Siffrin, the Idea VS. Siffrin, the Fella
Everyone knows Siffrin is cool as fuck. [Horrible opening.] But who knows what they're thinking? Who knows why he stabs Sadnesses? [To progress in the House? Also gross.] And why do we think of them as fondly as we think of the mythical (nonexistent?) Change God? Perchance. [You can't just say perchance.]
I believe it was Kant who said "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." Siffrin exhibits experience by slashing Sads all day [Stop.], but he exhibits theory by saying "Back to the stage, Siffrin." Keep it up baby! [?????]
When Siffrin leaves their place of safety to stab a Sadness, they know that they may Die. [OK?] And yet, for a person who can start over lives with loops, a life becomes a mere store of value. A tax that can be paid for, much as a rich man feels any law with a fine is a price. We think of Siffrin as a hero,but they are simply a one percenter [Why are we saying this.] of a more privileged variety. The lifekind. Perchance.
GET OUT OF MY HEADD!!!
Loop’s dialogue has so many facets and potential interpretations…when they are talking about or to Siffrin, exactly how much of it is a direct reflection of how they view themself, either now or in the past?
how much of it is it a deliberate projection—things they wish they had been kinder to themself about and make an effort to verbalize now that they have this external perspective, or things they still hate themself for and can’t help but deride when it’s thrown in their face by this copy—and how much is subconscious, an instinctual reaction to seeing their own traits in “another”?
and conversely, how much of what they say is an attempt to draw a hard line in the sand between them, this is you and this is me, the success story and the discarded failure? coming from the same origin point but diverging beyond reconciliation, the differences cementing their stations as the favored and the forgotten?
they were they same but they aren’t anymore but they are still but they’re different now but they are and aren’t and are and aren’t—
how often do they feel like they’re talking to a mirror, a glassy, empty reflection of their own flaws and mistakes, rather than a whole and complete person who shares their love and pain? how much does the line between those perceptions blur and shift from moment to moment, how much do they let themself be aware of it, how much do they agonize over it?
they’re just. such a mess of contradictions and complications. i need to lie down.
*holding you close as you bleed out*
Yeah man... it was a good bit... it was a really good bit... really funny....
we've been thinking a lot about what loop says after the Memory of Ghosts/house's haunted event in regards to how mira had acted when seeing the appa-frin-tion smile at the party, and.
the thing about a "disgusting smile" made us wonder about whether or not loop was projecting or just letting some self-hatred in the form of steam off because..
they'd know something about a smile being "disgusting", wouldn't they?
Ok firstly, Appa-frin-tion is INSANE work /pos
Secondly I almost feel like the ugly smile comment had to be a little gag from ID5 making fun of how they drew Saapfrin because I mean...
...Oh boy BUDDY these are rough
But wrapping it into Loop's self hatred is like a masterful bit of writing. Loop has such a complicated relationship with themself and with Siffrin. Because they were Siffrin. Stupid Siffrin that got them into this mess. But if I start talking about how I think Loop views themselves we'll have a damn essay of a post. this means to ask me about how Loop sees themself so I can write it
And how later (after growing closer to ISAT Siffrin, dare I say) they apologize for that comment, but it's too late and Siffrin already internalized it...
These two piss me off so unfathomably, I want to obliterate them off the face of the earth.
*floats into askbox cutely* Hello everynyan!
I headcanon that the reason the wish of the forgotten island was made is because whoever made that wish didn't want wishcraft knowledge to be spread more.
I've seen plenty of people headcanoning that the island was like super isolated and secretive but in canon we see plenty of signs of cultural exchange, not only with the books and rooms in the house but with the daydreaming one's sister going there.
So I thought what if they recently started to open up more to other nations and someone went nope this will end in another color ending wish so they wished that no more knowledge would get out of the island, the Universe as always went for the most disastrous but undeniably effective way to do it.
Also that would be so ironic because the reason why Siffrin and the King made their wishes in the first place was because of the pain and longing of forgetting their homeland.
ohhhhh thank you for this ask!!! yes yes yes!!
i've had similar thoughts on the matter too - the cultural exchange seemed too vast for the island to be isolationist. there are favor trees everywhere and, as i said in this addendum, i'm quite sure the concept isn't vaugardian but hails from the island instead. there's all the traces you mentioned, like the sister that went off to move there. for god's sake, there's a volume of the stupid chateau castle in the northern island's language just lying around in the super tiny town of dormont. as someone from a tiny european town - do you have any clue how significant it is to find a book in a different language in your town's tiny library??? finding traces of the island is not hard even within the constrains of isat and it says a lot
so yeah, the island was definitely open culturally. i soooo think that the wish that made the island get [REDACTED] was made with isolationist intent though. something like "I wish for all the knowledge the island has to not leave its borders" or similar, to keep outsiders from learning too much about wish craft and misusing it, or, you know what, other potentially volatile secrets while you're at it.
guess that person was right huh! wish craft can be catastrophic and vast in its effect if not used responsibly, hm! thought-provoking!
gahh, i love this. i love this ask so much. thank you for sending it. i'm beside myself. i love the island sooo much aghhh (/▽＼)
My beutiful woman. Beuotiful. Buoitefl. Pretty.
pinterest outfits #isat
this is what happened after siffrin lost their eye i think
Mirabelle blastt also practice cause I'm making another animation that's abt her hehe
