Originally Posted by
salarta
Gonna throw my post in the ring figuring people can ignore it if they don't want to see it.
I've always felt Polaris offers a great mutant metaphor example that hasn't really been tapped for her. If we looked only at her very first couple issues, she's a young woman who had no idea of her latent powers or heritage, but DID have her green hair - and felt she had to hide it to avoid attracting the curious. This raises a lot of "why" questions. Why did she feel she needed to hide it? Why didn't she consider the idea that she might be a mutant? What experiences did she have growing up prior to her powers awakening, and how did they shape her worldview?
Lorna grew up as someone who could "pass" as human but required hair dye to make it happen. Or in this day and age, she could theoretically keep it green, but she'd have to pretend she's dyeing it if she wants to pass as human.
When you add in her origin story of causing the plane crash that killed her parents, she demonstrates the dangers of her powers in the hands of someone too young for those powers.
In terms of passage of time, Lorna does also have the "heir of Magneto" aspect to her through which you could see her take to the role. Think of things like Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh. In younger years, before proving herself, Jamie Lee was known largely as "Janet Leigh's daughter." Lorna could likewise start out her "heir of Magneto" reveal largely known for who her father is, but over time in a story of her life, overtake her father's reputation and stand out as her own icon.
In regular 616 comics, that would be difficult to do on account of Marvel keeping both characters alive and wanting to retain Magneto as such an icon (and deservedly for him). 616 comics need to do more work to balance out Lorna as Magneto's heir and Lorna as her own character. But a life story, could allow passage of time to make it work better.
In this sense, Lorna in an "X-Men life story" would juxtapose the other X-Men (mainly the O5) in that she takes a different path from them in her life.