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I’m a bit curious on Hal’s personality in his depictions. From what I know is that early hal was headstrong, cocky, kind of a goofball, and detached (dissociating away his fear and averse to commitment). This seems to be the version of Hal that most people write.

But then there’s the whole Parallax thing, and the Spectre run. I don’t know much about it but it seems hal gets a lot more subdued and melancholy as the spectre. And then after that he comes back as flesh and bone.

So what is he like at the end of that?

Pre-Johns and pre-Parallax Hal tended to be more happy go lucky, stupid, and generally doe eyed hopeful "the system that fucked me over once definitely won't do it again!" type of man. He was also entitled at times. But this is mostly true up until around the time of Hard Traveling Heroes, which is when he starts to be heartbroken and melancholic, traits that persist until the climax of Emerald Twilight.

A lot of people say Emerald Twilight came from nowhere and I disagree. I think those people weren't paying attention, because all the signs were there. Hal had been steadily becoming more disillusioned and melancholic through the 70s and 80s until we get to the 90s, where that heartbreak gets amplified to the nth degree. Hal didn't go from stupid to mad with grief without a transition period in the middle. But a lot of people think once a run from x writer ends, it no longer counts for the next one, and so they say the tragedy came from nowhere.

At the very start of the 90s, Hal has a lot of suicidal ideation going on. The run itself begins with him more or less saying "There’s nowhere else to go" (paraphrasing) and throwing himself off a cliff. He waits until he's almost crashing head first into the ground to pull himself out of there using his ring. He's flirting with the thought of death.

He is also self sabotaging. He pulls back from everyone and turns himself into a homeless man who lives on the road because he's looking for a sense of self, a meaning to life he has lost. He becomes a seasonal worker because he needs something to do, but those jobs never last because the life he's trying to leave behind (in the shape of Guy Gardner) keeps metaphorically knocking on the door and dragging him back to Green Lantern.

Even when he comes back, he chooses to do solitary things. For example: exploring space to recruit more GLs, that keeps interactions to a minimum. It's all things that are brewing in a pressure cooker that blows up when Coast City is destroyed in front of Hal's eyes and the hero community drops the ball. Hard.

They all say well, it’s not MY city. They all say get over it. Clark goes and creates a monument using scraps of the very bomb that killed everyone and everything Hal knew all his life, and immediately after that Clark is in Metropolis enjoying the sun and saying aaaaah. what a nice day.

And Hal doesn't snap immediately. The tension is there, but at first he does try to keep it together until it becomes impossible. He tries to reconstruct Coast City, but there are limits to what the ring can do. The one thing he could depend on, his will power, is not enough. He is not enough. His grief and anger become so big that his mind just... fractures. He snaps. No one's listening and no one's helping, so he will take matters into his own hands and make. it. right.

This Hal is angry. This Hal has a heart with a hole that threatens to kill him at any moment but he endures because he cannot die until he does what needs to be done. This Hal refuses the help that comes too late, he has killed his friends, he has destroyed the corps, he has killed Sinestro. Kyle arrives like a lighthouse in the middle of the storm but for Hal it's too late because he has driven his ship into the cliff and is letting it sink with himself still in it.

He is mad at himself and mad at the world for failing Coast City and all the innocent lives lost. He almost becomes a god, and is perceived as a god by some due to the power he now possesses. There are moments when clarity hits him and the old wounded heartbroken Hal shows his face, and he is dying. His pain is so palpable. His anguish. The old Hal wants help. But Parallax Hal does not want to be saved.

Of course, the status quo changes with the events of Final Night. Hal sacrifices himself to save the Earth. He sees that only in death will his anger stop, and he sees that he's the only one who can do what no one else could do for Coast City. It's a no brainer. He sacrifices himself and burns himself to a crisp reigniting the sun. Hal doesn’t expect to come back. He doesn’t want to come back. This is HIS final night.

