#Kid!Mirabelle

[that-guest-named-pie]

oh god monarch odile scares me because like. the end of kingquest??? with ODILE??? who's gonna figure it out SO MUCH FASTER and SO MUCH MORE OFTEN than the king???

oh no

>:3

Okay evil faces aside: I want to clarify that one of the first thing’s I established about Monarch!Odile was that she wasn’t gonna kill someone at the end of Kingquest. (Or I guess it would be “Empressquest” in the context of this AU.)

It’s also important to note that: Traveler!Bonnie is the fourth party member and therefore involved in combat. Despite that however Monarch!Odile doesn’t kill them at the end of the loops, she only kills the other three party members. Because Bonnie is still a kid in this AU. (They’re just slightly older than they are in canon, but I could be totally wrong about that, I would ask the Bonnie author if you wanna be sure.)

What I’m trying to say is: Empress Odile does have some semblance of a moral code. She doesn’t want to hurt children. She never hurts Kid!Mirabelle either. She honestly doesn’t go out of her way to kill people in general, it’s only when they get in her way that she chooses violence.

As a result I have written an alternate version of the end of Empressquest that I will post under the cut :3

Odile would never want to willingly traumatize Bonnie

But she could very well do it accidently with something she did with good intentions.

In fact once she figures out the timeloop, she stops the battle herself.

She kneels down in front of Bonnie and explains that she has pieced together their situation, and that helping them be free of their time prison is much more important than any battle.

She will even tell Bonnie she has a solution to their issue.

If she can take over their brain then she can alleviate their suffering, and she can help them break free from the wish craft that binds them.

Then she attempts to use mindcraft on not just Bonnie on all of them.

Because in Odile’s eyes if she can control Bonnie then she can make them give up on their wish. As for the others? She might as well control them as well since she’s already trying to sink her claws into Bonnie.

Too bad Housemadien!Loop’s immune. She’ll still have to kill them in the end. :)

The specifics of this scene hasn’t been written out, as I don’t write the other characters lol so it’s have to be a group effort for sure.

But that is the general gist of it anyway. :3

@cordysys

[homopopsie]

Hey, Asking this to everyone involved in the ATOF au. Who's your favorite character besides the ones you play?

Hands down it's Babybelle. Kid!Mira is the best thing that random chance has ever gifted the world. I knew when I spun that spinner and it landed on Kid!Mira that I would be the happiest man in existence because that fucking thing exists. She is baby. She is Belle. What's the problem.

[zillychu]

strangling them. the most polycule ever

[barbed-snile]

[lucabyte]

i think loop teaches bonnie all the swearwords siffrin was too polite to

[followup doodle -> (x)]

[droppingartintotheinfinite]

hyperfixation got me down bad

(remember to click the images for better quality! this brush looks shitty at tumblr’s default resolution lmao)

[chimerafeathers]

when i was initially playing isat, there were a number of things that pinged on my “overused/shallowly used storytelling tropes” radar (specifically, the version of that radar built from reading too many tumblr posts complaining about or otherwise criticizing “tumblry” tropes—regardless of how much or how little i agree in some cases, my Awareness of them has increased).

then i finished the game, and decided that pretty much everything i had been side-eyeing had been more than earned, given weight and depth beyond my expectations.

and then i got my friend to play the game, and he ended up having a lot of similar initial reactions. specifically, when he got to the “family” scene in the full friendquest run through the house.

my friend had a stronger reaction than i did, but what Odile says here is something that both of us fundamentally disagree with. we ended up talking about the value and importance that intergenerational friendships can have—passing on history, providing frameworks for a range of healthy relationships beyond “family” and “peers” (including what respectful boundaries look like when interacting with safe adults), sharing skills and knowledge, forming a supportive network of people that you can turn to if your blood/legal family fails you. humans are a community-based, highly social species; it’s literally fine and good for an old lady to be friends with a preteen.

but it’s a very Odile thing to say, and tbh i’m more similar to her viewpoint in my personal life in that it takes a very specific level of comfort and intimacy before i will truly consider someone a “friend” rather than “someone i know (/friendly).” but he worried that having it said like that, point blank, would reinforce the concept of “you can Only be friends with people your own age, and the only valid relationships outside of that are Family and Romance (aka precursor to Family).” on top of that, there’s the idea that friendships can’t be “enough” on their own, that they always have to be labeled as something else to be meaningful.

