#was originally gonna just have siffrin and loop on it but then

[meamiki]

happy siffrin day / loop plush drop day / loop day!!! :D

[uwuinhell]

When your identity issues collide with your feelings of being unwanted ;p

Oops! Loops angst /personal vent!

Only doodle cuz. eepy.

[moonstandardtime]

i want to put link in isat. im sure hed do fine. the heros spirit endures

[pillowspace]

Hihi!! Could I have some ISAT fic recs? Hurt/comfort is my fav but anything good is good~ Thank you!

I've read 200 ISAT fics, I'm gonna really have to think on which ones to put

Okay, here's your recs from my 200 fic scroll in no particular order <3 There's so many fics I like that I didn't put here, but I had to be picky about it so I didn't just put down everything I had

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victim of your own creation by dysphoriahighschool

Siffrin has craved blood for as long as they can remember. After so many years of wandering, he's come to Vaugarde in hope of finding answers, just as the King's Curse begins freezing the country in time. He's quickly losing hope, but when they come across a small group determined to save Vaugarde from the King, Siffrin decides to join them. They can't get the answers they want if the country gets frozen in time, after all. They'd never traveled with other people before. Siffrin doesn't expect to grow attached to any of them, but as time goes on, the thought of leaving them hurts more and more. Worse yet, they refuse to even entertain the thought of one of them discovering what he is and what he's done. They just know that if they find out, they'll hate them.

Words: 192,175 | Chapters: 32/?

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Stagger on Backwards by entryn17

[Ha… Ah?]

The fist opens. Hand turns. Fingers twirl. Again. And Again. You watch with mounting horror as your hand moves on its own, the actions becoming more frantic, more jittery, your chest starts to heave, stomach muscles spasming.

(Loop–)

[Stardust–]

They’re in your body. They’re in your body.

⯍

Or, after experiencing hundreds of grueling loops, Siffrin suddenly wakes up 3 months before they even started, on a bed in an infirmary, bandages wrapped tightly around their newly missing eye. Loop is there with them, too.

Words: 15,213 | Chapters: 3/?

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UNCANNY ALL ALONG by entryn17

You can… you can still fix this. If you can just muster up enough want, you, both of you can come back from this.

“You can’t come back from anything! Hundreds of days spent in stasis, in your own personal handcrafted hell, an ice cold inferno – you think you’re the same person you were before you laid down on that meadow?”

✧

Or, trauma changes you, often in ways that leave you unrecognizable to even yourself. Now freshly out of the loops and rough around the edges, Siffrin with the help of their friends has to navigate not being the person they remember.

Words: 33,629 | Chapters: 8/?

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Even in my fantasy, I can't commit to believing by Loafabun

You’re not sure what to think of Loop.

So far, you’ve come to two rather obvious conclusions during your time around them.

1) They’re… a star.

2) You don’t think they like you that much.

Words: 18,275 | Chapters: 3/3

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Human After All by dunkalfredo

Isabeau, freshly recovered from burnout after rushing through graduate school, stumbles across an ad for a lab position at the research institute where his idol, Dr. Odile Yamamoto, conducts her work. Willing to risk another bout of burnout to potentially work with the Dr. Yamamoto, he applies for the position and gets the job. However, in the process of applying, it quickly becomes clear that something sinister is happening at this institute. He decides to go forward and accept the offer—only to find himself in way over his head in a conspiracy far bigger than himself.

(Or: Modern AU/Sci-fi. Isabeau goes back into the world of science after swearing it off only to end up in the Vaugarde equivalent of Area 51 and finds Siffrin, a shapeshifter of unknown origins, trapped deep underground in a padded cell. Unfortunately, he falls in love. Is their romance doomed? Could Siffrin ever escape? What is Siffrin, anyway? And, importantly—how does Odile factor into all of this?)

Words: 33,697 | Chapters: 3/8

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The Funeral of Siffrin No Last Name by Kamary (SERIES of fics about ghost Siffrin)

"Ha, like, cut your ashes in equal parts like a pizza?"

(In a timeline that can not and will not take place, Siffrin dies. Unlike other times, he stays dead. Sort of.)

Words: 18,969 | Works: 3

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Inutile by blueshine

Mirabelle doesn't know what to do. Not with her life, not with her faith, not with her own memory. Why does it feel like she's always forgetting something important?

Mirabelle is the Housemaiden. Isabeau is the Fighter. Odile is the Researcher. Bonnie is the Kid. And that's everyone!

It's raining in Dormont. If clouds cover the stars, are they still there?

Separate Sifloops-

Words: 173,378 | Chapters: 23/34

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What became of you? by goldviola (Note: this one can get dark. I'm including it because I like it, but only read it if you're in that kind of mood)

After the world returned to normal, and everyone was safe and together once again, Isabeau noticed Siffrin's state. He knows they endured far beyond what he could ever hope to understand.

So a vague, earnest wish, mostly symbolic, was made, folded into a star shaped leaf gifted by a little girl.

I wish I could truly understand Siffrin, and always be there to help and love him.

Isabeau had no way of knowing The Universe would listen.

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Or: Isabeau gets stuck in his own time loop, and does everything in his power to change it.

Words: 27,746 | Chapters: 1/1

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Of Stars and Longing by Raaj

Months after saving Vaugarde together, Isabeau spots Siffrin lingering outside the window of his clothing shop. Naturally, he's excited! The Universe granted his wish!

...It still feels a little bad he had to wish for it, though. And something seems off with Siffrin.

Words: 4,979 | Chapters: 2/2

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The love persists through it all. (The love persists through time.) by Pixxyofice

You are standing in front of a building. Nothing else is around- just a building. The building has a sign above a single door in big letters: TIME LOOP SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP. Hanging from that sign is a smaller sign reading Multidimensional!

... What the....

[...]

You let go of the door and look up as it clicks shut behind you.

You see

your family.

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siffrin meets up with versions of his family who have suffered like he did. is this a blessing or a curse?

Words: 12,015 | Chapters: 1/?

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Follow the stars back home by Loafabun (note: I haven't actually finished this fic, but I'd like to!)

There's an island north of Vaugarde. You were never able to remember its name. So why now? Why after all this time?