Unfortunately, The Spectre had other plans. His anger morphs into straight up depression because now he is alive enough to deal with the outcome of what he did as Parallax. He has to live with the tragedy of what he lost and the tragedy of what he did. Few people stand by his side and want to give him a chance. Very few people recognize there's good in him. Most want to see him dead and gone. He himself wants to be dead and gone. Helen, his niece, being there definitely helps him not lose it, not lose himself. She is his hope. She is the innocence he lost and he will never get back.

After all of this, he is more grounded, mature. Still melancholic. Still haunted by everything that happened. He is cocky, of course, and self assured, because at the end of the day those are the things he can cling to with some sort of safety net. But they're also things he uses to keep the raw wounds hidden.

Post Johns? Yeah like more than half of this is lost because Hal’s the greatest hero ever and he can do no wrong. He is headstrong, overconfident, cocky, and ultimately good, but he is missing like half of his soul.

[wajjs]

can i just say that for all the times hal has been portrayed as a joke by comics, media, and the fandom, it never warped my perception of how powerful he is and how sad his circumstances are as a hero and a human who has to leave earth for so long. sorry for being serious, but he's such an interesting character, his origin, his power coming from an alien ring, him being the first among the earth lanterns so he was probably a veteran to them. i love him, he needs more appreciation posts lol

Hal is at the intersection of wanting to go home and having no home to come back to.

Hal is at the intersection of knowing he's only human but knowing he's far from human.

He wants to be back on Earth with those who are just like him, and when he's in space that's all he can think about, all that he misses and needs... but then when he's on Earth, all he can think of is space, the stars, the planets and the things out there in the big universe waiting for his smallness, waiting for his tiny vestiges of humanity to shine and carry a message of resilience.

He is at the intersection of wanting everything and thinking he doesn't deserve anything. He is the hero who dreams of home but cannot return home, because home is forever changed as much as he himself has changed, too. And so he doesn't fit in his own bed, which is ridiculous, he should, the indent in the mattress has the shape of his body, but he doesn't fit because that indent belongs to someone else who died three months ago, out in space, and he gets to return to the memories of what he was like before the things that changed him happened.

Hal wants to return home, like Odysseus. He's desperate for home. His teeth ache for home. But he doesn't have a home to return to. First, it was destroyed when Coast City was destroyed. Then, he was destroyed when Coast City was destroyed. And he keeps getting destroyed in the journey.

The journey is changing him. Sometimes he thinks his home hasn't actually changed, it's him. It's him, he has changed, and now the places that were his own aren't anymore because he's no longer the Hal he used to be. That Hal? That Hal is dead, floating frozen cold somewhere out deep in the deepest furthest sectors of space, desecrated, forgotten, an empty shell of an equally empty living.

Being a hero transforms him into something that's no longer human. But he bleeds like one. But he breathes like one. But he longs for love and acceptance and family and home and home longs for him but the more they chase each other, the further away they get from one another.

Hal is at the intersection of being full of himself and being in a perpetual state of starvation because he's not enough for himself. He's not enough. He's starving. His teeth ache. But he's fine. He's really fine.

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barry thinking hal is the prettiest jl member in canon is wild

which canon is this 🔍🕵

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Any advice on how to get into Alan Scott?

First you need to like make him care about you. Then you have to be Jay Garrick

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I had a dream where the hal & sinestro found out that somehow,, hal got pregnant from his encounter with abin sur. Like mother mary style pregnant.

Everyone was so confused, with hal wanting to abort that thing so bad. He couldn't for some reason so though. So the rest of the dream was just early days of canon but hal is pregnant. But everyone was also really kind about that pregnancy thing.

I blame you for this btw

What was that movie's name? Meeting the third kind? Encountering the third kind? It feels a little bit ridiculous that he's focusing so much on this, but a shrill voice at the back of his mind is telling Hal that this is just a coping mechanism while the rest of his brain tries to make sense of what's happening.

