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Falling down the stairs of your love (Song here; Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile (youtube.com))
Ignore how its Siffren crying and not the king, also ignore the king's hand
Welcome to the show!
I've never once done an inktober or anything like that because I ALWAYS forget by the time October rolls around, but I remembered this year!
It's not technically finished but I'm tired
Two hat spoilers!!! (Kinda, I'm not really sure)
Isatober day 2!
This took thirty minutes, but I don't hate it. I really like how Loop looks
Day 4 Stars
So I'm a little behind on ISATober but whatever lol
This took twenty minutes, and that would explain why I don't like it very much lol
Day 4 Touch
I am getting farther and farther behind on ISATober every day that goes by lol
Also, I think I mixed up plants liking when people talk to them with touch but whatever its 2 in the morning
If Loop wished for a gun and ability to slide so they can P Rank fight with The King (it for sure will break the loop)
happy birthday!
(Gets a tad bit angsty below the cut)
Easy to forget huh? At least the other you, stardust, remembers.
hey want a Starlight ref in the style that InsertDisk5 did for the main crew of ISAT? With funky design notes n all? No? TOO BAD!
it's small, it's probably not needed, BUT! It's very useful! Well, for me... (I tend to forget details but uh... besides that....) Heh, anyway GO BUCK WILD!!!
hey want a Starlight ref in the style that InsertDisk5 did for the main crew of ISAT? With funky design notes n all? No? TOO BAD!
it's small, it's probably not needed, BUT! It's very useful! Well, for me... (I tend to forget details but uh... besides that....) Heh, anyway GO BUCK WILD!!!
I love this game
Reblogs appreciated <3
(Major spoilers under cut)
My take on a post-game Siffrin!
Gave them a Loop-inspired eyepatch, and there's red in their eye bc of Loop's eye in the Loop fight!
do u ever think about how. "the happiest i can remember being" conversation happened after siffrin lost their eye
do u ever think about how mirabelle's expression here is because her friend straight up told her that the jrpg journey where he lost an eye was the best part of their life
do u ever think about how this isn't one of siffrin's fake smiles. can anyone hear me
ISAT-OBER
(Two hats/isat spoilers under the cut - be mindful )
Day 2+4 - Change & Star
Hi hi! decided i am going to do ISAT-tober but due to being busy(and because I came up with a ridiculous amount of good ideas like this) I'm merging prompts! (using @/darlnyan's ISAT prompt list)
Sooo expect me to upload multiple drawing prompts until I catch up properly, than ill switch to posting every other day.
On the other note, absolutely love how this one turned out?! don't think I've ever done colours and lighting so nicely?? And WOW monochrome lighting with monochrome colours plus that much white light against white colours was difficult!
Wooo enjoying this story! Somehow it has only just registered that this is in fact act 1, the pacing is very good, and this act alone would make for a good standalone au.
If anyone stumbling upon this post is interested in a gore-y monster siffrin Au with a diffrent and unique take on siffrins issues, this is a good read. Also some really cool headcanons and world building, here.
Can't wait to see what comes next, things are going to get very interesting, I can imagine.
A Symphony In Crimson
Act 1: A Movement in Black
Chapter 22
You stand next to your family, defending them. You don’t see a way out.
✸ “The fact is, I have a different way to fix this! I can’t go back to stardust if their dead~”
Instantly, your family rounds about you, to defend you instead!?!
✸ “Oh dear? That devoted! Well then…”
Loop steps back and space folds in on itself, as you suddenly feel something behind you.
✸ “Let’s play~”
Loop grabs your arm, and you pull back, detaching it quickly before a surge of craft energy incinerates it. You regrow the arm back quickly and grab your dagger, as Mirabelle charges at Loop.
Loop easily sidesteps the attack without flinching, and then without even looking, grabs Isa’s fist when they try and attack from behind.
✸ “You’re going to have to try harder then that~”
Loop tosses Isa aside, and then fires another craft at you, as you dodge by mere inches!
Wait- You block the followup blow, as they closed the gap in the cover. Of course, you know that move!
You slash back at him, trying to hit him, but he dances just out of range. He knows your moves too.
Bonnie fires at him from behind, but he vanishes away into the shadows.
◆ “Fighting awfully hard for someone trying to die.”
✸ “If you can’t kill me, you won’t be ready when dear Stardust becomes a danger!”
