The Midnighter is HOT for Apollo and NOT shy about it!
The burgeoning DCnU reromance between The Midnighter and Apollo is starting to heat up. In Stormwatch #6, as Apollo saves a grateful Midnighter from a particularly nasty fate, The Midnighter looks up dreamily and says “GOD YOU’RE HOT.” There has never been a truer gay geek moment. If any of you were playing mid-air dude-in-distress in the arms of shirtless Apollo I don’t know if you (or I) would have the balls to say it, but we’d ALL be thinking it. Since he’s the “damn Midnighter” of course he’d say it. Adorable cocky bastard probably gave Apollo’s ass a squeeze off panel when he said it too.
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We’ve had a number of wonderful new LGBT characters and relationships spotlighted in many high profile series in the past few years, but for some reason seeing these two getting together in the same continuity as their original analogues fills me with more gay geeky joy than any of them. In their previous incarnation, not only were Midnighter and Apollo respectively the most dangerous and powerful members of The Authority, but they were very much the HEART of the team. This exchange between the two tells us we can expect open flirtation during their hopefully prolonged courtship. I wonder how long it will take for them to tie the knot and adopt Jenny Quantum (Midnighter is already acting parental)?
