Home Of Sisselcon 2025

⚠️⚠️Warning! Ghost Trick spoilers!⚠️⚠️ Current stage: That’s all for now!

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What is Sisselcon?

Sisselcon is a two-week event occurring in the first half of February. The purpose of the event is to encourage fans to share their interpretations of Yomiel's fiancée Sissel, and to create fanworks featuring these interpretations.

This event has two distinct parts: a prompt list and Sissel-Swap, a Secret Santa-style gift exchange.

Current Stage

Receiving feedback and hibernating until next year.

Dates

Sisselcon 2025 will be occurring from February 3-16th.

January 6th: Prompt list to be posted, Sissel-Swap signups to open

January 13th: Sissel-Swap assignments to be sent out

Important Posts

Sissel References

Submissions

Sissel-Swap

2025 Prompt List

Tags

#sisselcon - general blog tag #info - rules, guidelines, and other informative posts #updates - new or temporary information or forms #2025 - posts specific to Sisselcon 2025

#sc guest list - reblogs of Sissel reference posts #sc submissions - reblogs of fanworks done by participants #sc after dark - suggestive or NSFT submissions

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Apologies for the delay! The feedback form is now ready to go:

Sisselcon 2025 Feedback

Sisselcon 2025 Feedback

Thanks again to everyone participated in Sisselcon and helped make the first ever year of this event great!

[gt-sisselcon]

And that concludes the first ever Sisselcon! Thank you so much to everyone who participated and helped make this event possible!

A feedback form will be made available sometime in the next few days, so please stick around and let me know what you think could be done to make the next Sisselcon even better.

That’s all for now! Thanks again!

[trickingbell]

Day 14: Future ~ Free Day

"See ya, Sissels! Nice vacation, let's do this again sometime!!"

The portal she came though takes up a lot of energy and it's probably for the best she doesn't leave it open for too long. This time she's positive it's safe and can't wait to brag how she told Yomiel so when she's back. Aaaaaand maybe smother him juuuust a little bit.

This was originally in color like the other week 2 prompts but last second, I changed my mind and left it shaded in pink and purple like the photos. It's not a big grand ending for this Sissel, what with the notes Yomiel will have to read. But that's for Future Sissel to deal with. And me if I ever do a post-Sisselcon entry. This event has been so much fun and I'm glad I got to participate so much in it. Thank you so much Thia for hosting and putting it all together!!

[bardace]

at long last, here’s my sisselswap art! I have no impulse control and made a damn animatic… I meant to add more but oh whale. this is for @youghostandyoutrick , thank you for organizing sisselcon it was so much fun!!!!

[trickingbell]

Day 13: Seasons

I drew this horizontally. I hope it looks as nice vertically!! Wrench in the seasons..I love @the-grey-hunt's Sissel and nir fic Ten Years to Go is so good it's so good you MUST read it and say nice things about it too!!! Sissel waiting for Yomiel is one thing,, but what she does during that time is just as important and I hope she keeps growing and living. I want her to LIVE!!!!! The flowers here through the seasons are called "Myrtle Flowers" and(at least according to the source I read) means "Love faithful in absence". All Sissels can relate. My Sissel notes below

"I filled you in as much as I could over the years. Pictures and notes like this, even with you back I still do this. I shouldn't since I share so much of the time with you and you already know. But I still like to do it. This is probably something like journaling, how therapists want you to for mental health or whatever. If it is, it's working. That or I'm using it as intended by writing to you specifically. I always figured you didn't mind back then because it's me, obviously, but it's also a bit of the world outside of prison...I want you to know I never meant it as bragging. All of that stuff before were things I wanted to share with you. They were fun. I'm glad I did them. You weren't there but I enjoyed myself and that's sort of what you wanted right? Reporting back of how I'm living.

A lot to start with. But I spoke with Wrench and she's. Waiting. I didn't really talk about how hard it was. Sure, I had Alma and Jowd but I wasn't going to tell them 'Living without the guy you arrested is awful and I can't keep this up for much longer!' that would be horrible! Plus they probably knew that already, what would be the point? Wrench has friends. That she could and can talk to about it, at first I was jealous but...I'm happy for her now. That she has Kaetobr(I didn't ask how in the gods names she spells that, we were busy!) and help and her business and things to keep busy with. I told her to be happy about them too, as much as she can. I feel like her senior... an old woman who's gone through what she has and is telling her it'll be alright.

