Did Matoya just possess Y'shtola's body?

I have a strong feelings that they will do some time travel to some point.

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Originally Posted by Cxplorer

I have a strong feelings that they will do some time travel to some point.

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Possibly to revive a dying game, but I can't exactly see it as it is now to do it at this point in the story since we're now talking more about how the world was segregated into different shards.

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Originally Posted by polyphonica

Also, in the Japanese dub, Urianger does the opposite of the English dub in just calling her "Matoya" (and not "Matoya-sama") which seems pretty irregular (unless they have a whole past history we don't know yet).

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Is this possibly just a quirk of the English script? Having just gone through the Binding Coil on an alt, I noticed he tends to address Alisaie as "Mistress Alisaie" or "my lady", and I think that sort of thing might come up with other characters as well. I forgot to check if I could find how he addresses Y'shtola - the Warring Triad cutscenes might be a good place to start looking for that.

Anyway, does he (and other people) tend to use the same rather formal titles in Japanese? I know they handle things differently in the first place with honorifics and such, but how unusual is it that he's addressing "Matoya" without an honorific here? How would he address Y'shtola if it was her?

"What is your name young man ?"
"Xe..ha.nort"

My own speculation is a firm no. The old Matoya does not refer to the WoL as a friend. In fact she gets quite aggravated every time we come to visit her. If this was the case we would also have to know why Urianger and Tancred are running around. Who would be possessing them? I am leaning more towards "Matoya" being some form of title that Y'shtola was always destined to have and the old bag finally kicks the bucket.

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Originally Posted by Cxplorer

I have a strong feelings that they will do some time travel to some point.

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God I hope not! Alexander was bad enough and there are other ways to "undo what's been done".

My theory : Matoya is just there off screen watching them (or acting with them in the final trailer).
So imagine we have :

Urianger :
What sayest thou, Master Matoya? We may accept this fate or defy it, but we cannot deny it.

Matoya :
Are you really sure of that ? There is still time to stop everything and deny your destiny. *something like that*

Y'shtola
Deny? I am not won't to run from my troubles. Until our friends return, I will hold the line.

Most likely he was referring to Matoya in 3rd person. Maybe after a quest discussion with her prior to the events on the cutscene? Or like Matoya died so Urianger was talking in a sense like “what would Matoya do?”.

or simply matoya is a name y'shtola use in this dimension?

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Originally Posted by silentwindfr

or simply matoya is a name y'shtola use in this dimension?

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That was one of the conclusions some have made when it was first out, but people were not believing there was dimensional travel so they stuck with Miqote naming conventions as to why that answer was ruled out. Of course they are Mystel here so...