▲ “Sif isn’t gonna do that.”
Loop appears from above, dive bombing Odile. Mira sets up a craft shield to block the blow, while Isa pulls her out the way.
✸ “HAHA!!!! But I’m proof they COULD!!!! And If you aren’t ready for that… Then I’d best remove that possibility~”
They fall into the earth, and you block the blow from your side. You knew it! They still fight like you somewhat! You snap your fingers to speed up Odile, who takes the opening to blast loop back into the tree.
✦̵ “Which is why you’re fighting like me, aren’t you?”
◉ “Wait, They are! Okay! We can work with that, circle up and protect each others openings!”
As the others close in around you, back to back, Loop begins to laugh, staring you down, perched in front of the tree.
✸ “Oh, think you Know me? YOU THINK I’M THE SAME AS DEAR LITTLE STARDUST???”
They pull their mask off their face.
✸ “Then I’d best change up my tune~ After all…”
Loop smashes the mask against the ground, and thousands of bright red, glowing flowers bloom around you all. Spider Lilies?
Loop plucks one from the earth.
✸ “I was made with a lot more then just Stardust.”
Loop crushes the flower in their hands, and their stance changes. They stand more straight, more calculating. A more serious, and uncannily familiar expression crosses their face, serious yet light. The bits of flower wither and transform into black crystal, slowly taking the vague form of a book. Wait!
✦̵ “Mira, Shield!”
Mira crafts as quick as she can before a massive blast of craft energy slams into you all! Even with the shield, it knocks you all off your feet, and stings a bit.
Loop chuckles, in a voice not their own, their own voice only a faint echo behind their new, all to familiar voice.
◆ “Oh gems, I might have overdone it. Ah well.”✸
◆ “Right, That’s disconcerting.”
◆ “Well within Siffrin’s capabilities, I assure you. If only I’d stopped them when I had the chance…”✸
BANG
Loop narrowly blocks the shot with their book, as it starts to shatter. Isa runs around and tries to tackle them while their distracted, and Loop has to dive out of the way.
✿ “Don’t act like Dile! And Stop trying to hurt Frin!!! They’d never hurt us!”
BANG
Isa takes a hit in the shoulder, as Loop suddenly has a mimicry of a pistol in their hand, and an innocent yet terrified face.
✿ “But if Frin wouldn’t hurt us, How’d I end up like this?! It hurt so much! It hurt so much…”✸
Bonnie shakes hearing that. NO. That’s too far.
You charge at Loop, driving the dagger straight into the earth, just managing to get their side. They scramble to their feet, with another flower in hand.
Crystal forms into a rapier, as Loop heals themselves with craft. Their face is a familiar, determined look. their stance unwavering.
◉ “Just stop it! We don’t want to hurt you!”
◉ “Neither did we! And we died for it! I won’t let you go the same way! We have to protect you!”✸
Mirabelle charges at Loop, who parries her attack. The two duel for a brief few seconds before Isa charges out the way, as Loop ducks under the blow.
They slide backwards, and grab another flower. Crushing it quickly, their hands are coated in crystal, and they charge at Mira, making several swings at her.
▲ “We might not like it, but that doesn’t make it better! We just gotta know you can handle it, please! I can’t let that happen to Sif again! We have to know you can stop it if it would!”✸
Isa jumps in, putting themselves between Mira and Loop, and holding back their blows.
▲ “Nobody is dying today, got it? If the worst happens, we’ll find a better way then this!”
You can’t take any more of this. Can’t take any more of hearing versions of them who died. Can’t take this fighting.
You unravel, and grab Loop while their preoccupied, and fling them against the favor tree, then leap towards them, and try to wear them down in a flurry of fangs and tendrils.
✦̵ “That’s enough! I’m not gonna let that happen, never again!”
✸ “… Then why. Are you BLINDING. HESITATING?!?!”
Loop grabs a limb and throws you back towards the party.
✸ “...I expected them to hesitate. They always did... But YOU?!?! YOU KNOW THE STAKES!!!!”
Loop vanishes, and the earth starts to shift. The world itself begins to tilt. Their voice seems to echo from everywhere at once.
✸ “hahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Even when face to face with the monster within, When you FINALLY have the chance to kill it for good, YOU CAN’T BLINDING DO IT?!?!?”
