You’re in ghosts phone as “DO NOT FUCKING ANSWER” and he’s in yours as “DO NOT CALL EVER” and everyone assumes it’s because you’re messy exes that keep falling back into each other’s toxic orbits but the truth is that like every time you call ghost while he’s deployed you end up crying about how you miss him and it totally breaks his heart and makes him sulk for the rest of the mission because he wants to go home so bad. So every time he’s home you’re like “okay I promise I won’t call anymore” and he’s like “I promise I won’t pick up if you do” but guess who keeps calling and guess who keeps fucking picking up anyways
Headcanons and speculation about Siffrin’s missing eye and my interpretation of what it might look like!!!
I’ve been pondering over my headcanon for what is underneath Siffrin’s eyepatch for a long, looooong time. It’s left pretty much entirely up to interpretation (even in artbook content which is interesting!! Seems like id5 either just didn’t know or really wanted us to figure it out ourselves!).
There is so much to consider!!
These are all the canon implications we get: we know that the eye was lost because Siffrin stepped in to stop a Sadness from hurting Bonnie. The party (or at least Sif and Bonnie) seems to be under the impression that if he hadn’t stepped in, Bonnie would have been killed. That is (to my knowledge) all we know.
So, that means it’s speculation time!!!!!
(Buckle up boys IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER INSANELY LONG ONE!!! 😭. Tw for discussions/descriptions and (drawn, not especially realistic) visual depictions of violence and blood below the cut)
To me the question that feels most important is this: what kind of Craft was this Sadness using??
I headcanon that all the craft types, when used to attack, each leave a different kind of ‘mark’ so to speak. Scissors craft comes out in slashes and swipes, piercing stuff; rock more akin to blunt force trauma, like if you… well… beat someone with a rock; and it took me a while to figure out what paper might be, but eventually I thought maybe it’d indicate more nonmaterial sort of wounds, like the mark of being burned or frozen.
So, anyways. Not only are we aware that if Siffrin hadn’t stepped in bonnie likely would have died, the attack also took Siffrin’s eye out. For the purposes of this speculation, I’ll assume that the interaction went relatively quickly and that Siffrin and Bonnie escaped as soon as they possibly could (but Siffrin of course would have prioritized Bonnie’s safety over their own, as a given). This means that whatever the attack was, it must have been pretty damn powerful, and something that both Siffrin and Bonnie would have been susceptible to.
This would be easy if they were the same type... unfortunately Siffrin is scissors and Bonnie is rock. No matter how you put it, one of them will be at least neutral to the damage if not outright resistant to it.
So, here’s where I landed and how I got there…
Scissors craft is almost immediately off the table. With Siffrin neutral and Bonnie resistant to it, it wouldn’t do much to either of them, and I doubt it’d be enough to make things life threatening. Even being inexperienced in fighting and unprepared for battle, Bonnie is still one fierce little child, and when traveling somewhere fights are expected I don't think the rest of the party would let them go off on their own without at least a weapon. All things considered, Bonnie could probably handle a scissors type enemy on their own if they really, really had to--at least enough for the situation not to be life threatening.
So with that out of the way, it’s either rock or paper.
