#(except for siffrin lol)

[tracingstardust]

it's artbook day i can finally post my favorite image

[artilite]

i keep forgetting to post when i draw OOPS so here's a doodle dump !!!!

[quartzeikek]

THIS FANFIC BY @ohmaerieme IS SOO GOOD I HAD TO DRAW IT !!!

[tealgoat]

A lil swap for funsies! Eon design by @the-bitter-ocean !!

[pirate-captain-froggy]

redraw of my insta pfp which is a redraw of that one sprite!! feat: colors :] (only a little lol)

august 2024 vs february 2024

[remxedmoon]

i’ve officially finished all of siffrin’s battle portraits!!! 39 of them. you don’t need that many bright baby

[beneathsilverstars]

my therapist is so concerned for me jdhdjf im such a special boy

[alimicart]

I found this hilarious so I OBVIOUSLY had to draw MOST of it. Turns out my reference screenshot did not get the bottom half so pretend that in the last panel she is saying “I’m going back to bed now”. :|

ISAT post-canon concept:

The party slowly regains memories of all the loops while they sleep, bit by bit.

This of course results in a lot of nightmares, a lot of guilt and horror. Intense feelings talks, re-opened wounds and painful recovery. But it also results in mornings where Siffrin is startled awake because Odile is just staring at him from the doorway,

Odile: you're allergic to pineapples.

Siffrin, who absolutely knows That Tone and That Look: y... yeah?

Odile: I can understand the first one. You looked genuinely surprised before choking to death.

Odile: but twelve times?

Odile: it wasn't even quick! suffocating is one of the worst ways to go and takes the longest, why would you DO that?!

Siffrin: ... ilkdthtst

Odile: ... what was that?

Siffrin: ᴵ ˡᶦᵏᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵗᵃˢᵗᵉ

Odile:

Siffrin:

Odile:

Odile: I'm going back to bed now

[post-pacific]

Designs for a modern band au! Wishcraft still exists in this universe, but not any other craft. I plan on developing this moreee also "band au" is just a working title lol. Kinda based on that comic I made except the opposite where Siffrin knows how to play but not how they learned? we'll see where it goes

[starvingnarcissistmusic]

thinking about mal du pays again. you’d think literally writing a whole ass song about it would be enough to cleanse my brain of this creature but no. not even close. still thinking about em. winner of the worlds worst coping mechanism award.

most readings of a post canon mdp are kind of like a moody siffrin-repression detector, which is cool and pretty fun, but my favorite part of mdp in the game was how deeply dreadful its entire encounter was.

i keep imagining a post canon au where mdp follows the gang to bambouche. with siffrin incapacitated by the events of the game, the party slowly realizes something’s following them, but are unable to do anything as it slowly encroaches upon them.

bonnie wakes up in the middle of the night, with a shadow of siffrin motionless at the foot of their bed. it speaks in their voice and tells them that they hate siffrin for letting them die. they don’t know what it’s talking about, but a deep pit opens in their stomach when it speaks. they don’t sleep at all that night, watching the thing standing motionless at their bed, scared it’ll move when they take their eyes off of it.

mirabelle keeps seeing it out there, spiral eyes staring back at her from the woods. until one night she awakes and finds it’s broken into her tent. it keeps grabbing her wrist, driving her hand into its cheek, crying “i can’t wait to never see you again.” in her voice.

isabeau wakes up one night to find it’s crawled into bed with him. and yet, even as it curls up against him, it keeps telling him (or maybe itself?) that he only loves it because it made it love him. he doesn’t really know what to do except try to hold still, and let it spin its wheels until it leaves in the morning.

odile i think would probably be the least affected by mdp. i think the mystery of it would trigger her researcher brain and override most of the horror. i can imagine she’d even go out at night on purpose just to find it. and hey, it finds her! once she gets over the weird voice mimicking thing, she finds it’s pretty docile… at least for now. although, strangely it keeps trying to get her to grab at its collar. the one time she obliged, it went limp like a cat held by the scruff of its neck.

obviously the party is concerned. despite the thing following them being… harmless, mostly, they still can’t shake the feeling that it could be dangerous. when siffrin finally recovers enough to be lucid, they’re terrified that their homesickness has quite literally followed them back onto the road, and even more so that now it’s interacting with their *family* and freaking everyone out. if he even remotely sees it, he panics and passes out.

and like. the whole party knows it’s a sadness, but they’ve literally never seen sadnesses act the way mdp does. and while siffrin is out and unable to explain, it’s up to the party to try and figure out just what the thing following them even wants, if anything at all.

