Her reunion with Sean is a really important part of that. The revelation doesn’t lead to him treating her as an inconvenience. He’s delighted to discover he has a daughter. Ther…

Her reunion with Sean is a really important part of that. The revelation doesn’t lead to him treating her as an inconvenience. He’s delighted to discover he has a daughter. Theresa arrives carrying an enormous piece of his life that he never knew was missing, and suddenly they have to work out how to be family without having had any of the years that would normally lead up to that relationship. Muir Island gives her a connection to Moira and that wider circle of mutants, which is useful because I don’t want her whole history reduced to her first criminal association. There are people and places she can belong to beyond Black Tom’s influence. Then Fallen Angels gives her another setting again. She and Jamie Madrox get involved in the search for Sunspot and Warlock, and she ends up around this strange collection of young mutants and outsiders. She isn’t just standing beside Banshee so someone can point out the family resemblance. She’s participating in a story with its own problems and personalities. That’s the part of her history I want to keep following. There’s already enough here for her to have conflicting loyalties, an unusual family, a recognizable set of powers, and connections outside that family. She hasn’t had the amount of page time that the main X-Men have had where I’m reading, but the groundwork is there. Theresa has spent a lot of her early life inside decisions other people made for her. Seeing her get room to make her own is more interesting to me than simply seeing another person use a sonic scream.