Loop story
A young girl named Loretta comes home from school one day to find her house has disappeared, as has her mother. In its place, she finds a small black rock that doesn't always follow gravity's rules. While searching the area, she meets Cole, a boy around her age who lives in the area. Together, they investigate the Loop where both their parents worked, but fail to find anything useful. At Cole's house, his mother realizes that Loretta is a younger version of herself displaced in time. She finds Loretta and together, they return the black stone to a massive orb inside of the Loop. Younger Loretta disappears, and Older Loretta comforts Cole, fearing she has not been the best mother.
16 total · 1 choice · 7 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if I met myself from a different time | choice | Because of some peculiar causality loop caused by her mother's tinkering with a strange device, Young Loretta came to meet an older version of herself. |
| abandonment | major | Young Loretta considered the possibility that her mother had deliberately taken off without telling her. Loretta confided in her young son Cole, telling him that her mother had left her when she was his age, and reassured him that she would not follow suit. |
| anti-gravity | major | One gathers that the mysterious black orb located inside the Loop facility was being used to manipulate gravity and possibly time itself. |
| coping with a loved one being missing | major | Young Loretta was distraught when she found that her mother, and indeed their entire house, had vanished. |
| human childhood | major | Young Loretta and Cole went on something of a childhood adventure to locate Loretta's suddenly disappeared mother. Young Loretta was shown engaging in various typical childhood activities, including skipping stones off the surface of a frozen lake, being bored to tears in the classroom, catching the water from melting icicles in her mouth, etc. |
| mother and daughter | major | Young Loretta was distressed to find that her mother had gone missing, and feared that she'd been abandoned. Young Loretta came home from school to find her mother, Alma, being castigated by a colleague. |
| neglectful parent | major | Alma was called out by a colleague for putting her work above her daughter, Young Loretta. Cole called into question his mother Loretta's commitment to him with the suggestion that she was more into her work than she was into mother him. Cole had expressed his doubts about Loretta's commitment to being a mother. |
| speculative experience | major | Young Loretta was distraught when she found that her mother, and indeed their entire house, had vanished. |
| artificial body part | minor | George was shown to have a robotic arm. [arm] |
| black hole | minor | Jakob spoke of how stars sometimes transform into black holes without first going supernova. |