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if anyone wants to draw or write for the Sif is Out AU, you have my full permission.
It's really cool to see people's interpretations of the crumbs I shared <3
#brought to you by me re checking the fanarts/ 'i can help' scene and kicking my feet#don't let my introverted silence discourage you I eat up people's hype#i love when people are insane about the au I LIVE FOR IT PLEASE TAG ME IF YOU CREATE FOR IT#siffrin? more like sif is out au
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you'll see them again !
too many thoughts and things done with Intent to fully explain myself . partially bc this was supposed to be much much longer, but i think i would like to play more in the space of post-game loop.
#finallyw finished the game . i'm dunking them into the primordial soup ^.^#before i forget#isat spoilers#isat act 6 spoilers#anyways . i created a very specific analogy of how the universe and the big bang Works when i was 8 and i will never shut up about it#whatever space our universe inhabits Was like a completely still lake and the big bang was something disturbing the surface.#our universe expands and will eventually run out of energy like a ripple on that lake#regardless of how their world Actually works . i think that something like that would be a popular belief in sif's country#vague idea rolling around . loop fades or is like . Somewhere Between. siffrin's unintentional rituals keep them around#something triggers them to properly exist again (i promise there are themes here) and they wash up on the shore of vauguarde#they are especially malleable for a little bit . kind of going through craft metamorphosis . they are given a place to stay for a while#there is more but these tags are already ridiculously long . someone talk to me abt them before i go nuts#frogart#m
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Been a fan of your fics for YEARS. I was just telling my friend how despite how much I read fics I never actually love them, with some of your fics (especially TMA) as the exception. Felt the need to reread some of them and saw you reblogged some ISAT fanart. So. Any thoughts on ISAT you'd like to share?
Hope you have a wonderful day!! So happy I found your fics again!!
I avoided answering this for a while because I was trying to think of a way to cohesively and coherently vocalize my thoughts on In Stars and Time. I have given up because I don't want to hold everybody here all day and I have accepted that my thoughts are just pterodactyl screeching.
I love it so much. I have so much to say on it. It drove me bonkers for like a week straight. I have AUs. It's absolute Megbait. They're just a little Snufkin and they're having the worst experience of anybody's life. Ludonarratives my fucking beloved.
I am going to talk about the prologue.
The prologue is such a fascinating experience. You crack open the game and immediately begin checking off all of the little genre boxes: mage, warrior, researcher, you're the rogue...some little kid who's there for some reason...alright, you know the score. You're in yet another indie Earthbound RPG, these are your generic characters, let's get the ball rolling.
Except then you realize that these characters are people. You feel instantly how you've entered the game at its last dungeon, at the end of the adventure. They have their own in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They get along well and they're obviously close, but not in a twee or unrealistic way. They have so much chemistry and spirit and life. I fell in love with them so quickly.
But Sif doesn't. Sif kind of hates them, because they will not stop saying the same damn thing. They walk the same paths, do the same things, make the same jokes, expect Sif to say the same lines. They keep referencing a Sif we do not see, with jokes we never see him make and heroic personality he never shows - they reference a Sif who is dead - and Sif can't handle that, so he kills them too.
They become only an exercise in tedious frustration. Sif button mashes through their dialogue, Sif mindlessly clicks the same dialogue options, Sif skips through the tutorial, Sif blows through the puzzles. Sif turns their world into a video game. Sif is playing a generic RPG. Sif forgets their names. They are no longer people with in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They're the mage, the warrior, the researcher, and...some random kid.
I did not understand the Kid's presence at first. I had no idea what they contributed to the game. They didn't do anything. As a party member in a video game, they're a bit useless. Why is the Kid there?
Because Sif's life isn't a video game. Because the kid isn't 'the kid'. They're Bonnie. Bonnie, who the party loves. Why is Bonnie there? Because they love them. There is no room for Bonnie in the boring RPG that Sif is playing. And then you realize that Sif is wrong, and that they've lost something extremely important, and that they'll never escape without it.