It's so close. You can see it now.

You want to go home.

Inspired by a post on Tumblr by @/auncyen!

Words: 77,781 | Chapters: 16/16

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Thank you, kind wizard. For making me a frog. by Spinning_Planet_of_Love

With Siffrin's timelooping journey at an end, he walks away with a LOT of new information and trauma to process. Moving forward is a difficult feat, even with his family by his side.

Mirabelle suggests that, perhaps, keeping a journal to organize these thoughts and communicate his feelings to the others may help, so he decides to give it a try.

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Contains spoilers for ALL content in ISAT, including achievements and quests dialogue, and eventually the epilogue too.

Words: 74,662 | Chapters: 18/?

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Bleeding in Monochrome by JustSalPals

You're the first one to notice.

(After the events of the game, red stayed in this world of black and white.)

Words: 3,061 | Chapters: 1/1

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And if I were not myself, would this be easier? by rabbit_soup

Siffrin and his party's journey to Bambouche, and how he needs to learn to deal with what happened to him during the loops. Between nightmares, regaining his humanity, and his new-found PTSD, Siffrin is sure he's being a burden to his family. They, however, think otherwise.

Hopefully they'll make it to Bambouche in one piece.

Or

Siffrin is traumatized and his friends love him a whole lot.

Words: 63,086 | Chapters: 13/?

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Natural Satellite by dirtbagtrashcat

After a hundred miserable loops, Siffrin makes a wish. Isabeau gets caught in the crossfire.

(…yes, it’s another Isa Loops AU. but hear me out! rock might beat scissors, but there’s no stone in the cosmos that can resist the gravitational pull of a star.)

Words: 55,043 | Chapters: 14/14

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Bloom by Level99Eevee

After breaking free of the loops, Siffrin is more than ready to move on and enjoy life again. They’re with their family—their friends—for another journey, one without the King’s Curse nipping at their heels, and everyone will be together for the foreseeable future. So Siffrin is fine. Great, even! The others don’t need to know that the aftermath of their experience in Dormont still hangs heavy as a noose around their neck.

They just need to get over it.

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Or: Siffrin has trauma, learning to open up is a process, and the others realize the loops left deeper scars than previously thought.

Words: 41,445 | Chapters: 7/7

To Cut You Open With a Knife and Find Your Sacred Heart by Hexea_Art

They didn't know how they remembered but they both knew that there are legends about these fae doppelgangers, that they wish for nothing more than to steal the heart of the person whose face they stole, for power, for acceptance, to trick more people, to lessen how uncanny they could be.

Either way, it's a death wish to be around someone who shares the same face.

So of course Siffrin and Loop decided to travel together.

(Aka an ISAT changeling AU)

Words: 73,358 | Chapters: 19/21

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raconte-moi qu’on puisse crier tout bas by bibliomaniac

After everything, Loop is struggling to find their place in the world. Siffrin is struggling to adjust to life outside the loops. Isabeau is struggling to balance his love for Siffrin with his need to keep them safe, alongside his own worries about Changing. Politely, things could be better!

But when Loop joins the party on their journey, things tilt even more drastically off course. They'll all need to reconcile their past with their present growing feelings and with the future they're beginning to want. Maybe they'll even do it, too.

It will just blinding suck along the way.

Words: 100,632 | Chapters: 17/?

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ghostlight by Kittenixie

ghostlight - a single lamp placed on stage to keep the theatre from being in total darkness after everyone’s gone.

After trying and failing to kill Siffrin to take his place, Loop tries to disappear. Siffrin makes them stay. They figure things out together.

Staying with Siffrin's party in Dormont's House of Change, Loop starts down the long, winding path towards recovery, carefully trying to navigate the complicated knot of trauma and grief that the loops have left behind.

Words: 86,075 | Chapters: 24/24

Sequel is back to one | Words: 71,525 | Chapters: 14/?

[basilpaste]

post-game loop!!

for... me, mostly, i think. do they look enough like themself? or even sif really? im not sure. but i like them well enough that im not too worried about it.

(design notes and an alt under the cut!)

okay. so. first off? they were originally gonna have a mouth. but i just... couldnt. i couldnt reckon with it. so they get no mouth. sorry, loop.

while they dont have a scar on their eye anymore, they have... something? there are 'freckles' that radiate out from their eye. unlike the rest of their person, these dark spots dont seem to radiate light.

the hat theyre wearing is sifs! this worlds sifs. siffrin doesnt need it anymore, after all. and theirs is... long gone.

speaking of the hat: its adorned with orchids. orchids are funeral flowers. they represent everlasting love and sympathy for the deceased. their friends no longer exist. they cannot, not in the way they once did. its a way to hold on to those people, but to let them go, too. the only way through is forward now, after all.

the core of their design was asymmetry. siffrin is actually very symmetrical as far as his design goes, so i wanted loop to throw all caution to the wind. a long white glove paired with a short black one, a cloak that drapes over one side, hair not sticking to an even length.

theyre actually wearing white tights. not that you can really tell unless you colour pick and see the very mild difference between their skin tone and the white of their clothes.

wears platform boots almost exclusively to be taller than sif. lmao.

[openphrase123]

i just finished this fic! it's good!

and because it's all done i want to like... be a LITTLE self indulgent and talk under the cut about some miscellaneous things that i ran into while writing it. don't click the readmore if you're interested in the fic and haven't read it yet i'm about to spoil the Whole thing.

also there is an epilogue to this fic now - go read that before this post if you're getting to this before the update!!

