Billy and Teddy Kaplan-Altman for @marvellfashion‘s Valentine Challenge! My favourite fashionable couple (even if they do normally dress like nerds) I gave them outfits kind of vaguely inspired by their costumes!
Headcanon: Billy Kaplan is a shameless clothes pilferer
(Featuring Teddy’s varsity jacket from the Last Annihilation one shot, which I read today and will be having SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT for the foreseeable future)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the Young Avengers spent a lot of time as unsupervised daft teens with superpowers, and how often team training probably devolved into absolute nonsense like this
Also this is far from perfect (still getting used to the new tablet tbh) but I’m not sure I will ever draw anything better than this bit of the original sketch:
As you all know, I am very unhappy with the direction they‘ve gone with for Billy‘s and Teddy‘s first solo run.
But let‘s say I was on board with it, I still can’t help but feel very disappointed. There is so much potential wasted here. The premise was rocky at best, but even if we accepted that they are somewhat dissatisfied with their relationship, they do nothing to flash out that concept.
The potential lovers are just low-effort. The space pirate‘s name is literally ‘Goebig.’ If you split Billy and Teddy, at least make it meaningful. The initial concept of Billy missing their old life is not even explored at all! They don’t care about the new people because they are still hung up on each other. At least let Billy meet his family and friends so we can see why he is so hung up on his life in New York in the first place! Only then we can understand how and why he ultimately makes the decision to return to Teddy. Same with Teddy: If you show his dream coming true, you have to show why it‘s ultimately not his wish. He has to see that even though he and his partner care for the empire 24/7, the empire will still struggle and it‘s okay to take time for Billy and him.
Moreover, I have a huge problem with the fact that Teddy has been kissed the second time without being able to freely decide to do it. He had no choice with David and cannot judge the situation with ‘Goebig’. Teddy has been unnecessarily been pressed into two pseudo-cheating plotlines that do not add to the plots in any way.
I like their new outfits though. Billy looks great in his armor. And I like the name Eidolon. If my rusty old Greek does not deceive me it means something like Illusion, which I actually dig.
