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WE WON!!!

WE WON.

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I see your Muirnes and raise you an au. Infected Muir is able to control himself more and doesn’t hurt Innes when he gets him.

YES. YES. YES.

I was actually planning an au where it's about Muir becoming human again but with monster quality's, Innes is injured but is ok. It would be called "saving you" where they're trying to protect one another as they go around the rig, bump into other survivors and what not 😎

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STILL WAKES THE DEEP SPOILERS BELOW!

I drew fanart of Innes and Muir cause as I've been making notes and theories on the game I'm crying over their bromance 🥲

(not canonically accurate death but I still love this)

Some small things that Muir says in game that made me cry:

"just need help .. what's wrong with them?"

"why is everyone running .."

"your all cruel bastards, you know that?"

"No one wants to help me.."

"where you going? I need help!"

"Innes.. where's Innes? ..I just need help.."

"I'm all alone.."

"why aren't you helping?!"

"Innes?! HELP ME INNES!!"

"I thought you were my friend!!"

Innes: "MUI-"

Caz: "NO!"

Muir: "you ..don't.. LEAVE ME!!!"

Me:

Idc I may ship them as a headcanon. First and only Muirnes shipper 😎🥲 ( totally not gonna make an au for them and the others called "Save you" or something-)

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STILL WAKES THE DEEP SPOILERS

Silly reaction video of how I felt playing it:

Man I love this game

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'we woke something up down there... God help us all.'

The Chinese room 's Still Wakes the Deep is an excellent example of games that make you feel the deepest dread, isolation and hopelessness. Linear, impactful and to the point, it throws challenges at you that feel pressing without being overwhelming, and a subtle, slow, creeping feeling of knowing that there is no help coming. The losses are gut punching, the creature and sound design is incredible, and it doesn't overstay it's welcome. You feel both viscerally disgusted and weirdly enthralled by the fleshy, breathing mycelium like growths taking over not only your rig but your friends, it's wailing song beautifully haunting and deeply horrifying. It's a game that will get into your head and clench your heart in its fist and not let go. Top notch. 10/10

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If you love Still wakes the deep, horror games, body horror, anything of the sorts, PLEASE READ THIS POST AND PLAY THE GAME!! IM OBSESSED ATM AND THESE THEORIES ARE SO COOL!!!

also giggling at the blob fish Rennich, me n the boys hate Rennich fr

Okay so I see some people are debating what the monster from Still Wakes the Deep is. I'm inspired by the support from my Death Angel post, so I'm gonna try giving an analysis. Now science is not my strong suit, I'm much better at zoology, but here we go.

Of course, spoilers ahead!

So, the entity comes to light in act one. While Caz is being yelled at by his power drunk boss, Rennick, a worker going by the name Gibbo calls up to say there's an issue with the drill, something highlighted earlier by another worker. Rennick orders the drilling anyway, and thus begins the nightmare, as the drill seems to unearth and awaken a destructive parasite out for revenge. But I don't think that's as deep as it goes, pun intended.

Let's say, the creature is a parasite. A form of near sentient bacteria, though take that description with a grain of salt, I'm no scientist. Parasites simply cannot live on their own. That's an objective fact. They need a host. They exist within another for survival and breeding purposes, and multiply and spread through the body of another.

Parasites, bacteria and even fungi can live underground for years, and have been discovered to do so. Ancient lifeforms have been discovered just under the surface of earth, let alone deep underneath the ground and in the bottom of our oceans, one of the most complex and diverse biomes that our current science has barely scratched the surface of. It's highly likely this creature is a self replicating bacteria or parasite that was unearthed by the drill, and took up new hosts to survive in this change of environment.

But not every host worked. You can see half transformed, mutilated bodies everywhere, and some that haven't even changed at all. These bodies could not support the parasite and shortly died.

However, a few select hosts DID end up surviving; Gibbo, Muir, Rennick, Addair and Trots. It's unclear what sets these people apart from the others, and I don't know enough about this topic to claim an answer. But I certainly do think these folks died soon into the transformation, and are not fully conscious in the body. They frequently repeat terms and phrases, and never say anything you might expect from an entity possessing them, implying it's borrowing words and sentences that have been said by the host before, in other circumstances.

The entity plays with Caz's memories and definitely the others' too, though not all of them good. It wouldn't be a surprise to realise that's where it's getting information about it's host, as it reads the memories inside the brain to learn faces, names, and even the host's personality. Which makes me wonder, does it even realise what it looks like? Does the creature itself actually realise it's a parasite? Or does it completely and fully believe it is the person it's connected itself to? It almost downloads their personality and tries to pretend like everything is completely normal.

