On 15 May 2004 12:25:01 -0700, barnett RemoveThis @shentel.net (JLB) wrote:
>ABout whether Jean was or wasn't the original Phoenix. The rational
>to bring her back the first time was the Phoenix was just a copy,
>right? I was wondering if anyone has suggested that the Phoenix
>pulled out Jean's astral form and made it physical while cocconing her
>dying body to heal? Then when she dies, her new physical body is
>destroyed, she tries to return Jean's astral form, but Jean tries to
>send the memories of the Dark Phoenix with it. It doesn't want them
>so it shoves them in the clone that becomes Madelyne.
>
>JLB
Here's how my theory goes.
On the shuttle craft, Jean's original body is destroyed almost to the
point of death. In that moment, she taps into the very highest core
of her potential.
She has a conversation with "herself" in she makes the agreement to
become Phoenix, essentially giving herself over to her highest
potential.
Since her body is so far gone, she places it into a cocoon for healing
while creating a "new" body for herself out of the energy she now has
access to which her body could access. (that is why the M'Krann
crystal made her ephemeral because as the energy was being drained
away, she became less and less real).
By creating a body as such, she basically gave herself over to more
power than she was capable of handling and without her "real" body's
defense mechanisms designed to help her grow into that power and as
time went on, her emotions and powers developed a kind of upward
spiralling dependence on one another (which scare her and is why she
subconsciously locked herself out of her power).
As time went on and she was corrupted by the influences of Mastermind
and her own power, she unlocked more and more of that power until she
basically was driven over the edge by it, becoming Dark Phoenix.
We pretty much know what happened next up until she "died" on the
moon.
What happened after that relies on a notion that Jean was slightly
unhinged by the whole experience, and mentally unstable.
At that point, she sent her "essence" back to her body, but as she
started to come to consciousness, she remembered all that she did and
her personality fragmented.
That part of Jean that was primarily good was left with the body, not
quite capable of finishing the job of awakening, while the other part
of Jean that was fundamentally flawed and given to extreme emotion was
split off and found the tabula rasa that was Madelyne Pryor and
awakened her.
That is why I figured that Jean had no telepathy when the cocoon was
opened. It was a defense mechanism or a side effect of having her
personality fragmented and occupied with the task of inhabitting two
bodies at the same time (Jean and Madelyne).
Madelyne of course was corrupted and that led to what we saw in
Inferno, which I always read as another conversation amongst herself
with the parts of her personality. She was acknowledging to herself
that the only way to save herself was to reintegrate her personality
and forgive herself for what she had done as Phoenix.
It also explains why shortly thereafter, her telepathy "magically"
returned (about the same time she stopped the war of the three
distinct segments of her personality) and why her power seem to grow
over time again until she became Phoenix once more.
And of course the rest is history.
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