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   None Forward & Two, Two, Two Steps Back by faedemon

   Fandoms: In Stars And Time (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   14 Jun 2024

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Loop & Siffrin (In Stars And Time)
   • Siffrin (In Stars And Time)
   • Loop (In Stars And Time)
   • Alternate Act 5
   • Dissociation
   • Avoidance
   • breaking the time loop in an alternate worse way
   • Angst
   • this fic is for those who feel ISAT's ending was too sweet to quite be believed
   • Alternate Ending
   • POV Second Person
   • Self-Destructive Behavior
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Strangling
   • burning bridges
   • going scorched earth on everything to justify your own feelings of loss
   • Hurt No Comfort

   Summary

   In an alternate act five, Siffrin breaks in a different way than canon.

   He and Loop go around and around and around. They both know what wish was made. They both know what traps them here. They both know what the condition is which, upon reaching the Head Housemaiden, so guttingly fails to be fulfilled. But Loop won't say it outright. And Siffrin won't look at it.

   Until, eventually, there's nowhere left to look.

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   English

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   Bookmarked by Maggishiani

   24 Jul 2024

   Bookmarker's Notes

   A beautifully written what-if scenario, in which Siffrin doesn't get the fantastical happy ending with their family.