Whats the deal with the New Son?
A16: In a nutshell, the New Son (or Sun?) is an alternate Gambit who has evolved to become a being of pure energy. (There is a hint that he might be the Gambit from the AoA, as Fontanelle’s Dreamscrape showed a scene of Magneto and Rogue looking at the M’Kraan Crystal as the bombs dropped, which happened at the end of that plotline.) His world having been destroyed by a disaster, he foresaw the same happening on 616 Earth and crossed realities to save humanity by creating another earth on which they could live. Naturally, sculpting a world required serious resources and he used Gambit to procure these. Although all this was explicitly explained in Gambit #22, it is widely accepted that the plotline did change in the middle due to editorial pressures. It was pretty clear in the beginning that baby Charles, the son of Magneto and Rogue from the AoA, was the New Son, but, for whatever reason, Fabian Nicieza was forced to abandon that plotline and go with an alternate plan.
