Meta Month, Day 16: Nagi Paradox

[mark_asphodel]

No, this isn't about reincarnation or her true gender or anything like that.

Apparently, when Nagi is recruited in FE12, she has some recollection of encountering Marth, or at least finds him familiar.  He doesn't remember her, because in the "canon" timeline wherein Tiki was recruited and Gharnef got whacked, there wasn't any trip into unseen dimensions to encounter undead dragon ladies.

Nagi can also sense something "special" about MyUnit, btw.  In the Oops-the-Fourth-Wall-Just-Broke kind of sense.

So, given Nagi's pretty much God, how's this work?  Does undead amnesiac dragon god lady have access to memories of alternate timelines?  Do I have to get into string theory to explain this one (please no)?

[I don't think Nagi/Narga is looking at Marth and remembering, say, Celice either.  Narga was really hands-off about dealing with the Jugdral humans.  She (yes, SHE) blood-bonded with Saint Heim and hightailed it back home, from the sound of things.]

You've got me, man.  Suggestions welcome.

Comments

[thenicochan.livejournal.com]

My take was just that while we have our 'canon' events of FE11, it seems a little off to discount the chapter where she appears, so that was probably an alternate universe. So when Nagi appears in FE12 she vaguely remembers her universes Marth.

Yep.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

I agree that's one of the best explanations, and possibly IS the explanation we're supposed to hit, but how's the crossing of the timelines work?

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

You may have to put a letter in to Anna for that explanation.