Oh, shoot. I absolutely hate to see this. Let me see if I can figure out where saves are stored on the itch launcher. Worst case scenario, if you want to hop over into the Discord we can work on recreating your save file!!
So, as far as I can tell, either Itch deleted my save, or when I downloaded the app and made a test save to see the save location, I believe it could have overwritten my actual save. Shame, but I will just have to start new, good thing the game isn't super far along yet. Just sucks as I had JUST gotten my first control type and was eager to try it out. xD
Thanks for all the help.