X-Men: Legacy #5: The Sad Song of Ruth and Luca Aldine (Spoilers)

[bladeofdarkness]

this might be a silly sounding question, but why the hell does Legion sound Irish ?
Isn't he suppose to be Israeli ?

[Quinnhop]

He's Scottish.

And Blindfold needs to kill her brother next issue.

Love how Legion healing himself is being tied into him healing Blindfold, which fits with his new modus operandi of fixing the mutant "community." Love love love it.

[Sanji]

this might be a silly sounding question, but why the hell does Legion sound Irish ?
Isn't he suppose to be Israeli ?

He's lived in Scotland most of his life.

[ElSpurioso]

He's lived in Scotland most of his life.

FYI there are some thoughts on the accent thing, in the context of a far broader waffle about continuity and writing for comics, in an essay I stuck up on the X-Men Legacy tumblr a week or so ago. Specific post HERE.

(Worth a follow of the general tumblr too, LegionLegions, if only for the episode annotations I seem to have foolishly committed to running.)

Also: smooches to all.

-Sx

[Leirus]

Oooh! El Espurioso ataca de nuevo!

[Sanji]

FYI there are some thoughts on the accent thing, in the context of a far broader waffle about continuity and writing for comics, in an essay I stuck up on the X-Men Legacy tumblr a week or so ago. Specific post HERE.

(Worth a follow of the general tumblr too, LegionLegions, if only for the episode annotations I seem to have foolishly committed to running.)

Also: smooches to all.

-Sx

Shame on me for not linking it in the first place! I love the blog and have been following it since its inception. The commentaries are always an interesting read and very appreciated.

[AcesX1X]

nice to know gabby haller isn't dead! what a surprise.

[Pixie_Solanas]

That bigmouth is impervious to death.

[Hi-Fi]

That bigmouth is impervious to death.

She's such a big smoker.

[Pixie_Solanas]

That's all woman, baby.

[RickyD410]

Though I don't expect that to be; It makes sense... The Personality originated at David's most vulnerable moment; it's first victim was the Russian woman which-name-escapes-me, that was threatening him, then attacked Ruth and later told him to get out when he was getting closer to the Truth.

I believe I missed when all that happened... I didn't read AvX. I've been with Legion since Legacy #1, so if it happened before then, I missed it!

Yeah. I've loved her since Whedon's run. And she was so great "killing herself" in Blinded by the Light. Exodus was trolled hard.

LOVED Blinded by the Light.

Does Legion have more sexual tension with Blindfold or Chamber?

Chamber. Def.

Also: smooches to all.

-Sx

Smooches! Thanks for an awesome book.

[Atomiq]

So is she meant to save the mutant race

Officially shipping HopexBlindfold. Blindhope.

[Toto]

Great issue, loved Blindfold, the eye theme, the art.

I thought I missed something about Ruth's TK&TP before, since you guys aren't much surprised about it, but I guess this is the first time we hear about it.
Kinda big power-up for her -when she had it, and I bet she will have some of it by the end of the arc- a bit unfounded after just having premonition, but I like the story so far. (I noticed similar with Dazzler too, Pak went insane with her powers, she is like Phoenix now.)

Since there are hints for a possible romantic involvement between Blindfold and Legion I was thinking whats the age difference between them?
I am guessing Ruth is around 16 and David is what, 26-30? A bit much even for a Piotr-Kitty kinda thing, I am thinking more along Madrox/ kid Layla (not necessarily romantic) relation.

[vampiric_cannibal]

Officially shipping HopexBlindfold. Blindhope.

I only support Hope Abott with Blindfold. Hope Summers x

Legion is the same age as the New Mutants, so no older than 23 or so with the floating timeline. Blindfold is somewhere between 15 and 19. Spurrier seems to be treating Legion as being very young, and has written an essay about the uses of continuity where he disregards it in favour of the story at hand. So with suitable retcons it isn't creepy at all, the age gap may be less than 3 years.

[Toto]

I just read Spurrier's essay and I agree with it I just thought David is older. And I don't think Blindfold is 19 yet.