Curate, connect, and discover
OK because the game thing doesn't work with how I want the timeline in this AU to work, and since it's an AU, I'm gonna change it up and pretend you can totally read the Sad Diary before finishing the friendquests.
The story reason? Siffrin is a curious and stubborn child who says screw trauma I wanna figure this out so touching the spoopy star book it is!
Currently creating an ISAT AU because why not
ANYWAYS HEAR ME OUT
what if, when Siffrin loops back during the suspicious event in Act 4, he instead loops all the way back to the beginning, and Odile is now stuck in the loops with them?
Odile freaks out when she's back in the shop, and books it to where Siffrin is napping yelling for him. Siffrin, meanwhile, just woke up and is very confused. They hear Odile and turn around to see her staring at him. And he just looks horrified. Because Siffrin just trapped his family in here with him.