Challenges to a Meshalutian Trilogy revival

While some interest has been shown in bringing back the Meshalutian Trilogy for Cataclysmic Gerosha continuity, there are some key challenges, both in-continuity and out of it.

In-continuity challenges

1. Surviving material related to Carla Rintel. Without sufficient material to build off of, her story can't be told.
2. Timeline collision in Boston.
• The original time setting of 2011 doesn't work. But if Hurricane Nekoda is shown striking in 2013, then Cursed is the Ground needs to be set in 2013 also - while avoiding bumping into Extirpon 2 and Extirpon 3.
• Likewise, the final defeat of Meshaluta, however it's done, at the end of The Natural Logarithm would have to avoid bumping into The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge, but also avoid bumping into The Gray Champion: Shaken Dust.
• Since John Domeck could easily prove a challenge for Meshaluta's coven, as would also the Icy Finger and Screwworm enemies he faces, then significant effort is required to ensure that neither of these powerhouses is allowed to interfere with the coven.
3. Honeybee Samuel. Up to this point, Meshaluta and the Rintels functionally don't exist in Earth-G7. Adding them, however, would require at minimum to reestablish a link between "Honeybee" Samuel Wrikon and Meshaluta - if not also find a way to work Sanction Harlem back into the plot.
4. The Flippos' Inherited Wrikon Curse. In Earth-G5, the Flippo triplets' hypersexual tendencies were blamed on a supernatural curse by virtue of their being descendants of Honeybee Samuel. In Earth-G7, however, it was blamed on bad parenting on Erin's part, combined with traumatic experiences in school. Bringing Sam's supernatural element back to the mythos would require some explaining as to how the curse on him no longer affects his descendants.
5. Yenti Roy. The character has a dumb name, is poorly explained, and is just a bad idea all-around. Other than making Trisha's old boyfriend into a generic predatory stalker, however, there is little that can be done to give her a pursuer to run from, and keep matters interesting. Until Roy can be replaced with something less stupid, this subplot essential to Cursed is the Ground keeps that story from moving forward.
6. Gleeful-N'-Young. It'd be suicidal for a sex trafficker like Dewey to operate all on his own. He knows Lenny is just a weak drug addict de-facto servant, and hardly that useful for anything other than backup during break-and-enter operations. Why wouldn't he send an entire crew to kidnap Mandy? Why wouldn't he infiltrate CPS? Surely, to operate like he does, he'd want to join Gleeful-N'-Young. But that would put him on the Purge-Flare's radar. How to ensure that Chris doesn't kill him before Meshaluta does? Mike "Pencil" Javelin was completely helpless against Chris. How would Dewey fare that much better?
7. Home architecture. A render is finally almost finished for the Rintels' Louisiana home, in The Sims 4. That render took several hours; but it brings together as best it can the aesthetics of the old Kenosha house that it was based off of in the original novella, plus required modifications for the story, plus geographic corrections. Set at 152 Plum Lane in Grand Isle, which was an empty lot at time of Google inspection.
8. Location names. Calling Grand Isle "Murian," LaFourche "LaFoe," and Aspen "Applestream" may have been cute in Uber-Proto Gerosha. But for Cataclysmic Gerosha, material would need to be reworked to give locations their real names.
9. Lax attitudes of airport security. The LaFoe Airport's security doesn't seem to care that there are time-traveling vikings in the women's restroom, or that a giant TV nearly fell on a small girl and crushed her to death. Where's TSA terrorizing everyone at the first sign of chaos? Why was the airport not completely evacuated? So many details that make no sense with that airport. Would George's laptop not have been seized at the first sign of weird things happening?
10. Lax attitudes about ordering evacuation. The governor of Louisiana in this story sure does seem to wait until the last possible minute to order evacuations. Why couldn't the National Guard mobilize to assist Rick? Why were the Rintels left to fend for themselves against Dewey?
11. Lax prosecution. Why did no malicious prosecutor decide to press charges against Eva for leaving for the airport? Even though Nekoda's erratic behavior took everyone off guard, Eva did still technically abandon her children to a sickly middle-aged man and a supernatural storm pattern, just to fly to New York to sell stocks. That she suddenly realized the mistake, and tried to return home and rescue her family, and was denied by the airport, wouldn't matter to a prosecutor.

