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LyricalAura · 2011-10-21, 16:27

Well... Maybe we're supposed to doubt that development. Turning the conditional around, if Battler is not pulled out of the ocean several years later, he doesn't become Hachijou Tohya. That would make Ikuko the sole author of the stories, right? And the ending of EP8 becomes the miraculous ending she promised fictional-Ange to make her happy.

Because Ikuko and Tohya are recluses, nobody can deny that it's what actually happened. That's also an interesting conclusion, in its own way...

EDIT:
However, I think it's pretty much a moot point because たら is being used in a past context. When you do that, it isn't interpreted as a conditional statement anymore, but as "when X happened, there was a surprising result Y". For example:

家に帰ったら、誰もいなかった。
- When I went home, there was no one there. (unexpectedly)

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LyricalAura Dea ex Kakera Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sea of Fragments	Well... Maybe we're supposed to doubt that development. Turning the conditional around, if Battler is not pulled out of the ocean several years later, he doesn't become Hachijou Tohya. That would make Ikuko the sole author of the stories, right? And the ending of EP8 becomes the miraculous ending she promised fictional-Ange to make her happy. Because Ikuko and Tohya are recluses, nobody can deny that it's what actually happened. That's also an interesting conclusion, in its own way... EDIT: However, I think it's pretty much a moot point because たら is being used in a past context. When you do that, it isn't interpreted as a conditional statement anymore, but as "when X happened, there was a surprising result Y". For example: 家に帰ったら、誰もいなかった。 - When I went home, there was no one there. (unexpectedly) __________________ "Something has fallen on us that falls very seldom on men; perhaps the worst thing that can fall on them. We have found the truth; and the truth makes no sense." Last edited by LyricalAura; 2011-10-21 at 17:19.