later when fox does become a teacher, the school he teaches at has whole units abt the lylat wars (obv) & he jokes abt wearing his old star fox uniform to school during an assembly day
he finds out that his body at almost 50 yrs old is nothing like his 18 yr old self from the lylat wars
i think wolf's vague "you're you, who else?" would be enough to (temporarily, issues don't magically go away 😔) soothe fox bc at this point they know each other so well & wolf just, unconditionally accepts fox for who he is, at every level, & doesn't hold onto the idea of who fox should be or was, even tho out of all ppl, wolf should be the one everyone expects to cling to the past the most, but he doesn't. there's no point. the past is the past and has passed.
this is for the au my fanfic "a few weeks" takes place in :') hasn't happened yet but! yeah!