ISAT X Stardust: mistery of the star au - PART 2
this post will be manly about what changes during the party's jorney to colect the orbs
this was suposed to be a shorter post but it ended up quite big
the party meet the same way as canon, Siffrin saves them from a sadness, and to thank him, they invite Siffrin for diner, since they have a good reason he acepts, it didn't look like a trap
it's after the diner that Mirabele explains the situation and ask Siffrin if they would consider joining the quest
this Siffrin is kinda paranoid after the murder atempt, so he doesn't want to accept right away, but they were all so nice, just saying no would make him guilty
Odile sees him getting unconfortable and trying to come up with excuses, and tries to help saying that Siffrin probably doesn't want to
but seeing Isabeau and Mirabelle's apologetic faces makes Siffrin feel even more guilty! so they say they could acompany the group until the next town, since it's pretty dangerous at night, and he was already going to the town anyway (all lies)
there on the town people confirm the group story, that they were the saviors trying to stop the king, that makes Siffrin chose to join them
he is still scared but, the group needs all the help they can get, and he really didn't have anything better to do (and deep down, he was tired of being alone)
now an important detail about this Siffrin is that due to being a star, they naturally stayed up at night and sleept during the day, so unless he had business to do in a town or an odd job to do at daytime, they were noturnal
at first this was helpfull for the watch shifts, but to travel, the whole group needed to stay awake at the same time, it was a rough switch
even after adapting, Siffrin still stays awake as late as possible, and thus wakes up pretty late, and takes a lot of naps
when he had some time alone, Siffrin likes to talk to the stars, to tell them what is going on, he doesn't know why but he feels he should (the stars on the sky definetelly like to hear how their little sibiling is going)
this Siffrin takes a little longer to fully warm up to the group, both because of his trust issues, and because he is trying to hide the fact he glows, and for that he tries to avoid getting too happy around people
it also doesn't help that when he remember things from his past, it sounds weird to them, he mentions how he watched people from above, how his some of his sibilings helped to conced wishes or to light the way to help the ones who where lost, how one of his oldest sisters was a guide who aways pointed to north
the party ends up with the impression that Siffrin's familly was either rich, or with some kind of high status, fullfiling some roles to help the people, they wonder if Siffrin is helping them because of that (or if they disowed Siffrin)
but little by little he begins to relax around them, he didn't know how good it would be to be around other people
since his humor got generally got better, Siffrin began to have a faint glow most of the time, the others just assumed it was because Siffrin was so pale that their skin reflected the light
the first to see Siffrin properly glowing was Isabeau, on a night Isabeau was on the watch shift and Siffrin was making him company, one of Isabeau's jokes made Siffrin laugh so hard he covered his mouth to not wake the others up, his skin, and the exposed white roots of his hair, radiated light
Isabeau was going to ask about it, but Siffrin turned to look at him with the pretiest smile ever seen, and the man got too stuned to speak
i think it only gets adressed when Bonnie finally coments on it, they would definetelly ask "how does it feells like to glow?", which would make Siffrin panick, because now he knows they all know
but at this point, he knows the group, knows that they are all too good to even consider killing someone inocent,
especially because Mirabelle's reaction is "Bonnie! you can't ask someone that!"
Mirabelle's stuters "w-well… it's rude you know?"
Siffrin giggles at that, it takes some deep breaths for them to calm down, but they still don't want to tell the truth
so he just says it was just a special craft and some glitter~ the adults can tell it's a lie, but they stop pushing after they see Siffrin is really unconfortable with that
oh, also in this au the coissant incident happens because as soon as Siffrin hears the island acent he has a flashback from the witch, and gets scared thinking the baker is the same as her
speaking of that, Siffrin's relationship with Odile is one of the most interesting parts of this au for me
Siffrin is scared of her, not only because she is an old lady like the witch, she is powerfull, she is so observant, he can aways feel her gaze, trying to discover what he is hidding
but being a Siffrin of course he would never talk about his problems~ so he pretends nothing is wrong while avoiding being alone with her when he can
Odile can see it, and at first it makes her suspicious of him, but after getting to know him, she reaches the same conclusion as canon, that he is just a silly feral cat that looks like a human, and that he is scared of touch because something bad happened
with the aditional conclusion that she must remind him of someone who hurt him (unfortunally true)
it's Bonnie who helps to close the bridge between them, having the child there helps them to not overthink too much, and thus makes Odile not seem like she is dissecting everything that Siffrin says
which in turns helps Siffrin finally be able to relax with Odile, and they grow closer, like in canon
after that everthing else is much like canon, until the loops, that's were things really get interesting
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