This story differentiates a time loop and a cycle even though at the end of the day, it’s similar concepts. She is right in saying it’s not a time loop because here in the story a time loop is what Paradox Junction was. In a time loop, characters can... remember what’s happening and try to break the loop which again is what they did in Paradox Junction. But this is clearly a cycle. The explanation after that specific quote where she says it’s not a time loop showcases how the cycle is already play because certain starting conditions were met which I assume is Requiem dying and Ravenov protecting Ava until she gets pulled into the DA. What they’re doing is preserving the “NOW” in order for everyone else to move on. If something like the Requiem crew getting pulled into the Dark Aether doesn’t happen, even though the characters win in a prior cycle in Rex Infernus, reality dies by the Warden. That “NOW” is what Requiem is dying for. They also talk about how free choice is king and Caltheris brings up how even small changes can have vast effects. We can connect this to the Reckoning endings. The characters have free choice to help either Richtofen or SAM but they’ll still end up being pulled into the DA. So those endings are still canon until a future plot thread says otherwise. And I’ll say this again, if there is no cycle, then Requiem doesn’t need to die at all. If Requiem dying is protecting the “NOW”, a cycle is in play because if they never end up in the basement after Rex Infernus or really any point during this cycle, Warden wins.show more

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