Goal Complexes

Siffrin's primary goal throughout the story can be summarized as thus: they don't want to lose their friends (an identified/intrinsic motivation). They love their friends and would do anything, fight anything, to protect them. The trauma of losing their entire country, culture, identity, and any family they once had had left too much of a mark on them and has only exacerbated his self-esteem. As such, he is desperate for the party to stick together and the prospect of them leaving him is far too painful, leading to his wish.

This wish that we learn more about in the latter half of the game, caused the time loop that torments Siffrin, as any path forward, whether its the death of Siffrin or a party member, defeating The King, or a party member becoming wise to Siffrin's weird behavior could (in Siffrin's mind) be the end. To Siffrin, that would be the end of his relationship with his friends. So any time that connection comes into jeopardy, Siffrin "runs away," or loops back. This seems to most closely be an example of mastery-avoidance, where Siffrin refuses to try something truly new in one of his loops and tell a member of the party, out of fear his incompetence to escape on his own or that they would be disgusted by how much he cares about them.

Their low hope for a world where his friends would want to stay in his life and his high fear of it all crashing down around him makes Siffrin fit cleanly in the Failure-Avoider category. The amount that Siffrin fears losing his connection to his family causes them to block it wholly out of their memory. They only have one companion through out this time loop journey who clearly knows something but is entirely too coy and tight lipped about their role in everything: Loop. They chose that name for themself on the spot when they first met Siffrin at the Favor Tree in that first loop, so clearly there's some additional meaning in that name for Loop. 

Loop (they/them)

Loop has little regard for the party, or Siffrin's feelings a lot of the time (or at least that's how Loop likes to portray themself), making snide remarks or calling Siffrin outright dumb when suggesting options for exploration in the time loop. Despite this contemp at times, Loop continuing to help Siffrin even when he lashes out at them speaks to a kind of care Loop has for Siffrin; maybe pity. When Siffrin is especially frazzled or overwhelmed, Loop will sometimes take a moment to comfort Siffrin, although slipping back into character afterward. Loop is important when discussing the extent to Siffrin's willful ignorance in understanding what he wished for: after all Loop wished for the same thing. To never have be separated from their family. Doomed to repeat the same day again and again and again and again. 

Loop is helping Siffrin because they are Siffrin, kind of. A Siffrin from another timeline, stuck in their own time loop that they could never escape from. Driven to madness and then despair from the thousands of loops, Loop made a new wish: for someone to help them. This wish planted Loop in a new timeline, with a new Siffrin making the same mistake they once did, now with their guidance and companionship. So every hurtful jab thrown at Siffrin can be recontextualized as an exercise in self-depreciation, in self-hatred.