#metroid hc

[kajira-kreations]

Felt like drawing some Metroid fanart again, but here's a master post of my top Metroid headcanon: Adam Malkovich and Rodney Aran (Samus's biological dad), knew each other during their cadet days at Galactic Federation Academy and the military.

Future commanding officer and the future father of a certain galactic bounty hunter

[batgirlteeth]

updated version/redraw of a samus piece i did last year! keep on stretchin! no abberation + closeup under the cut

[mhexart]

Winding down

[eirikaily]

Everybody's favorite bounty hunter

[lowhowl]

    Despite not really playing Video Games that often, Whisper kind of has a natural skill for them.

    Barring an information barrier, she can pick up control schemes quick and figure out how to play, tutorials be damned.

    Her favorite genre is Metroidvanias.

[magemultifics]

Domestic Fluff Samus HCs

Honestly, Samus struggles with normal ways of domesticity.

Most of the food she has is hunted alien or Galactic Federation MRE's

But expect her to knock on the ship's main door and open it with a hunted alien over her shoulders.

Samus is very proud about it and will cook it as a show that she is the mate for you.

Is always up earlier than you, she will cook breakfast or go kill some alien game and bring it home as stated earlier.

Very avid cuddler. Her metroid DNA makes so she doesn't like the cold, so when out of the version of the suit she's wearing, She find a way to maintain skin contact or any form of touch.

Metroids by nature and especially Samus now (as she is the last metroid) are protective of their species and those they'd hold value to (The baby metroid protected and gave it's like for Samus whom it valued)

This in essence means Samus is the big spoon, no ands, buts or ifs about it. She curls around you protectively and tucks her chin in the crook of your neck, arms wrapping around your waist firmly.

If you're in bed in this position, if you need something Samus will lift you with her, and carry you like a forward facing backpack.

If it's super cold in her ship, Samus will wrap you like a burrito in one of her blankets and set you on the counter as she makes hot coco.

When very content, Samus does emit a very low chirp in the back of her throat, a side effect of the metroid DNA.

Pretty good story teller if she's in the mood to talk (which really isn't often) she likes to tell of her childhood with the Chozo the best as those were her happiest memories.

If you ask nicely, yes she will speak some phrases in Chozo, you may not understand it, but damn if it doesn't make her even more hot I stg.

If she's piloting, Samus has a tendency to get lost in relatively intrusive thoughts, so she likes to have you in her lap as she pilots the space craft

Will point out some cool planets and along with having ADAM give her the facts.

Subconsciously, runs her hands through your hair as a stress reliever for both you and her. Hair ruffles? Hair ruffles.

A/N: I have SO many ideas for domestic Samus DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED BRUH. Here are some samus crumbs.

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[armenianwriterman]

I haven’t played much Metroid, what’s a random head canon you have about Samus?

Samus absolutely despises social interaction and always goes out of her way to avoid it whenever possible. Also I have an hc that samus has a small house on an uninhabited world that she uses as a getaway place whenever things become too much for her.

[aeniqmata]

On Genetic Anomalies - Samus HC

While not public knowledge that Samus is not a normal human, few would know that the power suit she uses is not the only part of Chozo she carries with her. With half of her genetic make-up being gifted to her by her guardians, she is hardier, longer lived, and has faster reflexes than most species in the galaxy. She has no issue sharing this detail, very few know enough about the Chozo to do anything more than ask questions.

Only high ranking Federation officials know anything about the rest of her genetic make-up. The incident prior to the Biologic Space Lab or BSL ship introduced Metroid DNA to her in an attempt to save her life. While the vaccine was not intended to do anything other than remove the X parasites from her person, the parasitic Metroid cells found a great host in the bounty hunter.

It's only her Chozo DNA and sheer force of will that allow her to find a steady equilibrium with the Metroid's DNA. When she wakes on the Federation Headquarters' ship, the doctors seem to have all but pulled straws to figure out who would tell her that she was not two halves of different species, but now three parts.

