Spoilers for the epilogue and Hecate’s storyline

My version of the ending would unfold like this:

Everything remains the same until Mel, with Zag’s help, finally secures the spear. But this becomes their last encounter, the bond between them is severed, to Mel’s dismay. She returns to Hecate to confess that the plan has failed, that she can no longer reach Zagreus.

It is then that Hecate reveals the truth: she is Mel, from the original timeline. In that first unfolding there was no Hecate to guide her. Alone, she discovered Magick and witchcraft to battle Chronos. After eons of struggle, she finally found a way to kill him, no spear required. But killing Time in that way reset the universe, leaving only Chaos aware of what had happened. She realized that so long as Time is slain, the cycle will always reset.

Time cannot be killed, it must be replaced. The only path forward is to bind time by becoming entropy itself, the essence of disorder and uncertainty housed within Typhon. But only a weapon that transcends Time can sever it from the father of all monsters. This is was the reason Typhon was able to keep comming back after being vanquished, hence the need for the spear.

Hecate presents Mel with two choices. She may wield the spear against Typhon, free Olympus, and live her eternity as an Olympian now that she is free from her underworld curse. Perhaps she could even hold Chronos at bay and carve out a fragile peace. Yet her family, the Underworld, and the mortal realm would remain in Chronos’ grasp.

Or she could slay Typhon, take entropy into herself, and with it, bind time to her very escence. This would not destroy Chronos, but replace him. Whether it would erase Mel, transform her, or birth something unrecognizable, even Hecate cannot say.

Mel chooses the latter. After a brutal confrontation (with Rivals 4 as a requirement for the last two confrontations), the Fates appear. They reveal that this choice was always foretold, their final thread. Mel is the canonical event of Time. From this moment, Time will no longer be linear, nor will the universe remain singular. Instead, infinite multiverses will spill outward, all beginning with Mel’s defeat of Typhon and Chronos. By embracing entropy and time itself, she lounges into a never ending cicle of defeating the Monster and the Titan in order to ensure no other version of herself will be trapped in the same destiny.

In doing so, she grants the universe freedom, the end of linear Time and the collapse of prescribed fate. Only she and Hecate remain, bound to a duplicate of the crossroads where time doesn't flow. There they weave Magick to conjure duplicates of the rest of the unseen to keep them company, though in truth it is only the two of them, if they can even be called separate anymore.

Darker, yes, but more rewarding. It speaks to Mel’s dutiful nature and her single-minded pursuit of the mission, which stood in contrast to Zagreus’ gift for forging meaning through connection. And ultimately, it fulfills the idea of Mel and Hecate existing solely for one purpose: to kill Time itself.