My initial inclination was to make the damage stronger against Bonnie, since the attack nearly killed them while it only half-blinded Siffrin. However, being a child, Bonnie is… kind of weak to everything already. Granted, not much weaker than Siffrin was at the start of the game (300 max hp versus 490 yes I checked), and they would've been even lower leveled in the past--but Siffrin is also an adult who is used to fighting and does it quite frequently, as opposed to Bonnie who, by all accounts, is neither of those things. And while he is small and certainly prioritizes speed over hardiness, him along with the entire party (except Bonnie) are used to taking damage. They get beat up, they get knocked out sometimes; every adult here knows how to handle themself and handle (as well as most likely deflect, avoid, or at least lessen damage). But anyways…
This would mean choosing paper as the main craft type, but something about that felt a little bit off, mainly because of another, entirely unrelated thing: I feel as though paper attacks aren’t particularly… centralized? Like, with all the very few clues we get ingame as to how craft actually looks and functions (in a battle setting… and just in general honestly), I find that paper is different from scissors and rock in that its attack sprite is a large even diamond instead of a sort of ‘direct hit’ animation like both the others have. Scissors is even similar enough to rock that I had to take some creative liberties with the design on my cards in order to distinguish them. Paper feels more magical and decentralized, and even if it were an aimed attack, paper to me reads as a craft that—even if it did take out Sif’s eye—wouldn’t leave a scar small enough to be covered by an eyepatch. (And hey that’d be a really cool alternate design! Siffrin with more scarring!! I'd love to make alternate designs for their eye scar based around different types of craft damage too... But, this speculation is meant to be within the realm of canon, soooo we stick to that). Besides, Siffrin is resistant to paper, so if it wasn’t a centralized attack, then would it even take his eye out at all?
So, here we are. Rock craft. Bonnie’s neutral to it, and Siffrin’s weak to it—seems backwards yeah, but Siffrin as mentioned before can take damage much better than Bonnie can, and it’d take much more to kill him than it would them. The attacks can be aimed and centralized under my interpretation, hit relatively hard just as a general baseline for rock I feel like, and more importantly, could be a genuine threat to either of them.
So, with all that in mind, here’s my take on how things might've gone down:
Bonnie is a short distance away from the rest of the party for whatever reason; maybe foraging, maybe scouting ahead, who knows. They are attacked by a Sadness, and as we know, Siffrin is the only one near and fast enough to get to them in time.
When Siffrin gets there the Sadness is seconds away from sending out an attack. Bonnie has been knocked to the ground and has gotten their foot hurt somehow, so is struggling to escape, and the Sadness is standing directly over them. Siffrin puts themself between Bonnie and the Sadness the only way they know how: by pushing the Sadness back and, in turn, putting himself in its line of fire.
It’s an incredibly close call, because as soon as he does, the Sadness fires its craft at him. And suddenly, he can’t see out of his left eye. The entire left side of his face has exploded in pain. Still, he strikes with his own craft, yelling something angry and indistinguishable as he sends his dagger slicing right through its face. He isn’t sure what happened—at first he assumes he’s just been blinded by the pain—but it doesn’t matter what happened to him, does it? All that matters is that the Sadness is away from Bonnie.
He is... confused by the party’s horror, when they finally get to him and find the left part of his face absolutely drenched in thick, lightless blood. But he isn't even trying to cover the wound, not even when there's darkness pouring from his head and eye socket, not even when it's staining his cloak. In fact, he's barely acknowledging the wound at all--or the rest of the party, for that matter--as he tries to help Bonnie stand up. Since Siffrin is preoccupied and not responding, Odile and Mirabelle (both having paper craft at their disposal) go to take care of the Sadness while Isabeau, both being the strongest and the most emotionally aware, goes to help Siffrin and Bonnie.
Once the altercation is over, they don’t even try to go back to wherever they were camping. Mirabelle makes Siffrin sit down right then and there so she can clean up his blood and look at his wounds. Siffrin insists that he’s fine, and that they should focus on getting Bonnie back to camp; taking care of their injured foot. But he’s still full of adrenaline. He can't feel the pain yet, he doesn’t know how bad the damage is. Everyone else is currently staring at the bloody remains of what used to be his eye.
Well, everyone but Bonnie. They… are too busy crying.
And finally, here's some art of my Sif scar design along with some doodles! (sidenote it’s really fun to indicate what point in the timeline we’re at through Sif’s hair)
So, yeah, that’s about it! A powerful rock craft attack that hit his eye directly from close range and completely destroyed it (along with some of his eye socket and brow probably…). That’d mean he almost certainly doesn’t have any eye left under there, and would also make my interpretation of the scar probably much less sharp and, like, slashey? Than most of the other ones I’ve seen; it's a mark from blunt force trauma above all. He probably also has at least some pain in the left side of his face too, given how traumatic that injury would be.