Because a green light has basically kidnapped him from his work, carrying him to the middle of fuck-nowhere just to place him by the side of a dying being. A being that's not human. It kind of looks like a human, sure, but. It's not. It's clearly not. Plus the very obvious space ship enclosure all around them, it all leads to Hal feeling like he has somehow stumbled onto the set of Star Trek or Star Wars or something.

What was that movie's name, anyway?

The... alien... beckons him closer. Hal is enraptured enough that he follows, falling down onto his knees and leaning down so that his ear is closer to the alien's mouth. It's instinct and experience that has Hal placing a hand on top of the being's wound making them bleed from their stomach, trying to provide some form of comfort. When the alien moves a sweaty and cold hand on top of his, Hal doesn't even flinch.

"My... ring...," the alien says, and Hal blinks, that shrill voice shutting up about the movie for a second.

"It's—you're hurt. Jewelry doesn't ma—"

"Take it," the alien says. The ring moves on its own as he does, and Hal's too frozen in place to do anything but stare with wide eyes as the green and beaming metal wraps itself around the middle finger of his left hand.

"No," Hal shivers, shaking his head. He has half a mind to pull away, to stand up and get the hell out of here, but before he can the alien is reaching out, grabbing him by the back of his skull and forcing him down.

Okay. Hal has lived through a lot of things. But an alien forcing a kiss on him on their deathbed is surely something he would've never, ever, imagined. But dying pilots are known for dramatics and being unpredictable. Perhaps this is a last comfort this being is looking for. Hal is not heartless. So he stays put, closing his eyes to make it less awkward, and lets the alien kiss him.

Later on, when he learns their name, Hal will remember this moment. He tasted Abin Sur's last breath on his lips.

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It feels like entire life times have passed. Hal knows what the ring means, he has seen the galaxy, he has been to so many different planets. He has also been to jail, and he has witnessed more deaths than he ever would've liked to witness. It's not all bad. He has met so many wonderful people, beings from other planets, so different yet to similar in essence.

The drilling he went through with Kilowog still makes him cringe, rolling his right shoulder while remembering all the hits he took while training. Tomar-Re had always been there to cheer him up. To give him hope. To help his heart reset and start anew. And then.

Sinestro.

Hal doesn't know what to make of Sinestro. The man is an excellent teacher, of course, if only too strict at times, too controlling. But there is also this certain softness to him that only shows when Sinestro thinks Hal isn't looking. That split second of his mouth twitching into a smile, or how without noticing he's mirroring some of Hal's movements while they're both just standing around on Oa.

They do complement each other well. More than well. Upon first glance they're almost opposites, but Tomar-Re has told him in secrecy that there is a spark to Sinestro that hadn't been there for years. That he seems to light up when Hal does something stupidly crazy and irresponsible, but also marvelously perfect.

Hal does not want to think too much about it. He has Carol back home. Carol waiting for both him and his Green Lantern self back on Earth. Hal doesn't want to think about the dreams he's been having of what it'd be like to feel Sinestro's mouth atop his own. He knows himself. Allowing himself to think about them will inevitably lead to him acting up on said dreams and putting himself out there; who the fuck knows how Sinestro's gonna react to that?

Nope. Hal is not going to acknowledge anything.

How is he going to think too hard about it when he's doubled over a random recipient in Oa's medical wing, puking his guts out violently? Kilowog's right behind him by his side, his big broad hand covering almost the entirety of Hal's back as he rubs it soothingly. Sinestro is there, too—of course he is, glowering at Salakk as Salakk scans Hal and flips through charts with a speed that is making Hal dizzy. Right. He's nauseous. He groans.

"Stomach bug," he says, voice hoarse from how raw his throat feels after all the puking. "Must've eaten somethin' that was off."

Salakk hums. "It is located in your abdominal area," he agrees. "But it is not caused by food poisoning."

