I’ve done a cruel thing to Canon Seth\/Sunfire and Tony\/Teen Steel\/Steel Fury. Because of Warrick, Sonic Pulse survived for her reappearance in “Pulse of the City[1].” That’s the most obvious thing different.<\/p>\n
But there were also the differences in how the Behemoth situation were handled, the events of “Tuesday Night” where Sunfire and Teen Steel spend a bunch of time together, and the reminder that they’re mortal–something the Canon Sunfire and Teen Steel never experienced.<\/p>\n
These two guys are very important in All That Remains. (That’s all I’m going to say about that.)<\/p>\n
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[1] The reason all of “Pulse of the City” is written in first person POV is because Ashley doesn’t even realize how other people perceive her.<\/p>\n
She realizes that she doesn’t see herself as Sonic Pulse. So when she puts on her uniform, she forces herself to be a harder person than she naturally is.<\/p>\n
I think that her time out of costume gave her a sense of perspective. Just not soon enough.<\/p>\n
(Ashley has a whole story arc to her – “Pulse of the City”, “The Dark Harts”, “Beating Harts At Night” – and her family. And not<\/i> just Evan[2].)<\/p>\n
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[3] I think I’ve been cruelest to Evan most of all. He’s been fucked with, fucked over — and as a result he is a stewing bottle of rage. And in the Kanon-verse, because events never took place, the festering wounds in his mind were never cleansed.<\/p>\n
He gets sidelined in “Tuesday Night”, which results in him being part of the raising of his grandson, and he finds a new happiness … But he also gets kicked out of being a superhero. And he eventually goes in and has certain sections of his brain biomechanically altered to control his rage-induced pyrokinetic psychopathy.<\/p>\n
He doesn’t want to kill people.<\/p>\n
But when he loses control…<\/p>\n
Bad things happen. And the people he loves are left to pick up the pieces.<\/p>\n
He’s happier without having to make those actions. Enjoys the life that he lives and the people he shares it with.<\/p>\n
But sometimes …<\/p>\n
Sometimes he wonders.<\/p>\n
What would the world look like if the whole thing burned?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"