User blog comment:MakeShift/Discussion on post-Crisis changes to the wiki/@comment-26447726-20200117115527/@comment-807326-20200117122119

There's nothing to necessarily confirm their "consciousnesses" were overwritten; I mean, the multiverse was specifically created by Oliver and the Paragons, with the intention of them "slotting" in. It's kind of hard to specifically pinpoint exactly what's happened, given this is a super fictitious occurrence, but that's as best I see it. The multiverse as they know it did include them, because in a general sense it's all that is and all that was (except that technically it's not, because we have plenty of extra-multiversal elements).