#alnst fan group

[sotogalmo]

8:22, yesterday — 12:12

Make this party yours (From the day), And no, (I took out) don’t look back now. / Now you’re tainted (the black fruit), God won’t have you anymore (I swallowed sweetly)

(I'll only tag for info sake. After this I'll stop being annoying; @solei-eclipse , @junebluues , @ivanttakethis , @apriciticreveries , @rosedeleca , @4listr , @friedclownshrimp , @rockwgooglyeyes , @bluemoonscape , @teapotuser , @skyisjusthere , @starry-skiez , @pwippy , @aakaneeee , @yunoftheclouds , @alien-til-i-stage , @nottoonedin , @tsukacchako , @astoryofsuchwoe , @zerostyrant + possibly others I forgotten)

Name: Pale— moreso surname meaning, but having pale in someone's name just means 'pale of skin, pallid'. But from the late 14c. as "fence of pointed stakes." Paler as a surname meaning "fence-builder" is recorded from late 12c. Another Middle English form of the word in the "fence, paling, wall of an enclosure" sense, based on the plural, was pales, palis (late 14c.), and the surname Paliser is attested from early 14c. I suppose the "fence builder" one makes the most sense with how Pale is

Animal: Lion

Solar: Saturn

Flower: Begonia Saturn, Coriander

Tarot: Strength (and a little bit of Devil)

Sin: Lust

Organ: Hands.

Birth date: 1201 (December 1th)

Age: 33

ID: 010401

Body: 170.18 cm (5'7ft) / 76kg

Affiliation: Class of Season 32

Likes: painting, quiet rooms, grass, nature

Dislikes: loud things, being owned, disobedience

Personality: Pale, acting with grace and sophistication along with acting wittily and provocatively and also being stoic, calm, and observant, is a well-bred pet human and was raised by human scientists, so he conducts himself as someone befitting of his status. But he isn't all just a pretty face and such. He's selfish, conniving, and manipulative. Most importantly, very destructive. As he has little empathy with others and manipulated people as he saw fit, similarly willing to dispose of anyone who got in his way or whom he deemed worthy of his revenge. Raised by the human scientists got him quite power hungry since he's been raised in power and humans who are high on such power that they achieved (being respected by aliens is something you have to achieve, it's no easy and simple task, and yet they have done it so can you blame them?). But with power, comes feelings of hollowness. Troubles, and that leads to more power hunger. Having felt this from childhood, all he ever really truly felt, his clearest emotions were that of loneliness and anger at the world; being alienated in the sense that he's human raised. Giving way to the fact that he's a troubled man, wanting to connect with the lesser beings in his class. But no one knows that because he hides it well with many ways to cope with it, but mainly with a cold exterior... maybe. Having him being an enigmatic individual to them, and characterized by his curiosity, affability, and disregard for consequences. But all in all, Pale is a straightforward "do no good" man; since he disregards rules and consequences. But he is also a hypocrite (hypocrite, if he's attached he's attached.).

Special talent: Painting

Voice: Britain from Hetalia when speaking / Nao Hex SYNTHV for singing (which sometimes happens, but he doesn't sing on the stage).

Signature:

The P is a bow and arrow, the L forms a canvas. The e is in canvas

History/Lore (as of right now)

Pale is apart of "toxic ysosu" with amia's Vic and syd's Theo. Most? of his childhood has been explored by Syd while writing about Theo and Theo's life in the garden and before he sang. Pale was the quiet older one between them, if I remember the ages right (well ofc between him and theo), quite similar to Luka in that regard.

He went to ANAKT later, because of some complications that happened and it made him stay behind for a while.

For when he is in ANAKT, I don't think he had a collar on, because of how obedient he was (even if his obedience is just because it was needed and required). His uniform is the same as Ivan's, for that reason. A simple turtleneck, long sleeves and long pants.

