On Silver

If you've known me in this context for any length of time, or read pretty much any of the fanfic I've written, you know I have strong feelings on Silver, the rival from GSC/HGSS. (I haven't read Pokespe in order to have strong feelings on that Silver, but from what I've gleaned from fanwork, I suspect my hypothetical strong feelings would be similar.) There isn't actually much canon to Silver; there are are around 20 lines of dialogue he says to the PC, a few things other people say about him, and then the HGSS Celebi Ilex Forest event where you see Giovanni abandon him. So it makes sense that different people have different ways of imagining him! I don't claim any authority here, and there's some danger that my picture of Silver is overcolored by the ways I feel kinship with him. Nonetheles here are a bunch of thoughts:

ON SILVER

( Silver is a fucked up kid. )

Here's where I'm going to veer off of the "interpreting canon" tracks and ride this train all the way into the I Have Strong Feelings About Silver sunset. The stuff above this point I'd argue based on canon; the stuff below it I'm extrapolating from the above base, but some of it is clearly arbitrarily chosen or based on my own personal preferences of imagination.

( Silver has tremendous drive and potential, but not at any of the things other people want him to do. )