Look Outside Posting Part 3: Inside

hey guys, its him

king dvd

this year, the first day of aromantic spectrum awareness week lines up with the anniversary of jurgen leitner's death. here's a pride flag to celebrate

I now randomly think abt Lyle & that's your fault /j

oh noooooo how unfortunateeeeeeee

anyway can you hold this thing for me

I asked and Frankie said it was just some meta info like how you can see the enemies names or the cage has a name on it but we don't see it but it's not entirely confirmed. In my heart, Sam named it cinnamon because he had a childhood cat also named cinnamon.

Is the hamster named cinnamon because Sam named it or is there something in the apartment that states that? Asking for fanfiction purposes.

This is genuinely so beautiful

Look Outside Posting Part 2: Infectious Mutations

Today we're talking about the contagious mutants. The tooth family, the rats, the hands from the bus, and so on (including those, like the SWAT truck, that fuse with their victims as part of the process).

These, I suspect, are more common than we actually see firsthand.

I think the likeliest explanation for most of the groups of enemies with similar themes is that they're from one or two people getting witnessed, and then attacking everyone else around until they're all a big, happy monster family. People just looking together, if they don't merge into a single amalgamation, doesn't appear to necessarily give them similar monstrous forms.

You would also expect a lot lower than a 100% mutation rate for, say, Vincent's party, which had at least seven people present, and not that big of a window in the apartment - someone would avoid the window where weird things were happening, try to flee, or at least get killed by one of the Onlookers and end up as a corpse on the floor. Same goes for the taxidermy or frozen apartments.

I think Vincent's party had two primary witnesses: Vincent, and the Gawker in the bathroom (who's at a later stage than the others).

And for something a lot of players might never find out about - the concealed eyeball gang is actually the one and only non-ending chance Sam has in the game to get infected by a monster himself, to my knowledge. There's a random event that can occur at the table, where Sam has an intrusive thought to cut himself open and see if he has eyes inside him like the wounded man at the beginning - and there's a 1 in 3 chance that his hunch turns out to be correct. Neato!

Anyway. It also struck me as strange that, in the endings where something doesn't literally, physically, personally grow to reach around the entire earth, there isn't a whole new zombie apocalypse with whichever infectious mutation happened to fare the best in the arms race. We know that this mechanism still works after the Visitor leaves, because of the Truth ending... so what I think is that in order to be an infectious mutant, you have to be a primary witness, i.e. people you infect can't continue to spread it - naturally limiting any potential outbreaks to direct contact with their single carrier.

I searched for a counterexample, but couldn't find any among the game's enemies. Rafta was a witness herself, the pipe men that got Placide were witnesses, the Rat King has plenty of mouths to be responsible for all the rats (though I still wonder where all those people even came from).

I thought for a moment that the landlord's attack might disprove it- HOWEVER! From Memorial's account of events on the bus, all of the mutated passengers were infected by a single witness, who exploded into dozens of tiny crawling hands that climbed on everyone. Very similar to the ones that that attacker was keeping in its stomach to release onto the landlord! How...... sweet? Some of the passengers literally scooped up a little of their primary witness to share. I guess it's nice that tiny hands guy is still alive?

It also makes it a little more plausible that Sam (and whichever companions) got through hand-to-hand combat with so damn many potentially contagious creatures without anybody getting turned.

Why this happens in the first place, seems to follow pretty naturally from my previous post's theories. The Visitor isn't great at telling individuals apart at the best of times. If I hold you close, or draw your blood... the division between our separate flesh blurs, and something might slip across.

Satori headcanons lets goooo

-He’s a dizygotic triplet, meaning that while Hotori and Kotori are identical, he’s the only fraternal!

-He didn’t even really know that he had brothers until he met Enel. But that’s some real sad backstory stuff ill be holding onto unless someone asks for it.

-But as a result of this they’re all very attached to each other, and do a lot of silly things. For example, Satori was born with pretty bad eyesight. Kotori and Hotori have fine eyesight, but they wear matching glasses anyway because they’re family :3

-the yellow tint to the lenses is for sad backstory reasons, but there IS an explanation. It goes hand in hand with his signature laugh.

-the secondary reason for the tint is that he can’t see glass very well, being half bird and all. Which brings me to…

-Birkans are kind of a gamble in terms of what kind of Fucking Furry they turn out to be. If they don’t look like a goat, (and oftentimes even if they do) they’ll get a mix of different bird traits. Satori got the short end of the stick here, having hollow bones and really sensitive lungs. All the things to make a bird’s respiratory system efficient, without the looping system. So in the end you just have a guy that goes into a coughing fit if the room is too dusty and could break his whole foot if he stubs his toe. <\3

-as a result of this he really likes the forest because the air is nice and clean!

-he lives in a cute lil cabin without windows because one time he got too excited and smashed thru one papyrus style. so he just decided to get rid of em after that lol

-bonus: Shura resembles a bird from the hips down. He also has scaly, clawed hands. 5 fingers but still birdlike. He got it way better than Satori.

-Expanding on the bone thing, Sanji’s kick to his head was particularly nasty not because it caused brain damage or anything, but because the direct downward force fucked up some vertebrae along with his head. Cursed with forever back pain now.

-His palms are very scarred from impact dial use. He specially engineered his gloves to be able to lock into position, with the dial sandwiched in between two layers of armor. So while it’s not too damaging anymore, the testing stages did a number on his hands.

-He’s also never getting any of the credit for designing the Ark Maxim lol. But engineering is more his area of expertise, as opposed to the other priests who are fighters. Even Gedatsu is stronger physically, by a longshot. Satori is just the brainy runt that can’t do shit without his dials <\3 but hes real smart i prommy

-he had a wife at one point. now he just has abandonment issues. context upon request because that’s some real heavy sad backstory stuff.

-Him and all the other priests don’t respond well to being restrained. The downside to observation haki rip

-he doesn’t have horns but he DOES have an ahoge that boings up if he takes his hat off.

-he’s only 5 ft tall and wears risers in his shoes. Even more height is added with breath dials he uses to get more air (and soft landings) when he jumps around. His brothers do the same, but they’re both 5’3 naturally.

-All the priests have subtle patterns on their wings. Satori has white iridescent round eyespots on each feather, that are only visible in certain lighting.

-he loves peanuts so much. it’s a bird thing. its not his canon favorite food, but anything peanutty is up there with his top faves. If you offer him peanut butter noodles he’ll be your best friend ever.

-hes very tired of other people making ball jokes. but he laughs at his own. he thinks hes the funniest guy ever.

-can you tell that the token nerd and funnyguy hcs were ripped straight from numbuh 2

-thats it :3

Do you have any plans on drawing twice-cursed Lyle in your "things that crawl? au? If he does indeed get twice-cursed?

Nnnot entirely sure if this is the final design I'll stick with but heres something