Xavier's diary entry got me thinking about the Muir Island Saga. I remember a poignant couple pages at the end of Charles trying to find and bring back his son's mind. Made me a little sad for the way Charles's current stance is a pretty simple "We'd be better off if my son were dead / isolated".

Charles's current stance toward his son then reminded me of Moira and Proteus back when he was Mutant X. Which finally led me to an interesting thought, about how the once-saintly parents of mutantdom, Charles and Moira, have trended in one direction while the previously villainous children, David and Kevin, have gone the opposite way. A decades long changing of the guard.

A fair point - maybe this Proteus (and for that matter, this Legion) turned out more inclined toward heroism specifically because of a much less benevolent parent? Like, children must rebel against their parents, and when your parents are defined as good then villainy is all that's left, but now that the parents are beyond merely flawed there's room for the kids to do better?