Quote Originally Posted by Victoria View Post
My point is, they might as well be dead. I doubt they're going to be brought back in to XIII-2, because then their whole crystallization thing will collapse and that giant sphere thing will come crumbling down. >.>
I guess I just don't agree that they had might as well be dead.

In fact:

SPOILER!!:
Fang and Vanille are the only people we saw crystallized who didn't come back. Also, in Game Informer's recent preview for FFXIII-2, they said that Lightning is missing because she found a way to bring Fang and Vanille back, and left to pursue the solution.