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Obsessed with just how human the Shadow is despite their appearance and mannerisms.

They don’t attack! They either can’t defend themself or won’t defend themself. They don’t cry out either, but that’s definitely due to the fact that they can’t speak. They just stare silently as they’re beaten to death.

It’s so charmingly AWKWARD how their strategy for getting to know Sam is to just… hang out closer and closer to the guy they like.

Let’s be real. They’re fucking horrifying. And in a world like Look Outside where literally anyone could be dangerous, the twelve foot tall masked black obelisk is high on the list of things you would realistically avoid like the plague. But Sam just walks right up to them and says hello! Multiple times. And I can’t help but feel that the usual reaction from people would be avoidance. Maybe that’s the specific WHY of why they seem so interested in Sam. Nobody else has gone right up to them and said ‘hi’, let alone asked if they need help.

After you turn down their offer of assimilation, it really does read like… ‘Whoops, sorry, I guess I misread some signals’. Like!! They genuinely thought this was where things were going, but it’s like they leaned in for a kiss and Sam told them them that he doesn’t see them that way.

Embarrassing!!

But they handle it well and learn to respect boundaries. That’s the big thing! A great many mutants in the game have a warped sense of other people do or don’t want, Edwin being a great example. But the difference with the Shadow is that they actually listen to you.

So they learn better and decide to go back to something you do like:

Gifts!! That was the last thing Sam enjoyed doing, so… more of that!!

Their interactions with the Rat Baby pretty much prove that they don’t just go around assimilating whoever they can whenever they can! It’s unclear if that’s always been the case of if Sam taught them that some things don’t like that.

And it says a lot that the Shadow no longer roams the building! Even after, you know, assimilation doesn’t happen, I like to think the Shadow primarily sticks around because they have a place to stay with some who likes them.

Filling up your apartment with assorted weirdos isn’t quite the same without the Shadow looming ominously over all of them.

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Currently thinking about:

The way the Shadow scrutinizes you for a moment, as if trying to figure out the answer when you ask them ‘Do I know you?’. There’s a lot of ways to read that.

Is their own memory hazy? Are they trying to figure out if Sam would know them from somewhere? Are their memories of who they used to be a bit muddled and hard to parse? Is the Shadow composed of multiple people as implied by what happens if you embrace them, and they need to comb through their myriad of memories to see if any of their components know Sam

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ghost hunting team that keep a nonbeliever named steve around as an emergency supernatural suppressant

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Look Outside shitposts lol

the memes referenced:

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THE GANG'S ALL HERE LETS GOOOOOO

Finally colored them all 😭 Like I said before, feel free to take any inspo or reference I don't own these chucklenuts

Alrighty design explanation/hc time:

[Edit:] I added an extension cus I forgot to earlier aaa, don't want this huge wall of text to be unchecked

Sam:

- He's partial heterochromatic

- I hc him as mid 30's so he's got some Grey's

- Chubby, but decently built arms

Joel:

- Shirt is ripped because of mouth, i noticed this in his sprite and other people's observations

- gave his shirt stripes cus I wanted him and Sophie to have more distinction in their warthdrobe

Sophie:

- butterfly etching on her pants

- She is missing a tooth, makes sense with her age and rowdyness. Also has a bandaid on top of that.

- she has a big overlayer shirt cus again, helps distinguish her

Dan:

- Fingerless gloves, he's cold but he needs his fingers free to record or play games😩

- he has NO hair anywhere, maybe even has Alopecia

- Wear's a sick denim vest hell yeah

Hellen:

- TALL and also very build like a heavyweight champion (so muscular and a bit of pudge)

- also greying, I personally think hc her as 40

- I am obsessed with how everyone gives her coveralls, so I'm including them. Tho, she mostly wears them during excursions. At the apartment, she takes it off and wears her normal turtleneck and sweats

Xaria:

- she has a nasty scowl and sharp teeth, basically she both a barks and bite.

- some makeup too cus GOTHHH

- she's taller than Dan with the boots on, and is decently built too with strong shoulders

Monty:

- short and it's hard to tell, but I made him chubby under the coat. Unlike Sam tho, his arms are thinner.

- also has sharp teeth, and a scowl

Leigh:

- she has a huge head 😭 yes that was on purpose, her sprite had a beeg head

- she's taller than she looks, but hunches over and crawls a lot

- fun fact: I made her avert her gaze because she looks absolutely horrifying looking forward like everyone else

Rat Baby:

- gave him a lil bandana cus why not

- I think he's relatively big here, like a small dog

Papineau:

- he's not as tall as hellen but he's still huge

- AURA

- no constructive comment but I do find him handsome VuV

Ernest:

- bundled up in many layers

- very thin underneath tho

Roaches:

- he's a bunch of roaches can more can I say lol

Morton:

- he's def just a huge cricket underneath the layers

- he is quite fond of the colorless rubiks cube sksk

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owie (small price to pay)

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Ah what the heck, while I’m in an arty mood and sketching up a storm of Look Outside stuff:

Got an OC? Put em in my inbox, and I might draw em a Look Outsona! Terribly mutated, of course. Feel free to mention interests and that sorta thing.

No promises, but if I do yours I’ll @ ya if I do them!

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Post-Denial comic wip let's see how long i can stay motivated

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Was thinking about sybil and what she might look like, and behold, my grand artistic vision.

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Another random crack theory I offer you today.

The pink goop isn’t just Sybil? But specifically, her brains which kind of burst and got all over the place from witnessing the visitor so long.

Whatever part of her is next to Sam/in his walls, is able to remember enough about herself like her name etc, but everything else is… scattered. Because she’s a scatter brain. Literally! That stuff is ALLLL over the place. Gnarly.

Comes from the fact that I was trying to draw it and it does kind of remind me of a cartoonish depiction of pulsing brain matter, so, lol. That’s it. That’s all I have. I have no other evidence to offer you.

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YES THE TIGER IS OUT

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64974043

sliiiiiides fic into tag. I couldnt stop thinking abt that one interaction where Hellen talks abt wanting to kill the Visitor so

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Stalkers Georg, who lives in Montreal

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Hellen....... H.....Helle.n......

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Sorry, I canonised them. yeah, they're saints now. sorry.