hi there. it's ya girl kari, apologizing to the mods in advance for the weirdest question about canon points and canon updating ever.
so here's the deal. at some point down the road, i'm interested in potentially canon updating madoka kaname after i've apped her back in. however, the flow of time is convoluted to say the LEAST in madoka, and it occurred to me i should probably ask here rather than wait several months to figure it out.
so, here's the deal: one of the show's central conceits involves homura, madoka's friend, turning back time every time madoka dies and trying to save her over a new timeline. this madoka is from immediately post-death in the third timeline, aka the second time homura has reset time to try and save her. normally, "post-death" means you don't have to worry about canon updates! it's kind of nice like that!
well, unfortunately for me and everyone else in my vicinity, madoka's not that kind of show. over a hundred timelines later, madoka makes a new wish, one that literally retcons herself out of mortal existence and absorbs every version of herself into one conglomerate super being. sometimes people call that "ultimate madoka" and sometimes people call it "the law of cycles" and that doesn't really matter right now because we've reached the problem:
can rysligdoka, the human madoka that died in the third timeline, be updated to the law of cycles, the ascended madoka that all madokas merge into? or would that madoka need to be apped separately, as a different character?
i've made a handy dandy diagram for anyone who's as confused as i am. it's probably anti-helpful! whoops!
there's no rush on this - i intend to app back in without canon updating first, so it won't impact this app cycle or anything. i'm mainly wanting to know for future plans, and because they've made recent statements implying they might finally follow up after rebellion. thanks for all your hard work!
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so here's the deal. at some point down the road, i'm interested in potentially canon updating madoka kaname after i've apped her back in. however, the flow of time is convoluted to say the LEAST in madoka, and it occurred to me i should probably ask here rather than wait several months to figure it out.
so, here's the deal: one of the show's central conceits involves homura, madoka's friend, turning back time every time madoka dies and trying to save her over a new timeline. this madoka is from immediately post-death in the third timeline, aka the second time homura has reset time to try and save her. normally, "post-death" means you don't have to worry about canon updates! it's kind of nice like that!
well, unfortunately for me and everyone else in my vicinity, madoka's not that kind of show. over a hundred timelines later, madoka makes a new wish, one that literally retcons herself out of mortal existence and absorbs every version of herself into one conglomerate super being. sometimes people call that "ultimate madoka" and sometimes people call it "the law of cycles" and that doesn't really matter right now because we've reached the problem:
can rysligdoka, the human madoka that died in the third timeline, be updated to the law of cycles, the ascended madoka that all madokas merge into? or would that madoka need to be apped separately, as a different character?
i've made a handy dandy diagram for anyone who's as confused as i am. it's probably anti-helpful! whoops!
there's no rush on this - i intend to app back in without canon updating first, so it won't impact this app cycle or anything. i'm mainly wanting to know for future plans, and because they've made recent statements implying they might finally follow up after rebellion. thanks for all your hard work!