Alex enters a timeline where Clarissa never existed in the first place.

That way they could 'pilot' Clarissa without having to worry about other people noticing she was missing. Still not sure how this totally erases Clarissa from the past, but perhaps that was just the ghosts doing. Every jump in time is a fork in timelines, where an additional timeline with a different version of Alex is created. So, when Alex's loop gets reset, she goes back in time to just before she leaves for the island.and the version of Alex that we just played continues forward in time? That's where I'm at right now in my interpretation.If this whole post is redundant, please point me in the right direction and I will delete the post. This is what confuses me most.how did this happen? Why is Alex not missing from the end sequence.Īgain, I hope these things haven't already been discussed to death in the subreddit, and hopefully there are people looking to engage in new discussions about them. If the option to trap Alex with the ghosts is taken, she still wakes up with the others on the boat, despite being trapped on the other side of the rift.If the option is taken to hand Clarissa over to the ghosts, why does she disappear from reality? I thought they wanted to 'pilot her through existence.' Did they put her in a different timeline? I don't see how giving her up to the ghosts can change the past.Was what we witnessed at the end a time loop, or us jumping to a different timeline? The ghost things implied, when telling Alex that the 'time-loops' were her own creation, not theirs, that they weren't time loops at all.and given some common interpretations/evidence from the game, it seems like Alex jumps to different timelines whenever she experiences 'time-loops.' So, is this what is happening at the end? If so, does Alex disappear from the original timeline, or is a new instance of her created? I have read that there are dialogue options stating that things seem familiar in the NG+, so it can't be a totally different version of Alex.I know it's kind of open for interpretation, but wanted to see what people had to say about it. So, I finished the game for the first time the other day, and have some questions regarding the ending, and what exactly happened. I poked around the subreddit and didn't see any post covering all the things I wanted to ask.

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