One of the things that Drew me to poison ivy in the first place was the idea that she couldn't be touched. They sort of gotten away from that in recent years.
The protagonist in my novel is a succubus and she has a similar drawback. Any sort of intimacy, including touch, and she starts to drain the life force of whoever she's being intimate with.
The psychology of being separate from the rest of humanity is a concept I like to explore
The Spider Queen by Li Joshua
Who really understood that was Amy Chu. Poison ivy should never be good or evil, she should be a force of nature. Again this is why I think she seems like she'd be so much more fun as a fae creature
I don't know that there are any other writers I would trust to do it, they're too fixated on good versus evil, standard Cape comic tropes. I don't know if Ivy actually fits in those anymore.
I love the idea of Ivy as the May Queen, not a bat villain or in the Justice League
I've been talking about how much I would love to see poison ivy depicted as Fae and so since DC continues to try to make an evil version of Ivy I'd like to talk about that concept
I don't think we should try an evil ivy. I think we should try a winter ivy. Contrast her with the poison ivy we're used to, a summer ivy
Because in the fae system of belief there's no such thing as evil. Death and darkness aren't necessarily evil. They're part of a cycle, and I've always felt like the only writer