so!! i haven't written fanfiction in like FIVE YEARS. it's been a while! part of that is because i was doing original stuff and part of it was i was in a creative slump. so isat kind of dug me out of that and i owe it my thanks. i've been able to do a crazy amount of original work since starting this fic, it's brought back my creative discipline. in like seven years when my video game comes out you can thank isat for that probably

i originally set out thinking this was the only fic for isat i was going to write. and then as i was writing this i fell deeper into it. i kind of got out of isat a little disappointed in how it ended?? but now that i'm here i'm like ah it's fine. just cause i would have done something different in dev's position doesn't mean it's bad. it does mean i can write a bunch of fanfiction exploring things i wish had been tackled more in the game though LOL

i said this in one of the chapter authors notes but i DID start out curtain call hating loop with every fiber of my being. (as in i liked them as a character UNTIL the act 6 reveal which i thought was lame) and then i played through the game a second time knowing the loop twist and went "oh nvm this makes sense" so a lot of the loop stuff in this fic was actually written twice. originally i was just gonna have them soulmerge with siffrin and not be present at all but then i was like. no. i do want to keep this lighthearted and that's too depressing of an end for loop. i do have a loop postcanon doc so i'll go repay them for their slapdashed involvement in curtain call someday

i'm in a weird position with curtain call in that i wrote the themes and major conflicts Directly After playing through isat the first time. before i could really marinate and analyze the characters fully. so there are a lot of scenes and points where i think i wouldn't characterize certain people like that if i were to rewrite this from scratch? however i don't disagree with what i've written either - it's just an interpretation that i don't necessarily think is my favorite anymore.

neither is any of the worldbuilding i did for any of this - it works for curtain call and i think it was nice but i don't necessarily think it's my current interpretation of what the culture and people were like? i like the wishes being permanent thing, i like the language stuff, but i'd probably go in a different direction if i went through this again

i do actually still think "the forgotten island was destroyed by a volcano" is my solid headcanon explanation of what happened to it. in my heart. i think like - with siffrin as a character especially it's very important that he's always missing something, that it's not idyllically happy for them at the end of everything. so even if he can remember more from their own past, it's - you know - there's no way to go back. only forward.

in the vein of this i probably could have killed siffrin/loop's entire childhood family but i did not. mostly because i did think it was fun for him to have to explain all of those cultural taboos they broke to survive. which, of course, was not a big deal - any good parent would rather their kid be alive than lawful - but what is isat other than a vehicle to make siffrin work through every moral compulsion and spiral they experience

i had a thought halfway through writing the fic that i was stepping on the very good and beautiful odile friendquest by making the island real and having a lot of siffrin's personality dictate how it went. but i ultimately decided on keeping siffrin very close to their country, more than odile is to vaugarde, because siffrin actually DID live on the island when he was a kid and that i think is a Different type of "longing for your country" trauma than odile's. i think they can still drink over the feelings together though

writing bonnie is very fun but very emotional for me. the bonnie&siffrin age gap (preteen to late-20s) is the exact age gap between me and my niece so every time i need to sit down and write something for them i think about her and how much she's a little baby growing up. this has nothing to do with bonnie it just makes writing bonnie really hard for me

if the entire history of my ao3 account was not an indicator, i'm a very big fan of writing romance, but i did not want it to take over curtain call at all. i also could have left out sloopis entirely and almost did, but thought "you know. with the way loop functions in this fic. i should at least let that be open ended" cause sharing a body with a version of you who is dating some other guy is gonna get messy no matter what. it's just not necessarily something i had time to or the urge to explore here. think of it as a fun spiritual nod to the fact that isafrin is technically open ended in isat (<- cop out answer)

i think i'm pretty vocal in how much i am absolutely insane for the flashback "happiest i can remember being" conversation. who let them do that. i think a lot of how i worked with mirabelle and siffrin's relationship in this fic kind of revolved around that. important to me that it ends with mira checking in on him and getting the answer she was looking for all along <3

overall i'm happy with curtain call. glad i am done with it though. there's so much that's running in with it at once. i'll probably wait a month and reread the whole thing to myself front to back before i start having fond memories of this. i mean it's always gonna be the fic my nephew was born during and i'll always remember having a panic attack in the airport right after posting chapter 7 but it's gonna be weird letting this one sail off into the ocean of the internet. however feel free to ask anything about the fic, i wrote this in a lil hurry on a bad day and probably didn't cover everything

goodbye, curtain call!! i love you!!!!! i'll miss you!!!!

[looks both ways, waiting for most people to leave]

also. if you've read this far. i hope it's not too gauche of me to link my personal project. if you've read over 100k words of this you might enjoy the game i'm developing? i've been working on it for almost a year but i just started the devlog last month. it's still in early baby stages as far as a full video game goes but if you liked this you'll like the game when it comes out (similar nickname culture, timeloop trauma, petty interpersonal drama, very stupid jokes, natural disaster angst)

also there isn't a lot on the devblog yet, i've mostly been doing programming on it, i JUST started visdev i'm sorry if it's uglyyyyy (FOR NOW)

anyway i'm trusting you with that link. i'm going to use my professional name on that project when it airs don't cross the wires pretty please just pretend that's a butch-y cis woman's game <3 guard the closet door babeyyyyy

[storyboard-sketch]

So out of curiosity is Loop also a monster in the Monster AU? Like are they also a vampire like Siffrin or are they just them?

Well...originally no. I wasn't gonna have Loop being a Monster since Loop is canonically from another world. That and the fact that what they are now is clearly NON human. It seemed....counter productive. That being said...

......What about AFTER they return to a... "human" form? I have some ideas.

[iknowicanbutwhy]

by the time one of these sifs FINALLY manages to break the loops these guys are gonna be so exhausted they won't even have the energy to be mad. maybe they'll just form a suicide pact and kill themselves together instead of beating sif up about it idk

Au contraire they start a fighting arena amongst themselves except all of them have been sitting around for so long they're all really bad at it. And when they realize this - having hung around each other for so long they've formed SOME kind of connection - they all collectively decide to chase Sif around Dormont and then it's a game of Manhunt.

...Okay but if i were to take this seriously, it was already really sad to see just one Loop disappear, but a whole lot of them? Suddenly this silly gaggle (nebula? constellation? murder) of stars that kept you company because they wouldn't shut up sometimes and were all too quiet other times disappears entirely? Leaving you all alone to brave the new future?

I love Loop so much because they didn't just feel like another, worse Siffrin. They felt like their own person, worthy of their own happy..ish ever after! It was so, so sad seeing them disappear. The thing about this silly AU is that all the Loops end up feeling like one singular entity in different bodies. And they'll probably stay like that, from the point of view I'm drawing. Because it's a funny AU and I'm drawing it for the funnies.