"What's it, then?" Kilowog leans forward, trying to peek at the charts. Sinestro also does the same. Salakk, in turn, just stares at Hal with way too much intensity.

"You've been impregnated," he says, as if that's something that makes total sense and does not break Hal's understanding of reality. "According to my estimates and calculations based off of the knowledge on earthling biology, you're approximately close to the five months mark."

Hal almost drops the green bucket full of his puke he's been holding. He can't help it when he yells: "WHAT?!"

He's not even—he doesn't have the parts! He doesn't have a womb! He's not even, he's not even showing!

The last time he's had sex was with Carol three months ago! And he was the one doing the fucking into the hole thing!

"Five months?" Sinestro frowns and this time he does snatch from Salakk's hands the multiple charts, going over all the test results over and over until it seems to click for him, making him go a paler shade of purple. "Five months."

Kilowog seems to be catching on too. From his chest comes a rumbling sound that Hal doesn't know if it's the start of his laughter or those low noises he makes when he sometimes comforts the rookies.

"What," Hal snaps, too impatient and too caught in the whole pregnant thing to do the math himself. "Just say it!"

Sinestro looks at him. His eyes are clearer than they've ever been, like he's seeing Hal for the first time. "Five months ago, in Earth time measurements, you found Abin Sur."

"No," is what he says before he can finish thinking it through. "No," he insists immediately after, thoughts jumping all over the place. "No, no, he only—he gave me the ring. That's all. Nothing else—nothing—"

Salakk steps forward, placing his hand on Hal's chest, right above his heart, while a green construct takes the bucket away from all of them. "Breathe."

"Are you sure, Jordan?" Sinestro moves closer too, but he's the only one not touching him. That somehow makes Hal want to die. For some reason. Some unknown reason. "Something else must have happened."

Hal needs to get the hell out of here. He needs to leave. Now.

"Fuck you," he spits out, venom lacing his words. All three of his fellow corpsmen seem to be startled by the intensity of his sudden anger, and that second of surprise is enough for Hal to slip out of the infirmary bed, making it straight to the exit.

Sinestro's the first to snap out of it, conjuring a construct to block the door. He's a second too late, Hal slipping through just as it finishes forming.

"Jordan!" He yells while Kilowog wastes no time going after the human. "You can't leave!"

Salakk squeezes Sinestro's shoulder. "Let's go after him," he says, and they're both moving as well. "It's not safe, for him or the creature forming inside him."

Right. Hal's incredibly stupid when agitated. They need to keep him safe.

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i just know if Kyle got turned into a vampire and bit hal he'd say some stupid shit lke "mmm, tastes like my keys" he fucking would

ACTUALLY if Kyle got turned into a vampire he'd start immediately trying to reenact Twilight with Hal as his unwilling Bella. Hal does not know what's going on or why Kyle is so weird all of a sudden. Hal walks into the room, wind blowing from a fan, and Kyle does the whole covering nose/mouth and gripping the desk as if in pain, and all Hal does is ask VERY loudly "who farted!!!" while pointing at Guy

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just make it HalBarryOllie and they can all be toxic together. Toxic square if you will xD

iT WOULDN'T BE A SQUARE THOUGH!!

This is how I picture the dynamics:

Barry has feelings for Hal.

Ollie also has feelings for Hal.

Hal has feelings for himself and also for Ollie and Barry at the same time.

Ollie and Barry have feelings for each other. Those feelings are Contempt.

So if we want to make it a square we are missing someone:

Let's consider our options:

First of all, I do not think it's Dinah. That would look like this:

Carol isn't an option as well:

The same logic applies to Iris:

Now here are my top picks for which character I consider would be the funniest option to complete the square:

Arthur Curry.

Reasons: he's an old timer at the JL alongside all three of them. He likes it when Hal is tied up. It is the least expected option and therefore the one with the most comedic potential. I feel like he would be MISERABLE here. Ollie would go on and on and on about redistributing wealth. Barry would fight him on it but also would ask Arthur so many inappropriate questions per second. Hal would antagonize him just for fun. It all works.

