#sasasa:p

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find another role, carry on the show

[chaos-canary]

A small 230 word long post I made about Loop because I noticed A Thing™

Warning: major spoilers for both In Stars And Time (Optional 6th Act conversation) and Start Again: A Prologue

So, I've been thinking about Loop, and you know, how they're Siffrin from Start Again.

One particular detail that stood out in isat is this:

"The King... I could never beat him, did you know that? No matter how hard I tried, the King always defeated me."

Now, for anyone who's not familiar, Start Again has 4 endings. The one in particular I'm mentioning is the True Ending.

During the game, Siffrin has been looping for a long time, and at the point we start the game, has completely forgotten their friends names.

The only time they remember everyone's names, is during the True Ending.

The reason why this is notable is because the only time Siffrin beats The King, is also during the True Ending.

So, Loop never experienced the True Ending, and never remembered their friends names.

Well, didn't remember their names during the loops...

Because we have this line:

"Hah, can you believe, I forgot their names, for a time?"

Notice the past tense (also, there's a line where they say everyone's names, but I forgot to take a picture of it).

So either, A: Loop relearned everyone's name during the time between Start Again and isat.

Or B: Loop only relearned everyone's name after being sent to isat Siffrin's world. (world, timeline, universe? I don't know what word fits.)

And if B is the case, that opens up a whole new possibility for Loop angst.

So, I hope you enjoyed my rambling! And I hope this interests someone!

[chipper-smol]

SASASA:P Siffrin's social skills are fried

gonna link the original brainworm of this au in the replies but the tl'dr is Siffrin makes a wish to be there for Loopfrin like they were there for him.

[colliecross]

They all just shake at increasingly more unstable speeds.

We should put all the siffrins from all the different acts and see how the conversation would go.

[insertdisc5]

The tumblr q&a is over, but I was curious! I love all the different phrases the characters in isat/sasasa:p use--If it's something you can say, where did inspiration for "gems alive" and other phrases come from?

THANK YOU FOR ASKING BECAUSE I GET TO TALK ABOUT WORLDBUILDING AND SWEAR WORDS AND BRANDON SANDERSON

long post ahead

ok so when I was figuring out the world, I found this lecture on worldbuilding by Brandon Sanderson (go watch it, and also go read his books), and (im gonna paraphrase heavily here) one thing he mentioned is that, to make a memorable world, one thing you can do is pick a couple areas of culture, and go real deep with it. So like, pick fashion, and architecture, and interior design, and develop those a bunch, and bam! you convinced people you have a whole dang world, even though you only developed 3 areas of this world. hollow iceberg everyone thinks is a real iceberg.

he also mentioned the idea of like... getting weird with it? and develop based on a weird detail? for example, in his book The Stormlight Archives, one detail is that women have to hide their left hand at all times. ok, so what does that mean, whats taboo about a left hand? is the left hand shameful, or lewd somehow, the same way ankles were for us? what about fashion, what does women's fashion look like? and how do you live your every day life, knowing you can't show this hand, can you carry things the same way? etc

SO, for me, one of the Big Worldbuilding pillars i picked was, uh, swear words lol. or language and common expressions, more generally. i went on a whole journey where i was like... ok swear words in a LOT of languages (including french and english, both languages i speak fluently) are either sexual, or about gross bodily discharges. you know what words i mean!!!!!

and, well, i also didnt want the game to be full of those words, mostly because i think its a tightrope to use those words without seeming cringe, and also because i have a Core Memory of showing a comic to a colleague and she said "well i wouldve liked to show it to my kids, but you said fuck 12 times in there" and i didnt show my face to her for a week. family friendly family friendly family friendly

so what swear words should my characters use, that arent the same ones we use? and could those swear words actually tell us something about the world they live in? could i actually use those swear words... to show the characters come from different cultures???

and what COULD swear words be like, if theyre not about sex or body stuff? well irl they're usually about religions or belief. "oh god", "goddamnit", etc. as a sidenote, stuff like "oh my god" or "geez" arent used, because jesus christ is not canon to the ISAT universe. alright

i decided very early on i wouldnt have those in the game either, but i COULD have them be about the religions specific to this world. and for insults, i could have them be about stuff those beliefs would see as lesser.

anyway instead of talking about "gems alive" lets talk about "crab"

isabeau+mirabelle+bonnie use "crab" as a swear word because they follow a religion all around change, bettering yourself, evolving, and, the crab meme,

for those who dont get the joke, its about carcinisation, and about how a bunch of non-crab-like forms somehow evolved to a crab-like form. which would be horrible, for a religion all based around change!!! you mean we change and evolve, but theres a chance we might all become crabs??? CRAB!!!!!!!

anyway having "crab" kinda reads as 1. swear word 2. thats funny and weird (sets the tone) 3. tells you they know what crabs are (world not that different from ours, AND means they live close-ish to the coast, aka not land locked) and 4. crabs are somehow hated/feared, even if as the player you dont get why, it shows this country has its own culture (even if you dont get the crabs joke, which uuuh apparently doesnt work as well in countries that dont have this specific meme. WHATEVER!!!!)

(a few people came to me saying "heh, i get it, because crab and crap are very similar words" and um actually i did not think about that. crab is just a funny word on its own, and also i am a comedy genius without even trying)

anyway tldr: swear words as a worldbuilding tool. soon in theaters

[entryn17]

Can you add one more to the killcount? I got my friend interested and wanting to play by reblogging yours and others art and by word of mouthbwhich is exciting cause i backed and played when isat was sasasa:p. yeesss get time looped all y'all hehehe.