But to each other, they... Well? They actually feel the same way. Like copies. Like failed copies. Like the same person. Like it's easy to mistake each other and difficult to differentiate each other, even from themselves. Makes it easier to be mean to each other. I'm telling you, even the original Loop isn't entirely sure anymore if they're the original, and it hurts them the most. Pretending to be different people is a massive relief to all of them, because now they feel like individuals (even if they still feel like worse versions of another person). Little Loop is lucky to have always had a physically distinguishing figure, it really changes their perspective and everyone else's perspective on them.

So it's really easy to think they'd just kill each other, these other failed copies, or have gotten so used to the feeling of being "the failed ones" that they simply give up, but you know what I think? I think that, once you take an outside look at yourself and start treating yourself as a fellow human, you can be surprisingly empathetic. Towards yourself, I know! And they have the chance to start doing that.

When I write a story, it's like I'm letting little pieces of myself interact in ways that I can remain both distant from and very connected to. I feel like, when the Loops start playing these characters (these people, but they're ignoring that) they love, being silly and disconnecting from their own grief for a bit, they can have fun together. Like writing a story and smiling to yourself. Like laughing at your own thoughts.

I think maybe they'd get to have a talk, eventually. About how they want this story to end. About how they hope it's not already the end for them, that the worlds or timelines or whatever they came from aren't dead and gone.

Maybe... maybe they'd be really scared. But they wouldn't be "Loop who failed and Siffrin who succeeded," divided firmly by that line. Isolated by that line. I don't know what they would be? But it might feel less. lonely. to know that this Siffrin could just as easily been one of them. And was, many times. The physical evidence is right there, fading away one by one. And for the ones that remain for now, wouldn't you hope they're going home?

[isatswap]

i realised that i havent made an explanation post for the au so

Introduction

The basic premise is swapping main characters with eachother:

Siffrin < - > Loop

Mirabelle < - > Isabeau

Odile < - > Bonnie

(spoilers for the game begin under the cut. All the spoilers are of various severity so ill just say full game and act 6 secret)

The King < - > Euphrasie

The characters stories and motivations are also changed

Loop: Their story is very close to the original Siffrin, except for one thing - they are a star person! One of a kind (at least as far as Loop knows)! This fact is very distressing for them, so they chose to hide their identity from everyone. No one needs to know they are not human, teehee~.

Mirabelle: A Housemaiden of the Dormont House of Change. Well, at least formally. She went on a long pilgrimage after realising that she doesn't want to change and can't live as a true Housemaiden anymore. Also is much less anxious than her original counterpart.

Isabeau: Like in the original, wanted to finally change into a person he always wanted to be, but alas, his journey of Change was interrupted by Euphrasie's conquest of Vaugarde and had to be replaced with the journey of a savior. Because of this, he is much more shy and anxious than his original counterpart.

Odile: Not very long after her mother abandoned her, Odile's father died. Being unable to deal with her grief of losing both of her parents, she went on an everlasting journey, wandering through Vaugarde, trying to find a place she could call home. And all that as a young teenager. Also carries around a comically large book, I wonder what that is about....

Bonnie: A crabbing adult now! And a chef cooker! Had to abandon their home during the Curse, leaving their younger sister Nille behind. As the adult™ of the group, feels like they need to be very responsible and caring for their comrades, but also tries to be jovial about the situation, because who else would it be if not Bonnie!

Siffrin: Imagine having your family, your world, your story be stolen from you. What does that mean? I dunno, read the posts and you might see :). Is almost constantly livid at Loop, though tries to not show it much.

The King and Euphrasie: The King (now just called King because its his name) is the Head Housemaiden and Euphrasie now wants to freeze the country in time. Thats all im gonna tell here. For now at least.

Navigation

Links to all the posts, in chronological order if possible

Not in-game stuff

S!Loop's design thing

Prologue

Be careful what you wish for

Act 2

Funny titbit

Act 2 ends here

Act 3

That one sadness again... (Memory of Sadnesses)

Lil Siffrin POV

Odile's friend quest!

Bonnie's friend quest!

Isabeau's friend quest!

Mirabelle's friend quest!

Adults are stupid, you know.

Siffrin hangout

Scary Lady's "friend" quest.

Hehe just try to say it!

Lil Siffrin POV 2

Seeing things.

Sharp objects involved

Bound by the laws of the world

Act 3 ends here

Act 4

Bonnie is in fact perceptive (sus quest)

Bad touch but no one touched anyone

On the other side

Act 4 ends here

The Time Between (Act 4 asks)

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Act 5

The Universe leads.

Eavesdropping on your "friends"

It's the bathroom

Loop dies...

Loop doesn't die

And this too shall pass.

Act 6

When the hats are two!

Something wrong. (0 hats)

[year2000electronics]

what were your thoughts on isat, if you’d like to talk about it? it’s one of my favorite timeloop games so i love hearing others talk about it :)

AH YES lemme copy and paste some of my thoughts from discord

that was quite good i liked it! definitely up there with undertale and oneshot as a Real Good Meta Game. i think i *just* miss the target audience who really REALLY enjoyed it (i have a couple friends who loved it too) where the types of characters siffrin and the gang are just remind me of ocs that maybe some friends of mine would have but not me. but i say that very fondly.

likes:

- combat system! both simple and engaging

- art/character design! like i said, they feel more like ocs of a friend than true blorbos but i loved the aesthetics of the sadnesses. my favourite character design is odile!

- looping game mechanics! everything that was purposely designed to be tedious felt tedious in the exact “oh god i’m stuck in a time loop” way. i enjoyed how all the things you needed to get were scattered through different bits of time so eventually, every last bit of new stuff was squeezed away from me. it was neat. i remember doing odile’s companion quest too early and my heart sank as i realized i would have to do it *again* at some point. the act 5 stuff especially was neat because i saw my own mid-grinding thoughts being reflected in siffrin’s own dialogue and monologue towards our “friends” (who were exp-losing obstacles at that point!)

dislikes/neutral:

- this is my only real actual *game design* gripe, but i felt like some of the puzzles in act 3-early act 4 were a bit obtuse. a lot of them required talking to loop at a specific moment, or warping back and forth between the king. but the issue is that loop’s required text is often still greyed out! and also, they give you a “call loop for convenience” button but you can’t use it for the IMPORTANT conversations? idk. it was a little frustrating.

