When you finish Chrono Cross properly by sparing Schala and doing the hokey Chrono Cross thing, instead of just thrashing Lavos, you get the 'true' ending of the game. This ending was loaded with confusing references and questionable things to be seen, including Schala suddenly using Kid's accent/personality. Some translate this as Schala and Kid merging into one person but I digress.
Dialogue
Interesting choice of words for Schala here. Spermatozoa is what you think it is and Zurvan is the Zoroastrian god of time. Yep, another gratuitous religious reference.
Schala:
I have been waiting an eternity... just for this very moment...
Meaninglessly hurting one another...
The disappearing life-forms...
The words that become deleted...
The thoughts that become buried...
The pool of cells that slowly evaporate...
The echoes of consciousness that slowly fade...
Love to hate... Hate to love...
Why are we born? Why do we die? Evolution? The "survival of the fittest?"
What is there to be achieved from harming one another... killing one another...
The "eggs" that we call planets...
And the innumerable "spermatozoa" which gather around these that we call life-forms...
When one of those countless seeds inseminates a planet, a new universe is born.
But until that occurs, hundreds of millions of years will pass, and innumerable life-forms will be born, then die...
That is the be-all and end-all. Everything exists for that one moment.
All so that the universe can evolve into the next dimension...
Does that make us all just pawns?
Are each of our short lives nothing but a cheap sacrifice just so the one chosen life-form can be born?
No. That is not the case!
Each and every one of us has a chance of becoming that one chosen life-form which inseminates a planet.
Yes, it could be "you"... Genes and environment...
Each of us tries to do his best under the limited conditions we are each dealt.
Each life-form that attempts to eke out a decent life for itself forms a link in the golden chain that leads to the creation of a new universe.
If one link is missing, there will be no future.
There is no such thing as a useless life-form... No such thing as a pawn!
Every single thing in the whole of nature is perhaps just dreaming a dream of "life"...
All of them are also perhaps nothing more than a dream dreamt by the planet before it is born.
Oh, but yes... Eventually all dreams will return to Zurvan... to the sea of dreams...
Serge...! Don't go yet, Serge...!!! It's alright. Everything is alright now.
Time, which has been divided, will be unified again now.
The time for farewells has come...
You will lose all memory of this whole adventure and return to your own time.
But this time you will be able to live your own life!
Schala:
We alone do not have the power to heal the world's woes, or to solve all its mysteries.
And yet, even then... It was bloody good knowing ya, mate!
Thanks for being born "you," Serge!
I guess now's the time to say, "see ya later, mate!"
But... I'll find ya... Sometime... somewhere...
I'm bloody sure of it!
No matter the time period, no matter the world ya live in, I'll find ya!
I'm sure... I am sure I will...
Schala's Letter:
Thus the curtain closes on another tale.
And eternity has passed, fleeting dreams fade into the distance...
All that is left now is my memories,
But i'm sure we'll meet again, someday you and I
Another place, another time although
You may not know who I am
Let us open the door to the great unknown across another reality
And live another today even when the story has been told. We'll meet each other again
Schala Kid Zeal
What happens:
You have to ignore the meaningless shots of a japanese woman in a bad Schala 'Kid' Zeal wig (its got the braid from Kid and hair down like Schala) and Kid's necklace.
Apparently in this ending, Kid does remember Serge and sets out to find him with determination when you see her sail off alone.
The most important thing about this ending is the last photo. You can barely see it (pictured at the right) and the players don't know what it means. The game doesn't even show the man's face. But now that Karsh scanned in the design notes from the artbook for me, we now know what really happens. The photo is a wedding photo!
Apparently Kid did find Serge as she said she would, and they got married. The ending really would have been a happy one if we saw more and it was explained. Serge seems to look really similar to how we know him but Kid is now gentle and womanly according to her expression and design descriptions. Unlike the Kid we originally know, she is more like Princess Schala now. It seems Kid accepted who and what she really was like.
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