Previously: The Winx Club Infinite Loops was Posted by Firehawk242
This follows on from that and if you haven't read that compilation yet, this one will make even less sense than normal. If you don't want to deal with the search bar it is the only fic in my favourites.
Loop Mechanics (General):
One person in a Loop, often the main character, is an Anchor. They are the person who first starts time looping. (Winx Club Anchor: Flora)
There is always at least one Anchor present in a given Time Loop snippet, though it may not be the local one.
The standard pattern for a loop is that the Anchor (and whoever else is Looping there) come to awareness in a loop at a particular point in the story. From there, events will play out as influenced by the Loopers present, acting with the benefit of their foreknowledge, until either a predetermined end point is reached or the loop crashes for some reason.
To be Awake is to be aware of the time loops (that is, to have gone back in time this time.)
The Anchor is the only character guaranteed to be Awake. Even after others have started looping, it is mostly random as to whether they will be Awake this particular loop.
Crossovers, fusions, and alternate pasts can also take place. It is perfectly possible, for example, to have the characters Awaken into a loop which conforms to a fanfic universe rather than reality.
Loops do not have to be in chronological order, but it is strongly preferred that they not require a mutually contradictory order (where A must be before B and B must be before A.)
Just about every Looper is very, very stir crazy.
The Ping is a signal that a Looper can send out that says 'I'm Awake', it does not give the location or identity of the sender and is near instantaneous in its travel time.
The Pocket is a subspace pocket literally held within a Looper's soul, the older a Looper is, the larger the pocket becomes and the more a Looper can carry, (Apart from SoulBonding, which is Not Common,) holding things in a Pocket is the only way to transport physical object between Loops
