Thinking About Glowy Rainbow Time Person

By which I mean the mystery villain* in Booster Gold. There are certain things we know. They can open time portals apparently at will. They are on a quest to gain something they think they deserve. They were actively angered by Booster asking what their game was. So this is something they're entirely serious about. Or they just have no sense of humor. Whatever the source of their abilities, it enables them to travel around in the Time Stream unprotected, something that isn't generally advised**.

Whatever they're trying, it involves that knife somehow. Booster thought that the knife was taking him away from World War 1 at the end of #16, but could it have been our mystery guest? Rainbow Mystery Villain was the reason Michelle and Skeets couldn't get a lock on Booster, so either he(she?***) opened and closed the portal, or they are connected to the time stream in such a way that they can sense and manipulate time portals occurring through other means more rapidly than Rip Hunter's systems can. I'm inclined to go with the first option, since why would the knife be pulling Booster through time, when it showed no such abilities prior to now?

Either way, the knife is important. It's less clear whether Booster and Company are. It sounds as though they are now, but that may be a matter of the villain changing gears as the need arises. For whatever reason, the The Walking Chronal Crayon Box is trying to get Booster to bring the knife to them, rather than seeking it out themselves, as they did previously.

Then there's the question of all those time portals that opened and damaged Booster's suit. Was it a random occurence? Is it the Unknown Guest's doing? Is it the knife's doing? The fact they started with Enemy Ace was attacking Booster, and ceased shortly after they'd damaged his suit suggests to me villainous intent. But it required multiple portals to tag Booster, so if um, Seriously Determined Person is responsible, why didn't he score a hit on the first try? That, combined with the fact they didn't simply go to World War 1 and retrieve the knife themselves leads me to infer that there are limits to their power. Is that what they're hoping to correct? I guess you'll know later this week, and hopefully I'll know by early next week.

* Actually, I think DC's solicits for upcoming issues may have spilled the beans as to the villain's identity, but I don't want to spoil it for the souls who don't read the solicits.

** If you remember Booster Gold #0, Evil Beetle said if the time sphere was cracked, Ted Kord would be killed because there would be nothing to protect him from the chronal energies. A scarab, or a force field can do the trick, though.

*** I know the outline looks like a guy, but you never know. Could be a time-traveler trick.