Time Devourer question

[GreenGannon]

When the Time Devourer (TD) splits in Chrono Cross what happens to the Lavos part of it? I guess that the place where it splits, just happens to be where Magus summons him from in 600 A.D.

[Chrono'99]

I don't know what really happen to it, but anyway you can clearly see it being disintegrated

[GreenGannon]

It looked like it was being pulled into the flow of time. But why would he die? Schala didn't when she got split

[Chrono'99]

awh now that you mention it, it really don't know... but why do you say it'd be just before Magus summons Lavos?

[GreenGannon]

It Emerged three times.

Two of those times (1999 A.D.; 12,000,000(?) B.C.) He comes out on his own.

The only other time (600 A.D.) is the only time he didn't choose to emerge (sorta)

To me it looked like he was being forced.

Poor Lavos eh? Never gets a break  

[chronotriggerfreak]

Go to the topic "Four Lavos Questions" and read GrayLensman's Pocket Dimension Theory. Lavos is and always was present at every time era we see in the game. Magus was merely forcibly removing it from the pocket dimension, which it didn't like.

I would assume that the Lavos part of the TD was thrown back into the Tesseract...

[OathoftheTimeTraveler]

The Tesseract makes the most sense. Remember, this time Lavos was pushed, not pulled ala 600 AD.

[GreenGannon]

But the Tesseract is where the battle took place

[chronotriggerfreak]

Yes, and he dispersed into it. The Tesseract is almost a state of non-existence.

[GreenGannon]

Then why didn't that happen to Schala? That sort of makes it a moot point.

[chronotriggerfreak]

Because they pulled Schala away. Nothing was there to prevent Lavos from being sucked fully into the Tesseract, though.

[GreenGannon]

What about Serge & co though? What kept them from absorption when they fought? Regardless I'll stick with my Magus summoning theory

[OathoftheTimeTraveler]

But Magus was the one who summoned it out: it wasn't killed/destroyed/fought by the group.

[GrayLensman]

Lavos was bound to the Darkness Beyond Time (DBT for short) because it only existed on a discarded timeline, the ruined future after the Day of Lavos.  Schala was not rewritten out of time; she wound up in the DBT after being drawn into the dimensional distortion surrounding Lavos in the Ocean Palace.  She, Serge, and the others physically exist in a real sense, and that is why they are not trapped in the DBT.  Lavos is only a shadow of a forgotten timeline, and without Schala's power, it is simply frozen within the DBT.

[ZeaLitY]

Ah! That tidily wraps up a...personal question. I had always wondered precisely how Schala combines with Lavos, considering the parasite still existed during the events of Chrono Trigger. Of course, at the DBT, Lavos would be a fragmentary part of the averted timeline, and fusing with a very real Schala allows it existence.