#cindy rambles

it's so funny that, in the end conversation where you do end up triggering the bad touch event, siffrin and isabeau flirt with each other about just needing to practice, and it's so funny to me and nobody else, because I had an isafrin dream back when I hadn't even gotten halfway through act 4 yet.

I'd known about bad touch, because the isafrin brainrot kicked in EARLY, but because I didn't want to spoil myself on anything past where I'd been gameplay wise, I didn't even know how to trigger it, or what the full details of bad touch even were.

regardless. i knew about bad touch, and my brain decided to cook with what little info I had.

I had a dream that, post-loops, post-confession, Siffrin and Isabeau were talking. They were together as a couple at that point, but old habits die hard, and Isabeau still hesitated to touch Siffrin, because he didn't want to make them flinch or accidentally hurt them or any number of oh-my-god-you're-the-sweetest-boyfriend-ever-just-shut-up-and-touch-me reasons. But before Siffrin could say anything, Isabeau makes an offer.

"How about I just...describe how I want to touch you? As like, practice! You know, that way it won't be a huge surprise?"

and then Siffrin is too flustered to disagree, and Isabeau doesn't quite realize what he just said, so he starts describing all of these soft and tender things, and you know, haha, maybe something more than that! but haha, that's okay, I don't know why I said that part out loud, haha, you can ignore that, and goes back to the soft and tender stuff

and then he stops. because Siffrin is whimpering his name. Isabeau thinks surely Siffrin must be begging him to stop, he went too far, but he looks at Siffrin again and oh. oh. massive blush on his face. can't even look Isabeau in the eyes.

Isa drops the act. He finally steps forward, and asks permission.

Can I touch you?

Siffrin inhales sharply, like they question makes them want to cry, but he says yes.

It's just a gentle gesture, of reaching out and wiping away tears from his eye that's not even quite there yet.

It's insane!! My sleeping brain world wrote a post-canon fix-it for something I didn't even encounter myself!! My sleeping brain accidentally picked and chose from the canon post-game dialouge about said event!!!

come back home.