As of Season 11, Episode 15 of “Chicago Fire,” Kelly Severide, by that time no longer appearing on-screen, had gone off to join the “best arson investigation training program in the world” in Alabama. During the season’s penultimate episode, “Change of Plans,” Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) confirms that Severide is no longer with the program and is working on an investigation with the ATF; neither Cruz nor Severide’s wife, Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo), are made aware of this first-hand. As a result, Kidd takes some time off to find her husband in the season finale, not long after he tells her off-screen — albeit rather ambiguously — that there’s nothing to worry about regarding his surprise ATF gig.
Given that we now have a photo of Severide wearing his familiar squad gear, it seems that Kidd succeeds in bringing him back to Chicago. But what could this mean for their marriage going forward? In a Reddit thread discussing potential Season 12 storylines, users offered varying theories on the fate of “Stellaride,” with u/SiccOwitZ positing that the couple could stay together, with Severide largely an off-screen husband. Original poster u/-AlexTheGreat countered by saying that it wouldn’t make sense to keep Kidd’s domestic life away from the cameras, given how she is establishing herself as a main character on “Chicago Fire.”
Meanwhile, u/Ok-Investigator-4236 wrote that Taylor Kinney’s return, which was then unconfirmed, might be to give Severide a meaningful send-off. “I still have high hopes that Taylor’s gonna be back, even if it’s for a few episodes, to give a proper closure to his character, even though it’ll be hard for the writers to come up with another story line to write him off again,” they wrote.
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