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Whether it be the boundaries of time - ages apart - or space - dimensions apart - one would also have to consider the toll the pursuit itself will inevitably take on her. Could the pursuit of a dream become an obstacle to attain it? If, after millenia, Neichel were to reach her dream of sunshine and friendship, would she still be qualified to take it? Or is it truly something doomed by fate, star-crossed.

One of the series' main themes or motifs has always been dreams, with the most blatant being 'Nightmare in Dreamland', but beyond that is Kirby's ever-present star motif and every antagonist having their own aspirations, their own dreams that they want to attain at any cost. Most recently is in FL's epilogue, where you enter Elfilis' mindscape with 'Faded Dream of a Psychomeddler' playing. Neichel seeing the future through dreams is extremely appropriate and thematic.
Kirby's main goal has always been to protect his friends, even if it means crushing the dreams of others if they're causing harm in the process of attaining that dream.
What, then, will Kirby do if he meets someone whose dream is himself? What had that someone done in the past to reach this point? To cross dimensions, ages, and worlds, just to meet one person - what was the price of attaining such an impossible endeavor? A single person's lonely journey to reach the stars. Crossing any boundary, paying any price, just to meet a friend who doesn't yet know her name.

Now, I know, I know, isn't it a bit much to immediately put her in an antagonist position? There's no basis for that after all, aside from the grounds of her callously omitting Halcandra's ultimate fate and dooming her kin to what I'm assuming wasn't... a very fun time, and aside aside from some of her lines potentially coming across as an ambiguously flavored promise