- some of the games dialogue/moments didn’t land for me quite as impactfully as i know it would for some others (namely just some stuff about the group dynamic, the way they interact, how they deal with the de-escalation at the end) but again like i said i think that’s just another side effect of the game catering to a niche of people that i’m very close with, sometimes even belonging to, but i’m also a “little to the left” of. i thought siffrin’s family was sweet, even if i’m not exactly like “i would die for them” so i think it does its job well despite siffrin the character clearly caring for these people way more than i do

- i was originally a bit confused and miffed that there were SO many unanswered questions about siffrin and the king’s country, about colours, about LOOP, and when act 6 ended i was like “wait hold on. WAIT COME BACK I HAVE QUESTIONS.” evidently, some of my friends let me know you do get answers WRT loop if you do secret stuff, so i know about Them now, and as i sit with the game more i do understand that it’s very much a “does it really matter what happened?” thing. but i want to know :( (also i thought the twist was gonna be that the king was another version of siffrin. uh oops that one was my bad.)

overall though it was very fun. i liked the story!

[dropespeon]

the thing about making an isat orv au. is that like obviously siffrin as yjh is the obvious choice. they're both stuck in the time loop and have to learn to ignore the urge to redo things when something goes wrong. siffrin can't remember his past, and yjh didn't exist before the scenarios; their lives both kind of just. started at a certain point. they will both put themselves through the same horrid events over and over again just for the people they care about, just for one chance to meet them again (yjh) or stay with them (siffrin). secretive plotter and loop are Right There

the problem with making an isat orv au is that literally no one else is emotionally stunted enough to be kdj. no one other than siffrin has the right brand of mental illness. they would not do the shit kdj does. like... i can see!! parts of it working!! mirabelle canonically finds catharsis in fiction and her imposter syndrome would be devastating if her favorite messed up novel came to life. isabeau struggles with believing that, were he to show the parts of himself that he's hidden away, people wouldn't love him. etc etc. but they would not pull the shit kdj does. and i can't see any of them Needing the wos equivalent if that makes sense. they could live without it. siffrin could probably make do but like they had Nothing pre meeting the party. i am now going to explain in excruciating detail the (very loose) roles i gave to everyone in my own orv au

some small context first: this au takes place in the in stars and time setting. everything that happened in isat up to the island disappearing is exactly the same, with the only change being that certain characters were well. characters in a novel. it's more of an orv fusion than a proper au. also it really really doesn't follow the plot of orv that loyally. what does happen in it? well you see [i am carried away by government agents]

- siffrin: kim dokja. a good while after waking up on the shore ala canon, some things (not elaborating) happen and siffrin reads a novel about a housemaiden of change stuck in a time loop at the end of the world. they grow deeply attached to this novel, reading it again and again (re-experiencing the same things over and over again!! i sure hope that doesn't become relevant!!). and then that novel comes to life. and siffrin is the only one who knows the ending to this story.

i chose siffrin for this role because well. man where do i even start. the guilt, the self hatred, the dependence they have on their family vs kdj's on wos, their inability to accept that they could not be loved if people knew what they were really like. the martyr complex. but where does loop come into this? well you see [i am carried away by governme]

(orv fans can definitely guess who loop is but. well. let's just say things happen pretty differently)

- mirabelle: yoo joonghyuk. put that fella through the horrors!! mira is the protagonist of the novel siffrin loves. she was a normal housemaiden of change until uhh. the world ended, and she was forced to repeat the same events over and over again. it uh. fucks up her relationship with change a whole lot. what if, no matter how many things you changed, it didn't matter, because it would all just get reset anyways. what if you changed. what if you didn't want to.

mirabelle was!! actually the main reason i made this au? i find her relationship with the change belief deeply interesting and i just really wanted to delve into that in a very mean way. yjh's story contains a lot of themes of determinism and what it means to be a Protagonist, and i feel like mirabelle's does too. they're both really interesting explorations of tropes. and they're both just guys!

- isabeau: han sooyoung. i will not elaborate.

isabeau... yes i know this is a weird choice. odile would be the obvious choice for hsy and i was originally gonna go with her but i thought about it a lot and. i feel like isabeau's character has a lot to explore in the ways of Being Seen and Understood and him being a writer is an interesting angle to explore that from. i do not think he could doom the world for one person in the way hsy did. what is his motive? well [i am carried away b] i have a lot of other reasons i chose him but they would be pretty huge spoilers for my Evil Plans. also this is at least partially because i wanted an isamirasif qpr and also because i had other ideas for odile

everyone else does not directly take the role of orv characters (because this is not intended to be a 1 to 1 story and i like playing with my touys) buttt. i can still give a rundown on who they are:

- odile: I'd most closely compare her to a combination of yoo sangah and jung heewon. she understands siffrin better than anyone. her story is pretty similar to canon, just that she was also a fictional character. she will do horrible things to protect her family!

- bonnie: closest to lee gilyoung. little kid who is achingly similar to the protagonist. little kid who is so dependent on the protagonist but also gets hurt by their acts of sacrifice more than anyone. still figuring out if them and nille are novel characters or not

- claude: yeah she's here also. i needed more novel characters and i like her!! still figuring out the specifics but she was one of the main characters of the WOS equivalent

- euphrasie: heh. well lets just say. namgung minyoung

- nille: see bonnie. joins the party a lot later than everyone else

- the king: heh. well lets just sa[i am carried awa]

- change god: [i am carrie]

- loop: [i am c]

[starkittnd93]

Hello hello, welcome! :D

You can call me Star! (she/he) I draw a lot of fanart here, as well as some occasional short animations! Doodle requests are also welcome! (But I can't guarantee I'll be able to get to every single one--)

The fandoms I usually draw for are:

Octopath Traveler

Octopath Traveler 2

In Stars And Time

yeah it's mostly octopath 2 here lmao

Ships I like to draw are:

Temehika - Temenos/Hikari

Partikari - Partitio/Hikari

Castthroné - Castti/Throné

Hikaritsu Divorce - Ritsu/Hikari…. but they’re divorced-

Alfion - Alfyn/Therion

Isafrin - Isabeau/Siffrin

(Uhh this section is gonna update as I draw more lol)

And here are my art tags!

