I really like the Idea of the Infinite Loops, but there is such a huge canon behind them I really don't feel like navigating the forums to try to make any official entries, and I'm pretty sure some of my ideas would probably break the rules on appropriate content. I've read the MLP loops up to ch176 on fimfiction and poked around the Disney and nickelodeon forums a bit, so I get the basic idea but beyond that I don't really know the stories so I'm kinda just rolling with the "time travelers roaming the multiverse can have any power from the multiverse that would make an interesting story"

Oh and anyone who likes these, cares enough to bother and actually knows what they're doing can feel free to post anything that fits in an official capacity.


If there's a first loop for Star vs in the Disney thread I didn't find it, so I'll try and write one here. I'm not sure if there's a standard wake up time for them So I'll say it's when Star takes her wand, which in turn is the morning of Star's first day of school.

Marco stumbled as he walked to school, falling flat on his face.

"Ouch! Wait, what, where?" He looked around him in confusion as he tried to piece together conflicting memories, one set saying he was walking to school early in the school year and another saying that he was months further along and had been going on crazy adventures with a magical princess from another dimension... Ok that's probably just a weird dream, no way is there such thing as...

"I'm Star butterfly! I'm a magical princess from another dimension!" or there is.

"Ok this is too weird. I knew that already. I've done this before" Marco said, dazed by the odd turn his day had taken. Star gasped with shimmering eyes

"Omigosh are you a time traveler!"

"That would explain the memories... one thing, do you have a giant book with an annoying blue man in it?" Marco asked hesitantly

"Yes! It's with my stuff, I can show you when I get unpacked... the principal said I'll be staying with the Diaz family, do you know where that is?"

"Yeah, that's my house, come on, I'll walk you there" Marco smiled. The situation was weird, but Star's unbridled enthusiasm was comfortingly familiar.

...

"Oh yes, he definitely has traces of magic that shouldn't be on a normal earthling. I'm inclined to believe him." Glossyrick said with raised a eyebrow. "Time loops are a thing that can happen, but usually on a much smaller scale than what you're describing, when conflicting timelines are trying to work out their differences..."

"Right! Star mentioned that, the space time guy on the Plains of Time helped her with that once! We just have too go..." He reached into his pocket "but I don't have my dimensional scissors yet. I'll have to visit Heckapoo at some point." Star shifted uncertainly at hearing references to things she hadn't done yet, while Glossaryck leveled an appraising look at the boy.

"Definitely things an earthling doesn't normally know." Glossaryck said before turning to the magic mirror mounted on Star's wall "Call Queen Moon." Calling: Queen Moon

"Hello Star, did you forget... Glossaryck? What's going on that you need to report so soon?"

"My liege," Glossaryck greeted with a bow. "apparently Star's new friend here is a time traveler, I'd like to call a meeting of the Magic High Comission and these two will be needing transport." Moon's eyes widened in shock as she looked at the boy behind Glossaryck. Marco stepped forward and gave a small bow

"Um, nice to meet you, your majesty, I'm Marco Diaz, Star's guide at school, host here at my house, and friend everywhere, and yeah, this morning I was walking to school and suddenly remembered everything up to a few months from now." He shrugged, not sure what else to say. Moon raised an eyebrow and looked at Glossaryck.

"He has traces of Star's magic on him, especially his right arm, and, more importantly, traces of Eclipsa's magic that I myself sealed away." Moon and Star both gaped at him.

"Uh, hehe, yeah, Star and I read Queen Eclipsa's chapter of the book; Star was unaffected, I... wasn't" he blush and rubbed his neck. Moon shook her head clear

"I'll call the meeting immediately."

...

"Chatting with us via crystal ball we have Omnitraxus Prime, those two are Rhombulus and Lekmet, and you already know Heckapoo." Glossaryck introduced once everyone had arrived at the tower. Heckapoo cocked her head.

"You do?"

"As well as you can know anyone you've chased for 16 years, blowing out their flame to earn a pair of magic scissors." Marco replied with a shrug. She snorted.

"Ok what's this brat on about?"

"He says he's a time traveler, from a few months in the future. Seeing as I can sense magic that I myself placed on him, we must consider this to be true. Omnitraxus, what can you tell us about the state of space-time?" Glossaryck ignored the surprised looks everyone was giving the boy and turned t the cosmic entity displayed in the crystal ball.

"I haven't felt anything obvious, the kid's where he should be in his timeline... or wait, no, there's something letting him diverge, or setting his actions as the base... I can see a few timelines where he's elsewhere, but they're shifting to match this one... let's look farther oh shit." With that ominous expletive the feed cut out, leaving everyone very worried. Moon leveled an overly neutral gaze at Marco, Glossaryck's mention of Eclipsa echoing in her mind.

"I don't suppose your future knowledge can shed any light on this"

"No! I've just been going to school, adventuring with Star, nothing that should do... whatever this is! Maybe something to do with the wand breaking, but that was not new when I was sent back..." Marco said a bit frantically.

