to experience it like this, so shortly after seeing the actually quite touching scans with baby Valeria, is really jarring.
The thing that baffles me is, in order to have written this story, you have to have read the other, right? So, like, how is it even possible to read Doom saving Sue and Valeria like that, and even conceive of Doom pausing somewhere in that scene to plant psychic spy magic in the baby? How can you have read that scene and still think the scene that opens this post makes any sense to write, that the Doom in that scene could have or would have ever done something like he does here? They just seem so clearly, drastically incompatible to me.