Rachel Grey-Summers is one of the most popular B-List characters that the X-Men have to offer, and she's one of - if not the - most popular alternate reality character on their roster. She is an omega level mutant with the powers of telepathy and telekinesis, and sometimes chronokinesis. She's the daughter of Jean Grey and Scott Summers from a reality where Jean never went Dark Phoenix. She was the host of the Phoenix Force for the majority of the 1980s and the 1990s. She's a founding member of Excalibur. All things considered, Rachel should be a mainstay on the X-Men's roster, treated with respect by the writers and editors of the X-Men books.
But... she's not.
All things considered, Rachel is in a lot of ways treated like the redheaded stepchild of the X-Men. She has been written by her own creator as a rookie when she had years of experience under her belt, and just this year has been mind controlled by three (!) different people to turn against the X-Men. The last of these has led to what appears to be an indefinite status quo as she goes back to being under the sway of Ahab, in an emotional state that made it impossible for Jean Grey to cure
Why?
This is the thought I had on the subject in another thread that has spurred me to create this one:
Rachel deserves to be written and treated with respect, and given a character and personality that is entirely her own - something that she hasn't had at least since she was brought into Claremont's X-Treme X-Men and then further into his Uncanny reboot era. Marc Guggenheim tried, but his writing wasn't up to par and it didn't stick. How would you fix her?