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An animated gif.

It depicts a mock up of the title screen of the game "In Stars and Time"

Instead of the usual character there, Siffrin, Isabeau is in their place. He's standing under a tree as leaves fall around him and gentle wind sways away. He has one hand up to his face with his eyes closed, seemingly lost in thought.

The title reads "In Repetition and Change" with the game's options are under it.

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:

Sketch of a humanoid character.

Their face only shows their eyes, emotionless and distant. Their face is round and fluffy. Two big leaves sprout from the back of their head going downwards. They seem to resemble a white dandelion.
Their body is a gradient from light to black, with stary dots all over. At the center of their chest there is a bright four pointed star.

The character's name is Roboro, and they turning away and crossing their arms, seemingly unapproving.

Next to that sketch, there is another sketch of Roboro.
In it their eyes look more frantic and worried. Their body language seems more jittery, as their leaves flow behind them, and seeds from their head fly in the wind.

A rough sketch of Isabeau (from "In Stars And TIme") and Roboro.

Isabeau is smiling wide, eyes closed and looking happy. Next to him there are bullet points that read "bubbly. loud. supportive. positive"

Next to him there's Roboro. looking way more calm, with half lidded eyes and a resting expression. There's more bullet points next to them. "a little cold/dry. distant. quiet. realist leaning on pessimism??"

Under both of them there's more text that reads "both straight forward (blunt). both smart"

From the "both smart" text, there are two arrows. One points to Isabeau saying "doesn't show it", the other points to Roboro with "does show it."

A sketch comic of Isabeau.

The first image shows him standing in a field of dandelions. He seems to be surprised, as he has one hand slightly raised. He's looking onto the dandelions with tears in his eyes. There is light in the distant sky

The second image shows the source of the light, a glowing dandelion, descent upon Isabeau. He reaches up to hold it.

The sketch comic of Isabeau continues.

He lowers the glowing dandelion a little, and looks down on it. The light around him seemingly getting darker.

The last sketches depict him eating the dandelion.

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:

A drawing of Isabeau (a comic, continues onto the next image)

He's semi-facing away from the camera. His face unseen. The arm closest to the camera seemingly reaching to something off screen, and the other is raised in the air in a fist. He seems to have just punched something hard.

The comic continues.

Isabeau starts slowly turning towards the camera. The hand closest to the camera comes up to reveal that it's a fist. His other hand going down and off camera.

We can now see his eye. It's cold and neutral and calculative.

The comic continues.

Isabeau brings his forefront fist up higher, flashing a big grin and a seemingly excited expression. His eyes are devoid of light.

Under the image there is a text that reads "See? We got this!!!"

The comic continues.

The drawing depicts the rest of Isabeau's friends and party looking different kinds of upset.

Odile is at the forefront, holding a hand over the rest. She looks cautious and protective. Clinging onto her sleeve Bonnie looks on with a wide-eyed expression.
Further back there's Mirabelle looking extremely upset and scared, bringing both her hands up to her mouth in shock.
And next to her there's Siffrin who is clutching their hat further down their face, as they look worried and confused.

The comic continues.

A close up shot of Isabeau, his eyes wide and upset. His smile has gotten smaller, he's started to sweat, and the wrinkles under his eyes are more noticeable. There's a shadow over his face. He looks mildly conflicted and scared.

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:

A new comic of Isabeau.

The drawing depicts him looking back towards the camera. Again, his eyes hollow, his expression frighteningly resting. His earrings fly in the wind as he turns around.

This image would usually be accompanied with the text "You couldn't change your expression fast enough."

The comic continues.

Isabeau's friends look at him from a far in worry, confused. Notably, Siffrin is the only one smiling, trying to hide their distress.

There's a panel next to them. showing a close up of Isabeau at an angle. His eyes wide but empty and there's a small frown on his face. There's a shadow over his eyes.

The comic continues.

Isabeau's friends seem to recoil in pain from something, hands going to clutch at their heads of chests. The background behind them getting darker and glitchier.

Isabeau looks the same as the previous image.

The comic continues.

The friends rush towards Isabeau, the background getting darker, more glitchy. At the far back Odile is calling out to them. Bonnie is ahead of her, hands at their cheeks looking scared and frightened. Ahead is Mira, holding up her skirt, running towards Isabeau, and the furthest in front is Siffrin, who looks frightened, yelling out for Isabeau with an outstretched hand, trying to reach him.

Isabeau looks almost the same as before, however, his hand is in shot, seemingly trying to reach out for Siffrin as well.

An extra to the comic.

The shot with the friends looks the same as the last image. However, Isabeau isn't reaching out, and instead has a wide grin on his face, light in his eyes. He seems happy, even as his friends are panicking.

This is an extra achieved through going through this ending more then once.

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:

A gif depicting a simple drawing of Isabeau floating in a void. There's echos of him in the background.

Text under him reads "(It doesn't add up.)" and bellow that text, there's game options for "Start again" and "Quit."

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:

A drawing of Isabeau

He stands tall at a down-top angle. He's tearing a card to pieces. The torn shards show people looking up at something, reaching out.

Isabeau's expression is dark. Calculative, yet angry. Half of his face is covered in pitch black shadow.

