#I just. Augh. Loop living with the consequences of this second wish just as much as the first

[magicwhiskers29]

Struggling to articulate this a little, but I think something important to me about Loop post-ISAT is the permanence of their wish.

Like, they're already different personality-wise because of what they've been through. They're not really Siffrin, anymore. They have his coin, skills, and memories, but they're not him. They're Loop, helpful Loop, using the Royal We as a joke, and they/them to distance themself from what they used to be.

That would be the same wish or not, and we kinda see it come through in our Siffrin, but I think their wish is what pins them down in tragedy. It's misinterpreted just as much as the original time loop wish, and it mirrors the miracle duplication wish from the old diary next to the starry hat, but even though it freed Loop, it also doomed them

Loop's timeline is gone. So it follows that so too is Loop's Siffrin

Their wish isn't something that can be resolved, really. They can help our Siffrin, which they do, but that doesn't stop their looping or their wish. That (presumably) happens after Siffrin tells them they are what saved him, and they vanish.

I think this might be controversial to say, but I don't think Loop just stops being a star after this. I'm just. Fascinated by the idea of the permanence of their new self. They are Loop now, for better or worse. They are Loop now, whether they like it or not.

This is what the Universe led them to. And even if they hate it, it's not following to walk back.