Gotoh wrote:1. Giz and Dave have never specified how far EC was ahead of MC to begin with (not even a rough approximation). So we'd need to know at least that much before we can start trying to draw parallels between the events of both comics between the camping trip/teleportation incident and Nina's birthday.
Like I said, the morning of MC #212-218 (Chapter 13) is explicitly the first morning after Dakota's return during EC #376-378 (B&W Chapter 10). That's the base - everything afterward is relative to that.
Gotoh wrote:2. Chloe's meeting with Jacqui in DC would have to be sometime
after the Doompanties/War Dance arc, because Chloe had transferred to TA by then. The Doom Panties incident was
the reason Chloe decided to leave.
I acknowledged that - the point was that the last time
Jacqui and Chloe were both at Charybdis was c. EC B&W Chapter 2. Because that's the time Jacqui was pulled out and sent to Artremis, and thus the last time they could have been at school together prior to their meeting in Chloe Chapter 3.
The fact that Chloe was still at CH for a while after Jacqui left is irrelevant - what matters is when they were last BOTH there. [Also, that Chloe's explicitly had more time pass in the netherworld than Jacqui had in the "real world" means her time passage is doubly irrelevant. Trebly, if you count the implication in the current DChloe arc that this is her second Valentine's Day relationship massacre, despite the fact that in no way could a year have passed in the "overworld" since she left CH and so she may have doubled back on herself.]
Gotoh wrote:Beyond that, everything else becomes guesswork. It's possible that EC only seems further ahead (now) because MC has had fewer updates in the same amount of time. Meaning, the time difference could still be the same as it originally was, with EC only being slightly ahead.
Only if you think there's a four month gap between Cerise getting pissed off at Jacqui for "taking Melissa's side", prepositioning "Rain" & storming out of the changing room and her smashing the picture of the three of them at the start of MC Chapter 14. Technically, it's
possible, but it certainly isn't what a reasonable reading of the story as it stands would imply. (EC took that big timeskip between Tia deaging Ace at the end of EC B&W Chapter 13 ("Big Little Sister") and beginning of B&W Chapter 14 ("Quinceanina"), as Brooke confirms in EC #449. Note how Nina's grown to halfway between her original height and her "Big Little Sister" height in the "missing" time).
[And that's not even counting the fact that days have been passing in EC since then. Whereas MC has had the past
76 strips* occur on the same in-continuity day.
*At least! Technically, the previous eight Cerise/Hekate/"Skye" strips may or may not also be that same day.]
