#sorry for not adding too much and just iterating on your point i think youve just come up with something very solid on its own

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Going through the nohats tag and saw the “loops begins to look like a siffrin again” and bonnies reaction and man.

wouldnt that be poison to a siffrin? Loop fully believes and accepts that this isnt “their” versions of the family, that this family’s siffein is dead. They have started to open up to “Loop”, to accept them as they are now, even when they let down their mask, just a bit.

but they get too open, too honest, and all pf the sudden they have lost control pf their secret in the worse possible place thanks to the Universe, and what are they told?

that the family doesnt care who plays the “role” of siffrin. That as soon as they can look the part, they look at them with utter disgust until the Kid says “i missed you.” That no matter what, they arent “Loop”, because “Loop” is less important than “Siffrin”, and they wont care that you arent their siffrin, just that you can play that role.

no one would actually think that, and i dont think that would be something any loop or siffrin would say outside of an act 5, but it would definitely be a lingering thought at the back of that star’s head. Something they would have to push down every hug they get, every time they cuddle, and every smile they’re sent.

love the au, thanks for sharing!

yes !!!! 🎉🎉🎉 brilliant read anon hell yess ‼‼

I like this read a lot you're so right. If they do truly start to heal *by* partaking in the grieving of Capital-S Siffrin... Actually genuinely conceptualising themselves as seperate from them (even if this could too, in practice, be just as unhealthy as it is healthy). If they re-integrate into the party with a new role, smoothing over that maladaptive view that this party aren't "real people" with time and bonding...

Then to have it just, *reaffirmed* that they were replacable? That A Siffrin is still just A Siffrin. Doesn't matter what new things you built, you're going to be pushed back into that role even if you feel utterly alienated from it...

Absolutely yeah. Yeah this is a good take. It especially sucks to be coming from Bonnie here, I think. Since it would be grimly piercing even if the "polite", or hell, rational thing to do would be to recognise Loop as different. The emotional immaturity Bonnie necessarily has to run on as a kid can easily be seen as "more honest" or "more true", even if it might not actually be so. It's certainly something I think an extremely emotions driven character like Loop/Siffrin would buy into immediately and have gnaw at them. Even if the other members of the party recognise the issue (... if they recognise the issue) and try to combat it, well... Bonnie is kind of the main arbiter of truth in people's eyes on account of kids being cuttingly honest out of genuine innocence sometimes...

I suppose the question there is how willingly would they embrace this as an Emergency Out out of the situation, or would they be strong enough in new identity to push back...

Actually. Makes you wonder how much it could be a spur for the other idea of LoopLoops... Feels like a breakdown spurring from that would be a decent reason for them to desperately loop back to try and "right" this "wrong". hmm.