My temporary insanity holds even if Phix only had to go through that for one cycle. But I still have to disagree with Bathory's Daughter on this.Bathorys Daughter wrote:Actually, as I understand it, Phix and the library have been outside the time loop through everything. She and the library never reset at the end of each cycle. Same for Bia. Phix has met many Monicas and Shellys (or whoever took on their roles during a given time loop), but it would only be the one time (this last cycle) that she had to give up her son. As well as the only time Shelly became a sphinx since its also the only cycle Bia did a breeding with Shelly's father. The only other way it would work is if Phix had been forced to produce another son for every cycle. That seems pretty unlikely.
The problem with that is that in every cycle there was a Shelly, which means that Phix had a son on earth. Unless a new Mr Wahnee was created from temporal instability, she would have had to have him each time. From what we know it is more likely that Monica was not in the first few loops because Arron Sullivan had a long relationship with Jin in those loops (Jim mentions that at some loop she and Arron had a fight and he met Monica's grandmother. That is when Jin realized that Monica was important and had to lose him every loop after that). The Library being outside of the loops did not stop the fact that the loops occurred. It just means that the full 80,000 years passed in the Library while only 1400 or so years passed on Earth. Bia most likely had the same relationship with Shelly's dad each time (Maybe as part of her experiments) the only difference was that in this loop Shelly died and created Connie. This may have been a factor in her awakening her Sphinx side. Before that each Shelly was mortal, albeit stronger than normal human. But all of this is conjecture and only Paul know the truth.
