Serge is killed. But something happens. (Oh, btw, Serge's death was by drowning). Serge is saved from drowning, creating a dimensional split. Now there are two futures, basically.
Wait, WHAT? Since when? I thought it was the Panther Demon that did Serge in! The Panther Demon kills Serge in Another World, while Serge survives the attack in Home World, to be taken to Chronopolis.
Chronopolis had to have existed in both worlds, because, El Nido was populated by people from Chronopolis.
Also, for Serge to have come into contact with the Frozen Flame, Wazuki and Miguel had to arrive in Chronopolis with him, and thus Chronopolis at one point still exited in Home World...unless a dimensional rift opened in Death's Door/The Pearly Gates, and took them to Another World.
Plus, when you meet Miguel in the Dead Sea, he tells you, "It wasn't like this when we first got here, though." Meaning that, sometime after Serge comes into contact with the Frozen Flame, the space in the Sea of Eden becomes the destroyed future, transforming into the Dead Sea.
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I'm not entirely understanding the dimensional split. If Another World is the "real" world, in which Lavos gets defeated, and Serge dies, then...shouldn't that be the end of it? Why would another timeline be created...? Are alternate timelines created for every other possibility when it comes to a choice...?
And I'm still not understanding why Crono & Co's influence still didn't affect Home World...if you ask me, I think it's more like that Serge's existence, one way or another undid what Crono & Co did, but how would
that be possible? I just don't see the logic why, one way or another, Home World ends up destroyed.
Is Home World just the opposite of Another World? Serge dies, and Lavos is defeated in Another World, while Serge survives and Lavos lives past 1999AD in Home World?