Pales relationship to the teachers and aliens as a whole is nothing special, only summed up as "a pleasure to have in class". Even if he did.. slightly cause mischief. Just to see what the other kids would do. That's for the teachers. With the aliens as a whole, he's more "respected" than the others he's been around. But that's expected because of who he was raised by.

He finds all of the kids in his class dumb, yes even Theo and Vic. While he is "romantically" involved with them, he finds their humanity to be an obstacle.

He's softer on Theo, because that Innocence of belief is something he never experienced. He's softer on Vic, because of how determined he was to be set free (even if that did annoyed him).

Pales body state, is top notch. Perfect build for what he deals with in the future— he trains his arms and upper body often in the garden with the "fishes", that get progressively harder to carry.

Overall threat level: low to medium

His guardian?

Why of course it's one of the respected humans.

This human is called Abel, he has a twin called Cain. And an older or maybe younger brother called Seth.

His style of clothing is shared with the alien scientists, that made Yume (minus the "neckfur" he has around his neck. It's a baby alien slug that was the reason for how he got the respect he did).

Abel... All three of them are enigmatic individuals characterized by their curiosity, affability, and disregard for consequences. And the fact that they have made scientific break throughs, a lot. Their later methods having helped with the experiments that Yume Nagai has went thru. They even suggested that he would have a last name.

Last names are something that they have an interest in. Learning about pre-alien human history; last names have always intrigued Abel the most. All of the names actually. He's interested in what purpose they have in life. And he (Abel) suggested that Yume could have a last name. Cain was the one that came up with the word.

Abel views Pale as a "son", as those seem to be the only words that fit their relation, and such. It's more reinforced with the way that his own ways have bleed into what Pale does.

But lale doesn't view him as a "father" though, because of his absence and his own general anger to the world, and with the way that he was raised.. having stayed confined in its walls, forbidden to leave except when sent to help some of the "newborns" or seeing other kids to make sure that they were alright. He was continuously told that he needed to study more and work harder if he wanted to please the Aliens.

Yes, he was working more and hard to please the Aliens. He might be raised by humans respected by aliens, but it's only a few that do respect them. So that had him grew up well educated but severely emotionally deprived. So he doesn't use the term 'owner' as that just doesn't sit right with him, so he uses the term "guardian" to call him as such.

Cain and Abel are in their early 50s. Seth is in late 40s? or late 50s.

Pale and Eeta have known each other since they were kids.

Pale and Eeta had Innamorati in their early teens. Hänsel and Gretel were later down the line, in late teens but they "never made it".

Pale got into AREPH when he was 26

Pale had Kotus in his mid 20s with Molly (a fling). Kotus was around 5 when Molly had Raon. Pale was 29? When he and Dae had that one night stand.

Pale does view Theo as someone only he can be with. No matter what happens. Basically, Pale initially just saw him as a means of gaining insight on what it's like to feel emotions, but over time grew to care about him and found peace from their 'companionship' together. That's the best way to put it. And he shows that lightly with making small paintings, or things similar to such.

He does not have romantic feelings nor want them. He might envision himself in a romantic relationship, but he would rather have a complicated relationship then.. that.

He has complicated feelings on the love thing. He wants it, but doesn't feel the same when it's real.

Symbolism

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His animal is a lion. Quite simple honestly; courage, physical strength, and bravery for the simple view of it. Royalty, protection, leadership, wisdom, justice. All of that. And it honestly fits with Pale, in the way he's raised- his feelings to the world, relationship with Vic and Theo, and for the simple view of it being how he's in AREPH. This is a straightforward thing from the things I picked out

His solar symbol is the planet Saturn. This one I had a hard time with, but didn't want to ask and so I decided to do this all myself. But I do think that it fits. The discipline, order, and structure, plus tough or necessary lessons (karma). A symbol of it was a scythe or a sickel for the seed-sowing times and such. The order and discipline most certainly work with him.

