#AL-AN Tumblr posts

[just-a-drawing-bean]

AL-AN <3

Finished my Below Zero playthrough yesterday and had to draw AL-AN or I was going to explode <3 he's so neat ough. I loved the ending of the game, very nice. I highly recommend playing Subnautica and Below Zero, the OST is really pretty.

[busnautica]

re-read commensalism of us by @vaultbuggo / @architectsvault in 2024 with very funny timing (we come back at the same time) but other than that something in my brain snapped in two

everything was taken from ch3's wish scene and i

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[entreri]

Subnautica: Below Zero » Al-An

If I am the last of my kind, I will experience the sorrow of ten thousand souls dimming. And if they survived? With you, I am ready to face whatever awaits.

[faery-the-diamond]

Suddenly remembered my favourite alien centaur scientist and decided to draw him.

✨In style✨

[velikaja]

shroemp.

I don't even know if I have to explain anything. just my thoughts on "what if"

[toucheholland23]

Symbiotic relationship between between someone trying to uncover corporate secrets and a big alien that they hear in their head? Count me tf in 🙏

[mage-ical-character-person]

Can’t sleep. Thinking about the fact that one of the symptoms of Kharaa is increased aggression. And how that would’ve affected the Architects considering their minds are all networked. I don’t think they’re above experiencing this symptom, especially with the whole point of their story sort of being that they were wrong to think themselves capable of fighting nature itself, and what happened with Kharaa being sort of the manifestation of that in a way.

But I wonder if they could all feel each others’ pain. I wonder if each of them could feel the network as a whole getting angrier and more desperate around them as the infection spread. I wonder if that’s why the Sea Emperor couldn’t break through and communicate with them. The Architects’ own telepathy just being too loud and chaotic with the state the network was in.

I wonder if the network’s growing aggression singled out and targeted Al-An, when he was supposed to be developing a cure, he was supposed to save them; instead he disobeyed the collective, betrayed them, and set back their progress finding a cure. I wonder how often they reminded him of that.

I wonder if he heard their voices, felt their anger towards him. He was such an easy target for the heightened aggression Kharaa left them with. What was he hearing over the network as he tried to fix his mistake? As the Warpers were created? As the Sea Emperor fetus was dissected?

I wonder if he felt the progression of the infection in other Architects through the network billions of times over before his own body began to develop those tell-tale green blisters, signifying he didn’t have long.

I wonder if it was almost a relief for Al-An to be put into storage, not able to hear them anymore. Not able to notice as the network goes from unusually uproarious compared to the usual order… to silencing almost completely as his species slowly died off… only echos of familiar harmonies remaining.

[omi-papus]

Id like to think of 4546b is a harsh place but not a cruel one. Its a world where you CAN NOT impose civilisation and order in no matter how hard you try. And that is why its a place where only “freaks” can survive. So Murderhobo grandma, Enough autism to cause radiation, “The fish told me to do it”, and ShrimpFucker69 are all uniquely fucked up in just the right way to make a living o no mans ocean.

Like literally both games rely on the protagonist just trusting the voice in their head like thats a normal thing to do.

[ryley-robinson]

I have been laughing at this for ten minutes.

[p---l---c]

officially finished below zero today. i don't know why but my subnautica fix came back in full swing and i want to write the most banger fic ever. but for now here's what the people really need: al-an loaf.

[icy-gendango]

Alan magma <33333333

[busnautica]

the stars aligned n i read some alyou <- hasnt been able to focus in years

[civetfish]

Was gonna wait to post this outside of ko-fi until I posted the corresponding part of my fic BUT since that's on hold for a hot second I might as well do it now!

So much yapping under the cut because I can't help myself lol (Mostly just a stream of consciousness, so its kind of a word salad)

I like to think that colors can change in brightness, mix with others, and appear in certain areas/patterns to give a bit of complexity to the use of colors for communication.

Top left is pretty straightforward- yellow is fear. It's the full body "puffed up cat" kind of fear where it's the ony emotion being processed. A lingering anxiousness would be shown more like a general yellow centered around the chest, while the rest of their body remains the same color. Feelings like a slight nervousness (Like handling a delicate object with big crab-claws, for example) would be shown through a "rippling" wave of yellow overtop of whatever colors are already present, originating from the chest or hands. ((link) this is pretty close to what I imagine (If the link doesn't work, skip to about 2:10) Spooky ocean warning! though if you're seeing this post in the first place I assume you're probably fine with it )

Green is analytical - He does this a few times in-game, and it's what makes the most sense to me. I also like to think it's the reasoning behind a lot of the Architect's... well, architecture. Green is a really predominant color in all of the architect structures / data hubs / machines / etc., so in cultural sense it would make sense for the Architects to be using the color representing their core values. The light blue around his sides is amusement/joy. (I put a little bit of this into my first chapter iirc) This is also based pretty closely to what we see in-game. (I.e. the little wave he does back at Robin, it's silly and playful and I love it sm)

The gray/dull tones (bottom left) are just that- the "muting/dulling" of whatever color it's applied to. The Architect who kind of killed his entire species is a little depressed if you can believe it! A muted blue (indigo, rather than light blue) would be melancholy, and the yellow tint in there is stress/dread. A completely dim gray Architect is basically completely numb, which is distinct from the typical "resting color" that Architects have when not feeling any emotion in particular at a given moment.

Dark blue (Or indigo, bottom right) is sadness. It could also be read as a sense of longing or wistfulnes, or a lot of other nuanced feelings depending on other colors or context clues.

And of course magenta (bottom middle) and that coral-ish color are love, more or less. It's a sense of fondness and deep affection, though Al-an himself is probably under the impression it's more like a loyalty and protectiveness; I don't think he has any real experience with love considering what we know about the network.

The coral color in the center of his chest is something I'll dive into more when I get that chapter out, but I think of it as a flush/heat, like an Architect blush. Orange is added to colors to increase the intensity of the emotion underneath, such as the inclusion with magenta to mean flustered or to red to mean a more heated rage. An embarassed architect would be fully orange, possibly leaning a bit towards pink, red or yellow depending on the specific situation.

For an "emotionless peak of innovation and efficiency" I am determined to shove SO many feelings into this shrimp horse. This stream of word spaghetti will eventually get rewritten into a basic color code.

[fukutomichi]

Subnautica: Below Zero ∴ Al-An "With you, I am ready to face whatever awaits."

[sad-catbrick]

I zone out for FIVE MINUTES and I get possessed by the spirit of an alien