This overly complicated idea has been sitting at the back of my head for a while, so perhaps dishing it out and letting others polish/destroy it would be better. It's about Maya again.
She has been portrayed as a very unique yet extremely mysterious girl the whole time: mature and special enough at wizard age to remind Akira of himself, entirely unclear backstories, an unexplainable tie to the merciless gods, etc. This combo sprouted into some believable theories postulating her real origin being a goddess in punishment for falling in love with a mortal.
Putting the god stuff aside, her extremely mysterious background
should be something established prior to any time fuckery took place, and thus
shouldn't be erased just because she got reset, right? Despite apparently losing all knowledge to the cycle and all affinities to Akira, this new Maya is still someone that "just showed up in town one day" with made up family contact info, right? Is the new Maya now like a messiah in dormancy, or a messiah too good of pretending to not care about the current broken Sensei?
Or is she really just a normal fucking teenager now?
So here comes the complicated part:
What if time fuckery started instead all the way back in a way so complicated that Maya's defining characters (which include her love for him and her dubious background) are in fact all products to time fuckery?
To explain this, the following is currently how I've been conceiving the order of fateful events.
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straightforward, linear(ish), requires minimum assumptions.
The convoluted idea is the following:
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More than half of these have no way of proving themselves to be believable, but the idea behind is to find a way to rationalize a hypothesis, in which "Maya's love for him as well as her backstories are also a product of time fuckery and thus are perishable with resets if failed to pass".
Again, this is something with holes and without concrete proof, just gut feelings based off fragments of dialogues and my own biased affinity for timeline-jumping plots.