#isat did something to me dude

[polyshowtime]

got the sudden urge to rebrand my main carrd when i'm supposed to be sleeping UGGHHH

[aluria-sevhex]

HELL FUCKING YESSSSSSSS

hey if you wanna read all of my posts as i play through ISAT, they are all tagged as #Aluria plays ISAT for the first time (please don't spoil)

notes:

-aight i'm back yippee

-title theme my beloved

-i always find it so funny when an enemy tries to freeze Mira

-gonna try this boss again

-ok i think i'll just replay Floor 3 on this loop instead of looping forward after i find out another one of Bonnie's favorite foods so i can build up everybody's stats

-OH. BONNIE OVERHEARD THE DEATH CONVERSATION.

-heh Bonnie slapped Siffrin

-uh... the audio is REALLY ominous...

-oh, Bonnie...

-WAIT WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT DID I JUST LOOP SLIGHTLY BACK IN THE PAST?

-Siffrin you ok i don't think that was helping ur mental health issues your eye is covered in shadow in your dialogue portrait

-i will once again NOT kill Siffrin via anaphylaxis. i will take the fish head

-...i didn't. get info on Bonnie's favorite foods this time.

-ok according to the save screen that didn't count as a loop

-anyway time to try looping to get the Bonnie snack info

-hey... the Tear dialogue isn't as silly anymore (it just says yes or no without the 'looping time' or 'living time')

-hey i didn't skip any loops this time!

-time to kill this pair of assholes again

-"carry my ashes with you" aw that's a sweet dialogue option

-i am so tempted to kill Siffrin. but i won't.

-awwww... i talked to Bonnie and now Sif is comforting them

-ok how the fuck do i get the info. BONNIE PLS.

-hold up. does Siffrin no longer nod when zoning out? :((((

-WAIT FUCK DID I FORGET TO GET THE KEY ON FLOOR 2.

-...Mira's roommate. was learning to make bombs. why???

-lol Isa knows how to make a bomb

-Mira has anti-anxiety meds. this makes a lot of sense tbh

-...what are these papers for???

-so i decided to try using the silver coin since a person said that you can do something with it related to the croissant lore. and it said "you think about the Incident" or smth like that lol

-lol Sif forgot the term 'stuffed animal'

-idk why but it feels like a lot of Craft skills are like. slower. or have bigger cooldowns in Act 3. even tho i KNOW they don't and my brain is fucking with me

-ok the game accounted for the key thing

-in the bathroom again

-Sif is calming themself again and figuring out what to do

-Siffrin, self-loathing and calling yourself stupid won't help :(

-i zoned out at some minor dialogue but i don't remember what the dialogue was the first time so i am fucking clueless about what was going on with a choice i made. sorry Mira idk why i 'saved you' by smacking your mouth ;_;

-i love getting to obliterate weaker Rock enemies with Paper α V

-i have now gotten Sif to level 60

-sometimes it's nice to take a break and talk to Loop

-wait a sec. doesn't one of the lower floors have a sharpening stone?

-ok it's been a while and now i have everybody back to level 52. time to kick the asses of the 3rd floor boss

-ooo Odile got a new skill

-time for the last snack break!

-Bonnie's upset now because i didn't try the fritters D:

-time to face the King again... and hopefully talk to him

-welp. *that* didn't work

-oh nvm now i can ask him questions via the Craft menu!

-you. you can give the King the flower.

-yeah the characters have a point! why Vaugarde specifically?

-the King is NOT responsible but he says Siffrin has an odd smell. huh... the only other things where an odd smell has been noted is Bonnie saying the star crest Sadnesses smell odd... but if Sif had that smell then it would've been noticed sooner...

-dude. how rude to say that if Siffrin doesn't understand Time Craft they can't understand the King's methods. maybe i should read more on Time Craft in one of the libraries? or that one book on craftonomy...

-the "you have heard this before" for zoning out got more and more annoyed

-once again. what does the King need to say?

-hm i was talking to Odile and Bonnie piped in really excitedly that they have more pineapple in their pocket

-GOD FUCKING DAMMIT MIRABELLE I LOVE YOU BUT YOU STOPPED ISA'S CONFESSION ToT

-time to talk to Euphrasie and loop again ig

-hey what's that in her hair?

