#Teddy is 20 even though the avengers were present at around the time he was conceived and the avengers have existed for less than 16 years.#do skrull age fast. did the recent time travel story give him some time to grow up more some when. we just don’t know#I do want to know how old Luna is though#she was stated to be six around civil war time. that makes her 12 now#they grow up. painfully slowly#wait the young avengers who are 20 now were 16 then. she might only be ten#okay and this was all before civil war. I hate it here#marvel#comics [tags @meanstiel on this post]
I tried my best to break down Luna’s age progression in this post last year, after realizing that she is paradoxically the oldest and youngest out of all her cousins.
Luna was born first, Billy and Tommy were born second, and Ahura was born last. The boys have all been aged up supernaturally, which allowed writers to refurbish the characters as adolescents and teens. It totally breaks the timeline, but that’s the point. They’re all young adults now, but Luna has been left to age naturally, which means she was stuck as a little kid for a really, really long time.
That definitely holds Luna back as a character, but at least she fits into the timeline. Pietro and Crystal haven’t really aged since the 90s, so it still makes sense for their daughter to be super young. Nowadays, Luna only shows up once every few years, but she’s a little bit older every time. In Quicksilver: No Surrender (2018) she looks like a young teen.
And in Fantastic Four #32 (pub. 2021), Crystal says that Luna has “blossomed into a young woman.” Luna mostly appears out of frame, but I think she looks like a teenager here. Maybe 14-15? Hard to say. Anyhow, that’s her most recent appearance.
Character ages never make sense, and that’s just something we have to accept, but the arbitrary timelines that writers will set around big events like Civil War or HoxPox really break things. How am I supposed to believe that the Avengers have been around for less than twenty years, and the X-Men have only been around for ten, when there are characters on both teams who have full grown children that were born and raised within those timeframes?! Some of those kids are timewarpy and weird, like Wanda’s sons, but some of them have had fully natural lives and are just way too old to have parents under thirty.
here comes they booooy!!
That is such a parent/little kid thing
So I just read Fantastic Four (2018) #45. And wow. I was already ready to be disappointed, but it just sucks so bad.
First, the whole Reckoning War storyline was terrible (which I was expecting it to be since it’s Dan Slott). Especially for what it did to Reed. Reed was just allowing himself to act like a terrible human being since he thought he was going to die. He did and said terrible things. And now that’s all just going to be swept under the rug and ignored? Like is Reed going to face no consequences for his actions? But more than that I’m so tried of Reed being written like a terrible human being. Yes, Reed has a hard time with empathy and emotions sometimes, but that doesn’t mean he’s a literal sociopath. There are ways to write Reed that have him still come off as a likeable character. See Jonathan Hickman’s FF run. (My favourite run.) I feel like Reed hasn’t been himself for years and it just makes me so sad.
Second, the whole thing with Johnny’s increased powers is so annoying and I’m tired of it. I mean, Johnny has not been written well for a while and this has just turned him into a whiny hothead. (Which he sometimes is, but that’s ignoring all the character growth he’s had over the years.) And now he’s gone off to live with Sky... *long sigh* I never really liked her as a girlfriend to Johnny. She’s a fine character on her own, but I really hope they don’t get back together...
Third, the thing that is making me the most annoyed. Franklin. I had hopes for Franklin. I did. But now it looks like his powers have returned. And there was basically no point to taking them away because he has learned no lesson from losing them. I have said in previous posts that I hoped that Franklin would learn that even without his powers he can live his life and be a hero, but if he has really gotten them back, there has been no development. Franklin has continually been in the same grumpy mindset of “I used to be a god” and nothing has changed. I wanted them to commit to his powers being gone and have him learn other ways to help the FF. But no. Because we can’t have nice things. And now Franklin is still a bratty kid with a God complex that he never used to have. And he’s still not a mutant again (which is a whole other post).
In conclusion, I am tried. T I R E D
Marvel is just going to take Franklin Richards’ X-gene away and then have FIRESTAR join the X-Men?? Why??
Thank you to @mm-mina for doing this wonderful piece for me 💜 You are insanely talented and I'm so grateful.
Luna having white/silver hair like her father (& grandfather & cousin) is such a special headcanon to me. I think she would have made such a great Xavier's student if Marvel hadn't gone back on her being an InMutant and didn't keep her in un-aging child limbo. 😔 I'm glad she's getting more comic appearances either way.
They’re so 🥹🥹🥹
Ahh! Thank you so much!!! :D (I will be sure to give you credit for the name though!) And you’re welcome! I’m glad I could introduce you to her! She’s definitely one of my favourite minor characters too! I’m hoping to make more posts for this blog soon. I had previously been so busy with school, but now I have a lot more free time in the afternoons.
Luna's hero name should definitely be Aura. Not too meaningful or anything, but it's pretty and it fits her.
*blinking in awe* you've done it.
I have been trying to figure out a good hero name for her for FOREVER! How on earth did I not think of Aura?? That's literally her power! But yes, it fits her perfectly!
(May I use it? 🥺 👉👈 Like in fanfics that I'm going to write?)
Not portraying as Bentley as that weird friend who does illegal science experiments in your basement is a wasted opportunity.
Elsie | Marvel comics sideblog revolving around Franklin Richards x Luna Maximoff and therefore their respective families | Magnet Fam & Fantastic Four | Fanfic will be written. This is a threat (to myself). | My mainblog is @residentmiddlechild | My writing sideblog is @imaginary-things-nothing-else
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