If they do keep Rachel going into the fall and if they don't keep her partnered with Cable, then I would like to see her go to Emma and start being all about the "mission". I know that won't happen because Rachel joining up with Emma would be her questioning the validity of the X-Men and I don't think they will ever go there. Maybe Hickman will let her go Phoenix again, that does give her something to do and it has an impact on her relationship with the X-Men and the Avengers.
<sigh> I hope they find a way to keep her going into the regular series this fall instead of writing her out. Please just one writer try and find a way to connect Rachel properly to Jean and Scott in an actual storyline.
Her role has been at the school primarily, especially as a teacher. Mutantkind is her focus, not just being a superhero.
Rachel's motivation definitely could be played up more since she's a character who reacts emotionally. Due to her past, she has a different POV than everyone else. She's not interchangeable with Jean since she does have that very different past which gives her a different outlook. But a lot of writers unfortunately have just written her as Jean or a generic telepathic character.
There could be an argument made that Rachel is too close to the cause and needs to take distance from X-Men for a while to see things from a different perspective and it more of a direction. To certain extent, Excalibur did that but since it was pretty much erased, it has become irrelevant at this point
Well the best case scenario for Rachel being written out would be returning to the present and going back to college and not telling anyone that she is back, just walking away to try one more shot at living a normal life for a while. It might even be an interesting way to segue her into another team like the West Coast Avengers where she crosses path with the WCA at some point while she is in school and Kate asks Rachel to join her WCA team. It would give Rachel a nice prolonged break from the X-Men and still let her be active on a team book somewhere else.
Another possibility would be change her powerset completely from Tp/Tk to Energy Manipulation/absorbtion. They could justify it as her giving up her psychic powers to get rid of hound programming and trigger power from Scott's side of family. This sould give her a completely new role to get into.
Rachel Summers would NOT go to school at Stanford or Berkeley. She’d go to Oxford.
but rachel had her unique power, chronokinesis it's how she got in the 616 to begin with, it just need to be flashed out more, she's a rugged survivor from an apocalyptic future not some random insecure damsel in distress, her tp/tk were fueled by rage, she was able to rewrite her own dna to the point she was becoming a dinosaur hybrid ....that's crazy.... time to take charge and overwrite whatever Hab did to her all on her own, she can save herself, the potential has always been there.
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
For all intents and purposes her chronokinesis does not exist anymore and current version of Rachel ie post space Rachel has no feats to support the idea that it'd be possible for her to rewrite DNA, she might have lost that power when she got back the hound programming when phoenix abandoned her. If she could , she would've done it already or even Jean could have fixed her. So it can be assumed that Rachel or Jean does not have capability to remove her hound programming on their own.
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
Reasons. And yes, it was till him when he died, just the 811 version.
Seriously, that's it. She broke free of the programming herself last time as a teen. I get that what the twins brought back the trauma, but if Jean could reverse everyone else then Rachel could easily remove the programming. But the writers don't know what to do with her so for "reasons" she is left a rapid slave.
She did so by forcing herself to remember last moments of everyone she killed essentially consuming her with rage and hatred to point of madness. Current Rachel is more or less used to pain and suffering and will have to go through a lot to cause her that level of emotional distress again
Hmm... That's not the way I remember Rachel's self-emancipation happening.
All we need now is Nimrod to show up and we can repeat history with a twist... "What if Rachel Summers became the hound she was meant to be?!?"Current Rachel is more or less used to pain and suffering and will have to go through a lot to cause her that level of emotional distress again
I sadly fear that writers like the hound aspect of rachel and it will probably something that they are never going to leave.
Even if they could solve the issue and even if past stories have deal with it, it will be ignored.