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bigskydreaming · 4 years

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Big Jason stans on twitter have been talking about a character named Eddie Bloomberg being Jason's friend, and since you know more about older comics than most I was wondering if you had any thoughts about it.

Eddie Bloomberg is a character known as Kid Devil, the sidekick of relatively low-profile mystical/supernatural hero known as Blue Devil. Though ironically, for a large part of both characters’ existence, their personas were only thematic and they had no actual mystical/supernatural powers or connection - those were added to both characters in later years. Originally, Blue Devil was a stuntman who just designed his own devil-themed costume to fight crime because like, why not, basically. LOL. And Eddie was basically a fanboy who snuck into his workshop and designed his own Red Devil/Kid Devil costume/armor along similar lines. Years later, long after Jason’s death and return and completely unrelated to it, Eddie made a literal deal with a devil, aka Neron, to get actual powers. And this resulted in him gaining a demonic appearance and related powers.....though later on it was also revealed that his powers weren’t actually given to him by Neron, rather he’d had a dormant metahuman gene all along that Neron just activated and kinda tweaked to make the resulting powers seem supernatural/occult related.

Eddie’s a fun character and there is actual canon basis for him and Jason being friends, going way back, and so I vastly prefer people going with him as Jason’s BFF over say, Roy......like, back in the day, Jason and Eddie were literal pen pals. And I do mean literal. Like we’re talking pre-email days, old school letter writing back and forth pen pals. We saw very little of their actual friendship, but like I’m always talking about with the relative lack of interactions between Dick and Jason back then....this isn’t truly indicative of anything other than a lack of places to SHOW these relationships.

There were waaaaay fewer titles back then, there was no solo Robin title to show what Jason was up to when he wasn’t with Bruce, and thus the only instance I can ever think of when we actually saw Jason and Eddie teaming up together, actually happened in one issue of the Blue Devil comic book from way back when. But again - purely logistical. Doesn’t mean they weren’t actually good friends, and there’s really nothing standing in the way of assuming they had a ton more interactions just like that but offscreen, as it were.

Also, this limited interaction took place BEFORE Jason was retconned to have his street kid origin, but that doesn’t actually mean Jason and Eddie’s friendship was ever retconned at all.

See, it was actually pretty confusing, but while post Crisis on Infinite Earths, Jason’s origin was definitively the one where he was jacking the Batmobile’s tires, and then after this point only spanned less than twenty issues before his death in ADITF......this doesn’t mean that Jason’s tenure as Robin was ever limited to JUST the events of those twenty or so issues. When they retconned his origin, they did it in such a way as to allow for pretty much every single story Jason had already been in PRIOR to that....to still have happened. Literally the only stories of his that were ever ACTUALLY retconned were the ones that pertained directly to his pre-Crisis origin as another circus kid like Dick.

Basically, the way they pulled this off was via the usage of one single caption box. At the start of the issue where Dick and Jason ‘meet for the first time,’ post-Crime Alley retcon. That issue, which is basically right at the start of Jason’s ‘new’ run as a street kid turned Robin, opens with the caption box “One year ago.” By doing this, they basically just inserted that new origin for Jason as one book-end to his time as Robin....with ADITF twenty or so issues later being the other book-end to his time as Robin obviously.

But IN BETWEEN those book-ends was contained not JUST the twenty issues between them.....but ALSO, every Jason-as-Robin story from pre-Crisis, except for his actual pre-Crisis origin story. The proof of this lies in the fact that even long after ADITF, hell, even after Jason’s return as the Red Hood.....canon kept citing specific stories of Jason’s from pre-Crisis. Like when he fought Tim at Titans’ Tower and he mentioned having briefly been a Titan...that was a definitive reference to the pre-Crisis stories where he teamed up with the Titans, once with the Fab Five in Dick’s place, and then again not longer after, to help the Titans rescue Dick and Raven from the Church of Blood. Those are the literal only two stories where Jason was ever a Titan or associated with them, and they’re squarely smack in the pre-Crisis era......but they remained canon even after Jason’s origin was retconned, because THEY weren’t retconned with that origin....they were just kinda...shuffled around a bit.

