I abandoned the thread because you ruined it. I wanted to talk about how the story would be different and you turned it into a shitshow of you saying that it'll be exactly the same even though it won't.
Look, I personally couldn't care less about the story of this series; I've always said its pulp shclock, and that the one primary benefit is that it is so easily dismissable that it doesn't get in the way of whatever is done for gameplay's sake. Please keep that in mind so it doesn't seem like I'm going to Dante's assistance with her Zwei=Groh concept--in truth I think it's very ulikely and I've told her as much.
All of that said, dude, you need to chill on this. What is really hurt by her advancing a nerdy theory about a couple of make-believe emos who are themselves arguably the most embarrassing thing to happen to the series ever, regardless of whether or not they are the same person? Freaking out and demanding that she ought to stop forwarding that theory (for...reasons?) is not the healthy response here. Nor is accusing Dante of ruining your threads; you're the one who titled that thread (if I recall correctly) "How much will the timeline diverge", or something to that effect. If you weren't looking to engage with your fellow casual story nuts about that asinine narrative, why ask the question?
If you think Dante's theories are risible, well by all means have fun with tearing them down. I get a lot of mileage out of My Chemical Romance jokes every time Groh comes up. But seriously, feeling like you need to defend the emo avenger (of all possible creative design features) against perversion of his plot line is just...a very sad hill to die on.
No one at Project Soul is dumb enough to return to SCV, because evidently no one at PS even wanted that vision except Daishi, who quit in 2013 (he works at Sega now).
Daishi is at Sega now? God lord, I really, really hope that if they ever make a new Virtua Fighter nobody even momentarily contemplates handing him the reigns. Please, please no; I haven't waited this long for a VF6 just to have it ruined by a super meter and anime reversal powers.
But uh, more to the point of your comments, I think you might be wrong about SCV. I don't know how close the events will parallel those of the "original timeline" in the final analysis--and moreover, I can't think of a single thing (or even a single thing related to Soul Calibur specifically) that I care less about. But I'd be surprised if, eventually, we don't see some of those faces SCV return. SCVI covered a lot of ground, story wise; at this pace of the retelling, they get a couple more games at best before they are faced with the conundrum of whether to replicate SCV.
More tellingly, the allusions to Viola in Amy's trailer make it clear they are certainly contemplating where things go with regard to the SCV thematics. I happen to agree with you broadly about the quality of the characters introduced in SCV; I often call them the SCV Edgelords (see what I did there? So clever..). I certainly am in no hurry to see the return of the likes of Xiba, Patrokolos, and especially Zwei--a character so profoundly dumb in both concept and execution, I feel almost offended that they expect me to take extra effort in typing out his name like an acronym. But uh, quite a few of us fondly remember Viola, Natsu, and Leixia--or more specifically, their movesets. I mean, I love Taki, but I find Natsu to be, by a significant margin, the funner variation on that type of moveset. I don't think you'll find much support for your position by lumping some of those characters in with the SCV hate, since they often serve the silver lining to an otherwise largely disappointing entry in the series.