I said this before but theres just something sooo interesting and fucked up about timeloops in terms of grief
Like. Imagine youre a character going through a time loop, right. You meet someone. You become friends with them, maybe. Maybe you actually hate each other. Doesnt matter, because when you loop again, all of that is gone.
The person that you met before doesnt exist. But they do, dont they? You see their face. You hear their voice. They are there, but the version that you saw, that you bonded with, that you loved, that you hated.... doesnt exist. Not anymore
And imagine seeing them die, possibly over and over again in every loop. You see their body, you hear their last words, you see them fade away and then, in the next loop.. they are alive again. But that version you bonded with before died with them. They do not remember you. They do not remember anything. Youre just a stranger to them, even though you might have cried over their body multiple times
And also, if you knew each other before the loop? Thats also fucked up. Imagine seeing your friend die over and over. They dont remember it. They will never remember it. There will always be this wall of separation between you and them now, because they dont remember the loops and you do.
You could laugh with that version of them. You could cry. You could fight. You could even just refuse to interact and none of it will matter anyways, because they will always forget. But not you. You will remember.
Like in my opinion that would fuck someone up for LIFE
