Sadly, the cataclysm of the world tearing itself apart has done what hundreds of years of de la Valliere efforts could not. The von Zerbst estate was destroyed, and no member of the family has been seen alive since then
That's okay, since apparently Guiche is now retroactively the Scion of the Zerbsts Reborn, which is fortunate because otherwise the idea of any Guiche du Gramont experiencing reproductive success likely would have destroyed the world even worse than it already had been.
 
So she ended up with Guiche in that timeline? Huh. Wonder how that happened?
I'm guessing Monmon elected to back a winning team and take a step back to secure the alliance for the good of the nation (Also probably to make sure there's a royal bastard available if the Valliere breeds true). Assuming she is still alive.

I am quite certain, However, present Louise would be scandalized if she learned the details. I'm, probably an indication future her is still good if she didn't say anything.
 
That's okay, since apparently Guiche is now retroactively the Scion of the Zerbsts Reborn, which is fortunate because otherwise the idea of any Guiche du Gramont experiencing reproductive success likely would have destroyed the world even worse than it already had been.

Look, you shouldn't run off shitty fanon. Even in canon, once they get past the initial complications Guiche and Saito are friends, and Guiche is basically his wingman, and Guiche and Monmon are the beta couple.

I'm guessing Monmon elected to back a winning team and take a step back to secure the alliance for the good of the nation (Also probably to make sure there's a royal bastard available if the Valliere breeds true). Assuming she is still alive.

Which she is not.

Giant cataclysms have a high mortality rate. Who'd've thought it?
 
Right right.

History does not repeat but it rhymes.

Or I suppose in this case kind of sounds like a broken reco a broken reco a broken reco
 
Louise is going to need a hug after this. Lots of hugs, and ice cream (assuming ice cream exists in the time she returns to, and isn't just a misspelling of 'eye scream'). They did have it already in our sixteenth century, but I'm not sure if it's been mentioned in this story, much less whether it will still exist after time comes back together.
 
So is future-Guiche aware of future-Louise's little adventures when she was "missing" and the other less hero-friendly aspects of her life? Cus future-Louise did say she did rez Cattleya and I'm not so sure how well one can hide a vampire with a maid-themed harem.
 
No, like a blooming joke.

Henrietta does not have three grandfathers. That was just part of a joke that if it seems like I'm describing her grandfathers in a contradictory way and they'd have to be three people for it to work out, it's totally because of timey-wimey bullshit and not because I made a mistake.



Or there was a step-father involved, somewhere. Possibly because of death, or possibly because...other things. This sort of thing does happen in real life--hell, I've got five great-grandmothers--and when you're the princess, who's going to tell you you're being stupid?


I mean, if you want it to be a joke, it can be a joke--I'm just pointing out that it doesn't have to be either a joke, or a mistake.
 
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Cause and effect has no hold. That means that things can happen without a cause - like futures that now can't happen because of events in the fractured time. Or pasts that have been changed and just haven't caught up with the changes yet.

When the spell ends, time snaps back together again and tries to make sense of itself. Which it is far from perfect at.

(This is the all-encompassing explanation for any continuity errors for historical elements of the setting I describe, like if Henrietta has three grandfathers.)
Oh, I wasn't even trying to offer up any sort of explanation for it, I was just asking if anyone else was getting the same vibes as from that particular episode, is all.
 
The fact that current!Louise had a different out-of-time experience from future!Louise, is anyone else getting flashbacks to that old Pinky and the Brain episode?
I haven't thought of that show in ages, and I curse you now because I don't have the data to go binge it.
only the Karin of future Louise's timeline would have any chance of remembering.

probably.

I'm uncertain about the rules of time travel that this fic is using and kinda feel like what ones there may be are mucked with because of the Evil magic.
There are rules?
Future Louise is a scarred, grizzled sky pirate princess ruling over a colony of survivors in a post-apocolyptic hellscape.

Any being attempting to breed with someone with that many adjectives must retroactively become a von Zerbst, even if they weren't before.
The burn was from her first potential father of her children. While she and Lee had developed a strong mutual attraction her attempts at reforming him and his paranoia-fueled assassination attempts enventually ended their engagement. Surprisingly, the burn wasn't from their fights, but rather from Lee procuring her a suitable birthday gift (an infernal hellhound puppy) that she was ultimately allergic to. They parted on acceptable terms.
 
Depends on the setting, though the current situation throws out the rules for time travel itself due to the nature of the method of time travel. Without interference, there are two big rulesets to time travel that most fiction follows. The first being multiverse theory being right, so time travel doesn't affect your original timeline, only a new timeline where you traveled back in time from an timeline that demanded you travel back in time. The second being there being only one timeline and whatever you do is usually something you've already done and must do and for the things that you do do that you weren't supposed to do there are ways to fix it like doing something to fix the damage after you messed up or going back in time again and stopping yourself from messing up time.

Rules for time travellers however, largely stay the same and are typically akin to what Louise remembered her mother lecturing her about. Don't kill people, don't step on butterflies, don't bang your sexy ancestors, ect.
 
Maybe easiest rule for Louise to follow... now to NOT get killed by them....

Sky Louise had close encounter with teenage Karin (insanity danger or death from thousand cuts?), while current one with blood bath?
I'm not sure it's a safe bet that not banging one's sexy ancestors is the easiest rule for Louise to follow. Good!Louise doesn't have the shield of tsun to keep her from acting on her feelings or to keep others at arm's length like Evil!Louise did. Plus I feel like her established tastes might find similarly delectable offerings to her present love interests within her family tree. I'd cap this argument off with pointing out that she's a noble, but I'm not sure how prone to incest her family is beyond Louis' scheming to marry the family back into itself and I'm not sure how incestous that plan was.
 
No, like a blooming joke.

Henrietta does not have three grandfathers. That was just part of a joke that if it seems like I'm describing her grandfathers in a contradictory way and they'd have to be three people for it to work out, it's totally because of timey-wimey bullshit and not because I made a mistake.
so the explanation ofr it, if it were a thing instead of a joke, would be that thanks to timey wimey time shattering the 3 timelines were 'Call me Ann's grandfather were different persons 'happened and didn't happen' and thus Henrietta's mom/dad/parental unit was born from a Timey wimey Foursome?
that or they were the 'human' one, the possesion entity one and the incubi who got pregnant or inpregnated the other male.
 
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