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The Moonstone Shining Amongst the Stars (2397 words) by Astrals_Freedom Chapters: 1/? Fandom: In Stars And Time (Video Game) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Odile & Siffrin (In Stars And Time), Minor or Background Relationship(s) Additional Tags: Minor Isabeau/Siffrin (In Stars and Time), Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV Odile (In Stars and Time), POV Second Person, Odile-centric (In Stars and Time), no beta we die like Siffrin, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags May Change, Rating May Change Summary: So here all of you are, at the end. Victors against the king and saviors of Vaugarde. Siffrin had spoken to you first. You almost wished they hadn’t. You had a feeling that something would happen, yet, you also wanted to get it off your chest as fast as possible. However, you could have never predicted this. AKA, an AU where after the sus event, Odile begins looping in time with Siffrin :D

HELLOOOOOOOOOOO

You remember my suspicion AU i yapped about a while ago? Well I finally got a title for the fic SO ITS FINALLY POSTEDDDDDDDDDD

Having a lot of fun writing this so I hope yall enjoy it! I'm hoping to get chapters out every week or two? No promises though sadly :(

You know this was supposed to just be a silly fun AU

I don't know how I got to the point of expanding everything to the point of introducing constellations to the religious system and creating an all new craft type

Also my computer is infected with loop critters. This doesn't have anything to do with the AU I just thought it was fun :P

I am back with my, 'Odile gets stuck with Siffrin after Sus event' AU, which will now be referred to as the Suspicion! AU

Basically, Siffrin, of course, loves handing the flowers out to his family. One of the few things they do take joy in. But, since they all react the same, it becomes less fun. Siffrin still does it, of course, but less frequently and it's one less thing that make them happy now.

Until Odile is stuck. At first, Siffrin just gives Odile a majority of the flowers since they have Endless Amounts of Guilt, and while he can't do much, he can give out flowers which seem to make Odile happy (they do, they very much do. Odile every now and then will give one back since they both go to the shop as a thank you). However, it also very quickly rekindles the love for flower gifting, since Odiles new reactions to them make Siffrin like it again. AKA, it forces them into the awareness that if the others could react differently and have a silly amass of flowers, they would.

Eventually Odile asks why Siffrin is basically giving Odile a flower collection even if she can't keep them every time, to which Siffrin responds that it's fun.

Ok just throwing this idea out there cause its been rattling around my head and with how unrefined it is I gotta get that out.

So like, In Stars and Time AU that's just inscryption.

Call that shit like.. In Scrybes and Time or something cause it keeps the acronym and it kinda rolls off the tongue.

Probably gonna spoil stuff from the actual game and both endings because like rambling, so here's the spoiler warning!! specifically for both endings and such!

Alright anyways let's get rambling

So, Loop replaces Leshy, call them the Scrybe of Stars or something like that.

Siffrin is the player character instead of the nameless protagonist, no irl stuff with the disk and such.

The party is now cards, I'd imagine the find order is probably Mira, Bonnie, Odile and then Isa, order will be explained later but all I've thought of right now is Bonnie is a Crab that generates 2 cards that function like mealworms.

It's 4 maps, going through the boss sadnesses, the king, and then, if requirements are met (think getting the film in the main game, probably finding the silver coin?), Loop themself as the Leshy fight replacement.

All the bossfight masks are lit with this nearly spotlight thing behind them cause Loops head is a fucking star and that cannot be good for Siffrin to stare at, but it only really ramps up when Loop slaps a mask on.

The boss sadnesses are minorly developed into like, actual scrybe followers instead of just voiceless beasts, still keeping some of their gimmicks I'll figure out how to translate all this into inscryption terms later

Any time Siffrin wins (not including winning the Loop fight) or dies, they get looped back to map 1, funny little remark from Loop, i.e "Oh! So close Stardust, but not close enough :)"

It's basic but I'm probably gonna try to doodle this out later, Party Cards and Loop too.

The First Ressurection

Four Portions

(Act 1, Scene 2)

An In Stars and Time fanfiction, spoilers under the cut!

You’ve entered the House, and are now in a room Mira called “The Death Corridor.”, searching for traps.

There isn’t much here that could be trapped, only the six pillars, which you’re already checking for switches or other activation devices. You also try to walk on every part of the floor while you’re at it, in case of a pressure plate or a trapdoor or something, but you don’t find any traps, and tell your party the corridor’s safe. Mira, however, needs more convincing.

“So? So??? Are we safe? We’re not safe, are we, this is the Death Corridor...” Mira worries, “The older housemaidens kept saying people died there! So there must be a trap- something weight-sensitive or something!”

