In that variation, she wouldn't be locked in the basement, she'd have been down there by choice, simply because she was just flat-out done with the world after 10ème Floréal. She wouldn't have regarded Remilia as her enemy so much as a reminder of happier times that was too painful to interact with. G's job would have been similar--to get her to come out, literally and figuratively, from her self-imposed exile--but probably would have involved less horsie and more talk therapy.

Obviously I'm not going to go back and rework the whole series now, but it's an interesting thought exercise.

--G.
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In a universe that I can't imagine you writing, Flandre did have something wrong with her, broke out in the chaos, and proceeded to wreak havoc upon their attackers - after which the added trauma of realizing she'd literally torn people limb from limb pushed her to lock herself away from the world.

Not that it isn't a story somebody could write, just that it isn't your sort of story.

Peter Eng
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