To add some info to the confusion
The paragon and renegade timelines starting to merge is somewhat confirmed in a talk between tiempa and space (something about alternate selves starting to merge)
If this is true, and they end up merging fully, i wonder about the fate of amber in the paragon timeline since she was deleted in the renegade route. Does this overwrite the deletion or is she deleted in the paragon universe as well??
There is a small thing about M2 that i noticed that may point to its real origins
There is a quite dismissable talk she has with crawli on the bridge in terajuma,
M2 says "your hair is short now"
Crawli says "my hairs always been this long"
This intrigued me and so i did some digging. And if you look at Crawlis former sprite in older versions of rejuvenation he indeed has long hair
If you look at the full 13.5 version we have a few other caracters that somewhat talk about older versions of the game being its own timelines
EIZEN says the following "unless their counsciousness has visited another version of this world" when talking about previous versions of the game
"sometimes their existences cross paths and become one for a very short period of time"
"as a result an inconsistency occurs"
Talon also implies something weird, claims god (karma) showed him his past, present and future
"apparently, in my past life, i didnt even exist!"
"and i was placed here as an afterthought"
So by past he is refering to older game versions as well.
Karma itself claims to be currently constructing new versions of the game at the moment sooo...
So I believe that M2 is not just a "wilting world" Melia, she might just be a Melia from an old version of the game discarded away into limbo by karmaAi /devs a few versions ago.
I my opinion these continous references to former versions of the game will have massive impact in the following story
"karma's a bitch, you'll see"
