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*** "He was a comic relief villain." ''This'' is likely the reason why Chrono and co. did nothing about Dalton despite him threatening revenge against them in very specific terms- He was a comically ineffectual villain that they've defeated twice at this point so they likely just took it as an empty threat from a goofball running off with his tail between his legs after getting his ass kicked.
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* Are the Ghost Children literally the ghosts of Crono, Marie, and Lucca or merely spirits taking their form?
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*** What's particularly odd about this is that in artwork for Chrono Trigger, Janus and Schala were virtually identical aside from age and sex. If Schala is actually blonde, shouldn't she at least somewhat resemble Guile/Janus? It's not just her hair that's different - her eye shape and color are totally different as well.
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**** Lucca specifically states in her letter that she was anticipating an attack. She may have been woefully wrong about ''why'' someone was coming after her, but she was right to predict it would happen.
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** Perhaps all the Chrono Cross does is destroy the Time Devourer forever but leave everything else intact? As in, the events leading up to it's destruction still occur, but the Time Devourer is simply removed, hence El Nino still exists, Serge and company still go through their adventure, etc.
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Did Fate think the affect of the Flame was actually the complete destruction of Serge via itself as Lynx and all of Fate/Lynx's actions acting as Serge was all a convenient anomaly? Plot-wise it doesn't hold up because Fate is in full control and everything. I'll also take this question to the butcher's shop aka tvtropes.org in the headscratchers section and re-post here if I can.
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Did Fate think the affect of the Flame was actually the complete destruction of Serge via itself as Lynx and all of Fate/Lynx's actions acting as Serge was all a convenient anomaly? Plot-wise it doesn't hold up because Fate is in full control and everything. I'll also take this question to the butcher's shop aka tvtropes.org in the headscratchers section and re-post here if I can.
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** Handwave, RuleofCool. The player only witnesses the eye anomaly due to the nature of the interwoven timelines/dimensions and proximity of the event AND the Flame. When Evil Serge gets to facility he will be outside of it's influence.
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** Handwave, HandWave, RuleofCool. The player only witnesses the eye anomaly due to the nature of the interwoven timelines/dimensions and proximity of the event AND the Flame. When Evil Serge gets to facility he will be outside of it's influence.
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**Handwave, RuleofCool. The player only witnesses the eye anomaly due to the nature of the interwoven timelines/dimensions and proximity of the event AND the Flame. When Evil Serge gets to facility he will be outside of it's influence.
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**haha, this query is worded perfectly. I believe this can only be addressed in the two-fold fashion of HandWave and WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief though with a smattering of FourthWall. The easiest assumption is that all party members are taking in all events and interactions during gameplay so, yes, when Radius learns of Glenn's alternate existence he is merely openly speculating. The FourthWall comes into play if you take into consideration the writing style of the time, as everything is wistful and melancholy, so it stands to reason anything addressing tragedies or hopes-for-the-future will all come out in a fevered rush of brainstorming as the writers try to make sure everything feels alive and consistent. Though, ALSO! technically iianm Homeworld Radius has yet to witness the wormhole business in the Dead Sea along with the fate of Dario, making his statement yet consistent.
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*I understand that Miguel is reveling in a "war-free" displaced timeline in the midst of the Sea of Eden, but what I'm having trouble connecting is the relationship between it, Serge/Lynx, and Miguel.
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Lynx as the MC is actually LITERALLY Fate as Lynx having been so utterly altered by the Flame that he is ACTUALLY Fate/Lynx with no longer any choice or ability to act OTHER than Serge would in the switched situation and, simultaneously Fate is in full control of what "remains" of the surviving Serge to do as it pleases in "Serge's extra timeline". At the same time Miguel has made a stand to, I guess, become some kind of watcher in the discarded, but suspended-in-time timeline, out of preference and reverence. To restate the question, what bearing does the Fate/Lynx/Serge-Miguel conflict have on the stability/existence of the suspended timeline and the Dimensional Vortex?
All I can think is, if Fate orchestrated a scenario holding the existence of the Dimensional Vortex over recreating Serge within Lynx via the Flame or whatever, when Lynx is a degree more powerful, and then leave all the contingencies on a "Serge" traversing the Time-Crash ground zero and then besting some "time vagrant" or not, has me baffled.
Did Fate think the affect of the Flame was actually the complete destruction of Serge via itself as Lynx and all of Fate/Lynx's actions acting as Serge was all a convenient anomaly? Plot-wise it doesn't hold up because Fate is in full control and everything. I'll also take this question to the butcher's shop aka tvtropes.org in the headscratchers section and re-post here if I can.