I actually know it will be though! I AM ahead of her! Maybe not like her senior actually but how you did. "You have to live". I know she's lonely, that its hard losing such an important figure even for a little while. Someone we were planning to never ever separate from, a permanent structure. It toppled and we're in the mess of ourselves when we didn't expect to be and it's, us, we're everywhere. Having to learn how to hold up the mess that is us. But she can do it. If I could then she definitely can, she's got so much more going for her! I want her to make it.

This isn't the most informative thing about what we talked about together, but I think you'll understand enough. I'm glad I spoke with her like this...I needed to. She's helped me and I hope what little what good advice I gave her will keep her going. [There are several lines written and completely blacked out in pen] Forget that. She has a rough road ahead, but she'll make it just fine. Of course, she will. I almost want to see her future for myself but while it's not the exact same, I have my own life to reference, huh?

I'll miss her though. I'll miss her and I'll miss Sisselcon. I want me to do well out there, wherever we go home to. I have to do well for them too."

[the-grey-hunt]

Day 11: Hurt!

This is straight up TYTG fanart, because it’s what I felt like drawing! Sissel sees Yomiel for the first time, in the hospital after the park—and Yomiel sees Sissel for the first time in ten years.

[trickingbell]

Day 12: Forever ~ Sweet

Happy Valentines Day, Grickers. This prompt today is for @ghost-on-my-trick-till-i's Sissel. I saw the "She proposed" and the "if you wanna make something up you have my permission-" then started thinking. On my mind while drawing it, oughhgghhh. My Sissel notes below.

"I'm not the only one getting exhausted by hearing all of the other Sissel's tales. Trailing Delune is good. But there's this this cloudy overhang that's around even when we're all having a clearly good time. I'm not sure how else to say it. But I found a little company. Or, company found me. Again. Cool Sissel is still cool. Louder and weirder than I'd like, but cool. We're both still the engaged ones, other Sissels are married for real. But because of it, she still has the proposal fresh on her mind. And I say THE proposal when I mean Her proposal. She did it...I wasn't even thinking that I should've done it. So cool...

She doesn't have one job. She kind of roams a bunch and gives her skills to whoever can pay for them, so she was bouncing all over the place. Taking on extra where she usually wouldn't, lower paying jobs to scavenge some more up. All to buy rings for the both of them. But the amount of work put the plan off for a while, she wanted to go straight from the jewelers to you and pop the question on sight. She clocked out and spent a few days resting back up. The whooooole time whenever her Yomiel was around he was worried about her.

Day after day, spoiling her and getting her to relax. He thought she was taking on so many jobs because. Well. With a boyfriend working the nice money government job, feeling like you aren't doing enough isn't hard to start thinking about. He didn't want her to feel that way. Sissel didn't even consider that. It really was all about the engagement rings! After Yomiel said all that, she let him keep fretting for a few nights. I think she liked the pampering, I would've, but she says she was just really happy about it. Turning over the ring box at night that her Yomiel was just. Her Yomiel. Sometimes people get cold feet, but she wanted to even more now.

This is so so sweet, I thought. I was imagining that she did it the next morning. Ah, morning sun, your pretty sleepy face, portrait perfect proposal in bed. Nope. She just shook you up when she got too excited. Middle of the night. You had work. I guess not every Sissel likes her big sweeping romantic gestures. It still reminded me of you regardless. I never asked how long you were preparing your proposal...Was it like that? No cold feet, just more unneeded reminders that you loved me sky high? You were so caught up in me you nearly forgot, so maybe it was.

and DON'T come tell me it was because I ruined your speech again! YOU almost forgot! Don't blame me for being so pretty you couldn't stand finishing! That's your own fault!"

[trickingbell]

Day 11: ~ Pets

This is late because my own cat escaped (She is back now) and I got a little sick looking for her out in the Snow. The pets prompt felt like an obvious choice for our very own Canon Little Guy to get a chance to be here. Jowd...is also here. I like Jowd. My Sissel notes below!

"You're looking at this picture confused, probably. Don't worry, I took this picture also confused.

There's a lot of Sissels here so it's inevitable that I don't have a picture of every single one of them! I'm getting as many as I can! They're really helpful though when they recognize me as the one who's still taking photos after photoshoot day and ask me to take theirs. Which is what happened here. Jowd??? Jowd is a Sissel????? You married Jowd and I've finally caught you...not how I thought I imagined the affair, right. No, no. He puts his hands up and points at the cat. Did I mention the cats by the way? Every other Sissel has brought a cat. That's why I thought it was Jowd who was a Sissel but...

