I could see them having some really great, productive talks. Plus dessert with the Jordans.
Those two would have so much fun just hanging out together. Or running together. Nothing weird (well, mostly, because still teenagers), but a chance to share tricks, run full-out with someone else, and experiment with chips from around the world.
Tea and coffee and guarded conversation – but also a promise to continue to correspond in the future (which, given their current power levels, they could).
I had to look up the original graphic because of color and size, though I could read a couple of the levels:
Along with Aria (who studies this for personal reasons), Alycia or any other interested party might figure out a lot about how perceptions of gender inform our own gender identities. For example, I wrote the Medea situation as being as close to Jason’s life as possible, but not identical. Where Jason kvetches about being voiced by a girl in the show, she’d kvetch about being treated as only a girl - not allowed to be shown doing the things she actually did. And as one strip depicts, part of her connection to Alistair is that he acknowledges her for that. Aside from that, there might be some science behind why some people are male in one universe and female in another, but I’ll pass on that.
That’s how I depicted them in previous strips. I can’t see either of them having any angst or doubt about what’s going on, just being glad to have a kindred spirit to talk to.
The Magus power may have been how the Pidgeverse characters come to visit to begin with, in this little bubble of pseudo-canon.
Yup. That would definitely be a thread in the “real life” version of this. (Part of the answer being it’s difficult to tell because the selection of which two universes were involved in the cross-over might itself have prejudiced the result.)
I recall she was also irritated by the “love interest” subplot the network insisted on putting in.
That occured to me as I wrote it. (Maybe there’s a Council of Magi that is contactable across the universes, hidden in Everard’s full-length dressing room mirror, and this first contact was with the Pidgeverse, vs. the Zombieverse or the Anthropomorphicverse or the Jason-with-a-beard-verse …
I remembered that but couldn’t find a link to it on the forums. That’s still probably there, but Brianna Quill’s CIA lover-bodyguard probably gets excised from the cartoon, to be replaced with a teenaged and frequently shirtless Karate champion named Jesse Byrne as “protector” for Medea. She’ll of course criticize him for using so much violence, but it always turns out to be the right move.
“What about making Amir the love interest?” one somewhat progressive exec asks, only to face a sea of frowning white faces who just say something about “our demographics”. So yeah, long conversations and angst probably would result from taking this plot at all seriously.
The software I have won’t do a funny-animals comic strip, nor give characters actual beards, so we won’t be seeing some of these other universes any time soon. I’m much less of a fan of the Marvel-Zombies type concept than some, and I’d already done a bit of short fiction about a high-fantasy version of the Menagerie (complete with Leo as wizard, creating golems from his own soul).
I think this fits into the middle of the sequence there (between SUMMER07_007 and _008)
ALYCIA: (Cocks head, looks Sunny up and down)
SUNNY: (Smiling)
ALYCIA: Nope. Nada.
SUNNY: And that’s okay. Relationship, friendship, does not need to involve sexual attraction.
ALYCIA: Of course. Plus, by analogy, you’re sort of like a brother; thus, due to powerful societal and cultural restrictions, sexual attraction would be taboo.
SUNNY: So … if I’m like a brother to you, that must mean Summer is like a sis–
ALYCIA: THAT’S ENOUGH OUT OF YOU, MISTER.
I don’t imagine that anything in this whole sequence would ever change status quo. Jason’s awkward teenage libido aside, I imagine a feeling of taboo is part of it, but I’d prefer to think that everyone is just happy with what they already have, and they’re mostly doing this to goof around and figure themselves out a little better.
The other universe I could do in comic form would be something like the “Mean-agerie”, where our teen heroes were villains instead. They can’t be the sort of world-dominating villains that some of their powers or background might indicate - you sort of have to be able to laugh at them, so I can imagine them doing petty or amusing things rather than (say) mass murder or mind-wiping. I don’t really know how you’d turn Harry evil, except maybe Hecate revealing the extent of his family’s involvement in morally shady affairs and then using that weakness to put a whammy on him, but I can easily see a villain trajectory for everyone else that still keeps them part of a (sort-of) team.
We’d teased them assessing each other’s fighting potential, but this is one of the few things I could think of that’d actually make Alycia throw down. Presumably Alycia would figure out what happened pretty fast and nobody would get seriously hurt as a result.
Heck, perhaps the “full fighting power” he is pointing at is Using Her Head, being less complacent than (he feels) she’s become. Thus revelation, surge of anger, wait this guy is just as sneaky as Father taught me, hmmm, he would know my reaction, and how it would knock me off-balance, dammit Alistair …
Not that she’d be happy about being manipulated by Alistair (even if she determined he was doing it “for her own good,” which, of course, is what she always wants to hear), but she might then intentionally seem to go after him, all angry and reckless, and wait for him to try and use that ostensible state against her …
Alistair might, in turn, anticipate that she’s seen through it, and feint a reaction to see if she takes it. Alycia might, of course, count on that, and exploit it in return …
Throw in all the SGHG cognitive stuff, and you could have the equivalent of a grandmaster chess game, only in ten seconds of hand-to-hand.
Which of course is Alistair’s point, and Alycia’s real motivation in making him eat it.
I’m much less of a fan of the Marvel-Zombies type concept than some, and I’d already done a bit of short fiction about a 
Presumably Alycia would figure out what happened pretty fast and nobody would get seriously hurt as a result.