Daken hijinx! (also, bitchy nitpicking)
Aug. 21st, 2009 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transemacabreTo those who are currently writing that great Daken fic over on the Marvel Kink Meme, I would just like to remind y'all that Daken was born in 1946. I flinch every time I see him described as "the younger man" in fic when he's usually older than anyone he's paired with by several decades. I'd understand if the fic was written from the POV of a character who doesn't know and has no reason to suspect that Daken is well past sixty, but most of the time the fic is written in third person omniscient. I imagine that this mistake happens a lot because of Daken's eurotrash, kid-with-a-bad-attitude persona, but c'mon y'all, he's old enough to be Bullseye's grandfather. Hell, he might be Bullseye's grandfather.
TL;DR: Daken is older than all of these people:
Bullseye
Anole
Northstar
Emma Frost
... so don't call him 'the younger man' in comparison to them, thanks.
Proving yet again that he has balls of adamantium, Daken flirts with Ares.
It looks for a moment like Mac is going to try the old stretch-and-reach movie theater move, but he chickens out.
TL;DR: Daken is older than all of these people:
Bullseye
Anole
Northstar
Emma Frost
... so don't call him 'the younger man' in comparison to them, thanks.
Proving yet again that he has balls of adamantium, Daken flirts with Ares.
It looks for a moment like Mac is going to try the old stretch-and-reach movie theater move, but he chickens out.