Let's talk about arguably the best monster (in my opinion), Muir. Muir moves about the area he frequently worked as what I assume was an engineer. He roams the familiar ground, almost unsure of why he's by himself. He often calls out to his coworkers, wondering out loud why they're treating him like he's different. Sure, this could be the real Muir's consciousness slipping in and out of the seams, but it's highly unlikely he would still be alive. Much like the zombie fungus, as it's often called, the host is not alive when the fungus is controlling it, and is merely a puppet. If the spiders it was corrupting could talk, I daresay, they'd be acting like them. Taking their place in the world, even if they don't realise it.

But every animal needs to eat. And eventually, that body is going to run out of tasty, tasty neurons. Like I said earlier, a parasite needs to spread. It'll breed, then spread to another to keep it's species alive. By infiltrating a 'pack' of animals, it will take anything to spread to the others. Which is exactly what the parasite does whenever it sees another human. Either that, or it will consume them, theoretically to feed the host so it stays alive, while keeping those tasty, tasty neurons for itself. You can almost see this process with Innes, as the elevator ascends without him, and you just faintly see Muir doing something in the distance. Likely consuming him for nutrients, as he was not connected to the parasite yet.

Next, there's Addair.

Addair, much like Muir, patrols familiar ground. Even though Addair himself wasn't even in that area when the drill struck. Now Muir was actively in that familiar space in the beginning, and it's safe to assume that's his place of transformation. But Addair was eating in the cafeteria when the incident happened, not deep down in the engine. Did he go down when the impact happened, while Caz was unconscious? Maybe. But the lights were fine then, and the engine wasn't the problem, so he didn't need a reason to. Plus, he doesn't seem like the type to be work dedicated, more inconvenience dedicated. Considering what I said about the parasite (badly) taking their place in society, did it go to his place of work after detecting that as his 'natural environment', per se?

Plus, unlike Muir, who greets the situation with quotes of confusion, fear and anxiety, Addair is instantly aggressive. Even an asshole like Addair is likely to panic if conscious in this situation, so the nervousness was Gibbo and Muir exclusive. But Addair and Rennick become immediately angry upon seeing Caz, as they actively disliked him in life, and so the parasite processes him as a foe to it's host. I thought that was neat.

Now another take I have admittedly heard from several other people, but I thought was worth mentioning. The monsters are incredibly similar to sea creatures. Which means this underwater bacteria was possibly leaking out already, and transforming our animals, not enough to completely corrupt them, but enough to twist their bodies. Think of the appearances of deep, deep sea creatures, such as the anglerfish. Isn't it possible this parasite was responsible for their uncanny appearance, in this universe? Muir especially looks like a spider crab, or perhaps even a bigfin squid.

Which again, is a deep sea creature. Rennick also reminds me of a blobfish once removed from the pressure of the deep sea. Addair seems very jellyfish-like, but may be something else very... tick-like. And even Trots gives me major merfolk vibes, with how untouched his torso is in comparison to his lower half.

This parasite could have been feeding off the neurons and breeding through our very ecosystem as the ground slowly gave away above it. The drill unearthing the source likely gave it a burst of control as so much energy was released at once, hence why it was so fast to literally spiral out of control.

But Scotland, by all means, is not the only place in the world connected to the ocean. Sure, they destroyed this batch, but other forms of this parasite live on elsewhere on earth. And the explosion may not have even destroyed it. It definitely would've destroyed the host bodies, yes, but certain bacterias can survive impressive damage, even heat hot enough to burn off human flesh. We'd best hope this is not one of those bacterias.

I didn't really get as far with this observation as I did with other horror studies, but I had fun nonetheless! Like I said, I'm really better with zoology (hence the sudden enthusiasm when I started on sea creatures), but I loved Still Wakes the Deep SO much that I just wanted to write down my thoughts. If you have any other theories, feel free to add them!

Also if I used your pictures/gifs and you would like me to add credit, I am so so sorry, I will absolutely add that as soon as you say so, I just got most of these off Google and couldn't find most the original sources. So yeah if you'd like me to add your name and mention, or you want me to remove it in general, feel free to just say and I'll add it, I don't bite I promise. Well... I won't bite YOU.