Real-world challenges

1. Time taken to repair the continuity and plot hole issues above would take away from development time for much more well-planned works that are in the pipeline, and getting ready for creation.
2. Extra time would be required to track down surviving copies of existing material for 90 Has No Secant, so that even more time is not squandered trying to "reinvent the wheel" from scratch. The material is buried deep in archives somewhere.
3. None of The Natural Logarithm has actually been written. Only a few chapters of a rough draft for Cursed is the Ground were ever penned. These projects would need to be restarted from scratch, in spite little chance they'll ever be as good as part 1 in the series.
4. Outside of the UK, demand for J-horror is small.

For the future, this isn't impossible. However, far more important works are on the precipice of release. Those have to matter more.

What if Danny hadn't dumped Candi after her conviction?

Canon

Canonically, at the end of Ciem: Inferno, under pressure, Richard and Megan convince Danny that the best thing for him to do would be to break up with Candi. Candi is terrified to let anyone know that she's pregnant - including Danny! She admits it at one point to Imaki; but that leaves Imaki as the only party outside of Madison that knows the truth.

Appalled that he would be so quick to throw in the towel, simply because her conviction - and his family moving westward - made life difficult; Candi concedes to the breakup - tearfully. The couple part ways, and don't see each other again for several years. She vows that if she can't win him back, then she'll make certain that the next guy she gives herself to is fully committed to her - no matter what insane persecution Darius Philippine throws at her next!

Danny seemed like the dream to her. But when the going got tough; he ran away. She knew she couldn't afford to make that mistake again!

The stress of being a fall girl, a juvenile inmate, an orphan, a single mother, and an exposed superhero whose sins were catching up to her proved to be too much; and Candi found herself going into labor in late January of 2016 - only a month into serving her sentence!

Grateful for all she'd done to save Madison Juvenile from Drop-In (and tame Flintirah,) Superintendent Bruce Almin offered to pay for Candi's trip to the hospital. She was determined to save her child's life. However, doctors were only able to do so much, and no more.

Angie Flippo was not given more than a few hours to live. Candi made sure to have her child baptized in that time; then spent several tender moments with the daughter she was doomed to lose. It took until early March for Candi to recover from the crushing depression that ensued - made worse by Darius instigating TPR proceedings against Erin and Imaki, in breach of his deal with Candi!

Madison was cutting back, and that meant inadequate personal support to address Candi's specific problems. The class she most needed, Healthy Relationships; was denied to her - partially on account of outside pressure from Darius.

When some of Candi's unresolved issues years later would come back to bite her, and Donte would be similarly emotionally and morally compromised by the stressful circumstances they were in; it became dangerously easy for Candi to slip back into her old behavior patterns.

There could have been another way

But what if Danny weren't a coward? What if he'd sworn to Candi that he would do anything to get back to her after she got out of prison; even if he lived in another state by then?

For starters, the odds would have been significantly higher that Angie would have arrived on a more reasonable timetable and due date, and not been super-premature.

Darius would have written Candi off as useless, and not prolonged her suffering beyond the initial 7 months of incarceration she'd agreed to. Candi would have been unable to participate in the events in Ash Cloud, as Angie would have been born in late April. Candi would have been released in June, on her original schedule. The Loffin family would come and vouch for her, as they'd also be the ones receiving custody of Angie. Imaki would coordinate matters this way.

In Candi's 5-year future, things would have turned out worse for her - and the remnants of America in general - had this happened. Canonically, in December of 2019, when she and Dolly arrive at the Texas border, Candi has a renewed supply of Remotach. She and Dolly find themselves dependent on it to survive, after they are captured and drugged at the border.

