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...childhood in her future-past.
Coupled with the reality that she's returned to past different from her own, Rachel's disorientation only deepens her retraumatization.
And yet, in spite of it and so defining of her character, she endures to make sure Amara finds a little joy.
@xreadspodcast Kitty in the bullet-awful writer be damned-is definitely an incredible turning point in their relationship.
“Disappointed Ms. Frost??”
“Astonished Ms. Pryde.”
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Rachel recounts the Days of Future Past to the team, pulling back the cover on the depth of the horrors the two-issue event only hinted to.
In Rachel's time, the government doesn't just legislate against mutants, it places them in concentration camps.
Her arguments sounds...
The psychic backlash as Rachel learns of her mother's death–she just heard her voice on the phone after all (good accidental retcon seed Claremont!)–knocks all the assembled X-Men to the floor, and it is no longer deniable that Rachel has returned to the "wrong" past.
...of Magneto's characterization. Since my first readthrough, I've come to learn that "Magneto Was Right"– how long is a marginalized community expected to suffer before they radicalize?
Worse, Kurt's fury directly condemns Xavier. What use is the dream they've all died for?
...only to be dismissed by Charles. Rachel stays behind, thoughts hidden, and overhears Kurt's sermon on Xavier's folly.
In a lot of ways, Kurt's despondence over "the dream" in the light of the governments crimes against mutants tracks... and speaks to the growing grey-ness...
During a standard Claremontian intermission, ship captain and Cyclops-grief-fling Aleytys "Lee" Forrester saves Magneto from a shark.
That's it. That's the tweet.
...or not she believes it.
Forge finds a beaten Naze dying on his Sanctum's floor, the entity's deception unrevealed. Ororo confronts him a final time: they may have been a team today, but she has forgotten just how much the man has stolen from her.
...Illyana arrives on scene, finally revealing herself before the team as the mutant-sorceress we've come to love and fear.
The strength of Claremont's pen on both books (and later, his collaboration with Weezie) means that his characters' arcs aren't interrupted across books...