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one of my all time favorite moments of theirs being "s'funny, my feelings for you are the very reason i'm staying" like this is literally soulmate culture... i could talk abt them for hours i need to stop myself

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i realize it's likely writers that don't know her history or aren't interested in using her to a fuller capacity in the moment (particularly the issue im referencing is more an ensemble piece and really doesn't center on anyone in particular) however, the suggestion from x/men unforgiven that rogue has not had to deal with thousands of voices in her head at once is ... objectively untrue. granted he may not have known, but her not countering this is crazy to me like .. the experience of holding 8billion lives in her head nearly ripped her mind apart ...

anyway, that's enough on its own to be funny to me, but what i actually took away from this (though with a grain of salt bc i think again it's partly bc the writer likely doesn't know her that well i suppose?) is that at this point thousands of lives being absorbed into her is literally no problem anymore bc the next panel we see her she's floating down like nothing happened and talking normally to jean 😭 which i'm fine w, i think it tracks that with all the work she's actively put into training her mind and her powers since that 8b lives situation all those years ago, she's now capable of maintaining her composure under extremes

another case in point being when she absorbs some of jean's powers in another run (i wanna say it was the x/men main comic run in 2022 but unfortunately i totally forget) and manages them rather easily, and then of course when she absorbed carol's powers in more recent history to help her from turning total supernova and she was pretty easily able to handle the physical strain of becoming functionally a small star. anw all to say even if the writers don't realize it i appreciate that there's some sincere growth in her capacity bc i think she has been putting work into making herself more resilient for decades, it's nice to see how casually it pays off for her now