Thank you for the spoilers.... and.... my brain hurts.
What I think is that Syaoran is actually a lot older than Sakura (but this doesn't make much sense either)to be with Sakura then he paid some of his time so... he was little again?! but Syaoran had been imprisoned since he was little...
I think Shaoran paid his time by being rewinded, and then his freedom by allowing himself to be captured. My biggest question is what this looked like from real Sakura's point of view.
WTF. "To regain the Sakura of that day?" Why is that damn day so important? How is rewinding his own time a proper form of payment? What is time, a baumkuchen? Is Sakura-in-the-ruins 7 or 16?
Okay, I'm trying to think rationally here. I agree Shaoran has probably, essentially, lived his life twice: once with Sakura, and the other in the tube. Which should mean that Sakura-in-the-ruins has only lived the part of that time from when they were little until recently: thus she shouldn't have lived her life twice, just once, right? (This answers my question about her being 7 or 16, because she'd have to be 16.)
If Kurogane or Fai don't make a comment about this being confusing, I might have to throw something.
On the upside, I think this obviates our issues with Touya not knowing about Shaoran being with Sakura "zutto."
Hmmm, I thought Sakura-in-the-ruins was a past version of the real one. Are you proposing it's a current alternate version instead?
I thought about having Sakura frozen in time, but seeing what happened to the townspeople makes it a bit awkward to accomodate enough time for Shaoran to grow up. So let's try something else.
She grows up with Shaoran. Something happens that makes Shaoran go to Yuuko and strike the deal with her. The "time" payment doesn't merely rewind Shaoran's age, but effectively removes him from the past. This not being enough, Fei Wang comes in and puts a clone in Shaoran's place. So Sakura's 7-8 years that she spent with Shaoran are written off, and now she spent those years with other-Shaoran instead. The Sakura who grew up with Shaoran is blasted off to oblivion like war-of-the-sexes Shara was. Or maybe not quite. (Very wild and cracktastic tangent right there
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1st Question's answer: Well, I guess sort of I am, because they asked Yuuko to send them to where the "real Sakura" was, and here they are in time-loop land. Which is also FWR's world. So definitely the clone's body and the "real Sakura" are here. If Sakura-in-the-ruins is a past version of the real one, that means there are at least 3 Sakuras in this world, which seems to be a lot to me. I guess that's another way of saying I can't recall any reason to assume that Sakura-in-the-ruins is anything but the "real Sakura," no qualifications attached.
I buy your theory right up until the blasted off part, though. If time was rewound and everything but Shaoran's memories of it were erased, would there really be any need to destroy that Sakura, since she'd have forgotten?
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What I think is that Syaoran is actually a lot older than Sakura (but this doesn't make much sense either)to be with Sakura then he paid some of his time so... he was little again?! but Syaoran had been imprisoned since he was little...
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Okay, I'm trying to think rationally here. I agree Shaoran has probably, essentially, lived his life twice: once with Sakura, and the other in the tube. Which should mean that Sakura-in-the-ruins has only lived the part of that time from when they were little until recently: thus she shouldn't have lived her life twice, just once, right? (This answers my question about her being 7 or 16, because she'd have to be 16.)
If Kurogane or Fai don't make a comment about this being confusing, I might have to throw something.
On the upside, I think this obviates our issues with Touya not knowing about Shaoran being with Sakura "zutto."
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I thought about having Sakura frozen in time, but seeing what happened to the townspeople makes it a bit awkward to accomodate enough time for Shaoran to grow up. So let's try something else.
She grows up with Shaoran. Something happens that makes Shaoran go to Yuuko and strike the deal with her. The "time" payment doesn't merely rewind Shaoran's age, but effectively removes him from the past. This not being enough, Fei Wang comes in and puts a clone in Shaoran's place. So Sakura's 7-8 years that she spent with Shaoran are written off, and now she spent those years with other-Shaoran instead. The Sakura who grew up with Shaoran is blasted off to oblivion like war-of-the-sexes Shara was. Or maybe not quite. (Very wild and cracktastic tangent right there ( ... )
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I buy your theory right up until the blasted off part, though. If time was rewound and everything but Shaoran's memories of it were erased, would there really be any need to destroy that Sakura, since she'd have forgotten?
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I think that I just wrapped my mind around the fact that the Sakura that we have been following in Tsubasa is a clone and how that came about.
Then they throw this at me....;_;
Maybe the actual chapter will be more clear...even then this is going to require some working through mentally.
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