Watching the prologue before watching ISAT gave ISAT the most unique air of dread and horror, because you crack open ISAT and you see the person Sif used to be. You realize that Sif used to be a person. Sif used to be the person who made jokes, who gave real smiles, who interacted with the world as if they are a part of it. And you know you are sitting down to watch Sif lose everything that made them a person, to lose everything that made them a member of this world, and turn them into a character in a video game who doesn't understand the point of Bonnie at all.
At the climax of the game, when the others realize that something is deeply wrong and that Sif physically cannot tell them, they realize that there is nothing they can do. So Bonnie declares snacktime. And for the first time they have snacktime.
What is snacktime? Classic JRPGs don't have snacktime. There's literally no point to a snacktime - not in a video game, and not in Sif's terrible life. It's not fixing this, because nothing can fix this. But Bonnie gives Sif a cookie and Sif eats it.
It's meaningless. It's a cutscene. It didn't save Sif and it didn't change a thing. It will make no difference in the end.
But it did make the difference. It made all of the difference in the world. Bonnie is a character who you really don't understand the point of before you realize that Bonnie was the entire point.
ISAT is about comfort media. Why do we play the same video games over and over again? Why do we avoid watching the finale of our favorite shows? What is truly comforting: a story with no conflict, or a story where you always know what is about to happen? Do you want to live in a scary, uncontrollable world, or do you want to play Stardew Valley? Do you want a person or a character?
When I beat Earthbound for the first time (and if you don't know, the prologue/ISAT battle system is just Mother) and watched the ending cutscene where the characters part ways and say goodbye...I felt a little bit sad. I wanted them to be together forever. But that's something only characters could ever be.
#these aren't deep or unique thoughts they're just the specific aspect of ISAT that made it one of the most interesting gaming experiences#i actually like the prologue much more than ISAT for just this reason#its honestly a video game art piece that's created to give the player a very specific experience#that makes them an aspect of the narrative that is told#it's. incredible.#in stars and time#start again start again start again#start again: a prologue#isat#god and there is so so so so much more to say here#what a rich and complex and fascinating game that made me cry like a baby#i dont even kin sif. we arent similar at all.#i cant imagine how devastating this game would have been if i did#but I do have a deep relationship with escapsim#and i write about it a lot#and video games about being video games are wonderful#as are stories about being stories#and why we consume stories. how we use them. how they save us and hurt us.#never played a video game that used its medium so well#i bet undertales also pretty good at that but this is more so i think#stories about stories have to be about why we love stories#and im not an artsy person and i roll my eyes a bit when people talk about the spiritual neccesity of art#i think people need stories because the world is sad and hard and boring and we want to think about something else for a while.#some people need to be anywhere but here#and sometimes if you're Lil Depressed-Ass Snufkin that looks like being here forever#baby cringe-ass snufkin big hat idiot
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Somewhere out there...
Concept art for an animatic idea I had a couple days ago. It focuses on Siffrin when they were younger right after their country disappeared. Now alone and unable to remember much of their life, they look up at the stars as they wonder and hope there's someone out there who loves them, even if they can't remember them
#the animatic wouldn't have much plot itd mostly be siffrin singing to himself#but thered be a part where it goes forward in time and shows the events of the game and how sif does get that family he's longed for :')#in stars and time#in stars and time spoilers#isat#isat spoilers#isat siffrin#siffrin isat#iirc the creator said in a q&a that siffrin was a teen when their country disappeared#so thats the age theyre meant to be here#im not promising a time for when/if im creating this animatic i just like the idea and wanted to draw smth for it#also im not great with perspective i struggled a lot with this lol#siren art
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Fanart ^_^ for @ryebread-x
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Thinking abt Sif Odile duo looping au again and I wanna be able to plot everything out more coherently but act 5 eternally looms overhead and boy I do not wanna look up
