#troped: timeloop

[troped-fanfic-challenge]

TROPED TIMELOOP — ROUND TWO!

It’s time for the Second Round of TROPED TIMELOOP! All of the prompts for this event will feature the Time Loop Trope! The Writing Period for Round Two starts NOW, and will be on a rolling basis, with a new TIMELOOP Prompt dropping about every twenty-three (23) days! While the OFFICIAL writing period for Round One is over and Round Two goes for three weeks, you can submit a fic based on these prompts until the end of the event in September and they will still be included in voting! Be sure to include the theme, tropes, and timeloops into your fic.

For Round Two, please write a fic that includes:

Theme: Holiday

Trope 1: Fake Dating

Trope 2: Murder Mystery AU

Trope 3: Multiple Perspectives

Trope 4: One Character is an Author

Event Trope: Time Loop AU!

In depth definitions of the tropes and the theme will be linked under the cut! Please take a look at this Google Doc, as there will be extra information you NEED to know regarding how to use the tropes, and if you have questions don’t hesitate to ask!

There is NO Word Count Limit! You may write as much or as little as you like as long as you fully incorporate the prompt!

All Fandoms are welcome to participate!

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TIMELINE:

Round 2 Writing Period Begins: NOW!!!

Writing Period Ends: SATURDAY, September 23rd at 11:59PM PST / SUNDAY, September 24th at 2:59AM EST

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[sleepless-in-starbucks]

guy who's stuck in a timeloop for so long he stops wanting to leave it. guy who started out trying to escape but slowly grew used to and became comforted by the familiarity of the repeating day. guy who is no longer who he was before the timeloop. guy who is offered a way out and violently refuses it because he can't leave, doesn't want to leave. guy who escapes the timeloop by chance or force or accident and doesn't know how to live anymore. guy who keeps going through motions that don't match the situation and keeps having conversations that aren't actually occurring. guy who panics every time he realizes he can't predict the next instant. guy who left the timeloop but still lives with it.

[khaoray]

I will. I will bring you back. And we will see each other again. I promise.

@asiandramanet april bingo: tropes & lgbtq+ rep

[would-they-break-the-timeloop]

[monobytee]

“Tell me, you fool. If I continue to regress, will I get to ever meet you again?”

VS

“If it's for you, I'll don't mind being trapped in this endless maze forever”

VS

“Even if I know that death is an unchangeable point, I still want to use the last chance to return to the beginning and save you”

WHO WINS 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[soapstore]

calling time loops cringe is truly next level posting

and i will do it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again

[simcardiac-arrested]

now that you have answered my ask in time and saved me from terrible things i am able to tell you what i require from you……………..

i need you to list your top five favourite movies and why they’re on your top five

THE NOISE I MADE JUST NOW AHHH GOT SO EXCITED I FORGOT TO BREATHE

into the spiderverse (2018)/across the spiderverse (2023) IDGAF im putting them as one movie because i just love them both so much. this is peak cinema to me. the characters the art the music the feeling of my soul ascending to a higher plane whenevr i watch one of these. never get tired of it

everything everywhere all at once (2022). best movie ever made and probably one of the greatest uses of the multiverse concept frfr. unfortunately it also hurts my soul a lot so im scared of it. not funny cried

nope (2022). what can i even say that hasnt been said before?? out of all stories i experienced whether in movie show videogame or book form i think nope has the sickest fucking concept i've ever seen. i actually never stop thinking about it i've never seen an alien story remixed into something this COOL . not to mention that it's a horror that actually managed to SCARE ME, straight up sat horrified for the last half of the movie, and that's not something i experience often!!! so literally jordan peele u are a visionary iwill think of this movie as long as i live

pacific rim (2013). idk this movie's been with me since forever and i've watched it a thousand times it's like a brother to me. i LOVE kaijus (shoutout to all the godzilla movies i cant possibly fit on this top five) i LOVE big robots and i LOVE an action monster movie that actually has compelling human characters that i can care about (and no obnoxious romance) while it's not the best movie i've ever seen my heart will always have a place just for it

