Lost In Your Eyes Sfth - Blog Posts

Lost In Your Eyes!

Remember when I asked for sketch ideas and said I'd do THIS one (below) digitally, after I rewatch this longform? Well it's finally done, an odd balance between messy and thought-out, but I like this play quite a bit so I had fun 💕 tysm for the suggestion!!

I shared this idea on the Discord but thought I’d put it here, too (preemptive angst warning, sorry): Lost In Your Eyes Tarquin time loop fic where he goes back to the start of his journey over and over again any time anyone dies (I imagine the first day he doesn’t believe it. He has dreams like this all the time. But then he gets through one day. And then another. And then realizes that maybe this is real? And after the first loop and first successful save he realizes that maybe there is a chance. Maybe this is his second chance) and finally gets a chance to save everyone…!

…Only to wake up from some kind of coma or something and figure out it’s all fake. He never managed to save anyone. They’ve been dead for years.

I imagine him finally getting onto land and seeing Amanda again. He saves her life by protecting her and falls unconscious - he wakes up in a hospital. He’s drowsy and confused but he asks the first employee he sees about Amanda - only to get a response that they don’t know any Amanda… He is in denial about this the entire time.

Eventually they let him out and he searches for her (and the rest of his crew). She has to be out there somewhere - there has to be some reason no one came to visit him. Maybe they were waiting for him. He saved them, after all.

I imagine he runs into Amanda’s mother, who is not happy to see him, and she tells him that Amanda’s been dead for years and it’s his fault, angry that he would even suggest that she could be alive after all this time and give her false hope, and Tarquin is just devastated.

I don’t know why I’ve never questioned it before now but… what’s going on in the thumbnail for Lost In Your Eyes??? Like what is that explosion off to the right there for??? There’s literally no explosions in the entire play as far as I can recall???

Lost in Your Eyes- 7/10

This is one of shoot from the hip's underrated plays. It's an older one, but it's got a beautiful love story with a tragic ending. There are running jokes throughout the story ("I've got a gun and I'm not afraid to stab you!"), interesting and colourful characters ("Now excuse me whilst I die with my monkey."), and fourth wall breaks ("Three years I’ve been hunting land, I can barely stand anymore. I feel like I walked forty minutes to get here through the broiling heat wave because the Angel tube station was shut."). Luke repeatedly trying (and failing) to get into a love triangle with Sam was absolute gold. Tarquin somehow coming back to life with no explanation is something that will haunt me to the end of my days, as well as Bellyboots turning on Tarquin with no clear motivation. Why did Amanda have to die? No one knows. Props to the innkeeper using guns properly, you're my hero.

I'm proud of this fic so I'm posting about it

Yeah, Lost In Your Eyes fix-it fic be upon ye-

I just wanted Tarquin and Amanda to be happy. It had a lot more focus on other things, too, though, but I'm still quite proud of most of it so I'm positing it here. Okay thanks