Going to be honest, kind of wish Monet wasn't Penance. Because I wish we could go back to Penance being an actual person of her own. The original idea Lobdell had was that Penance was a deaf girl named Yvette who became diamond hard and razor sharp by absorbing negative psionic energy. And there was plenty of negative psionic energy because she was raised in a war-torn Eastern European country. That back story was apparent;y so part of the plan that bits of it even showed up on the old Fleer X-Men trading cards. Then it just . . . didn't happen. Then it seemed like they were going back to Penance being a person when Faerber's run on Gen X had the supposed "shell" get up and start moving around. But then they went back to the "shell" again. It feels like a waste of potential.