Sorry sorry, had to make a zombie reference--

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Just a fun little fruit scones video I made + posted on tik tokkk

Also here's some silly lil figures of them

I love em

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So... Vox and Alastor cosplay? Signed - Alastor fan OwO

(⁠　⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠)⁠☞ you grab the glue, I'll grab the sharpies because BET

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A drawing of "The Doctor". The overlord I'm making headcanons for from hazbin hotel.

Added watermark in photos cause I forgor it as it was a quick doodle.

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Fuck it, making a character out of this guy cause I think he's hot

SPOILERS FOR HAZBIN HOTEL!

⚠️TW: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE MENTIONED, CANON TYPICAL VIOLENCE.⚠️

Name:

He only referred to himself as "The doctor" in hell. Real name is "Lenus strychnine"

First name meaning: Healer

Last name meaning: a poison often used in poisonings

Death year / age

Late 1800s, 1880-1890.

Status

Dead (?) ((Depends))

Rank in hell

A past overlord of hell before being toppled by Alastor. Known as the doctor demon.

Reason he was sent to hell

Was a doctor that would kill his patients through poisoning them, neglect and mistreatment.

How he ran his section

He would help injured sinners so they were in his debt, forcing them to either work for him as medical staff or as a test patient. His section was a massive hospital building and grounds, wasn't gigantic but it was large and infamous.

How he collected souls

He would send teams of nurses and lower ranking doctors to scout out sinners or imps after extermination day and treat them in his hospital. Then if they got better, he would force the sinner to pay up with their service through a role in his hospital either permanent patient or medical staff. Had connections with (at the time) a small county of Cannibal town to offer them dead bodies in exchange for help and deals.

Personality

Pompous, inquisitive, medically adventurous, risk taker, apathetic to most, soft spot for young sinners, reserved, composed, reasonable, firm. (Basic personality)

Looks

A round headed figure with three eyes all on one side, his left eye being an X to hint at his death, long doctors coat that doubles as a face mask, rubber protective gloves, horns petruding from the side of his head like a bulls, a red skull with orange eyes which was how his organisation was recognised.

His appearance came from how his patients would draw him as they were dying and hallucinating him.

Relationships

Me (/j).

Knew of Zestial and was acquainted before being overthrown.

Had tried to treat Alastor as a patient to force him to work which resulted in his demise.

His relationship with the public: they feared the doctor as he was known to turn people you knew into a form of their former selves if working for him while there were only rumours about his patients. Reports from lurking sinners say his staff were found dumping sinners near the cannibals residence but never confirmed. Lives as a myth now to most sinners.

Songs he reminds me of

(yes very inspired by MLP infections, not ashamed)

⚠️Can be upsetting/unsettling. They aren't scary BUT If you don't like creepy music, skip. Take care⚠️

Basic, classic creepy. Not very creepy ↓

Can be unsettling, sounds like a tune you'd find on a record. ↓

Mostly feels like strange nostalgic. ↓

Classic creepy, be respectful as it is an album trying to portray dementia ↓

Classic creepy, be respectful as it is an album trying to portray dementia ↓

Mostly just unsettling warnings for this one though not bad ↓

(posted about him on tiktok too LOL)

This is just the basics, I like him a lot.

These are all headcanon's. I don't own this character or design. All rights reserved to spindle horse.

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OMG I finally finished this after spending 11 hours on it 😭 I'm so proud though and really hope y'all like it. TMA BELOVEDD.

Do not use unless asked for permission.

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Was actually able to somewhat finish the terminal velocity sketch so take a drawing of my favorite lil gays atm:

Don't think it's my greatest but it's one step closer to getting out of burn out 💪

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Casually working on lil terminal velocity sketches and doodles to try and fight off burn out and bad art.

Pray for me

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Me staring evil eyed at my incomplete Terminal velocity fanfiction/oneshot: gay, gay, gay, gay, homosexual, gay

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Your honour

They're in love

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psst. I have a rarepair for you, I have to spread the good word. Annabelle x Nikola. Ship name has been decided to be Webshow.

Omg I never thought of them but ayo

My main ships with them was Annabelle x Jude and Nikola X Jane but omg Nikola X Annabelle the strong queens vibing but also the 💥💥💥 like you know the 💥💥💥💥 and they

Omg I'm literally rotting

Webshow

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I literally can't hold it in anymore I ship Mike crew x Oliver Banks so bloody bad it's my favourite thing atm just them them them omg them I love them sm.

Also Jared hopworth X Micheal distortion beloveds I'm such a crack/rarepair shipper it hurts I have so much angst on these two couples and so much fluff my soul aches idek how I started shipping these fuckers it I do and omg just them.