#I am once again saying subnautica could have and should have leaned harder into the horrors of kharaa! | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

shortfeather · 6 months

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The thing about hermnautica is I may stop posting about it but it never leaves my brain. And this time because it’s 4 am I’m thinking about kharaa. Did you know it canonically physically mutates your body? We only ever see it as the green pustules but it fucks with your organs and tangles with your literal dna. Can you imagine if it wakes up latent genes. You’re going to die. How do you measure it? By the day you wake up paranoid (too late) and the day green spots appear on your skin (too late) and the day some of those green spots aren’t just the things that showed up on your insane friend, but sightless eyes (so far beyond too late it’s not worth thinking about.) Or instead: the day your head starts itching and your hair falls out to make room for a massive crown of quickly-sprouting antlers. Or instead: the days of agony where your ribs change shape, to something more like a fish’s.

#body horror #ask to tag #hermnautica #never mind this isn’t exactly how dna works at all. it’s aliens babey #well not the last one that’s xB and he’s human. but still. fish!#the other two are Grian and gem btw #to clarify this is not just bc it’s 4 am. I also just read a dozen of #*odaigahara fics #I am once again saying subnautica could have and should have leaned harder into the horrors of kharaa!#ESPECIALLY in the sequel. the frozen leviathan should have been fucked up!! AL-AN should have seen his coworkers mutate!#give the HORROR of it. the uncanny valley the realization that ‘oh this person is challenging [species-appropriate term for humanity] here’#‘op do you have a lot of thoughts about rabies’ yes I do thanks for asking

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