#technically multiple Siffrins

[noname10101010101010]

I might’ve been very normal about Overkill and just Isat in general (my first attempt on The Director but digital!)

Other thingies pluuuuuuuus:

Concept for something my brain came up with and found fun— a little bit before The Director drawing hit me like a truck :]

(I apologize if it looks bad, did it with zero references—)

@askoverkill

[alfheimr]

you should play in stars and time ^___^

[aysrin]

despite everything, it's you! (+ extra hat closeups below)

[whatudottu]

Combined with the mortifying realisation that loopified Odile (now named Nokosu) took me multiple hours to draw the first time, I decided to try and make one speak in Japanese :) :) :)

The Japanese sentences will be under the cut plus a more literal translation and some research notes-

自分は遺残の神である。「遺す」と呼んでもいいし、「残」の字を使ってもいい。お前 の草白鳥は、すでにお前 の小烏から 「イサ 」という名前を取っている。二人の人間に同じ名前を使うのは混乱しないか？ヴォーガルド語の「サ」の発音は「ザ」に近いので、特に必要である。���うだろう？

or in Romaji

Jibun wa izan no kamidearu. 'Nokosu' to yonde mo īshi, 'zan' no ji o tsukatte mo ī. Omae no kusa hakuchō wa, sudeni omae no ko karasu kara `Isa' to iu namae o totte iru. Futari no ningen ni onaji namae o tsukau no wa konran shinai ka? Vu~ōgarudo-go no 'sa' no hatsuon wa 'za' ni chikainode, tokuni hitsuyōdearu. Sōdarou?

Literally translated Nokosu says;

I am the god of remains. You may call me “Nokosu", or you may use the [Chinese character] for “remain". Your grass swan has already taken the name “Isa” from your little crow. Isn't it confusing to use the same name for two people? It is especially necessary since the pronunciation of “sa” in Vaugarde is close to “za”. Wouldn't you agree?

And for the explanations of a monolingual English speaker with barely even surface level understanding of Japanese.

Throughout my entire journey, Jisho.org kanji dictionary has been my saving grace and backbone in my choice of Nokosu's name and what first and second person pronouns one uses. My initial goal was to find a name for survival or persistance which lead to me finding terms like; 存続 (sonzoku) meaning survival, 存 meaning exist and 続 meaning continue; 耐久 (taikyuu) meaning endurance, 耐 meaning the affix -proof (of bulletproof or soundproof), 久 meaning long time; and finally 遺残 (izan) meaning persistence, 遺 meaning bequeath, 残 meaning remainder.

To kinda help expand my knowledge of the terms I was using, I also used a combination of google translate (primarily for the pronunication of words less the actual translations) and DeepL to kinda get the sweet deets and found that izan had meant - a more common definition - remains. It. Was. Perfect.

Perfect save for one thing... Isa- Sure, Isabeau is his full name and written down Isabeau and Izan are unique enough, but technically functionally the 'sa' in French (and thus in Vaugardian) is more voiced than the 'sa' in Japanese and sounds more like the 'za' in izan, and to have Odile refer to Nokosu as Izan when "only [Siffrin] call[s] him Isa" is an in-game quote; to say I was miffed was an understatement.

But then... I turned to words that use those individual kanji and hoped to mix and match to find what I wanted.

My first direction was to turn each kanji into hiragana to find their pronunciations and piece together a word from that; 遺 in isolation is noko, 残 in isolation is zan. Finding the term no ko zan-kiri (のこざん切り) on google gave me 'chopped into pieces' which well- look at my design that's a lot of pieces! のこ残 or nokozan (turning the first character into hiragana of course) lead me to 'remnants of a servant's body' as it's main translation on DeepL, but it also provided 'backbreaking exertions' as well as 'remnants of a defeated soldier'. Plus using DeepL again izan itself full kanji gave me 'vestiges' 'bequest' 'afterlife' and the ever present 'remains'.

None of these however were getting me closer to an ample replacement for izan however, not until I returned to jisho.org to pick out words from a list using either kanji.

