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[katschei.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was deeply, deeply cool. And extremely interesting; I'm not so secretly fascinated with Haller's brain, so I was looking forward to these logs before I ever read them, as it were. *g*. The interaction between Haller's psychic powers and DID has really interested me so far. I think a lot of the sheer weirdness that come out of that interplay is completely brilliant and fascinating.

Also fascinating, in a horrible sort of way: I loved the graphic description of Jemail literally falling apart. It was so gruesome to envision, but it definitely made a point about his mental state. I loved the interaction between the various alters as well.

I also liked the way each of the alters got their own icon.

Also, mad props to the players of Cain, Betsy and Lorna. They had some great scenes in this plot.

Janet makes me laugh and I am looking forward to seeing more of her. I like John and Tabitha already, and Yvette continues to be the cutest thing in history. Monet completely rocks my socks, though. She's so much fun!

Seeing the Black Company shoutout here just as I'm putting in a request for those books at the library has left me way, way too amused. *g*

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[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Eventually I may run out of the "thank yous" in response to the feedback. ...buuuut not yet. I'd like to thank my mother, my father, my agent, my higher power, and the accountant of my third cousin's uncle's dog, we call him Sparky, I mean the dog not the accountant and . . .

Um, I may still be slightly fried from plot.

Legion's DID + psychic powers thing was one of the many things I am beholden to Christ Claremont for. The guy may not have written dialogue worth a thrown shoe, but he had some brilliant concepts. The Jack/Cyndi/Jemail dynamics were actually pretty canon, which always interested me because Legion got very little screentime; there was a lot going on beneath the surface that never got explored. (I actually uploaded two scans (http://pics.livejournal.com/x_legion/gallery/00001w31) from the original trilogy to LJ for . . . some reason. A panel of Jack and Cyndi, and Cyndi, Moira and Rahne in the other page.)

I actually have no idea where the falling-apart thing came from. I believe at one point it made sense in my head . . . although it'll actually make more if I ever decide to show his astral form sans mask. (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1356846.html) Only Betsy (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1483233.html) has ever seen it.

I'm at work and don't want to be so I am randomly (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1309064.html) spamming (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1476420.html) logs from the past (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1502178.html) that now hopefully are a lot more explicable.

As for the alter's icons, yes, I thought that would be amusing and let's pretend I didn't buy more space on LJ just for that email exchange.

[resplendissante.livejournal.com]

(Dude, do you actually call him Christ Claremont, or was that some kind of Freudian slip, or what? ;)

And, you know. Wow. Fabulous plot. Which has been mentioned before but I don't recall people getting tired of praise in general, so, yes.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

(Dude, do you actually call him Christ Claremont, or was that some kind of Freudian slip, or what? ;)

..............

I think Haller's plot just revealed way too much about my subconscious.

[resplendissante.livejournal.com]

Aaahaha, maaaaybe. *grins* Or, well. The 't' key is really close to the 's' key?

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Uh . . . sure.

I guess one up and three across is close enough.

[resplendissante.livejournal.com]

Shhh! ;)

[katschei.livejournal.com]

I'm another of the four people who remembers Legion. (I still remember spending an hour in chat explaining his backstory to some poor guy. I was doing so well! I was so surprised by what remembered. I got through Daniel Shomron and the comas and the Hair That Hungers without batting an eye. I even made it through an explanation of the AoA and That One Scene With Gabrielle. And then the guy I was talking to casually asked why Cyndi didn't have a last name like Jemail and Jack. And my brain snapped. I sat there going, "I don't. I can't. What?" I couldn't even remember if that had a canonical explanation or not. All my geek cred was gone, woe.)

Anyway, when Haller first showed up, I figured 'Jim' was a reference to Jemail and I wondered if Jack and Cyndi would be showing up. All the hints and subplots and little references to his other personalites were a hell of a lot of fun to keep track of at the time. (It's even more fun now that they get actual screen time.)

I really like what's been done with Haller. I can see where you're using Claremont's concepts, but you've taken those ideas and run with them to create something unique and fascinating.

And you write much better dialogue.

Are those scans from the black and white Essential X-Men volumes?

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

*Twitch. Twitch. Twitchtwitchtwitchtwitch*

"Don't call me Charles."

"Not tonight."

THE SHADOW KING DID IT TO HIM, DAMMIT!

As for Cyndi, I assumed she didn't have a last name because she was too cool for one. Like Cher or Prince. Or, you know, was in her head. Jemail had a last name because he was a real person, and I assumed Jack Wayne had one because David's ten year old mind had assimilated John Wayne as a template(the narration said he was basically a composite of every macho-man adventurer ever, so I assumed, and multiples often form personalities from archetypes). The Wayne, like the mustache, I could not keep. Because I could never have respected a PC with either.

I did those scans myself from the original New Mutants issues; I own that trilogy. Way back before XP started I went bought the entire run up to the return to Asgard. They're only black and white because of size limitations. :)

. . . although, um, if anyone wants to see them I have them all digitally. Because I downloaded a bunch of scans because I never did manage to find all the back issues of the Muir Island Saga.

Shut up.


And I am so keeping "The Hair That Hungers" as a descriptor.

[katschei.livejournal.com]

David was always the king of creepy, but that bit in Legionquest was way over the top. Blew my mind, and not in a good way.

...I honestly never made the John Wayne-Jack Wayne connection. It seems so incredibly obvious right this second. Oh man, I feel like a moron.

XP-David would certainly have certainly have been...interesting, if you'd given him a pornstache and a John Wayne fetish. I bet he wouldn't have landed Betsy, for one thing. :)

I was kind of hoping those scans meant that Marvel had finally gotten around to collecting the original New Mutants series. I actually kind of love Chris Claremont's stuff*, and I think that series was the best thing he's ever done.

*Er, except X-Treme X-Men, which we shall not speak of here.