And while it shouldn't have been a surprise that she wasn't done adding to the frankly impressive set of genetics she now possessed, her body being able to naturally create Phazon is not what she would have put on a proverbial bingo card. Even while events on Phaaze have all but eliminated Phazon from the universe, Samus still possesses a device to help her control and regulate the amount of Phazon produces.

With all of these traits, its no wonder she steers clear of doctors, Federation aligned or otherwise.

[entrusted-hatchling]

(( sorry for tha ooc spam. im sick so i have very little to do and its not my turn yet in any of the threads i have going here so im occupying myself by remembering old metroid hcs and making new ones ))

[wispisstillverybored67]

Various HCs of Squalo because he needs to match his boyf.

About/Under 26. 5"2.

Talks to Clash when in need of an ear that isn't Tianzo, or if lost in thought. He always carries it around somewhere.

Unafraid to voice his contempt for Cioccolata, Secco, or La Squadra. Though, compared to the others, at least he doesn't find Carne creepy, idiotic, slow, or some combination of the above. Those two are acquaintances.

Fixated on sharks, and naturally openly disses shark movies, but it's secretly a gigantic guilty pleasure.

Claims the only woman he ever loved was The Bride (Kill Bill, by the way). His weakness is someone who can kill him, and his fantasies center around his beloveds (like you-know-who) killing him, much to Tianzo's horror.

Freckles galore. Since he can't gain much color, it sticks out very noticeably.

Hemophiliac.

Sale's half brother, and the only one allowed to call him Luigi.

Refuses to open up about his past, for whatever reason...

Metroid Freak.

Would rather watch Chain Saw Man, and all the stuff Tianzo likes fly over his head.

Bites as a warning. And when he's in a good mood. That guy's got TEETH!

[kajira-kreations]

YooOOOoo! Trapped in this headcanon hell still!

Again, my Metroid hc is that Adam Malkovich and Rodney Aran (Samus's biological father) knew each other when they were cadets at the Galactic Federation Academy. Rod's cocky, reckless, hotshot attitude rubbed Adam (the top student at the time) the wrong way during their first years.

So here's a mock screencap style art that I just have to pump out describing the nature of their first meetings...annnnd a cheesy dialogue...which is the reason why I don't really write OMG!

BG art belongs to Paul Ozzimo

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[genquerdeer]

Samus after being adopted by Chozo: By the way, I'm a girl

Gray Voice: Okay. I have zero understanding of how this human sexual dimorphism stuff works anyway. Like, do males have more colorful and longer plummage or something?

Gray Voice, later: (scared shitless that he screwed something up raising her) Wait shit shit according to this medical data we got on shared Federation network, for a human girl your age your hormones are WAY out of whack.

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Samus: (happy crying) Sure, dad.

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[screwattack]

collection of thoughts about metroid dread, be ready for spoilers, obviously :

nintendo almost never truly considers or incorporates the true nature of bounty hunting as a profession so it is really refreshing for the game to open with her ship’s AI complaining about assumed risk vs. stated pay vis-à-vis the mission they are undertaking, going in solo after a deployment of seven highly advanced federation robots cut contact, presumably overwhelmed by whatever threat lays on ZDR .  the digitised adam has a tendency to reflect samus’ thoughts back at her & the real adam was one of the few people who learned to read her despite her dire communication skills, so i like to think he is echoing one of her guarded sentiments, it’s not worth it .  she’s loathe to be under galactic federation oversight once more, many of whom still do not trust her because of the destruction of the B.S.L. research station & SR388, going against direct orders & subverting a conspiracy against her so that the federation may capture the SA-X .  they’ve docked her pay & keep her on a short leash, but any surviving X must be eradicated either way & she doesn’t trust them to lead the effort, it’s a marriage of convenience .