Turns out, both 遺 and 残 can be pronounce 'noko' so long as it is followed by the hiragana す or su. And guess what either spelling of the word translates into? The 遺す version meaning to leave (behind), to bequeath, and the 残す version meaning that same thing but more, to leave (undone), to save/to reserve, to stay (in the ring).

SO! SO! That is how Nokosu came to be named! But- what about the Japanese phrase I wrote?

Well- let's stay on the Nokosu theme now that any Japanese readers in my audience have already processed the meta-joke that can only really exist in Japanese writing (or maybe not a joke but like... a fourth wall acknowledgement). Nokosu already introduces oneself as 遺す though doesn't mention how to spell it (since it's already spelt out to the reader), then introduces the second variant of the spelling exclusively referring to the second kanji of Izan 残 as zan. Maybe it's not really a joke but it'd kinda be like the 'you use he/they, it's in your profile' equivalent.

I suppose an attempt at a joke was Odile thinking 'a very wordy Expression', but that's mostly from observing that translations through DeepL stopped run on sentences occuring from English to Japanese so... I have no idea if constant uses of commas isn't particularly Japanese, at least the joke would be that Nokosu is particularly more chatty than Odile might normally be.

And once again, people who know Japanese may have noticed the use of jibun (自分) and omae (お前) for Nokosu's pronouns. Lowkey I was thinking initially of making Nokosu's first person pronoun oira a la sans undertale 'country bumpkin' but found more interesting things with jibun and omae that I settled on those versions. jibun, a neutral formality pronoun literally meaning 'oneself', when used as a personal pronoun (like Nokosu does) it's with a sense of separation of distance to the self; I also found out in my translation hunt that jibun can be used as a second person pronoun which is very fucking fitting given who Nokosu talks to, but that's specifically from in the Kansai dialect and - well - I can't say for certain where Odile hails from especially since Japan in ISAT is Ka Bue, but she'd be well educated enough to connect the dots that Nokosu lays down. On the other hand, Nokosu's second person pronoun is omae (Fist of the North Star fans will remember it from the very iconic 'omae wa mou shindearu'), which is incredibly informal and very rude when said to elders (though in age technically Nokosu is older) as it's meant to express the speaker's higher status in non-casual relationships.

To note, though omae can be used by both genders, it and jibun are mostly used by men and in the case of omae it's more commonly used to refer to their wife or lover. This has a little extra significance to background headcanon where Nokosu calls Odile Nanafushi (七節) or literally walking stick AKA a stickbug as ones version of 'Stardust', but sometimes Nokusu would split the word in half and refer to Odile as 'Nana' which in English sounds like one is referencing a grandma but (BUT) I'm specifically using the French term which translates to 'chick' 'babe' 'girlfriend'. So when I saw that omae can also be used for that purpose, it really goes to show that at some point Nokosu had the time to perfectly craft a version of oneself that does get on Odile's nerves and has the gall to get away with it at least initially under the assumption that one is an Expression.

I've been trying to make this flow from one point to another but I don't know how to jump to Japanese nicknames, at least not the metaphorical ones that I used here (and took inspiration from the Word of God Odile nickname for Siffrin 'Little Crow'). What little I do know about Japanese nicknames is that they may take alternate readings of single kanji as a nickname or repeat a character, though that is in reference to Japanese names in the first place. I did see something about the metaphorical sort of nicknames that have connotations in the language itself but- honestly this is my most monolingual English moment yet. I will explain however what I did decide.

草白鳥 or kusa hakuchou is the character for grass 草, and the kanji combination for swan 白鳥. In DeepL however 草白鳥 translates to grasshopper and though I signifcantly lack the cultural context to know what grasshopper symbology has in Japan, I do know in English you call someone a 'grasshopper' because they're tall. But why start with grass swan at all? Well- maybe it's a stretch for whatever fantasy time-period ISAT takes place in to use an internet term but, 草 has been used in internet slang to mean lol or haha since 'w' is also a version of lol or haha, and when spammed like so - wwwwwwwwwwwww - it looks like grass. The reason for swan would be because of I guess this idea of beauty? Less due to Odile specifically considering Isabeau beauty and more so taking note of his care to his appearance - whether it be how he presents his perception of his appearance or how he makes people belief a different thing about what his views about his appearance are, white swan or black swan - and that whatever the case is, he does take pride in maintaining that appearance; a retroactive meaning to the nickname, especially when Isa starts more casually bringing up the fact he *had* Changed, would be an incidental reference to the ugly duckling, who ended up not being a duckling at all and was a swan all along. Whether the nickname actually works or not I don't really know, but what it boils down to Odile's nickname for him (and thus Nokosu's only title for him beyond fighter) would really mean 'funny (tall) beauty' which would probably fluster Odile to admit it as Isa would hearing it.