Same thing with Jason and Eddie. Even after Crisis and the Crime Alley retcon for Jason, they still were definitely friends during his time as Robin, though this never actually came up in any of the issues between Jason’s new origin and ADITF. But it was referenced once or twice since then, by Eddie I believe, so again, like the missions Jason made with the Titans and the times Dick and Jason did hang out and get along, etc, etc....these things were always definitively part of canon and were never once actually retconned before the New 52 Reboot as a whole.

So yeah, its true, Eddie was Jason’s friend and there’s canon basis for that. I’m gonna be totally honest here, my main gripe with the Jason and Eddie BFF connection is purely petty - it bugs me slightly, Jason stans’ awareness of it at all, because although it was there, we’re talking a time literally concurrent with the stories where, y’know, Dick fluffed Jason’s hair and told him if Bruce gives him any grief about sneaking out to go help the Titans rescue him, just ‘let the old man know it took you and all the Titans to pull my butt out of the fire,” and was happy to take the fall to keep Jason out of trouble. So the fact that people could remember all along something as obscure as a friendship with a character as low-profile as Kid Devil, that only appeared in all of four pages in all of comic-dom, but still loudly insisted not that they just preferred writing takes where Dick didn’t like Jason back then but rather that these were the only takes that existed in the comics.....it makes me go mmmm, shenanigans! And sadly sours me a little on the Jason - Eddie friendship just by extension. *Shrugs* Hey I’m not proud of it, lol, but ngl, that’s basically the big reason I don’t engage with it much.

I mean, the other reasons are simply that Eddie’s not super in my wheelhouse, y’know? The original Blue Devil comic was just never one I was really all that familiar with, I think I just read the one issue that Jason showed up in BECAUSE he showed up in it, lol, and although fun, Eddie never really grabbed me outside of that connection with Jason. Nothing wrong with him, just so many characters, so little time, kinda thing. And then he was in comic book Limbo unused for a loooong time, until brought back to prominence by Geoff Johns, who I’m just not really a big fan of. So he’s mostly just never really been present in the books I actually read and know really well, and so although I’m ALL for giving Jason his own friends and not just shoehorning him into his older brother’s dynamics with other characters more commonly associated with Dick.....I tend to default to doing that with characters who I’m already a fan of in their own right.

Like, my personal preferred BFF for Jason is Grant Emerson aka Damage. Because for a period in the nineties, Roy really took him under his wing and was a surrogate big brother and even guardian figure for Grant, and they had suuuuuch a great relationship, and in a lot of ways it mirrored the relationship I remembered seeing hints of between Dick and Jason and wanting more of for them, so it just makes a natural parallel. Roy and Dick as BFFs and then Grant and Jason as BFFs and with somewhat similar relationships with the older two. Plus, Grant has a lot in common with Jason, such as an abusive childhood and surprise revelations/upheavals regarding his parents that have massively affected his life. Grant is a big old softie, and not nearly as abrasive as Jason often is written as, but when paired with how much else they have in common, to me this creates a natural dynamic wherein Jason likely WOULDN’T be that abrasive with Grant, especially not when its just the two of them, because so much of that behavior for Jason is a defense mechanism and shield against being seen/viewed in ways Jason is not down with, but would never be an issue with Grant, because like....they’d both know where the other stood there and where they were coming from, and thus if Jason were going to just completely let his walls down with someone in just a totally casual way, IMO it’d be with someone like Grant. And Grant in turn I think could really benefit from having a friend he can relate to like Jason, who happens to be very confident about like....validating a lot of his own personal struggles which mirror a lot of Grant’s personal struggles where he really COULD use more validation, particularly of the external kind.

Course, I mean plus, Jason’s still Jason so also there’s the factor that Grant’s meta power is literally to blow things up with his brain, and I refuse to accept any characterization of Jason wherein he learns hey there’s this dude who can blow shit up with his brain and DOESN’T immediately follow that thought with “I must hunt him down and make him my best friend AT ONCE for clearly we are soulmates and this is DESTINY.”

