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Loop?✨

Loop…

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They're alone.

Happy ISAT aniverserary!! This was my piece for @ourtimeinthestars zine!

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"Oh.. Is something bothering you, Michael? "

"Well..."

".... mind your own business"

For someone's, ideas for AU come once a day, for others once a year, and for others (like me) they don't let go for years like hungry pets, let this idea calm down a little after this drawing...

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I've been thinking about this more than I should've

This is kinda cursed I'm sorry

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if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this

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okay. maybe creating 4 new ISAT AUs at the same time was a lil silly, but you know what?? I'm gonna commit to it! I was bored and wanted a new hyperfixation to keep me entertained, anyway! Expect more concept art or random sketches for..... ANY of these AUs, I guess! It's gonna happen, whether any of us like it or not!!

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I MADE AN IN STARS AND TIME EDIT!!! But first.

Im really proud of this :3

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Tell me your opinions on the stuff. Any stuff.

Grins. Smiles, even

I'm using you as an excuse to infodump my theory about the Island because I've had no in to do that, and my theory is pure opinion. Anyways:

THE ISLAND IS STUCK IN THE FUCKING FUTURE

(SCARE CHORD)

Hi so you might ask me. What the fuck do you mean by that. Well. Let's start with what we know about the Island, the King, and Wish Craft. (long ass post under cut. sorry)

The Island was redacted from the perception of outside world, via Wish Craft.

Wish Craft has the power to enable Time Craft. We see this primarily through Siffrin's timeloops, but also through the King's powers.

One of the King's powers is to show the saviors a "vision of the future."

...And this same attack is deflected back at the King by Mirabelle in ACT 5, in which the King is able to see the Island before being frozen in time.

...So. The King's "vision of the future." We're never told explicitly what this vision is. All we know is that it's apparently powerful enough to wipe the party in one hit, hearing it from a distance hurts your head, and that whatever Siffrin (and Loop) saw, they don't seem to actually be able to describe it. Even the King himself doesn't know what his vision entails.

We don't know whether the party all sees the same thing when struck by the vision, and Adrienne's answer to the question about it in the Reddit AMA is. vague? It's not a "no," and the specific wording makes me think the answer might be yes. But that's me reading into it.

Now. What do we know about the Island's redaction? The Island was affected by the wish recently, as in "like a decade ago" recently. We know that nobody in Vaugarde or the rest of the world is capable of thinking about the Island, anything closely tied to the Island's culture, or people on the Island for very long. When they do recall these things, they slip right out of reach. Particularly, the consequence for trying to think about the Island (or, more specifically, break the wish that forces the Island out of perception) is significant pain, localized in the head.

And that said pain is enough to become lethal, if pressed hard enough.

From here forward I'm running with the assumption that the King's "vision of the future" is not personalized to any individual, and is unchanging throughout the course of the whole story. Now. Remember the end of ACT 5, where the King gets hit with the deflected "vision of the future", and instead of dying, he recalls the Island and gets frozen in time? Very odd, yeah? Why wouldn't the King just die like everyone else does? He even does take 9999 damage when trying to say its name, like Siffrin does, and like the party does when they're hit by the attack.

Well. We know that he has a "true wish" that the ability to freeze Vaugarde in time grants. I don't think it's at all a stretch to guess that the King's "true wish" is to be able to remember the Island. My personal guess is that the King (and Siffrin) brought this "true wish" into effect via the "SAY ITS NAME" sequence- he even tries three times, a significant number in wishing.

The King (and Siffrin's) wish breaks, because it can't be fulfilled in this moment without breaking the wish to prevent the Island from being thought about. However. Consider the conditions at the end of ACT 5- the King sees the vision of the future reflected back to him, and what he sees is the Island. He remembers the Island, fulfilling his own wish, and is frozen in time. I consider this a compromise between his wish and the one binding the Island- the King gets to remember the Island, but nobody alive is able to think about it, because he's frozen in time; it's like the Universe is correcting itself (I WILL GET BACK TO THIS). The wish of all of Vaugarde to defeat the King is fulfilled, since he is no longer a threat, and Siffrin's wish wraps itself up soon after.

