Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-43908-20150311013943/@comment-1827503-20151025183633

AdricLovesNyssa wrote: It could help, I personally would prefer just merging Trey and Romana III as there's no in universe explanation that they are not the same
 * headdesk*

We don't merge characters because there's no in-universe evidence they are separate. We have to take out-of-universe evidence as well for something as major as this, and out of universe these two third incarnations of Romana were not intended to be the same.