fusion ends on the note that at least one of the higher-ups at the federation will understand the necessity of samus’ actions, that the universe would’ve been consumed by the X otherwise & samus stands alone as their sole surviving predator, & i think that’s about the only explanation where gonna get for why they’re employing samus once more .  though the nature of the E.M.M.I. as both highly formidable combatants that are resistant to samus’ base weaponry & their ability to extract specific genetic material from living specimens tells me they were sent to ZDR to bring bang samples of the X parasites should they encounter hosts, the federation never expected them to fail or be reprogrammed & when they ceased sending back data, well, who else in the galaxy could handle the X but samus aran ?

on the topic of adam it’s kind of tragic watching him be turned into the usual annoying nintendo tutorial character for basically all of metroid dread, he was a glorified objective marker provider for the majority of fusion until nearing the end when he gained story relevance & the twist of his nature as a digitised mind of one of samus’ former commanding officers is revealed, but here all he does is restate game mechanics & story beats to you after they’ve already been better explain in less words (& in some cases through gameplay/level design rather than a tutorial prompt), it sucks, i listened to all his dialog on the first go around because of course i was gonna but now i’m probably gonna skip it, & they still lock you in a room with him, they haven’t learned !  it’s also kind of strange to have him as a companion while you’re deep below ZDR’s crust, the tense atmosphere & biting survival against a harsh environment would work far better with samus being truly alone, confused after her encounter with the chozo & with no one to guide her but her own instincts .  i know there’s story relevance later, don’t worry .

adam does say ‘ treat our assets with care, lady. ‘ so he’s definitely the main negotiator that allowed samus not to face any charges after fusion (what better companion for a selectively mute, reclusive bounty hunter than a computer that talks too much).  plus, what could the federation to do samus, really, come on .  forget about the E.M.M.I. .

kraid is a very early boss & i love seeing my boy back, it’s really been too long & i’m glad he is this game’s sole returning boss, the little mother brain wannabes don’t count .  was worried we were gonna see ridley but thankfully he is 100% dead .  there isn’t a concrete explanation for his return, the two theories persist between cloning & capture, though the former explains his presence adequately given he went the way of ridley on zebes, his remains vaporised in the planet’s explosion, it’s also the explanation for ridley’s survival in other m so i’m going with his damaged carcass being hauled back to a space pirate homeworld in some form of fashion, given he is an early encounter in super metroid unless you’re speedrunning, there was plenty of time for him to lick his wounds & later be captured for interrogation by the chozo on ZDR .  he would be a valuable asset as a space pirate captain & have knowledge worth torturing for on one of the chozo’s most prominent enemies .  his struggle against his restraints & his clear hatred of samus is so nicely communicated i love all the cutscenes that feature a boss, from the counter to their deaths, it’s a visual feast .  insanely agile, nimble power suited samus isn’t really my cup of tea, especially her hanging a charged power beam at her side, but i’ve already posted about it .

it does sort of feel that with this new presentation of samus in action we’re somewhat overcompensating for her weak & subservient portrayal is some cutscenes in other m, what better opposite than have samus be unfazed by the threats she faces, circling them slowly with her arms at her side waiting for them to strike at her ?  the issue i think is that this creates a clear disconnect between cutscene samus & player samus, she performs feats that you are completely unable to do on your own/the game restricts you from doing so, she mounts each boss & presses her arm cannon against their head, unloading her arsenal into their skull, but when you play, touching these same enemies damages you .  no better example then when samus dashes up kraid’s belly to escape without being hurt, ducking to the side to avoid his belly button projectile when all you can do is jump over it or slide/morph ball under it .  i don’t know, i feel like there was good balance in prime (sorry the fucking metroid prime praise isn’t stopping any time soon), samus displayed a courteous professionalism in her encounters, not reckless self-confidence, she stood her ground, she was always alert, her weapon was trained on her enemies & she made use of her abilities much like the player would, she wasn’t flipping & zip-zooming all over the shop .  dread’s control scheme tries for a more agile character, the counter doubles as a melee attack that pushes samus forward, but it’s still metroid at it’s core .

