Knowing me, knowing Lu -- it's nice to be nice - 03/01/17 06:17 PM
I'm ready to admit it -- I have often been mean, sometimes downright awful, in my 11-plus years of posting at Legion World. Arrogant, icy, disdainful, and possessing THE superiority complex to end them all.
No more.
And it's thanks to Preboot Luornu Durgo:
Because while Ayla will always be the Legionnaire who, deep down, most accurately personifies me, and my aspirational, megalomaniacal streak often makes me come across as Tasmia at her very worst, it's now Luornu whom I most aspire to be like -- the apple-pie-sweetheart-next-door who gets over BOTH her complicated and contradictory personality AND her crush on an unattainable, idealized demi-god, and finds true love with a kind-hearted, uncomplicated, all-around-decent, salt-of-the-earth partner.
I suppose that, now that I've been over 40 for a while now, and now that I've been through some significant upheavals in my personal life, my aspirations are more modest than they used to be.
And I think that term, "modest," sums up my perceptions of Luornu in a nutshell: Modest. Humble. Self-aware. Okay with being imperfect. Complicated, yet open about it. Empathetic. Giving. Unpretentious. Smart, but not stuck up. Down-to-earth. Nice.
Not a bad goal at all, if I do say so myself.
(And, yes, I know that her behavior after Superboy's death pretty much makes mincemeat out of everything I've described above, which is why I dislike her Death-of-Superboy-through-Conspiracy personality more than ever. Which is a long-winded way of saying, if you want to talk about those subjects, please do it in other threads, thank you.)
No more.
And it's thanks to Preboot Luornu Durgo:
Because while Ayla will always be the Legionnaire who, deep down, most accurately personifies me, and my aspirational, megalomaniacal streak often makes me come across as Tasmia at her very worst, it's now Luornu whom I most aspire to be like -- the apple-pie-sweetheart-next-door who gets over BOTH her complicated and contradictory personality AND her crush on an unattainable, idealized demi-god, and finds true love with a kind-hearted, uncomplicated, all-around-decent, salt-of-the-earth partner.
I suppose that, now that I've been over 40 for a while now, and now that I've been through some significant upheavals in my personal life, my aspirations are more modest than they used to be.
And I think that term, "modest," sums up my perceptions of Luornu in a nutshell: Modest. Humble. Self-aware. Okay with being imperfect. Complicated, yet open about it. Empathetic. Giving. Unpretentious. Smart, but not stuck up. Down-to-earth. Nice.
Not a bad goal at all, if I do say so myself.
(And, yes, I know that her behavior after Superboy's death pretty much makes mincemeat out of everything I've described above, which is why I dislike her Death-of-Superboy-through-Conspiracy personality more than ever. Which is a long-winded way of saying, if you want to talk about those subjects, please do it in other threads, thank you.)