(On a similar note, the other third of my preferred trio for Jason is Courtney Mason aka Anima. Like, if I were creating a Red Hood and the Outlaws style team/book from the ground up, I would hands down go with Jason, Grant and Courtney. A brief summation of Courtney from wikipedia:

“Rebellious teenage runaway Courtney Mason acquired her miraculous powers following an attack by parasitic aliens: one of many New Blood superbeings created in this way, as part of the Bloodlines crossover. Seven extraterrestrial predators had come to Earth and slaughtered thousands of humans by feeding on their spinal fluids. On the run in New Orleans, Courtney was kidnapped by a cult that sacrificed her to two of these insatiable parasites, knows as Pritor and Lissik. But Courtney did not die. Instead, the parasites' bites unleashed the Animus, a sentient-energy creature that can absorb the spirit essences of the living and the dead, which was now able to enter the world through Courtney. She became the embodiment of mankind's rage and masculine drive, and quickly developed awesome physical powers of her own. As Anima, Courtney sought revenge against the cult. She also met the Teen Titans and battled a variety of supernatural menaces. Anima remains a wanderer, traveling from place to place and helping those in need by calling upon the fearsome primal force inside her.”

Like, I’m just saying. The Jason and Courtney BFF show basically writes itself. Also, Courtney’s got her own share of sibling issues given that her little brother Jeremy eventually ends up becoming the host for the Animus entity’s ‘little sister’ Eris, the spirit of strife, so.....dot dot dot.)

But yeah, anyway, Eddie is still very much a fun character worth looking into, and his friendship with Jason pre-New 52, at least back during Jason’s Robin days, is very much a thing, even if we never got to see all that much of it.

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spriggan-tiggy · 7 years

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((IRL is not letting me sit and draw for long periods of time so here’s a short story about some recent events, since you guys said you’d be cool with it :D Under the cut because hecka long, brownie points to you if you catch Adventure Time reference lol))

Brennan paced the halls of Vigil Keep, holding onto a small pouch. He'd put it in his pocket, take it out, fumble with it, put it back, take it back out again, make sure ring was still in it, put it back again. He kept going at it for a while, he didn't even realize he reached door to Neala's office. There were voices on the other side so he waited, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. A short while after two recruits, judging by the uniform came out. "Thank you, Warmaster." They thanked, leaving.

"No problem, it's what I am here for." Neala responded from the distance. Recruits closed the door and turned around to walk away but their smiles faded, when they saw Brennan. Brennan grinned at their sudden fear. Recruits didn't like him. He was Neala's unofficial aide, and even being member of a Vigil now, it changed no one's opinion of him. He was still a filthy mercenary lackey, and no one was sure why someone like Neala kept him around, but there must be something. He was very hard to tolerate. He'd spy on recruits, and make sure they don't act out or slack when Neala or anyone gives them assignments, but he was also a bit of a bully about it, which never went un-reprimanded, but it fell to deaf ears. Still, recruits and majority of Vigil staff disliked him, but he did his job, despite his personality. Recruits, both human, weakly smiled at him, and very awkwardly and stiffly tried to make their way past him.

"Hey!" He sharply exclaimed getting their attention. They froze in their tracks and very slowly turned their heads, "Boo." recruits squeaked, and ran off almost tripping on each other. Brennan couldn't help but cackle, "Still got it, works every time!"

"BRENNAN!" Neala exclaimed sharply from the other side of the door, which caused Brennan to flinch. Neala might have been a fair teacher, but when she was cross, her voice had this very commanding tone that made even Brennan fall in line, "Are you harassing the recruits again?!"

"A little?" He said meekly. There was silence, but he knew how Neala'd respond to that: with a heavy drawn out sigh.

"Come on in, I am almost done." She said calmer, and Brennan didn't want to test her, she sounded stressed. When he entered, he could see why. Stacks of paper work, probably taller than him. Neala was in her casual attire, ready to retire for the day, but she still looked very busy, leaning over the desk, filling out last minute paperwork, "This Balthazar nonsense got me buried in paper work! I thought being a Warmaster would involve a lot of reports but not to this extent. He was seen here, he was seen there, his fire hounds were seen in a circus by at least 5 drunk guys, " she dismissively waved towards smaller stack of papers, which caused Brennan to chuckle, "A lot of human recruits coming me for advice and I know nothing about their gods I am raised entirely different system of beliefs and I have no idea what to say..."

"Don't look at me babe, I am a filthy heathen." Brennan chuckled and raised his hands defensively.

"I know, honey just... a lot to do right now, and anytime I finish a stack more piles on top, Spirits grant me patience." she rubbed bridge of her nose, "OH right! Almorra wanted me to send you to Elona."

