Where have I seen this before?
Gambit isn’t so much as on trial, but having a really intense interview. For what position you ask? Why, the literal King of Thieves. Apparently, since Candra went bye-bye, the international Thieves Guild’s aren’t really playing nice without a fearless leader to keep them in line. Gambit’s name popped up as one of four possible candidates because, apparently, Jean-Luc isn’t epic enough (though likely it’s just ageism at work). Jean-Luc wants Gambit to take over everything and literally kidnapped him into the interview process. Gambit didn’t exactly agree to do it but something in a file changed his mind. Now he’s on another heist to prove himself and not doing too well.
A popular plot line in fan fiction is the whole ‘Jean-Luc wants Remy to take over, Remy doesn’t want to do it’. This is because Gambit did take over for a short time but that didn’t end well, not to mention Jean-Luc has always had unreasonable expectations on Remy. In any case, it’s not going to work here because Gambit can’t be the leader of the Thieves Guild because he’s an X-Men and generally a hero. Plus, his solo is ending so no way to play out the plot line. With only one issue left, a decision is going to have to be made and Gambit will then either languish without a title, or more likely move onto something else, possibly Uncanny Avengers (which scares me, Remender shouldn’t be allowed to touch any characters!). So if he’s in another X-Title, then he can’t run the guild… or I guess he could but that would be unnecessarily complicated.
All I know, is if Remy becomes King and then ‘delegates’ the day to day duties to Jean-Luc… then Chellebelles should get royalties.
X-Men: The (fan fic) Series 
Okay, so this whole trial thing didn’t turn out as bad as I was expecting. I was expecting character fail, plot holes, and continuity fail: I only got continuity fail.
What the hell is this orphanage nonsense? Jean-Luc never picked up Gambit from an orphanage! Didn’t Asmus ever read Gambit series 3 #1 where it’s all spelled out in black, white, and pretty colours???
And I also don’t get why the idea of there being international offices came as a surprise. They already dealt with the Tokyo Thieves Guild during Gambit series 3 as well.
Cause of the whole Fagen thing? Dunno, I think these are the least of our worries considering just how much Asmus could have really screwed up both Gambit and ROMY. I’m counting my blessings… though I still wish it ended better.