Thinking About The Biological Implications Of Someone (Ryley Robinson) Getting Stuck On An Alien Planet

A removed conversation between Robin and AL-AN that remains in the games audio files.

It’s a very interesting interaction, but I do see why they opted to leave it out. Though it is nice to see a longer conversation between them. Especially one where they talk out their reasonings for differing views, and one where Robin ends up expressing empathy for AL-AN.

Transcript under the cut

AL-AN: Thank you for undertaking the quest for an alternative storage medium.

Robin: I would really love it if you could stop referring to me as a storage medium.

A: Not you. Your body.

R: My body is a significant part of who I am and how I experience life.

A: It is different for us.

R: Clearly. Or you wouldn’t have been hanging out in that sanctuary waiting to hitch a ride with me.

R: How did you get in there anyway?

A: We came here in search of a cure for the Kharaa bacterium.

R: What? Thousands of years ago?

A: I do not experience time as you do, but yes, that is technically correct.

A: My body was infected before a vaccine could be developed. I uploaded my consciousness to the sanctuary for storage.

R: What happened to the others?

A: Some left, others perished. Over time my connection to them grew weaker… I cannot sense them now.

R: AL-AN… I—

[missing piece of dialogue]

R: Yes okay, but— what I was going to say was… I’m sorry.

A: …Why? You have done nothing wrong.

R: Not sorry like an apology. Sorry like I feel empathy.

A: Are all your human languages so… confusing?

R: All the ones I know are.

Better look at AL-AN walking after he is transfered into his vessel

literally so happy that patch 8 is out but also :(((( aw man the fandom's gonna start dying isnt it? everyone's gonna move onto the next bbg. we're never gonna get to explore the upper city pre-explosion

reblogging this one because it easily links to all the others

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 <- The End

i just realized i shouldve sent the pictures of the prints i mentioned in my last post

thank you to the pretty lady with the nice dress who made them you were very nice and thank you for telling me about the way you draw hands

christ im so autistic about vampires

one of my favorite youtubers (miniminuteman) made a video on vampire burials and im so fucking im im im im *vibrates*

he mentions so much stuff that most people dont even think/know about like coins in mouths and being buried upside down and the common connections between disease outbreaks and vampire hysteria

i literally fucking love vampires so much im so autistic and my hyperfixation oh lord oh boy oh me oh my oh gosh golly darn boy do i love vampires

am i the only one who didnt know "I saved the town" is from a longer animation???????? bc i just found that shit out in the last twenty minutes and i want to commit HORRIBLE THINGS

the tall spindly anxious vaguely insectoid man strikes again

Sorry I’ve been inactive! I’m sick and there’s an exam marathon spewing it’s pure wrath upon me, so I haven’t been able to get as many Subnautica related ideas out!

Take this drawing of AL I made before I created this tumblr account for good measure, it’s not the best because it was a little rushed and for my Instagram story but I really like the colors.

so i bought myself Tavern Talk for my birthday and I just got to (no clue what day) when Fable say's they'll always come back to the inn and i just had the mental image of a bartender at one of these taverns who befriends a party of adventurers and then after years and years they suddenly disappear and are found dead and then they realize why all the other bartenders seem so distant from everyone so thats FUN

note to self to make more vampire oc's like this, or have an oc playdate w my buddy who does

I know vampirism is often used as a metaphor for the drain of the aristocracy but I think it would be fun to have more vampire characters who were just some guy before they got turned. You seek out the most ancient vampire in existence and find out he was a 40 year old wheat farmer in ancient Mesopotamia when he was turned 7,000 years ago and he hasn’t been doing much since then.