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general_radixSo, I recently found Usagi Carter's "Wings of Love" series (at least, I'm guessing that's the formal name) after coming across Alan Gutierrez's art for it at least a couple months prior. On the one hand, it's pretty long (around 44 stories, separated into three eras) and from what I can tell there's some interesting concepts.
On the other hand...canon lesbians Haruka and Michiru are paired with dudes. I hope I don't have to explain why that's a deal-breaker.
ETA: OK, so, I forced my way through "Looking Through Your Eyes", the first listed story in the Silver Millennium section, which combined the above issue with another, and I think anyone who wants to check this series out for themselves should be warned the other unpleasant thing it does.
The story's about Haruka falling for her first cousin, who reciprocates. In other words, it's romanticized incest, and while the pairing is listed in the author's notes up top, you won't know that said pairing is incestuous until you actually read the damn thing. On top of it, while at some point King Titan and Apollo (Haruka's father and brother in this 'verse) do call out Galen on wanting to shag his cousin (AND HE DOES), this is framed by the narrative as an obstacle to romance, and Titan eventually relents because being with Galen makes Haruka happy.
Now, Mr. Gutierrez's art of Haruka's family in this 'verse mentions her husband [the General pauses and struggles not to vomit] as someone named Greggory, so it seems that this doesn't last? Either way, I have to question what the hell the author was thinking, treating such a serious subject so lightly. Did nobody in the early '00s question these sorts of things?
On the other hand...canon lesbians Haruka and Michiru are paired with dudes. I hope I don't have to explain why that's a deal-breaker.
ETA: OK, so, I forced my way through "Looking Through Your Eyes", the first listed story in the Silver Millennium section, which combined the above issue with another, and I think anyone who wants to check this series out for themselves should be warned the other unpleasant thing it does.
The story's about Haruka falling for her first cousin, who reciprocates. In other words, it's romanticized incest, and while the pairing is listed in the author's notes up top, you won't know that said pairing is incestuous until you actually read the damn thing. On top of it, while at some point King Titan and Apollo (Haruka's father and brother in this 'verse) do call out Galen on wanting to shag his cousin (AND HE DOES), this is framed by the narrative as an obstacle to romance, and Titan eventually relents because being with Galen makes Haruka happy.
Now, Mr. Gutierrez's art of Haruka's family in this 'verse mentions her husband [the General pauses and struggles not to vomit] as someone named Greggory, so it seems that this doesn't last? Either way, I have to question what the hell the author was thinking, treating such a serious subject so lightly. Did nobody in the early '00s question these sorts of things?
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Date: 2019-01-07 03:31 pm (UTC)(I've ALSO noticed that people who do the "incest as horror" thing are a lot less likely to act like creeps, which is at least half of why I like Tycho/Durandal)
(And huh. XD I'm kinda familiar with Undertale due to osmosis, but I didn't know about "Napstablook and Mettaton might be related")