I love your long comments at least as much as you love my stories. XD
Thanks! I tried this layout and was like, hey, it's all wintery and pretty! I only tried a couple of them and this was the first one I liked, I haven't tried any with a black background. I just can't believe I left it that blue, kind of more difficult-to-navigate style for so long.
The potential for silly humor and serious melancholy together was what made me look at the prompt and be like, oh, yes. And I'd read the Bullseye/Daken story on 4chan and it just kind of clicked together.
Your intuition is sharp, you have Daken's number. He is totally copying Logan in the most basic of ways: he's walking around wearing his outfit and pretending to be him on an all-new, kind of psychotic and/or evil Avengers team run by Norman Osborn (who's kind of nuts in his own right but managed to seize power despite that). And Daken took over his dad's book--with issue 75 Wolverine transformed into Dark Wolverine.
Daken's delightfully fun. He's all cultured and sophisticated, but he's got the same savagery as his dad underneath. It's been repeatedly implied that he sleeps with men as well as women, he flirts endlessly and blatantly with the guys on his team, and he goads people he's fighting with gay jokes. He's snotty and classy and Eurotrashy all at the same time. One of the two writers of Dark Wolverine said it was important to him that his co-writer be a woman, because Daken's sort of feminine. He said he didn't want to say feminine, and the interviewer took pity on him and was like, "Androgynous?" and he was like, yes! androgynous. The other co-writer, the woman, said at a convention that Daken's beyond categorizing sexuality, beyond homosexuality or heterosexuality and will basically do anyone or anything that will further his goals. Which makes him tons of fun, of course. But it's really also kind of sad, because he's so dark and egotistical and Machiavellian you definitely get the impression he's incapable of caring for anybody but himself. Well, and his dead mother, whom he never knew.
Logan, meanwhile, only learned of his existence recently, but he loves his son and is brokenhearted that he's such an evil little punk. He's tried to save him but so far to no avail, because Daken doesn't want to be saved. I did a short picspam a while back here (http://alternatedoom.livejournal.com/33321.html) of the former Avengers hiding out and checking out Norman Osborn's new Avengers on tv, when Logan reveals to the others that he has a son. I shouldn't talk it up cause you'll probably be let down, but it was one of the most powerful and understated comic scenes I'd seen in a while. Logan is v troubled about the whole thing. And yeah, I think this scenario would really hurt him, because canon has defintely made him a good parent; despite the bad things Daken's involved in, he loves him and wants to help him and protect him no matter what. I get all wibbly in the comics when Logan is tender towards him, and I absolutely cannot wait to see where their relationship is going.
Anyway. Yes, Logan and Daken's relationship is my new favorite subject (just in case you couldn't tell).
Thank you so much for reading and commenting so extensively and thoughtfully. It makes my day and it's wonderful to know you enjoyed it so much. <3
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Date: 2009-11-04 02:02 pm (UTC)Thanks! I tried this layout and was like, hey, it's all wintery and pretty! I only tried a couple of them and this was the first one I liked, I haven't tried any with a black background. I just can't believe I left it that blue, kind of more difficult-to-navigate style for so long.
The potential for silly humor and serious melancholy together was what made me look at the prompt and be like, oh, yes. And I'd read the Bullseye/Daken story on 4chan and it just kind of clicked together.
Your intuition is sharp, you have Daken's number. He is totally copying Logan in the most basic of ways: he's walking around wearing his outfit and pretending to be him on an all-new, kind of psychotic and/or evil Avengers team run by Norman Osborn (who's kind of nuts in his own right but managed to seize power despite that). And Daken took over his dad's book--with issue 75 Wolverine transformed into Dark Wolverine.
Daken's delightfully fun. He's all cultured and sophisticated, but he's got the same savagery as his dad underneath. It's been repeatedly implied that he sleeps with men as well as women, he flirts endlessly and blatantly with the guys on his team, and he goads people he's fighting with gay jokes. He's snotty and classy and Eurotrashy all at the same time. One of the two writers of Dark Wolverine said it was important to him that his co-writer be a woman, because Daken's sort of feminine. He said he didn't want to say feminine, and the interviewer took pity on him and was like, "Androgynous?" and he was like, yes! androgynous. The other co-writer, the woman, said at a convention that Daken's beyond categorizing sexuality, beyond homosexuality or heterosexuality and will basically do anyone or anything that will further his goals. Which makes him tons of fun, of course. But it's really also kind of sad, because he's so dark and egotistical and Machiavellian you definitely get the impression he's incapable of caring for anybody but himself. Well, and his dead mother, whom he never knew.
Logan, meanwhile, only learned of his existence recently, but he loves his son and is brokenhearted that he's such an evil little punk. He's tried to save him but so far to no avail, because Daken doesn't want to be saved. I did a short picspam a while back here (http://alternatedoom.livejournal.com/33321.html) of the former Avengers hiding out and checking out Norman Osborn's new Avengers on tv, when Logan reveals to the others that he has a son. I shouldn't talk it up cause you'll probably be let down, but it was one of the most powerful and understated comic scenes I'd seen in a while. Logan is v troubled about the whole thing. And yeah, I think this scenario would really hurt him, because canon has defintely made him a good parent; despite the bad things Daken's involved in, he loves him and wants to help him and protect him no matter what. I get all wibbly in the comics when Logan is tender towards him, and I absolutely cannot wait to see where their relationship is going.
Anyway. Yes, Logan and Daken's relationship is my new favorite subject (just in case you couldn't tell).
Thank you so much for reading and commenting so extensively and thoughtfully. It makes my day and it's wonderful to know you enjoyed it so much. <3