Ahura Boltagon And Misidentified Child-Age Psychosis

Ahura Boltagon And Misidentified Child-Age Psychosis
Ahura Boltagon And Misidentified Child-Age Psychosis
Ahura Boltagon And Misidentified Child-Age Psychosis
Ahura Boltagon And Misidentified Child-Age Psychosis

Ahura Boltagon and Misidentified Child-Age Psychosis

Schizophrenic psychosis in childhood is extremely rare.  It’s not unheard of, but is highly uncommon.  Children can demonstrate psychotic features, but more often than not these symptoms are the result of other factors.  Psychological trauma, clinically significant troubles with anxiety and/or depression, and even the natural organic development of the brain can bring about transitory states that look like schizophrenia.  And yet properly distinguishing such features from true psychosis is crucial in that it informs treatment approaches.  Prescribing neuroleptic antipsychotic medications to child-aged patients can have the affect of quelling the overt aspects of the difficulty while further compounding the root cause. 

I had a patient during my training who had been diagnosed as child-onset schizophrenic.  He was allegedly hearing voices and demonstrating highly destructive acting-out behavior.  At the time of this initial diagnosis, however, he had just been removed from his biological parents due to physical abuse and placed in foster care.  He was prescribed a high dose of the medication, Aripiprazole (a newer generation neuroleptic often used in the treatment of schizophrenia and Bipolar 1 Disorder).  This left him in an almost zombie-like state. 

Fortunately, shortly after I began working with this little guy I was able to get him reevaluated by a new psychiatrist who opted to discontinue the antipsychotic medication.  This led to a return of the acting out behaviors, but also left him cognizant enough to participate in psychotherapy and learn new, more effective coping skills.  The ‘voices’ never returned and the acting-out soon abated.  Through out work together, he was able to better work through his anger, sadness, and anxiety over the abuse he had endured and the trauma of being removed from his birthparents - progress we would have never been able to achieve were he still on the Aripiprazole. 

Anyways, all this has a lot to do with why I am such a fan of the character of Ahura Boltagon.  He has been just a terrific representation of the complexities of childhood psychopathology.  As a mere toddler, Ahura was misidentified as mad, and this ‘madness’ coupled with the nature of his powers made him a threat to those around him. 

At first he was sent into foster care with a kindly family of farmers (as seen in Daredevil #s 279-283 by Nocenti and Romita Jr).  This didn’t work out so well in that his symptoms were mistaken for demonic possession.  Ahura was ultimately returned to Attilan and handed over to the Pacifiers.  These mystical pacifiers were able to suppress Ahura’s powers (and psychopathology) but at the cost of rendering him into a zombie-like state.  This was shown in Hine and Irving’s terrific mini-series, ‘Silent War.’  There is a haunting scene in the series where Medusa goes to visit her son in the care of the pacifiers.  Ahura is all but catatonic and barely recognizes his own mother.  The scene was especially striking to me in that it so reminded me of the first time I had met the patient mentioned above. 

Thanks to Medusa and Maximus’ intervention, Ahura was eventually removed from the Pacifiers and returned to his mother’s side.  This was shown in Fraction, Allred and Quinone’s current run on FF.  Ahura continues to have difficulties with behavioral acting out (he released Maximus from his prison and has caused all sorts of trouble in the Baxter Building), but the psychotic features have yet to return.  In hindsight, it seems obvious that Ahura’s so-called madness was merely the result of normal cerebral development, an adjustment to his super-human powers, and the traumatic stress of being removed from his parents. 

The anti-psychotic meddling of the pacifiers only acted to quell and suppress the symptoms of Ahura’s difficulties, while leaving the root cause unaddressed; and it is only now that he has been taken off of psychotropic medication that his true recovery is being facilitated. 

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OOooooo I'm a big supporter of this!!!! While my personal headcanon/fanfiction is that Luna joins the Fantastic Four after marrying Franklin, it is very unlikely to ever happen. Joining the Young Avengers or going to Strange Academy is much more likely to happen and a great place for her! Honestly, I just want to see her more, I don't even care where they put her lol

I like the magic route for her best just because I think it would be cool see how magic interacted with her Inhuman aura reading/empath powers, and I think the aesthetic is more like her. And if Luna goes this route, I think it would be cool to see if Franklin has any magic affinity from when Agatha Harkness was his nanny. But we'll see! I just hope they have the good sense to use their legacy characters. Marvel really just loves to sideline children who have the potential to become really good characters and heroes :/

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So Luna is a pretty popular character, reaching most of the Marvel fan base thanks to the many connections she has, even though she doesn't get used that much. Marvel loves to bring out the next young hero so why not have one who is known yet can also be developed, letting her have a shot at something and there are 2 paths that come to mind.