The ground keeps tilting, and you grab your family, bringing them to the tree before they lose they fall into the sky. You all stand upon the branches of the tree, hoping they’ll hold you up.
✸ “MAYBE you need a REMINDER.”
As the world becomes completely flipped, the flowers begin to drip a dark red substance. But you can smell what it is…
✿ “What’s happening? What’s coming from the flowers?”
✦̵ “Blood. It smells like blood.”
Stars not this nightmare. Nonononono
Faces start to form in the dark abyss below, rising from below. Blood-formed images of your family. Thousands of them. Their eyes lifeless, their bodies mangled. Staring at you. Screaming in pain.
◆ “Gems alive!”
◉ “Change!”
✿ “No no no that's not okay!”
You can’t help but shake, and grip the tree for dear life.
▲ “S-Sif? You okay?”
✸ “Of course not, they’ve had this nightmare every other night for almost a year now!!!! Because even if YOU all deny it, It never left THEIR mind!!!!!! THEY ALWAYS KNEW!!!! KNEW WHAT I AM COULD BECOME REAL!!!!”
✦̵ “Nonononononono I won’t hurt them I won’t hurt them I won’t hurt them I won’t hurt them”
You won’t hurt them you won’t hurt them you won’t hurt them It’s not real it can’t be real please don’t let it be real you wouldn’t you wouldn’t!!!!
◆ “Snap out of it Siffrin!”
▲ “We’re right here, just stay calm!”
✸ “That didn’t stop it before.”
Loop appears. But their stance. No. It’s all to familiar. Their stance is that of a feral beast. A horn of crystal forms on their head. A claw forms on one hand. And a dagger in the other. And the moment they open their mouth, the voices quiet, and harmonize with them.
✦̵ “We can’t let them die. We have. To stop. The monster.”✸
They let out a manic laugh. They lift their face. Their eyes are dark voids, as tears flow down their face, contorted into a twisted smile.
✸ “So it ends here. One way, or another.”✦̵
They charge right at you. You can barely breath, the blood is making it hard to think! Gotta.. Gotta..
Isa blocks the blow before it can reach you.
✸ “BLINDING KILL ME!!!!! KILL US BEFORE WE HURT YOU AGAIN!!!!!!”✦̵
▲ “No! We can find a better way!”
✸ “No You CAN’T!!! Even I struggled to pull Stardust from the brink! YOU’LL DIE IF YOU TRY!!!!”✦̵
◆ “Wait, What do you mean by that?”
Nonononononono please don’t tell them!!!!
✸ “HAHAHA Oh I didn’t mention?!? The king was one CRUEL MONSTER!!!! By their hand, Stardust already has a taste for human!! I won’t say which one!!! But when they came back, well… It’s a good thing I had a corpse ready!!!”✦̵
You choke. The smell is sickening, the memory still in your mind, and the corpses of your family still stare you down. You can’t move you can’t breathe their all horrified and you can’t move!
Loop tosses Isa aside, and continues to charge at you.
Odile slows them with craft, straining herself to bring them to a crawl.
◆ “Siffrin! Get it together!”
✦̵ “Blood. Can’t. Think.”
There’s so much and every breathe just brings in more, and you can’t, you can’t!!!
✸ “SEE??? EVEN NOW THEY HAVE TO FIGHT IT!!! Even with A MONTHS WORTH of getting away from it, EVEN WHEN FRESHLY FED, they can BARELY handle it!!!! And TRUST ME, I’d be FAR WORSE!!!!”✦̵
◆ “Gems this is bad.”
Loop takes advantage of her distraction and throws their knife directly at her, hitting her hand and disrupting the slow. Mira throws a quick heal at Odile, and then crafts a shield to block Loop from you.
◉ “Siffrin! You can do this! Prove them wrong!”
Mira… You... You can’t let her down. You shakily try and get to your feet. You wrap a tendril around the other side of Mira’s shield, trying to grab Loop and restrain them. They break out with ease.
✸ “STOP HESITATING!!!! I THOUGHT YOU LEARNED YOUR LESSON WITH THE KING??? YOU. CAN’T. SPARE. MONSTERS!!!!”✦̵
They take their claw and smash through Mira’s shield, grabbing her by the throat and tossing her aside.
You can still barely move, you’re shaking too bad. Loop continues to charge and-
Stops. Because Bonnie. Put themselves in the way. Arms outstretched. Not defending themselves.