WOOHOOOO the more the merrier

[startagainstartagainstartagain]

so we played sasasa:p yesterday

[kitcats-1-braincell]

WHAT HOLY SHIT HELL YEAH

GO FOLLOW THEM RIGHT NOW

YOOO NEW MUTUAL JUST DROPPED

BITCH TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH TO JOIN @kadynnkaury

go follow them

[tex-now]

Just watched sasasa:p. Ow. OW. OW???????

[naswoop]

She's so lovely and I adore her so much????

[chipper-smol]

Major ISAT spoilers below so SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL

havent seen anyone with this idea yet but

AU where Siffrin fills the role of Loop FOR Loopfrin during SASASA:P

Siffrin appearing in the form of Loop for Loopfrin after their successful attempt on the King. Right before Loopfrin cries out to the Universe

just

being there for them like they were for him, y'know

and yeah he's a few... thousand loops late but bETTER LATE THAN EVER HAHAHAHA

imagine how suspicious and then angry and then desperate Loopfrin would be about Siffrin. The "What are you??" "Why didn't you help me sooner?" "You're staying?" "Actually, I don't care" <- cares a lot

everything about this star person is a novelty for Loopfrin. They had a whole moment when Bonnie handed them a candy with a crinkly wrapper. imagine how off foot they'd get after coming back from a loop and this star person remembers.

Siffrin taking as many chances to casually touch Loopfrin. Arm slung around their shoulders. Booping their nose. Holding their face and reassuring that they're real. Hugging them- getting them feeling present in their body once more.

encouraging Loopfrin to stop using the knife

poking them in the right directions- PROVIDING THE SAME QUALITY OF LIFE MEASURES LOOP DID FOR HIM! Memories saved. Important locations indicated with magic. Level progress saved. Control over where they can loop back.

do you see??? do you understand?????

tl'dr: let siffrin be there for loopfrin i think it'd be cool

[chipper-smol]

i think i need to clarify names and other details for the IsatRoleReversalAU before things get too confusing

ISAT Siffrin = Stardust, Loopsif SASASA:P Siffrin = Siffrin, Loopfrin, Siffrin Prime

Stardust still uses he/they Loopfrin uses they/them (the de-personalization already did its damage)

(Stardust still uses parenthesis) [Loopfrin still uses brackets] ^ just another way to help keep them distinct by using their original forms of thinking/transmitting info

[entryn17]

i'm not exactly sure if the mal du pays segment was supposed to be representative of siffrin being close to becoming a sadness or not, but i really like thinking about them changing to reflect that over the loops. especially combined with sasasa:p's siffrin noting their skin is hard and cold ("you're being frozen alive") (which could still just be a grief allegory but swagever). hard and cold skin, body temperature low enough for it to be considered hypothermia, changes in limb structure especially in scale and length and bone organization. tinged lips and digits that would look blue and frostbitten if ISAT's world still had color before that darkens and travels up their limbs. somewhere halfway to being malleable like a sadness; the hard parts like bone and cartilage aren't gone but they snap in and out of place more easily. is this thing on can anyone hear me.

i love the idea siffrin changes physically/bodily because of the loops. in a body horror way. so bad. (grits jaw so hard a cavity filling pops out)

[naswoop]

hello everyone welcome back to [epic action movie trailer voice] DIVORCE ANON (trademark also pending) ✌️ im here to be deeply unhinged and say nothing of substance about start again, again. anyways this has ABSOLUTELY no basis in canon but could you imagine if for a brief moment in sasasa2 siffrin's character class changed from "the traveler" to something along the lines of "the interloper" instead. for reference and if i remember correctly interloper means roughly the same thing as traveler but with the added connotation that they are unwanted or unneeded

on that note can you believe it's gonna be sasasap's first year anniversary already?? like wow it's nearly been one (1) whole year already??? whack

heH [theme song starts playing]

Oh gosh. Oh gosh we gonna keep adding to Sif's Rough Times (tm). Ya misfit, Siffrin, you.

[I just felt like drawin' him, probably not exactly what you meant by this but this is what happened]

Yeah!!!! It's almost its first year!! It's so weird to think that it's already been that long. Sometimes I forget just how much Stuff I drew.

[naswoop]

So... so it was never true, was it? You care about us, don’t you?

[naswoop]

this is divorce anon! i cant believe im late to sasasap's first birthday because i was too busy studying for my upcoming finals... sob.........

anyways happy birthday to start again start again start again: a prologue aka The Game Of All Time. ive known it for only but a year but it has easily found itself on my list of The Most Games Ever.

okay but seriously im pretty sure seeing this game irreversibly changed me somehow./pos

but it is a really neat game though, and it both ended up making me think about its cast of characters for a whole complete year, and also inspired me to make my own games! and honestly, i wouldn't have it any other way <3

again, happy birthday to sasasap, and i can't wait to see the sequel once it comes out!

Come join the party! Take a hat and some confetti poppers!

[Black and white as per Start Again style]

Genuinely, though. It really is a Delight. I'm glad to have played it.

Eyy heck yeah, good luck with your own games!! I'd love to see 'em someday!