which is a fair concern, in my opinion! but in the full context of the game, and in combination with other elements (ex. the Daydreaming One and Bonnie fitting the party into specific family dynamic labels), what Odile says there is kind of a misdirect. because they ARE friends, whatever else they call each other—and because Siffrin’s unique circumstances mean the idea of “friendship” feels so much more terrifyingly fragile and transient than it might to anyone else.

so following that conversation, unable to properly defend the heavy-handedness without delving into major spoilers but still wanting to get my thoughts about it out, i wrote my train of thought into my notes. (for the record, the “defense” i wrote out was no longer necessary whatsoever once my friend finished the game. he Gets It.)

so here’s what i had, hot off the “AGGHHHH I NEED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS BUT I CAN'T BECAUSE SPOILERS” presses of several months ago (with a couple edits for clarity/more public presentation and to wrap up the end point):

YES friendships can be deep and intense and consuming. that is objectively What Siffrin Is Feeling. HOWEVER. with all due respect, Siffrin’s perspective of interpersonal relationships is fucked and he needs maximum assurance that things aren’t just going to go away.

there are a LOT of levels of friendship. they are relationships that, theoretically, can come and go easily for a lot of people. “we used to be friends.” “someone i used to know.” “an old classmate.” people drop out of contact, change interests and hobbies and lifestyles, move away, get jobs or partners, and suddenly someone who was so important to you becomes a distant thought. someone you might remember on occasion, if you’re reminded they exist somehow.

there are lifelong friendships, too, that can be no less intense or even deeper than the bonds of blood. but how can you know that the person who calls you “friend” means it like that? if the feeling runs deep for you, but the bond is untested by time or distance? what if this is all a friendship of necessity, of convenience, and it will all fall apart as soon as you have no common goal forcing you together?

of course it will! they all say it will, every time they smile and talk about going home to their friends and families and jobs and say I hope you visit! instead of stay, stay, stay with us, we want to stay with you.

it feels like a promise waiting to be broken, when you believe that “this journey meant so much more to me than it did to any of you.”

when your greatest fear is forgetting and being forgotten. (how long until they forget you?)

but the idealized promise of “family” is that the bond does not degrade, that it can persist invisibly in the face of time and distance and change. something that no longer takes persistence to maintain lest you drift apart, because you can survive drifting apart—you will remember, you will be remembered, you will remain connected. something that would instead demand great force or neglect to truly sever.

it does not matter if this is true. Siffrin needs it to be true. they need a bedrock instead of shifting sand, always slipping away from them before they can grasp it. he craves routine, stability, permanence.

there is no guaranteed permanence when it comes to life, to human connection, of course. Siffrin knows this—that everyone they once knew and loved, every bond that might have once shaped them, has been erased, with no means to reclaim what he lost. family included. and Loop acknowledges this, too, at the end—that one day, Siffrin will have to be okay with letting go. he can’t keep them all glued to his side for their entire lives. they know this.

even so, “family” is as permanent as it can get, right? at least, if their friends become family, some of the uncertainty eases. if they all agree on this, it means they aren’t content to let each other fade from memory, to become “someone they traveled with, once upon a time.” so once it’s introduced as a possibility, Siffrin clings, clings, clings to that thought, drawing comfort from the idea that maybe they all feel as much for him as he does for them.

but we know that just saying the word isn’t enough. the loops didn’t break just because they called each other something different. the fear and loneliness run too deep.

even when being called some form of “family,” the bonds seemed so much more thin and fragile than what Siffrin craves.

they were all still going to leave.