An interesting thing I found while finding kanji for little crow (specifically 小烏) was that there is actually kind of already a word for it already, Kogarasu Maru or 小烏丸, AKA "Little Crow" which is a unique tachi sword rumoured to be crafted by a legendary swordsmith like-! I don't know if that was at all intentional on Insertdisc5's part (and if I should change the pronunciaton of the romaji version of the original text to kogarasu), but beyond Siffrin's little habit to collect every little thing that shines and doesn't, what do you mean there's a unique tachi sword named 'little crow' that's like literally so Siffrin-coded I SWEAR TO GOD!

Oh, and I played ISAT in Japanese to get the correct spelling of Vaugarde and 語 (go) is just the suffix for language AKA the difference between Nihon the country and Nihongo the language okay BYE!

[catflowerqueen]

On the one hand, a handy solution to "helping Siffrin out of the loops" would have been to just burn/chop the Favor Tree down before any wishes could be made... on the other hand, the specificity of Loop's second wish in that regard might mean that, even if they'd wanted to, the Universe would have taken control to stop them much the same way it does if Siffrin is adamant about using the dagger as a looping method... since no one can help Siffrin get out of the loops if the loops aren't happening.

That, and the rest of Vaugarde's wishes are still in play. So many of them wished to be saved, and the Loop hangout pretty much proves that can't happen if Siffrin is not present to face the King. And Siffrin needed to be looping at least a few times to actually defeat the King--because even if Loop had given them detailed instructions about the Death Corridor and which blocked paths to use the crests on, Siffrin would have needed multiple loops to either gain enough EXP and strength to do it outright, the way Loop did, or because it took the loops to help Mirabelle figure out how to make a shield, which Loop couldn't have helped with because that isn't something they figured out in their own loops.

...On the other hand. Because Loop does still have the capability of looping--evidenced by the secret boss battle--it is entirely possible that they did actually knock Siffrin out pre-wish and then burn/chop down the Favor Tree, then realized that they'd accidentally made a massive mistake when Siffrin and company didn't go to the House the next day because they were all too busy panicking about Siffrin's mystery attacker and probable concussion (not to mention the giant, on fire that is concerningly close to town) to go into the House and everything ended up frozen because they'd missed the deadline/the party ended up leaving the concussed and obviously in no fit to fight Siffrin in the care of someone in Dormont and Loop got their first taste of the Loop Hangout ending.

So they ended up looping back one last time to fix things and grudgingly let Siffrin make a wish.

Siffrin remembers nothing of that loop, both because they technically weren't looping yet, since Loop prevented them from making that wish, and because even if they had been looping at the time, they would have ended that loop too concussed to think straight or retain too many memories.

[dead-wives-tourney]

Round 1 Side A

who is more dead wife?

*this is a redo of a poll i made a mistake on

propaganda:

Aradia Megido:

-she died multiple times, was dead when introduced, and is in general a death-y sort of character. it's a big deal for how events unfolded

-has a love interest (Sollux) (who killed her the first time) (the second time she exploded)

-0u0

Loop:

technically died like. over a thousand times while trying to commit regicide due to being stuck in a time loop, later with the main character Siffrin. went insane because of it, is the entire reason Siffrin's timeline exists. the dev of the game has stated that sifloop (Siffrin x Loop) is 150% intended

[mod naoto commentary: I'm a bit worried about this match-up]

[drawcupidsbow]

Hi i made a post on instagram about the top five games i played for the first time this year and thought id share it here! none of these are in any particular order. except the last one. my favorit....

