It is not off topic. You said things were toxic so I am explaining that we had 2.5 years of Gambit not being concerned with Rogue. That is not toxic. Yes I dont like Romy. You do. However I dont think you can just rewrite history and pretend that some out of continuity crap by Soule and some dumb cameo by Duggan where Rogue told him she tried to kiss him suddenly means things were toxic.
Likewise Rogue certainly didn't give a crap about Gambit. She was happy messing around with Storm and Deadpool. There is no indication in the years before Duggan or Soule that she gave a single crap about Gambit. And Duggan certainly didnt have her worried about Gambit for long as again she was with Deadpool. It is clear he had no intention of anything with Gambit taking place.
So nothing was toxic. All that happened is a Romy fan decided to write a story to put them together. The story was not necessary nor was the relationship toxic beforehand. It was largely just over.
I responded because I felt that instead of just celebrating this book which I agreed was great and well written, your posts seemd to veer off into saying the 2.5 plus years that came before was somehow lesser or toxic simply because Gambit wasn't with Rogue. That may have not been your intent but that was how it came off to me.
Still don`t agree. Gambit and Rogue together were toxic characters and still are. A lot of bad stories stayed unresolved and untold.
Do you remeber how most Gambit fans reacted when they both were announced for Astonishing? There were a lot of hate. Almost the same was with R&G announcement.
I am sure KT changed at least some percent of Romy haters into more postitive or at least made them more open for Gambit and Rogue in one book.
There still will be a lot of angey posts if they will be together on one next team. Even if they wouldn`t be a couple.
2.5 years of Gambit not being concerned with Rogue is just 2.5 years with Gambit and Rogue in separate books and stories.
Every time when even in cameo they were near, romance or drama were there.
With the same logic Gambit and Storm are not friends because they are for yeards in separate books and have only small friend cameos.
Rogue had her life. Gambit has his. It don`t mean that he/she don`t have some feelings for each other. Or that fellings won`t return when they will met again.