I doubt that he wears a prosthetic eye, at least pre and during canon, so more like a conformer probably? Especially since his eye socket was definitely damaged. But who knows! I mean, I feel like once he knows that maybe everyone actually isn’t Absolutely Disgusted with the idea of him having his eyepatch off then maybe he’d try more prosthetics to look cool? That feels like something he’d do. I follow someone on youtube who wears prosthetic eyes (granted probably not the same kind Sif would wear given that they have a part of their eye still there and they also have an eyelid when he would not) that have like. Cool sparkly star shaped pupils?? And I feel like he’d vibe with that that’d be so cool. Stars!!! :DD
Oh and in terms of medical stuff another reason I think he probably wears his eyepatch so often is that it protects his scar and eye socket from agitation and like… stuff getting in it. In fact I bet it’s Crafted to! Or at least to aid in that. I imagine the difference between Siffrin deciding on an eyepatch versus a prosthetic to do that same job (along with aesthetic purposes. (…ok mini hc: I bet he likes both aesthetically for different reasons tbh but THIS POST IS SO FUCKING LONG ALREADY AAAUHHHHH I GOTTA TALK ABT THAT SOME OTHER TIME)) is something akin to just… time? It happened while the gang was on their journey and while the curse was still forcing them to travel to avoid it, so I imagine they did the best they could with whatever time they had, and that was an eyepatch? BUT! Once they’re traveling without the threat of a curse or the King, they definitely have more time! Or maybe even once everyone stops traveling together and Sif has time to do just kinda whatever he wants (before he starts traveling around to visit everyone (oh hello one of my other other other headcanons! What are we at for this post by now, like 5?)). How cool would it be if he just like. Showed up to Isa or Mirabelle’s place one day with a fancy new prosthetic eye all theatrical about it? I feel like that is ABSOLUTELY something he would do! Theater kid!! (More likely to be Mira though because I bet he’d also be worried about upsetting Isa by not wearing the eyepatch as often as he used to (hey can you tell. That Siffrin. Has been in my brain? For a. Long. Long. Time??? And you watch as my eye twitches in a totally I am sooooo very normal about this game AanNd about my fics and hcs way :smile_of_derangement:))
Okay okay okay ONE more thing!!!
Anothernothernothernother(nother?) headcanon I have is that the craft types sometimes leave a residue of sorts if it’s a powerful enough attack? Like rock craft leaves little pebbles or maybe even bits of lichen? Maybe paper shreds or sawdust for paper, and for scissors either metal shavings or shreds of whatever was cut by the craft (Oh my god that’s so metal actually… wtff)?? (OBLIGATORY NOT REALLY AN ‘ATTACK’ TYPE CRAFT BUT MELTED/BURNT/GRANULATED (OR EVEN POWDERED OR— OR BROWN (I guess they'd probably call that 'dark sugar' or sumn huh?)?? DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUGAR BASED ON THE STRENGTH AND NATURE OF THE WISH?? Oh my god I am COOKING. Or, well, baking BADUM CHING— anyways.) SUGAR FOR WISH CRAFT (IN SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES OFC) YEAAAHHHH!!!) And so, what if like, the main reason his eye had to be removed is because it didn’t just get hit, but it got little pebble bits sent into it which just completely destroyed it?? Aaaoughhhh this is… um.. devastating actually. But. Good kind??
Okayokay that’s ACTUALLY all I swear. Thank you for reading abt my headcanons!! I speculated very hard abt them!!! (And the art too ig… (/silly))
I want to jump! I want to dance! I want to get in a big group and bounce to some shitty 2010s party music in a house that’s too small! I want to grab you by the hands and spin around under streetlamps! I want to run down the sidewalk at midnight! I want to go down to the town square and fight with you! I want to stand under misting rain until it turns to snow and my eyelashes freeze under the fur of my ushanka! I want it to rain when we were supposed to play music, so we just pretend to be professional while we scream in the storm! I want to drag you through the woods with me and lay with you in the pine needles! I want to make the bad decisions teenagers are supposed to make before it’s too late. I want to not be scared to say ‘I love you’ instead of ‘I would die for you.’ What has gotten into me? Haha, I don’t know. I miss friends and love and going out late and you. Throw me at the wall, or something!