first up is oneshot! it took me wayyyy too long to play this game. oneshot feels kinda like one of the staple rpg maker games, yet i went into it pretty much completely blind, "finished it" in one sitting, found out there was over half the game left, played the rest, and cried real hard. such a good game that breaks the fourth wall in really interesting ways. and also it has niko who doesnt love little fella niko

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second is halope! this is a game i had never heard of before my friend ángel (@raccoonlover333) told me to play it and i feel like i still dont really see people talk about it? it has a very unique style i think and each of the areas have their own atmosphere and feel to them (aside from the fact that all of them have distinct color palettes lol). very lovely game i enjoyed it a lot. also one of the first times i played a game with multiple endings and felt satisfied not going out of my way getting any i missed ? i enjoyed what it had to offer and didnt feel the need to pry for more (good thing)

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hard shift from story based rpgmaker games but next is webfishing. webfishing is good. its so good youve probably heard a lot of people say this by now but its just so fun and calming to sit around with friends and fish for hours. theres something special about the kinds of online games where theres a physical space you share with people, especially those you havent met in person. makes you feel like youre there with them. and also you can get a man i love fishing shirt whats not to love

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o yea baby farming sim. this game is so charming and has a lot of quality of life features that i feel are missed in other farming sims. it is still in early access so i cant be too harsh on it, but i will admit that the characters feel a bit too flat currently. a lot of nothing burger dialogue which isnt always a bad thing but when 20 characters tell you Hey this weather huh? must be good for farming! its hard to differentiate their personalities in your mind lol. im sure thatll be added to in the future though like i said its still ea and only has enough content to last you about a year in game. what it does have is very fun though and i would recommend it

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You knew it was coming be honest. where do i even start. technically i Did play isat for the first time last year, however, it was for like one hour and then i didnt pick it up again for half a year. so it counts to me. and also i take any excuse i can to talk about this game

in stars and time is a game that portrays characters and relationships in such a realistic light to a degree ive never seen in any other game. it makes it so easy to immediately become attached to this group of friends despite knowing them for less than ten minutes. its a very emotion heavy game. and who can forget the time loop Ohhh yes the time loop. siffrins slow decent into hopelessness and anguish after failing to escape time and time again is something rarely shown in time loop media i feel. at least to this degree. madoka magica comes pretty damn close though lol. also looping in time and zoning out through dialogue (and doing so having consequences) is such a cool game mechanic

while im talking about isat im slipping its prequel game in too, start again start again start again a prologue (or just start again). this one, though much shorter and more of a proof of concept, feels much more harrowing in the ways it pulls it off, especially without a certain characters presence. but i wont say more than that as to not spoil it teehee

this game changed my life for the better. and has been causing me psychic damage every day for 8 months. heart ♡

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and thats some of my favorite games i played this year! there were more but not enough for it to be 10 and 5 was a nicer number than like 7 lol. happy new year! i hope this year treats you all well and i cant wait to draw one million fanarts as i have been doing for the past 5 years. Yayyy

[weafurry]

Welcome to our blog!!

☆COMMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED☆

Hi! We're Weafurry but you can just call us Meadow! We're a collectively autistic and demiromantic traumagenic (osdd) system of (at the time of writing) 16 with a whole load of other issues. Most of us use I/we interchangeably

feel free to ask for our discord or simply plural any time!

We use the term headmates. Alters feels too medical, and parts just isnt accurate to our experience, Please don't use them to refer to us. Other terms you can ask

BYF: We are bodily 18 and will occasionally reblog posts with sexual jokes/general mentions of sex. However anything properly suggestive/nsfw will go on our side blog @the-meadow-after-dark . Also we use the f slur in a reclaiming way when referring to ourselves and friends who are ok with it, you're allowed to not like that but I recommend against following as we will not tag it.

We try to add alt text to our images but more often then not writing it out takes extra spoons that we just don't have. So we apologize if it's inconsistent what posts of ours have alt text and what don't.

If you can please tag any rain world fandom drama/discourse, the r slur, and food recalls/ things of that nature related to food with Meadow don't look

Headmate intros below!

These are formatted with our tags, and then info about us

Hosts!

Due to how our system works we cycle between multiple different hosts who front most frequently.

