X-23 isn’t addicted to adrenaline or constant action, but she’s always been dedicated to a mission. To actually arrive at a point where safety and tranquility is accomplished is rough on her. That’s why she and Cable are on the team.
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X-23 and Cable did get less characterization then Psylocke did, but fair enough for a first issue of a series setting up a team series that's she's the leader of.
Not so sure that it was just boredom, though. While "safety sucks" might seem like a petty reason for Laura to join Psylocke, the context was: "I don't feel anything. Becauase nothing here [on Krakoa] matters." Also, there's Psylocke's assessment: "...You're a solider and you need a war...None of us have a place in paradise." and Larua's explaining that she wants to get out of her father's shadow (whatever that means). May not be the most profound, but does fit with Laura's seeming tendency to always be looking for another mission.
As far as earlier comments r.e. Laura seeming to be more violent then she'd been in the recent past, it does seem to be somewhat situational. In the All-New Wolverine series, she and Gabby got pretty brutal taking down a slaving ring and in Tamaki's X-23 relaunch, she made it clear that she'd kill the people responsible for Gabby's kidnapping if she couldn't save her sister.
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
It doesn't fit though, its the battle Laura has been fighting against since like forever. She is not a rabid dog that needs someone to mark prey for her to sic, and Cable is not some brainless soldier (who is ok with being a willing offer for Sinister to molest?). Their characterizations were ****, and clearly just being forced to fit into new Psylocke's story.
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If the reasoning for joining this team is boredom, I'm sure Hellion and Surge aren't far behind. We know their action happy selves are bored as hell.
She is a bit. In her solos, Laura had purpose beyond just looking for her next mission, however that was due, in part, to looking after her little sister Gabby. She reacted to brewing trouble rather than actively seeking it out.
Perhaps she's just venting the loss of her and retreating back to old coping mechanisms; time will tell I suppose.
Gabby isn't dead or anything, at least I don't think. She's conspicuously absent so far though.
Laura is the one character I think would be most opposed to Krakoa just based on her recent character arc. First there's her acknowledging clones as separate people and trying to stop their creation and use as weapons. Then there's the lengths she had gone to bridge grudges people had against her and Wolverine; to the point of working with a human group made up of victims of their rampages. Going off to the mutant hidden elf village kinda gets in the way of that