I mean, lacking information to the contrary, this seems like a single point of departure?
Look, it's not their fault their GPS got them lost since those things have been on the fritz ever since the Simurgh showed up and had them take a wrong turn at Albuquerque. And now they're trying to find a path and the GPS keeps sending them down country back roads with construction and the murder biological clone factory in the back of the trailer they're pulling won't stop asking for them to pull over and find a rest stop.
It's kind of amazing. It's like the equivelent of a shonen anime series where the main character has a perfunctory heterosexual romance that's with a kinda boring side character who fades out of relevance to the main plot after a while (Brian) and then interacts in all of these intense ways with their buddies/rivals/random people of the same gender in the thick of things along with bonding scenes... and then the author had (or claims to have) no idea how the fandom got the idea the character might be gay or bi.
Ehhh, it's more the archetype of how fandom perceives him I was referring to that's similar to what I've seen in certain parts of anime fandom?
There's a reason they're called the Travelers, after all.
It's not really that he's boring, it's that Taylor isn't interested in him outside of his body, or it's never really demonstrated that she is? They do try and bond, before he turns her down, but after the S9 thing it's a primarily physical relationship to comfort each other.
Whereas Taylor does get much stronger emotional connections that build up slowly over time with like, everyone else. She spends a lot of time and effort befriending Rachel, she's very involved with Lisa for a lot of the plot, and remembers her to the end, she's sort of a mentor figure to Parian.
I think it's more Wildbow mishandling how he portrays relationships, a bit.
That kinda came out of nowhere. I don't get it.
Doesn't Kaiser make metal spikes, not control steel?
Given that Pelter got healed, told to stay out of the fight, is a new cape lacking support structure who just met up with Arachne and Bitch, and had background beats set up in Othala getting all racist jackass, I think it's safe to assume that there's at least some future story bits involving Pelter.
I do hope I'm doing alright/better on the bonding. I mean, Taylor does like Rachel for her body in part.
Not much, and a short look at comments after chapters will give you a good idea of any major reveals.