Eobard Thawne.

Reasons: This man is THE definition of "hater". He is also obsessed with Barry in an extremely fruity way. He will see that Barry is into Hal and Hal is into Barry, and he's going to want in on it. He's going to mess with timelines just to make it happen. IT WAS ME, BARRY,

John Constantine.

Reasons: There is that one comic book panel in which Hal warns Barry not to mess with Constantine because he's going to wake up with no memory of the previous night, with his suit smelling of smoke and a deep feeling of regret. Also I feel like Ollie would go crazy if forced to remain close to Constantine for any reason that does not involve a world crisis. Hal will be miserable. Barry will be miserable. John doesn't have to worry about them dying on him because he knows they will get better.

Diana of Themyscira.

Reasons: first of all she needs to be freed from Bat-"I never go down"-man and Superman. She can do MUCH better. In this instance she's doing just about the same, but there is the slight improvement that she gets to boss around THREE men and not two. Also, Hal is a pilot and we know she has a type. Hal matches her type. Unfortunately. Ollie wins in this one because he enjoys bondage so much and Diana just so happens to have a lasso...

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i hate batstans who spamming hal jordan tag ughh

I know this is related to the now deleted poorly written post about Hal/Arisia, in which Jason chases Hal threatening to murder him for being a "pedo freak" and Hal is somehow scared of Jason when in reality Hal has no reason to be afraid of him since they're not on the same power scale.

I was saving this ask to post a good answer, but I'm very sick and ultimately it boils down to this:

The infamous "not a child molester" panel is purposefully shared out of context because it has inflammatory language and it's the best way to rage bait people + it prolongs ignorance in fandom circles (already known for never looking at the source material) by not explaining the whole situation like it should be explained.

It is an incredibly scummy thing to do considering how sensitive and delicate the topic is. It is also incredibly telling that it's mostly antis the ones who share this panel out of context and without nuance. Antis LOVE to use words like "child molester" and "pedophile" like they're candy and like these words have no real weight behind them.

I have seen antis pile on a survivor of child molestation for saying they do not agree with calling Hal a pedophile, because in context he's not, and using that accusation as a blanket statement "gotcha!" only helps to water down the complex terms and alienates survivors. I've witnessed antis tell survivors to "get over it" and that "maybe they (the survivors) are the real pedos" for "defending Hal Jordan".

I'm gonna break down the context in simple terms so that it can be understood:

Arisia joins the Green Lantern corps as a preteen/young teenager

Hal consistently, repeatedly, explicitly, calls her "little sister" across multiple issues and treats her like family

Arisia develops a crush on Hal that starts off Innocent and turns into an Obsession

Hal explicitly, repeatedly, consistently, turns her down

When they're trapped in a cave, Arisia cannot take Hal's "no" as valid answer and uses her willpower to age herself up into a full-fledged adult. She must have Hal

I repeat, she's NOT a child. In text, in canon, she's now drawn and written like an adult — a very precocious young adult, yes, but an adult nonetheless.

ONLY AFTER she turns into an adult does Hal show interest in her, and they make out in that cave to then develop their relationship

What's the REAL issue?

I am aware that the context is far from good, but what is most important from it is that the relationship is very clearly out of character within the same run it develops from. Before Steve Englehart, the writers consistently kept an older brother/little sister dynamic between them. Englehart was the one to add the ""romantic"" twist to it and directly contradict not other writers, but even himself. Moments before making out with Arisia, Hal is written turning her down. Again.

This is clearly not a character trait of Hal. This is a self insert situation in which the writer, and with support of the editors, decided to put his fantasy on page. It's not the first time this ever happened in comics, it will not be the last — it just is, unfortunately, infamous all around the internet.

