Quote Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi View Post
Yes, things developed differently in the 10,000 years since Hydaelyn split, but in all that time, out of all the dice throws that can occur in that time leading up to the present day, at least some of those dice throws had to land the same as they did on the source.
This analogy only really works if you're dumping a tonne of one-hundred sided dice and gathering the sum and each individual dice's result. Eventually you'd probably get the same results—the same sum surely, maybe even the same distribution of numbers, but the likelihood of the specific dice rolling the same numbers in two casts (or fourteen, as the case may be) would be astronomically low. The whole butterfly effect concept makes the idea that a Brendon on the First is of the same exact parentage as Brendt, Brennan, and Bremondt hard to swallow for me.

That being said, I acknowledge the trope and its usefulness; but it's a very dangerous game to play imo. You cheapen things like Haurchefant, sure; but it just also feels contrived. Sure, comic books do it all the time in their respective multiverses, but I've always been more a fan of seeing another Spider-Man in another world and learning that it isn't Peter Parker. Figuring out how that masked vigilante became one so similar to the one we know is neat! The same character being the same person with the same backstory and same family except, like, they drive on the other side of the road in NYC is lame. It's honestly just a personal preference.