.............see, this is where it gets a little impossible for me. top 3 is easy -- those movies will seriously never budge from their spot and they are actually such peak favorites of mine. fourth place is where it gets muddy -- i can just barely get myself to pick a movie i like more than most (and i wouldnt even say it's always pacific rim either, because i seriously have So many favorite movies that mean So much to me and it's really hard to only give a shoutout to one(1)). but fifth spot??? what do i even put here?? madagascar? ratatouille? soul? totoro? men in black? just literally What. i could not possibly choose just one because so many favorite movies of mine i love equally . i could never pick ratatouille over madagascar but i could also never pick madagascar over beetlejuice. so as my fifth favorite movie i redirect you to my list of movies that i love dearly and i could gush about each and every one of them Forever

[chimerahyperfix]

RECIPE OF THE DAY

[OR: This was the most upsetting alternate looper option]

Long post because i have been cooking this in my brain for like, two months, and it's all-consuming. Also I'm not in the Discord yet because Anxiety so my ramblings had to go somewhere, and what better than one big fucking post yknow. I cast spell of fuck you mind blast on the tag/lh /j

TLDR for below: Siffrin words his wish differently, Bonnie gets trapped in a time-loop, and despite saying they're in a timeloop repeatedly nothing works and no one can help them. The normal ISAT absolute horrors ensue.

CONTENT WARNINGS: the normal ISAT tags [death, violence and trauma, suicide, self harm and unreality], Notable Pin on child endangerment and death, poisoning.

most of these get discussed ^ even if shortly

SO. THIS AU.

This is it this is my big one. Ignore me pushing the literal 12 other isat aus I have into a pile pls this is THE big one. I’m looking at the note I’ve stored all this lore in on my notes app,and it’s like. 35 fucking pages?

I've looked at a ton of alternate looper aus [that's part of the hyperfixation babeyyyy I need to consume ALL content forever and ever and ever] and I was like “oohhhh I wanna do that!!” So I literally just listened to music until I caught an idea and yikes. Looking at the AUs playlist now [it’s about 100 songs! Oops!] and I’m like [cartoony image of me laying face first on the floor]

This is a bit scattered because I wrote it over 3 days instead of working on the fic I’m supposed to be writing ooopsieeeee. Ramblings belowvvvvvvvvvv

It begins as simply as the game does. No one knows how to wish properly; so Siffrin wishes, because they know how to. The same folded leaf, repeated three times wish. Close to what is said in canon; different enough for the Universe to read it differently. No longer does Siffrin loop, because the wish isn’t about him, it’s about Bonnie and their sister. Siffrin’s wish is construed as “I wish Bonnie’s wish would come true,” and even if the Universe can’t hold onto Bonnie’s wish as they did it wrong, it CAN hold onto Siffrin’s.

And that’s the base point: EVERY LOOP, Siffrin wishes, because he wishes after he talks to them and that's where they loop back to, and its wish craft goes to Bonnie. A recipe for disaster with how much time they have!

They loop back when Siffrin gets crushed by the rock, because they can’t win while being down a party member. When they touch a tear, or when the sadnesses get the jump on the party and they all go down, or when they use the dagger equivalent [a poisoned snack], or when they get to the King. They Never Beat The King. Think SASASAaP but ISAT.

Bonnie doesn’t fight with craft, but rather craft-infused weapons. The wok and their pan for rock, a pair of kitchen shears for scissors and a cookbook for paper. Snacks for healing and buffs. And they have a cool friend that lives in the favor tree! [they get in fistfights like every five loops. Maybe it would be funny, someone just as willing to spar with them instead of trying to find the right words they can’t find because they’re a kid, if their friend wasn’t ALSO another version of themself, which bonnie clocks pretty late.] They pick up little quirks from their friends, like biting their nails like Belle, and puffing up to look bigger like Isa and stealing Dile's curses and closing an eye to match Frin's in focus. And maybe they start forgetting a little bit, just a little! The same thing over and over will get to you.