(also had a fun idea that until odile does some research with it, the party doesn’t know what its name is, and so each member has their own little nickname. bonnie calls it the nightmare, mirabelle calls it the shadow, isa calls it the mirror, and odile calls it the specimen because researcher brain)

i have more Thoughts (tm) about this, but for now that’s all I’ll share for the sake of the people who follow me for music wondering why I’m infodumping about a video game lol. Uhhhh listen to my single about it and that’s about it bye

[artilite]

PARTY ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT 🔥

Loop x Porty MK, idea courtesy of isatcord!

[fulminage]

Spinfrin

spinfrin

[snickeringdragon]

MOTHFRIN !!!!!

one of my many aus made on a whim except this one got expanded upon further than i was expecting it to be. ramblings + some other doodles under cut

hi <3 so! islanders are mothfolk. theyre like actual moth sized theyre itty bitty.

(doodle provided as example)

sif meets the party and believes that if he cant keep up with them hes not going to be loved. if theyre not "useful." so they push themself wayy harder than they should to keep up with all his human friends. he mostly attacks via craft skills to keep up damage wise, and flies around to keep up with them speed wise.

siffrins life would be like. a million times easier if their friends didnt think they didnt like touch lol. i mean thats true in canon but especially here.

i dont actually have anything else to say im just having fun playing with my touys. thanks for reading you get mothloop and mothking <3

[lucabyte]

Hello! First of all I love ur art, and because of that I have something to ask you regarding it. This comic has never left my mind for the last year or so since you first posted it and I was wondering where the specific things the characters are saying came from! Even if it's not from anything and you came up with it yourself, I would love to be able to quote the dialogue elsewhere and know who to attribute it to (because the depth of the relatively simple exchange is MASSIVE and I wanna be able to share it with people)

Hiiiiiii :D

Thank u very much hearing that you wanna quote something i made is insane and absolutely go ahead feel free.

and yea! it comes frommmm my brain. i guess attribute it to my username lol?? Unless it's in a context where attributing usernames would be strange in which case uhh dm me im not super precious about my irl name being used i just find it funny to be anonymous. old timey nettiquete n all that I can step you through what i recall my thought process was at least? Lol. I recall it came to me for the most part like, basically fully formed with the exception of flipping the pronoun from 'me' to 'you' happening when i was thumbnailing it.

Thought process below if u want it. it got long and is kind of a ramble but wheee. idk if this would Ruin the Magic or not but i usually enjoy hearing the reasoning of artists so. ?? sure

so. despite being listed as "alt title:" that joke was actually the starting point. I had been thinking about that one tumblr post that goes "one must imagine sisyphus pokemon puzzle challenge gbc" riffing on the whole one must imagine sisyphus happy thing.

and like ive already rambled about the Bonus Depth that siffrin being named for sisyphus has. The whole thing where the *reason* sisyphus got trapped with the rock in the first place was because he cheated death & in the process stopped death for everyone else too. (though. siffrin did that on accident and sisyphyus was. a rascally and intentional little scamp about it. what with the corpse desecration and all (don't get me started on a potential siffrin/loop reading of sisyphys' time spent seperated from and then returning to his gross rotten body. but im sure we could do something there too.))

so id been thinking abt siffrin-short-for-sisyphus for a while and that obviously makes loop the boulder. and the "one must imagine sisyphyus horny" thing is funny and had been in my brain since. i had been thinking about that post.

then it kind of combined with a disguuuuuustingly mushy train of thought . (spurring from *another* previous joke of mine about how siffrin was >on a boat >looked back >shouldn'tve >this is an orpheus) where i had been batting back and forth an exchange in my head of the two of them (postcanon) arguing in circles who suits orpheus/euridice better and that "well you hardly Doomed me by looking back, you saved me." "I could say the same for you!!" which is just. so sacchirine its embarrasing. (so when i used it for this i cut it off at the 'doomed' part for the mid-canon fight implications.)