Mira’s getting more frantic now, her nails are getting dangerously close to biting-distance!

“Or, or! Maybe it’s time-sensitive! If we spend to long here...!”

“There’s nothing weird in here.” You say, finally.

“But there must be!”

“Aw, Mira...” Yes! Isa to the rescue!

“Belle, Belle, don’t worry about it.” Bonnie interjects. “Frin isn’t good at many things, but they know stuff about traps.”

Hey...

“Right. If we can’t trust the one that’s supposed to lead us THIS early, this won’t bode well for later...” Odile says.

HEY...

Mira seems unconvinced. “But, but-“

“We’re not dead yet, are we?” you say.

“Well, that’s true...”

“We HAVE been in this room for a while...” Odile looks up from her notes and at Mira. “...and Siffrin has been walking everywhere, so if it was weight-sensitive, something would have killed him by now.”

“Exactly! It’s all fine!” Isa adds, hurriedly.

“Oh...Yeah! Yeah, okay! I’ll believe you!” Mira flushes with an embarrassed smile. “Sorry... for worrying... I'm a little on edge.”

“We’re good, Mira.” You say, stepping into the middle of the corridor. “See? Everything’s fine.”

<<<<<

You’re not sure what happened. One moment you’re standing, fine, and the next you’re splayed under a giant rock, and the next you’re planet-long threads, laid down and scrutinised,

And now, you’re back in the meadow.

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Four Portions

(Act 1, Scene 1)

An In Stars and time fanfiction, isat spoilers under the cut!

Well-done wishes hurt you like needles. They produced small, sharp pains until dewdrops of craft bleed from your skin, and you grant them.

There’s been far fewer good wishes as of late, as you’ve neutralised a country especially responsible for using Wishcraft. Old scars have had time to heal over, people have seen less red, and you’ve saved a few portions of your craft.

However, you’ve always found an art in finding the most disruptive way a wish can be twisted, and have always liked watching the aftermath of your work. That was what Wishcraft was for, after all. A way to make a deal between you and the wisher, where, in exchange for turning their life into your artwork, they would get to decide one thing about the piece, and how many portions of your time and energy you spent on it.

One of your most recent works came from a wisher in Corbeaux, in Vaugaurde, on Earth, a satellite of the sun, in the Milky way.

It sounded twelve times;

“I wish for Vaugarde to stay perfect.”

Twelve portions were given to make Vaugarde stay perfect.

Now, the unpainted parts of Vaugarde are sore with poor wishing. A discomfort similar to that of a graze. Few parts cut deep enough to draw craft, so only one portion bleeds out, even as you push around Vaugarde gently with your fingers.

You can hear roughly what they’re wishing for;

“----wish—Vaugarde---”

“----Vaugarde---The King---”

“I---save Vau—"

“-----stop—King---”

They want you to undo your previous work.

...You don’t think you could do it with only one portion, the pain is broad, also, so you can’t figure out a place to pinpoint the wish. Which means, under current circumstances, it's impossible to grant.

That is, until...

“I wish to stay with them!”

It sounds three times.

The wish of a traveller, in Dormont, in Vaugarde, on Earth, a satellite of the Sun, in the Milky Way cuts into you, and draws three portions. You give them four.

Three for them to stay with their companions,

And an extra to save Vaugarde.

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All done!

Gently, you let the leaf go, and start down the dirt path back into town, away from the favour tree.

You have a sleepover to go to, after all!

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ALRIGHT, I ASKED FOREVER AGO, BUT WHO WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT MY ISA LOOPS AU??

Heads up this contains a lot, and I mean A LOT of spoilers for In Stars And Time. Including: = Act 6 spoilers, including main mystery and secret encounter = Minimal Act 5 stuff = And a bunch of extra stuff that happens through Act 3 and 4. SO BASICALLY ALMOST EVERYTHING, FINISH THIS GAME COMPLETELY BEFORE READING (ESPECIALLY THAT ACT 6 ENCOUNTER, IT WILL LITERALLY BE THE FIRST THING I MENTION UNDER THE CUT)

With all those warnings out of the way-

IN REPETITION AND CHANGE

Initial Concepts:

I feel it's important to show these sketches because they were the first ideas I ever had. I wasn't even entirely sure I wanted to make an AU at this point, I didn't even know how I'd approach it. But I started sketching and it's been on my mind since- SO! Isa is stuck in the timeloop. I know what his wish is and he DOES have a Loop equivalent! The grumpy dandelion guy is Roboro (it/they/he). Their name is a very small play on Ouroboros and they call Isa "Seedling". However, this post is not about them, as I'm gonna talk about it and Isa's dynamic in a separate post. In short, Isa is his normal loud self up until Act 3, right? They beat the King, they reach the end, and whoops, the loop isn't broken. So now, what happens is that Isa starts getting his brains out. He starts thinking more analytically and tries to problem solve.