Bear with me here to further specify the question:
Lynx as the MC is actually LITERALLY Fate as Lynx having been so utterly altered by the Flame that he is ACTUALLY Fate/Lynx with no longer any choice or ability to act OTHER than Serge would in the switched situation and, simultaneously Fate is in full control of what "remains" of the surviving Serge to do as it pleases in "Serge's extra timeline". At the same time Miguel has made a stand to, I guess, become some kind of watcher in the discarded, but suspended-in-time timeline, out of preference and reverence. To restate the question, what bearing does the Fate/Lynx/Serge-Miguel conflict have on the stability/existence of the suspended timeline and the Dimensional Vortex?
All I can think is, if Fate orchestrated a scenario holding the existence of the Dimensional Vortex over recreating Serge within Lynx via the Flame or whatever, when Lynx is a degree more powerful, and then leave all the contingencies on a "Serge" traversing the Time-Crash ground zero and then besting some "time vagrant" or not, has me baffled.
Did Fate think the affect of the Flame was actually the complete destruction of Serge via itself as Lynx and all of Fate/Lynx's actions acting as Serge was all a convenient anomaly? Plot-wise it doesn't hold up because Fate is in full control and everything. I'll also take this question to the butcher's shop aka tvtropes.org in the headscratchers section and re-post here if I can.
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** That's probably not what he meant. If he did would probably have said something more like "KillEmAll."
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** That's probably not what he meant. If he did would probably have said something more like "KillEmAll.""kill them all".
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** It's a serious case of MoralDissonance; the dwarves are ''supposed'' to be in the right to seek out a new land since 'those evil humans' destroyed Hydra Marshes, but when you consider that they effectively committed genocide, you lose a lot of sympathy for the dwarves. The fairies see humans as responsible for this, but the logic of their beliefs is hazy at best.
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** It's a serious case of MoralDissonance; DesignatedHero; the dwarves are ''supposed'' to be in the right to seek out a new land since 'those evil humans' destroyed Hydra Marshes, but when you consider that they effectively committed genocide, you lose a lot of sympathy for the dwarves. The fairies see humans as responsible for this, but the logic of their beliefs is hazy at best.
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* So Lynx needed Serge's body to access the Frozen Flame because the door has a DNA check. Great. But hang on, part of the check includes a retina scan. Evil Serge quite clearly has different (red) eyes than Serge (blue), so how the hell did he pass the retina scan?
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** We know Balthasar planned the entirety of the game's events, including the whole deal with Chronopolis and Dinopolis as well as the split timeline, in advance. This means he either had ways to monitor the consequence of these events before he caused them to happen (time travel being one hell of a blow to causality), or he had some very accurate simulations going on. Either way, that's probably what we see, and he probably had some staff working on it instead of doing everything on his own.
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**** The issue here is that the fairies attitude is never called out for being bizarre and stupid. Almost like we're supposed to agree with them despite them basically being bigots.
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*** Alternatively, Nadia traveled through an unstable Gate. This unstable gate was unable to grant time travel immunity, Lucca's gate key stabilized the gates so they could properly grant TTI. The gates created by Lavos in the fight with Magus and the fall of Zeal also are stable due to his magic, which is why they have always happened, but Crono's gang's changes haven't.
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*** This one is a doozy. So, basically, the Darkness Beyond Time is a dimension where almost every discarded timeline is sent to. When someone time travels and changes something in the past, the original timeline is replaced by a new one, and sent to the Darkness (the one known exception being the extremely complicated situation which caused it to split into Another and Home Worlds). So, for instance, when the Chrono Trigger crew killed Lavos and changed the future, that entire future was sent to the Darkness (which seems like a FateWorseThanDeath and undermines the entire point of saving the future, but that's what we have to work with). However, when Lavos and Schala merged in the Darkness, the combined entity got the power to destroy the universe from outside of time. Just going to the Darkness Beyond Time and killing it is not a viable solution, because that's just creating a new timeline where it didn't destroy the world... and sending the older timeline, which has a living Time Devourer, to the Darkness Beyond Time. Killing it just resets the situation to a position where the Time Devourer is primed to destroy everything again. Balthasar's solution is a TimeyWimeyBall that results in the Devourer being unmade in a way that doesn't create a discarded timeline, but instead works like a rewind, separating its composite pieces, Schala and Lavos. This has the added benefit of saving Schala, but also leaves the discarded Lavos in the Darkness Beyond Time, now powerless to affect anything outside of time.
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