Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*
But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.
They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.
My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.
As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.
Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.
*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)
Anyway.
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HI EDIT THE LINK IS HERE !!
taking matters into my own hands because i am so so tired of ppl making him say Mon dieu when we never say that and even less in the 60s when france was super catholic
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A work in progress:
Sebastian paused; there was a thread of memory caught on the branches of the oak, fine like spiders silk, a moment he thought he'd forgotten until it pulled loose and unravelled at his feet:
'Does the pain ever stop?' she asks, her face dappled in sunlight and shade beneath the tree.
'No,' he answers honestly. 'You just get stronger.'
'What if I don't?' He barely hears her over the rustling leaves. 'What if I don't get stronger?'
As the ending of Villain draws nearer, I find myself dabbling with the next year-long hyperfixation 🙃
yes the tense change from past to present is intentional no I'm not sure if I'll keep it that way but it makes sense in the context of the sorry no Im not overthinking it you're overthinking it *exits*
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you know that hotch fic i've been complaining about for a week? It just got good, it just got good. I'm over here grinning like a horny hyena and I-
ps: I drafted this last night and I just finished it. I love it I love I love it
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I started watching lastman yesterday and it's SOOO GOOD AND CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED everyone should watch it, I'm still at ep 9 but so far it's been great I knew it was good but not this much
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my criteria for a hairstyle that fits with my lifestyle
fast. ideally should take no more than 5 minutes to execute, but 10 minutes is acceptable.
robust. it needs to stay in place (ideally without product, though this is waived when my hair is in the like 2-3" range), including overnight.
keeps hair out of my face. i hate getting hair in my face. that's where my eyes are!
good weight distribution. let's not be adding to my neck strain any more than necessary.
optional but not required: doesn't get in the way of wearing a baseball cap. this isn't possible for hairstyles that pile hair on top of my head or for styles that use product, so it's a nice bonus rather than a criterion.
there aren't a ton of styles that fit these criteria and i do tend to do the same exact thing for months at a time. creativity is for people who like to put in some effort. i mostly like to sleep.
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