Thanks for all your kind comments, CL!
jrhcl2 wrote:These questions may seem strange, But i was kind of surprised that Sovereign called Ishtar and Brickhouse his slaves in Victory City# 20, this make them seem like property, not his fellow heroes, it made me wonder does he value or respect them as team mates, i can understand why the villains would call their captured heroines slaves, but not one of their own. Why did Sovereign call them slaves, they both would have willingly helped him even without him using his mutant powers on them? Ishtar feared if she and Paul made love she would become his love slave, Why did she use slave to describe how she would feel after they made love?? I've been searching the web and reading some of stuff they have available online about Ishtar, every since i started following the adventures of Ishtar the Goddess of love and war and have learned a lot about her, she did take a lot of lovers , Gods and mortals ,But it was a mortal who eventually won the Goddess heart and tamed her wild spirit according to the myth.
CL
When Soveriegn uses the term "slave," he's meaning it in the sense that they are so emotionally compelled by their attraction to him that they will do anything or almost anything for him. I see sex as being to a large degree about surrendering yourself to the other person and becoming completely vulnerable to them, and that's how Ishtar and Brickhouse were to Sovereign. In Brickhouse case, Sovereign had to get her mind to a place of absolute servitude, because that's what he needed to project into Ultra MAxima's mind (who had conveniently left an open channel into her mind, via Brickhouse. Ishtar was able to reenforce that state of mind by herself becoming totally mentally enslaved, then projecting that back into Brickhouse. The result was that, even though Ultra Maxima has incredible willpower, the "love slave" frame of mind projected into her from Brickhouse was too powerful for her to resist.
On the subject of Ishtar and Paul, it still has yet to be revealed exactly what limitations are on Ishtar that are preventing her from being with Paul, but in general, being in love and being in a realtionship are binding on a person. If you have a lover or spouse or whatever, it does pull your attention away from other things and other pursuits. Ishtar, as a goddess of love, is perhaps less able than a mere mortal to turn her attention away from a lover to focus on work (e.g. fighting supervillains). If she has a lover, it might completely dominate her life.
I'd be interested to see what you read about Ishtar/Inanna. I did a lot of reading about her (some library, some internet) when I was conceiving the character years ago, but not so much recently. Given that hot chicks that can fight are popular (certainly with me
), it just seemed obvious that a goddess of both love and war would make a great heroine.
