I totally get where folks are coming from when they want Hornet and Lace's relationship post-Silksong to be a meeting of peers; for my part, however, it's textually explicit that Lace has the mind of a child in spite of being centuries old because Grand Mother Silk never permitted her to grow up ā and doesn't that put an interesting spin on the game's core themes? ā and I personally feel that Hornet randomly acquiring an incredibly annoying kid sister has its own depths to plumb (as well as being objectively much funnier).
Like, come on: Hornet, who never had a childhood because she was born into crisis as a political bargaining chip, then everyone she knew fucking died, and Lace, the eternal child imprisoned in a permanent adolescence by the god of all helicopter moms? You can't tell me there isn't meat on those bones.
This interpretation seems more consistent with what we see in the game, but also, it makes it much funnier to imagine other characters' reactions when they find out Lace is technically Hornet's aunt.