Not aware of Remotach, Arfaas' men waste no time taking a weakened Candi and Dolly, and fulfilling Arfaas' demands for the girls.

Due to Candi's Remotach, quick thinking, and the Navyropes' intervention, the girls are able to reattach their heads in time, and survive the encounter. The Navyropes take them to a secret underground bunker, doubling as a hospital. The girls are fully recovered from all but their psychological trauma - a week later. After all: they were inches from death!

Imaki even had Candi and Danny do practice runs with a fake ax and block, to get Candi used to the idea that her enemies were serious about their obsession to fulfill Arfaas' demands: that all of Shalia's daughters' heads be made into his trophies!

But with no Candi to confront Korsicht at Madison in June of 2016? None of the others would have survived. Nancy would never have come up with the Carbonica. Quoll and Duzerit would have succeeded at the full VEI-8 eruption of Yellowstone plan! The Hebbleskins would have eventually found all of Shalia's daughters, and decapitated them. None would have Remotach, and Candi would have been utterly defeated.

Is all hope lost?

At first, this may seem so. Dolly would have died at the South Bend Death Camp. There would be no Ciem to confront Musaran. Donte would have died, and a lot sooner. No Exodus Agenda would arrive in Texas at all; and Jackrabbit's team in Houston would have had a much harder time making the Sodality of Gerosha a reality.

However, the Loffins would have fled to California sooner. Danny would have had Candi in his life; and would have married her as soon as he lawfully could.

Right up until the moment of her capture and execution; Candi would have been happier. She would've had the boy she wanted: her high school sweetheart. She'd miss Miriam and Imaki, and even miss Marina and Erin too. She wouldn't miss much else.

While Candi herself would have been doomed to die; the case for Angie would have been another story. Angie would have escaped, along with the rest of the Loffins. She'd develop the same abilities as what her mother had; and would grow up to one day avenge her mother and destroy the Hebbleskins.

It's debatable if the Swappernetters and Plum Bixie would be around to assist her in this. If the Icy Finger stuck it to the Loffins as revenge against the Angie Loffin version of Ciem; then Angie would have needed to go underground within Arkonia - as a Swappernetter Student.

Angie's Centhuen Prototype abilities would come in handy; allowing her to become a Frontliner a year ahead of her peers. She may have even been able to join Tabitha Pang's team; given that she would only be about 2-1/2 years younger than Tabby. This would be strange for Tabitha; as she'd now be the mentor to the daughter of her own childhood idol!

In conclusion

While Angie's premature birth and death, and Danny's abandoning Candi may seem cruel; it was a strange sort of blessing in disguise. Having the Remotach refill allowed Candi to later survive two beheadings from her enemies! Battling Korsicht saved dozens of lives. Yellowstone didn't go full VEI-8. The world didn't end - just yet. The Sodality of Gerosha became legendary heroes.

Sure, relentless politics would see to it that Candi's Madison affair wouldn't be the only time she would spend her life as a political prisoner. With the totality of her life under parole / probation and incarceration time total tallied up, she winds up spending nearly 13 years' worth of her life either behind bars, or under house arrest, or else monitored in some way!

Yet, Candi's patience and longsuffering are not in vain. She and Donte are able to build the McArthur Estate that would never have been possible under Danny Loffin. They are able to have three children of their own: Frank, John, and Dana. The Ciem of Tomorrow, which the Phaletori remnants and Icy Finger revivalists fear most in Indiana, is not some mere offspring of Candi's that has the same abilities and suit tech.

Instead, it's a much-updated futuristic Ciem, with all of Candi's powers PLUS all of Emeraldon's! Dana may not have been as special a birth to Candi as Angie was; but the long haul makes Candi grateful that God put Dana in her life long-term instead of Angie.

There's sometimes no telling what sort of divine blessing and providence one can hope to expect; even coming from the most seemingly senseless of one's current pains and struggles.