I guess, for some people, it goes down to how much Cyclops does consider his daughter as opposed to Jean. In the X-Men/Alpha Flight, he kind of figures it out and he gives her fatherly advice at the end (and it later turns out she'd starting keeping him psychically oblivious to her), in Days of Future Past, Jean's reaction to her is vitriolic and Cyclops' is just like "why didn't you tell me?", later even telling Jean, "would it really be bad to have Rachel as your daughter?". Then, in the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix that you mentioned, Jean kind of doesn't really interact with Rachel whereas Cyclops has a whole scene dedicated to apologizing for not being the father she wanted him to be (which was kind of her fault what with making him psychically forget and all). He straight up tells her, "I just wanted you to know... how very proud I am to have been your father." After Jean dies and Rachel takes the name Grey, Cyclops is understanding and knows she's angry at him when she starts calling him Scott instead of 'dad' and he consoles her after all of the Greys are killed. Even Teen Cyclops makes a point of mentioning that he is Rachel's father.
So, I guess the crux of the issue is, Jean has never been written as Rachel's mother but Cyclops has always been written as her father, just as he's been written as Cable's father and Nathan Grey's father. Jean is completely Cable's mother and she's Nathan's mother too (given Disassembled and issues in the original X-Man), but her moments with Rachel have been far and few (before/during the wedding and Red).
Hell, during Days of Future Present, it was implied that the 811 Timeline had adapted to Kelly's assassination given that Ahab had mentioned chronal changes so at that point, Jean was still set to marry Cyclops and have Rachel with him. Then, of course, Claremont left and it became an alternate universe.
Last edited by Drexelhand; 07-16-2019 at 05:08 PM.
Doesn't mean that trying to kill them for years is a good thing.
That turns off people even in the most dysfunctional ones.
What was the order to read this and Uncanny 22 again that was suggested?
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey