TLDR: Carol's position in CW1 is about pragmatism, because she realizes that if she and other heroes don't show compliance, the government will launch an all out war killing most of the superheroes and her friends but when she has the authority she actively bends and break the rules to help the unregistered heroes get away or figure out ways to clear their records.

Now lets go deep into it.

I've seen a lot of people say that Carol was Pro-Reg in CW1 simply because she was military and a solider and was just "following the law". However, reading the books you realize its much deeper than that.

A excerpt from an interview of Brian Reed from CBR: [You Look Marvelous: Reed Talks "Ms. Marvel"]

>Carol's actions in "Ms. Marvel #6, " which begins the "Civil War" storyline, are motivated out of a desire to keep heroes on both sides of the registration issue from winding up dead

In other words, her position is more of pragmatism. Where she understands given the massive public opinion and shield itching to crush Superheroes, there's a better chance of keeping everyone safe by taking the Pro-Reg position simply because of how overwhelming the support for government action is, and how dire the consequences for supeheroes en masse breaking this law would be, namely all out war on a much bigger scale leading to massive loss of life.

Now Brian Reed being a good enough writer, never explicitly has Carol lay out this position initially, even though its evident in her actions, so I will be drawing from Ms Marvel issues 6-8 and then 13-15, and Mighty and New avengers from post Civil War.

Though Bendis pretty much lays it out explicitly in Mighty Avengers later:

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And in the Ms Marvel Solo.

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There theme that surrounds issues Ms Marvel 6-8 is "Doing what's right, vs Doing what's for the best"

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And Carol knows that in the moment what she's doing isn't right, but at the same time it would prevent something far worse.

She knows well what resources the government has, and the amount of support they have from the american public to take action which could lead to all out war.

There's a certain amount of notice even the registered heroes are put on, and there's a concept of how big of a law you can break before she decides to intervene to avoid larger consequences for everyone.

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To some extent, these misconceptions come from not reading a certain amount of doublespeak Carol engages in before someone pushes her to speak her true motive. Carol's first line is always "well its the law", but then when pushed the deeper motive comes out. And she also in front of others when not being vulnerable acts like a hardass.

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Now, under all this context, lets come to the case of Julia Carpenter. I've heard a lot of takes online where largely a lot of context is removed and its made to appear as though Carol simply descends onto Julias home and beats her up just for disagreeing

However, there's a certain amount of escalation missing in these retellings and also missing the broader theme of Doing what's Right vs Doing what's for the best. In fact Julia vs Carol is a microcosm of the entire Civil War event.

A quick overview of Julia's motivation here is that after helping some unregistered heroes escape, she realizes its too crazy here in America, so its time she move over away to Canda with her daughter.

However, in the coming parts after this decision we have to understand that Julia broke a bunch of laws bigger than just helping unregistered people escape. Grand theft auto, hospitalizing shield agents, and when Carol initially confronted her she rammed her into traffic endangering and harming civilians.

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Meaning that even if she tries to escape with her daughter to Canada..... its simply too late for that. She'll be targeted no matter where, especially as the Canadian government allowed collaboration to extradite other criminals who entered Canada.

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Now, why is Carol there in the first place? She wishes to take Julia's family to safety, because Regardless of anything Carol does, their entire family is in Shield's line of fire.

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Then as Carol pleads Julia to stand down, for the sake of her family and kid who she seems hell bent on bringing into the line of fire, Julia simply starts whaling on Carol.

And after that..... well.... there didn't seem to be any other way.

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Now we come to the resolution of this arc.

3 weeks later, Post Civil War, after all the captured heroes were broken out, Julia had one mission in mind. Find her daughter and take her with her. And she was still just as out of control as she was, even targeting arana, because she thinks her daughter has been taken by the government.

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But in a twist its revealed that Julias own parents moved and tried to hide Rachel, because Julia kept trying to drag her daughter into this

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Now its a dilemma for Carol. As this is happening Carol naturally feels a lot of guilt despite her hardass exterior persona. She wants to do something to help, to reunite the family, to heal the little girl's scars, to make amends.

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As Carol's frustrations with the Civil War and Tony escalate since she hates how the law got to this point where it was so dire.

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As all this builds, we come back to the scene where Julia finds her daughter again.... and Kidnaps her from her parents who were the legal custodians, escalating things again.

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But this time..... post civil war, Carol has more authority, more pull, more power. So she's able to swing a favor, and make the authorities overlook Julia kidnapping her kid and helps her get to Canada making a deal with Tony.

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Note that post Civil War as Carol has more power and leeway to bend the rules, she actively lets the un-registered heroes get away.

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Even arguing with the rest of her Avengers to let them get away as Leader of the Pro-Reg avengers.

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Its an interesting evolution where you see that when Carol has more power to bend the law, along with her actions during CW1 weighing on her, she tries to resolve situations through her authority, rather than simply following the law at the time.