"Wait my wand breaks!" Star broke her silence and hugged her wand

"Yeah, Toffee made you destroy it in exchange for not killing me... sorry about that by the way." Moon's eyes widened

"Toffee! What did that monster do to my daughter!" she exclaimed, a snarl just beneath her Queenly composition.

"Nothing directly. He worked for Ludo before taking over Ludo's castle and henchmen, then kidnapped me and held me hostage in a crystal prison before making Star use the Whispering Spell on the wand. He disappeared in the explosion, a tiny Italian unicorn popped up out of nowhere to reactivate what was left of Star's wand, Everyone celebrated our survival and everything went back to normal save some control issues for Star to work out."

"'Tiny Italian'... are we believing this" Heckapoo interjected

"If he's not telling the truth there's been a serious breach in national security that he even knows that the Whispering Spell exists... but no, that shouldn't cause this sort of disaster, so we are no closer to the original problem..." just then the crystal ball blinked back on.

"Sorry about that, I skipped over to one of the faster dimensions to run some tests without keeping you waiting, long story short the Multiverse is heavily damaged if not outright broken" Omnitraxus looked around at those in the room, currently in stunned silence before continuing. "And when I say the multiverse, I don't mean our local dimensions and their timelines, I would have noticed that immediately, I mean the 'big M' Multiverse that our local multiverse is part of. I can monitor the local multiverse, and it seems to be running just fine, but beyond that, just at the edge of what I can perceive..." He sighed "it gets messy, and my knowledge is liable to work on a metaphorical level at best, but the closest that I can tell... ok, someone can get stuck in a time loop on the local level if they diverge too far from the timeline they 'should' be following. As far as I can tell it's like that... but it's our multiverse that's repeating until whatever is wrong is fixed, and for some reason it's using Marco's timeline as a baseline to be looping around. It's nothing he or anyone in this multiverse did, it's just a cosmic accident, and Marco somehow wound up anchoring our multiverse into some semblance of stability"

"Baaaa..." Lekmet made a worried sound.

"Yeah, what happens if Marco dies?" Rhombulus translated.

"If the multiverse is following his story and his story ends... back to the beginning of the loop."

"Great, so the universe depends on one weak little fleshwad not biting the big one?" Heckapoo said incredulously.

"Hey, I am not weak! I proved it to you once and I can do it again, and I'll get my scissors again while I'm at it, in half the time it took me last time!" Marco crossed his arms in front of her and glared at her.

"Bring it punk!" a portal opened underneath him and he fell through. Heckapoo laughed as she jumped through her own portal. Queen moon groaned.

"Well there goes any plans of setting up protections for him. Let's hope Heckapoo doesn't accidentally destroy the multiverse."

...

"Ok so we learned a few things." Marco said as he stepped out of a portal holding a pair of dimensional scissors "Heckapoo was holding back last time and/or is stronger this loop, and more importantly, the dimensions are slightly different than I remember, those two combined meant it still took me 16 years to get these," He waved a pair of straight bronze scissors with his name on them "and I'm realizing that Heckapoo and I kinda ditched this meeting, is there anything else we need to talk about or can I head home?"

"That's quite alright, we were just wrapping up. You and Star head back to earth." Moon said with mild relief. Marco Smiled at Star and opened up a portal, following her through it. "Heckapoo?"

"I can't believe it, but I actually believe him. Boy knew my tricks, he totally would have passed the standard flame test in under a decade." Heckapoo grinned.

"What of his observations of the changed dimensions?" Moon's face contorted slightly with unease.

"The multiverse is stabilizing itself around his story. If his story is boy from Earth meets girl from Mewni..." Omnitraxus began

"Then it's his world and we're just living in it." Rhombulus grumbled, arms crossed

"Baaa," Lekmet shook his head and put a reassuring hoof on Rhombulus's shoulder.

"No, it means that Mewni and Earth are the foundations upon which the rest of the multiverse might be built. They are no less real once built, but there's nothing tying them to a specific form if they're not directly tied into our anchor's story." Glossaryck said. Moon sighed again.

"Back to the whole 'world ends if he dies' thing. Heckapoo, what were your observations? Is the multiverse in good hands?"

"Oh sure, that guy won't go down without a fight." Heckapoo smirked salaciously "I know I wouldn't mind being in his hands in a few years." Moon just face palmed as Heckapoo laughed.


So this wound up a little forced. I went into this mostly just wanting to explore the implications of canon timey wimeyness, so I found myself struggling with the actual story. I'm happy to have established that Marco won't be bound to the timeline like Star was in "Mathmagic"; that would make for a tortuous loop if the universe itself made you stick to baseline. I think the Looper's explanation would either be a patch by the admins or just the nature of being an Anchor/Looper. I'm not actually sure exactly what is meant by "loop aware" but Glossaryck and Omnitraxus can at the very least deduce something's screwy, so in the right circumstances they might as well be "loop aware".

Anyway, it was a good exercise and make me appreciate why people often don't bother with first loops. Not sure if I'll bother with star's first Awakening