And then there's just the. like viciously obvious narcissus stuff. Like loop's design is literally inspired by a contemporary piece of art of narcissus. Howeverrrr I had also been thinking about the part of the narcissus myth everyone forgets. Echo. Whose name literally went on to be Our Fucking Word for a copy (with undertones of being a Hollow Copy!!!) which is obviously supposed to be bleak irony re: narcissus falling in love with his reflection. and because i was being blorbobrained i was like hmm. a Copy falling in love with someone whos infatuated with their Reflection. Being so in love with them despite their utter ignoration that both wither and die? Yeah thats . that could be sifloop

so i come up with that first panel's dialogue due to having these three trains of thought in a relatively close timeframe. But its in like a sappy "eaugh too cute while still being oddly nihilistic" manner. The two of them using a rotating list of greek myth allusions as weird pet names for each other wistfully type shit. Again so saccharine i kind of want to not tell u this but i am being soooo honest right nowwww. but yeah i kind of rotate it in my head for a while, while im just wandering around the house doing nothing.

and then as im scolding myself for "oh come on now. three? three *different* greek myths? not everything is your scrimblo bimblo shipping fuel dude." the second half of the dialogue forms in my brain just kind of unprompted and i go "oh . or it could be fucking baller. hold on" and i think i like. made this in only like 3 hours or something scary like that. just got posessed by how sick as hell my wording was and yknow what? i was right it fucks like hell. glad i pounced on it.

but yeah there's the thoughts. overall it was very meandering and disjointed as always lol.

i'm a little mean to myself for calling my readings "surface level" since like. well nah dude they aren't *that* surface level. im just a horrid stickler for Artistic Integrity and Intent. and like as i point out above yeah. there's plenty implications to read into outside of the surface stuff. Narcissus and Echo dying unfulfilled despite being right next to each other, Sisyphus' seperated body and spirit thing & stopping death for *everyone* (and sisyphus being a king. i am never not on sisyphus being a literal king. What A Choice.), and Orpheus and Euridice being a tale of how You Can't Help but be worried for the people you love, how you'll love so much you'll go against the 'rational' thing to do. Very siffrincoded. Also boats. (Also that part where orpheus gets torn asunder by a pack of women. uh. maybe not that part. hmm. maybe that can be mal du pays (<- JOKING))

Honestly there's a major treatise to be said about like. how even though im talking sifloop here i keep implicating the party (the other people sisyphus stopped from dying, the 'loop as orpheus and the party as euridice' read) because they're kind of so viscerally inseperable- especially loop- after having so much other identity discarded that this becomes their Whole Purpose. However best i can really do is just gesture at it ?? and go ????

this kind of mapping is good to do though especially in a deeper sense. a friend of mine still has an outright *biblical* reading of The King up her sleeve that she may or may not detail someday. so . yknow this kind of drawing back to mythology is where my head tends to be at. anyway narcissus was real for that #1 self love king get it dude (watches him atrophy) uh oh

[make-up-the-time]

anyways. au where bonnie is working with the king. i have no idea how thatd come to be but please consider it. like those aus where nille finds siffrin on the beach but she finds an adult man instead. or woman or fella we dont know the kings gender. <- bonnie trying to subtly tell them the king is nonbinary

this could be really angsty in someone elses hands but im just imagining bonnie playing patty cake with the king as he freezes a town in time

bonnie is Awful at keeping secrets from the group but through a series of hyjinks nobody ever finds out except odile who thinks its really funny

anyways bonnie gets used as a living shield during the king fight. lol.

[minhmynchi]

hi guys. back on my bullshit again, thinking about maeka in isat so i wrote a 1.8k ish tiny thing about them in post-canon ig lol

take this art tho of what they'd look like hehe

story below

The sky, full of blooming red, seems to shatter and break as the shadowed figure over the House shrinks, and falls. Two beings sit at the top of the Favor Tree, tucked away into themselves as the world distorts and reforms into something new.

Maeka curls into herself, tail wrapped around her feet and wings wrapped around her body, as she sneaks a peek at the starry being next to her. Trembling, their gaze never leaves the sky as eternal night shifts into day, and Maeka lifts a paw to reach out to them, but rethinks it and looks away.