"Oh?"

"Legitimate source on whereabouts of Balthazar, handful of other orders are going as well. Need you to assess the situation and see how things are, your usual scouting for me." Neala shuffled some papers on her desk without lifting her eyes," Bruce and Ryan are going too, with their order, so you will at least have some familiar company."

"What about you?" Brennan asked, with a slight disappointment at the potential answer.

"Not yet." He expected that, but he felt even more sad now, " She needs me here to train any new and potential recruits that could be used in Elona, so they are not thrown at Balthazar untrained." She lifted her head, " You seem disappointed by that."

"Well, was kind of hoping you'd tag along, new lands an all." he squeezed out a smile.

"This is not a vacation, honey, but...I am not gonna lie I am a bit envious, some of the reports I've seen say it's beautiful. Promise to write extra detailed for me, yes?"

"Of course!" He winked at her, and sat down in front of her desk, "Do you have a lot left?"

"I mean, I have to go through this whole stack, "Neala gesticulated in the general direction to the left, to a very tall stack of papers, " But I want to finish these 3 reports before we head home, if it's alright." She sat down as well, scribbling away at the reports, without lifting her eyes. They sat in silence for a while. Normally, it'd bother Brennan, but around her, it felt comforting. Behind the door, he could hear distant chattering and clanking, of the busy Vigil, somewhere further down, recruits training. Neala's office was a bit small, but she managed to make it look cozy, even with all the paperwork blocking the majority of it. He looked over to Neala, who was buried in writing away. Faint smell of ink, sound of pen scratching the paper, occasional rustling of the paper, as she turned the page. He smiled, but didn't interrupt her, even though he wast tempted to gently fix her hair.

"I am almost done." She said as she set the paper she was working on aside, and took the last one from the small stack she was working on.

"Take your time, Corrigan's cooking tonight, I don't feel like rushing home." Brennan remarked.

"Heh, you know Bruce is actually a good cook." Neala chuckled, not lifting her eyes of the paper.

"I know, I just like to poke fun at him."

"And that he has an actual name."

"What, nonsense!" Brennan laughed and Neala did too, "Really bizzare to think about!" Something that started as a snide remark, just became a habit and neither of them could call each other by their first name, it felt weird. He put his hands in his pockets, and remembered what he wanted to do, after he felt a pouch. Sudden fear and nervousness overwhelmed him, but Neala didn't seem to notice. He stared at the pouch, rubbing it with his thumb, and mentaly encouraging himself. After what seemed like an hour, he finally turned to Neala, "Hey uh...I have something for you to look at." he gently tossed the pouch in front of her. Neala raised her eyes from paper, first at the pouch, then at Brennan.

"What is it?" She asked slowly.

"Take a look for yourself, and tell me what you think." Brennan smiled coily. Neala put her pen down and picked up the pouch. It was made of black velvet and wasn't bigger than her palm. She carefully opened it and let the contents drop into her other palm. It was a silver ring with a sapphire and slightly smaller ones on the other sides. Neala admired the ring, bu was rather puzzled about it. She looked at Brennan, and he just kept smilling.

"I...I am not sure what to think of it, it's a gorgeous ring though." She smilled, studying the ring that was still in her palm. Brennan took her other hand in his, hoping she wouldn't notice him shaking.

"Neala, will you do this marriage thing with me?" Neala looked at him puzzled, then looked back at the ring in her hand and gasped.

"Are you serious?!"

"I have never been more serious in my life. I love you, I have never felt like this for anyone in my life and...I might not be the greatest guy all around, but you bring out the best in me, and I'd love nothing more than to spend my life with you, if you'll have me." he gently squeezed her hand. It felt weird being this vulnerable and honest, but not with her. Not for a while now.

"Yes...Yes I will do the marriage thing with you!" Neala stuttered tears streaming down your face, "I love you too. You might be harsh and abrasive but underneath all that you are very sweet guy who'd go a mile for people he cares about and I am glad I am one of them. "She sniffled, "H-here, do it for me." she handed him the ring back, and Brennan put it on her hand, his own hands shaking, "Did I say yes? I am not sure but yes again!"

"Yes you did." He laughed. Neala got off her seat and run up to him, Brennan barely managing to get up himself before she wrapped herself around him and cried.