Starkitt Draws - Art tag

Starkitt Doodles - Doodle tag, along with some short funny skits

Starkitt Animates - Animation tag! :D

Work In Progress! - WIPs for longer projects, if you’re curious c:

misc:

That Looping Hikari AU

Playing p5

Starkitt Does Something Else - (for anything I create that isn’t a drawing/animation)

Finally, @starkittdraws is my more organized art account! That's where I'll reblog just my finished art and animations, along with some non-fandom original art!

I don't do commissions yet, but that IS a thing that I'm working on setting up! (I'll open them up eventually… am trying my best :,D)

(Also sorry if I don’t immediately answer an ask- It’s probably not you, I just do not always have the spoons to respond :’D)

[blu-screen]

3. Are there any particular aus or plots that you’d really like to write?

((oops! missed this one originally.

Welp, it's a bit of an open secret I'd love to write my error!sans more but there's that whole little difficulty of him destroying other folks timelines and ya know... I'm not here to wreck peoples fun so.

Same problem with my oc Anarchy actually, very murder, much oh gosh I don't actually want to end someones character. >_<

Then there's startime which.. I have my own AU i want to work on but it's super spoilers. Post game/secret ending type spoilers. Also grim because I'm awful, obviously. :)

SO YEAH. I'm planning on writing a Loop who actually went through with it, killed Siffrin and took over in their place. They'll even get their own form back to make it easier, isn't that great?

Obviously this is.. Gonna lead to some suss as hell shenanigans and the only reason I waited was wanting to establish another, 'good' siff and loop to give people a bit of context. Both so muses can spot whats wrong and just.. To generally drive the point home.

That's coming. I have tentative plans to fanfic/drabble out the actual Initiating Event but that'll. Ya know. Major character death and blah blah so we'll see.

Hi remember how I made a post-geno run true pacifist survivor sans back in the day? Yeah. I didn't stop being an absolute bastard in the meantime. ^_^ ))

[astralspen]

My in real time thoughts on ACT 5 to the end! Obviously, spoilers ahead

What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what th

OH MY GOD NO SIFFRIN STOP IT STOP STOP STOP STOP ITTTT STOP PLEASE STOP SIFFRIN

NO NO NO NO NO THEY FUCKING LEFT ALREADY DIDNT THEY THEYRE GONE THEY LEFT OH MY GOD THEY HATE US NOW WAIT THEY FIDNT LEAVE OH MY GOD THATS SO MUCH FUCKING WORSE OH MY GOD IT IS SO MUCH WORSE

OH MY GOD WE LEFT ON OUR OWN SIFFRIN NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO SIFFRIN OH MY GOD

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE ROOMS OH MY GOD WHAT DO YOU MEAN MEMORY OF EMPTINESS OH MY GOD NO ATTACK COOL DOWN THIS IS THE ONLY TIME IVE BEEN UPSET AT THAT

I DONT LIKE THE MUSIC ITS ALL DISTORTED AND TRAGIC AND OMMINOUS

OH MY GOD THE GHOST IS BACK AND ITS REVERSED OH MY GOD WE JUST FUCKING BROKE THE COUNTER OH MY GOD SIFFRINS SPRITE MF THE GHOST AGAIN

THE MUSIC KEEPS SWITCHING FROM DISTORTED AND TERRIFYING TO SO SAD AND TRAGIC LIKE ITS MARKING THE END

OH GOD ITS LIKE ITS MARKING THE END

WHY ARE THE HALLS SO WEIRD

OH MY GOD SIFFRINS JUST STRAIGHT SLICING THROUGH IT THEN MOVING ON

OH MY GOD NOT THE HALLUCINATION OF THE OTHERS WHAT THE FUCK TAT

BRO WOULD THE CHANGE GOD EVEN GIVE ME THE KEYKNIFE ATP WTF OR IS SIFFRIN JUST FUCKING STRONG ENOUGH TO NOT GIVE A SHIT

WHYS THE HALLWAY LOOPING WHATS WRONG WITH THESE ROOMS

MF YOU AGAIN

OH MY GOD THE ROOMS WHAT THE FUCK

WHATS THE DEAL WITH FRUITS AM I BEING STUPID OR AM I SUPPOSED TO NOT GET IT WHY- OH SHIT IS IT BECAUSE BONNIE WOULD BE EATING AN APPLE IN HERE OR AM I STILL CRAZY

WHY ARE THERE MORE TEARS

WHY IS THE ROOM MIXING TAKING ME STRAIGHT TO EVERY ROOM I NEED

IK I SAID I DIDNT LIKE THE MUSIC BUT CAN I HAVE IT BACK NOW

THAT WAS SO CRUELLLLL YOU GAVE ME FAMILY JUST TO RIP FAMILY AWAY

AND I SAW RED AGAIN IS SOMETHING BREAKING IS IT OUR MIND I THINK ITS OUR MIND

HEY STOP LOOPING LET ME CONTINUE

OH COME LET ME ONE HIT THE GIANT HANDS FFS

WHY DO I KEEP GETTING THE LOOPING CUE AS THE SCREEN GLITCHES OUT IM NOT LOOPING

CAN THE GLORIFIED BOMB LEAVE ME ALONE OMG

AY STOP IT LET ME CONTINUE

STOP ITTTTTTTT

NO SIFFRIN WE NEED TO SLEEP AGAIN LET ME LOOP BACK SO WE CAN FIX IT PLEASE

WDYM THEYRE REFLECTED IN IT

AND WDYM ACTORS SIFFRIN NO

PLEASE STOP MAKING ME RE-LIVE THIS IT HURTS OMG

WHY IS THE ORIGINAL PICTURE THERE

WHY WAS THAT THE EXACT SAME AS WHEN WE FIRST GOT THERE

THE GHOST IS BACK CAN I FUCKING TALK TO THE GHOST IT KNOWS MORE THAN I FUCKING DO IF IT POPS UP EVERYWHERE

Huh I can escape fights I didn't know that or wait that might just be an act 5 thing