They've talked about what will happen when the traveler they were helping is saved, and Maeka had reiterated over and over that they would be returning home once their job was done. They weren't sure what would happen to Loop beyond disappearing (not that they told them that), but they didn't want to bring themselves to care more than they should. (They didn't want to think about it.) Anxious to go home, they bury their head into their arms, curling further into themselves. They don't look at Loop, missing the way they glanced at her, arm outstretched much like hers was, before retreating just as she did.

There was no point trying to find comfort in someone that's going away anyways.

They simply wait for the Universe to unfold the story and lead them to its end.

–

It was difficult, listening to Loop scream at Siffrin. Hearing the words Maeka burned into her mind, written out into audible growls and fits of rage, she had hidden herself deeper into the Favor Tree beforehand, shaking her head when Loop had glared at them with a repressed fury. Mentally apologizing to Siffrin, and to Loop, for holding information from them, for knowing their story, for not being able to help even with knowledge unbeknownst to them. Tied down by the rules of the Universe despite not following the religion, unbelieving of any god or power beyond what was given, Maeka couldn't fathom the life laid before her. Thinking herself a terrible leader, she couldn't help but hide most times around Siffrin, unwilling to directly give hints, much like Loop, despite him knowing of her presence.

The uncertainty surrounding their situation always unnerved her, but she held strong because she had to. She had people to return to, some that she loved more than anything– just like Loop. Her wish must have been granted by the Universe, it had to, it had to.

As Loop fades away in Siffrin's arms, Maeka awaits her turn, ignoring his calls to check for her. She wasn't a part of their story anymore, and she wanted to keep it that way to its bittersweet end.

“Goodbye, Siffrin,” she mumbles. Closing her eyes, she whispers. “Goodbye, Loop.”

–

Except, it doesn't happen.

Except, she's still there.

Except, she's closed her eyes and sat there in that stupid tree for over an hour and her breathing is growing heavy and she's freaking out about it.

“Maeka,” a familiar hand on her back, hesitant, a familiar voice sounds in her ears, confused, and she shuts her eyes even tighter. “Breathe,” the voice stresses, and an equally stressed voice answers them.

“I can't,” Maeka belatedly realizes it's her own voice. “Why–”

Through blurry vision, they see Loop’s shining, sparkly face, as frazzled as them.

“Why are we still here?” Continuing her sentence, their words leave their mouth, deadpan, disbelieving, out of breath like her.

Choking, shaking, Maeka breathes heavily, heart in their throat.

“I saw you leave. I heard it, I saw you look at me when I looked at you, you disappeared and Siffrin looked so sad and–” Maeka wobbles, her grip on the tree branch loosening, and Loop steadies her, gently. She still startles at it, and they apologize, not knowing what to think.

But before they could speak any further, a gaggle of kids could be heard, and they spot them heading towards the Favor Tree. This has never happened before, but. It's not like they know what happens after the end.

“Thank you!” One of the children shout. “Our favor worked!”

“We helped the Saviors,” a quiet child chimes in.

“We should be heroes like them! Wizards!” The last one cheers.

“Wait, where did Tutorial Kid go? She's got to thank the Favor Tree too, right?”

“Maybe she ran off to get the drawing kid.”

“Let's go get them quick then!”

The children run off, and Maeka grits her teeth, flicking her ear and rubbing at her eyes.

“We should leave,” Maeka says, opening her wings to begin her descent to the ground. “We can't– We can't stay here.”

“Maeka-!” Loop calls after her, jumping down with what few grace they had left in them. She hastens on, into the expanse of trees, and Loop has to try their hardest to catch up. Their fight with Siffrin still affected them, and she knew this, yet she can't stop.

“Someone will find us." She began exasperatedly. "Everyone in Dormont stayed where they were because they knew what was coming, they did what they had to do, and now they're partying because the world is saved and they can go back to normal..!”

They get to be happy, while she can't be.

Maeka whips around when Loop reaches out to her for the umpteenth time, and tears stain her cheeks. “They can reunite with their families! Not just everyone in Dormont, but everyone in Vaugarde, and Bonnie–!”

