I don't care what metaphors there are, N committed genocide and is functionally a clone of Noah, not the same person. You can't just abstract away reality. They physically exist in 2 separate places doing separate things.
And the N that exists as a separate, genocidal maniac has met with the appropriate stabbity death to prevent further maniacal genocide. Anything past that stabbity death is a matter of Noah learning how not to end up following the same path, since they are in fact copies of the same person (with the same personalities, beliefs, and attitudes). The difference is that our Noah ended up meeting the right people to support him through losing Mio (including M sacrificing herself in Mio's stead), allowing him to break the cycle of despair that created and sustained N.
Um, we do that now in the real world.
Political commentary? In my Xeno game?
They mention in some info discussions but the black fog converter is used for more than just the cannon and is the reason agnes castle can exist in the black fog area and not be annihilated. Shoot it into space if you have to.
The heavy black fog presence around each castle is mostly *because* of the Annihilator, which inherently attracts black fog (the same way interlinking does, so it probably works on a similar principle). It's loosely implied that black fog is a symptom of an impending annihilation event, rather than the cause. While having lots of black fog around is correlated with a higher risk of an annihilation event, it does not itself seem to create one just by virtue of existing in an area.
Think of it like white blood cells: They don't cause infections, but they do congregate around potentially infectious material and trigger inflammatory responses if needed to prevent further infection. Analogously, black fog congregates around spatial abnormalities (interlinking, bits of the worlds that overlap a bit too closely, etc.) and trigger annihilation events as needed to remove them.
YoukaiSlayer posted...
The world continues to exist just fine despite our destroying of the clocks and the world does not immediately destabilize after we beat moebius.
The game covers a pretty short time span in Aionios' history. A couple months of instability won't destroy the world, but I doubt it's going to survive indefinitely without Moebius maintaining it.
YoukaiSlayer posted...
However, this brings up maybe the most frustrating thing about the whole setup. Everything we do is pointless. Freeing the colonies doesn't mean anything if we just obliterate them in a few weeks.
You already touched on why it isn't pointless: If the colonies were left alone, Moebius would be reborn as soon as the worlds' collision resumed and we'd have to start all over again. Freeing the colonies was a vital part of helping them all cope with their fear of an unknown future so they could move forward into it.
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