He meant the cat is a the Sissel. The Sissel who wanted his picture taken??? You aren't a cat in another world. I mean you probably are but not like this! 'I won't investigate' Not this time!! I tried, I really did try but Jowd (and it IS Jowd. No odd magic here, it's JUST Jowd) didn't answer any of my questions. He only did that annoying cop thing where he says things, but they mean literally nothing and only are a means to lead the conversation somewhere else. Good to know he does that shit no matter the world!! Annoying! I didn't get nothing at all though. Talking to Jowd is hopeless but the cat. Sissel. Sissel is much better to talk to and way more open. Even if I only understood him through Jowd.

According to him: He is a Sissel, not married or engaged to Yomiel like the rest of us are (Though he does love him just as much!), nor is Jowd. Jowd is only his translator since Sissel can only talk to people who have 'cores of the dead'. Which means that they die and then he brings them back with his 'Ghost Tricks'. That he gained from getting hit and dying from the meteorite shard. I've long understood that I need to just suspend my disbelief when I hear about magic, but Jowd definitely sniffed out that I don't actually know what he's talking about. He told him not to answer any more about their world! Bastard. I wasn't going to not take his picture though. No matter how many times I see this little guy, he's still adorable. Look he's smiling! I think!

At this point, there's a lot of common themes around this place. I don't mean us all being Sissel and having you in common. I mean, the meteorite, death, ghosts...and a cat that more times than not has my name. This little talk with Sissel and his Jowd solidify it. But, I don't know what 'it' actually is. Not that it's any of my business. Patterns will pattern, I guess.

What I forgot was to ask him was how he read his invitation..."

[the-grey-hunt]

I NEVER POSTED THIS YESTERDAY XD

Sissel is getting better, bit by bit! She's better than she used to be.

[the-grey-hunt]

I don't think I've ever posted ponytail Sissel on my blog so PONYTAIL SISSEL

Sissel and Yomiel first met at some event for young entrepreneurs, hence Sissel's con-branded tote bag; Sissel was there trying to get her business off the ground, and Yomiel's college took him there.

They made eye contact across a much bigger crowd than I felt like drawing, mutually ditched the event, and ended up spending the entire day together.

They've rarely been apart since.

[trickingbell]

Day 9: Encounter ~ Undone

This week 2 drawing is for @bardace's Sissel Delune! Who has a few comics of her doing Yomiel's hair on their blog. I think that's Adorable!!! But the "Undone" half gave me ideas. Like last time; Below are my Sissel notes. Happier this time!

"Not everything I've heard is like Angel's predicament. There's actually some pretty funny ones. Maybe if I ask around enough, I can find a Yomiel that doesn't wear that awful red! So far, no luck. Red suit, tall blonde hair everywhere I listen in. Which is strange...there's no Sissel that looks like another. Which is bad news for you. I'm not taking pictures of every Sissel for no reason! We're doing a ranking!! I'M different but YOU stay mostly the same?? What's really your type of woman???

Mostly. Mostly the same. There are probably things some Sissel's aren't announcing to everyone, I don't feel like investigating too much. It's for the best lest I get some more awful details. Avoiding the less fortunate Sissel's stories is easy if I trail Delune, though. She's hard on herself but it just means she's more likely to talk about you. Nothing but good or embarrassing things either, of course with a damn picture to boot. Her bag is too small to keep that many...

I've basically lived her life with all this damn talking, makes sense she writes. Got a hell of a lot to say about you. Same college, just like us. Proposed at the same time, not like us. OH, not like us at all, she made your hair like that! Yours was already that shape when we met. She cycled through a few(Pictures...obviously) before you settled with the cone. That's really cute actually. I can imagine how happy you must've been to find something that fits you, then was made just for you. It's sweet. Delune says you would've cut your hair otherwise, thank god she saved you. Your hair...I would mourn if I lost it.

It didn't last very long though. You called her from work about an emergency, the rain had got you and your umbrella was too short to keep your head under it. Delune found you blindly stumbling down the road with your hair in front of your face trying to find her or go home. THAT was a picture I had to see! No, I didn't take a picture of her picture, just in case you think about asking. Embarrassing shots like that are best kept for a Sissel to laugh at and her Yomiel to not know she took them. The karma would get me, then you'd find out where I keep mine.

Anyway. You should let me do your hair. I want to make a style for you too!"

[the-grey-hunt]

instead of posting all my justifications for why this looks like this and how it counts to todays prompt i say NOTHING. you get art!!!! good day sir!!!

[trickingbell]

Day 8: Nightmare~Visit

Week 2 is mostly works I made pre-con for other Sissels. They're messy and a little unpolished but I really like them :) Below are some more of my Sissel's notes about this particular scene from @thiaquiche's "Promise You'll Keep Going" which is a fic you should check out and say nice things about!!

