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[landman]

Persona's timeline has Matoi die while the MC's doesn't, so that's multiple timelines at least. Now that case is obvious, but we are talking about time travel, so start looking and you'll find errors and contradictions sooner or later. It's an interesting trope, but always makes things messy one way or another

IF Persona (who is with Xion's remnants) moves around time the same as you, then there is no multiple timeline, the original timeline was Persona's, and your choice changed it (or not, but then you start again its path). This didn't affect Persona because he/she is in your timeline, and sega decided time paradoxes don't apply here (the same as, for example, Dragon Ball Z).

[Mysterious-G]

IF Persona (who is with Xion's remnants) moves around time the same as you, then there is no multiple timeline, the original timeline was Persona's, and your choice changed it (or not, but then you start again its path). This didn't affect Persona because he/she is in your timeline, and sega decided time paradoxes don't apply here (the same as, for example, Dragon Ball Z).

This doesn't make any sense. For Persona to exist in the first place means the Matoi fuck-up must have happened. It doesn't happen in our timeline due to his interference, so that creates one different to the one he originated from.
The story is basically Terminator if the Terminator succeeded in getting John Connor killed, achieving an alternate timeline in which the Skynet rules supreme forever

[Selphea]

It's like Meduca Meguca. We haven't reached the try where Matoi becomes a god and ends all suffering only to get trapped by aliens so Persona is doomed to fail and repeat a few thousand more times.

[Chris_Chocobo]

I dont understand what are you talking about guys, for what i understand from the last episode: Persona is our future self and a Dark Falz, he's already lost so he made a sacrifice to become PD insted of Matoi or us.

[landman]

This doesn't make any sense. For Persona to exist in the first place means the Matoi fuck-up must have happened. It doesn't happen in our timeline due to his interference, so that creates one different to the one he originated from.
The story is basically Terminator if the Terminator succeeded in getting John Connor killed, achieving an alternate timeline in which the Skynet rules supreme forever

Terminator does not have time paradoxes either, you may change the future, but the machines sent from that previous future don't disappear. Persona was always your future, you would have ended doing everything it did (and you did, in the first ending or choosing to slay Matoi in the final path), but that does not affect the original Persona, the same way the T-800 sent from the future in T2 does not disappear, or suddenly gets reprogrammed with a different future (check Frequency or The Butterfly Effect).

[arnd]

That episode 3 ending theme by Kenichi Tokoi and Runblebee was well worth the wait.

[Mysterious-G]

Terminator does not have time paradoxes either, you may change the future, but the machines sent from that previous future don't disappear. Persona was always your future, you would have ended doing everything it did (and you did, in the first ending or choosing to slay Matoi in the final path), but that does not affect the original Persona, the same way the T-800 sent from the future in T2 does not disappear, or suddenly gets reprogrammed with a different future (check Frequency or The Butterfly Effect).

Yeah, of course. But that means there are multiple timelines, doesn't it?

[PokeminMaster]

I dont understand what are you talking about guys, for what i understand from the last episode: Persona is our future self and a Dark Falz, he's already lost so he made a sacrifice to become PD insted of Matoi or us.

[Persona] is the us that had to kill Matoi, so s/he can't well exist in the same timeline if Matoi is saved

[landman]

Yeah, of course. But that means there are multiple timelines, doesn't it?

So far the Mater Board has avoided creating multiple timelines, I don't know why this time it would be different.

[KLMS1]

So far the Mater Board has avoided creating multiple timelines

...that we know of. Branching off a crapton of parallels might well be an inconvenient side effect to the process the living planets don't bother telling us about.

Not like we could tell the difference anyway.