Christopher said in the OblivAeon part 2 episode that they’re not going to tell us what happens to La Comodora outside time…and that they’re definitely going to do something with her, provided they keep making stuff. Well, I don’t really want to let that go without some wild speculation, do you?
Here are some things we know about La Comodora at the height of her power:
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From the Kickstarter update announcing her: “She wears a time-locked outfit that prevents time from taking more from her than it already has.”
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She has a cosmic awareness of timelines and realities, first described as she encountered the black void in time and later alluded to as she manipulated timelines for specific ends (such as when she talks an Adept into unsummoning void spirits). This may be an ability that we just heard, in OblivAeon part 2, that Voss gained by absorbing the power of OblivAeon. (He uses “cosmic awareness” to locate Sky-Scraper as she attacks him.)
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She can insta-wipe a timeline from existence, a capability that we only know of one other character who has - OblivAeon itself! And it takes lots of effort for OblivAeon to do this, to the extent that it thinks up this idea to annihilate similar timelines into each other, and even to try to set that up as a self-sustaining cascade.
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She straight-up MAKES the Hakas, in a manner very similar to the way that Wellspring makes Legacy: by triggering an early event that snowballs over generations to create and build a hero up to a power level needed to fight OblivAeon.
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She ends up in Ur-space, a place that we only see in a glimpse of the OblivAeon comic containing shadowy figures of singular entities - or at least beings of extreme power. I think it’s not until Prime War, which is published 10+ years later, that we see Ur-space again.
I think the letter-writer in OblivAeon part 2 was on the right track. La Comodora is, at the very least, on the same power level as a singular entity. But we’ve also learned, in her Letters Page episode, that when Maria Helena Etcetera de Falcon became La Comodora, she went on a concerted effort to remove all the alternate reality versions of her earlier self that were running around screwing up time. (Curse of the Black Spot was a version of Maria Helena who “went good” while she was still young, and didn’t end well.) We also know that when La Comodora removes something from the Multiverse, she would do it by going back and preventing it from happening in the first place. For example, she erases the Iron Legacy timeline by preventing Felicia’s death. So after La Comodora’s intervention, the earlier alternate versions of La Capitan never even existed and there only one singular (hmmmmm!) Maria Helena. I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine - given how exposure to the time-steam changed her ship and her self - that she somehow morphs into an actual singular entity, or perhaps a Prime Aspect, if she is not one already.
I wonder if, when she ran La Paradoja aground, she not only destroyed the ship and blasted herself into Ur-space, but damaged that time-locked outfit she wears. Was it arresting her progression in power? And what happens when that progression resumes? We learned in her Letters Page episode that taking off the suit doesn’t kill her by aging rapidly or anything, but the slow process of her metamorphosis might continue.
I would not be surprised to see La Comodora appear in Prime War. Given her attitudes, she would be an excellent fit on the Preservation team.
But here’s a weirder idea: what do we know about the Varusiods, Jansi vi Dero’s race? Only that they built time-observation platforms (what became The Block) and preservation/stasis fields (the Enclave) in null space/Ur-space. We know that Jansa is not a singular entity, though she is very advanced, and that she is carefully neutral. Or, at least, she’s carefully neutral in this time when Maria Helena is around. She becomes a Prime Aspect. What if La Comodora evolves into Jansa vi Dero? What if the Varusiods are a people she finds for herself - or just a name she takes, and she was always an Endling?
Her preservation of Endlings would be a natural extension/evolution of her character as La Comodora, and would play a similar role to her creation of Haka: preparing heroes for OblivAeon. Her non-interference also makes sense, as she’s avoiding mucking with the timelines like her earlier self did. Perhaps crashing the ship into OblivAeon got her “stuck” in Jansa’s past, and she’s trying to wait her way through the Multiverse, preserving and protecting what she can, until the point where she can port out and do whatever she wants again?
I’m not totally convinced, myself, and in a way I would much rather La Comodora show up as more of the character we know and love - but this is the kind of idea that fits with Christopher and Adam’s long game!