Talk:Family Portrait/@comment-32751919-20190618135937/@comment-30155239-20190618163301

@Yamato98 Agreed. Plus when you consider that the whole "for want of a nail" scenario the lostbelts use doesn't necesarily mean that nobody from the natural timeline existed after the divergence point. If some sort of solar flare struck the earth 100 years ago and burned up the ozone layer, causing the earth to become insanely hot and so on, it's still possible that we'd be born in that hypothetical timeline, presuming nothing happened to our parents and grandparents and that they were still able to meet. The circumstances might be different, but there's always a chance.

Perhaps those that we had to deny in the lostbelts still existed in the alpha timeline. Maybe they just had radically different personalities given that there was never an endless ice age, giants running amok eating people, a god-emperor culling anyone who hits 25, or a 10-day cycle of destruction and rebirth.