Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
That's just unnecessarily complicating it, and not how it's shown to work so far.

Mikoto's future sight is strictly about things that will happen. The foreseen event cannot be changed, though the events around it can be manipulated.

It's something that needs strict limitations to not be a boring plot device that solves their problems for them in advance.
Well here's an example for you. A vision is obtained of people panicking, houses burning in a response to a plague. It's in blue, it's going to happen. So of course we go about trying to warn and prepare in advance. The problem? Us doing that CAUSES the events to unfurl. We saw it was going to happen no matter what, but we set the events in motion.

Or a red vision where we see the supposed villain dying in front of a high profile individual. We go about to try to make it happen...and then discover said official has horrid plans of murdering people and making it look like another nation did it to start a war, and the supposed villain actually found out completely on accident and has been trying to stop it. This forces us to prevent him from dying and kill the official instead.

Visions can make for good drama if written correctly. I just would prefer a writer capable of doing them right being the one doing the actual writing.