But there's a flaw in your reasoning - we know from the dream sequence and previous issues that Willow met and interacted with the Serpent Goddess way before the start of the comics. It happened before the Long Way Home and may be where Willow was. Just as the bank robbery happened before the Long Way Home arc.
Here's what happened before the comic books began or in the intervening time frame between Chosen and Long Way Home:
1. Dawn meet Kenny, cheated on Kenny, enacted a spell similar to the one Amy cursed Willow with in The Killer in Me, and got turned into a Giant (or Giant Slut as Dawn likes to call it) - each of her configurations fits terms like that - a "filly", a "doll".
2. Willow was on an astral plan learning majicks from the snake goddess whose name I can't remember.
3. Buffy was busy recruiting and training slayers, along with Xander, Wood, Faith, Giles, and Andrew (as far as we know)
4. Buffy to finance her operation, without input from anyone else (as far as we know) okayed the infilitration and robbery of a Swiss Bank. Her slayers, run by the rogue one, were caught on tape.
That happened before everything else.
So that time line was in effect before Time of Your Life. When Buffy kills Willow in the future, Willow is not shown that future, she doesn't know about it. It is not until Buffy tells her about it two issues ago that she knows a thing.
So the new time line can't happen until after Buffy told Willow. Doesn't make sense. And requires way too much explaining.
Also, I remain unconvinced that Whedon plans on changing the timeline that leads to Fray - rather I think this story is to show us how Fray occurred or the events that lead to the Fray universe being created. So no, I don't think the timeline has been changed by anyone as of yet.
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Here's what happened before the comic books began or in the intervening time frame between Chosen and Long Way Home:
1. Dawn meet Kenny, cheated on Kenny, enacted a spell similar to the one Amy cursed Willow with in The Killer in Me, and got turned into a Giant (or Giant Slut as Dawn likes to call it) - each of her configurations fits terms like that - a "filly", a "doll".
2. Willow was on an astral plan learning majicks from the snake goddess whose name I can't remember.
3. Buffy was busy recruiting and training slayers, along with Xander, Wood, Faith, Giles, and Andrew (as far as we know)
4. Buffy to finance her operation, without input from anyone else (as far as we know) okayed the infilitration and robbery of a Swiss Bank. Her slayers, run by the rogue one, were caught on tape.
That happened before everything else.
So that time line was in effect before Time of Your Life. When Buffy kills Willow in the future, Willow is not shown that future, she doesn't know about it. It is not until Buffy tells her about it two issues ago that she knows a thing.
So the new time line can't happen until after Buffy told Willow. Doesn't make sense. And requires way too much explaining.
Also, I remain unconvinced that Whedon plans on changing the timeline that leads to Fray - rather I think this story is to show us how Fray occurred or the events that lead to the Fray universe being created. So no, I don't think the timeline has been changed by anyone as of yet.