🌺// Wea - Vi/vir she/it/they || Haii! I'm Wea, I also go by May. I'm our systems main host and the one writing all this! Outside intense fixations I'm probably who you'll see the most. We used to think I was the core before realizing that's not quite how our system works and thus we don't have one. I'm basically who our brain defaults to. I've probably been here the longest out of anyone. THE SHE/HER IN MY PRONOUNS IS NOT IN A GIRL WAY

✨// Pebbles - He/they || [technically a subsystem of 4, less seperate then the rest of is though] Hi, I'm Pebbles I also go by any variation on Saikarie, I'm a Pebbles rain world fictive as you could probably guess. I'm typically the main fronter during our rain world fixations. Transmasc in a guy way but not a binary way. Different font/flavor of guy. I have my own sideblog [ @errat1cpulse ]

🔲// Siffrin - it/he/they || Hii! I'm Siffrin as you can probably guess I mostly show up during our ISAT fixations. I tend to be way more forgetful then the others so try to be patient pleasee!

🤍// Wyrm - He/they || [our pale king fictive, who quote "cant be bothered to write it right now" (understandable we're writing this during a chronic fatigue episode) -🌺 ]

Other Headmates!

We'll add bios to this as the others front! For now l'll be adding basic information, for those of us I didn't get around to they will have "BIO TBA" In place of it.

💜// Innocence - it/she/all || [ Unparalleled innocence from rain world fictive. mainly shows up when we're working]

🌹// Leshy - He/it/Xe/they || [ Leshy from Cult of the lamb fictive. Our only middle! (he's like 15) and an absolute chaos gremlin]

💫// Stella - It/she/they || [Also goes by loop! as you can guess a loop Isat fictive. it's gender as she put it is "None pizza left beef", Super motherly. Also one of the few of us to have an age seperate from the body (she's 20) ]

✖️// Vanta - He/it || hi im vanta . i hold all our ratred and hage ig. /hj anyways yea hi. im like. one of the only not fictive people in here. i used to not be allowed to front alone but ig i got my Shit™ together. absolutely no they/them please. in the headspace im literally just a shape shifting black blob of void. hence where the name came from (vantablack)

🧶// Isa - He/him || BIO TBA

🌕// Moon - She/her || BIO TBA

✒️// Odile - She/they/no pronouns || BIO TBA

🪷// Riv - They/it/she/💧/🐋/🌸/🪷 || BIO TBA

🧡// Fanta - it/its || BIO TBA

🪶// Eira - they/she/🪶/Fae || BIO TBA

🌤// Qibli - They/he || BIO TBA

✉️// Spears - They/it || BIO TBA

🕷// Hornet - She/it || BIO TBA

[isat-script-project]

with the level difference hallway event, doesn't the event only ever play twice? once with the group noticing and siffrin getting got for being short, then a second time where siffrin trips on purpose? i'm not sure you can ever get that "(It made them laugh, so…)" narration change in-game

hot diggity, you're actually right. looking closer at this actually helped me figure out how a thing works, thanks!

the entire first chunk with isa speaking up only plays the first time you get the event at all, and it just has... variations for doing it multiple times inside that condition, which is moot, because you can't do it multiple times, because the Whole Thing is Self Var Event Check = 1. So really, Adrienne just made more work for themself for no reason.

The tripping on a rock time is for everything where Self Var EventCheck is not 1, but doing it once flips Self Switch D, that permanently disables the entire event (by having it still technically run, just on an empty event page, so nothing happens.)

Speaking of Self Switches, this helped me figure out that the game uses a script to set all Self Switches A and B to false on a new loop. That was mystifying me a bit, because that's how repeated interactions w NPCs are differentiated and Self Switch D was obviously permanent in this case, so.

But hey, I know now that all A and B switches are per loop, and C and D switches are permanent!

This was. a whole bunch of badly explained technobabble to say that. Yeah! You're right! I'm gonna clarify that and the page will be updated next time i push a new page out. (Which will probably be this weekend, actually. Maybe today. eh.)