-"you inhale sharply, almost choking on the smell of burnt sugar around you" BURNT SUGAR BURNT SUGAR THAT'S THE SMELL OF TIME SHENANIGANS AS SEEN WITH THOSE SADNESSES

-SAY SOMETHING ELSE EUPHRASIE

-how do i get the familytale?

-ok i talked to Odile and i'm gonna help her!

-am i gonna have to go all over town for this?

lmao yeah i think i will

-oh hey the wizard-loving kid is named Manon

-oh my god. i have to go back to the boulanger

-FINALLY

-:O THERE IS NO RESEARCH???

-oh THAT'S why Odile is in Vaugarde

-oh... her mom left... all of her travels here have been to try to reconnect with that part of her...

-HEY SIFFRIN I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING WHERE THE *FUCK* ARE YOU FROM?

-damn. bro has amnesia

-LMAO I ASKED MIRA ABOUT THE PAPERS AND THE BATTLE THEME STARTED

-...bonding proposals???

-oh my god Mira joined a dating website group

-"we have one of those at home"

-"oh, i don't have a type! i like all kinds of people equally!" is this in a bi way or an aro way

-YEAH AROMANTIC REPRESENTATION

-DIVERSITY WIN! THE KICKASS HANDMAIDEN WHO'S IMMUNE TO BEING FROZEN IN TIME AND THE SORT-OF CHOSEN ONE IS ARO!!! I FUCKING CALLED IT YEAHHHHHHHH :D

-oh, Mira :( you're not the problem you don't have to do anything like that you're not comfortable with

-hm this game is dealing with personal identity a lot

-:( :( :( oh, Mira...

-DIVERSITY WIN!!! THE SKETCHY WANDERER STUCK IN A TIME LOOP WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IS ACE!!!

-MY BLORBOS ARE ACE AND AROACE FUCK YEAH I AM SO HAPPY

-FUCK IT I'M POSTING NOW

SERIOUSLY THO I DON'T THINK I CAN ACCURATELY CONVEY HOW FUCKING HAPPY THIS PART IS MAKING ME. TWO OF MY FAVORITES ARE ACE AND AROACE HELL FUCKING YES

[ohwormwood]

random thoughts i have while playing isat pt. 7

[woe, spoilers be upon ye!]

opened the game and immediately went "im gonna make odile question my sanity!!!" but of course when i enter the house Siffrin decides to turn the scripted tutorial enemy into bean paste and ruins the run--

anyways. this panel will haunt me

i. i dont even know how but. I beat the king without him ever getting a chance to make his first attack. i just kept spamming slow and two jackpots later he was dead. i didn't even knoiw that was possible.

after a bit of fucking around i decided that i was gonna move on to act 5 and promptly burst into tears

update: i accidentally posted this too early dont look at me

sat and cried through the entirety of the party's interactions in act 5

screaming crying throwing up

even the king took one look at this dude and was like "are you good man like, you can take a rest before we do this you're literally about to topple over"

that post where odile says the oven copypasta during the mal du pays scene has permanently altered my brain and i literally laughed out loud when this line appeared

i haven't talked about it before but. a while ago i made a concept for a game based off the backrooms and omori, and odile talking about someone who is forgotten may not exist is the basis for the entire game's plot, it makes me want to go back and flesh it out a bit more!!!

i am deadset on the idea of making an edit with mirabelle's reflection craft but it's an uno reverse card

simultaneously in my brain: an edit where the sound mirabelle's reflection craft makes is the metal pipe meme

i am. such a fucking sucker for sickfics. i cannot get enough of them. act 5 has enough sickfic tropes to make a million spinoff fics on its own, it brings me life and i love it dearly

wailing

this line sends me into orbit every time i see it

odile attacking siffrin. hurts so, so so badly on an emotional level for me. Because like??? i get it. i get it and it sucks and she obviously doesn't want to, but she's scared. But siffrin is even more scared in that moment, and the immediate association of that pain with being hated by odile hurts me so much.

