I haven't kept up with uncanny X-men for a while (I focused on Astonishing and Young Avengers for a while afterward until I couldn't afford anymore, lol) so I didn't know much about what happened after a certain point. I didn't know that he didn't have a secondary mutation - oops. I heard that after House of M he was 'depowered' until Emma got him to realise it was all in his head.

I know what you mean, from reading about his character it does seem weird that he'd get so angsty over something like that. Then again I'm a sucker for a bit of angst so I just glazed over it, hehehe, I just treated Austen's storyline as if it were different from the main Marvel universe because then you could consider a different backstory for the characters.

Ah okies, sorry I didn't think of all the editing and time you'd have to put into the first parts of the series to create the alternate endings. :S Well anyway, good luck with what you choose in the end! :D