Who says opposites attract? They were so right!
Noriko Ashida was a homeless electric powered mutant with out of control powers. David Alleyne was a straight “A” student with the ability to absorb the knowledge and skills of nearby people. These two met after Nariko was given power inhibiting gauntlets by Forge. They both served on the New Mutants squad and grew close. David had a few reservations after an apoclyptic future vision
After decimation; an event where most mutants lost their powers; They realized every moment was precious and confessed their mutual feelings. Together they witnessed the death of most of their student body, journeyed to hell and helped save a mutant messiah.
Their love however caused Surge to worry for his safety since he was now human, to end the relationship she kissed Hellion, emotionally scaring Prodigy who dumped her as he was unable to get over his hurt.
Ah, so this is how the relationship ended, a black man being cuckholded, unwillingly in the X-office. Im not surprised by this emasculation, they are so hell bent to making a negative connotation to black males in Marvel. Im surprised that any black person would buy this crap.
Honestly the ending of this relationship was remarkably upsetting to me. Marvel has a horrible track record with bm/non bw I/R relationships and the X-men series is particularly atrocious with it. Sure they’ll let Storm hook up with whoever she wants since their white boy fanbase drool over her, but god forbid they give a black male mutant the same treatment. The Hellion kiss scene was despicable, almost as if they just did it to keep their white male fan base happy…We all know how white comicbook fan boys feign over Asian female characters…The last thing they want to see is a black male character in a lasting stable relationship with one. The X-men series has a series problem with the way they handle interracial relationships involving black males, but then again they barely have any to refer to anyways, which is an even bigger problem…..