"I'm sorry I'm just happy!" She leaned back, wiping her eyes a bit, "I expected you to do it with more pizzazz, not that this wasn't nice of course! You just...seem to like all the extra."

"Heh, I thought about it, but in the end I figured...what matters is your answer and not how I ask, I think." He pressed her forehead against hers, and they stood in silence for a moment.

"Neala Flynn...It has a ring to it, I like it." Neala finally broke the silence, and laughed.

"Are you saying marrying me is worthy conquest in your book for a surname?" he smiled.

"Absolutely."

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #Brennan #Neala

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abybweisse · 7 years

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Hai. Before I say anything, I neither like nor dislike the 2CT. But I saw a line or two that are spoken in the Circus arc, stating that the Earl, his wife, and child have died. Is there something to combat this in the theory or is it one of those holes that you sometimes find??? P.S. has your Mother3 theory covered Agni's death/whtevr happened there?

Hmm. Well, there are two things about your first question.

1. The Japanese raws often use a word that can mean child (singular) OR children (plural). Sometimes a signifier is used to denote that “children” is what was intended. Apparently, the Japanese fandom doesn’t debate any twin issue because they accept it as obviously true. @akumadeenglish has posted a few times about this aspect of Japanese and the discrepancy in translations.

2. In Mother3, Lucas has that older mirror twin, Claus, but he doesn’t really talk about him. Meanwhile, their father, Flint, can only focus on his dead wife and his missing child, Claus… as if he only had one child. Though he knows Lucas is still around, Flint largely ignores him, completely taking for granted the fact that he still has a child alive and (for almost three more years) still at home. He doesn’t even seem to care that Lucas eventually leaves to pursue his own revenge. It’s strongly suggested that Claus had become Flint’s favorite, while Lucas was more like a favorite of Hinawa (their mother). The only words of encouragement from Flint to Lucas actually come from Nippolyte (the grave keeper who hands Lucas Flint’s “treasured” Courage Badge) when Nippolyte says that Flint knew Lucas was now strong enough to look out for himself. That’s pretty much it. Even when Flint follows Lucas to confront the Masked Man – as soon as Flint sees that the Masked Man is really Claus, he is satisfied that he’s found his missing son. This is enough closure for Flint, and he just walks away without anything else to say to Lucas. Sad, really.

About Mother3 and Agni’s death? Well, before now all I’ve really said about Agni is:

1. Agni plus Soma is like Salsa looking for Samba (paralleling them looking for Mina in the curry arc). However, whereas Salsa and Samba have a happy reunion, Soma’s reunion with Mina is short-lived and upsetting. The only good thing to come out of it is a renewed/strengthened friendship and devotion between Soma and Agni.

2. Agni plus Soma is like Prince Poo from Mother and Mother2, and is only mentioned once (that I can recall) in Mother3 (by Violet). Prince Poo is an eastern foreigner who only eats eastern foods (but NO meat), fights with his hands and a “Sword of Kings”, mirrors the fighting moves of his opponents, is faithfully devoted to the slightly younger Ness (the 13yr old protag of Mother2), doesn’t like to fight but will protect his friends, and really just wants peace and friendship. One of Prince Poo’s best quotes is “My name is Poo. I am the one who will fight beside you. I am the servant of Ness. I will obey Ness. Ness! My life is in your hands.” Soma and Agni are eastern foreigners who only eat eastern foods (but don’t eat beef or pork). Agni fights with his hands, specifically his “Right Hand of Kali”, but the one time we see him fight Sebastian with a fencing foil (sword), he’s mirroring Sebastian’s every move. Agni is devoted to Soma, and Soma is devoted to the earl; in ch126, Soma even says he wants to be the earl’s “Agni”. Both don’t like to fight but will do so to protect their friends, and they really just want peace and friendship. Like Poo, Soma and Agni are often reaffirming their devotion and willingness to protect the people they care about (Agni to Soma and Soma to the earl). In ch126 (again), Soma says not only that he’s devoted to helping the earl, but that he’s also willing to get hurt in the process. His life is basically in the earl’s hands…. (An odd note: as is often the case with characters in Mother games, you can have the game randomly give Prince Poo a name. ‘Using the Don’t Care naming option, possible names for Poo are “Poo”, “Kato”, “Kai”, “Omar”, “Ramin”, “Aziz”, and “Lado”.’ Too bad “Soma” and “Agni” aren’t random options [lol], but as you can see, his name really doesn’t matter… except he’s ONLY referred to as “Prince Poo” in Mother3.)