So everything essentially boils down to this. Bonnie specifically needs to be strong enough to beat the King, as the rest of the party doesn’t keep experience through loops. For a good chunk of the loops, they take advantage of Siffrin asking them if they need help and drag him into a training lesson that slowly goes from a whole emotional conversation to them quietly listening to Siffrin’s every word. [Siffrin fills this silence with random star facts that pop into their mind. This Is Important It WILL Be On The Test] Eventually the training becomes too tedious, so they start sneaking off to go fight sadnesses— and eventually just punch trees, which busts their knuckles— to get stronger faster! Everything goes downhill from there, with them forgetting to make food to them sneaking out at night to fight more to them getting reckless and uncaring; it snowballs down into “oh this could be considered suicidal confidence”.

Every loop, you say "hey, I'm trapped in a time loop", and EVERY time it is a big emotional thing that exhausts you to the point of going to bed immediately after, and everyone gets antsy and worried, and in the end the anxiety and trouble NEVER ends up mattering because the King still flattens the party every time. [And (shuffling through the sea of my notes for the au), imagine this from their situation for a second; Today, you tell your friends you are trapped in a time loop. They drag you into a long, uncomfortable conversation that makes you cry, and you go to bed with a full stomach and the knowledge they will protect you, and you will protect them. You make sure he doesn't get squashed by a boulder, you make sure they find the key, you make sure they don't die. Tomorrow, you will tell your friends you are trapped in a time loop. They will drag you into a long, uncomfortable conversation that will make you cry, and you will go to bed with a full stomach and the knowledge they've failed to protect you, but they're trying this loop, and you'll still protect them anyway.]

And then the King fight. He grabs them and he kills them and it fucks them up. [it fucks them up, until it too happens again and again, and eventually it simply is just another obstacle you must pass, because the second his stupid hand wraps around you like a ragdoll it’s over, so you just spit in his face to make him press the trigger immediately and not drag it out for forever- imagine the most traumatic event in your entire life, repeated over and over, until it looses all meaning. It’s still traumatic, it’s sewn into your brain forever you will never forget this.]

They tell the party ‘hey, I just got murdered’, and if this au was ISAT, it would go from having a memory that gave everyone a defense buff to a memory that literally stops you from winning, randomly attaching to a party member. You couldn’t get rid of it. They’d take every hit for you, and you’d have to loop back, because you couldn’t win with an unremovable memory like that. and that’s why they stop saying things, because if the people you loved would die to protect you, something you don’t want and have the ability to stop, would you stop them?

And so everything collapses, and from that point [the start of act 4] it collapses fast.

WHICH LEADS US TO ENDLESS MY FAVORITE LITTLE THANG

if this is transparent or not I don’t fucking know and honestly. After 2 hours of fighting ibisPaint X to make it transparent I stopped caring. o7

Slight design notes tangent: the fucking. Wispy things around their limbs just kinda move around them- yknow because black holes pull things in and they are one. Their like,,,, face spike design??? Question mark on what 2 call it? It’s designed to look like their hair lol. The little star-dot things on their knuckles are important smile. Eventually I’ll post a full thing 4 them (I have like 2 pages of random doodles of them it’s craaazy)

Endless (or Ness, later on) is Bonnie’s loop-alike. They’re a little angry hater and I based them on the song Black Hole Sun [therefore they double-dip in the space theming, the little scoundrel! Imagine being both a black hole and a partial eclipse!! Damn why you taking all the space theming for!!] which was the song the whole AU was based on! Woah! Damn you carrying ALL the out of AU lore in you! They’re anger over fear while Bonnie is fear over anger.

They make me SO fucking upset. Like. I’m not being funny anymore. This is THE most upsetting character I’ve ever written. They make me cry. My entire schtik is making horror and this little creature is the most upset I've ever been at a creation of mine.

Endless is a Bonnie who, without exaggerating, literally imploded from having too much wish craft in them— hence the black hole theme. They went through an unreasonable amount of loops [i think I noted down 400??? Probably not that many, but hey, leveling is slow when half the time you rely on a scripted event that has like 3 enemies. Never really pinned anything down, but it’s a CRAZY upsetting amount.] and just couldn’t win,, and they eventually broke, and begged for it to stop— and, well, with so much wish craft in them, even without the proper rituals the Universe just couldn’t ignore ALL this wish craft, overflowing, in one spot. They asked for help and it killed them.