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That would be the Avengers path, first the Young Avengers later on joining a different Avengers group most likely Uncanny. The other would be the Magic path, as it is revealed one per-generation of the Maximoff line takes on Witchcraft powers and holds a Scarlet Title, so have her be the next inheritor going to Strange Academy while getting private lessons from Wanda.

Ok now that 2 paths are out there what about a costume, most superheroes wear some kind of costume and she has a family full of them. Well I would put costume in 3 sections. Design, Colour, and Attributes. The design would be leaning to the Inhumans, she is a literal Princess for them. Plus her mother's family seems to have a theme that she could follow

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Luna Maximoff Marvel Future

A prime colour, with black trim, and a given name symbol on the waist

Crystal = Diamond Medusa = M So Luna could be a Crescent, as for colours I would look to her father for this

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Luna Maximoff Marvel Future

Switching out the Black trim for white, as for the Prime I think it should depend on the path she would be on. I would go green for the Avengers, and Blue for Magic. Now Attributes to really scream Avengers or Magic.

Luna Maximoff Marvel Future

If Avengers then wear her mother's Avenger's jacket, a real passing of the torch moment.

Luna Maximoff Marvel Future

If Magic, then Red/Scarlet like Romani articles of clothing. She would adopt these not just with her costume but also everyday clothing as well. Since she would be at Strange Academy and while they have a uniform it does look to have some customization.

So powers, as an Inhuman who has gone through Terrigenesis she has gained powers that in the form of empathic aura reading and control.

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But this has given also some precog abilities. It has not been explained how this is, but I think it might be she sees the future someone is leaning to the most based on their emotional state.

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She holds a high amount of Inhuman DNA so will have their advanced bodies even before Terrigenesis, as well has received martial training from the likes of Karnak. Of course if she goes the magic path then Witchcraft will be a birthright as much as her Inhuman gifts. Witchcraft a magic that connects to a Goddess and the Earth.

Now while all of these are good things for a hero path to have she doesn't feel at least right now a solo act. Teams and Companions will be important part to her, and how she will act with either the Young Avengers and Strange Academy will depend on who could/should/will be there, but I do know someone who could get added to these Franklin Richards.

Currently depowered him getting his own new path could work here. For the Young Avengers give him a suit like the Thing Suit + Thing Rings, but make it something that connects to the other three Fantastic Four members letting him take on their powers though it being weaker. Each of the main members of the Fantastic Four have been part of the Avengers so he captures still the Young Avengers theme. If magic, well Agatha Harkness was his nanny maybe her recommendation to try plus get into the academy could work here, him learning Quantum Magic, still leaning into the F4's more science connections but looking at it another way.

Their families are close so they know each other and depending on who is on the teams they would most likely have the closest connections with each other, perhaps even moving from friendship to romance.

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Wanda Maximoff & Luna Maximoff.

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MCU & X-MCU FANS DNI.


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2 years ago

I wish we got more of an exploration of Luna's powers and just her in general. For me personally, I'd make her an Inhuman/Mutant hybrid and put her with the Young Avengers. She could have such an interesting dynamic with her cousins Billy and Tommy plus I want to see her and Magneto interact

Ugh yeah. I talk about this in a meta on my sideblog, if you haven't seen it. (https://just-a-local-lunatic.tumblr.com/post/673398401110556672/the-potential-of-luna-maximoff) I just want to know what her character is like and how her powers affect that. She is such an interesting character.

But what I would give to have Luna interact with any member of Pietro's side of the family. She has literally never met Billy and Tommy and I'm mad about it. And yeah, Grandpa Magneto and Luna would be such a fun dynamic. I also want to see her with Lorna and Wanda. It would be really fun to have like a little comic one shot with Lorna and Wanda rescuing Luna or something with just the girls. I would be happy with almost anything at this point.

(also with Billy and Tommy technically Luna was born before them but when they were reincarnated they are now older and I think it would be a funny running joke for Luna to be like "as the older cousin here-")


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