My understanding of the game's inner workings has increased 👍

[sifloop]

thank you so much for bringing more sifloop into the world!! the latest chapters are everything to me. make me feel a little unwell even from how much i like them lol. loop making isabeau jealous is like. a very very very beloved part of sifloop for me thank you for including it in chap16. can't wait for what's gonna happen next....

Making more sifloop is a noble goal and that's a goal that is my sacred duty.

I am so happy that people are enjoying the recent chapters because they are the ones I have been the most excited for!!! Like they are the first thing I planned out when I started my changeling Loop fic :3

Loop making Isabeau jealous is also an beloved part of sifloop for me as well (even if I feel bad about because this fic isn't going to have Isafrin in it...) Loop can they flirt with Siffrin in front of Isabeau as a treat.

Well I can't wait to write what's next~ (I mean I do have multiple projects so technically can wait but nevertheless!)

[wayward-stardust]

3, 11, 16, 51, 55

original post

(this one got a bit long)

3. Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic

I don't have a consistent process (it varies by fic/chapter, and whether it's a oneshot or part of a larger project), but the general idea is:

start by outlining, or at least writing down the basics of what happens in the chapter

start writing? i don't really know how else to describe it. When I'm working on the early stages of a chapter, I tend to jump around from scene to scene a lot, then in the later stages I'll fill in the gaps from beginning to end. If I need to make notes (wanting to look something up, or potentially rewrite a sentence later), I tend to mark them with [[double brackets]] so I can find and remove them later.

once I've written out everything, I'll give the chapter/oneshot a quick readthrough to make sure that everything's there and then copy over to ao3 (assuming I'm planning on posting it) where I'll do a second read-through to check formatting and do another typo pass.

I tend to edit as I go instead of doing multiple drafts, and my fics aren't beta-read, so the finishing -> publishing pipeline isn't that long

11. Link your three favorite fics right now

There are so many good fics out there that it's hard to pick just three, but (all three have isat spoilers. you've been warned.):

jamais vu by beaufort12 (my favorite isat fic, and it's not particularly close)

Crumbling by ohmaerieme

Dress Rehearsal by blueshine

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

Just counting ISAT fic ideas that I've actually got written down somewhere (there's at least one more that I can think of that's not): 6? 8 if you count my two published wip multichapters since those are technically ideas I'm working on.

One fic concept that's been on my mind for a while is my Loop character study fic where they happen to be aware of the fact that they're in a videogame (it ended up surprisingly canon-compliant). Unfortunately, the time I've spent thinking about it hasn't actually translated to words on a page.

51. What's your total AO3 word count?

As of the time of writing this, 50431 words (just hit 50k!) The majority of that is ISAT fic, actually (29587 words) (and a lot more if you count my wips).

55. Of the characters you write for, which is your favorite? Has that choice been swayed at all by your followers/readers' reactions to certain ones?

Favorite character in general, of the ones I've written for: Mirabelle.

Favorite character to write, of the ones I've written for: Siffrin. There's something really compelling to me about his internal monologue. Odile's also fun to write dialogue for, although I think I'd struggle more if I were writing her as a POV character.

[aluria-sevhex]

REVISITING THESE NOW THAT I'VE BEATEN THE GAME

featuring: i know everybody's pronouns now! although... everybody's pronouns are just further down on the Steam page... i may be stupid

obviously, spoilers below the read more

Siffrin: ---YEAH MY MENTALLY ILL ASEXUAL NON-BINARY FAVE

blorbo

little floofy wizard guy

---wizards aren't real :P

could commit war crimes and i would probably still love them

traumatized

idk wtf he did but they fucked up somehow. you do not end up in a time loop unless things have gone wrong.

