Notes on: "I ask Diana more questions. Intimate questions. Dangerous questions."

I've mentioned elsewhere that this DC Universe is a composite that's mostly vested in the 'Prime Earth' that existed from Infinite Crisis until the New 52, with a lot of touches from the Post-Crisis-to-Infinite-Crisis DC Universe, and a few flourishes from across Diana's publication history. That comes out a bit in this chapter.

Diana's relationships:

• Steve Trevor: One of the biggest changes George Perez made to the Wonder Woman origin and legend after Crisis on Infinite Earths was taking eternal Love Interest and Lois Lane Stand-in Steve Trevor and age him to... well, the kind of age you'd expect an Air **** Colonel to be. Right from the very beginning, Trevor and Diana's love was far more paternal/father-to-daughter than romantic or sexual. In this, I assume that Diana sees past things like 'age' (especially since she's older than Steve Trevor by an order of magnitude), but she can recognize that the relationship wouldn't work properly.
• Superman: This is my acknowledgement of both the (ill-advised) New52 Superman/Wonder Woman relationship and the brief "will they be a couple" thing that they tried in the late eighties/early nineties.
• Batman: This is my acknowledgement of both the DCAU's flirtation between Batman and Wonder Woman and a continuing fascination the fanbase has with the pairing. (A fascination I totally understand, mind).
• Nightwing: This is my acknowledgement that Nightwing's buns totally rock. There had to be at least one of Diana's crushes/fantasies that came down to Diana wanting to wreck that man because unf. That's called 'being human,' even though she's a Goddess. And Nightwing fills that role. I threw in the Donna/Nightwing 'complication' even though Donna and Dick have never been an item because I've shipped them since the "Who Is Donna Troy" issue of The New Teen Titans and someday I'll write that dirty story.
• Hermes: Similarly to 'there had to be at least one crush' among heroes, Diana deals with the literal Gods on the regular. It makes absolute sense she'd be into at least one of them on a physical level.

This is all different then either 'the people' she would want to have a relationship with or 'the people she fantasizes about sex with,' since Tom specifically asked about men she wanted to have a relationship with. If he'd said 'people,' there'd be a lot of women on this list, too. If he asked about fantasies, the list would include some rather... unexpected candidates. We touch on that later.

"You don't wear underwear... for modesty's sake." This is me hanging a lampshade on the fact that essentially all depictions of Wonder Woman -- both official and fan fiction based -- assume she's going commando. Rather than call this out as a bad idea, I made it the only good idea. Her swimsuit-style-armor is magical. It adheres to her skin. Underwear would block that bond and make it prone to slipping. So, she goes naked under the suit to prevent wardrobe malfunctions. Because that makes me giggle.

I said elsewhere -- I'm sticking with Diana's apotheosis from the Byrne run on Wonder Woman (where her mother became Wonder Woman for a time), even though she's no longer up on Olympus and her power level is back to 'standard' Wonder Woman levels. There's a number of reasons for this, but most specifically? I wanted the 'oath by the River Styx' thing to apply to Diana.