Most warprizeji fics have either YLLZ going That One I Want That One and sweeping LWJ off his feet after LWJ thought he’d be treated like shit, or LWJ being offered up to a YLLZ who is suspicious of his new bride and suspects assassination attempts or something only for the two to mutually fall in love anyway, and I love both of those flavors! However, please consider:
The sects all bully Lan into giving up LWJ as a war prize, LWJ is escorted (forced) to the Burial Mounds by representatives from Every Sect, and YLLZ takes one look at this new “gift” before absolutely fucking popping off because That Is A Person!! A Human Being!! What The Fuck Is Wrong With All Of You?!? Get Off My Mountain.
And LWJ is left standing there, watching this actually very beautiful and powerful man absolutely rip the other sects a new asshole for basically trying to sell him a slave, thinking “... Maybe I DO want to tap that.”
Only YLLZ has sent him away! He has forbidden the sects from ever trying anything like this again! Seriously, What Is Wrong With All Of You?
(Yunmeng Jiang, the only ones who were not involved, are all quietly smug about the whole thing. We told you he wouldn’t go for it.)
Not two weeks after returning to Gusu a caravan shows up outside cloud recesses, from the Yiling Wei Sect, carrying gifts for LWJ and his family and his sect as an apology for whatever the fuck that was, and a promise that if anybody tries to do anything like that again, they can reach out to Yiling Wei and YLLZ will come make damn sure nobody is going anywhere or doing anything they don’t actually want to be doing.
... LWJ definitely wants to tap that.
He ends up writing back a thank you letter to YLLZ, who responds in kind with reassurances that no thanks are necessary and seriously dude are you okay cause that was A Lot.
LWJ writes another letter, promising he’s returned safely and happily to his home, and his brother and uncle have been very clingy and overprotective but things are settling down again.
YLLZ writes him back.
LWJ writes him back.
Suddenly they’ve been pen pals for the better part of two years and LWJ has finally convinced WY to come visit him in Gusu so he can properly begin Operation: Seduce The Yiling Patriarch.
The operation goes much smoother than expected, because it turns out YLLZ never actually saw his face last time. LWJ had been wearing a veil. So poor unsuspecting WWX rolls up to Gusu to come hang out with his buddy LWJ who he’s been sending letters to pretty consistently since the whole War Prize Fiasco only to come face to face with the most beautiful man to ever walk the earth.
WY immediately decides to begin Operation: Seduce Hanguang-Jun.
A week later they’re getting caught making out in the library like randy teenagers.
Xichen does Not say I Told You To to Lan Qiren. Lan Qiren hears it anyway.
Taken from that one Reddit post but. Simon with a deaf!reader. He’s had his nose broken so many times, his nasal passageways are like a labyrinth. Of course he snores like an absolute chainsaw. And when the 141 is staying in a safe house together Soap thinks it’s a bit hilarious.
“Dinnae ken how ye sleep through the night without yer wife smotherin’ ye with a pillow after the first 10 minutes.”
“The missus says she happens to like my purring, thank you very much.”
And it’s true. You cuddle him and lay your head on his chest so you can feel all of the vibrations.
Getting railed by Soap in missionary when you tell him you love him sooo much— blush coming over his face as his hips suddenly stutter and you feel the sensation of warm cum filling you up mid-thrust.
“Fuck— fuck, sorry, I’m sorry—“ he bites his lip, “but ye cannae be sayin’ shite like tha’ while ahm up to the hilt in yer tight little cunt, bonnie… ye know ah’ve got a hair trigger…”
