User blog comment:Woohoot/Future Lucy and future Rogue timelines/@comment-98.233.100.94-20140920201711/@comment-98.233.100.94-20140921132401

PSS: Ok, so F-Lucy comes from her future and effects F-Rogue's future. Because it is being treated as one changing timeline, they both end up in the "current" timeline because A) F-Rogue comes back and B) F-Lucy of Rogue's timeline is repeating the steps she took from her future. That would explain F-Lucy not having any knowledge of stopping the gate from opening (as F-Rogue says she does) because she didn't, her future-future self did. She is just going through the motions of the initial jump to the past in the "current" timeline. There is no other way (that I can think of) that would explain F-Lucy A) Doesn't have memories of F-Rogue's timeline and B) Is even there as she came from her timeline, not F-Rogues, as she doesn't have any memories.

If that is the case, then that means they are treating the events as effecting a singular timeline, not creating new ones. If they were creating new ones then F-Lucy wouldn't be coming from the future a second time, her involvement would have stopped after the first jump back in time because it altered the second timeline where she wouldn't even be involved. The F-Lucy we see isn't coming back saying that Magnolia is in control of the world, she is still talking about the events of the first Timeline.

So, if we are looking at this as a singular continuity that has it's future changed after each time jump from the future then why is everyone still dead when F-Lucy returns to the future? I know she dies in the past, but if the past changes then she would never have made the jump and wouldn't die.

F-Rogue says Natsu is killed by a dragon, since F-Rogue didn't experience the invasion, but only Acnologia then that would suggest that Natsu dies fighting Acnologia. The Acnologia's timeline, or F-Rogue's timeline, is also supported because of two things: The invasion didn't happen and the portal was closed. So that means that except for knowing what is coming that they are still on track for the Acnologia attack and conquer timeline. With F-Lucy returning dead, to everyone else being dead, doesn't that suggest that Acnologia still wins? If Acnologia ended up losing with everyone having knowledge of the upcoming events or somehow becoming stronger then when F-Lucy returned she wouldn't be dead, or at the very least no one else would be dead from those events.

Actually, forget everything above. Regardless of how they are treating the various timelines, in the end, if F-Lucy was initially able to change the timeline so F-Rogue had to act then that means that F-Lucy shouldn't have been dead when she returned, or at the very least the others wouldn't be dead UNLESS Acnologia still wins and kills everyone. Unless the "heaven" scene is way off in the future and she happens to die after everyone else by old age or something else that happens and we just didn't see the regular events? I just think they screwed up somewhere.