Posted by Binaryan on 3/18/2008, 11:07 pm, in reply to "Re: That'd work..."
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Carol has a long history of trying to escape her personal problems rather than facing them head-on. After her rape by Marcus, she relocated to San Francisco rather than confronting the Avengers and reclaiming her old life. When she lost her powers to Rogue, she remained with the X-Men rather than deal with her lost emotional connections to her old life and family. When Rogue joined, she went off to space with the Starjammers rather than deal with her bitterness towards Rogue. And when she lost her Binary powers, she escaped into a bottle.
All a long pattern of bottling up her emotions rather than working through them.
As to her system burning through alcohol, I've always had a pet theory that her loss of her Binary powers played a role here. As Binary, Carol probably had a cosmically-empowered tolerance level that waned as her powers did. As her drinking problem grew, her power-base was waning... as was her tolerance levels. She thought she could hold her drink and be unaffected as in the past but without her cosmic powers to burn the alcohol out of her system, she became an alcoholic more rapidly than perhaps the average person, under average circumstances might have.
Just a theory...
Ryan
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