Note that this balancing act is only something that she successfully manages when Tony is in charge. Its clear that if it were someone like Gyrich (as seen in the What if) and someone like Osborn as we saw in Dark Reign, she can't really keep people safe under them and joins the revolution.

Can you imagine if Oda let Luffy open with Bajrang Gun? Atleast when Imu would deflect that we'll have some basis of stakes.

Even against Sommers Luffy used a better attack. SOMMERS.

Update from a month back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DesiPens/comments/1ujoi34/kanwrite_emperor_fine_ultraflex_w_ebonite_feed_in/

1) Sealing:

I left the pen inked up for 2 weeks with Krishna's Monsoon Sky. Started off at 1.4 mm of ink.

2 weeks later the pen did not hard start and had around 1.35 mm of ink.

I would say the pen's sealing is decent.

2) Maintenance:

The Emperor comes with a sealable cartridge with a O-ring and a Converter that can be screwed into to the section of the pen.

Image:

https://preview.redd.it/9hqsr86xlyfh1.png?width=1528&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c5da029c65967492a36ca58238c5dde5abf4894

I have removed the converter and put it back a few times and it fits decently. I would warn against overtightening it however, I feel it can develop cracks

The cartridge is nice for storing ink. It comes with a screw cap, and when its time to use it, you can screw the cap on the back of the cartridge.

The Nib and Ebonite feed are friction fit and can be removed completely for a deep clean in case you are switching inks that are highly sensitive to mixing, or perhaps you've developed a clog.

3) Writing Sample and Smoothness:

I have found this pen to be decently smooth. I'll let the writing sample in comparison with some other pens speak for itself, I tried to capture the feedback through audio:

https://reddit.com/link/1v8wvao/video/5ix8lsd0nyfh1/player

The wetness of the ebonite feed I reckon does make it write a bit closer to a Japanese Medium of Pilot in size, but less thick than Prefounte.

Subjectively in terms of smoothness for me it goes Kakuno>Kanwrite>Prefounte>Starlet (naturally starlet is a EF nib iirc)

The ebonite feed is decently wet and controlled. Even an ink like Krishna's Water Sapphire (which is what i've used here) runs nicely wet in it, but wetter inks don't overflow.

Here's how it flexes:

https://reddit.com/link/1v8wvao/video/hfs1ymgnpyfh1/player

This is my first flex nib pen, so bear in mind I have limited experience. However, while flexing, it isn't scratchy as the tines open up and follow the curves of your letters, or while it closes up during a upstroke.

I have seen some scratchier flex nibs online where you can clearly tell that it catches on the paper on such strokes.

The amount of force if I measure it against a pad on a weighing scale is around 200-250g to get around 1-1.5 mm and 250-300 for around 2 mm which is its max.

It seems to control well in my hand, going fine to broad or beyond and back to fine decently enough.

I will add a caveat that others I have read have found this pen on the heavier side, however I have not, so the amount of force required to flex is subjective. What I find fine, others may find too stiff.

4) Posting:

It does post sort of securely, I have written with it, but note that the pen becomes a bit too back heavy if you post it as its got a heavy metal cap. Also the posting happens due to the inner cap, so the outer cap doesn't make contact with the back of the pen.

https://preview.redd.it/d4pjoxhooyfh1.png?width=1528&format=png&auto=webp&s=b33708683461f3a616e8def082096d7d9013ab98

I don't think its meant to be posted but you can get away with it.

Summary:

I think its a great pen. It writes smooth, wet, seals nicely, comes with a cartridge and converter, and can be dismantled for cleaning if the need arises.

Is his power up against Bummers getting brand name aCOC?

I'm not gonna attach any pictures because I don't want to click any.

Overview of the pen: Its a small brass pen with a magnetic cap which is its closing mechanism.

The good: It has a nice firm fine nib. Took it out and used it in other pens.

The magnetic cap is a fun lil fidget toy.

The bad:

a) The grip section made of metal is overpolished. It was slippery to hold in my fingers.

b) The cap, though airtight in of itself, did not have any form of plastic lining inside so when it attached to the body via magnets, it was not airtight. Meaning the pen faced dry out issues very quickly. I think only screw caps that are well engineered with a lip can get away with not having a plastic liner that can somewhat conform to small airgaps inside.

c) The color doesn't match the advertising. Does not have the gradient coloring.

d) The cap is intended meant to post, they have molded a spot for it at the back of the pen. However the size is off so it was a very tight fit, and over time it would just loosen the cap.

d) It uses a typical standard international converter that fits into the section. However the fit was far too tight and the threads of the section were metal. So it would scrape the converter, and on top of that the nipple of the section gets put under a lot of stress.

What ended up happening is that on removing the converter a few times, the nipple literally broke off. Now the pen can't be used. Not even as a eye dropper since its brass and has no plastic liner anywhere.

Than god I got this pen on a massive discount, because its not even worth 100 Rs outside of its nib which I can scavenge.

And its converter which I'd have to first dislodge the nipple which broke off into it to use it elsewhere.

Anyway stay away from this pen.