Hrm... Leaping back through time... that would explain why each loop turns out so drastically different from the last - each one is a new parallel universe (and, unfortunately, each failure is a lost cause). In this case, we could say that our story picks up after the failed fifth timeline (aka end of the series - even if it doesn't end that way it won't be a stretch to do an AU that way). This will lend enormous flexibility in accomplishing things like ensuring the survival of all the MG's.
Now, the discussion on corruption... it sounds to me like the crystals that contain the MG's souls retain negative karma in a big way. Is this not true? After all, everything they do seems to have negative-karma associated with it - even living, because once your soul is separated from your body you should be, by all accounts, dead as the proverbial doornail.
Now, Zeke is gonna take that as a challenge, especially since he has learned that the world operates on divine programming code (Domo arigatou, Skuld-sama!) and he has the same view as one of Diane Duane's characters: "There is no program that cannot be debugged, or at worse, rewritten." With their containers rewritten to collect positive karma to keep balance with the negative... then as long as they stick to the green zone of the morality meter they should be fine.
Now, the discussion on corruption... it sounds to me like the crystals that contain the MG's souls retain negative karma in a big way. Is this not true? After all, everything they do seems to have negative-karma associated with it - even living, because once your soul is separated from your body you should be, by all accounts, dead as the proverbial doornail.
Now, Zeke is gonna take that as a challenge, especially since he has learned that the world operates on divine programming code (Domo arigatou, Skuld-sama!) and he has the same view as one of Diane Duane's characters: "There is no program that cannot be debugged, or at worse, rewritten." With their containers rewritten to collect positive karma to keep balance with the negative... then as long as they stick to the green zone of the morality meter they should be fine.