A tad off-topic:
Although Bob's question makes clear it's NOT a case of this, a thought crossed my mind of someone turning up in much the same manner Midori did, but revealing that she (or he) wouldn't exist except for changes the Loon has already made from the canon.
"What he's taught you in just the last week — two years from now, those lessons will save my father's life. If you hadn't learned [technique X], you wouldn't have been able to save Daddy ... and since he'll only be twelve then, I would never have been born."
Although Bob's question makes clear it's NOT a case of this, a thought crossed my mind of someone turning up in much the same manner Midori did, but revealing that she (or he) wouldn't exist except for changes the Loon has already made from the canon.
"What he's taught you in just the last week — two years from now, those lessons will save my father's life. If you hadn't learned [technique X], you wouldn't have been able to save Daddy ... and since he'll only be twelve then, I would never have been born."
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."