#Am I crazy? Because I literally cannot see good au world's timeline playing out anywhere near as closely to the original as I've been seeing

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I don't really buy Vi dying as the catalyst for the Undercity having it better in the alt timeline. To me that read as one of multiple factors that lead to the "good" au we landed in, and not even the main one. The Silco/Vander reconciliation would have had to happened faaar before that (Silco was all Shimmered up and had a plan in play in the og timeline, the kids not being actively hunted down kept him on his original trajectory; Marcus not being in the Undercity helped; you think SINGED wouldn't have taken things forward regardless when he had everything he needed?? Na-ah) there is no way Silco could have been stopped at that point, also I just don't think you come back from this look.

Either the fight between Vander and Silco never got as bad as we saw it or they held an intervention waaay earlier. I just don't see this plotline working any other way.

Point two, the Arcane crystal's never being developed further, which just puts a roadblock in escalating pretty much every character's stroyline.

Point three, and I think this is the biggest one for me that never gets brought up, Heimerdinger?! You know, the councilor who had three years to approach an assumed less messed up Undercity on account of Zaundad's not being at odds with each other, who clearly has been making a life for himself in the Undercity, and assumedly has taken steps towards improving it, as well as relations between the two sister cities?