#rat rambles#stars posting#like I have a vague idea of some of the like themes I imagine being present late game but it doesnt change the fact that act 5 isnt very#duo looper au friendly especially in this case with most of the ideas I have#I rly want it to be both a breaking point for them as individuals and a breaking point for their relationship but idk how to go about that#fully taking the rest of the party into account especially since Im not even sure if I wanna give odile her own friendquests#like I Could but I also think it'd be fun for many reasons to not#and even if I Did itd be hard to justify having both be able to happen and go wrong in one loop#and theres not rly a good solution to that I think so my best bet is probably to just leave odile friendquestless#but Id rly like to still have odile quarrel with the rest of the party in a significant way#idk maybe it can be the scene where sif comes back to the lighthouse or smth?#like he comes back and odile just completely lashes out at him or smth and the others get rly upset with her#but then theres also the whole walk through the house that I have to figure out and Im also not set on how that should go#maybe it can be like reality almost splitting as they both try to use timecraft at the same time?#not sure how Id go about portraying that in story though since the rest of the party cant rly experience that I think#Im sure theres some way you could pull that off tho Im just too tired to have any good ideas atm#and then the biggest bastard comes in. mal moments.#like I cant just put them both there! that's not how that works!#and I dont wanna just leave them mostly vanilla thats boringgggg#but Id probably have to. alas.#afterwards is also a bit fuzzy but I have rhe general idea down#me and the bestie when we both made the same wish but dont know that and have both been falling into a spiral over it#(we dont even realize that the part of the wish that was the exact same was the core of the wish)#(we both just thought that we accidentally trapped the other with us in this hell)#(we also have been actively getting worse at communicating for months now so by the time the wishcraft stuff came up we were both deep in#the no feelings talky talk zone)#(we probably should have known smth was up when everyone started consistently thinking that we had a fight every loop)#(maybe we did but we just didnt want to admit they were right)#god I wish I was more confident with writing odile dialogue I wanna draw scenes from this au so bad#it doesnt help that I got too comfortable being into a media that had like 3 fans and now ppl might actually look at what I create
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you may think my niche is narrow but people on the internet arguing about the wars of the roses and who had a better "claim" to things is very much like similar arguments in the marvel cinemataticalish universe fandom and those films are extremely popular so who's sad and obscure now eh?
#the author shouldn't have to disclaim that they don't support the fiction they write but a bit of me does want to disclaim monarchies#because internet discourse does not make me feel confident that we are all on the same âthis is nonsensical bullshitâ page#felt cute might defend sif & her 3 warriors against angry fandom charges of treason later#also the idea that usurping thor is okay because he'd suck at the job seems reasonable until you wonder why there's only one other option#anyway back to writing fic about monarchies with succession crises and overly complicated plans to either create or resolve them
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I mean, "by giving birth she has already killed him", hasn't every mother? Does every mother not doom her child to die by giving birth to them? Tell me what child is not doomed from the start? Tell me what child has been born that will not one day die? What child will not suffer?
Of course Mary knew her love couldn't save him. Every mother that has ever lived has known that. Every book has a final page, but that doesn't mean it wasn't worth reading. The fact that all life ends in death doesn't mean that life isn't worth living.
Every child ever born was born to die. That doesn't mean their birth isn't worth celebrating, that it is not a moment of joy and love. People need not be eternal to be of value.
why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?
#sif speaks#sif reblogs#religion#christianity#listen im a firm atheist but the reality of our temporariness does not bring meaninglessness#meaning is found where you create it#and it lasts as long as you make it
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As the flash hits your eye, you feel something crashing into you from all directions. Below you is obvious, Bonbon situated themself to bump into you while the picture was taken. You look to your right, and Mirabelleâs cheek is pressed up to yours. On your left, Isabeauâs sheepishly hugged you to his side. Thereâs a hand in your hair, too, and it feels like Madame Odile. [...] âWe need a souvenir of this trip,â Mirabelle adds. She rushes to the ground to pick up the picture and snort-laughs as she looks at it. âOh no, Siffrin looks like weâre holding him hostage!â â Curtain Call, Chapter 9, by @openphrase123 (Link in the replies)
2024 October 22nd
Fanfic fanart fanfic fanart!! When I read the "hostage" line, it invoked such a clear image in my head of Siffrin tensed up like a startled prey animal that it got added to my list of things to maybe draw immediately.
