Scavenger’s Reign’s Worldbuilding
Ok so people have absolutely mentioned this before but I can’t get over how excellently Scavenger’s Reign depicts a realistic and terrifying alien ecosystem.
Like Vespa is alive, it’s lived in. Our humans are visitors to an already active world. Sure, they’re considered prey by quite a lot of a lot of the inhabitants, but this isn’t a giant sand worm or asteroid slug situation where creatures seem to sustain themselves only on travelers.
And they do this all through a pretty simple and repeated trick! For nearly every absolutely batshit horrifying new alien hunting strategy we learn about, they first show us an example of how it applies when humans are absent. Like I can name about five times off the top of my head where the tension is immediately ramped up by watching a local creature die horribly before the predator turns on one of the protagonists.
In landing, the humans have become a tiny part of the ecosystem. They’re far from the center of the world, and it conveys this amazing blend of helplessness and wonder that I haven’t seen before. Survival takes a combination of luck and skill, and while the actual ratio is different for each character, they’ve all needed to engage themselves with this environment, learn from observation, and use that knowledge to survive.
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CW CW KIND OF IDK
SORRY GUYS BEING CRINGE ANATOMY lalalala i just think its silly i may rework it a bit more in the future who knows
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Still thinking about Fitzjames and Gore and envy today, and there's one incredibly simple wee throwaway line from the script that's driving me wild with all the heavy lifting it's doing -
"Fitzjames sees: One of Gore's cuffs is smudged with grease."
It's from the scene where Gore is making his report to Franklin on Erebus' bent rudder. We don't even really see it realised on screen but, by God, doesn't it just say so much?
On the one hand, it's clear that Fitzjames is envious of Gore.
In Fitzjames' mind, Gore is the very picture of Victorian manhood and nobility. He's everything that Fitzjames wishes he himself was, everything he feels he's only pretending and, often, feels he's failing to be. And Gore, seemingly, doesn't even have to try!
So in a way it makes sense to me that Fitzjames might zero in on any perceived imperfection, even just as a comfort to himself.
But on the other hand, another far more charitable and, I think, more accurate reading of that wee line is essentially 'real recognising real'.
Fitzjames, whether he always realises it himself or not, is an excellent leader - particularly at an interpersonal level - and an eminently practical one too. He's all about getting shit done and he isn't afraid to get his hands dirty in the process.
So it also makes sense to me that he would take notice of Gore having done the same - having cracked on and gotten done the job of checking Erebus 'at the knees', having gotten his own hands dirty.
I don't think I'm articulating any of this very well yet but all the layers of that relationship - loving and respecting a man as your friend, seeing yourself in him but also wanting to be him and being unspeakably envious of everything he is and everything he has, even while he loves and respects you back and looks up to you as his friend and superior officer...?
There's just so much there and every bit of it is delicious!
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had the unique experience today of being lucky enough to win a plush kirby prize in an ichiban kuji that is Perfect for holding on my lap while I watch things on my laptop, while the something that I was in the midst of watching today was the seemingly most R-rated show netflix has to offer
this on its own is not much of an issue, except for the fact that due to this plush's design and how i had my hands folded over it it looks like kirby is watching along as well, leading to a particularly fascinating contrast in media consumption- here's a visual aid I put together demonstrating this phenomenon:
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Blacked out and finally made a short comic scene of Kraw and Sylvaine’s first ‘meeting’.
After Kraw escapes the Black Loch, he unwittingly ends up in Sylvaine’s care for quite some time. He’s in a sort of fugue state at first, unable to speak and behaving completely feral. After destroying some property upon his entry, he finally drags himself into the nearest dark corner to die. Before doing so, he is found by Ari and Sylvaine, who is determined to nurse him back to health by her own means. It seemed impossible to her that he was even still alive in the first place and she was instantly intrigued by his arrival.
I’d say this is about 15 or so years before he finds Gen and everything.
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