Well, according to Straight to Hell--a Hellblazer Site (http://www.insanerantings.com/hell/characters/cpp/golden.html):
"John Constantine had a brother. A twin brother, who died along with Mary Constantine as she gave birth to John. It's possible that John may even have killed his brother in his mother's womb, strangling him with his umbilical cord.
In another world, it was John who died and his brother that survived. This Constantine, who also bore the name John, was the opposite of his brother - he grew to become a powerful and great Magus - when he confronted hell itself in Newcastle he gave his arm and saved Astra's soul.
The Golden Boy and John saw images of each other and the Golden Boy was afraid of his other self. He tried to kill his brother and set in course a sequence of events which led to the two combining their souls."
According to the section about Thomas Constantine, however:
"John later met his father in hell, were he learned that he actually tried to abort both his children - which is why both Mary and The Golden Boy died."
I wouldn't call John Constantine naive or innocent, at any rate. This is a guy who sold his soul to three different lords of Hell and orchestrated the fall of the Archangel Gabriel.
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Date: 2004-05-28 08:41 am (UTC)"John Constantine had a brother. A twin brother, who died along with Mary Constantine as she gave birth to John. It's possible that John may even have killed his brother in his mother's womb, strangling him with his umbilical cord.
In another world, it was John who died and his brother that survived. This Constantine, who also bore the name John, was the opposite of his brother - he grew to become a powerful and great Magus - when he confronted hell itself in Newcastle he gave his arm and saved Astra's soul.
The Golden Boy and John saw images of each other and the Golden Boy was afraid of his other self. He tried to kill his brother and set in course a sequence of events which led to the two combining their souls."
According to the section about Thomas Constantine, however:
"John later met his father in hell, were he learned that he actually tried to abort both his children - which is why both Mary and The Golden Boy died."
I wouldn't call John Constantine naive or innocent, at any rate. This is a guy who sold his soul to three different lords of Hell and orchestrated the fall of the Archangel Gabriel.