Dooon't think about the words 'left' and 'right' in that quote too hard. I know how to read I prommy. :) (I did Not process those words and lost the coin flip in the composition phase...)
Close-up and ramblings about the cans of worms I unleashed upon myself under the cut
Time taken on this was [head in hands] 48 hours and 37 minutes.... That bloated number has two culprits:
1) I got a new tablet! My old one was 10 years old. Its plastic was melting and the electronics had ghosts in 'em, so it needed the sweet release of retirement. However, I had just gotten to the line art phase when the switch happened. Clumsily getting used to the new one during the most precise phase of the process did devastating things to my perfectionism.
2) I made a GRAVE mistake with how I chose to color this. I wanted to keep the grayscale layers for accuracy instead of just slapping a B&W filter over the colored version, so all the colors come from gradient maps, color balance layers, overlay layers, and raster layers clipped to other layers. Listen. I'm used to working with lots of layers. I like keeping things separate so I can edit them more easily. But this is the worst layer system I have ever created. Going from color to B&W requires toggling exactly 20 layers & folders on or off. There are 87 visible layers total. This file lags when you edit it. I've never wanted CSP v1.13 to have layer comps more in my life.
Not helping matters was Isabeau. I said he was the easiest to draw in my last post, but he took that as a challenge, apparently. It's a simple fist-on-hip pose, why was that so hard!?! His face gave me grief too.
Odile's lil' wave got added at the end of the line art phase. I've never added to a sketch that late in the game before, but I felt bad about how little screen area she got, haha. Girl, I tried, but this composition was not kind to you.
Giving Isa, Odile, and Siffrin skin colors felt cursed. Well... "color" is maybe a stretch for Sif. The pallor from being affection-jumpscared isn't helping. In the dev's nose reveal post, they said that Siffrin isn't white but is white-passing, so BOOM albinism headcanon. Like c'mon, they wear a big hat and have most of their skin covered because the sun is a deadly laser when you have little to no melanin and idk if sunblock exists in-universe. Heck, maybe most Islanders have it, their whole religion is about the night sky so maybe they're nocturnal. This makes perfect sense. :)
#in stars and time#in stars and time spoilers#isat#isat siffrin#isat isabeau#isat odile#isat bonnie#isat mirabelle#fan art#2d art
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* Despite everything....it's still you
Few days late (work....it never ends..) but happy birthday in stars and time!! I finished the game right in time for the anniversary so I had to dedicate my first fanart to it. I remember when I first booted up the game I made a video of me watching the opening scene and I added the Undertale track "Memory" to it. I didn't even know it was an inspiration for the game the music just felt...fitting. Then siffrin responded to the friendship doodle by going "it's you!". The idea just sprung. That statement just kept spinning in my head the entire time I played the game. So it's only fitting that an indie game that changed the trajectory of my life completely just like that Undertale to get this sort of fanart yk?
Textless versions and some more ramblings provided under the cut!!
Kinda proud of how loop-frin and bigfrin turned out...and the expression of maul du pays and "say its name" siffring turned out (may or may not like drawing terrified expressions- new discovery!). I wanted to add more (if I upload the tinelasp you can see there were some other sif sketches that never got lined) and i wanted to include the fam in act6 picture but....time. Oh well, I just needed to express my love for this game *somehow*. Siffrin and everyone else mean the world to me and just....honestly not enough words. Just, thank you @insertdisc5 for creating this wonderful game. I wish you and everyone else good luck on whatever lies ahead on our journey <3
#ouugh so many words#outside the tags too! Dont usually ramble this much on my art posts#but!! this game deserves it#I have so much more to say but oughggh#thank you yet again adriene#anyways tags#rosiedraws#in stars and time#in stars and time spoilers#isat#isat fanart#isat spoilers#isat siffrin#siffrin#siffrin isat#isat loop#??? techinically??? I guess???#which means i should also add#2hats spoilers#OKAY OFF I GOT I HAVE BEEN IGNORING MY MIDTERMS STUDIES FOR TOO LOONG BYE#mal du pays
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Just wanted to start by saying I absolutely adore your au! Exploring the issues siffrin has even without the time loop from an outside perspective is really interesting :D
Sorry if this has been asked before but, is it okay to draw what I think things from isat will look like in this au? (Specifically asking for the mirror photos but ig this can be applied elsewhere).
