Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
The trick to understanding everything surrounding Alexander is to remember that it's a closed circle. It's all already happened countless times before you even begin to play your role within it, and countless more "yous" continue to play it out within the loop.
I don't think that the "countless yous" scenario really works in this case. That more applies to stuff like Groundhog's Day, where you're repeating the same segment of time over and over again until you get it "right". That's an entirely different sort of time travel than that implied by a stable time loop.

A closed time loop of this sort is more like a roller coaster. You're riding along like normal, then you come to this loop which takes you to another point in time. That loop was always there, and you only rode it the one time. Even if the time travel causes there to be more than one you at the same point in time, they aren't countless, they are limited by the number of times that you actually travel to that point in time. (The most Alexander ever supplied was two simultaneous WoLs - the point in A12 where you travel to the past to save your past self from Alexander's blast.)

It's also important to realize that this time loop was always a thing. There IS NO "original" timeline that was altered to create the time loop. This IS the original timeline. It just happens to be that the original timeline has a tangle in it.