Talk:Round One/@comment-216.223.27.22-20151026174645/@comment-24891101-20151026191943

What about the damage to Yang's character arc? If she just shows up, it denies her agency, and wraps up her quest for her mother too neatly. Whereas the recurring dream (which is what it would be) gives her more motivation to keep digging at this mystery. It's wonderful character development, and gives her an expanded role this volume, because of course they'll follow up on it. It's in that way no different. It gives her a direction to go in, a major plotline of her own agency, just like Blake's last volume. But if she shows up in person, what then? Everything gets resolved too early. Sure it moves her arc along, but it moves it too fast, while the dream causes her to advance her own arc, rather than having it advanced for her.

Plus it's still narratively moronic to reveal the mysterious benefactor figure to the characters instantly.