MY POINT BEING. The King's attack is a vision of the future. This "future" is of the Island, in some uncorrupted state. The saviors see it when he attacks them, and he sees it when it is deflected back to him.

The logical next question is "okay, so the Island exists in the future, but how do you know time shenanigans are even related to the Island?"

Recall a very odd series of interactions throughout the game, in which you try to interact with a piece of equipment that you already own.

The game rewinds slightly, before the item disappears, as the Universe corrects itself.

This is awfully similar to two particular events: looping back without seeing the death screen, and talking to the Daydreaming One about her sister. The latter is more interesting to me for the purposes of this theory.

In both instances, something is misaligned within the Universe (an item existing in two places, someone remembering something they're not supposed to) and it is corrected through some sort of rewind. Also compare the dialogue above to when you try to give Mirabelle the Stylish Bow when you already own it.

The world glitches, but Siffrin defuses the situation before the Universe has to intervene. Omitted from the screenshot is the fact that Mirabelle's portraits switch to happy from "catastrophically anxious" with no transition after Siffrin shows her where the bow is. Important to note is that when Mirabelle tries to recall receiving the bow, her head hurts, much like how trying to break the Island wish causes a headache.

The Universe leads you away from perception, and you can only follow.

My theory that I keep circling around is that through Wish Craft, the Island has been displaced temporally. The denizens of the Island, as well as the Island itself, still exist, but they are in the future. The Island is still loaded into the world, like how equipment is before you try to interact with it, and the Island cannot leave this quantum state, because it never actually went anywhere. The magnitude of the redaction event is so severe with the Island, because it is so much larger as an entity than a sword or a bow. There are of course things I don't really have pieced together, like why somebody would wish the Island into the future, how far into the future it is, or why equipment behaves this way. But it's the only Island theory I've seen that I have some level of confidence in, so I might as well lay out my cards for it.

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Not to mention that problems can not only with such moments, sometimes it is not clear how characters should address each other. For example, choice "Вы" or "Ты". Especially in relation to Odile, the King and some other characters

fuck me dude ISAT has a lot of "replace this word" in the middle of the text line type of structure

how the fuck am i supposed to translate this into a case-sensitive language like russian

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so i'm gonna say it. loop's a little built, right? at least compared to the rest of the cartoony isat style

and i can't decide which is funnier:

if that is siffrin's Exact bodytype under the cloak and he just like. didn't even stop to think for a Single Second about what that fucking meant

or the universe got real creative when crafting loop's body to the point of going "i'm giving them soft muscle curves and hip dips"

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"Hello, Stardust! Did you miss me?~"

(The version with the canonical the light on.)

Why? I don't know. But I had fun drawing them looking like their old selves.

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"You are weak, Stardust"

" I miss...."

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"You are so similar, but even blush differently."

In general, I am still figuring out how to draw Isabeau. And yes, I want to draw a visual comparison of these two, who are not the same in character. I will also draw some emotions with the greatest differences, these are just the ones that caught my attention first.

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theyy

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Omg, wait... does that mean I'm one of your favorites? WOW.. t-thank you

•THANKS ALWAYS EVERYONE!!💙

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"You are so similar, but even blush differently."

In general, I am still figuring out how to draw Isabeau. And yes, I want to draw a visual comparison of these two, who are not the same in character. I will also draw some emotions with the greatest differences, these are just the ones that caught my attention first.

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You could tell them about the loops. If you wanted. It wouldn't be cruel. Death doesn't hang over your heads anymore. // They already know something's wrong with you anyway. On the day it all ended, you had sobbed until you lost your voice. You haven't spoken a single word since, denying them of an explanation. // It... wouldn't be cruel. It...

...The way they look at you. They look at you as if they think they still recognize you. // Would that go away? Would it make you a liar to let them think you never stopped being you? // Hey, Sif! Come see what [...]

Sometimes I think about what it would've been like if defeating the King really had been the solution for SASASAP Siffrin. Thousands of loops, and suddenly the hammer of success coming down out of nowhere without anyone even having to know what you went through.