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redfiona99No spoilers for Days of Future Past because this all happened before I went to see it.
So P is the other comics geek in the lab and has just returned from Mexico. One of her friends is a psychologist and they were talking about personality tests (the ones where you're supposed to identify your personality traits and analyse why you feel that way) and how abstract they were, particularly for people with no psychology training.
So P has put her own spin on one of the tests. Her version goes, "choose the X-Man you are most like and why, the X-Man you find most attractive and why and the X-Man you most dislike and why." The whys being the most important thing of course.
Beast. Oh so much.
Let me count the ways: scientist, junk food aficionado, broadly built and furry (my hair is particularly aggressive at the minute) and possessor of a temper that has to be controlled lest major property damage occur.
And that's the thing that freaks people out, because obviously I don't have a temper. I am placid as the proverbial mill-pond. And every time people say that I bite my tongue, smile and don't point out how much effort that takes. I wonder if part of the problem/reason is that I come from a family with variously horrible tempers so I know the damage I can do (and frequently did do when I was younger).
The other thing I find interesting is that people also freak because Beast is a man. As though that outweighs him being a scientist in terms of similarity. Possibly the problem is that my vision of myself has scientist coming a lot higher up in importance than female.
My boy Gambit.
This was the one that was hardest to answer, in between mine and P's hope that I am not merely incredibly shallow because Gambit is incredibly hot and there has to be a better reason, and my knowledge that my real reason, Gambit's absolute undying loyalty, makes me sound spectacularly clingy.
I was allowed to have two options.
Option 1 - Rogue (and I mean comics Rogue in this one). She's also one of my favourite characters, it just that when she makes a bad decision, it's normally a right stinker. That's not the problem though. The problem is she keeps making the same bad decisions, over and over. It's like, "could you please learn from your mistakes?"
Option 2 - Cyclops (very much more the cartoon one rather than the comics one). My problem with Cyclops is that I'm always told that he's the leader but at no point is it clear why. I have a major problem following orders when I'm not given a reason for following them (please just give me a reason, I'm very biddable if I'm given good reasons). He just rubs me totally the wrong way.
So P is the other comics geek in the lab and has just returned from Mexico. One of her friends is a psychologist and they were talking about personality tests (the ones where you're supposed to identify your personality traits and analyse why you feel that way) and how abstract they were, particularly for people with no psychology training.
So P has put her own spin on one of the tests. Her version goes, "choose the X-Man you are most like and why, the X-Man you find most attractive and why and the X-Man you most dislike and why." The whys being the most important thing of course.
Beast. Oh so much.
Let me count the ways: scientist, junk food aficionado, broadly built and furry (my hair is particularly aggressive at the minute) and possessor of a temper that has to be controlled lest major property damage occur.
And that's the thing that freaks people out, because obviously I don't have a temper. I am placid as the proverbial mill-pond. And every time people say that I bite my tongue, smile and don't point out how much effort that takes. I wonder if part of the problem/reason is that I come from a family with variously horrible tempers so I know the damage I can do (and frequently did do when I was younger).
The other thing I find interesting is that people also freak because Beast is a man. As though that outweighs him being a scientist in terms of similarity. Possibly the problem is that my vision of myself has scientist coming a lot higher up in importance than female.
My boy Gambit.
This was the one that was hardest to answer, in between mine and P's hope that I am not merely incredibly shallow because Gambit is incredibly hot and there has to be a better reason, and my knowledge that my real reason, Gambit's absolute undying loyalty, makes me sound spectacularly clingy.
I was allowed to have two options.
Option 1 - Rogue (and I mean comics Rogue in this one). She's also one of my favourite characters, it just that when she makes a bad decision, it's normally a right stinker. That's not the problem though. The problem is she keeps making the same bad decisions, over and over. It's like, "could you please learn from your mistakes?"
Option 2 - Cyclops (very much more the cartoon one rather than the comics one). My problem with Cyclops is that I'm always told that he's the leader but at no point is it clear why. I have a major problem following orders when I'm not given a reason for following them (please just give me a reason, I'm very biddable if I'm given good reasons). He just rubs me totally the wrong way.
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Date: 2014-06-01 01:46 am (UTC)I think a lot of people who came in through the cartoons or movies where Cyclops was already the leader have this issue, especially as a lot of writers describe "tactician" a lot better than they write it! But I think in the Claremont era where he really had to grow up and think about why he was the leader and what he wanted from it really endeared me to Scott. I think he's someone who got very stuck in the "big brother" role and didn't know how else to interact with people, especially as the Professor kept leaving him in charge.
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Date: 2014-06-01 05:47 pm (UTC)