a geography thing? I was always taught that Mexico was part of North America, but recently someone comments to me that they thought it was Central America. Anyone wanna weigh in on that?
And then, when Boom-Boom and Rictor were kidnapped by Genosha, the news says he's an American. Granted, he'd been with X-Factor for about a year when Inferno hit, and this is after that by long enough for Cable to have shown up and drafted a bunch of the kids, so he could have changed or falsified his papers.
I also don't think he's the one responsible for going by Rictor instead of Richter; I think that one's on Hodge, since it was The Right who sent in the threat....
I am working on a fanfic for Kingdom Come, God help me. I vaguely blame
apathocles. I can't decide whether to take it to the end or leave it when Ted's still alive. Hell, I could cut out all the stuff about Ted's heart and call it done with what I have. It'd be short... :/There was more... *thinks*
Okay, so I've been wanting to do something with the pre-sent-off-to-school, i.e. still-living-on-Ship X-Terminators (much as I kid of adore Rictor's post-sent-off-to-school makeover, I just can't deal with Taki). At the moment I'm toying with having them somehow wind up in the X-Men: Evolution universe. But can reality withstand two Boom-Booms? And how much antagonism between Rictor and Lance would I really want to indulge in? It would make more sense for Rusty and Skids to be RAR at him, because Avalanche was one of the members of Freedom Force that tried to arrest Rusty when Skids met him. Even if I never write anything, it's been a useful thought exercise. For example, since Skids was a Morlock, she's probably heard of or even seen some of the X-Men. Kitty, for example, since she knows Caliban. I'm sure she's heard of Storm, as well, since by the point Skids is introduced, Storm is leader of the Morlocks and all.
It occurred to me to wonder how much these kids would know about other superhero teams, like the Avengers or the Fantastic Four. Boom-Boom and Skids are both from NYC, but I'm not sure how much access to media Morlocks have, and there didn't really seem to be a TV in the place Boom-Boom lived with the Vanisher's other girl thieves. On the whole, I could expect Boom-Boom to have been exposed to more info, but less likely to really care. Rusty is difficult to say -- I think news of the big world-shaking events would probably have reached his Uncle's farm in Iowa, or after that, his ship, but maybe not most other things. I mean, at the beginning of X-Factor, two of Bobby's coworkers are discussing mutants at the watercooler, and one of them doesn't think they really exist. (Until Bobby slides by in ice form and freezes their mugs. Way to protect your identity there, Bobster. *facepalm* He's actually really bad at it throughout a lot of X-Factor; people see his un-iced face and recognise him as Iceman and know his first name is "Bobby". He has fanboys! But I digress.)
Rictor... is a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a teddy bear. He's obviously seen X-Factor on TV, and he earnestly tries to explain to them (when they're reassuring him that they aren't the bad guys he thinks) that the world sees them -- X-Factor, the mutant hunters -- as heroes, and mutants as "bad guys". I think he also calls himself a "monster". Considering the torture machine and drugs and other things The Right did to him, I wonder when he had time to see them on TV? Then again, X-Factor has spots all over the world -- they were called to Russia! -- so maybe he saw them on TV in Mexico. However, he tells X-Factor that he didn't know he was a mutant (before The Right got him), "only that it was terrible". So I doubt that's it. I bank on Hodge; he was the brains behind the PR campaign, after all.
*growl* ...If it was Mexico. Let me look at the pre-X-Force evidence here, again. Rictor doesn't start slipping any Spanish into his speech until X-Force; actually, he seems to speak very good English even when very, very upset. The find him in San Francisco, but that's probably because The Right positioned him in the most tectonically unstable but populous part of America they could think of, to do the most damage. We know before that, he was held in Virginia, and we know The Right's underground compound was front by a science museum that was a popular visiting spot for schools -- and that the exhibits and learning games subtly tested visitors to see if they were mutants. I don't think that's how they got him, though.
He confesses to Skids and Rusty that he "destroyed a city" "back in Mexico". Possibly the strongest indication of a Mexican origin that X-Factor offers. However, here's also this exchange, after Rictor fires a machine gun at guards in The Right's compound:
Rusty: Where'd ya learn ta fire that thing?
Rictor: Central America! They couldn't wait to make kids into soldiers there!
Is this a geography thing? I was always taught that Mexico was part of North America, but recently someone comments to me that they thought it was Central America. Anyone wanna weigh in on that?
And then, when Boom-Boom and Rictor were kidnapped by Genosha, the news says he's an American. Granted, he'd been with X-Factor for about a year when Inferno hit, and this is after that by long enough for Cable to have shown up and drafted a bunch of the kids, so he could have changed or falsified his papers.
I also don't think he's the one responsible for going by Rictor instead of Richter; I think that one's on Hodge, since it was The Right who sent in the threat....
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Date: 2007-08-30 02:11 am (UTC)The kids got her into it. It's funny the activity levels of the family. Mary, not so active online. Kate, she'll update her blog after a long time, but she's been trying to Twitter (still hasn't got the hang of doing it often though;) David, however, cannot be away from the web for more than 12 hours at a time and we love him for it. Twittering and blogging and just random popping up everywhere.
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Date: 2007-08-30 04:01 pm (UTC)As for your comparisons of their 'net activity, well, we know David's been a computer geek since he was in high school. :3 I think Kate would blog more if she didn't have the idea that all blog posts need to be huge. I love David's Twitterings, though.
Poor Joe. I hope he's over the food poisoning.
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Date: 2007-08-30 02:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-30 04:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-30 04:01 am (UTC)I think it's just a writer boo-boo, to be perfectly honest.
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Date: 2007-08-30 04:20 pm (UTC)*sigh*
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Date: 2007-08-31 03:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-31 11:58 am (UTC)I was a little surprised by the family's house in Guadalajara, though. In the flashbacks int hat same issue, it seemed to be more of a ranch-type-affair, but no, it's right in the city, lots of houses around it and above it. (Hilly place, apparently...)
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Date: 2007-08-31 04:52 pm (UTC)Huh. I think I've only ever seen one scan of the house, and it looked like a farm house kind of thing. But if he lived in Guadalajara, my understanding is that it's definitely overpopulated and that he did live in the city. But then when I think about it, I wouldn't doubt it if they had a lot of farms right in the middle of the city.
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Date: 2007-08-31 08:08 pm (UTC)Flashback: clearly a farm
Present day: Clearly a townhouse in a residential part of town. Be he recognizes it. Maybe they moved into the city after his father was killed?
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Date: 2007-10-01 05:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-30 02:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-30 04:25 pm (UTC)Glad you're not giving me any lip this time! B|
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