This suggests that Main Sola, though far more aware of the various manipulations of time and space than most characters, lacks the level of knowledge and involvement in such matters that Vision Sola demonstrates. Even her realization that she travelled 2000 years through time is noted to be only a deduction. From it, she is able to deduce the nature of Claude’s reality-warping powers, but her wording indicates that she lacks confirmation of such. At the end of Liberation Day, Main Sola describes experiencing a “vision” (one that sounds similar to what Academy Kayto experienced) in which she spoke to Claude.

I’m having a hard time reconciling this aspect of Vision Sola with what we know of Main Sola.

This “Vision” Sola has a clear understanding of who and what Academy Sola is, mentioning that “she has struggled against all our attempts to retrieve her.” This almost certainly indicates that Vision Sola was working with Claude, who was using her abilities to try to pull Academy Sola back “home” in order to fix damage to the Academy timeline caused by the addition of a Sola shadow. Near the end of the Sola route in Academy, Academy Kayto enters a white, ethereal plane, where he converses with an individual that we’re led to believe is the original Sola from the main Sunrider timeline.

These conundrums are made all the more vexing by how closely they’re tied to my favorite character in the series, Sola. While I love the Sunrider series, its increasing emphasis on abstract, nonlinear concepts such as time travel and alternate dimensions has left me struggling to wrap my head around a number of plot points.

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