#miguel SUCKS at spacewar but he's played it so many times going please think im cool please please please

[mindshelter]

walk with me. xina and miguel's decade-long friendship and xina's continued attachment to him extends well beyond feeling a certain protectiveness towards him while they were growing up (though this is true). while one of miguel's first on-panel descriptions of xina is of her "twencen freakishness," there was a period of time where miguel must have fully believed in xina's ideas about the past and optimism for the future. it's clear in the text that he spent years actively engaged in and even enthusiastic about her interests—he majored in twentieth century computers. he references the fly and ben-hur out of the blue, and while he couldn't immediately recognize jfk, he otherwise picks up on xina's historical and political references rather seamlessly, and even responds in kind.

so... of course she loved him. for a while, she had a kindred spirit. if the typical thing to do was scoff at fixations on the past, miguel thought her room was cool. miguel wanted to know her. there used to be a boy that... probably looked at her like a lost puppy and was curious about all the things she cared about. he probably watched all those movies with her, read all those books, and got acquainted with the history the state keeps trying to erase. he probably acted like she hung the moon.

#yeah that massive raging crush of his never wore off. btw #xinamiguel #marvel comic blogging #this is also to say that he knows... a frankly extensive catalogue of twencen media even if its not as much as her #he's seen an atrocious number of movies. #miguel SUCKS at spacewar but he's played it so many times going please think im cool please please please #when they reconnect it's right back to him trying to impress her even if he's more subtle about. xina. xina do you think i did good