I feel bad for Statesman...

Marcian, the ole "no evidence to the contrary means it could be true" is a friggin' joke.

We slam GG for using that argument a lot; don't do it.

Any and all Statesline shippers that want to use my Statesline shipper artwork for Statesline procreation/propaganda porpoises is totally welcome to do so.


Statesline wishes each and everyone of you a happy and wonderful New Year filled with Rainbows and Cotton Candy!

Someone email this thread to Jack Emmert.

try this one, its smaller and we should try to avoid the using all that black.

You can go ahead and keep that inf Marcian, I was gonna do something special in honor of you, when your "post your best screenshot" thread hits half a million views (its really close).

Around Thanksgiving I used that wonderful new tool from the folks at titian to export build information from the game into Mids. That little widget also tracked how much money those characters have.

I have 3 billion Influence.

I could buy all of Boomtown and a big chunk of mercy island.

Didn't this start out about how easily Statesman got beaten up in various stories? If I followed a very dicey train of logic, I'd see his being paired in slashfiction the punishment/reward for not being all he could be as a heroic icon.

I'm actually more interested in Hickman's 'Smoke and Mirrors', something I've never been able to read along with the original CoH novels. Every character in any setting is open to interpretation. Just look how often a certain Kryptonian from another universe gets trawled through flamewars.

For my two influence, Statesman is the heroic ideal and I actually see him as somewhat cursed by the power that he was given by the Well. I thought the rationale that he could give into the power but chooses to restrain himself says a tremendous amount about the man's character. I'd like to see more fiction and MA stories that reflect this Statesman and the heroic Statesman than the excuse for a joke and figure for slashfiction that he's become.

And that's no slight on those who want the Statesline pairing; I figure if you're an immortal with the powers of Zeus (who wasn't exactly known for his mainstream tastes and restraint), you can do whatever you want.


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The only definite outcome we can claim from this thread is that in some future issue, some NPC somewhere will have a rare random dialog reference to thinking Statesman and Faultline would make a great couple.

Faultline appears to be in a happy relationship with Fusionette.

Statesman was married to a woman and had a biological daughter, presumably in the usual fashion.

It is within the realm of possibility that these characters are closeted gay, or bisexual. But the preponderance of evidence would lead me to believe that they are both straight. Whenever the issue comes up in canon - and it does - they behave as if they are. So it's not entirely fair to argue from the stance that there's no evidence either way. Occam's Razor is in play.

Crimson and Viridian, on the other hand, is a crack pairing I can get behind.

And on the original topic: my personal favorite wild theory is that Marcus Cole becomes a hero* only in universes where Stefan Richter becomes a villain - and that Arachnos the organization was and is aware of this, and elevates Lord Recluse as a villain solely to keep Statesman a hero, while also ensuring that Lord Recluse is repeatedly informed that under no circumstances can he win.

* To the extent that he can be, of course. However intelligent Marcus Cole may be, he's definitely much stronger than he is smart: see Boomtown.