Is Anabel A and Anabel 1 a possibility? Like, one fell down the Nido Ultra Wormhole from another 'verse and became Interpol Cheif while the native one became a Frontier Brain? :P

As much as I love the A-and-1 running gag, I also know firsthand that managing two separate, simultaneously-present versions of the same character in one universe for extended periods of time can get really frustrating and exhausting, hence why I pushed the Amarin twins back into one single Amarin oldest-child :P

plus i have amazing ideas about their reaction to the fact that Anabel, someone they've been friends with for over a year now, was secretly part of the international police the whole time

That does depend on whether anyone else is particularly interested in writing for Interpol Anabel, but true.

(I'm still kinda hesitant though due to the aforementioned experience and the fact that a lot of people in and out of the RP that I've talked to haven't had much investment in Anabel as a character beyond "hey Bittersweet might be excited about this postgame thing." Which, needless to say, I was, I literally squealed when I saw her :P)

If my idea doesn't pass, I will still probably do some sort of alternate-WAAPT-canon ficlet where it is what happened, assuming I work up the energy for it, but still, I was kinda hoping to do some canon-and-WAAPTverse integration rather than separation because I see so much potential for it.

To be honest, I don't feel having two Anabels would be confusing. Then again, I'm also surprised to learn the merging of the Amarin twins was permanent and not just a temporary shenanigan - the "twins" solution, from my perspective, seemed like the most natural course of action. All that really shows is that I obviously have very different thought processes on these matters compared to you, but regardless, I have no on-principle objections to two Anabels.

I do, however, think your idea could help deal with the other problem you've pointed out, which is that we've suddenly been confronted with a plot where the demarcation between the 3DSverse and the original gameverse is laid out very clearly, while WAAPT has taken great pains to establish that the original gameverse and the 3DSverse are the same place. Then again, WAAPT has also established that a butt-ton of parallel universes exist, so who knows?

On a tangentially related note, I have some slightly idiosyncratic headcanons on how the whole "Ultra Beasts destroyin ur worldz" thing played out. Maybe those would be relevant?

Ah, that clears it up. I'd been operating under the assumption that mere confusion was the reason, but if you feel it would help with character development if there was only one Anabel and only one Amarin child, that's reasonable enough.

TBH, I would have no problem with either layout, but lean single Anabel myself. This is mostly because it does make adapting several elements less of a hassle. On the other hand, my headcanon on the destruction thing involved the Nihilego - yes, specifically the Nihilego - being even more destructive than SuMo would have you believe, so I guess that's not an option if we don't think a single dead universe would fit the tone of the RP.

I'm not to the postgame yet, but unfortunately I've had this plot point spoiled for me. I'd like to have freaked out first seeing her like I did with Colress and Burnet and Grimsley.

But anyway, I do like the idea of there just being the one Anabel better, mostly for some of the reasons Bitter's listed. (Though, that said, I would probably find a scene with two Anabels meeting amusing. What if Anabel made it back to this universe a few months before she left due to spacetime weirdness, and it was encountering her past/future self that caused her memories to return? I don't know if that breaks canon or anything, sorry.)

Yeah, what Straw said. I'm replaying post game as we speak in my copy of Moon and no where does it say (or remotely imply without some really extreme logical jumps that can only be made by using "What if" as a preface to the arguement that) Interpol!Anabel's home universe was destroyed. Sure, there might have been a mess that had to be cleaned up in Interpol!Anabel's home universe, but it would like been only made in the area around where the wormhole opened up. As the destruction from the wormhole that caused Mohn to be a Faller and Nihilego to infect Lusamine didn't list any other bad things beyond the collateral damage that would have resulted in a the battle with the Nihilego.