[RFC] Being You is Deculture

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Likewise, our heroes cannot allow this to happen.

... do they happen to give a -reason- for this? It seems... questionable.

Making everyone born since 2010 never have existed? Because "natural" events are always better than "unnatural" things? Because it's "going too far" doing things "man was not meant to know" and "playing god?" Honestly, I feel it's pretty weak too aside from the first, as you can probably tell from all the air-quote sarcasm. The ending actually makes it even worse, since the boss is retroactively killed it means none of the character development or effort put into the game ever happened, most likely Leon wasn't even sent to Oroborus (yes, I know, but it's how it's spelled in the game) at that time to meet Aisha if she was even there herself, and if Mina didn't live out a normal life she's still stuck in a stasis tube underground somewhere... assuming the Protoculture even built all the ruins in the first place without anything but the odd local minerals that extend partly into the superdimension to study. Basically, history is altered with either outcome, so really the only difference is saving their own generation's existence rather than the one that historically died.

There was a fanfic that started on SB where instead of being returned to their original places in the timeline everyone (or nearly everyone? I don't recall the issue of what to do with any of the antagonists who only flip for the final battle like D.D., Nora, Kamjin, or (Ganef? Ganoosh? The annoying bandit with a torch for Aisha) being addressed, but the rest of the hero cast and both the Macross Quarter and Aisha's up-armed and automated Northhampton-class ship) present at the final boss battle is sent back to ... I want to say the SDF-1's arrival at Pluto, but maybe a bit later in the original trek back to Earth? ... which seemed like a much more interesting result to me, but it died off after just a few story posts. It was also supposed to be an alternate timeline to begin with IIRC, DYRL or maybe Roboblecch.

It did have a very nice bit where the protagonist-side leaders decided that since they were here now and only figured out what happened after being hailed by the SDF-1, there was no point trying to "preserve teh timeline" as if it wouldn't change just from their presence anyway, and move on to debating what to actually do now. I dunno, it's been too long since I read it, all I remember is suggesting that along with the doctrine and intelligence transfers getting production data on the VF-4 over to the Macross would let them skip ahead a generation in VF tech while still being within the reach of their known manufacturing and training. It was also the model with the longest service life as the UNS's main variable fighter, from 2012 to the mid 2030s IIRC, so a very well tested and proven unit and one that was intentionally designed with a lot of parts in common with the VF-1 to make the changeover easier.

And this really doesn't have much to do with BlackAeronaut's fic, does it? Sorry, BA.