[Spoilers] Regarding Pocket Mirror Ending No. 3 and LGTS

[hanshotfirst]

I've always found the 'Little Goody Two Shoes' ending to Pocket Mirror rather enigmatic,
but playing LGTS has only increased the mystery surrounding it.

If absorbing Enjel's regalia (and thus completely torpedoing Ozzy's efforts to collect Goldia's soul) really did nullify Elise's contract, how did Goldia end up in that alternative timeline?

I mean, we now know that Elise was a committed lesbian, and had no intention of marrying Count die Heilige or bearing his children. How the hell did they end up together, officially or unofficially?

Moreover, what happened to Rozenmarine and Henri in that timeline? Did they still remain enslaved by Ozzy, since their fate weren't strictly dependent upon Elise's contract? After all, Rozenmarine was a 'gift' with no strings attached, while Henri had his own contract.

Finally, what is the significance of Goldia finding those pair of ruby slippers that were too big for her? We now know that those shoes are an invitation from Ozzy to his 'banquet', but Elise's pair fit her like a glove. Is Goldia's pair a thinly-veiled threat from Ozzy that he hasn't forgotten his humiliating defeat, and will make a second attempt when Goldia becomes a teenager far more susceptible to Ozzy's temptations?

Hope all of this will be explained someday, in a future installment.

[WumeoW]

"However, co-director Kira responded, “We think Little Goody Two Shoes wraps up the story of Pocket Mirror in a cohesive and satisfying way, so now we’re ready to chart new territory!”
——it's so bad that they are so conceited and might never spread the story of the best ending for Goldia, the ending that Goldia did her best to get all regalias and have a happy childhood instead of DID with her dear mommy in Kieferberg but you don't know what will happen in future.

[WumeoW]

Originally posted by neo2157:

The thing is there is like 7 years between the release's of the two games so there is going to be weird inconsistancies like this as Elise getting her own backstory was likely not even a consideration back during the other games development.

Elise is a lesiban, yes. But if she doesn't find the shoes, the history will not same as the story in LGTS game, cuz LGTS the game is built on the situation that Elise found the shoes. Maybe Count Heilige meet her by chance and fall in love with her, Elise feel it's a chance to get rid of poor life, then married him and Goldia birthed.
Goldia still exist and named Goldia which means that Elise must have married to Roman die Heilige, the count and sergeant. Otherwise, Goldia can never exist anymore. Therefore, Elise and Goldia can not be poor, they are the rich family of the count.
Goldia lives in Kieferberg, Germany probably because Elise cannot adapt to the aristocratic life of the city in Austria. In PM, the count is known as the sergeant, often goes out to battle and has little chance to accompany his family. There are many details suggesting that Elise was ridiculed by other aristocrats for her inappropriate dress and behavior. In the Moria end of LGTS, Elise chose to sacrifice her friend and marry the count, and felt that the upper class interaction was not what she wanted. After Elise got married, the count, as a sergeant, often had to go out for fighting. From LGTS, Elise, as an outspoken and careless country girl. From PM, Elise was not adapt to the high-class life, so it was reasonable for her to go back to her hometown to live with her beloved daughter. Alone in the empty big castle, and the unpleasure high society, it is better to return to Kieferberg, their hometown and familiar people together (married to the count is not lack of living expenses). When the count has free time, Elise may return to the castle or the count come to Kieferberg to visit her and her daughter (Kieferberg might be the count's domain). The only thing that Elise need to do is to take care of their kids, Elise will not being a maid-of-all-work anymore. From PM to the medical record list of dawn ending, Goldia was born in 1862, which means that Elise married the count earlier. If you had the knowledge of world history, you might know that Germany was unified in 1871, before every territory had such nobles and lords, even after the unification of these small lords also have a lot of power. It could explain why Elise and Goldia live in the old house in Kieferberg in ending 3 if the game team never explain it.

Meanwhile, from PM, you could see Elise's old house is more newer than in LGTS, and the courtyard in PM planted a large scale of white flowers that not existed in LGTS. In PM, you could know that Goldia likes chamomile tea, it can be speculated that this white flower is chamomile that planted by her mother Elise mightly. (Please note that in the language of flowers, chamomile has a symbolic meaning of "energy in adversity", which is a symbol of Goldia's nature and suffering in PM).

In Ending3, we can try to take a gamble that Goldia has the right choice, because Goldia is unlike her mother, who is kinder and weaker than her mother. In the worst-case scenario, if Goldia repeated the tradegy again, who will sacrificed by her (probably the child of Freya, a companion who grew up with Goldia together?) Will Goldia's mother, Elise, or Goldia's daughter, once again save Goldia by rewriting history again? These have to be clearly explained by the next game, instead of this ambiguous answer on the game team in Reddit. We can only guess rather than affirm. It would be nice if each generation could save the previous generation and give it a new life.

[Ginkgo Balboa]

It could be that ELISE found baby GOLDIA in the Forest like in LGTS.

[CirnoHakurei]

Originally posted by Ginkgo Balboa:

It could be that ELISE found baby GOLDIA in the Forest like in LGTS.

This would have required the aid of Ozzy, unless the witch could make forth on her promise that she could even do something like that without such a hefty price. Ozzy's dialogue made it seem like she wasn't really that powerful, so my guess is that would not have been the case.

The LGTS ending is merely a "happy end" for Goldia somehow. Maybe it's one where Henri was never born? Since Elise's deal was for the "second child" to be Ozzy's, if Goldia were the first and only child, then that would make Ozzy's deal fall through. I don't recall seeing a Henri in that ending, so that would make the most sense probably. It never deigned to be a "happy end" for Elise, after all.

But that is ignoring the red shoes. So, maybe the count was killed and Elise left the castle and "rich life" that she was never ready for (especially being a lesbian in that time and age, she was quite fortunate to find a village that didn't oust her for being that). Rozenmarine is still dead, but Elise is able to deal with life a little better not having to deal with the high society vultures. Goldia still will have to deal with Ozzy in some way, but won't be all broken when the time comes. And since she's much more strong than and a bit more kind than Elise, she probably can find a way to stop it.

I was never a fan of the ending, personally, because it's presumably the end of Fletta, Harpae and Lisette.