Thanks for offering up that clarification. I feel like I have a better handle on how the storyline has handled timey-wimey stuff now. I can also see why squaring Alexander with Graha'Tia is difficult, but I like your proposed solution. In some ways this is not too dissimilar from NieR/Drakengard, in that timelines don't 'naturally' diverge in a multiverse fashion (i.e., whenever there are multiple possible cause-effect outcomes in any given instance). Up until a certain point in Earth's history, the timeline is singular and stable, but a paradox is caused by a great cataclysm in 800AD results in 'multiple world divergence phenomena,' giving rise to two timelines: one in which Europe becomes the fantasy world of Midgard, in which the Drakengard games take place, and the one which mirrors our own history exactly, up until 2012 when beings from Midgard cross over into 'our' history to spark the events that leads to the NieR timeline (yes, it's extremely confusing).
NieR/Drakengard even has its own Alexander of sorts in the form of an Android known as Accord. Not a whole lot is known about her, but she appears to be able to operate between timelines (at will?), and works to ensure that undesirable outcomes are averted (obviously, her powers are limited, because very bad things occur with some regularity in the NieR/Drakengard universe). And it just so happens that Accord is referenced in the weapon shop flyer fragment discovered in the copied factory :]
LOL well... you may not be as far off as you think. I mean, I don't know what the hell Taro is going to do, and it's usually a mistake to try and make predictions about which way he is going to go at any given but. Buuuut we do know that 9S has a propensity to go off the deep end, especially when it comes to 2B, and there is the whole 'Ark' ending, which isn't quite a joke ending, but isn't the 'true' ending either... And perhaps he really does abhor all these 2B copies being churned out by the Ark (to satisfy the machines' need for an enemy to defeat?). Perhaps he opposes 2P in particular because the P in 2P = Primal? (A theory proposed by Clemps (looking him up if you aren't familiar, he's awesome)).Originally Posted by LineageRazor
Oooor... Perhaps YorHa Dark Apocalypse really is the prelude to Automata in some fashion, because the evolution of the machine network described in one of the other fragments (presumably a recording by 2P herself) is something that has already occurred by the time the player joins the events playing out in Automata....
My head hurts now![]()