#chit-chat

All their possibilities are gone now. Taken, alongside everything else. They can only be what they are.

Though apart, they share a purpose. And at the very least, they can be together for the ending.

(chit-chat under the cut!)

as I continue to work on The Birdcage I'm simply. Thinking about making this into a Mirabelle and Siffrin loops AU. and excluding Loop as a character. Slowly developing things out over the course of this fic- because it serves an intro/backstory fic to this AU in general. Getting the early development thoughts out of the way is helpful for later when we get into the loops portion because I deeply enjoy spicing things up when it comes to the timeloops and aus! Changes in backstory for characters should reflect in the main plot, and I think turning this into a Mira and Sif loops au sounds like fun. This is mostly because I'm thinking of Mirabelle as the main character of the overall story, even though Siffrin is our primary POV character. Which, granted, is true even in canon, but its even more true in this

Because yes, it's Mira whose the chosen one. She has Euphrasie's blessing- but she also has Siffrin's (of which MANY of you have already clock that Siffrin's voice can use Craft, and that their scream when Mira fled the house did something). It's her who is gathering the orbs and building a party- and her who makes a decision to help Siffrin after he finally escaped from the King. It's her who calls the shots (even if she's terrified doing it). She's the one at the steering wheel, and despite the fact she never wanted to take it, girlypop is driving the blinding car! She is living the heroine life she never asked for!

...also, it doesn't really make sense to me if Siffrin is looping. At least, not alone. Half the plot of ISAT revolves around the Island, revolves around Siffrin picking up the fragments of who he used to be. ICAF Sif already knows all of that. They already know what they lost, they're hyper-blinding-aware of it! They don't got a choice thanks to the King and what he did to Sif!

Mirabelle, from the start, is going (metaphorically) hand-in-hand with Sif into the House of Dormant. Mira to fight for her home and a future where everyone is free to Change, Siffrin to learn what it's like to have a future at all.

I simply think it would be fun if Mirabelle and Siffrin made a wish at the favor tree together, and had to figure out the consequences of that, together.

...also, I'm deeply biased towards Mirabelle. She is my favorite character. And I'm the only writer of this AU. I don't have to argue over massive plot points (cough cough hi Jynx, we will never agree on weeping god au act 5 king fight. cough cough cough-)

Won't confirm it right now because it's still in development and these are loose thoughts, but I'm gonna be real, it's about a 90% chance I commit to this. I love my Meeble n Birb!

I love when you read my tags💕 Ok, let me explain:

I think most Gintama guys would be more than fine with their partner being simply naked, they really don't need anything else to get them going lol.

Kamui case is different than Gintoki one, Gin find arousing the idea of his partner role-playing and sucking the sickness out of him, Kamui isn't in the role-play stuff.

Kamui loves the thought of his partner tending his wounds and the ones of his army. You must have a strong mind to be able to take care of all these guys with more or less fatal wounds and the idea turn him on so much.

His partner ordering people around, concentrated expression, but with a tiny tiny pastel pink skirt that always hikes up higher and the blouse that really can't contain your chest; he just wanna fold you in half.

The thought of having his strong minded partner all cute getting fucked dumb by him really makes him mind wander in dangerous places.

It's more a power-imbalance/mind-fucking thing for him. The other dresses are really cute too but won't make his mind imagine as much.

(don't know much about Siri..Sir.Sieus..Sirius. sorry I haven't slepr in a while I'm going to be weird.)

any finished lore or story for him I AM interested!! a lot!! he looks cool!!

|| (Cheers, fellow 2am lurker. lol)

|| Had this reponse drafted for way too long, almost forgot it in these chambers

Glad you like the silly guy! He has a thing going on and a tiny sprinkle of backstory shenanigans. I RP with him occasionally and he has a bit of a role in one of my (hibernating) ask blogs, but all in all he isn't my main guy or anything, I don't think so.