WHAT THE FUCK MIRABELLE

LET ME LEAVE MIRABELLES ROOM STOP MAKING ME THINK ABOUT IT

OH MY GOD POOR SIFFRIN

AY LET ME CALL LOOP

OH MY GOD SIFFRINNNNN MY BABY

STOPPPPPPPPPP

NOW I FEEL BAD WANTING TO LOOP BACK WTF

FINE FULLY ADOPTING SIFFRIN PHILOSOPHY JUST KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND ITLL ALL BE OVER EVENTUALLY

CHANGE GOD IF YOURE WATCHING ME DONT YOU FUCKING SAY SHIT ALRIGHT IMMA GET THE KEYKNIFE AND CONTINUE ON MY WAY

OH MY GOD WHY ARE THE KINGS THINGYS OR WAIT THATS HAIR ISNT IT WHY IS THE KINGS HAIR COVERING THE WALLS NOW AND WHY ARE KEY SPOTS BLOCKED BY LIKE 3 ROWS OF TEARS TF

ODILE WHAT

PLEASE SIFFRIN I JUST WANT YOU TO CHILL AND BREATH FOR A SEC

WHY WAS THERE AN ARMY OF INVERTED GHOST MES

OH THANK YOU I WAS ABOUT TO BE SO PISSED IF YOU TRIED KEEPING IT AWAY FROM ME

YOU KNOW ATP YOU GO FOR IT SIFFRIN IM TIRED OF THESE THINGS

SHIT DID THEY ACTUALLY GO AHEAD HOW ARE THEY AHEAD THEY CANF ACTUALLY BE AHEAD RIGHT

CAN I HAVE THE MUSIC BACK

JUST FIGHT ME ASS WIPE

OH MY GOD THIS IS GONNA TAKE FOREVER AT THIS RATE

OH SCISSORS DOES SAME DMG FOR ALL FINE THEM IMMA SPAM SCISSORS

BRO SIFFRINS FACE BARELY CHANGES WHEN LOW HO NOW

OH MY GOD SIFFRIN THAT FUCKING HURT

YOU KNOW WHAT AT LEAST BEATING YOUR ASS IS A GOOD WAY TO VENT MY ANGER DAMNIT

OH GOD IT WENT RED FROM THE KING YELLING

WHAT

OH GOD ITS CAUSE IM FIGHTIBG KN MY OWN

OH GOD SIFFRIN QAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT

DID

WHAT

WHERE AM I

DUDE WHAT THE FUCK

ITS THE GHOST

WHY ARE WEVFIGGHTING

WHATD

AH

MAL DU PAYS WHAT

HOKDD TRANSLATION BEFORE CONTINUING

OH GOD IM SHAKING

HUH HOMESICKNESS?

IS THAT ACTUALLY WHAT IT MEANS OR IS GOOGLE TRANSLATE FUCKING WITH MD

WDYM IMMUNE

I HIT ROCK YOU LOOK LIKE ME SO YOU SHOULDVE BEEN WEAK RIGHT

WHAT

BRO AT LEASY SAY SOMETHING

MX. MAL DU PAYS SAY SOMETHING PLEASE

DONT LEAVE MR TO JUST ATTACK

STOP STARING AND SAY SOMETHING

what....

What..

Bonnie...

Bonnie please...

NO STOP IT NOW

NOT ODILE

oh god...

Oh...

Oh shit...

Ohhhhhhh...

Oh god

Oh god not even human anymore

Oh my god

Oh please let it be fake

Please please

Let it be fake

Let Mal Du Pays stop talking

WHY ARE YOU CRYING

WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU CRYING

YOU THROQ THAT SHIT AT ME AND YOU CRY

NO NOT ISABEAU

NOT HIM

Oh...

Oh god...

Oh no no no no

No no no no no no no no no

Please stop

Oh hod stop stop stop stop don't do this to Mr no no no

Oh shit shit no isabeau no no no no no stop stop stop

Why are you yelling

Why throw all that at me and start yelling like you're in pain

I'm want our of this so bad holy shit let me out dude

NO STOP OPENING YOUR MOUTH STOP UT

NOT MIRA

Oh

Oh

Oh god

Mira

No

Mirabelle

OH GOD ITS ALL RED

This scene is hopeful but idk why but I don't feel very hopeful at all...

Huh

HUH

HOW IS THE KING BEING FROZEN

He remembers now

I'm glad at least someone does

He gets to be frozen remembering home

Ok this is making me feel a bit better

NEVERMIND NOT HOPEFUL

IS THAT OUR FAULT

STOP

MAL DU PAYS

ITS STILL BEHIND US

WHY IS IT FOLLOWING

LEAVE ME ALONE

HUH

OH GOD WHAT DO I PRESS

DINE YES

IM SCARED HELP ME

I feel like a feeble old woman this is disgusting

They don't wanna hear the sorry

That's fair

STOP STOP STOP NOT AGAIN PLEASE NOT AGAINNO NO NO NON OXNO WAIT STOP

NO NO NO NO

SIFFRIN

OH GOD THEYRE BIG LIKE THE KING WAX

DINT MAKE ME FIGHT THEM

DONT MAKE ME FIGHT THEM

PLEASE

NO I WONT ATTACK

I REFUSE

MIRABELLE DONT HEAL ME PLEASE

LET ME DO IT MYSELF

NO I DONT WANT TO HURT THEM

WHAT DID LOOP TELL YOU

STOP

IM NOT HURTING YOU SO STOP PLEASE MIRA

Oh

They know

No I don't want the to know

I loope

DONT STOP ME PLEAS

ODILE LET ME GO BACK

I WONT ATTACK THEM

I DONT CARE IF ODILE IS STOPPING ME FROM LOOPING BACK WHEN THATS ALL I WANT TO DO

I WONT ATTACK THEM

SGOP HEALING ME

STOP HEALING ME SO I CAN DIE AND LOOP BACK OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD THAT

IM GONNA CRY

PLEASE LET IT BE THE END

I THINK THERES ANOTHER ACT OR SOMETHING STILL BUT LET IT BE THE END

Hey my hat

My hat

Where hat

Oh don't make me fucking talk to you after them

I'm getting flashbacks lady oh my god

Also I want my hat back

I GOT HEADPATS FROM ODILE

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

BONBON HUGGIESSSSSSSS

LH THANK FUCK

THAT WAS SO CUTE

MY HEART IS FULL

God I love this game

Hi so in stars and time is effectively altering my brain chemistry and like, entire life.

