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Key to Understanding New X-Men? (Spoilers)

 
 
Chuckling Duck
13:18 / 20.02.02
Cassandra isn’t Charles’ twin. She’s Xavier’s right brain.

Charles has always been a super-rational, disciplined, Apollonian genius rather than a creative, intuitive one. I believe this is the result of an early struggle for dominance between the two lobes of his ultra-powerful mutant brain. The left brain won, and “killed” Xavier’s emotional self by burying it deep in his subconscious, where it smothered and festered, growing malign and hateful.

All that I’m pretty sure about. What I think happened next is that the suppressed side of Xavier bided its time until it discovered an incredibly powerful mutant, one of the first of the “next generation”. Perhaps the mutant had just been born, or had just entered adolescence, or had just been injected with the gene boosting serum. “Cassandra” then abandoned Xavier’s body entirely and took possession of the new mutant as the first step in a elaborately planned scheme to take Xavier’s body.

Am I brilliant or deluded? Or brilliantly deluded?
 
 
The Natural Way
13:41 / 20.02.02
No.

They clearly are twins. I think you're hypothesizing beyond the evidence: all of which points to the fact that Cassy and Charles are - regardless of Cassy's pre-physical state - siblings. If you want to read metaphors into it, the 'left brain/right brain' thing's as good as any, but I'd rather go w/ the Groffian birth trauma stuff, because we know Grant's into all that and it parallels the subject matter.

[ 20-02-2002: Message edited by: Fantastic YOU [I, Runce] ]
 
  
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