cyberfox096

I have always been wary of the theory that Madame X is Kenneth/Keta's daughter Nora Royer. X appears in close proximity to Keta in many instances across multiple timelines, yet she has never acknowledged him except at a business/formal level. In the Xen HQ in Ch2, where the player is transported to the Xen lounge, Madame X is in the background presiding over the meeting concerning Keta's death, yet she doesn't even acknowledge him. She authorized the building of the volcano base and blackmailed Keta, and it would have killed him even if he hadn't confronted Mewtwo, due to the eruption. Also, during the Doomed Timeline, she only acknowledges him as "the leader or the survivors", and pays no attention to any relationship. Should things go south and the player tries to escape, she doesn't care about any of the survivors, much less Keta. She only mentions the Interceptor not doing Xer job. Even if she was brainwashed and raised by Clear/Freya, Nora could still recognize Keta in WLL, and seemed rather fond of him. Also, X oversaw Blacksteeple and let Neved torture Aelita, which was originally intended for Keta and otherwise enabled his vendetta against Keta. My personal theory is that she is the daughter of Team Xen's founder, just as Giovanni in RBY is the son of Team Rocket's founder, both of which are dead but whose organizations live on. Being Melia/M2 or Erin doesn't make sense as Madame X never goes after Erin despite being a member of the Archetype, and her interest with Melia seems to be related to Vitus/Indridad, and neither Melia nor Erin overlap with her or even show the symptoms despite the proximity, as it is stated that M2 and Madame X are separate individuals in Renegade. There are just my thoughts, feel free to comment. I have only played up to 13.5 Renegade, Florin dead and Karrina alive, not Paragon yet.

I was just wondering why players were given the option of killing Karrina if it does nothing for the post game? I pushed her just to see what its impact would be, found that nothing changed, then reversed it with debug before upgrading to v13.5. It would be better if Karrina and Karen got into a fight at the temple and you had to choose one to die, or take a 3rd option like in the doomed timeline. It makes no sense to kill off a major character with no warning, and then punish them on the evil route for doing evil, as you are denied Diancie.

If Florin is forced to attack the Bladestar grunts in Ch 10, and the trial is in Ch13, Florin is executed at the end of ch14. How is it that Florin is executed so quickly through purely circumstantial evidence. Flora, a known criminal, could not simply have her brother judicially murdered so quickly through a fake Dossier, even with the corruption of GDC. In Oklahoma, it takes nearly 2 years for a criminal to die, not 2 months. It would make more sense if he was the victim of a hit job by Bladestar, as he had offended them more than GDC. Also, Flora is still in jail 2 months after her arrest, so I am surprised that she is not executed sooner.

I was wondering what the timeline of the renegade route followed. At the end of the Terajuma arc, Rune had just arrived at Grand Dream city with Huey, and the gym leaders had left to find Souta with Eldest. After the first time-travel arc, Rune had become entrenched as the Puppet Master, Xara and Jean were dead, and the gym leaders were missing. After the player confesses to Cassandra/Forces Florin to kill the Bladestar Grunts, the player has another time travel arc. After this arc, Flora has her trial, escapes, and has her plan ready for the GD Ball. After the third time travel Arc, the GD Ball is detonated, the tournament occurs, and Florin is executed in a sham trial. I was just wondering exactly how long was between each segment, since Flora was still alive and in jail a month after chapter 14. The time travel arcs throw several plot holes that would not make sense even in the weird timeline of the game.

In the Renegade route, Florin, Karen and Karrina all play important roles that change if they are dead. However, killing them gives you half of the karma points needed for the renegade route. Is there a way other than debug or the terrejuma (AKA NG+) codes to play the renegade route with all of them alive? Screwing over everyone else including both rifts, tesla and the time diamond without killing the 3 characters will net you fewer than 100 negative karma points, even if no help-center quests are done? How would I proceed without killing all three characters?

Since Keta is dead in the normal timeline, and the player can save him with the other survivors in the Doomed timeline, would it be possible to resurrect/bring Keta back from the Doomed timeline, since Amber and Mosely remember their experiences in the Doomed timeline? What it be different if the player tried to escape the Doomed timeline with the fake diamond?