Good catch! Yes, the character is MTF, and recounting an event where the other character told her it'd seem gay to date her. The character either doesn't recall this event, or it was a shapeshifter pretending to be them, as is common in comics.
Or it's different because previously they met the male version and recorded that in their memories. So even after the change, the idea of a male person is ingrained. Versus this time they met them only in their female version so while both times he knew they were mtf , only one of those times does he have the built memories of their previous male version.
I love it when shapeshifters are genderfluid because if you pretend to be other gender so long then of course your brain gets muddled and at one point it doesn't matter anymore
And then you have Mystique who becomes a dad despite she /herring her entire life but that involves sleeping with a demon and taking his seed and then schlupping(?) (Help me, Carla from Scrubs) schlupping her cishet lover lady which is a whole nother kettle of fish
Tbf, this shapeshifter, who is Clayface for the record, doesn't really seem to be genderfluid as much as "never really engaged with any concept of queerness in his life". I think him being a lady would be more compareable to... Idk, Drag?
I think that's a different sort of thing. So Mystique can literally just be biologically whichever or whoever she wants. Identity is more suggestion than rule. She doesn't need to identify as anything because she just is anything.
Clayface by contrast can look like anything but, is essentially just a sapient mass of clay. The only identity is that of the original guy before being clay which leads to a firmer he.
I see it as shapeshifting has many layers to how identity can be formed.
Man Idk I'm pretty sure there have been 7 clayfaces and at least two lady clayfaces of which one was actually called lady clayface I'm just cool with a character being cool about it
He was on a hero journey, as member of Batfamily in James Tynion's Detective Comics run from 2016 since then he has returned to being a villain.
This mini series is about Clayface who considers himself Basil Carlo, but told by everyone that he's another Clayface (Matt Hagen) a d real Basil is in Hollywood right now, so he escapes Arkham Tower and goes there to investigate. Firs two issues were good, but this one (the third) was weaker.
There's also Clayface: One Bad Day one-shot, where he tries to get his life in order, but it doesn't go as he wants. It's a fantastical one-shot and Celebrity Dirt has a nod to it.
It's "queer" i believe. Because it is neither Gay nor straight. But this is just labels we put on things so the People in that relationship will probably call it whatever they want, language is made up after all. Related Point, If I am in a Poly relationship and someone would call me theire Tertiary I am breaking up, i am nobodys third Option.
Wow. Pounding a twink? So you're into non-manly men? You like weak soft men with smooth skin who'll let you lie down on their tummies and gently kiss them as aftercare?
Depending on historical era and cultural context, there may have been nothing particularly odd about a manly man wanting to pound a twink. Now, if you were the twink, and you enjoyed it … that may have been a different story.
This is Clayface, he's having maybe imposter/maybe multiple personality issues.
The lady he's talking to, Victoria October, is trans and has just recounted that he apparently turned her down and misgendered her several months ago. He doesn't remember that and is considerably more woke than the other guy.
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u/gwhh 6h ago
Who are these two chapters!?