Thank you! I'm happy you like the au!
And yeeeees, you can draw scenes inspired by it! :D please tag me if you do so I can see it
#the mirror would be so fun almost everyone is READY for the picture#seeing people create for the au make me so happy#siffrin? more like sif is out au
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Memory of Liar
Another fic for @mari-lair âs Siffrin? More like Sifâs Out AU based on this memory exclusive to it. This one got a lil long, as I think yâall can see. Also I enjoy writing Odile. Apologies for any formatting opposed, I wrote this on my computer but had to upload on my phone.
No major CWâs beyond just âOdile questioning Siffrinâs mental health.â Enjoy!
It hadnât been too long since that one loop. That loop where they found out just how good Siffrin was at pretending to be fine. How convenient that not long after, Odile got a skill to deal with it. Memory of Liar. It allowed her to know when Siffrin was lying (albeit not by omission, but still). Ideally, it would be a niche skill at best, one to keep on for a loop or two and forget that she had-
âHey Odile!â
Siffrin began his usual greetings. Seems Mirabelle reminded him about the clocktower âsleepoverâ this time. She must be feeling nostalgic; theyâd all planned to meet up at the clocktower afterwards anyways, so there was no need to send Siffrin on a quest to go talk to them all, but given how low he got, how useless he felt, it made sense for her to give him a task. Would it be too cynical to say Mirabelle was establishing a baseline? Perhaps.
âSo, what will you do after?â Siffrin asked her.
After. Gems, at this rate such a thing felt laughable, but she bit her tongue well enough. What had she planned to do after this? So much time had been spent on loops and the breaking of them that leaving Dormont was starting to feel like more of an impossibility than beating the King ever had been.
âIâll probably go back to Ka Bue,â she said. It seemed like the next most logical step. She had a home there, after all. Besides, it might be nice to get far, far away from Dormont.
âAnd wrap up your research?â
âResearch?â Oh, right. Her fake research.
âYour research into cultures-ology?â
Had he said that last time? When was the last time Mirabelle called for a sleepover? Gems, she didnât like this.
âCultures-ology isnât a field of research, Siffrin.â
âBut it is the field of research you spent your life trying to createâŠâ
âNo,â she said bluntly. He looked a little put off by that, so she changed the topic the most natural way she could. âWhat about you? What will you do after we beat the king?â If they ever get to leave Dormont, that is.
âCome up with my own field of research.â
⊠huh?
Something about what he said there, it sat oddly in her gut. It felt⊠wrong. But how could-
Right. Memory of Liar. He was lying. Of course he was, why wouldnât he be? She knew from the start that was likely a joke, and a joke could count as a lie, she supposed. Maybe this ability wasnât particularly discerning. Sheâd have to test that too, wouldnât she? Would it activate at anything that wasnât true? Or would it only activate if Siffrin was actively trying to deceive?
As Siffrin walked out again, only then did it occur to her⊠what did the rogue intend to do when he got out? Well, a question for the others, she supposed.
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They were back at Dormont. It wasnât of much use, asking the others. Bonnie and Mirabelle couldnât remember off the top of their heads, but apparently Siffrin had told Isabeau they intended to start a comedy club⊠That sounded considerably more likely than them going into research, but she was still inclined to double check. It was nothing wasting a whole loop over, but theyâd agreed that next time they looped back to Dormont, Mirabelle would tell Siffrin about the clocktower, and Isabeau and Odile would âswitch places,â so to speak. She needed to be the one to hear him, so she had to come last.
