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So how would you guys have gone about writing Zen out of Mel's lore video long enough for her to progress the plot but without removing her completely? If Zen is upset about the direction her lore has gone (having her own story resolved in someone else's lore video and becoming a side character in her own character story) then should she have been in the video at all?
Her original objective was to stop Melware, but when presented with a Melody who was not yet evil she chose to keep an eye on her and wait to see what happened. Then Melware appears and a minute later she's dead. Melody ended up basically beating Melware herself with no real assistance from Zen outside of running from some mechs and the power of friendship ending the struggle beam. Her illusion of saving her own timeline didn't even pan out because Melware told her the truth. In-character, this leaves Zen having failed to stop Melware on her own and having failed to save the humanity she originally fought for. She's now a cyborg displaced from her time with nobody from the future to look forward to and dishonored from losing against her one target in the past. She's effectively been written into a dead end - unless Merry were to continue her story by having her combat geckos but thats... a little less high-stake than what Zen seemed to have been setting up originally.
So what do you think should've happened? What do you think she might do next?
