#route that doesn’t pick him bc he doesn’t get the chance to really establish himself / figure out all the secrets of the game

[latinokaeya-moving]

treated myself to the very short beginning section of three houses just now but i had to stop n turn off my switch when the game asked me to pick a house bc i started agonising over whether to go w edelgard first or just jump straight into the claude route

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Do you have any predictions for the next season based on the return of Sylvester? Do you think it be like when he returned in the comics? Just a big old side plot about poor Syl's money problems and a cool film studio set thingy base. (they could film scenes just on the sets of other shows)

YES i have predictions but they're more related to johns' & jdr's decision to make him a syl/jack chimera than anything. johns has mentioned in the stargirl aftershow that jack knight storylines may potentially be used, especially w/ the return of the shade (who betrayed the ISA, as dragon king mentioned), and i like to imagine it was with the shade's intervention that sylvester managed to survive, and whatever it was that he needed him for kept him from seeing pat & the staff for 10 years

i mean this isnt just his legacy, but his home. the stars and stripes have been a fixture in his life for ages, had been a means for him to be himself-- because no matter how much of sylvester pembertons life is changing or in jeopardy the star-spangled kid (and eventually starman) is there for him to live and breathe in-- and it doesn't make sense to me that he'd be revived (or saved from death?) and NOT return to pat and the stars and the staff

unless there was a bigger bad. unless there was a threat in those 10 years that sylvester had to deal with, and if they DO go the jack knight route of him forging a bond with the shade-- who is another league of power altogether-- it would make sense to me if the shade saved him in exchange for his help, and if syl couldnt reveal he was alive because of the upper hand of all the baddies thinking he was dead

as much as i love infinity inc, i feel like any chances for it were dashed as soon as they aged down syl's teammates (rick, yolanda, beth, hank jr) to courtneys generation and established in-universe that starman was leading the JSA. his JSA leadership basically functions as a stand-in for his being team dad of infinity inc, imo

and that being said i think he'll end up team dad of JSA 2.0 alongside pat. like pat was doing his best but hes way in over his head for sure??? when syl meets courtney in those JSA issues way back when he takes her under his wing IMMEDIATELY, no questions, and assures her she has a place as the star-spangled kid. that she has worth. and he promises to help her as best he can. if johns & jdr are going to write him as sylvester pemberton in any way hes GOT to be a good mentor to her... and, in extension, her friends

i imagine its going to be syl who fixes chuck. i imagine yolanda talking to him about murder (bc syl didnt have a no kill rule, and if they adapt his history as SSK close to siegels vision, then he killed as a teenager as well). i imagine syl providing the JSA 2.0 with paychecks and insurance and dental because they need it, ok, they really do

most of all, going back to the mentor thing, and the fact that stargirl has been a story of courtney discovering her identity more than anything, i imagine as they get closer and get to know each other, syl is going to confirm that when courtney picked up the staff and put on the stars, she DID become stargirl. and even if hes here and alive she is STILL stargirl, and the staff is still hers, and hes just glad to see someone still fighting the good fight-- that his legacy is carried on in someone like her

season 1 establishes courtneys place in her family i feel. season 2 will probably use the fact syl isnt her dad and have his return be a means to establish that she IS stargirl, even if she isnt his blood, and to be proud of that and own it

anyway tl;dr syls a positive presence ok. i refuse evil syl. i refuse "he was a shapeshifter all along". im gonna be MAXIMUM CLOWN and say hes gonna be a friend and mentor... but he'll probably bring news from his 10 year absence of some big evil with him for the JSA 2.0 to fight