Does she get bored, after enough loops, and become so untethered from her previous status as person-on-a-stick that she just wanders off to muck around with deeper and more esoteric forbidden knowledge?
Does she spend a few loops mad and poking at things to see if that particular loop is more interesting? Not ending them, but something a bit less boring?
It would definitely take a few loops, but she would eventually get everything she could (information, experience) out of the original situation, and try to add more variables. If she couldn't, or broke things trying, that might be interesting.
I'm not particularly married to the time loop concept, mind you. I'm just trying to work out a good motivation or conflict. It could also just be as simple as feeling 'abandoned' and depressed, even though she knows she's just a tool/construct.
I mean, repeating the apocalypse when you can address it can mean sometimes you try to make it easier, and sometimes harder. There's also the question that, as a tool/construct, does she even have empathy, or something like it? Or is it just that she does this out of pure data extraction, and doesn't have the capacity to care?
Hmm! Good questions. Her original purpose would probably be just observation. She'd live her little human life, then cease to be at the end of it, except for the knowledge she'd gathered.
But the events she's caught up in are wholly unexpected, and she's trying her best to handle this suddenly very complicated twist.
But the events she's caught up in are wholly unexpected, and she's trying her best to handle this suddenly very complicated twist.