[Spoilers for Act 6] Off all the times that Siffrin looped, this is one of the strangest. It does show his distress, but he only loops when either he feels his wish to stay together is impossible, or it legitimately is impossible. But they were still willing to stay with him at that moment, and were not suspicious of him, so why would Siffrin think its impossible? The only thing I can think of is that, in that moment, he saw them as more 2 dimensional characters as opposed to real people, and couldn't stay with his actors? Either way, this seems like an outlier and I love it
Loop's exact words for this loop (when they're discussing why Siffrin sometimes loops on non-deaths) are "You can't continue, because you all saw a ghost of yourself and they're reacting like nothing's wrong." It's a very strange loop for sure, but I think it comes down to a fear that this "terrible" version of himself is just... who he is in their eyes. Even if it's not bad enough for them to immediately abandon him, it's still surely an indication that he's not worthy of them staying with him after the quest is over.
It is true that through an objective lens it seemed fine! But when you've been trying to hide everything to such a degree for so long and under such anxiety, I think it becomes easy to feel that even letting your peers see any genuine emotion, is letting on too much. Wether that be to hold up the facade of being perfectly fine or to try be the role model of the group, etc etc. That's my 2 cents anyways, I hope that makes some sense :>
[Spoilers for Act 6] Off all the times that Siffrin looped, this is one of the strangest. It does show his distress, but he only loops when either he feels his wish to stay together is impossible, or it legitimately is impossible. But they were still willing to stay with him at that moment, and were not suspicious of him, so why would Siffrin think its impossible? The only thing I can think of is that, in that moment, he saw them as more 2 dimensional characters as opposed to real people, and couldn't stay with his actors? Either way, this seems like an outlier and I love it
Well his distress says it all imo, he doesn't think he could stay with the version of the family that saw the ghost and accepted it as normal
Loop's exact words for this loop (when they're discussing why Siffrin sometimes loops on non-deaths) are "You can't continue, because you all saw a ghost of yourself and they're reacting like nothing's wrong." It's a very strange loop for sure, but I think it comes down to a fear that this "terrible" version of himself is just... who he is in their eyes. Even if it's not bad enough for them to immediately abandon him, it's still surely an indication that he's not worthy of them staying with him after the quest is over.
I think Siffrin’s scared that they’ll be left behind since they’ll be “too much of a burden” if his team knows about his problems
It is true that through an objective lens it seemed fine! But when you've been trying to hide everything to such a degree for so long and under such anxiety, I think it becomes easy to feel that even letting your peers see any genuine emotion, is letting on too much. Wether that be to hold up the facade of being perfectly fine or to try be the role model of the group, etc etc. That's my 2 cents anyways, I hope that makes some sense :>
I always assumed the ghosts were blank... It's so much worse that they're not.
Wow. I never got this one because I didn’t feel like looping so much but dang.
Oof thats rough buddy
I wonder if that is Loop.
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