To sum things up before I pass out again from the amount of meds in me:

Hal is not a pedophile. He only develops a romantic relationship with Arisia AFTER she's grown into an adult (in the blink of an eye, yeah). He is not a child molester. Nowhere in the run before or after was that ever a thing. It is beyond me why Englehart wrote that dialogue. Who knows.

His relationship with Arisia has its surprisingly sweet and stable moments, though it quickly deteriorates because Arisia and Hal are at different life stages. They break it off. It was retconned. I repeat, IT WAS RETCONNED. IT'S NO LONGER CANON. And for good reason.

I am TIRED of Batstans, mostly Jason Todd stans, using a clear example of bad writing to bash on a well beloved character. As if Jason hasn't suffered from atrocious writing as well.

Now can we stop with the obvious rage baiting and blatant spreading of misinformation?

short cbr article with a breakdown of events for those interested

[wajjs]

barry would marry hal asap if he were a girl, and vice versa

tbf Hal doesn't need Barry to be a girl, he'd marry him asap given the chance. any chance

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got no idea what LA USURPADORA is but i will listen

it's a mexican telenovela that would have constant reruns just around the time i would get back from school, so it's what i would watch while having lunch and/or doing my homework.

it's about two identical twins that were estranged at birth meeting each other because Paola (who is rich and married) is a fucking bitch who went to Cancun with her lover, and meets Paulina (the estranged twin) who is poor and works as janitorial staff. Through an elaborate trap, Paola forces Paulina to pretend to be Paola and take over her life, just so the actual Paola can go off and live her life cheating on her husband with her many lovers.

Paulina discovers Paola is such a bitch that everyone fucking hates her and also Paola was giving her mother in law alcohol poisoning. Paulina, while pretending to be Paola, makes everything better because she's like a disney princess or something and so Paola's husband falls in love with Paulina, but he just thinks he's falling in love with his wife. Anyway.

Paola of course comes back to reclaim her life after she gets bored of her lover boys, and Paulina has to run away because otherwise she's gonna go to jail for impersonation. One of the husband's kids runs after her, falls into a ditch and develops amnesia and gets adopted by a local poor family.

Paola leaves again because lover number five shows up and the needs of the flesh must be attended to. Paulina comes back and recovers the amnesiac kid. The husband knows that Paulina is not Paola his wife, but Paulina, the usurper, and he's in love regardless, except SYKE Paola is back and in a wheelchair because she had an accident while doing it greek gladiator style on a cruise with one of her lovers.

Paola sends Paulina to jail. Paulina catches the attention of a lawyer that helps her out, her innocence is proven, she gets out and starts romancing the lawyer to try and get over Paola's husband. It is also discovered that SURPRISE Paola and Paulina are estranged twins and Paola was given away to a wealthy family.

Paola tries to murder her nurse because the nurse snitches on her not actually being disabled, and snitches get stitches. They get in a car accident, the nurse does die and Paola ends up agonizing in a hospital room. Paulina and Paola's husband show up because they're good people, Paola says she's sorry and dies, and then Paulina can now marry her dead twin's husband. The end.

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Kirby isn’t even a Pokemon

...... what IS kirby then

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I want Hal to get back his chest hair. He needs to be fuzzy again they had it right before. I refuse to believe he had all that hair and it’s just gone. Maybe the Spectre did like him hairless? Thoughts for another day.

Do you think Hal recognized his own body after coming back? Do you think he ever stays wide awake at night thinking how his body is the ship of Theseus, the original long gone, burnt to ashes by the sun?

Do you think he traces his own body with his hands, trying to form a mental map of it, and says this wasn't there before, and says something is missing here, and says where is the scar I had from busting my knees climbing over barbed wire as a kid?

Do you think he notices the other changes, his hair, or lack of hair where he used to be hairy, eyes that flip flop between brown and blue, hands that have been wiped from the blood he shed yet he still feels the phantom kiss of it under his fingernails?