Siffrin is trying so goddamn hard to be okay with that. they fool themself into thinking they’re okay with that. because they have to be! everyone else has something to return to, it’s normal for them to have lives beyond journey’s end, it’s just him who will have nothing left once it’s all over, and they’re. fine. it’s fine.

if they hadn’t made that wish (and if somehow they beat the king first try), they would have parted ways, maybe visited each other from time to time, and Siffrin would have done his best to cope while loneliness and fear continued to dissolve them from the inside. because that’s the normal friendly thing to do. it’s what all of them expected the others to want, and were all afraid to vocalize otherwise.

i get the pushback against everything being “found family” these days. i get that sometimes people are ““just”” friends, or mentors, or coworkers, or something that defies labeling, and that those relationships are rich and varied and don’t have to have the “family” label slapped on top to be important, pigeonholed into rigid set roles, because a lot of the time it doesn’t fit and only serves to undervalue and warp the nuances of the relationships that they actually are. i LOVE when friendship is treated as something that can drive someone just as insane with love as romance or family. in the real world, people should be encouraged to cultivate a huge range of different types of friendships and relationships to broaden our understanding of the world, each other, and ourselves, and prioritizing family over all else can be actively harmful.

i also think that if Siffrin could conceptualize that fact as something that could be anything but agonizingly one-sided, maaayyyybe the time loops would not have happened! i think that if after All That, the rest of the party had gone “you’re important to us, but like, we still do have other shit to do. we’ll keep in touch though!” Siffrin might have just imploded. actually, sorry, scratch that, that literally happened in the game and the world nearly ended.

this story has to be “found family.” maybe they’ll get there one day, but Siffrin is simply not well-adjusted enough (or at all) to trust that any other kind of relationship is real enough to last. and it takes NEARLY BREAKING REALITY for them to accept even that much! that it’s possible for him, specifically! that the words aren’t empty dreams, that they’ve found something that they’re allowed to keep, that it’s not as one-sided as he’d convinced himself out of fear and self-loathing. that they won’t forget or be forgotten.

if Siffrin didn’t have the exact fears and insecurities and traumas that he has, i might still be looking at all those heavy-handed family conversations and going “urgh, okay, we get it, this is a bit much.”

but now i kinda appreciate those convos way more??? because it feels more like a conversation, a point of contrast with what this story means when it invokes “found family.”

it's not about the rigid roles or cozy aesthetics of family. Siffrin is not looking for a mom or a cousin or a sister or a little sibling. they want a home. somewhere to go, people to return to instead of just “visit.” roots, connection, permanence, safety. that is what “family” means to him. why his sadness is Mal du Pays—homesickness.

that’s also why just saying it isn’t enough! that’s why the final loop had to be ugly and broken. Siffrin needed to see that these people wouldn’t abandon them, even at their worst. that they could see him lashing out and bitter and needy and hurtful and still see someone worth loving. and that they would do this all before the word “family” is ever spoken, and would still do it even if it was never said.

the heavy emphasis on family and labels is, in some ways, a misdirect from the actual problems and the actual solution. the full friendquest run is a fakeout for Siffrin in that "the power of friendship" isn't enough to save them—at least, the one-sided, shiny veneer of it isn't. it takes raw, painful, soul-baring vulnerability—no masks to hide the ugliness, no "i'm fine, tell me how i can help you," no running away. the solution is ultimately "the power of friendship" and/or "found family," whatever you want to call it, as long as by those things you mean something messy and stubborn and mutual in its earnest devotion, riddled with misunderstandings and mistakes and the ever-present capacity to hurt each other, and still, always, bursting with love.

[jacarandaaaas]

IN HONOR OF CAMILOS BIRTHDAY HERES THE FULL COMIC FOR “TWICE THE FUN” !!!!

love this silly duo sm <33333

[sorunort]

the other day my partner and i got boba and they finished isat so i wanted to draw siffrin with boba to celebrate but then i was compelled to draw them and loop in my clothes again and iiiiiiiiiiit quickly spiraled out of control once i thought 'it'd be funny to give him the springtrap shirt' so sorry for the accidental fnaf lore dump? mirabelle would like fnaf you can't change my mind on this her favorite is withered chica. this is my soapbox rant idk

[mikodrawnnarratives]

i adore the idea of Dad Isabeau raising a kid with Siffrin later in their lives. this was such a frequent thought i had alongside married isafrin as i played the game.

like the idea is so precious to me omygosh could you imagine

Siffrin, when the kid is old enough, teaches them how to carve wood alongside knife safety. Isabeau making clothes for the kiddo. Grandma Odile, debatable if the kid would actually ever call her that tho kjfdkjld. Bonnie teaching the squirt everything they know like an older sibling. Mirabelle I'm sure would also have cute interactions with the kiddo.

