Yes, because people who write fanfiction for comic books are always such slavish adherents to modern continuity. The entire fucking Marvel line could be about Night Nurse right now and it wouldn't slow the fanfic roll.
Even back in the late nineties where I couldn't swing a dead cat without tripping over somebody's ninety-chapter X-ficathon, I remember a metric shit-ton of reboots or "fixes." alt.comics.fanfiction was full of people deciding to ignore continuity and go off their own way. (Also, Pryde/Wisdom shippers.)