As Siffrin got up sleepily, almost tauntingly laid back, he greeted Mirabelle saying the nap was a solid 9 out of ten⊠The thought that their rogue was rubbing in their lack of exhaustion was illogical, something she knew all too well, but maybe she wasnât in a particularly giving mood as she squatted in the bushes against the protest of her knee. A few more pleasantries were shared andâŠ
âWhere will you go after?â
âOh! You know⊠maybe a pilgrimage? I-I suppose this all kiiiiiinda already counted as a pilgrimage, but, um⊠does it?â Does it if she only half remembers some of it, so much time taken over by these last few days? Or was Odile projecting here?
It didnât matter.
âWhat about you though Siffrin. What will you do after?â Mirabelle asked.
Odile watched him like a hawk as he had his little smile, looking up to the sky, and, âGo on a pilgrimage too, maybe.â
âOh! Thatâd be lovely,â Mirabelle said.
If only it were true.
Odile waited for them to get to the storeâthe store she often started at but currently housed Isabeauâforcing herself up and stumbling like a drunk from the woods, knee seizing up all the way. Mirabelle rushed over, using a bit of healing craft on her.
âAre you okay?â
âFine, Iâm fineâŠâ Odile said, though sighed in relief at the healing craft easing the pain.
â⊠so?â Mirabelle said.
âHe was lying. He has no intention to go on a pilgrimage.â
Mirabelle sighed but nodded. Neither of them were surprised, really?
âCan you even go on a pilgrimage if all you do is travel anyways? Whatâs even the difference?â Odile muttered to herself. âAh, no use now. I have to catch up before Isabeau runs out of ways to stall.â Thankfully it was a short walk. The door was open, she simply had to linger near it.
âWhat will you do after?â Siffrin asked Isabeau.
Seems she was right on time.
âEh, Iâll probably just go back to Jouvente. Not sure about rejoining the Defenders, not after they left Mira, but maybe Iâll try some clothing design?â
âOh? I didnât know you were interested in that. That sounds great, Isa!â
âHeh, thanks Sif. But what about you? What will you do when we beat the King?â
Assuming Isabeau did a good enough job of recapping what he said before, presumably Siffrinâs answer would be the sameâŠ
âStart a comedy club!â
⊠that one wasnât true either? Sheâd honestly thought it might be, or at least that it was fifty fifty, but no. Almost a shame, it fit all too well. Then again, it meant more people were spared his punsâŠ
She tuned out the rest in favor of trying to get a head start on making it to the East side of town. Siffrin tended to dawdle when left to his own devices, but still would be nice to find a way to listen in that wouldnât be physically painful this timeâŠ
Oh right. Thereâs a building here, right near Bonnie. Sheâd basically gone blind to it, considering it no more than any other house: pointless. Though she did know the open phrase, well, the only thing of value was the âLong Thingy Thingâ (as Bonnie put it), and they didnât really need to go through the trouble of crafting a bomb at this point. That said, she did know the open phrase, so she could probably get inside, and she could hear Bonnie, but could she hear Siffrin? Then again, once Siffrin was near Bonnie, she could sneak closer.
And so she did. It went off almost disappointingly easily. Gems alive, what she wouldnât give for something to go awry in a way that would let her dig her teeth into something again. But no, no. This was more efficient. (Everything was efficiency these days, thatâs how Siffrin got so bad).
She crept closer as the two talked. Siffrin was needling Bonnie, and Bonnie was rising to the bait. Was it genuine irritation and stress, or just their mimicry of it? She wasnât sure, maybe both. Not too long in, the question came up.
âWell what about you, Frin? What are you gonna do?â
âIâll go to space.â
⊠she didnât even need the Memory equipped to know that that was a bald-faced lie, but she supposed that confirmation was nice? Well this one was a waste of time. Best to try to slip out towards the favor tree and play her own part.
Four different answers, none of them true. Why would he hide what he intended to do after? Maybe earlier in their adventure together she wouldâve assumed that it was for nefarious purposes, but if he was an assassin on the behalf of the King or anything like that, heâd probably have done something to stop them on at least one of the occasions that they killed him. Whatever happened with Euphraise usually seemed centered on him, but he always looked shocked, so it was unlikely he expected it any more than the rest of them had the first time.