But isn't it fair? They suffered for months, an entire country, over a curse that no one would cure save for one, and that's how Siffrin's little ragtag group was formed anyways.

“And Siffrin gets to be with the people they love! And I’m here! Stuck in a world I don't belong in! I thought I did my job!”

But it was so frustrating. It's fair to Dormont, to Vaugarde, to the person she was helping and to his friends too. But not to her.

She slowly sinks to the ground, rubbing at her eyes once more. “I thought I did what the Universe wanted me to do... So why? Why can't I go home..?”

Wasn't the whole point to help Siffrin? Wasn't that the reason she was there?

Loop is silent, rubbing at their arm as they try to sort through their own feelings, too.

Wasn't that the reason Loop was there too?

“And it's not fair to them,” she continues. “It's not fair to you, either. Not to anyone. Not for me to react like this.” She takes a deep breath. “...I've thought about it, you know. About what I’d do if– If this had happened. You had asked one loop what I was thinking so hard about, but I was being annoyingly vague and teasing you for being unable to read my mind like you could with Siffrin. But I had decided I wouldn't want to stick around here in Dormont. I didn't want to see Siffrin, or their friends. I wanted to be alone, because I thought that's how it should be. I knew you were going to fight them, I knew you were going to disappear. So if it had been just me, I would've–” Maeka has to rub at her arms, to stop herself from shaking. “I don't know. Probably spiraled, bad. Feeling lost, without a guide. I don't. I don't exactly have a good track record being left alone with no idea what to do."

She laughs, though it was weighed down by something deep. "I was presumptuous earlier, saying we needed to leave, but I don't know what you want to do. You can stay if you want. But I can be the one to go. I’ll leave.”

A weight presses into her side, and she curls further into herself. Loop speaks quietly, and she breathes in and out. “Go where? Don't you need food? How are you going to get it?”

Oh, how she would jump at the chance not to be left alone. But Maeka being Maeka, they have to fight themselves for it.

“I’ll live off of fruits and veggies. I’ll pick them off trees and steal a crop or two. Or ask with a written note, I dunno. Not exactly keen on becoming a criminal or something.” Loop laughs at that.

“Aren't cats carnivores? I’ll help you get meat or something.”

Even after everything she did, even after everything she didn't do.

“You're awfully nice for someone going through the same exact thing as me,” she just replies, though she looks at them, sitting calmly. “And for how pissed you were earlier.”

The kindness is suffocating, it's reminiscent of a near forgotten promise.

Loop, ever so kind despite it all, turns their head away pointedly. “Fine then, I can be mean! You're terrible, you know that? Keeping all these secrets from lil ol’ me! Maybe I won't go with you after all.”

Maeka turns away as well, with a slow, drawn-out sigh. “Yeah, I deserve that, huh.”

Loop presses their shoulder into hers again, huffing. “You're no fun when you're sad. I’m joking. I can't eat, I think, so I’ll just go with you so I can talk for you.”

She rolls her eyes, but her heart feels warm. “Yeah, let the two freaks wander aimlessly out into the world, that's the idea.” They shove her once more, and she can't help but smile. “Fine, okay! I’m being dramatic, but. I am sad. I miss– being home,” she trips over her words just a little. “But stop being so kind, it's weird when it's me and not Siffrin. I’m not used to it.”

They rolled their eyes back, before standing up abruptly. “Then stop being someone who deserves kindness.” She balks at that, but looks between their outstretched hand and their face. “Let's just go already. Maybe we can get some clothes. New ones for you, maybe. I don't know if those shades suit you.”

Maeka accepts their help finally. “You mean the color purple? You can see it?” She shakes her head. “It totally does though, you're just jealous.”

“Not.”

“You are.”

“Shut up.”

“Heh! Thanks, Loop.”

“Don't mention it. Really.”

“In return, we can talk about your feelings!”

“Oh stars, no.”

“Stars, yes! It's Loop feelings time!”

–

Maeka will try their hardest to find a way back home, they promise themselves wholeheartedly that, and if nothing else, she'll help Loop at least. It's what they deserve after all she's put them through.

Siffrin can have their own little journey with his friends, and Maeka can have hers.

Disheartening as it is, no matter what melancholy and remorse will attack her, at least she's not alone.

At least, she's not alone.