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In the spirit of keeping it interesting, let's swing over to the other side of the teaser, where Destiny, Mystique, and Charles sit in conversation as Simon, Jude, and Matthew.
Irene seems a productive place to start, so let's talk about Simon, oft known as "Simon the Zealot".
...homage is his casting as the apostle John, who became something of a prophet (in so far as he wrote the largely metaphorical Revelations) following the Resurrection and baptized many into the faith left behind in Christ's wake.
Which just feels very fucking Bennet du Paris.
...mutants in light of their new status quo and mastery of Death. Lots to think about there.
Elsewhere, Sinister is Judas. Shocking stuff there. Notably, what's important here is that Christ KNEW Judas would betray.
It wasn't a surprise when Iscariot betrayed him. While I...
...or for worse, it's been retconned that Erik's mutant abilities came into being during the Holocaust.
Peter's other known trait–that he was the first to accept the divinity of Christ–tracks here. In the face of Death, Erik transcended. He became a new god.
As have all...
...but the ad-libbed statement here would be that Death has thrice-denied Erik.
Mastery of Death has been at the center of explorations of Krakoan "faith"–so what does it mean to literally have Death–with a hourglass spilling away the seconds–in the role of Peter.
For better...
...be able to infer from the parallels drawn in this painting.
The obvious place to start, of course–is with what's missing from this da Vinci homage–the figure of Christ.
Also conspicuously absent is Erik, and this hardly feels coincidence. His Destiny Of X triptych shows...
The lyric "Emma saw him smile not only with lips but eyes" is just straight up Scott/Emma propaganda and I'm absolutely here for it https://t.co/6lACjUOTNy
No one right now understands these characters better than @definitelyvita.
And no one can draw their stories better than @RodReis.
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WHAT I WILL SAY on the topic is that one of the big themes of Inferno 2.0 is "women will no longer tolerate being the puppets of arrogant men" and if that ain't the original flavor Inferno we all know and love idk what is #XSpoilers