Talk:Episode CI/@comment-995426-20190312004614

I was rather surprised how so many viewers simply assumed Ashi disappeared because of a time travel paradox. I think it's not only a bad explanation, but an unnecessary one when a better possible explanation already exists. I thought she disappeared not literally because she couldn't have existed without Aku giving her life in the future, but more that her life force was linked with Aku's, and with Aku gone, Ashi was living on borrowed time, so her disappearance was actually just her death rather than a time travel effect. And I think this not just because Jack successfully managed to change the past and create a new timeline (thus eliminating the possibility of a stable time loop), but also because it took at least some time after Aku was vanquished before Ashi actually disappeared, and Ashi was still remembered after she was gone.