Probably Warlock?
I do see Doug as kinda shady. He's critical of member's of the Quiet Council making unilateral decisions for the the country, but he does the same thing when it suits him. Letting Nature Girl and Moira go free has lead to some heinous stuff that he hasn't had to answer for (yet). I like this turn for him, except that the stories he's in seem to position him as being morally correct instead of a character with a particular point of view that makes choices.
I'd been down to see him more intentionally written as a Lawfully Neutral character.
Bless Hickman and his love of the New Mutants and elevating Doug to a prominent serious role on Krakoa. Doug is Bae. Bei loves Cypher. #Beipher
He has shown some hard feelings regarding Xavier and his own death in Fall of The Mutants.
Maybe with his connections with Warlock, he had plans to make the mutants embrace the Phalanx.
Oh, I laughed out loud at that salty tone, "Sure Douglas, nothing can go wrong, like that time you got shot to death while I was off in space having sex with a bird-lady..."
And one of my favorite lines from the Academy X years;
Hellion (to Prodigy) "Why are you wearing body armor?"
Prodigy "Because Doug Ramsey."
Hellion "Who?"
Prodigy "Exactly."
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