Have we considered ther possibility that Scott is Shiloh? I can't even fully put down what I'm thinking...
First: All these books are incredibly thematically different. Storytelling laws that govern how Jake moves in his book don't apply to Ystin or Klarion... So Shiloh's got his own set of rules, and if Meludreen was here, he'd say it'd be religiouz.
So ZZ or Gaylord or whatever certainly resembles Oberon, who served Scott. The Granny Goodness Pimp might just be a lady pimp. The Black Racer might only be a wheelchair guy. Shiloh might actually be tapping into their archetypical forms...
Fuck. Ok. So I'm thinking the DCU's like the Matrix. And these New Gods are present in everything, and can peek through/use people in the DCU to accomplish tasks. The New Gods would be like Agent Smiths, who drop down from the architecture of the Matrix to engage rogue elements... you get the picture. The lady pimp, the whores, the wheelchair guy, the and ZZ are DCU people, but also fictionsuits for higher order entities. Higher order is important... And Shiloh's a DCU person who's a fictionsuit for a New God whose whole existence is to free himself of the Mundane.
Okay, so in SK we dabbled with the idea that Ystin isn't from the past at all, but a higher order plane where things are more dense, more thematic, and more "true". Enveloping universes, like matryoshka dolls. Empire of evil of Summer's End versus Empire of good Camelot Earth surrounds the superhero Clark versus supervillain LexEarth surrounds the simple and similar-to-ours Qwewq Earth. Now we've seen time travel here and universes existing within others, and that travel between them is prevalent - the JLA travel to Qwewq Earth. The TTT brings the Sheeda to the DCU Earth. But the notion of New Gods is another level that we hadn't considered.
What if New Gods are indigenous to a higher order universe that surrounds the universe that the Sheeda are indigenous to? The New Gods resemble superheroes when they drop down fully into the DCU, because that's the level they'd be on = the superhero Earth. In Qwewq, they might manifest as athletes or politicians or celebrities. In Camelot, perhaps as fantastic elemental dragons? Who knows?
Now... I know that's shitting all over established Kirby fun, but Grant is tying the DCU together, and giving old concepts renewed viability. Marvel's Thor looks stupid aand so do most New God supersuits...
So, is Shiloh a DCU-levcel human being imbued with the fictionsuit of the Scott Free SuperConsciousness, projected down from New Genesis/Apokolips? I'll only get a yeah, prolly from this... aarrgh.
I think the psychiatrist is probably Highfather. the psych's rectangular glasses are his biggest character clue. That and his odd choice of leopard print shirt. |