okay no more complaining time for gushing,

the inherit sexiness of samus sole spoken line of dialog throughout the whole game being in her native chozodian is unparalleled, ascendant, truly a decision made squarely to please me directly & it worked, i’m eating this up, this is EXACTLY how you make samus into a voiced protagonist .  i’m so fucking happy they didn’t pussy out of giving her dialog after other m’s negative reception but the execution is in such a way that it creates a truly memorable, iconic moment that makes so much sense for the character of samus aran .  two sentences, nothing more, nothing less, her declaring her intent to end raven beak’s plans & spoken to the only character in dread who deserves to hear her voice, a fellow chozo of the thoha tribe, someone clearly meant to parallel old bird (like raven beak is meant to parallel grey voice, i’ll get into this later) .  it also falls very well in line with the view of samus as selectively mute, she would feel more comfortable expressing herself in her native tongue to a chozo than she would in english/galactic standard after having spent her childhood on zebes, her formative years among her adoptive species .  she struggled to transition over to humanity once she set off to train in the galactic federation, she could pick up their language with ease not only because the chozo were mutli-lingual (they had to be, having made contact with fellow space fairing races throughout their long history), but because she had started learning galactic standard as a young child on K2-L .  she was three years young upon her rescue, so at the very least, a base was formed that allowed her to push past her discomfort among fellow humans and learn to speak & live among them, even if she will always view the chozo as her ancestors, her mentors & her family .

a few plot elements don’t necessarily make sense, especially if you factor in how the original metroid 2 & super metroid presented SR388 & zebes respectively, but we are going off samus returns here & i think we will see a super metroid remake eventually, not sure how they could improve upon perfection, but it’s inevitable .

the ruins of SR388 are decrepit, ancient beyond reason, everything overgrown & fallen into such deep disrepair from centuries of the absence of sentient life that the metroids have overrun the cavern system entirely, with only a few species of native fauna surviving the onslaught .  the chozo lab rests at the heart of the planet while temples dedicated to their worship dot the caverns on the way to the surface .  whatever transpired on the planet, the creation of the metroids, it was so long ago they it had vanished from collective memory .  even zebes, once the pride of the chozo empire, had succumbed to age between samus’ first mission & her return in super, the space pirate flagship she had escaped from too eroded & decaying from decades of time past between games (i know sakomoto deconfirmed the wrecked ship being the same as the vessel we explore at the end of zero mission but c’mon now, they’re too close for it to be a coincidence) but dread makes it seem like raven beak’s slaughter of his fellow chozo was relatively recent (by metroid standards), he needed to deal with the X which had stowed away on his ship in the guise of a chozo soldier, which apparently took enough time for the events of samus returns, super, other m & fusion to happen, but the state we find ZDR in is otherwise pristine, especially the areas inhabited by chozo, i can’t really buy it .  it’s an issue i have with both samus returns & dread, i think, i don’t mind the setting of metroid being shifted from ancient worlds abandoned even by time itself to modern, futuristic & functional locales (fusion has an excellent atmosphere & it’s set on a fully operation research vessel which we see destroyed in real time), but the justification here is poor .  the chozo have been absent from the galaxy for centuries, the settlements they built on zebes, SR388, talon iv & elysia were erected millennia ago (skytown was founded 1,500 years before prime 3 took place), i wish their return to the universe carried some more fanfare & acknowledgement of their absence .  the dread reports speak of the chozo as being a rare sight & in the super metroid comics there is one suriving chozo that helps samus on her journey, but the intention originally was to have them extinct, either by their own hand or simply the inevitable passage of time .

i kind of feel like a prick now but listen the game is good i promise, but i wouldn’t be a life-long metroid fan if it wasn’t a nitpicking piece of shit loser .

the reintroduction of the X was something everyone saw coming a mile away but i really like the horror of what they’ve done to the surviving chozo soldiers, just the sight of these once great warriors giving into monstrous rage & turning into goop creatures .  originally i imagined the X being raven beak’s reasoning for eliminating the scientists on SR388, choosing to enhance his army with X & clone an infinite amount of soldiers for his conquest, & while he does display some control over the X, it is only those that have infected chozo whose memories are of his subservience to him .  kind of sad his plan is the formulaic usage of metroids for power, we’ve seen it done before far too many times, but now that samus is the sole surviving metroid, it adds a bit of flavour .