✸ “… Clever, Bonbon.”✦̵
✿ “Y-Yeah! You won’t hurt us!”
✸ “… I can’t lose you all again, that's true.... But you misunderstand.”✦̵
Loop grabs Bonnie and vanishes with them. They reappear, hovering in the air just beyond the branches, holding Bonnie up with one hand. A new crystalline knife in the other.
✸ “I won’t KILL you.”✦̵
They bring the knife up to Bonnie’s eye! NO!!
YOU WON’T LET THEM!!!!!!
You reach out with your tendrils and Grab Loop, and then, with a single motion.
You dig a fang into their heart.
✸ “Ah!”
The distortion shatters like glass...... as the world suddenly returns to normal.
Your family drop to the ground, including Bonnie, Loop having released their grip. You wrap yourself around the tree, Holding yourself up, and holding Loop in place, slowly turning them upright.
✸ “Do it, stardust. Please.”
✦̵ “...No. Not after everything.”
✸ “….”
✦̵ “Wasn’t the whole point to not hurt anyone again?”
Loop just stares at you silently...
✸ “… Why. Why did it have to go this way?”
You slowly lower your both back down to the ground. The others start to get up.
Bonnie walks up to loop, as you let them go. Bonnie has a scratch on their cheek, but is otherwise unharmed. Loop’s heart is cracked a little. But otherwise fine. Tears run down Loops cheek.
Bonnie hugs Loop.
✿ “… Cause you’re both stupid crabs who don’t talk about stuff.”
✸ “...Hah. I guess we are?”
You meander towards the both of them. And just put a hand on Loop’s shoulder.
✦̵ “...Sorry I put you through that...”
✸ “Well. If I’m not dying here, I guess you might go through it anyways.”
◆ “...Loop. Care to get this Fool Arcana to chat?"
Odile smiles a bit.
◆ “… I still have a Coinflip to win, and might as well use it on something that matters.”
Loop thinks for a second. Then tosses Odile a silver coin. The same one you carry around.
✸ “… They say Heads, I go to stardust, Tails, I go with them... And that they already know the result.”
Odile nods. And Holds the coin out. She takes a deep breath. And flips.
… You look at the coin, laying in the grass. Tails.
✸ “… Guess they haven't had enough of me yet…"
Odile chuckles to herself. Guess she got that wish.
✸ “...Thank you.”
Odile walks over to them, and puts a hand on their shoulder.
◆ “Of course... Heh, Such a drama queen, all this over nothing.”
◉ “D-Does that mean this is the last we see of you?”
Mirabelle sort of hovers, nervous.
✸ “… Maybe. Not that we have time for proper goodbyes~”
You look, and see Loop is fading away slowly already.
▲ “Then... If you get the chance, you better say Hi. I’m pretty sure you’re part of the group now!”
✸ “...Of course. I promise… But can you promise me one thing?”
You all nod. They look at your family members. Before closing their eyes. And in several voices, speak.
✸◆✿◉▲ “Take care of them for us, Okay?”
Everyone else is kind of taken aback for a second.
◉ “… We will.”
✿ “Can do!”
◆ “As if it was in doubt?”
▲ “No problem!”
You sit there for a second.
✦̵ “…I will too.”
✸ “...Good… You really are, frankly, quite helpless without them, Stardust!”
Loops body starts to fade away into nothing.
✸ “...Farewell.”
As their body finally dissipates into nothing, you see a small, red light appear on the ground where they sat. As a single, bright red Spider-Lily blooms in their place.
✦̵ “Sorry, to all of you. And… Thank you. Loop.”
You all take a moment of Silence. Just looking at this site.
▲ “...Let’s go. I think this has been a long day for all of us.”
You nod. You just lean up against Isa. Your family heads up to the house, to talk with the head housemaiden, and clear up any last minute mess.
As the Morning sun shines down around you, with your family by your side. You feel content.
Your brain keeps telling you that things won’t go well but. You ignore them.
Because somehow. You know this will work out.
… The road is long. But. You know that, for the first time. In a long. LONG time. Really, truly, in every sense...
You are no longer alone.
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In the light the sins are burned
From deepest black they have been turned
For family the monster lives
Nigredo past, To Hope they give
Yet can they withstand purification?
In Albedo they will find life. Or damnation.