Which Ending for Mira Felt Canon?
Now before you all gather a posse armed with torches and pitchforks yelling that there is no canon and that both player choices are equally valid and cursing the word 'canon' as if it was pure blasphemy to even use that word, let me clarify what I mean:
The game is designed to fit into the canon of the TV series, therefore we as players are meant to feel as if we are taking part in the world shown in the main TV show.
Going into meta territory here, but therefore we can say that the game does not take place in its own separate non-canon continuity (though it is still non-canon to the books), we can say that it takes place in the very same universe we see portrayed on TV, but in that one singular TV universe where the Forrester characters are supposed to exist alongside main canon characters like Dany and Jon Snow, but of course that means that only a specific set of player choices are canon to that universe.
Under the thought experiment based on Schrödinger's cat, since we never see Mira on-screen in the TV show (well there was that one possible unofficial cameo with Maester Pycelle) her actions in the main canon are not observable, therefore an object which cannot be observed can be considered to exist in multiple states at once, unless observed somehow to affirm only one state of existence.
Therefore in the TV canon, the off-screen Mira both killed Damien to save Tom and left Tom to die at the hands of Damien; she both protected and betrayed Sera's secret to Lord Tarwick; she both lied to Tyrion and told him the truth about Cersei; she both accepted Lord Morgryn's proposal and sacrificed Tom to save her own life and rejected Morgryn, saved Tom and got executed.
Those familiar with the Wolf Among Us probably know about the comic book adaptation that officially canonizes the events of the game into the main comic series; we see Bigby choose to burn AG's tree, we see him save Prince Lawrence (canonizing his determinant survival) spare Tweedle Dum, we see him spare the Crooked Man (although the comic really alters the original story to go its own way) because in a singular main canon universe a storyline can only go in one way.
Which means if Mira does indeed exist in the main canon of the TV series, then it is both the same Mira from the game and a different one as well. She exists, just off-screen and she made her own choices, off-screen and unobservable, therefore allowing us to imagine whichever choice we ourselves made to be her own canon choice, since it doesn't affect the main storyline either way.
But if Mira does not just exist within our minds but also as an independent entity within the GoT TV universe, then it is a Mira who has made certain major decisions that other players might have rejected. We don't know what choices the canon Mira made, whether she did forge a letter to the Glenmores or not, whether she was subservient to Cersei or not, whether she allied herself with Tyrion or stayed faithful to Margaery, we don't know what she did but we do know that she did make decisions she was naturally capable of making - based on choices we the players are given, but she didn't cater to multiple choices, she made once specific choice at a time.
Now hopefully this hasn't confused you, so let me reiterate my original question: which ending for Mira do you believe actually took place, which is canon to the TV universe.
Only one ending can be canon, to consider both choices to be canon insinuates the main canon itself being split due to player choice based on the slightest divergence.
So which final choice for Mira realistically feels like it happened in the GoT TV universe?
Personally I kind of have a feeling that her execution was sadly what actually occurred in the canon TV universe, since with that choice we're given one more interactive scene, showing that it was more developed and perhaps more meaningful whereas in choosing to marry Morgryn the remainder of Mira's POV just becomes an extended cutscene with no more interactive gameplay.
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I don't want I seem like I'm just saying the opposite of what you say but... there really is no canon. No canon to TV universe or anything. The only thing you could consider canon are the major events in the story that always happens.