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Ok I just finished Chrono Cross, I thought it was a great game but no where near as good as Chrono Trigger. One main problm I had was too many damn characters to keep track. The ending was not that great, all of them, and the main cast from CT was not even there except in child-spirit form.
Now as the ending of CT (PSX version) showed us, the Kingdom of Guardia was taken over in 1005 A.D. Also, Crono married married Marle, princess of Guardia, so that would make him the king. So my question is do you think Crono and Marle were killed by the Porre army? Lucca, wasn't that is for sure, cause for the timeline to work with CC, she didn't find Kid until 4 years (I think) after the Porre army conquered Guardia.
I believe that Crono and Marle survived and were probably just kicked off the throne. It is hard to think that they would be killed only after 5 years from their adventure and would make a depressing story, especially after seeing their wedding at the end of CT. What do you all think happened to them?

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Lucca found Kid one year before Guardia was sacked, but she survived to set up yea children's house. However, she does appear to have died later on, what with the fire and all. Appearances can be decieving, though...

My opinion of C+M's fate (not the overboss) is that they got exiled into the past after Guardia fell. That would explain the ghosts, without making them dead immediately.

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My soul is bound to the Mistress of the Afterlife, and my fealty is to her always. So let's just hope she doesn't use it as one of her ten daily meals.

well, i'm sure nothing happened to them. then, in 2400 ad, with dr lucca ashtear' supercomputer FATE in chronopolis, the Time Crash (in which lavos/time devourer reached across dimensions, taking advantage of FATE's temporary shutdown and corrupting it [except for robo...er...the prometheus lock] gave lavos the opportunity to resurrect the day of lavos from the tesseract into the dead sea (where you fight miguel in front of the day of lavos leene square). in other words, chrono & co are all alive and well during the event of chrono cross. but the thing is, the time crash happened and the corrupted FATE was going to destory the world in the great battle between dinopolis and chronopolis. and that is what the party is trying to stop in chrono cross.

in other words, chrono and marle sat a full reign on the throne of guardia, and passed it to their ancestors, and so forth.

It's time for me to make my ever-present case on that OTHER theory regarding Chrono Cross, in that I and others like me believe that the game is actually an alternate universe story. Though many details remain the same throughout the continuity of Chrono Trigger flowing into Chrono Cross, the very nature of the game's plot as well as the surreal tone of the game leads me to believe that, by delving into the possibility of different streams of time changing the fabric of the world according to major events in their respective histories, the game actually suggests that as a "sequel" its plot is actually a mere possiblity in and of itself.

Believing this as I do, the amount of time between Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross is immaterial. It appears to be some decades, though, if taken in the most literal sense.

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Whenever I try to sit down and unravel all the plot details of CC, I get a headache. Of the dull throbbing variety.

As long as we're on the topic though, I thought maybe I could pick y'all's brains on something:

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It's my understanding that there should be 6 dragon gods in each dimension (Home/Another), making a dirty dozen in all. How come it seems that there is only 6 between the two dimensions? I have read online conjecture about how FATE somehow engineered the deaths of half of the dragon gods, to further weaken them. If this was truly done, however, what prevents FATE from killing them all off?

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it's a difficult question to answer. i mean, yeah, it seems as though FATE, by destorying the dragon gods, would prevent the advent of chrono cross, but then again, FATE, thru frozen flame, had control over the dragon gods to an extent (this is why they became furious when kid activated frozen flame). so perhaps she decided that it would not be prudent to destroy the dragon gods in the event that serge's activation of frozen flame would no longer have any unwanted side effects to him (instead it would just take frozen's flame's control from fate and make it impossible to undo the prometheus lock). another possible theory is that, while FATE can destroy 1 of each god (in ahrle's case she probably destoryed herself by going into the dead sea), to destroy any more would also be destroying the true dragon god, and perhaps the combined influence of the planet and schala and the dragon god itself have enough power to prevent her from doing that. good question