At 06:48 8/21/97 -0600, you wrote:

[snip!]

 Those events canonically -did- happen or -will- happen,
depending on your place in the timeline, and you can always, of course,
rewrite that little section of history, but assuming it plain 'doesn't
exist' doesn't work for me.  Especially in (IMHO) Blade's overfanaticism
about Tarou.  

Hmmm...  Interestingly enough, about half of the BGC 'fics I've read have
authors who either ignore or deny the canonicality (?) of Bubblegum Crash!
I can't say one way or the other; I haven't seen it.  Does your view of
"rewriting history" insist that the same characters/events show up, or is
it all right to start mid-way through the story and just run however you
want from there?

 -Andrew (who will probably see Crash! eventually)