YEAHHHH ODILE GIRLBOSS SUPREME

they're so soft and squishy and cute in this image i c a n t

incoherent WAILING. this. this image. this image just about broke me. THEYRE SO HAPPY and RELIEVED, IT HURTS,,,

the tone shift to talking to the party afterwords is still so funny to me HJBDFBSBFH like lookit him. hes so smol. so silly.

we're kidnapping bonnie guys it's official

my honest reaction to this line: LESBIANS??????

and then she hits me with:

AND I LOST IT

more silly guy siffrin,,,,, my favorite

aaaa aAAAAAAAAAAA

ISABEAU'S SPRITE CHANGING TO BE DOING A HAPPY DANCE AFTER THE CONFESSION IS SOOOOO CUTE WAAA

bonnie and odile clapping for isabeau confessing will never not be funny but ALSO it implies the bonnie knew about Isa's crush. and i for one personally believe that they picked up on it from Odile's relentless teasing of Isabeau as the #1 Isafrin shipper

mirabelle: wait you had a crush on sif?????? and i didn't know????

my roommate, who is ace: this is the aroace experience for real,,,

literally all of the second interactions with Isabeau had me and my roommate SCREAMING

HOWLING LAUGHING

OK I NEVER KNEW???? THAT SIFFRIN TOLD ISABEAU ABOUT THE BAD TOUCH EVENT?????? IN CANON???? I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WAS A FANON THING BUT THEY ACTUALLY ADDRESS IT IN GAME AND???? ISA'S REACTION HAD ME ON THE FLOOR

siffrin: i kissed you once,,,,

isa:

the words "im being perfectly normal about this" is something i say on a daily basis so i relate to this wholeheartedly

AYO???????? ISA WHEN DID YOU BECOME SO SMOOTH????

this. this image. made my jaw hit the GODDAMN FLOOR. I WAS NOT MENTALLY PREPARED FOR IT AT ALL AND BOTH ME AND MY ROOMMATE S C R E A M E D WHEN WE SAW IT

LIKE???? HOLY FUCK SIF JESUSSSSSSSSSSS CHRIST???? how did isabeau not implode on the spot from that look bro howwwwwwwwwww

AND THEN. AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH TO MAKE MY HEART START SOBBING. ISA BLOWS YOU A KISS???? AAAA???

annnnd scene!

i will continue playing to get some of the different loop endings and i totally plan on doing two hats in the future!!! so im not quite done with this game yet i just got impatient in act 4 and i needed the Emotional Catharsis of Act 5

[chronologically-challenged]

For my Danny Phantom/isat idea. I adore their dynamic so much yall don't even know: (Act 6 on the top of the House. Danny leans against the wall near the bottom stair. Notably, in the loops, he sat on the bottom step)

Siffrin: Hey, Danny.

Danny: Hey, Frin! Feeling better? Less explodey?

Siffrin: (You take a moment.)

Siffrin: (...)

Siffrin: (Yup! You're tired, really tired, but... you're doing fine. No better than fine. Good. You're doing good for once.)

Siffrin: (You nod.)

Danny: That's good, dude. When we get back, take a nap for like. Ten years.

Siffrin: (laughs) I'll stick with a night's sleep. But. Yeah. I will.

Siffrin: ...I'm sorry.

Danny: I'll stop you right there.

Siffrin: (You stop right there.)

Danny: ....

Danny: (sighs) Look. I don't like what you said. Getting back home... I need to try. And no one else, not even you are going to stop me.

Siffrin: (You nod. The idea of losing him hurts but... if Danny wants to go home, you're going to help. No matter how much it hurts to think about. Besides, it's going to take a lot more than simple craft to get him there. The teen is smarter than he gives himself credit for, but still. It may be impossible on his own. So, even if you lose him, you and the rest of your family are going to be there right beside him until the end. He shouldn't ever have to do this alone).

Danny: ....But, I get it. I really do. I... Let's just say I know what it's like to almost lose my family too.

Siffrin: (What!?)

Siffrin: What!?

Danny: Not the point!!! Just!!!

Danny: ...I forgive you. What happens in the time loop stays in the time loop.

Danny: Unless you want to talk about it.

Danny: You should talk about it.

Danny: But I mean. Whatever happened is fine!!! Like if you did something weird, or if you killed one of us-

Siffrin: (WHAT!!!!)

Siffrin: I WOULD NEVER!!!!!

Danny: !!!

Danny: Never said you did!!!! But I wouldn't mind if you tried???

Siffrin: Danny????

Danny: I don't know it's a time loop!!!! They're weird!!!

Siffrin: (Wait. The way Danny talks about time loops...)

Siffrin: Danny... have.... have you been stuck in a time loop before?

Siffrin: (With how many weird things he's casually mentioned, you wouldn't be surprised.)

