Who Am I?
Hello! My name is Eight and I'm a fictive of Siffrin from In Stars and Time. Don't call me Siffrin unless you have special permission, though. That name is Off-Limits! I used to be the host but not really anymore. I'm also the partner of Isabeau in my system, and I'm best friends with Mirabelle.
Ummm how do I. Talk about Me. I'm probably one of the weirdest ones here? But I take pride in it! My main hobbies are coding and drawing and playing/making video games. I also love collecting labels and identity things.
Speaking of labels and identity things! I am a fictive of Siffrin, as I already said. I'm also a fictionkin of Eight from Splatoon and ENA from ENA. Additionally, I'm cloudkin! All of that I expand more upon in the section right below this one.
I'm also aroace ("Eight how are you aroace if you're in love with Isabeau" don't worry about it) and agender ("Eight how are you agender if you use he/they pronouns" don't worry about it). And I'm a femme!
As for my taste in music, my favorite artists are Will Wood, Flavor Foley, Mitski, Low Roar... and more but this section is long enough already... I probably have the widest music taste out of all of us, except maybe Wilde. I swear he just listens to anything, regardless of genre. We like to call him the junk drawer of our music taste. Anyway! This is the link to my playlist. My favorite song is "Act of Contrition" by Machinegum.
Also have this. It's not my creation but I do love it.
Aaannnd that's about it! I am cringe but I am me!
Pronouns: he/they
Species: human, islander, octarian, ena, cloud, bunny
Age: late 20s but also same as body
Birthday: September 1st
Go Back?
Fictive, Fictionkin, and Cloudkin
I formed in this system in January of 2025, after we played In Stars and Time for the first time and related to the main character so hard that a part of us became him! My relationship with my source is... complicated, as is usually the case for any fictive who had not-super-fun things happen to them in their source. As a game, it is very very good. Immaculate writing, engaging gameplay, great UI and art. Probably one of the best games we have ever played! As a thing that actually happened to me, it is not so fun, and I hate that my source is the story of the most traumatic thing that ever happened to me and not any of the good parts of my life (because I do have exomemories of what came after the cannon story, and much of that was very good!).
We played the game three more times after that first playthrough, and then I became host and we haven't played it again since. I find it really weird to control myself from a third-person perspective and interact with my family as video-game NPCs. I don't like it! So I don't play my source, and I don't intend to. I do interact with fanworks a lot, although it is sometimes not the healthiest thing for me to be doing. Reading me-centric fanfic in particular almost always makes me feel awful.
As a world, I miss it very much, and I miss those family members of mine who I am not lucky enough to share a system with - Odile, Bonnie, and my daughter Lulu. I am so, so grateful that Isabeau and Mirabelle are here with me; I know of many Siffrin fictives who are not that lucky. Altogether, I wouldn't give up my identity as Siffrin for anything, and I don't intend on source-seperating any more than I already have anytime soon.
On older versions of this site, I had these long-winded fancy explanations for why I related to each of my fictomeres. I... don't really want to rewrite all that, if I'm being honest. When I was new to being fictionfolk, I felt like I had to justify why I was certain characters. I don't feel that way anymore. Nowadays, I think it's enough to say "this is me" and leave it at that. This is me; this is my reflection in a mirror; my counterpart in another world. I am Eight, and I am ENA, and that is all!
Prior to our syscovery, I related to clouds because I felt that my mind was so vast and that I was always changing and shifting, like a cloud. But as it turns out, my mind felt vast because it contained multiple people, and I was alwyas changing because - you guessed it - "I" was multiple people. So all the reasons that I originally related to clouds... don't really apply anymore? And never really applied in the frist place?
That said, I still do consider myself cloudkin. Despite the fact that most of my logical reasons for relating to clouds are gone, I still get that "this is me" feeling when I look up at a cloudy sky. And, anyway, clouds... they're distant, but not disconnected. They're soft and fluffy on the outside, but pressure systems on the inside. I can relate to that, still.
My favorite clouds are whispy, ghost-like cirrus clouds, or colorful golden-and-pink cumulus clouds at sunset.
My Love
Isabeau thought he could get away with having a section for me on his About page... well he can't!!! I'm gonna have a section for him too!!! He can't stop me!!!
What can I say about you, Isa? You mean so much to me, and words can only do so much... but it's so worth trying to get it perfect, so I will.
I just love to be with you! Talking late at night about everything and nothing, listening to your favorite music with you even though it's like three artists, slinging myself over your shoulders and watching you play video games, curling up next to you in bed at night. You have this warm, calming presence - being near you is like standing beneath the gentle warmth of early morning sunlight. You are the sunshine to my cloudy day.
I love joking with you. I love that you always laugh at my jokes even though most of them are awful. I love your smile. You have a heart of gold, and you care so much about our system and our friends. You're so passionate about everything you do. You're filled with this glow, and it's part of everything you do. It infects those who spend time around you. You make the people around you better, always giving so much more than you take.
You're always there for me, no matter what. You're always there to wrap your arms around me when I'm upset and to offer the best advice you can give. You don't always get it perfect, when we have those heavy, emotional conversations, but you always try your best, and that means so much. You always forgive me, no matter what horrible things I say to you, no matter what horrible things I do to our body. You don't have to forgive me, but you do, every time. It's like you see a completely Eight than I do: you see me as someone worth spending time with, worth caring about, worth loving. I could never see myself that way, before you showed me how. And everytime I struggle to see myself that way, you're there to teach me again. I'm so grateful for that.
You make me feel complete. I know that when we were younger, we always used to roll our eyes at people who said their partner "made them complete," but I guess I understand those people a lot more now, because you really do. Before you and I started spending time together, I was so bitter and sad all of the time. I don't feel that way anymore. You've brought so much joy into my life. You are, in every way, my partner, my best friend, my husband, my most constant companion. And I love you, Isa!
