#Series: Pathologic

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

Song: Darkness Artist: Theodor Bastard From: Pathologic 2

Listen on Youtube:

Note: There are two versions of this song - the version posted (the English one) apparently plays in The Marble Nest. The version from the main game, Darkness (no words), in the Steppe language may be listened to here:

[driver-kid]

Daniil Dankosvky continues to be plagued by misfortune.

[vileidol]

Bdubs: sleeping, clock powers

Etho: “did that make you jump?”

Grian: watcher lore, person who knew all the powers

Martyn: listener lore & always listening in

Jimmy: normally no longer seen by this point in the series

Tango: flee with extra flee, decked out deepfrost citadel

Scar: wanted punching since the start, everything’s a rollercoaster & awful innuendo

BigB: Creaking

Gem: astrology? aware of traps and hard to kill

Impulse: cyberpunk teleportation? playing multiple sides?

Lizzie: ldSHADOWlady

Ren: ultimate theatre kid

Scott: sacrificial lamb? sneaky & always listening in

Joel: parkour!

Cleo: ZOMBIEcleo

Pearl: luna moth & fly me to the moon

some theories courtesy of @dredgesnails

[crow-mortis]

The Steppe

Has a thousand eyes

[ninvic-art]

menkhu's finger

[ryuki-draws]

That's all that's left. Fifty-seven pages of research, two bottles of morphine and one ticket back to the Capital. The train departs at dusk.

An illustration for a Patho AU inspired by Bulgakov I'll probably never write properly but it's been worming in my brain for over two years now.

[awerzo]

There is no death

[firebird963]

So hyped about the demo guys

[thanatika]

fine i'll say it.... i've been thinking about how hard a pathologic annihilation AU would hit since i read the book a few months ago.

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

Song: Burakh Home Artist: Andriesh Gandrabur From: Pathologic (Classic)

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[cryptidkreates]

just a bit of neil streching (by his lonesome)

[threecowsusingthistoreadcomics]

pathologic spanners au >:]

Since the casts of Pathologic and Wild Life stray pretty far from each other, this is just an AU of the Spanners, at least until I find more characters that fit. That being said,

The Bachelor: Mumbo Jumbo. He travelled to the steppe in search of the solution to immortality, and instead he found himself dealing with the Sand Plague. Daniil’s classic narcissism is replaced with anxiety and a genuine desire to help others, but Mumbo has the same dismissal of the traditions of the steppe.

The Haruspex: Skizzleman. Frankly he’s probably the least fitting of the three, but he shares a lot of the “decent guy put into a Horrible position” with Artemy. Gains a reputation as the Ripper, since he has no choice but to fight back when people attack him.

The Changeling: Grian. This is a changeling run— which is to say, Mumbo and Skizz are making the worst decisions possible as Grian desperately tries to keep them alive. The Watchers can’t seem to decide if he should be the hero or the villain of the story. He has no powers of his own, and can only mimic those of others— but there does seem to be another version of him running around with healing abilities.

[aesthetic--mood]

Maura Isles Aesthetic

[klutzytomb]

if I ever mysteriously disappear one day with my account deleted, becoming the missing mutual, rest assured that it'll probably be because I have continually lied about myself IRL and find this account to be attached to that mentality. I will one day return

[shmowderslut]

I recently started a "im going to read EVERYTHING" bachelor playthrough, and im surpriced i havent seen anyone talk about the many-legged fugitive side quest. Im sick and feel like my brain is filled with rats, so here's my unorganized and unholy feelings about it.

MINOR MECHANIC SPOILERS BELOW!! PLOT SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

First of all the house you need to go in is *not* easy to find, it is not the nearest house to the staircase (also theres two of them!) and definetly isnt visible from the stillwater. I have to confess, i needed to look it up online, and even the guide had misplaced the marker! As always, the frustration fuels me, and makes my love this game even more. And this is day 1! Its a nightmare and i love it. If youre stuck here, its okay, it seems like so many people were too.

Plot and character spoilers under the cut!

Okay now into the juicy stuff. Technically not about the quest yet, but we're getting there.

You get the quest talking to Lara Ravel, after learning about her from talking to Yulia in the main mission. A thing i dont think is mentioned a lot is that Yulia dislikes Lara Ravel. Now Yulia being a queer woman in stem (i will not accept criticism on this) She raves about all the other women like theire goddesses (they are) but she sees Lara as ungenuine and almost sad.

"She pities everyone she comes across, for she knows they will all die just like her dearly departed. She sees a corpse in everyone she looks upon"

And maybe i havent been paying attention, but this is very different from how Lara is usually portrayed, as a literal angel and a philanthropist. She always stood out to me as a surprisingly simple and good character is pathologic, so i was exactic to find out this detail of hers. Also the relationship says a lot about Yulia and her no-nonsense attitude, that she values honesty over good deeds.

Then we finally get to the quest in itself, where Lara tells you the children have brought an old dangerous game back. They used to play doctor using a dangerous mix of medicine and pretend healed eachother. She asks you to find a secret stash these kids hid and destroy all the shmowders (again, i went a lil insane trying to find the house). Unfortunately the bachelor is just too late, again, and the stash has been distributed among the children.

Theres 2 dogheads you can talk to, one of them tells you more about shmowders. That they doent believe in shmowders and its the little kids who are playing epidemic with deadly conjuctures. They blame Capella for distributing them, and all the kids should just go to the polyhedron to stay safe.

The second doghead tells you that yes, the shmowders do work and they came in use the last outbreak. That the kids were safe in the polyhedron, but some of them wandered out and made shmowders. Shmowders that were stored in this stash, but have now disappeared. Also as a fun fact, he tells you the spesific people who made the shmowders. Now i dont recognize these, but if you do please tell me.

"The original ones were made by Catchfly, but they were no good; the disease would pass, but the person would pass away along with it. But then Beaker's brothers made some nice ones. Crowfoot's weren't too shabby, and neither were Flanky's..."

I just think its neat to have an in universe reason the pumpkin girl sometimes carries a shmowder. Also this plays into what i think is the most prevalent pathologic theme, two impossible truths existing at the same time. The shmowders are a live saving medicine AND poison. Its childrens imagination AND real. You get the jist, my head hurts and im going to sleep

Also if you read this far, thank you?!? I am in no state to check this for clarity, but im pretty rambly (battling to not write a fanfic about this quest) and this is not my native language

[glitteringpoet1685]

I was rewatching a series of unfortunate events (the show) and I heard this line and knew exactly what I had to do.