Danny: No!!!! I mean I've time traveled-

Siffrin: (-He's What)

Siffrin: (Scratch that. You can be surprised-)

Danny: -But no time loops here!!! We've just got a lot of stories back at home about time loops.

Siffrin: Is... is that a common thing back in your dimension?

Danny: I mean after this movie- wait you don't know movies- we've got this... story we've told called Groundhogs Day. Some asshole dude was so mean to everyone that God put them in a timeloop until he became a better person.

Siffrin: ...

Siffrin: ........Did this actually happen to someone?

Danny: Nah. Back home people compare every time loop story to it. But I'm pretty sure it was fake. Probably.

Danny: (muttering) But I can see Clockwork putting someone in a time loop.

Siffrin: (You feel your headache coming back.)

Siffrin: Okay that's enough.

Danny: (laughs) Suuuuuuure.

Danny: ...But Siffrin, just. I am sorry for saying you were just like Vlad. You aren't. At all.

Siffrin: (You're not sure you agree. You were acting possessive, creepy, imposing, all things you know how Danny described Vlad.)

Siffrin: But-?

Danny: You aren't. Vlad never apologized. Ever. He never even tried to really get to know me. He... You're not like him at all. I've never felt safe with him, and maybe that's why it hurt when you...

(Danny frowns, hands clenched to his sides).

Siffrin: (Danny...)

Danny: (lets out a heavy sigh) But you're not Vlad! Vlad is a dumb fruitloop too up his own ass to care about anyone except his own ego. And you! Just need to go be sleepfrin.

Siffrin: (...?)

Siffrin: (He's looking at you, for something?)

Siffrin: (Oh.)

Siffrin: Was, was that a pun?

Siffrin: (It was an awful attempt at one if it was).

(Danny's face falls. Oh, stars it was. Oops!)

Danny: ...go away now.

Siffrin: Danny.

Danny: No.

Siffrin: I'm dansipointed in you.

Danny: :0! (starts laughing)

Danny: (He starts to move his hand toward Siffrin.)

Siffrin: (It's a fist bump!!! A Danny Fist Bump!!! Finally!!! You get one too!!!)

(You try to meet his hand halfway, but Danny's hand goes around?)

(Oh! He's trying to hug you!!! The sideways ones like he gives Bonnie and Mirabelle!!!)

(You try to save it. You quickly switch around to do an over the shoulder hug that you totally were going for the entire time.)

(You didn't count on Danny doing the same thing, but in reverse. His arm falls as yours rises, and he's left awkwardly raising his fist in the hair while your arm flaps uselessly behind him).

Danny: ...

Siffrin: ...

Danny: We're bad at this.

Siffrin: (You nod.)

Danny: Ummm. (He doesn't put his fist down)

Danny: Oh! How about this?

(He wraps his arm around your shoulder, hug fully completed this time. Yours settles in behind him. But, his fist is still raised, waiting for you to complete the signature Danny Fist Bump)

(How can you refuse?)

(It's a simple. Just a little knock of your knuckles together. One moment of contact before it's quickly gone.)

(It doesn't stop feeling like the world.)

(You realize Danny hasn't let you go.)

Siffrin: Danny...?

Danny: I'm glad. (he rushes out, his voice is tight) I'm glad there was something going on, Frin. That we could do something to help.

Danny: I... I didn't want to lose you too.

Siffrin: (Danny...)

Siffrin: I'm here! I'm right here...

Danny: Good.

(He squeezes you one more time and lets you go.)

(......You don't know his other family. From his stories, you're not sure you want him to go back to a life that put a teenager in charge of protecting the world. But, if Danny wants to go home...)

(You understand more than anyone. That need. It's not fair to tell him it's impossible for him to go back just because it is for you).

(You just hope that there's someone there that misses him as much as he's fighting to get back to them.)

Danny: Now, go take a nap or something, you're gonna fall over the rail. Then what? All those time loops just to die to gravity?

Siffrin: Not the worst way to die!

Siffrin: (You would know!)

Danny: Don't I know it!!!

(You both laugh.)

(You wave goodbye, and head off to another family member.)

Siffrin: (...before the loops you tried to discourage Danny making jokes about dying.)

Siffrin: (You probably should now too).

Siffrin: (But you know what they say about beating dead horses-)

Siffrin: (...........Don't?)

Siffrin: (...)

Siffrin: (Eh. You'll see where the jokes take you. After all, you have time to figure it out).