Do you think he wonders what dying, coming back as a spirit, almost dying again and then being revived did to him? Do you think he wonders if he's still human when he's alone?

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hal staying at barry's after coming back from a mission, does some snooping and finds thats barry's only underwear are jockstraps

Hal also finds some of his missing t-shirts stuffed at the bottom of the drawer and he's like. huh. I wonder what this means.

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If Hal were to get a happy ending, do you think he’d ever settle down, get married and have kids? I don’t know much about Hal, but it dosent seem like something he’d do. ( Despite some comics giving him that ending)

Off the top of my head, 3 writers gave him that ending: Geoff, Venditti (sorta) and, surprisingly enough, Miller.

Geoff and Venditti went the Hal/Carol route, with Geoff making it a certainty and Venditti turning that certainty into a possible outcome/prediction for the future.

On the opposite side, Miller in the Dark Knight universe gave Hal an alien wife and an alien kid, and Hal himself uses the ring to change his appearance so he can look just like his wife does. He also doesn't live on Earth, having ditched everything there after everyone turned on the heroes and started hunting them down, so to speak. This is a Hal who is a) disillusioned with humanity and b) also disillusioned with heroes, yet c) he still has hope and leaves a way to be contacted and to return to Earth.

And personally I think Miller's approach is the only one that would actually work long term for Hal. Because if we leave everything as is within the main Earth/universe, I do not think Hal would ever be happy settling down.

Geoff and Venditti write him as though he does want that ending for himself: the white fence, the house in the suburbs, a wife, kids. But if you pay attention, that's quite a generic wish coming from someone with such a wild imagination.

The way I see it, and this is headcanon/personal opinion, I believe Hal bought into that idea of settling down because it's what his parents did, what his brothers did, what everyone around him did. But I don't think he actually, deep down, wants that for himself.

He wants to fly, to be in space, to travel through and among stars. He loves his freedom a little too much to ever truly be content putting down roots that will keep him anchored to a place. He would feel suffocated, stagnant.

I mean, Convergence: Green Lantern Corps (2015), tackles this issue: Hal does actually marry Carol, and he lasts six days until he up and leaves. Guy hunts him down only to find Hal going crazy trying to find a way back to space.

He only married Carol because what he really wanted was taken away from him. His freedom to fly and be among the stars was gone. And he does love Carol. He does! It's just that his love for his freedom and his ability to fly is much, much stronger and important to him.

So yeah, that's my take. I think he doesn't actually want that for himself, but he also thinks that he should. Except that the only way it'll truly happen is if you take everything away from him and make him have an identity crisis, OR if you make the entire world and all of humanity turn against him to the point he literally quits Earth and quits being human to transform himself into an alien.

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Brief explanation of why Hal would be (is) Pansexual.

(I really don't need an explanation as such, I just want to read you)

I mean I don't think if I had said he's bi or gay I would be asked why do I think he's either, but.

The main reason is related to the definition of pansexuality I live by, which is being attracted to people regardless of their gender. He interacts with thousands of extraterrestrial beings from vastly different cultures, and human understanding of gender will probably not apply to most (if not all) of them.

Hal also generally does not seem to care about other people's gender (he does care about his own gender and how he presents as a manly man). When he kisses Katma on the cheek (before she gets together with John) and Katma says she doesn't match the gender definition of human woman, Hal's like wink wink too bad wink wink, but it's not like he cares beyond understanding that Katma is gently turning him down.

He's also shown interest in extraterrestrial people who Do Not physically resemble a human of any gender. If he thinks someone's hot, he's gonna shoot his shot, that's it.

But also, fandom has this tendency of acting like there's a limited number of sexualities that are acceptable (gay, bi, ace, straight). As someone who is pansexual, I just wanna write pansexual characters for a change every once in a while.

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What are your Lantern kink headcanons?

Whatever kink I'm really into at the moment of writing something