And then they were at the tree! And they’re helping a DIFFERENT Bonnie, who they’re upset at because what. What why is this happening? They asked for it to stop, not for a whole NEW Bonnie to exist and to do it all over again, what is this what, stop stop it. And they have to keep watching Siffrin wish, and doom them to their endless loop, and they have to tell Bonnie no, the party can’t help them like they want the party to do because the party never could help them, and it’s just going to bring them distress and heartache. Bonnie does it anyways, until the very beginning of act 4: it goes downhill from there, until they’re worried This Bonnie will end up like THEM.

They’re not the most self-confident type. They give themself the most un-nicknameable name [Bonnie still finds one that fits— Ness. They reluctantly accept it.] [Endless vc: Ness? Like? From Earthbound???] they can think of because nicknames are a love language and they speak it, and they don't think they deserve it anymore because they've Changed, and trade out the nicknames they have for the party for things they learned from Siffrin in their own many many training loops: The Sun, The Moon, The Star, The Sky, and Bonnie is Supernova, because its cool as hell and Siffrin told them that’s what happens when a star dies, and they died. Open foreshadowing. They take to closing the same eye they made Siffrin the Star loose, because if he doesn’t get to see anymore neither should they— even if that eventually becomes a natural thing, something they do now to focus. They talk about a sister they have— had, because their world is gone and she never got unfrozen, they never learned if she was alive under all that icy craft or not, and they’re not Bonnie anymore. Ness is Bonnie, but Bonnie is not Ness.

And so, when act 5 hits, they’re desperate. They can’t see it happen again, because it erased them as a person and it was terrifying enough why would you want to see it happen again? they prepare to storm the house, bevause theyre strong enough to tear it apart themself, get stopped by the party, and essentially they’ve replaced Bonnie for a loop; which would be okay, if failing didn’t mean there would probably be Two Endlesses and No Bonnie’s. By the end of the au, Bonnie, lvl 99, is like bringing a brick to a stare down. Endless, in comparison, is like bringing a bazooka to a fistfight. They can’t face the King, they can’t, it would probably mess something up [the party has them pinned as being a kid by this point— wether they realise Ness acts a lot like Bonnie or not, who knows] so they panic and wave the party off into the King’s room and fights off the remaining sadnesses to calm down.

And the Party brings Bonnie down, and they fight a fake version of their sister [who they win against, even if barely, because Nille is their sister and damnit, Nille would never hurt them, not after giving up her life for them] and they have a breakdown, and then there's two of them. There's Bonnie and there's Ness. Bonnie confronts them and they get in ANOTHER fistfight, bveause how else would two angry ultra-powerful preteens settle things, and Bonnie convinces them to come along, because their identity has been found out and damnit Nille really won't care, Ness is her sibling too.

[Nille approaches the situation carefully, but Bonnie is right: Nille sees the two of them and immediately decides she has two siblings and she wants to protect them. Both of them went through so, so much, and they saved the country and damnit it would be monstrous to throw Ness out to the wolves because they Changed. Aka I was physically incapable of letting Ness dissapear or have a bad ending they deserve the world too.]

I just I jsutt. Auguhghghghhh. au too big in my brain spill it out on the floor it goes everywhere. When you hyperfix on your own au

[coyotemaximum]

*note: "killing people" is a general term, hence the "and shit". "killing people" can also relate to arson, grand theft auto, robbery, etc. big crimes and such. you don't actually have to kill people. it's just the worst thing i can think of that a normally decent person would do if presented with a no consequences scenario.

[troped-fanfic-challenge]

TROPED TIMELOOP

Thanks so much to the writers who joined us for this special event, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Please give these fics a read, leave a comment and some kudos, and maybe come and join us to write for our next event, TROPED HORROR CHOICE & TROPE EXCHANGE!!