The more stuck he gets in his head, the less he's able to perceive his friends as real people, and more like them holding him back. Because even if Isa explains that he's smart, that they shouldn't be surprised if he says something, shock of all shocks, reasonable- They'll forget it the next loop.

So Isa is stuck with trying to portray his confident, loud, supportive facade- Which is fine! It wouldn't be the first time! But it progressively gets more and more frustrating, as he tries to find answers and simply looses the energy to pretend to be stupid.

TL;DR: Isa in the timeloop, unlike Siffrin, becomes more distant and cold rather then something more akin to Sif's mania.

NOW, MORE ART!!!

KILL KILL KILL:

I imagine Isa didn't have this encounter the same way that Sif did. Yeah, frankly, Isa is pissed with the sadness- But that's not why he goes through with this.

In this moment, Isa is trying to kill two birds with one stone. He's trying to get through this quickly, as well as reassure Mira that they can do this! If he shows how strong he is, then she'll feel safe right???

Poor Isabeau forgot that whenever he shows that he thinks ahead, he scares people. How could he forget that? How could he forget that he's inherently---

Family Quest:

I still think Odile is the one to call out to him (same with sus quest).

The hangouts I'm still figuring out, cause I don't think they'd too similar to base game- But, fun fact, at the end of this run, everyone agrees to keep travel together!

Isabeau brings it up, can't hurt if you can fix your mistakes right? And everyone agrees. The relief on Siffrin is the most palpable thing Isabeau has ever seen.

In this moment they love you. In this moment they all love you. In this moment---

Death Screen:

He loops back anyways. (This is one of the initial concepts that I ended up animating. This line in particular is when he reaches the end)

Act 5 Tarot Card:

NOW TO SEE MORE OF HIS PASSIVE AGRESSIVE SIDE

Thanks to @the-bitter-ocean for prescribing tarot cards to Isa (THEY ALL FUCK SO HARD) and for the RAW ASS LINE

If interacted with in act 5, predictably, Isa tears it apart. He doesn't need the divine judgement upon him, he's faced everyone's perception his entire life.

However, he tears it methodically. Tears it once in even pieces, twice, three times, and one of the pieces once more. In a way he isn't even getting his emotions out, it's like he's actively trying to tear it apart so it stops nagging him, like he wants to shut it up. Though, the Judgement card symbolizes rebirth, absolution and inner calling. In Act 6 he'd be able to look at it and find comfort and confidence in the card.

Act 5 Mirror:

And lastly, I have the Act 5 mirror picture. I haven't quite figured out how to make the normal ones work yet, however, I couldn't let go of the idea that Isa would not want to be in the picture.

The idea of seeing himself at all makes his head hurt and his stomach squeeze. The memory haunts him as he stands to the side and says the word. He didn't think the mirror would catch him.

AAAAND THAT'S ALL THE ART STUFF FOR NOW!!

I still have quite a bit of it to post, especially about Roboro, but I'm gonna leave it here for now.

I still gotta figure out the hangouts and potentially the dagger equivalent- but I have ideas for Bad Touch, the glass equivalent, and some extra little things that didn't happen in Siffrin's loops.

I needed to yap about this, because I've been slowly stacking up ideas and writing and I needed to share it at some point- If anyone read all this and has questions and stuff I fully welcome 'em!!

What if there was an ISAT au where Siffren is still the one looping, but in his place his friends die to what he would normally die to, so Siffren has to make sure sure they're safe along their journey to the King and absoloutley goes crazy in the process.

Like, the first boulder death, maybe instead it'd be mirabelle checking because she knows the most about the death corridor. And throughout their deaths could just be inevitable. If siff needed to loop back then he'd probably just spiral instead because his friends need to die to do that.

I feel like that would actually destroy him, especielly because he's so fine with himself dying instead of his friends in Canon game. I haven't thought about it much but Idk could be neat.

hi chat im back on my bullshit

back at it again with more In Tears And Blood!!! fun fact The Traveler refers to themself as that because they genuinely Cannoy Remember Their Name half the time. but The Stars helps them remember <3

also bonus doodle. i hate The Stars sm theyre SO lame and pathetic and lame /aff