#*rosalind and robert lutece.

[timeloooop]

i've yet to formally mention/elaborate upon the luteces gender and pronouns.

robert is comfortable with he/they/she pronouns.

before jumping into rosalind's universe, robert only used he/him. once entering rosalind's world, and obtaining all of rosalind's memories (as well as retaining his own), robert became innately but not overtly comfortable with she/her pronouns. however, using she/her pronouns is not something he would ask people to do. if someone accidentally referred to him as such, it simply wouldn't feel wrong or foreign. it's more nuanced than "he has rosalind's memories and rosalind is a woman so he has the memories of a woman and feels like a woman because of that". yes, that's a large part of it--the blurring of selves/identities. but it's also this: having been shown/felt/opened to a feminine existence (via rosalind's memories), he was able to reflect and explore those aspects dormant within himself. that and he is no longer the robert he was before entering rosalind's world. he is inextricably changed and different and other.

similarly, once in rosalind's world, and living as an inseparable unit with her, they/them felt like a natural and frequent pronoun. as they are always together, people often refer to them as one: them. and as "twins" (AND as beings that exist beyond the rules of physics (alive and dead all at once)), they feel a certain fond affinity towards the paradoxical/both-are-true-at-once singular/plural they/them pronouns. what's more, with the blurring of his identity with hers (man and woman), they/them feels like a neutral compromise of the two.

rosalind is comfortable with she/they pronouns.

she/her for obvious reasons. they/them for the same reasons as robert, minus the blending of identities since she does not have his memories.

[nechto221b]

i am a false prophet because i draw them expressing emotions and not with poker faces.

[reichenbachfalle]

[yalambda]

Have the Lutece twins while I regain strength to do anything digitally... Last time I used watercolor was like 2 years ago so don't mind the quality lmao

[xuyaak]

*that one theme starts playing*

[doctornechto]

[sketchxx]

rare bioshock art whaaaaat

its like 2:30 am idk anymore

[sadsideart]

Inspired by that one @lootzest post TwT

[tillaramnes]

[imsmallfry]

please tell me someone else gets this reference

[silverhandenthusiast]

Hold on….

These two look familiar……

ROBERT AND ROSALIND IS THAT YOU???

I shit you not I just played this mission not even an hour ago and that’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw those two.

[timeloooop]

sleep meme / headcanons.

01. type of bed. a full sized bed, originally. rosalind's bedroom has enough space for a queen sized but she forwent it for more study space. a desk and mini laboratory table for quick access. after robert arrived, they bought a queen sized and share it. while they're perfectly comfortable sharing a bed (and, indeed, elect to (it was exactly the room, the size, the duvet of robert's bed, too, he's not about to give that up simply because he switched universes)) their sleeping is often erratic, at random times, and it's usually only one of them taking a short several hours to sleep while the other is up working.

02. number of blankets. sheets and a duvet. rosalind is an unruly, destructive sleeper, pulling and undoing the covers in her sleep. robert sewed weights into his end of the covers to prevent rosalind from yanking them over and off him during those instances they are both sleeping at the same time.

03. number of pillows. four. two for each of them. any more, like decorative ones, would cause unwanted clutter.

04. type of clothing. after robert's arrival, rosalind has taken to wearing his night clothes rather than a slip or gown. she likes how his pants and undershirts fit her, oversized and dexterous in movement. pants also allow her to flop around and re-situate while sleeping, which she does frequently, much to robert's dismay.

05. does it matter where they sleep. not particularly. they do have chairs and small couches in the main laboratory room as well as throughout the home and they'll nap on any of them, especially the lab ones, when they want to quickly get back to work but have exhausted their body and mind.

06. what do they do if they cannot fall asleep? they put off sleep as much as possible. they'd much rather be working and experimenting. what do they do if they cannot work: they sleep--briefly--so they can work again. but they'll often be stricken with ideas in dreams or think of a solution or test while trying to fall asleep and rush out of bed to test the thought or at the very least record it. sometimes, when one of them truly is having a rough time of it falling asleep, they open a tear via their lutece field to some live theater to listen to music. discreet in placement and size so no one notices. robert has fallen asleep like this before, tucked in a chair near the still open tear, and that accidentally let a stray cat (amongst other things) into their universe that they fondly, faux-annoyingly take care of.

07. frequent dreams, nightmares. robert doesn't have nightmares but, just as when he is awake during such bouts, the way reality and memories assaults his mind often feels nightmarish--even when the content of the memories are pleasant. robert has strange dreams. like dreams super imposed on one another. a double exposure. very disorienting. rosalind has strange dreams, too. more cerebral and existential/physics-like. dreams where physics and logic don't quite adhere to reality and are just beyond understanding--but not her understanding because she is, after all, the one dreaming of this deranged physics.

08. when do they sleep. anytime their body has reached peak exhaustion and their mind is lagging. it's not something they elect to do. post live/dead scattering, their urgency and steadfastness becomes less... necessary. there are no longer deadlines (they have hopped the red rope of death and, indeed, linearity; no longer beholden to deadlines because they're no longer constrained by death or time). in that state of their lives, they do lean into more indulgent excursions--with contextual purpose (even if that "purpose" is as broad as "scientific curiosity").

09. what could wake them. as previously mentioned, their own mental breakthroughs. one or the other waking the other because it's lunch or dinner or breakfast time and they've made meals for them both. post live/dead scattering, robert experiences occasional reality dissonance (the nose bleeds moments) that, if asleep, will wake him. schrödinger sometimes jumps up on their bed and disturbs them.

tagged by: @sanctamater tagging: @vitalphenomena

[nechto221b]

[whispers-through-the-walls]

look what finally arrived!!! I absolutely love that the faces of Lutece coin are mirrors of each other instead of being oriented and laid out the same. also "lives, lived, will live" & "dies, died, will die" in latin is the absolute cherry on top omg

they're so heavy and thick and fun to flip and I have not stopped doing so all night long

the only negative is that I was immensely disappointed to discover that the Lutece coin makes a very unsatisfying & quiet noise when flipped and the silver eagles makes almost none at all :(

(also the silver eagle is like ~1 mm thicker & wider than the Lutece coin for some reason?)

[lulu2992]

Speaking of BioShock Infinite, have I ever told you about that time I made a timeline of the BioShock series?

Tumblr made the image smaller so I’ve uploaded the original here :)

It’s far from being exhaustive because the reason I drew this in the first place was to make sure I really understood Infinite (the ending, especially) and Burial at Sea, so only the most significant and/or pivotal events are featured here. I later added some stuff from the other two games and the Minerva’s Den DLC after playing them. However, the novel BioShock: Rapture isn’t included because I haven’t read it (and it seems it’s generally not considered canon anyway).

I made this 8 years ago (with Paint, haha) but very recently translated it and made some adjustments so I could post it! I didn’t check everything I wrote because it’s been a while since I’ve really thought about the lore of BioShock, so I decided to trust my 2015 self and assume she knew what she was doing :’)

[underwater-utopia]

Rosalind and Robert Lutece stimboard for @sillyarchliker

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