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Give me sitcom style shenanigans of Syril and Cassian back to back pushing their women away from strangling each other while K2 holds Wilmon up like a feral cat, smash cut to them all sitting around the council table with Mon, Draven, and Bail giving "I'm very disappointed in you" eyes like they've been called to the principal's office. Give it to me now.

An au where Dedra is scapegoated as a traitor earlier, leading to still-alive Syril defecting.

This is such an interesting concept, anon, and I just might add it to the list. I do wonder how Syril would grapple with Dedra being framed as a traitor when he knows she hasn’t done anything wrong (from the Empire’s perspective, anyway) - and if he might defect to the rebellion for the sake of freeing her. He needs the rebels to liberate this one specific prison and he’s not telling anyone why but it’s for good reasons, just trust him

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Syril Karn + Outfits (and outfit variations) in ANDOR Season 2

“Here's a person that is perhaps not the most expressive, open character. But we likened it to the first time you ever travel to Europe. You arrive somewhere, and everything seems so culturally rich. [The Ghor] have a sense of tradition and pride about their history. And so I like to think that as Syril lived on Ghorman, he was affected by the clothing there. He wanted a little bit of Ghorman flavor for himself. He has a long, rich, dark brown woolen coat, and he styles it up with beautiful velvet scarves and a beret. In a way, he's found his people. It’s like ‘finally, people who appreciate the difference between a collar that's one centimeter higher.’” Early on, Wilkinson and showrunner Tony Gilroy discussed creating a signature look for Ghorman, an iconic piece that was synonymous with the culture. They landed on the Ghorman trench coat. “It's what everyone sees when they're hustling down the street. It's the sort of thing that if you had traveled back home from a trip to Ghorman, people would say, 'Oh my gosh! Is that a Ghorman trench coat?’” “The last time we see Syril, he actually has gone so far as to buy the Ghorman trench coat. It has lovely detailing through the cuffs and collar. Syril has a beautiful cape detail on the back because we knew he would be involved in a big stunt sequence with Cassian. So, we wanted a great silhouette that would move beautifully." - Michael Wilkinson, Andor costume designer

[Season 1 outfits] + [Dedra's Season 2 outfits]

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Syril Karn and Too Many Cakes

I've seen many people discuss where Syril's mind is at in 2 bby - does he like Enza Rylanz? Does he not love Dedra anymore? Why does he suddenly care about the Ghormans... things like that, and I've seen people say it comes down to him having his cake and wanting to eat it too, but given the many parties and plot lines involved, I think it's more than that; he wants to have many cakes and still eat them all.

So, we start with cake one; The Empire. It is vanilla, uniform and plain, and all the order he desires, but it's out of his reach. He keeps trying to take a bite, and it slides off his fork.

He meets Dedra Meero, and here comes the second cake, and it is as vanilla and uniform but also filled with a strawberry jelly at its center. A surprise he longs to reach, so he eats until he gets to the epicenter, and all the while, he notices that, with his other hand, he begins to eat the Empire cake too. And that's fine; two cakes, but he has two hands, right?

Dedra offers him Ghorman, and he goes, and when he gets there, he is blown away by the beauty of the place, its love of fashion, its deep culture he is intrigued by and in awe of. A third cake forms, velvet and all his favorite flavors mixed into a high class confectionary... but he is out of hands. But that's okay, he can push the Dedra cake into the Empire cake - they've always gone hand in hand, haven't they? It will be easy and hardly a flavor difference. He pushes Dedra's cake into the Empire and has two cakes and two hands once more.

The biggest problem arises when he goes to the Town Hall meeting. When he gains their trust - The Ghorman Front - and he finds that, over the next year, he likes them. This wasn't supposed to happen, their rebels. But that's okay, he reasons, as a fourth cake forms, he's hear for outside agitators, that's what's influencing their actions. He'll be alright, no one said he wasn't allowed to have a little fun while he's hear. But he only has two hands and three cakes, one an amalgamation. So he tries to cut back his Empire/Dedra intake, chooses more Ghorman Front because that's his job, right? To spy on them, trap them? But he's growing apart the longer he leaves the Empire/Dedra cake to the side, he can feel it.

And then it happens; the Ghorman Front slides off his fork, and when he tries to take off another slice it slides through thin air. They don't trust him anymore - he has lost his right to that cake.

So he returns to the Empire/Dedra cake, for the first time, but it is stale, he notices. It's lost its vanilla taste, and the strawberry jelly is nowhere in sight. And it's growing. Cakes aren't supposed to do that but it does, the amalgamation must be too big for one plate because it's stretching onto other plates, ruining them.

And Syril rages. Those are HIS cakes! Why can't they leave them alone? Why can't he have all of them at once? Why can't the Front let him take a bite, just one, again, give him the outside agitators he needs to keep them alive, safe from the Empire/Dedra cake's spread.

But they refuse with Enza's slap and Carro's accusations, so he grabs the Empire/Dedra cake, rips it away from the others, and tosses it to the ground.

Now he only has the crumbled remains of two cakes, and one won't let him in. And Ghorman is so small now, he's scared if he'll have nothing left if he takes another bite.

He smells a carrot cake, savory and sweet, rough and smooth, and looks up. A new treat is waiting for him, and it has no walls against him, nor a stale taste, nor only crumbs. It is full and if is large and it is waiting there for him, and he realizes he has no more cakes left.

So he lunges at Cassian Andor.

I hope that all made sense, I just felt like, especially in the Enza seen in 207, Messenger, he didn't have any of his priorities straight or hadn't realized he can't have it all. He didn't have to go find her and argue they could lie and pin this on others to save her and the Front's lives - this isn't on Imperial orders and, in fact, he's defying them in doing this - but he did because he clearly wanted those friends to live even when the whole world was telling him Ghorman was done, go home, pack.

Let me know what you think ;)