if you're going more for 'Malifaux 100 years later' approach, in some cases they wouldn't be the same characters aside from the neverborn maybe, unless a side effect of soulstone usage makes them long lived, but seeing decendants of Perdita driving down the street doing a drive by magicing would be cool.
one of the things fluff and aesthetic I would of liked more with the normal game, is more steampunk techy elements, ramos and hoffman are great with most of the constructs, but things like the metal gamin, electrical creation's tentacles, or rail golem's arms bring it more into the fantasy magic, than steamtechy, kind of wish for the more metal constructs to be built and just powered by soulstone, less they're magiced into existance. a modern setting for malifaux I'd like to see more techy stuff, computer systems running on soulstone, uzi with magic unlimited ammo or something
a flying delorian
yeah, I'm talking more the setting and aesthetics, the rules would obviously need changes to accomedate things like modern weapons, but I get into games more based on the setting and aesthetics