not sure how to feel about the intertribal conflict at the centre of metroid dread, the chozo where never a homogeneous whole & i’m glad the games are directly acknowledging this though .  the chozo of talon iv lived in peace with nature, limiting their use of technology as they took to worship & eventually transcended into the great beyond, those that settled on elysia had unique architecture & naming conventions, they brought sentience to machines & left them to rule themselves, though they kept a relationship with the collective chozo as a member of their tribe was a key part of the development of the power suit .  now different tribes of chozo have names, but the dichotomy between the thoha & the mawkin is deeply simplistic, one being scholarly & kind while the other is warrior-like & violent, i wishing for more nuance in their dynamic, honestly .  it echoes back between the conflict of samus’ upbringing, the paths she could’ve chosen between old bird & grey voice’s mentorship, whom were scholars & warriors in their prime .  ares brought this up in conversation but the chozo temple in phendrana drifts has statues that represent the different lifepaths a chozo could take, between shaman, philosopher, warrior & architect .  part of me wishes this was the nature of the conflict at play, instead of being parallels to her mentors, quiet robe & raven beak could’ve the chozo who raised her & now their conflict threatens the galaxy as the warriors overpower the scholars .

tying their genetics as an important part of the story is questionable too & partially nonsensical, as the thoha’s ability to control metroids isn’t or shouldn’t be imbued in their genes, they are the scientists that first bred metroids & even they couldn’t stop them from getting out of control & overtaking SR388 .  as well, the mawkin were the warriors brought to protect the thoha as they explored the planet, why are the metroids naturally hostile to them ?  why did meeting raven beak trigger samus’ latent metroid DNA because of their designed hostility to his tribe, but seeing the x, the creatures the metroids where engineered to eradicate, do no such thing ?  i honestly don’t know, this is an aspect of the story that feels rushed & it really needn’t be .

alright well, listen, i’ve been down on the story more or less up until now but samus definitely two insanely great moments of characterisation that are franchise defining, her line of dialog & her unleashing her full metroid powers on raven beak .  she displays anger visibly in her scowl throughout dread but never has samus been allowed to simply succumb to her repressed rage like this before & i adore it, of all the moments in the game this is the one i’ve rewatched the most & god, i can’t put it into words .  she hasn’t hated anything in this universe as much as she hated raven beak in that moment, calling her his daughter even though he could scarcely compare to her mentors on zebes, who taught her the value of peace above all else .  he might parallel her warrior nature, be her equal in combat, but he is another in a line of her dark reflections .  the slaughter of their fellow chozo, everything their civilisation had stood for for millennia crushed in his ruthless pursuit of power & galactic conquest .  he was a fool to make an adversary of samus & in the brief seconds of unconsciousness the decades of anger she rarely taps into bubble at the surface &, because of her metroid genetics, hunger .  just an endless hunger that sees her drain raven beak & his flying fortress of all energy there is, leaving just one drop so that she may look him in the eye one final time, make him know he failed before ending him .  it’s a great moment, i’m so happy for samus .

the metroid suit looks really cool but also kind of like cabbage, but i’m glad to see once more that the power suit is what shoulders the brunt of the physical trauma samus endures for any reason, including the altering of her genetics with foreign DNA .  they are one & the same, & the suit protects her from much, including any great deal of physical change upon the injection of the vaccine in fusion .  she retains her hominid appearance beneath while the suit shifts according to instructions written on her DNA, it’s just cool .

okay i’m done for now sorry i’ll make more posts eventually but please play metroid dread it’s everything i could’ve ever wanted even if i have a few issues with the end product, we’re in the golden age of metroid, samus is fucking back, where is prime 4

as for my blog’s canon, i’m probably still sticking to her being around after super metroid or during the prime trilogy, it’s not like there’s any other metroid writers around & that spot in her timeline is the most open dhskajdhkasjdhsjk