Here I thought this was gonna just be a chill time of me discovering a new game I'd enjoy

[darlingkisses01]

some cool ideas going on over here! i'll think i'll put my ramblings and feedback under a cut cus i get the feeling this is gonna be long (massive spoilers for the entireties of both isat and ii ahead for anyone else reading this thread. lol)

so one thing i wanna focus on in building upon my ideas is how to fit isat's plot into the premise of mephone having gotten into the fantasy genre instead of reality shows and subconsciously generating this whole fantasy world upon the island when he escaped from meeple. i REALLY wanna make this work cus "mephone gets into something other than reality shows and ii becomes something completely different" is a concept that has a lot of AU potential and i like it

i wasn't sure if i was even gonna include the change belief in this AU???? but you bring up putting mephone or the shimmers into this role and it's got me thinking. i'll sit on this some more

you bring up cobs as the king, and that's something that i've been considering, but i've also been considering mephone as the king, specifically in the context of him getting worse instead of better and clinging onto his escapism. in order to have something similar to the forgotten country, i've been considering a scenario where there was this whole story played out by the original season 1 cast from start to finish, but cobs was frustrated with the quality of this first version of "the show" and forcibly corrupts the data of everything related to the first season and factory resets the season 1 cast via melife.

with something like this, the technicalities of how the loops would even be occurring would be related to melife, and so anyone who isn't connected to melife would be unaffected by the loops. i think the favor tree wish affecting melife would work somewhat similarly to the "melife neural network" and taco/knife body swap episode concepts. the major problem i have with this setup is how the hell the party can beat cobs or mephone within separate loops. another problem is how the shimmers factor into all of this. i'll also have to sit on this some more.

ok now to character assignments. in my version of the AU taco takes siffrin's role this is something i will not budge on. i am hyperfixating on both of these characters and they are very similar characters in many ways. this is my reasoning. but i do like the idea of microphone taking siffrin's place, and i can already see some similarities in their characters and arcs, with feeling out of place within their respective teams and insecurities stemming from that. with taco as siffrin, i imagine she learns about everyone having been artificially generated and season 1 having been wiped and despairs over not having had much of a life before the journey and not being able to remember the life she did have in season 1. but then she learns a little about her having Done Some Shit in season 1 (learning this from cobs or mephone is likely) and then she's like y'know what. Y'know what. maybe it's better this way maybe it's better that i've been given this second, third, forty-seventh, umpteenth chance. "another chance, perhaps?" i know what you are. i can very easily see her having that similar struggle to siffrin of being torn between wanting to leave the loop (it gets dull and repetitive and boring and nothing can grow or change at all and i can't even catch a break) and wanting to stay in the loop (my friends are here with me. even if i mess up, i can just reset. i like knowing what happens next. i like having another chance. and i can always remember.) also the theatre motif that siffrin always uses also fits taco a lot I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i haven't considered the other characters all that much but i've briefly thought of suitcase as mirabelle, microphone as isabeau, test tube or cabby as odile, and lightbulb as bonnie. i wanted the party to mainly consist of contestants who didn't debut in season 1 just so that taco feels more isolated in her despair of not being able to remember it. lol. lmao

suitcase feels like the obvious choice for mirabelle, with her strong belief in others changing for the better, refusing to leave anyone behind, such and such. i did also consider marshmallow as mirabelle just cus i find it funny how marsh is known as the "sweet one" but is actually rather cynical, but i don't think this has as much of a solid foundation as suitcase as mirabelle.

mic as isabeau just felt automatic as a result of Tacomic Moment, but also i feel that mic's whole arc of not feeling confident in her own voice and over time coming to find and listen to herself has some parallel with isabeau trying to become the person that he feels that he needs to be. something something. maybe there's someone who may fit this role better but idk

test tube or cabby as odile "the researcher" lol lmao. i think this one speaks for itself. may have to come back to this later to form more detailed thoughts but you already know what's up

lightbulb as bonnie because she makes a wicked good cookie pizza and i can very easily see her also having insecurity of not being able to provide much for the team and others "having" to get hurt for her sake. she's very clumsy and shatters herself easily so i can see the rest of the party delegating her to Snack Duty or whatever else that would not require her to be on the front lines lest she get hurt. i don't see anyone in ii as a child, not even bot (i see the popular fan interpretation is to see them as like 13 years old, but i think they're a young adult at least) so i think a bonnie role assignment would work better on the basis of "who probably shouldn't be directly in combat" and "who would function a lot better traveling in a group than traveling alone" and such and such.

i didn't even think about euphrasie but yeah i think candle works as euphrasie

loop........... is a difficult one. i don't know how feasible it would be to work in "another version of taco" or any of the contestants into the setup i've got with melife, but if i do, i think this alternate version of taco (which i'll nickname "hardshell") would probably fall back on her season 1 persona while still being pretty sassy and rude with taco, kind of like how taco was in the taco show lololol. i've also considered mepad as loop, with mepad acting much nicer with taco than loop does with siffrin. or maybe mephone takes loop's place <- just thought of this now. if cobs is the king then mephone as loop would be interesting.......... another idea that i'll have to sit on. if bow still dies in season 1 then bow as loop is also a contender.

ok that's all the thoughts i have so far. yippee. this took a whole hour to write holy shit

thinking about isat x ii au. i wanna put taco in the time loop so bad

i probably won't elaborate on this much, this is just a thought exercise i have rattling around in my head for funsies cus i think taco and siffrin are very similar characters in some ways and i'd like to build on that idea. it is very funny to try and think of ways to adapt ii characters to isat roles + see if i can tie in melife to this whole thing as well