I too have lost some heavy meat. I'll break the reply in two posts.
I agree. We haven't seen much of Warren with children and how he feels or acts around them (minus the fake scenario during DAS). There's an
Unlimited story in which he sets up a place where (disabled?) children can fly, and he's shown to be happy in flying with them.
(Don't worry about the spoilers tag. I use them to respect you people, so in case any of you weren't interested to readd you could skip it)
The scenario was written in the 2000s, so something pre-Krakoa. The scenario (year 2000) was that the X-Men were subjected to some rays that reversed their gender and the canon author implied that the involved X-Men all would learn to live with their new (swapped) gender. Which I don't see believable.
If the Warren from this scenario had access to Krakoa's protocols, I'm SURE he'd ask to die and be resurrected with his original DNA (so male). Because as you pointed our, Warren (on top of wanting to have a family of his own) has never had issues with his body. And yes, I agree he would search for any tech that could reverse the change. But the scenario (which, I underline, is a canon story) specifies that the X-Men cannot find any way to reverse the change (no tech, no magic, no Jamie Braddock to play warp reality). So I was playing by the canon rules.
We have to return to
X-Factor, but Warren was canon-ized as being heavily traumatized by hospitals and drugs. And the transitioning procedure is not easy walk. I see him not feeling like starting. I'm not much competent, so what I say might be wrong, but no surgical operation (as 2024's tech in our world) could ever give Warren completely his body back - he would still miss things, things would still be different. I don't see Warren facing his PTSD about hospitals and body manipulations just to have an "imitation" of his former body back.
I just use this silly story to latch up to Grinning Soul.
Hm, you could be right on Cam Hodge (but this would imply the X-Office is aware of Warren's past with Cam and give a thing about it, which... I'm not sure!).
I admit I never read him queer coded back then, and always thought people mixed up Cameron with the guy from
Angel: Revelations (which, if I remember right, is said to be in love/attracted by Warren - might be wrong!).
Recently, though... yes, that line of his to Candy about "he left me for you" is very...
hm.
THIS IS BRILLIANT!!! *capslock necessary* I so need to steal it for my AUs, Thievery, can I, can I?
I think we already spoke about this, not sure how you felt about Warren having access to Crimson Dawn's powers. But, it would be a good way to give Warren a link to Crimson Dawn and access to it. I admit now I'm thinking about a sequel to the Crimson Dawn story, in which unbalance threatens the Crimson Dawn reign (Gomurr is gone, vanished, whatever). So there could be some kind of inner succession battle, and Warren considered one of those who could raise to the throne and/or the new guy in charge to claim Warren - as Kuragari did with Psylocke in the miniseries.
With the Crimson Dawn so heavily linked to the whole bodyswap and "appropriation" of Asian-coded themes to whites (Betsy, Warren, Logan), I don't think the Crimson Dawn will ever be used again. Too bad.
100% quoting this. Up to, sadly, the last line.
I think he fought with Sauron more than once, either in
Hidden Years and/or the Ka-zar title or a title with Spider-Man in the Savage Land.