The kid grows up with so many puns and dad jokes imagine them becoming an absolute MENACE with the jokes during family reunions. The first sentence the kid has is a pun and everyone looks varying levels of disappointment in Sif and Isa's direction

"You CORRUPTED THEM before they had a CHANCEEEE!!"

I also think the shenanigans that would ensue from Isa and Sif parenting for the first time would be really funny. Late nights, getting babysitters, etc. Probably plenty of worries since. Siff. But hopefully all easily reassured as they probably wouldn't get a kid when Siff isn't doing well mentally

[under-the-stars-au]

READ THE FIRST PART HERE ___________________

Bonnie still seem a little upset...But at least they are back in the party ! Also, you made a huge mess here ! Siffy seems to take you a bit more seriously now. That's good, I suppose ___________________

AAAA it's finally done ! I suffered to make this one, I hope you enjoyed it ! Some angst, some important information to have, good stuff Okay, promise, the next one will be shorter normally, and it's one that I've been waiting to do for a while now ! Again, can't thank you enough for your patience I need sleep now, good night

____________________ DIALOGUES IN CASE YOU CAN'T READ MY HANDWRITING (Huh, coming soon, I seriously need sleep first)

[homopopsie]

how does loop feel seeing young belle?

HM!Loop is going crazy when they see Mirabelle. They, so far, have only seen their former party members in radically different roles (aside from Traveler!Bonnie but they're only slightly different in actual physicality, and a lot of it is because of the role Loop sees them filling, their old spot as the traveler)

Once they see Mirabelle, but fucking tiny they go nuts. They attempt to get a good grade in friendship while trying not to seethe with rage at The Universe and the Change God and the Expressions and whatever other divinity is cursing them to live among these two bit knockoffs wearing the faces of their old friends that they watched stagnate and die and love them and be worried for them over and over and over and over-

safe to say they have plenty thoughts on the matter

[lumidotexe]

Commissions are still open!! Reblogs appreciated!!

I updated the sheet examples on the website, and a few more examples are down here as well!

[chickinu]

Sif gets hungry on the road to Dormont and picks up a snack(?) that isn't from a trash bin.....his friends intervene.

These guys don't have their chef cooker yet so they don't have cool snacks at the ready.

Sif in this AU isn't particularly picky when it comes to food and they'd often hunt for their food and eat it raw.....but you're not suppose to eat food raw, how curious~

Odile tries to keep a closer eye on Sif after this "silly" Lil incident. Nobody could eat garbage as rancid as that and actually enjoy it!?!?!?

[beneathsilverstars]

what if mira's parents were like... "oh our precious darling baby, please never grow up!" sort of parents.... not cruel, but stifling. deciding what she'll do, and then doing it for her. not letting her learn and try and fail and grow into her own, independent self.

of course she would love the religion of change! of course she would believe so passionately in the importance of discovering and reinventing yourself. of course she would have been missing basic life skills when she first came to the house, and enamored with whoever patiently taught them to her. of course she would take every class available, try everything she was denied.

and of course it would feel awful, when she kept failing. she started out at a deficit and has felt two steps behind ever since. and every time she tries a new skill and makes a mistake, she hears her parents say, just let us do it for you. and every time she compares her same-old self to the unique and talented people around her, she wonders if maybe her parents were right about her. maybe she wasn't meant to have her own interests, to make her own choices. maybe she can't learn. maybe she can't grow. maybe she'll be a useless child forever.

it's hard to decide how she feels about her parents. they never hurt her, so why does she feel so hurt when she thinks about them? they loved her, so why doesn't she love them?

and it's hard to admit the faults of the change belief. it saved her from stagnation! and yet, here she is. smothered again. expected not to stay the same, but to become someone else.

why can't she just be who she is?

[dororoxpenana]

A day out with Tío/Papa Bruno 🗣✨️