Julian has honestly never thought about making out with Anole because he likes the ladies, but if someone were to put it to him he would think about it before being horrified at what he did because as I told you on IRC I refuse to believe that Julian is a Kinsey 0. I'M SORRY THERE IS LIKE ... EVERYTHING WITH JOSH EVER.
So Julian is fond of Vic! It's actually a common theme that Julian stands up for the mutants with the more noticeable or horrible mutations, because no-one else is going to. But when the bus got blown up and Decimation happened and everything else, life got pretty complicated. Julian drifted away from that because he got wrapped up in trying to manage/suborn a team that is mostly occupied by his friends but he wasn't the leader because Miss Frost decided to be a bit catty about it. That isn't to say that he wasn't fond of him, but that he was under enough pressure that he wasn't able to invest the time into the relationship that he really should have in order to keep the friendship close. By the time that Vic was on the team as well, Julian had pretty much settled into his position as three part leader with Nori and David (or 2IC with Nori and David as co-leaders, though interestingly the three of them complement each other - Nori is the decisive leader, David is tactics and Julian, hilariously, is the people person of the three). So there really wasn't a lot of room for him to reinvest that relationship when he really should have, because there just wasn't time. And that's not a bad thing but hey!
After NXM ended though, they all drifted apart which sucks, and apparently affected Julian a lot given that he goes into screaming hysterics after Miss Frost tells him that he's been abandoned in Divided We Stand. This all comes to a head in the Legacy arc, where he basically sits in his room all day, yells at people to leave him alone when they come in, and when he finally tries to say something to his friends, they don't actually acknowledge him. This is where he's from in camp (well, technically he's from the Age of X crossover aftermath but this doesn't have that much effect on him outside of him doing things on his own instead of talking to people).
The thing is, Julian doesn't like the person he's become! He's a handless ball of misery and he hates that, and hates what he is, so in Legacy he just closes himself off. In camp, that's not really an option. You can sit in your room and yell at everyone to go away, but camp does stuff like throw you into posts without your consent. So Julian is trying very hard to try and be the person he used to be. He's trying hard to interact with the babymutants, to socialise generally and keeping it as light as he can ... which is not very because Julian is full of self-loathing, misery and self-hatred that he deals with by projecting it outward in verbal abuse, but hey, he's trying.
This is where Vic comes in! He doesn't have to explain to Vic about stuff like Utopia because he already knows. It's a burden he doesn't have to assume like he does with the other mutants in camp. Talking to Vic is, by definition, a lot less stressful because there's already that shared common ground where he doesn't have to prove that he's not just being depressive for the attention, but that he genuinely has a reason for being how he is. It's also harder in the sense that Julian is kind of alienated from his classmates, but in a setting not Utopia there's less ... pressure? No-one's tried to kill him in ages, it's kind of weird.
But really, the thing that matters most is that Vic isn't pressuring him to do anything. Vic's taking a hands-off light approach with him where he just offers him space and that's really appreciated because he doesn't like being told what he should and shouldn't do. He knows what he should do. He just doesn't want to do it because that means admitting stuff to people. The part where he admitted to Vic that he is deeply fucked up (even if he is not sure what is wrong with him) is a big deal! Basically he and Vic are bros! Bros where it is okay to admit this without it being a reflection on him being less masculine and all that!
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So Julian is fond of Vic! It's actually a common theme that Julian stands up for the mutants with the more noticeable or horrible mutations, because no-one else is going to. But when the bus got blown up and Decimation happened and everything else, life got pretty complicated. Julian drifted away from that because he got wrapped up in trying to manage/suborn a team that is mostly occupied by his friends but he wasn't the leader because Miss Frost decided to be a bit catty about it. That isn't to say that he wasn't fond of him, but that he was under enough pressure that he wasn't able to invest the time into the relationship that he really should have in order to keep the friendship close. By the time that Vic was on the team as well, Julian had pretty much settled into his position as three part leader with Nori and David (or 2IC with Nori and David as co-leaders, though interestingly the three of them complement each other - Nori is the decisive leader, David is tactics and Julian, hilariously, is the people person of the three). So there really wasn't a lot of room for him to reinvest that relationship when he really should have, because there just wasn't time. And that's not a bad thing but hey!
After NXM ended though, they all drifted apart which sucks, and apparently affected Julian a lot given that he goes into screaming hysterics after Miss Frost tells him that he's been abandoned in Divided We Stand. This all comes to a head in the Legacy arc, where he basically sits in his room all day, yells at people to leave him alone when they come in, and when he finally tries to say something to his friends, they don't actually acknowledge him. This is where he's from in camp (well, technically he's from the Age of X crossover aftermath but this doesn't have that much effect on him outside of him doing things on his own instead of talking to people).
The thing is, Julian doesn't like the person he's become! He's a handless ball of misery and he hates that, and hates what he is, so in Legacy he just closes himself off. In camp, that's not really an option. You can sit in your room and yell at everyone to go away, but camp does stuff like throw you into posts without your consent. So Julian is trying very hard to try and be the person he used to be. He's trying hard to interact with the babymutants, to socialise generally and keeping it as light as he can ... which is not very because Julian is full of self-loathing, misery and self-hatred that he deals with by projecting it outward in verbal abuse, but hey, he's trying.
This is where Vic comes in! He doesn't have to explain to Vic about stuff like Utopia because he already knows. It's a burden he doesn't have to assume like he does with the other mutants in camp. Talking to Vic is, by definition, a lot less stressful because there's already that shared common ground where he doesn't have to prove that he's not just being depressive for the attention, but that he genuinely has a reason for being how he is. It's also harder in the sense that Julian is kind of alienated from his classmates, but in a setting not Utopia there's less ... pressure? No-one's tried to kill him in ages, it's kind of weird.
But really, the thing that matters most is that Vic isn't pressuring him to do anything. Vic's taking a hands-off light approach with him where he just offers him space and that's really appreciated because he doesn't like being told what he should and shouldn't do. He knows what he should do. He just doesn't want to do it because that means admitting stuff to people. The part where he admitted to Vic that he is deeply fucked up (even if he is not sure what is wrong with him) is a big deal! Basically he and Vic are bros! Bros where it is okay to admit this without it being a reflection on him being less masculine and all that!
WILL ANOLE EVER NEED TO SHAVE.