ok so what i was saying was that persephone said that mero used to be like neo. we know that mero and persephone are from an earilier matrix because mero said i have survived your predessors and i will survive you. what if mero used to be neo and persephone used to be trinity. what if mero did what this neo accomplished. what if in that version of the matrix mero (neo) didnt go blind. what if he was against the rules so much that he cared about only himself and his beings and he found a way to survive without dying and he started living in the matrix. eventually through time and different versions he didnt change and by the time we get to the sixth version of the matrix he is what he is. there is a difference between mero and neo. mero is bound by cause and effect while as neo has no rules. he determines his fate. he never eats the cookie in the first one, he does what he want to do. he takes the candy but he never eats it. the oracle tells him to do something but he never does.