So if not foul play, then why? Some charitable part of her mind wanted to say his plans were just embarrassing, butâŠ
As theyâd recently learned the hard way, their little rogue wasnât nearly as fine as he seemed. All it took was one day of them taking the lead a bit too much for him to consider himself a useless idiot. He rarely spoke of home. Never spoke of loved ones, at least not for more than a few sentences. Heâd taken losing his eye almost too well. She wouldnât say that he was at risk of becoming a Sadness or doing something willingly stupid, but the more she thought on it, the more things painted a picture she didnât like the look of, but couldnât afford to look away from either.
If she didnât know better, she could mistake him for a ghost. A spirit. Maybe even some Expression. Nothing but a being floating through to help. But sheâd seen him eat, seen his blood splatter on the floor, heard his gasps and screams at hard hits. Sheâd seen him lose an eye. Ghosts didnât do that. He was flesh and blood yet missing so much he seemed almost insubstantial. Was he aware of this one some level? And what could do that to a person? Gems alive, she knew he had bad memory, but maybe she shouldâve been delving deeper into it. Why hadnât she? It wasnât like her to see something so strange, to see someone start stories over and over that never reach an end, to see him speak of things and lose his train of thought halfway through, and she justâŠ
Never questioned this?
Gems alive, her head was pounding along with the beat of her heart, but she screwed her eyes shut and blocked the world out, determined to follow this rabbit hole down. Something was wrong here, and maybe if she could puzzle out what, if she could find the missing piece, she could somehow make him whole again and, expressions willing, maybe thatâd be the key to fixing this whole mess. Maybe itâd set them free. She just had to figure out why-
âHey, Odile, are you okay?â
She jolted, whipping her head around to see, âGems, Siffrin. You startled meâŠâ
âSorry,â he said. âThinking on your wish?â
âHah, no, I already made that,â she said. A stupid wish to win a coin flip that came to nothing in the end. And unimportant. She had to figure out⊠figure outâŠ
Had to figure out what Siffrin intended to do with his life, right? Yes, thatâs what sheâd been doing.
âI was just⊠trying to figure out what to do afterwards,â she said. Maybe it was manipulative, but if she pretended she needed suggestions, maybe heâd offer something more tangible?
âHmm? You donât already know? I figured youâd wrap up your research.â
No, thatâs right. He already had that idea in mind, didnât he? She let out a bitter chuckle. âIâll let you in on a secret. There is no research, Siffrin. It was just a convenient lie to explain why Iâm here.â
He looked at her with a hard to read expression. âBut⊠huh???â
They were off balance. Good. Maybe itâd trick him into saying something real.
âYes, yes, sorry to give the game away, but I guess I realized that if I donât admit it now, I might never. And I wouldnât want to actually beat the King and then have to figure out what next. Plus I figure if I have a plan for after, if I have a goal, I might be more driven to reach it. Whatever helps, yes? So, any ideas?â
He was looking at her like sheâd grown a second head, clearly thrown off. âYou could⊠actually start researching something? Or, um⊠arenât you writing a book?â
âMy journal? Thatâs just personal notes. Itâd be nonsense to anyone else.â
âOh.â
She waited but, no, they werenât offering anything up, were they. Sheâd have to take the offensive.
âWhat about you, Siffrin? What do you plan to do after?â
âOh, uhâŠâ he looked around and shrugged. âI havenât really given it much thought.â
⊠not a lie. InterestingâŠ
âOh? Why not? I mean, youâre not even from Vaugaurde, you must have joined for some reason, right?â She could list theories, but thatâd likely give him an out. She was wise to his game. At least half his answers, maybe more, were just mimicking what the other person intended to do. Otherwise itâs just what theyâd most likely want to hear, save for perhaps telling Bonnie theyâd go to space. An interesting outlier, that one. It seemed innocuous, but maybe it was important?
No, focus now. Theorize later.
Siffrin squirmed a little and finally chuckled awkwardly, offering an awkward shrug. âI didnât really have anything better to doâŠâ
And gems alive, he was not lying.
