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    Where did you wake up? Why did you wake up here? shouldn't you be in the field like normal? You've never started a loop in a bed before. And whose this person next to you?


    After you're little scuffle with Stardust you're... floating? Stars this is going to be a doozy.

     

    A.K.A Siffrin and Loop on their separate paths in order to heal all they went through. Siffrin with the guidance of their family and Loop with some unexpected help.
    Because why do a Siffrin based fic OR a Loop based fic when you can simply do both.

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    Welcome back, Traveler.
    It is time to grant your wish. To return you to your family.

    They are the same humans, Traveler. Nothing has been erased.
    They are still yours, even if they don’t remember.
    Won’t it be such a joy? To meet them all over again?

    —---

    Great news! You didn’t murder your family! Bad news! They don’t know who you are!
    How would you even answer if they asked? Who is Loop without the loops?

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    It’s suddenly quiet. Odile’s eyes open as though she had just woken up. As though that were just an awful dream.
    She can think of only two explanations. Either she blacked out somehow and ended up back in Dormont, or none of that actually happened.
    But neither of those make sense…

    If anyone were to be trapped like this, Odile is glad that it's her.
    After all, she was never going home, anyway.

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    You’re not lying, just… waiting, for a good moment to tell the party what you did to stardust. You just need time. Answers. A peace offering. Just something more than ‘I stole your friend’s body and there’s nothing I can do to fix it.’

    After fading away at the Favor tree post 2-hats confrontation, Loop finds themselves in control of stardust’s body. Unable to bring themselves to tell the party the truth, Loop resolves to find a way to return stardust’s body on their own. Interpersonal shenanigans ensue as Loop tries to toe the line between maintaining their cover and not taking advantage of the party’s misconception.

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    You can’t entirely believe this is happening in front of you, like you’re ready for some stranger to come in and shout, “And scene!”

    It never comes. Time moves forward unabated.


    Before they can make their fateful wish at the Favor Tree, a mysterious voice pops into Siffrin’s head and says, “Don’t do it. Just tell them how you feel.” This seems like the best of both worlds — keeping his found family without subjecting himself to time loop torture. But the problems they faced before don’t just disappear, and sometimes a fella has to make their own mistakes.

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    A few weeks after you've defeated the King, you and your party start to make your way back to Bambouche. You still don't have the answers to everything or every problem you've ever caused, but... It'll be okay, now. The world is healing, and so are you.

    There's only one problem here.

    You miss Loop.

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    Isabeau goes back to the Favor Tree and sees a familiar face.

    Post-canon one hat fic where Loop is still at the Favor Tree and Siffrin is sick because of Craft Exhaustion. Isabeau goes to the Favor Tree to wish for Siffrin to get better and Loop takes the opportunity to maybe get a second chance.

    Shifting POVs

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    The loops end. Vaugarde is saved. Why aren't you happy about this?

    Siffrin discovers that death is not the only way to loop back to the start.

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    You barely know what you like.

    You suppose there's no better time to explore than now.

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    When the Star card is reversed, it means that you are feeling as though everything has turned against you. The challenges that you would normally see as exciting seem instead to make you feel as though you cannot overcome them. You have lost faith in something, whether inside yourself or with something you normally find dear. Without hope, without faith, we cannot find the motivation to progress forward in the challenges that we face.

    Whether it's their own loops, Siffrin's, or the moments after the curtain call, Loop can't escape the specter of the person they once were and desperately want to be again.

    Written for the ISAT 2025 Artbang!

     

    (DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR THIS WORK TO BE USED BY OR FOR ANY GENERATIVE AI.)

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    What if the King had an ally? How would Siffrin react and what will he do when the loops suddenly start resetting on their own? Is the King’s Knight truly as immoral as Loop says they are or can they be redeemed?
    Now, against two enemies, how will Siffrin manage to escape the loops, how will his new choices affect the narrative and what would he lose in the process?

    In the backstage, away from the lights of the projectors, the Universe is writing its next script while its Stagehands set it in motion.

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    The Change God has their hands in a lot more than they tell their people.

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    Black box, n.
    1. A usually large, square room with black walls used as a space for theatrical performances.
    2. A device or theoretical construct with known or specified performance characteristics but unknown or unspecified constituents and means of operation.
    3. Something that is mysterious, especially as to function.
    -American Heritage Dictionary

    Through some means or other, Loop is tossed back into their original timeline after some time spent studiously trying to avoid bonding with Siffrin's party. Luckily for them, they learned a bit about the party anyway – enough to realize that their versions are... different.

    Or maybe unluckily for them. Because now that they've met versions of their friends who have been trying with all their might to understand Siffrin (and even Loop!) in all of their opaquenesses, they may never be satisfied in their home universe again.

    (What if Siffrin had more of a reason to fear opening up to the party than just being terrified of vulnerability?)

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    It all started when Nille suggested you follow the musical group as they traveled from festival to festival to perform.

    You couldn’t help but agree, not after seeing their new stagehand. There’s something about them that pulls at you—like the universe itself is pushing you toward them.

    You never expected to wake up again. Maybe the universe doesn’t know what to do with you. Because now, you’re back with your old face in a world where it’s already being used.

    What are you supposed to do now?

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    A desperate wish when confronted with their own sadness sends Siffrin far back in time. Farther than even their own loops.

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    You look at the mirror and see…
    The reflection has an eyepatch. This isn’t you, this is-
    “...Stardust?”
    “LOOP?!!”

    Mirror mirror on the wall, who asked you to connect this call?

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    Siffrin wakes up in the field South of Dormont...after beating the King. After WINNING. After killing him with their own hands!
    He wakes up in the field when he should be celebrating their victory with his friends atop the house!
    They won!
    So WHY!?

    They drag themself through the day and to the Favor Tree in the dead of night. He calls out—wishes—for help and the Universe listens...
    by dropping an entirely alien creature with fangs and feathers and talons right at his feet.

    AKA
    Start Again: A Prologue Siffrin gets their own Loop in the form of a dragon-like creature known as a rukemi. Mysterious, a bit eccentric, and entirely clueless about the world Siffrin lives in, they do their best to help him break free of the Loops and navigate through the changing, warping world once they've escaped!

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    (2hat spoilers)
    You thought you gave up on having a second chance while watching Stardust go through their loops, but maybe the Universe saw a glint of hope while you were disappearing,
    Or maybe not, and all of this is a dream!!

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    After everything, Loop is struggling to find their place in the world. Siffrin is struggling to adjust to life outside the loops. Isabeau is struggling to balance his love for Siffrin with his need to keep them safe, alongside his own worries about Changing. Politely, things could be better!

    But when Loop joins the party on their journey, things tilt even more drastically off course. They'll all need to reconcile their past with their present growing feelings and with the future they're beginning to want. Maybe they'll even do it, too.

    It will just blinding suck along the way.

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    Loop had returned. No identity, no true body, no time loops, and mostly, no Stardust. They weren’t far, but they weren’t near. Yet, they find the figure they hadn’t been given a chance to meet before.

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