#i'm being clockwork oranged with mediocre stock ships by a big yellow blob man and his minions

[punkrogue]

Same anon who used to hate Roguneto. Idk if you care, but I also used to hate Gambit and Lila Cheney together in AoA and say they lacked "chemistry" (back when I used to wear Romy shipping goggles🤦‍♀️). But now rereading AoA and the more recent Gambit solo by Chris Claremont, I think Remy actually has more chemistry with Lila, even as just friends, than he does with his own wife. I also liked how in the original AoA, he sacrificed his love for Rogue to save Lila (but more recent AoA writers just had to retcon Lila out of existence so Remy could go back to being a Rogue simp and the same writers killed off Roguneto and their son, probably to punish Rogue for choosing Magneto 🙄). I think with Lila, Remy isn't portrayed as a bumbling sitcom husband, and Rogue herself actually seems to enjoy Magneto's company more than she enjoyed Gambit's.

Yeah I can see how Remy/Lila would work and not just because they're both thieves but just like, there's something about her vibes that feels like it would work well with Remy. I can see their ideas of both "hanging out" and "partying" lining up really well lol. I would be cool with seeing them test the waters more with them in the future if they ever wanted to. I'm also in the camp that Storm/Gambit has more chemistry and more chemistry that's like, consistently positive and interesting than romy but that's just me.

Yeah I don't like the general trend to scrabbling to bring back and make money off of the older big events/universes/comics/etc. I'm not surprised though that they felt the need to go back into AoA and bastardize it. A lot of these guys don't understand that an AU means it's not....... 616...... it works differently...... canon 616 ships don't have to exist in an AU. But these guys have the One Version they like and understand of characters and no imagination so lol rip to the lot of us I guess.

Yeah really part of why I like the non-romy ships for both Gambit and Rogue like Remy/Lila and Gamquick and Roguneto mainly because they don't seem to trigger the same "write them like a miserable sitcom couple" instinct that Romy for some reason. When they're not written together as a couple and instead written against other romantic partners or close platonic partners they just work so much better. They're like, allowed to be characters again with personalities. It's wild I don't get how people keep thinking mashing them together like barbie dolls is a good idea.

#answered #it's like being trapped in mojoworld and watching them desperately try to rekindle the magic of a top show in the reboots lol #i'm being clockwork oranged with mediocre stock ships by a big yellow blob man and his minions