Notably the background behind him has a mild red hue to it.

There's text above the image in the game's text box that reads "(You've had enough judgement for one lifetime.)"

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:

A drawing of Isabeau.

It shows a mostly empty room, with flowing particles and only a door at the far end. However, at the side, Isabeau can be seen. His face shrouded in darkness, and his hand clutching at his arm. No expression can be made out, and the body language is minimal.

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!!

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Obkk modern au where where Kakashi and Obito are online friends who have never seen eachothers faces. It's a years long friendship (and mutual silent crush) where they've helped eachother through what was truly the darkest parts of eachothers lives.

But irl they also happen to know eachother from childhood due to having gone to the same schools and shared the same classes, and they fucking DESPISE the other. You can not stick them in a room without someone starting a fight.

When they interact irl, play into specifically the early dynamics of obkk, with kind of superficially happy/dumb Obito and a "follow the rules to the letter" grumpy overachiever Kakashi

But when they're online, play more into the older obkk dynamic.

Where Obito shows that he has a pretty big mean streak/humor and a serious talent for playing dumb; where he overlays his happier side irl for just social reasons.

While Kakashi shows he's actually super lazy and imperfect with most other factors of his life outside of work/school (and ofc downplays his actual work ethic when it comes to work/school, framing himself as doing bare minimum when he should really do more (bc he genuinley believes that)) and has a pretty wicked sense of humor himself, a love of over-romantic, fluffy porn, and a habit of using endless "cute" emotocons

Kk: Did my proposal today, it was so bad... I really slacked off this time on it. I was so nervous they'd tell me no (｡﹏｡")

Kk: I guess the other presentations must have been pretty bad too because they picked mine anyways? I feel so lucky (╥﹏╥)

Ob: it's ok even if you tried your best!! Im proud you were able to do even as much as you did.

Ob: I'm glad you got it, at least one of us won their proposal today. That jackass had a fucking 30 slide detailed slide with 6 DIFFERENT PIE CHARTS and a scheduled water break inbetween. Fucking kissass

Kk: nooo im sorry ( •̯́ ^ •̯̀)

Ob: it's whatever. Just glad you got the thing :)

Ob: want me to kill your boss tho.

Kk: lol

Kk: I'll help hide the body ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

And then one day Obito does some sort of very mean prank on Kakashi. And it goes uhh. Badly.

I mean, badly for Kakashi. Obito thinks it went great!

That is till he gets home and finds his best friend for a decade, and crush for even past that decade, texting him about a very specific mean prank that got pulled on them.

Wait. No. Wait. WAIT. FUCK.

So like. Obito is a bit conflicted now. He doesn't know what to really do here??? Like. What if it ruins everything with his best friend??? But also hey best friend why the FUCK are you such a BITCH.

But also also, suddenly Obito is recontextualizing SO many of their interactions— from Kakashi suffering the devistating loss of his father when he was especially annoying, to explanations of why he reacted certain ways. And oh my god Obito is... also a kind of a bitch???

Obito has NO idea what to do and is just swinging so violently back and forth on what are really his only two options.

And sometimes he's like gleefully feeling vindictive bc after arguing with irl Kakashi, online Kakashi is ranting about "that same asshole again" at work, so Obito is like "I KNEW it was getting to u, haha you're NOT better than me after all!!!"

But then later he feels kinda bad about it bc like. Aw wait no he actually might have genuinley hurt the person he loves. And also he doesn't want to lose getting to see the real Kakashi, a mix of both of his masks, by fucking this up and choosing wrong.

Anyways Kakashi finally somehow figures it out on his own, they fight, they make up, they make out.

The end yay happy ending

There's an alternate universe where neither of them every found out about eachother and continued to be friends online and hate eachother to escalating degrees offline. But one day they start to slowly shift in dynamics. Irl they get closer and online they get so much angrier and more distant. Till we've swapped and now online they just have this GIANT fallout but offline they're actually in love now. And this continues till they're about to get married/no longer on speaking terms with eachother. And so on their wedding day they reach out again online but ONLY to hate on eachother like "oooo fuck you I'm so happy rn I just got MARRIED."

"Oh yeah you bitch??? So did I. And my husbands better than anything your ugly ass could ever pull"

"FUCK YOU MY HUSBANDS FUCKING AMAZING AND YOURS IS PROBABLY LOOKS AND ACTS LIKE SHIT"

"OH YEAH????"

"YEAH!!!"

"PROVE IT!"

And then they very sharply turn and take simultaneous photos of eachothers furious faces and then angrily, instinctivley press send.

And then they stop. And then they have a moment of dead silence.

And then they begin to have an actual, physical fist fight in front of the uncut wedding cake with ALL of their friends and families watching. And the photographers with their very ready cameras.

There was a lot of cake.

Yeah that was ah uhh. Interesting

The good news at least is now they have a photo of them fist fighting like they want to kill eachother while covered in wedding cake in a frame that says "happy marriage <3" on it, and they like to joke about it (to many, many peoples horror)

The end yay happy ending x2

If I were to write this fr I think I'd legally have to write both versions bc both are excellent

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