---yeah a lot went wrong. also he LOVES HIS FAMILY SO MUCH IT NEARLY DESTROYED THE UNIVERSE TwT

needs a hug

depressed? depressed

crushed by existential dread

ok based on some of these moments in the trailers they did something horribly unspeakable

---eh yeah i guess. i mean. that Sadness got fucked up lmao. and. Act 5. but the moment in the trailer i was thinking of was in response to Sif being too good at fucking up Sadnesses

Basil energy AND THAT MAKES ME WORRIED FOR HIM "everything's fine :')" NO IT FUCKING ISN'T

---it was, in fact, not fucking fine

---congratulations to Siffrin In Stars and Time to being a concerningly relatable protagonist

Isabeau:

gay for Siffrin

---IT TOOK HIM THE ENTIRE GAME DJHSGEHFHDNS

seems chill

likes Bonnie's cooking AS THEY *he SHOULD

Mirabelle: ---YEAHHHH MY AROACE QUEEN

really sweet! will fuck you up

yeah sorry i don't have much

<redacted spitballing to fill up space but uh. there *was* a reason for a kid to be on the adventure. and :(>

Bonnie:

cooking gremlin

has sister issues or obtains them during the course of the story

---:( Nille...

would not want to be around in the kitchen because they're a terrifying force of nature i don't trust myself to not fuck up the food XD

Odile:

suffered for a phd

actually knows what they're *she's doing

also gay

---i mean. nothing contradicts it? but no actual evidence. however the exchange about multiple names and the one about the legality of Body Craft in Ka Bue are evidence for her possibly being trans

-----COMMENT ON THE COMMENT: I LOOKED IT UP AND INSERTDISC HAS CONFIRMED THAT IN CANON SHE IS SIMPLY 'queer' AND IS TOO OLD TO CARE ABOUT LABELS. HONESTLY MOOD TBH

babysitting everybody

---well her reason for joining the group was that leaving the task of saving the country to a bunch of young'ins would give her an ulcer so i guess?

---Odile's friendquest managed to somehow hit me in the relatability feels even tho my last connection to <redacted part of ancestry> is several generations ago. <redacted elaboration>

star head guy *Loop:

bitch

are they the reason Siffrin's in a loop?

---WELL. UH. WELL NO. BUT ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY YES KINDA DEPENDING ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT.

they know about the loop

will probably be like "oh i'll help you :)" and end up being a late-game boss

---hey if anybody who saw the initial post sees this reblog, quick question: did you find this guess funny

"have you tried not dying?" have you tried shutting the fuck up

---i can't believe i've gotten attached enough to this wonderful bitch to wanna get "Behind the scenes"

coping with the fact that i don't have ISAT by looking at the stuff on the Steam page and compiling my impressions of the characters

perhaps i should've used visuals but fuck it we ball

uhhhh using 'they' by default because i only know Siffrin's pronouns. also i'm not sure about Bonnie and Odile's names but like there's trailer footage of them attacking while the narration calls them that so. uh yeah.

Siffrin:

blorbo

little floofy wizard guy

could commit war crimes and i would probably still love them

traumatized

idk wtf he did but they fucked up somehow. you do not end up in a time loop unless things have gone wrong

needs a hug

depressed? depressed

crushed by existential dread

ok based on some of these moments in some of the trailers they did something horribly unspeakable

Basil energy AND THAT MAKES ME WORRIED FOR HIM "everything's fine :')" NO IT FUCKING ISN'T

Isabeau:

gay for Siffrin

seems chill

likes Bonnie's cooking AS THEY SHOULD

Mirabelle:

really sweet! will fuck you up!

yeah sorry i don't have much

possibly Bonnie's sister but i may just be grasping at straws, my only evidence is they both have darker skin than the other group members and the fact that there has to be a reason this kid is going on dangerous adventures

Bonnie:

cooking gremlin

has sister issues or obtains them during the course of the story

would not want to be around in the kitchen because they're a terrifying force of nature

literal child???

Odile:

suffered for a phd

actually knows what they're doing

also gay

babysitting everybody

star head guy:

bitch

are they the reason Siffrin's in a loop?

they know about the loop

will probably be like "oh i'll help you :)" and end up being a late-game boss

"have you tried not dying?" have you tried shutting the fuck up

[pillowspace]

If it helps, you are not the only person to have had this train of thought. Multiple people have looked at Siffrin and gone "oh, that's someone's OC"

And to be fair. Siffrin is technically a Tumblr user's OC. That Tumblr user also happens to be a game developer

i genuinely thought isat was not a real game for a /long/ time. i thought it was just a collective story that a side of tumblr had made up to have fun with. 🧍

HELP. REALLY???????????????????????