"Sisselcon has been great. Honestly, I mean that. But Miel...it's unnerving being here. On its own having all these other mes is fun, I like talking to them. As I would, it's me. But they're all different. They've led different lives from me in so many ways. It's fascinating sometimes. Other times? They talk about you; Someone I would've thought is so consistent but...well I shouldn't be surprised. But it scares me. You disappear in so many ways. Shot in the park, permanently on the run, impaled, crushed, kidnapped. The one I hear the most is being hit by that meteorite!? It's insane. It's horrible. It's the worst feeling being a Sissel who lost you only temporarily, awkward, like I shouldn't really talk about how good I had it in comparison to other Sissels...Or how normal we are. So much supernatural things are going on in other worlds...I'm really lucky. WE are lucky.

If I repeated every story I've heard so far about you then...I'd rather not actually. Some of them are already sticking in my head, I'll definitely have nightmares coming home. Angel's in particular is really getting to me, though. Her Yomiel died from the meteorite too. Body had disappeared and she wasn't doing well. Um. Financially, I mean! Nothing else! It's like when you were arrested and all anyone could talk about around me was 'Oh the spy! He held a girl hostage! He's incredibly guilty!' but so much worse. You were dead. Just..

Then as if all of it wasn't bad enough. You came back. You were just. There. At the apartment. Which sounded like a great thing all considered but that's just the thing. Angel described you funny. Alive but not really, there but not at all. Like some kind of zombie. It's gross. Even she looked put off while she was talking about it all! Gives me the creeps. She said more but that's where I stopped listening in. I've been thinking about it too much, what if I were Angel? What if that 'Yomi' was my Miel? I'm not sure about what I would do or anything really. I'm not sure and I don't want to keep thinking about it. I'm lucky. I'm very lucky. I hope you don't get scared reading this either. If you do, I should be home by now. You're lucky too, okay? Shake it off, it's not our icky world of nasty problems to wrestle with.

I do hope Angel's faring well. As well as she can..."

Here's a little bonus drawing from the fic. Bit that makes me laugh remembering it.

[the-grey-hunt]

WIZARD SISSEL (heavy metal guitar riff)

the costume contest is upon us and sissel has....summoned true thunder and lightning magics to demonstrate her incredible cosmic power? oh wait, that's just a really well made set piece. sissel when did you have time to do that.

her robes are inspired by this, since i cannot let it pass uncredited. the rest of her d&d-esque party, in her mind, goes like this:

"Oh, why'd I pick these options?

Lampy: Angel seems like the obvious choice for a cleric, but Lampy suits the class better, obviously. She's lit up from inside, like with divine power. She's even solar-powered! That's celestial!

Cool/Punk Sissel: She just seems monk-y. If I had to bet money on who here did parkour, I would say her. But also because she seems smart, you know? Monks study and stuff. In those monasteries.

Bug: She's got that glass cannon build. Lots of energy and really good at what she does, but if you can get her she goes down. Like that tennis game the other day.

DeLune: I dunno how strong she is physically, but she's real passionate. She totes around that camera everywhere, at least. She's definitely the type to get hit with hysterical strength in a crisis.

Angel: Her and DeLune, I wasn't sure about, but we needed *someone* to be the physical fighters for the sake of party comp...and she's sporty, right, so she does physical activities! Maybe she can be an archer if she's not an up-close girl.

Why am I a wizard? Uh......... 'cuz I wanna."

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"Glass canon... I can take hits. I can't take hits AND I can deal damage! Tank it even! My hp is so high...."

She's been clocked and she's mad about it

[trickingbell]

Day 6: Hobby Corner

"So...You have a little workshop of your own, yeah?" "Yes, but...aren't we doing our hobbies today? Not our jobs?" "Little difference to me!"

Hobbies? Why do that when she can teach you how to get that business of yours off the ground! My Sissel...really needs to get a hobby. I thought about drawing her trying out some of the things other Sissels have been doing. But I really really wanted to draw her giving Wrench advice for her own solo business. Uh, whether she wants it or not. Girl back up please. Sorry for also being late I got super into Mario tennis.

[trickingbell]

Day 7: Costume Contest

"I win contests. What Sissel wouldn't vote for this?"

The first time SIssel had Yomiel help her with her hair. But now since she didn't bring him. she had to figure it out herself...don't ask how. I couldn't for the LIFE of me stop laughing about this. She looks so stupid. He really looks like that. he LOOKS like THAT. Yomiel drawing on the side with her in her outfit...he was mad that she keeps smiling like that. He does NOT smile like that!!

He smiles like that.