Originally Posted by
Sutekh
Agreed on the Vision erasure thing. Tommy being a speedster, and not some sort of synthetic/human hybrid, taking after his 'spiritual father' would have been far neater, back in the day, and possibly erased the need for Jonas at all, in the book, since they would have already had a 'Vision' legacy.
But, what is, is, and Vision's already got nothing to do with the twins. He's already been 'erased' from the jump.
The only question is whether or not they were created whole cloth, as teenagers, which seems pretty extreme, not just creating whole living persons, but also forging all sorts of memories and past records of them having lived their imaginary past lives (birth records, doctors and dentists and teachers and rabbis and whatever sudddenly 'remembering' having 'always known them'), and inserting them into pre-existing families, all creepy like *or* whether two pre-existing teens had their entire lives stolen as they were replaced by these two spiritual children of Wanda's, and, even creepier, physically resculpted to look like what the grown up Billy and Tommy would have looked like, instead of their own appearance.
Hence my preferring the notion that they somehow inhabited spiritually wounded or incomplete teens, in essence, saving them and making them whole and giving them (and their loved ones) a second chance at life, rather than usurping the lives of two healthy teens and possibly even evicting (or overwriting) the previous souls!
It could be interesting to find out that pre-and-post soul-merger-whatever, Billy and Tommy are different enough from who they were before that it has caused some issues. Perhaps Tommy, in particular, got along pretty well with his family before the accident, but when he 'woke up' as this new (speedster) Tommy, he felt a bit distant from his birth family, as if they'd accepted that he wasn't waking up, or coming back, or recovering, and begun to move on, and hence his teenage troubles landing him in juvie, as he began acting out (and exploring his new powers, which would likely cause all sorts of teenage shenanigans in and of themselves...).