It's Laurie. That dress she is wearing is the same from a cover of Bachalao. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/wallflower/4005-40535/
I said it before, i half jokingly expect someone like Angel to randomly be revealed to have died from slipping on a piece of toast during breakfast.
It's not a matter of "how" she died, but that she got killed so randomly. Though granted i should give the benefit of a doubt on what ever it's a cheap or fitting death (after effect of touching the infected Apocalypse and Rictor for example), but the fact remains that the current era writers seem to pick characters to die seemingly without care or respect for their skills and ability to survive or overcome situations, they have been shown to posses previously. Because it doesn't matter as the new shiny flesh printer manufactory and memory downloads will just print out a new copy of characters to throw back onto the pages.
It's also not fake deaths, these characters died for real, their mortal coils are still where the X-men left them and their souls/minds are who knows where. They are just getting easily replaced by an identical copy.
Which now that i think about it reminds me to Cable during Si Spurrier's X-force, given that the writer of it is apparently comming back to the X-men comics. Though thinking about it further, i realise this opens a whole can of worms about original vs. clone. So i guess i shouldn't push that debate again.
As far as i can recall it really would be Siryn's first death in this new status quo.
Though it makes me wonder why Storm seems to have been singled out not to die cheaply?
Only thought about this on the second read of the summary.
Is that what she remembers or what the investigation of X-factor told her?
If it's memories and she can remember why she had Adam kill her, seemingly up to the point where she actualy died, doesn't that mean Cerebro could constantly reach her to back those memories up? Yet nobody involved in the whole memory downloading business payed attention to what was going on?
It's not like Xavier and co. have an issue with the privacy of people's mind or nastily manipulating it, heck they downloaded people's memories for decades without their knowledge, creating backups they can bring back against any wish the original could have had, yet they have no system set up to warn them if the freshly downloaded memories include mutants and ex-mutant being imprisoned or otherwise suffering?
Then again this is the time when the X-men have basicly any resources they wish at their disposale, but never make use of it to the fullest in order to keep the drama and half heartly thought out stories rolling.
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Wasn't the "no touching" thing between the twins fixed by the Children of the Vault?
They used their light power to almost kill Iceman, and then they used it again during Secret Invasion
Yeah, they were shown using their powers in tandem after that and seemed to retain their CotV upgrades for a while after. But that hasn't been seen for a while. I guess the handwave would be those powers were temporary and wore off eventually, while the instabilities from Sasquatch's experiments were recurring.
Another thing that I liked was Adam X's appearance, and how he was NOT made into some over the top cliche. He's not the most well designed character visually, but character wise he was not the guy writers pigeon hole him into being.
Him offering Sofia an out was very much in character and I hope the plot is picked up later
This is the kind of story that should have taken place much, much sooner in this relaunch and under a bigger, 'main' book like New Mutants or X-men. THIS is how you get audiences to care about the resurrections and not just as a cheap excuse for death. Still is, going by the ending, but still. Much much better.
Just needed a Dust and Jay Guthrie scene. Also, Nature Girl not being around Trevor was sad.
Still good issue.