Thinking about
The sheer grief that must come from being someone precious to a timelooper btw
Spoilers under the cut also I'm still watching a 100% playthrough and not finished w/ it yet so yeh
I don't remember just they all were called, let's call them The Picnic Memories, (Training Bonnie, discussing Change Religion w/ Mirabel, Familytales w/ Odile & Stargazing w/ Isabeau)
But I'm gonna imagine and ask you all to imagine an ending to the loops where the last loop had Siffrin redo the Picnic for all his found family w/o zoning out (and not because of battling benefits) and went about it more efficiently than the first go around
Oh yeah, we're talking about the grief of someone dear to you knowing countless versions and moments of yourself you no longer have
Like throughout countless deaths, freezing themself in time to counter against dead-ends, Siffrin's trauma is likely the first thing people think about and address
His team might not even think about themselves in the bigger picture of things
Fucking hell, like Odile talking about Siffrin leading her to the Familytale that baker's daughter had and he brings up the whole circle of a fetch quest, like this beautiful lady who borrowed it because some kids stole it and we had to bribe the kids with coins to say the baker who gave it away had it under his roof stiol because his daughter got it back behind his back and you were so scary but you didn't mean to scare anyone and—
Siffrin that never happened . . .
Except it did. Siffrin just remembered afterwards and the next and finale go around, asked the little girl if she had the book first, she did, and Odile got more time to go through the familytale
After the time loop passed, he focused himself on learning more and more on what would break these time loops, even before the picnic he was asking questions once and only repeated them if he forgot anything in a later loop
Bonnie, Odile gave us a crash course on Time Craft theory when we found a Craftonomy book. But she didn't? I . . . Must have forgotten it happened in a loop
I couldn't even speak during our snack time before the King, Bonnie brought out my favorite food and I was chowing down! You said that I . . . Oh yeah that was just the first time we reached the floor
The secret tunnel! It led us to the library where Mirabelle learned her Adorable Shield spell, had to find it after the King one-hit k.o.ed us in the first battle against him, and it's where me and Odile discovered the Family Tale she was looking for and, oh yeah, it became obsolete after I learned everything I needed to so we never went there . . .
Like shit, Siffrin is learning more and more and becoming more close to the four as the loops go by, socializing, eating meals together, honing battle strategies togethers; but when it happens the other way around? It never sticks
Siffrin and his team has so many conversations, they learn and share so much about each others, but only he keeps that knowledge
How many times will he act on or state knowledge he knows or got from one of his friend from erased timeloops and their friends have to process and deal with the fact that there's so much they will never remember sharing with Siffren until Siffren brings it up??
On the first loop he had a Picnic with them all under the stars, they were all happy.
On the first loop they had a Picnic with them all under the stars, he grew sick of the repetitions
On the first loop he had a Picnic with them all under the stars, he took out their despair that happiness couldn't cure against the first Sadness in sight
On the first loop they had a Picnic with them all under the stars, Odile had an arm raised to shield her team, and the team stared at them.
On the first loop he had a Picnic with them all under the stars, he took that blade used against that Sadness and with it they looped again
In two timeloops, another dead end, and a final one, five declared themselves family
In every other time loop, they did not, and Siffrin submitted himself to and allyship wearing the face of family. Wearing being the key word
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