3. Mother3 theory doesn’t really say whether Agni or Soma lives or dies. Their *main* parallel (Prince Poo) is a character who is only *active* in Mother and Mother2.

But now I’ll add to this last one a bit. Prince Poo is not a character who dies in the game (Mother or Mother2). However, the events of Mother3 take place later along the general timeline of the series, and it’s expected that Prince Poo might be dead by the time Mother3 begins, but this could be wrong. “The first installment [Mother/EarthBound: Beginnings] is set in rural America in '198X’, while EarthBound [Mother 2] is set in "199X” in Eagleland (an allusion to the United States) and Mother 3 [EarthBound 2] is set an unspecified number of years following the events of EarthBound, on the Nowhere Islands (with some Western overtones).“ []’s added by me…. Either way, in Mother3 he’s only mentioned (by Violet) to a couple thugs (outside a music hall) who recognize the name but don’t personally know him or know what he looks like. He could be alive. He could be dead. It actually doesn’t matter by that point.

Prince Poo isn’t *particularly* relevant to Mother3 (Violet probably could have dropped any famous name and got the same results), but Salsa is. You could say that the major fighter of the pair (Agni) is out of the picture, while the one who searched for his Mina is still around (Soma)….

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1. Who is Ali Doom?

Ali Doom is all about body positivity, animal activism, glamour and stiff drinks. She's not afraid to show too much skin. She loves to wear tons of makeup. She loves to go thrifting even if she doesn't make a purchase. She loves to try to turn you on. She loves shaking what God and Del Taco gave her. She's a nudist and a sadist. She loves brunch dates and 32oz Diet Cokes.

2. When and why did you begin doing drag?

I started my performance career in 2009 but I was doing burlesque. I loved it though. I loved making my own outfits and coming up with new acts, etc. There was always something missing though. A lot of showgirls just wear the cat eyeliner and red, bold lip which isn't bad but I wanted more. I wanted to be over the top. That's when I discovered drag. I saw RPDR on TV and I was immediately intrigued and that's what I wanted to be like, a drag queen. They had big hair, big costumes, big personas. That's what I wanted. So, that was in 2012, when I got into the whole drag scene and I remember I would go to drag shows alone because all of my straight girl friends didn't want to spend their weekends at gay bars. After a while I started befriending queens and other fans of drag...the rest is history.

3. How did you come up with your drag name?

There is no epic story around this but basically my cousin called herself Gabby Doom so I started calling myself Ali Doom. The whole "Notorious" thing is pretty self explanatory. So, that was that: Notorious Ali Doom.

4. Where does your inspiration come from?

I get my inspiration from anywhere and everywhere. When I was younger my mother would talk about the shows in Vegas where the showgirls were all done up in huge headdresses and rhinestones. She would tell me they were so beautiful that you would barely notice that they were topless. That's where most of the curiosity came from. In the beginning of my performance career it was all about burlesque and showgirls, etc. I also drew a lot of inspiration from my favorite drag queen, Raven, because she is seriously a chameleon she can do glam, comedy, dark glam, club kid, camp, etc. I wish I could be as versatile as she is. Now, I'm surrounded by so many creative individuals so I draw my inspiration from my drag family and my fellow performer friends.

5. What would you say is the most unique thing you have to offer?

"A nice round butt and a pair of DD's" LOL in a nut shell. I think I provide a lot of inspiration for women who don't feel confidant because they don't fit into society's mold of what is considered beautiful. I'm a big woman and I exude confidence. That's what I want people to take away from my performances. I want them to be turned on and tantalized, of course, but I also want them to see that all bodies are beautiful. I'm 202lbs, and I love my body, imperfections and all.

6. What is your most embarrassing moment?

RECENTLY, I was performing at D'Vil Dance Haus at Ripples in Long Beach and my wig flew off while I was performing. I might have drank too much, I didn't glue her down and I obviously didn't pin her well enough. That's the T. You'd think it would be the time that one of my nipple pasties flew off, but no, if you're lucky enough to see one of my nipples consider yourself blessed.

