#but i could still see her going to isabeau first. if only bc she believes he might provide more insight on it

[radioroxx]

funny thing about aus in which another one of the party joins the loops with siffrin is that, while the others are 10x more likely to mention the loops, i cant imagine any of them would go to siffrin first.

[loopdile]

what if during the loops loop started getting so Mentally Funky that after siffrin showed up, conversed and left they'd find a way to get Odile to come over and talk just for a change of pace

ooh fascinating... they usually try so hard to avoid the other party members but that just makes it all the more interesting to consider what could make them break that pattern! and i could see them choosing odile out of everyone, because she's the most aloof / least emotional, surely it wouldn't be as harrowing as trying to talk to like mirabelle.

maybe soon after a fight with siffrin and/or something that was extra upsetting for loop? like after they had to tell siffrin how to use the dagger -- they're mad at him for pushing, they're mad at themself for bringing it up, siffrin might be upset with them, and now loop keeps having to watch siffrin stab himself, and! loop got possessed! that's fucked up.

i could see them wanting to talk to someone. esp if it's been multiple hundreds of loops already. and loop's "thank god at least i'm not in the house" is wearing out into "at least i was doing something before, now i can't even do anything except make it worse".

luring odile over seems difficult when she's all the way in town, it would take a lot of active motivation to overcome that difficulty, but. maybe if siffrin has been in the loops long enough that they're starting to act a little strange even on day 1. maybe odile would come over to talk to isabeau about it? but isabeau already left to let siffrin do his thing with the favor tree. (but siffrin didn't talk to loop, he hasn't been talking to loop much at all lately.)

so odile's about to turn and go and loop is suddenly so desperate to not be alone, to experience anything different, that they call out "wait!" before they can stop themself. and then they're like fuck why did i do that. and odile's like hm? is someone there? and starts looking but loop is like "wait no don't come closer" bc they don't want her to see them they don't want to see her they're not supposed to be doing this this isn't in the script!! but it's too late to undo it entirely (they don't automatically rewind back like siffrin does, not anymore, not for this at least).

so odile does stop approaching. but she's not gonna just leave either, whoever called for her sounds upset, and she can't just leave a problem alone. even if it seems like it's going to be an emotional one that's outside her wheelhouse, she's not gonna leave. if only isabeau had still been there smh.

so she asks who's there and they don't answer, and she asks are you alright and they say "i'm fine" but it sure isn't believable. and she's down to give someone space, but. that first wait was so desperate.... so she asks "do you want me to leave?" and they don't answer that either.

so she stays. leaves real topics alone since they obviously don't want to talk about the who and why, she just starts complaining about the selection at the store instead. tells some stories about her companions. occasionally the mystery person even makes a comment!

and it's hard for loop, hearing about the party, but it's also. really really nice. to hear something about them that isn't from the fucking loops. a story they haven't seen or heard a thousand times in a row, something so old that it's new even though for odile it was within the last week.

eventually odile has to leave for dinner at the clocktower, which loop tries to be normal about but it's obvious they're unhappy. so she invites them to come with her but obviously they do NOT agree to that. she offers to see if another villager can come talk to them instead (she hopes maybe a villager would recognize their voice and be able to help more), but loop insists no they do no want to be around anyone else right now thank you. so odile shrugs and leaves, she's done what she can.

and loop is sooo sad because that was SO nice to just be kinda normal for a couple hours, but what are the chances siffrin will ever act just the right away again to make odile come over here :(

so THEN loop figures out a way to get odile to come to the favor tree ^^

loop doesn't do it every dormont loop, but more and more of them, they end up chatting. and it's less stressful after the first couple times, though it sucks that odile doesn't remember any of the previous chats. sometimes odile gets loop to vent a bit about this or that with her "just one thing" trick, and it does make loop feel better. and eventually loop even lets odile see them and odile is very fascinated, which is. not the worst possible reaction..? (the not recognizing doesn't hurt as much as in canon, because the re-introduction was more gradual, and it's not everyone at once, and it didn't happen right when loop was planning to come clean.)

and that's how one day siffrin walks in on odile feeling loop up (scientifically) under the favor tree, thanks for coming to my ted talk

[ofshampain]

LUX ISABEAU ROSEMARIE MARSEILLE: AN INTRODUCTION!

{ marilyn lima, 23, cis female, she/her } hey, lux marseille? good to see you, with all the insanity going on! still working as a youtuber & instagrammer? that’s good. i mean, you’ve been around a week, what do you make of this insanity? hey, i heard that people have been saying that you’re into filming your true crime youtube videos, crossing town to find exactly the right selfie background, and planning to set up a french restaurant. you also remind people of a polaroid camera around your neck, the legend of mothman, helix piercings, and relentless extroversion, which i like. well, stay safe out there and remember to listen to the fog warnings.

tw: parental death

lux was born lux bellerose, the younger twin ( by a few minutes ) of her and her brother, knox ( @bizarrc​ ). where he was born in darkness, lux was born in light, and that’s quite poignant to their personalities & indeed, their lives. because while knox has had to grow up in pinehaven and the darkness of the bellerose house, lux — when her father, a frenchman who had moved to the states to be with dehlia, had had enough of their battles & fighting — tried to take their children away. 

however, he could only get lux, and when he tried to return for knox, they were gone. 

so he took lux back to his home city of marseille, in the south of france, and kept trying to find his ex-wife and son. unfortunately, that endeavour came with no success. lux’s new last name matched the city she now lived in, and given that it was actually a fairly common last name in france, it raised no questions. 

rather than tell his daughter of the family — the twin — they had lost, her father avoided telling her. saying her mother had died, and that she’d never had any siblings. and what reason did she have to disbelieve him? apart from that — which he believed would keep her happier — he has never lied to her. 

lux was popular, the leader of the popular girl gang at her school in france. her father began working as a restaurateur ( as he had been when the twins were small ) and made a modest fortune. enough for lux to live comfortably. enough for her work ethic to be a little... lacking. if she was interested in the subject, she was rapt ( like when she began to study criminology & sociology ) but if she wasn’t, then, well. getting her involved was frankly like pulling teeth. 

but they managed to find a way to connect it to what she thought her goal was at the time: to be a police detective. because she’s always been fascinated by true crime. like, it’s an enduring love of hers. investigating. pinboards with red string, old cases. 

it was something she enjoyed at home at first so as to not impact on her reputation, but eventually she began to share it: on instagram & youtube she’s made a considerable following, racking up several million followers, and lux marseille has since become a bit of a genre celebrity. 

it secured what she wanted to do with her life, however, so she never did attend police academy in france.

however, her father became ill, and on his deathbed confessed to his child that she had a twin brother lost all those years ago. she took it in stride, at first, not wanting him to die with her on bad or awkward terms with him. she asked if she was the older twin, he laughed and wouldn’t tell her, saying she’d have to work that out for herself if she ever found him. 

truly, lux is struggling with both that sudden revelation about her life and her father’s death about three months ago, but she’s not going to admit it.

she ended up in pinehaven where knox is — though she hasn’t told him, at stern instruction — by chance: she heard about the rumours surrounding the town and it was an irresistible chance. how could she not take it? so lux marseille is pinehaven’s new celebrity and it’s her intention to tell the world: no matter how the fbi, or whoever, might feel about the matter. she didn’t initially plan to stay, but now, seeing how deep the mystery runs? she just might.

yeah i’ve pretty much stolen buzzfeed unsolved and given it to her bc that’s my baby. she’s extra, too curious, and pushy. marmite. you either love lux or you hate lux, and that’s just the way it is.

esfp-a. gryffindor.