Siffrin Wearing Heeled Boots Is Actually Very Important To Me.

Siffrin wearing heeled boots is actually very important to me.

Come on guys, Loop already lost their pronoun at least let them be tall as compensation

Apologies if you've been asked that already but I just got to that scene again in my latest run and it got me thinking:

How would the Odile hangout happen in your Traveling Companions AU? What would change, what would stay the same?

I actually haven't been asked this! Which means I haven't really thought about it that much either so...

For this au, I'm going to say that Siffrin knows about Odile's Vaugardian roots and by extension her search for a familytale. (He also knows that she isn't researching anything, and is in on the bit.)

It honestly wouldn't change that much, her and Siffrin would still bond over their country issues. When they're talking after finding the book, I imagine she'd go more in depth about the whole... Mom Thing. Perhaps she'd explain her reasons for why she was so adamant on finding a more suitable home for Siffrin for a good chunk of their childhood, vocalizing that she was afraid that she wouldn't be a good maternal figure to them because of her upbringing.

Siffrin basically comforts her by telling her she did an alright job at raising him, despite the circumstances. There are feelings. You know how it is.

This also marks an end in Siffrin's internal 'Odile isn't my mother' monologue, and makes way for his internal 'Odile is kind of my mother' dialogue.

< you cant move >

Looking at that traveling companions art, Odile’s like “Hmm, I’m hungry” and Siffrin shows up with a fish they wrestled out of the river /j

The trend of Siffrin just showing up with fish bigger than they are is continued throughout their childhood.

Please ramble about the Au I’m so curious

Well, since you asked so nicely~

(This isn't proof read. Forgive the incoherence)

I've just been calling this Traveling Companions Au. So basically, Odile meets Siffrin way before the events of the story, not long after the whole Island thing. So, when they're about eleven-ish and she's in her 30s.

And now Odile has this child on her hands who

Can barely communicate. (Going off the assumption that Siffrin was already taught some Vaugardian when he was young since the countries were so close)

Remembers nothing about where their from.

And seemingly just showed up out of the mist.

At this point, Odile has already begun traveling the world. So even if she was in the mood to take a random child in (which, she very much isn't) she isn't in any position to give them a stable home. So, she leaves them at the first orphanage she finds and that's that, isn't it?

Of course not. Because Siffrin just. Keeps. Finding her, having latched onto her like a duckling to the first thing it sees. And eventually she just kind of caves and stops trying to get rid of them. She understands what it's like to feel like you don't belong anywhere, after all.

She's not their mother, never tries to be their mother. She probably just calls them her ward until their old enough to reasonably be called a travel companion. Obviously she cares about him. She just. Never tells him how much she cares about him. In direct words.

And yes, while cute kid Siffrin stuff is all well and good. What I really wanna explore with this AU is how it affects the main story.

Sif grows up with a drier sense of humor. Though puns are still a thing. Odile will never be free from the puns.

Siffrin probably? Learns about her whole Familytale quest, but never pries into the context until the Friendship quests arc.

Self-esteem issues are still a thing, just in a different flavor.

He's definitely a lot more comfortable with making fun of Odile than he is in canon. Though it goes both ways. They've got over a decades worth of dirt on each other.

And if Odile was perceptive before, imagine how much easier to read Siffrin is going to be now? She's known them for like 2/3s of their life she's definitely going to notice somethings going on in most of their loops.

Mirabelle and Isabeau get two party members for the price of one in this AU! And with the way Odile and Siffrin behave around each other they assume they've been traveling together for a while.

One day, Mirabelle actually thinks to ask how long they've known each other. And when Odile casually replies, "oh... fourteen years? Fifteen?" She and Isabeau are baffled because ??? Siffrin's in his mid-20s????

At one point, Mirabelle or Isabeau mentions that Odile must be like a mother to Siffrin, and the absolutely disconcerted look Siffrin gives them in response is enough to make them never bring it up ever again.

So yeahhhhhh those are my rambles. Maybe I'll write a fic about this. Maybe I'll just release this into the wild and let people do what they want with it. Who knows?