âI⊠see.â
Maybe she should let him go, but she needed to know one more thing firstâŠ
âAnd after we all go our own ways, youâll be alright, right?â
âI guess Iâll go back to how I was before.â
Not a lie, but not an answer either. âAnd were you happy before?â
âOf course!â
She needed to talk to the others about this.
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I prefer tea, but buy me a Kofi?
#siffrin? more like sif is out au#isat fanfic#isat spoilers#isat au#ISAT Odile#odile pov#memory of liar#in stars and time#isat#fanfic#mine#writing#isat siffrin#teehee
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iâm not even sure if i can recover my sif account but thereâs no harm trying, the only problem is that iâll be digging through the depths of my spam priv which is uh... 5k posts. and i probably donât have super accurate info because itâs been at least 5 years so maybe theyâll deny my rq rip.
#mel ćșèŻæ¶ć»#like girl how should i know how many times i changed my ign and what they were???#it's been more than 10 years since i created it though i don't have the exact date#heard the play store has it? idk#rip us who got rid of the game before sif id
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âthe eternal wanderer. even death cannot release it from its plight.â
tribeless
1 power - 1 health - 7 bones
unkillable - when a card bearing this sigil perishes, a copy of it is created in your hand.
corpse eater - if a creature that you own perishes by combat, a card bearing this sigil in your hand is automatically played in its place.
brittle - after attacking, a card bearing this sigil perishes.
hidden trait - cursebearer
this card cannot be sacrificed at the sigil stones event.
finally posting my isatscryption stuff here!!! yipee!!! hereâs a writeup about the card design because frankly i put wayy too much thought into all of these cards. sorry if these are a bit hard to parse!
unkillable and corpse eater effectively make sif immortal, since every time he dies, heâll be placed back on the board! and i thought that was fitting for. yâknow. timeloop reasons. brittle is only there to emphasize the whole constantly dying thing. because is it really isat without siffrin torment
also didnât notice this until after i designed this card, but the brittle sigil art has a star on it??? not intentional in the slightest but it is Fitting
sif is a fox here! i know that that would technically put them in the canine tribe, but i felt itâd be more fitting for them to be tribeless? and base game inscryption already kinda bends the rules when it comes to tribes (such as the bullfrog being a reptile and the rabbit being treated internally as a rodent) so i think it still works
iâm well aware that card traits donât actually have cool names or anything but i still want to give them cool names because itâs fun. anyways! cursebearer! i gave them this trait both because these sigils are extremely overpowered, and for lore reasons. sif sees their sigils as a curse! they donât want to force them on anyone else!! itâs their burden to bear!!!
tangentially related to that last point, but sif is a talking card in this au! because itâs fun :3. and because i think itâd be really interesting to see how heâd react to the cabin
sifâs scar is covered by the hat a bit but itâs Star Shaped. and so is the eye shine teehee
this was the first card i made and Boy Does It Show. i had the WORST time trying to get the card generators to work for this because oops! both of the card generators are inaccurate in different ways! plus theres a few mistakes in the card art that i didnât notice until after i finished most of the others... i promise the others are a little more polished
also, since i didnât mention it above the cut, the sigil patch is for the bone king sigil! which makes the card award 4 bones instead of 1 upon death. this is less for lore reasons and more for the synergy with his sigils. since heâs constantly dying and coming back, he can basically give you infinite bones for Zero Cost. fun!
aaand i think thatâs all the notes for this card! thanks for reading this absurdly long post. hereâs his alt card art without the patch for your troubles đ«Ą
#marshdoodles#isat#in stars and time#inscryption#isatscryption#in stars and scrybes#<- fancy name yipee! iâm still going to primarily call it isatscryption but isas is easier to abbreviate#also! for anyone who doesnât know me from the isat discord#this au is basically just tossing the isat characters into leshyâs cabin#itâs spiralled completely out of my control but thatâs the basic premise#this au is also built on like. a weird fusion of act 1 and kayceeâs mod#hence the brittle sigil. kayceeâs mod but with story progression#ahhhhh sorry this post is so LONG but i have a lot of thoughts about this au!!!!#so uh. hope yall enjoy it!!! yipee!!!
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