7. How did you start the Doom family? Who is in the Doom family?

Frankie claimed me! Not many people know this but the first time Frankie did drag she dressed up as me! I knew I wanted a drag daughter and I had posted that on social media and Frankie basically shut that down and was very "Uh, no, I'm your daughter the search is over!" LOL The Doom family isn't just drag performers though. Lady Forbidden and Fasique are drag queens that are my sisters so they are a part of it. Forbidden is very in your face, fetish, stripper, badass drag and Fasique is just fucking gorgeous I fucking hate her. LOL There's Krustyna Clown, who is a scary sex clown, Logan Doom who is a drag king, Vivian Hart-Doom who is a modelesque, bearded queen, Matt our cute gogo boy and my henchmen Jacob and Edgar who basically just are my handsome escorts who I bribe with booze. We're a good time.

8. How long have you been apart of The Garter Lounge? When did you first start working at Whore Haus?

Garter Lounge will be two years old this July (2017) so I am patting myself on the back big time for that one. Whore Haus was my first gig with drag queens. St. Peter D'Vil befriended me and added me to her group of alternative drag misfits. That's also how I met Lady Forbidden. Whore Haus was at 340 at the time but we are a traveling circus and it quickly moved to Los Globos, Micky's and we are currently on the move but that's all I can share on that subject. *wink* I co-host Whore Haus with Peter so that in itself was a huge accomplishment for me because let's be honest the only gay things that women host are usually lesbian nights but I co-host an amazing drag show with alternative drag queens and creatures of the night.

9. As a bioqueen up and coming in the community how have you been treated? What is your advice for future bio and drag queens and kings.

I have been treated with nothing but respect. I hear so many horror stories about drag queens treating bioqueens like shit and that just simply hasn't happened to me. I would like to think that my performances speak for themselves and that I am entertaining, that's how I keep getting booked. My advice is to not give up. At the end of the day this is your art and not everyone will like it but other people's opinions of you shouldn't validate you. When I first started out I wasn't booked, I would just go out all done up and people would notice. It's as simple as that. Just find your confidence and people will be attracted to that.

10. What is your favorite makeup brand?

Anything vegan or cruelty free!!!! I will be honest though, it's freaking hard to be completely cruelty free. Jeffree Star lipsticks are my absolute favorite! My signature color is Designer Blood. I also love Kat Von D's products they are wonderful. I have been using her foundation and it is just amazing. Her brushes are amazing as well. I'm a huge fan of Tarte cosmetics too! My go to product would have to be Kat's foundation, some Coty powder (old school drag queen makeup), Kat's contour palette, the Anastasia Beverly Hills "Modern Renaissance" eyeshadow palette, some 301's (stacked!), and Tarte's gel liner. I forgot to mention Melt Cosmetics! OMG their eyeshadow stacks are so dope I love them.

11. What is your opinion on RPDR? Has it ruined drag or made it better?RPDR changed my life, it's safe to say. Without the show I would've never have been interested in drag. The fans can be so cruel though and that's where I think it has hindered us. Death threats and telling contestants to kill themselves is not how we as fans should be represented. This is supposed to be fun, granted it's a competition and people feel very passionate about it but still, there are lines that should never be crossed and they have been. It has made drag more mainstream and with that maybe a tad more acceptable...hell my mom watches the show! I would like to think the positive outweighs the negative but who knows? I'm glad drag is somewhat more socially acceptable but it's also made people get real ugly.

12. Do you think that RPDR is ready for a bioqueen?

No, people may not agree but I don't think so. Give us our own show! That would be cool. If they let us try out for the show I would gladly submit an audition tape for it but I'd rather be on a show specifically made for us...

13. If your drag persona was a superhero, what super power would you have?

Invisibility so that I could walk around nude! LOL just tits out watching you grocery shop. Could you imagine?

14. If you got on RPDR, who would you play for snatch game?

Kat Von D. I love her and I admire her so but she is pretty easy to make fun of. I'd pretend to call up Jeffree Star and cuss him out. Or I would post all of my relationship drama on Twitter. Or I would pretend to use a non vegan product and claim that it was burning my face. The possibilities are endless!!! I have the voice down too. When I was thinner and had dark hair people would always say I look like her! I obviously don't see it, lately people say I look like GAGA, I also don't see that as well. I just look like me guys...

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