We received two fics for the Round One Prompt! Writers had to write a Canonverse Theme with the Tropes: Time Travel, Unreliable Narrator, Tea Party, Zeugma, and Time Loop AU!

Time Turns Flames To Embers (Rated T) [A Series of Unfortunate Events — Gen Fic] by @loveislarryislove

Summary: September 30th, 7:48am

Woke up to the sound of Violet working on her latest invention. I asked her what it is, but she wouldn’t say a thing – just that it’s important. Whatever it is, it’s enormous, taking up nearly the entire room – a great contraption of tubes and gears and beakers and crystals. Just looking at it makes me feel dizzy.

I think I’ll spend the day in the library; perhaps that will be far enough away that the clanging and banging will be somewhat muffled. Something tells me that it won’t be, though.

whiskey in a teacup (Rated T) [The 100 — Clarke Griffin x John Murphy ] by @probably-voldemort

Summary: Murphy was going to die. Any day now it was going to happen. He hadn't really come to terms with dying in a creepy lighthouse basement. He's always thought he'd have a more exciting death. But he had an unlimited amount of whiskey and a stomach that hadn't tasted even a crumb in days, so it wasn't like he was really sober enough to put too much thought into how he was going to die.

And then he starts hallucinating Clarke, who is convinced she's the one hallucinating him, and suddenly dying drunk in a lighthouse bunker isn't as boring a way to go as it had once seemed.

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[shmreduplication]

one of the things that puts groundhog day timeloops, Severance, and Living With Yourself all in the same box is that the premise is extremely appealing if you've ever experienced any amount of depression or anxiety

what if there was another you to go to your job for you? what if there was no tomorrow because today kept repeating? there would be a small number of things worsening your mental illness symptoms!

the catch, of course, is that a lot of things in life that increase the good end up getting cut when trying to reduce the bad. You can take stress home from work but you can also take a sense of accomplishment in a job well done and build friendships with your coworkers. Deadlines move closer as you move forward in time but so do celebrations, and lots of hobbies are fun because they build on the work that you've done the day before

[would-they-break-the-timeloop]

Mirabelle (in stars and time)

[probably-voldemort]

whiskey in a teacup

a clarke x murphy fic - rated T

Murphy was going to die. Any day now it was going to happen. He hadn't really come to terms with dying in a creepy lighthouse basement. He's always thought he'd have a more exciting death. But he had an unlimited amount of whiskey and a stomach that hadn't tasted even a crumb in days, so it wasn't like he was really sober enough to put too much thought into how he was going to die.

And then he starts hallucinating Clarke, who is convinced she's the one hallucinating him, and suddenly dying drunk in a lighthouse bunker isn't as boring a way to go as it had once seemed.

Written for Round 1 of @troped-fanfic-challenge's Troped Timeloop event! Shoutout to @thelittlefanpire and @dylanobrienisbatman for hosting! Always a super fun time!

[link in reblog]

[theneighborhoodcryptid]

i love the idea of timeloops. like, my body is sixteen years old but i’ve lived this day more times than i can count and really i’m a thousand years old but i still pretend to be young and naïve because if i don’t, then i’ll have to explain. i’ve explained it a hundred times over and sometimes you believed me and sometimes you didn’t, but nothing ever changed so there’s no point in doing it again. i know you love me, but you love a version of me that was left behind in little pieces in every past loop. you’re my family, but the girl you know isn’t me anymore. i’m your family, and i’ve learned every fact about you, but you always forget me once the sun comes up. we know each other so well, but we’re strangers.

[d3cay1ngst4tic]

saw this on pinterest.

timeloop!au............ MY BRAIN

[vhvrs]

what initially drew you in to akechi as a character?

i went into p5 kinda aware akechi was who they are so i liked that i knew they were a very angry person but hiding it behind a very accomodating public image. putting on a hollow performance for the public veering for attention in places that make their stomach churn r things i really like in characters as is.

also, to be totally honest, the fact they look almost exactly like chara dreemurr, my favorite character of all time ever, made me latch on extra hard lol