I'm a bit concerned about how much they're pushing the astral express as family thing because on the one hand it makes sense but on the other. Welt has a family. A family he's known for decades, with familial figures in Ein and Tesla, unlike Himeko whose dad was absent and turned out to be Asat Pramad, places filled with memories of his dead loved ones whom he does know and remember, unlike Dan Heng, March and the Trailblazer who have severe memory issues and little to no connections with the people they left behind, a family he can return to unlike Sunday who is a wanted fugitive. Welt has a son, who was around ten the last time we saw him presumably around three to four years ago if we're generous. A son who he mentioned before. A son who we saw in the train flashback on the Luofu. And right now he's not raising Joey because he's stranded in space and can't go back, and when he went with Void Archives in the first place it was because his planet was in very imminent danger that had to be stopped for the sake of his son's safety on top of that of the world, and he couldn't get anyone more powerful or with less to lose because of short time and very limited honkai energy supplies making herrschers less powerful anyway with Kiana being supposedly still asleep or otherwise unavailable. But once we do get to Earth, and let's face it we will, and once whatever problem there ends, what are they going to do? Are they going to do the logical, good writing thing but that would upset the HSR only people and let him stay on Earth with his family? Or are they going to put him back on the train to trailblaze on, making him voluntarily leave his young son behind to go play house with a different "family" when they could send other people out, even some with some space traveling experience like the part 2 cast (we know Vita is out there already anyway) ? Because the way hsr writes its arc endings to always have a good ending for extra TB glazing doesn't make me believe they would write a bad ending that would justify making him being forced to leave against his will again.
