I assume Charles must have developed a better way to deal with Jean's Phoenix powers than the Frozen direction of "totally repress everything and hope this doesn't turn you into a supervillain!" Because even without needing to save them at the dam, some Phoenix stuff was rising to the surface.
Well, he did get a look at Phoenix!Jean and Logan killing her in Logan's memories. Plus he realised before ever meeting Jean he'd been wrong in how he treated Raven, which while far from identical from the young Jean question was also about control. So yes, chances are he worked out another way to deal with Jean's inner Phoenix.
I wonder how / why Charles got off not!heroin in the regular timeline. I suppose the same way / reason any drug addict gets clean. Or maybe the serum stopped working. (Which might also explain the permanently blue Beast in the "present", but in addition Hank could just've decided to be himself.)
While Hank deciding for himself and Charles deciding losing telepathy permanently is just not worth it would be the saner solution for how it happened in the original timeline, I strongly suspect the serum stopped working and the two of them were forced to deal with a returned and this time permanent loss of lower body movement and a constant Beast shape respectively, which made them sober up, so to speak. Also with the Vietnam war over there would be students in need again as an incentive to STAY sober (instead of Hank looking for the next serum).
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Well, he did get a look at Phoenix!Jean and Logan killing her in Logan's memories. Plus he realised before ever meeting Jean he'd been wrong in how he treated Raven, which while far from identical from the young Jean question was also about control. So yes, chances are he worked out another way to deal with Jean's inner Phoenix.
I wonder how / why Charles got off not!heroin in the regular timeline. I suppose the same way / reason any drug addict gets clean. Or maybe the serum stopped working. (Which might also explain the permanently blue Beast in the "present", but in addition Hank could just've decided to be himself.)
While Hank deciding for himself and Charles deciding losing telepathy permanently is just not worth it would be the saner solution for how it happened in the original timeline, I strongly suspect the serum stopped working and the two of them were forced to deal with a returned and this time permanent loss of lower body movement and a constant Beast shape respectively, which made them sober up, so to speak. Also with the Vietnam war over there would be students in need again as an incentive to STAY sober (instead of Hank looking for the next serum).