Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

...lingering effects hang over the book and its cast like an albatross.

But before our reunion with the X-Men begins, we first visit the memories of Madelyne Pryor as she relives the terror of the plane crash, effectively captured by Claremont's high-density prose and narration.

...that she couldn't save her mother, and while she may not recognize that yet, she refuses to be prevented from saving someone else she loves.

Successfully reducing her force field for the first time, Sally lashes out at Masque, forcing Rusty's restoration, but not Emma's...

...in a cruel twist of dramatic-irony-laden fate from protecting those she's loved.

Like Rusty, Sally's powers come with their own "original sin", but whereas the boy's "atonement" comes in seeking punishment, Sally's comes from her attempts to make amends.

It isn't her fault..

...why Rusty has chosen to stay behind.

Even as her intervention leads Masque to restore Emma's scars, Rusty insists that this is an atonement for his sins just as her initial scarring was for her.

While Sally's abilities have always protected her, they've also prevented her...

In exchange for her transformation, Rusty has offered himself as tribute, in essense, transferring the burden of Emma's "punishment" onto himself.

It isn't a punishment Rusty deserves, and Sally, operating with her own traumatic origin at the forefront of her mind, recognizes...

...bring Emma to the Tunnels, where her beauty is restored by Masque.

Emma's condescension to Masque–that he understands how he must feel somehow–despite how wantonly awful he tends to be–doesn't undermine her transformation, & she prepares to leave the Tunnels, beauty restored.

...around her, Rusty's ability is destructive at its core, a fact he's reminded of not only by flaming-on during his brief intimacy with Sally but by the transfer of the woman he burned to a NY hospital.

Artie, oh sweet Artie, puts the elder ward's trauma on full blast, and...

...the Tunnels, where she intends to return to life among the Morlocks.

Sally's flashbacks help inform our understanding of her actions, but Rusty is afforded no such insight and can't understand why she'd want to return to the "dangerous" tunnels.

Rusty's growing affection...

...reaction, and the girl runs off with Rusty in tow.

Jean and Scott reflect on what it means to now beach the teachers, each hoping these kids end up better than they themselves did.

I've written about X-Factor as a story of arrested development, but it's also a story of...