The golden/amber eyes were a design choice not made by me, since I got the lad in a Toyhou.se forum game (some design exchange thread). The designs for Sirius and Silas were gifted/traded to me! :D (So there aren't any lore implications or anything for his eyes, not that I can think of. His eyes are just a little extra piercing when he stares. lmao)

(og art by Jitsuemon [toyhou.se])

It is noted though that there are metal pieces (iron) imbedded in their foreheads. I like to think it's for them to distinguish who's from their community/tribe and who's not. Maybe for a little blessing/damage boost too, although I am unsteady on that point. I like to think the tribe he's part of isn't as magic savvy as others to make full use of such things as enchantments or soul shenanigans.

I don't think I can talk as much about him or speak confidently of his upbringing, since I am not really that deep in the illager sauce as some others. Pff- (I try my best.)

His story, the way I haphazardly put it together, is that his old tribe got demolished one way or another that separated him from the community. Something along the line of heroes launching an attack on their illager outposts, before concentrating on the mansion. Chaos and all. Whether it be killing the community off or by scattering them enough they couldn't easily find one another again, Sirius ends up without his tribe and perhaps a little lost too.

(Still not sure what part he had in the battle, tbh. He could've avoided the main conflict while he was on patrol, but got ambushed when they headed to the mansion to help, and ended up chasing off the attackers with Silas just to lose sight of his crew. He could've been in the midst of the battle and fled when things got dire. Idk honestly. He is a warrior and all, but he wouldn't be too eager to meet death head on when odds are so much against him/the whole tribe. Glory in war, but he ain't stupid. Maybe things just got a smidge too wild that even he got spooked. Heroes and their artifacts. You wouldn't run into a death laser if you could help it.)

A lone illager is a dead illager, it's believed, so it's lucky enough he has his trusty ravager steed Silas by his side once they escaped- Although while she may be a great help traversing large spans of distance, she costs a ton of resources. You can't convince me ravagers can live off of grass alone, even if they kinda look bovine. Food management becomes a problem.

Doing the illager thing as usual and pillaging villages for resources was easy enough for a while, considering Sirius doesn't need to wrangle any iron golems on his own. But even just a "swift pillage" for a bit of food and things sets alarms off and heroes are much more of a danger if you have no allies and they start actively hunting you down. It isn't worth the attention, especially since a ravager isn't exactly inconspicuous or particularily stealthy in avoiding keen eyes.

Sirius is a bit of a thinker compared to some other illagers (or what I know of, anyway? I don't think pillagers are that wise. A little silly. Orange-cat levels of braincells perhaps, but with more lethal weapon wielding.) He will ponder over things and actually give it a moment before doing something. Still- he thinks deep but not very far. (lol) Coming up with a plan, thinking for it for a moment but still ending up with throwing a door at someone or bashing his head against a wall. Either way, he can be talked with and likes to stay suspicious.

For a while he even attempted to trade with villagers, but he doesn't particularily look innocent and harmless, so if they don't ring the alarm anyway they just drive their prices up to make him leave sooner, which gnaws at his patience. Even if he attempts to be chill, villagers make his blood boil. He still thinks poorly of them. At least he never saw any of that "kind" and "hospitable" nature towards him when dealing with villagers.

I am still just vague with how long he's been out and about. Couldn't be terribly long if he didn't get in touch with other tribes, or still long enough he adapted to being a bit of a lone wolf with all it's challenges. Eh, idk.

With emeralds running low, a hungy ravager (haha, or ravenous ravager) by his side and no post or mansion to return to, he kinda just looked for jobs that didn't mind recruiting a lone Illager.

I had him get in touch with a group of mob hunters. Hunting, fighting and capturing mobs of all sort for materials, meat, keeping as pets and other stuff by contract. I suppose, however you see it, like poachers. Sirius would be familiar enough with fighting and taking hostages maybe, so the basics shouldn't be too difficult from a pillager standpoint.

Currently he got a task to prove himself before he gets fully recruited, so I guess he's still jobless as before. He's still out there tryna get a grasps at the thing. As a pillager it's easy enough to kill/capture villagers, the people you fight always stay in one spot anyway. If it's wildlife ya gotta pursue through foliage or across biomes it's a little tougher. Pf-