His flower is a Begonia Saturn, sharing the same name with the planet just because I wanted to know if there was one called as such and there is! The symbolism of it. Begonias mainly mean caution and consideration, as well as good communication between different parties. It is commonly given as a gift when paying back a favour. But the Begonia Saturn means (well, all flowers meant) deep and romantic love. They were considered a representation of passion and were commonly used in love spells and potions. Additionally, begonias were seen as a symbol of fancifulness and were often used in gardens and floral displays. I think it's fitting! The Coriander, is here because of how it's connected with his sin; lust— coriander's past as a component in love potions may seem quaint, it continues to be a symbol of wellness and harmony.

His Tarot. Now this is fun. Strength mixed with the Devil. strength, determination, and power – like The Chariot. However, while The Chariot signifies outer strength and will, the Strength card speaks to the inner strength and the human spirit's ability to overcome any obstacle. Strength is about knowing you can endure life's obstacles. But I'm mainly using the reversed! Reversed Strength meaning you have limited control over your actions and your energy is out of control. This can lead to pettiness, fragility, and abuse of authority. It's very fitting for what he does and such. How he's around newcomers in AREPH, and all I suppose. And the Devil? The Devil tarot card suggests feelings of obsession, addiction, and entrapment. It can signify a sense of helplessness due to external forces or circumstances. However, it reminds you that you're responsible for your actions, and your perceived constraints are often self-imposed. This one spoke to me as Pale, because I've been connecting him with Luka quite a lot and it fits it a lot. Helplessness by external forces? It's all fitting

His Sin. Lust. Okay, so this one seems very.. apparent with what I've done with him due to the fact that he has 3 living kids and had a one night stand with Dae, who's a horny bastard. But I swear it's not just the sexual desires to fill the hole and void. I remember lightly talking about the sins of Yun once. They have gone with "bloodlust" for the lust sin. And I really like that idea, and I hope they don't mind me mentioning them here and going with that idea. And also, technically Lust is also about being damned. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the lustful are punished in the Inferno by being swept around in a whirlwind, which symbolizes their ungovernable passions. Which I think is also fitting. Ungovernable passions, power hunger. All of that

The organ symbol, I gave him. Hands. To me, organ symbols connect to the sin. While the tongue would've worked as well, hands just felt. The hands were calling. Which honestly first had me thinking that Greed would be fitting. But he's.. not that greedy. To say. Anyways, the hands. Their symbolism, being the embodiment of strength, help, protection, power, or authority. The image of the palm can symbolize order, vitality, and generosity. A hand logo can be associated with aspiration, authority and dignity, creation, and skill. And I honestly think it just fits. Plainly fits him. It connects to the Lion, to the tarot, his sin and the fact that his talent is painting! His hands are used a lot. Quite a lot.

Pale -> Theo: (a 'giggle'?) He makes me weak. I can't let him know that he does that- I still don't want to show myself ... Fully. To him. He already knows .. too much of me. He's too much.... but my type of too much. To say for the positive, and not to just wallow in those feelings. (Intimacy: 95%)

Pale -> Vic: ....I don't know why he thought what he did was okay. It's not. His disobedience.. I. I didn't like seeing the scars or what they have went thru- but. Oh, who knows what type of Utopia they have reached. (Intimacy: 54%)

^ overall: we went to ask sensitive questions to get more of his views. This is all he said

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My Evillious Chronicles friends. You will find the Adam Moonlit, Pale Noel, Kaspar Blankenheim and Gumina Glassred in him pretty easily.

[astoryofsuchwoe]

"Have you heard of that resistance group?"

CHAT.... THE RESISTANCE MY BELOVEDS. so sorry if any characters ive drawn are off at all FHBDKSNF

okay. trying to list them off ;

itsaso ; @lookatmysillies

nausikaa ; @rockwgooglyeyes

minerva ; @cloverandstuff

cindy ; @tsukacchako

felix, bastienne, orian and yuuki ; @sotogalmo

token ; @kyokills

vic and trix ; yours truly!

[neverforgetyou]

and then i go and spoil it all by saying somethin' stupid like "i love you"

The sound of the wind blew in his face as he walked through the empty plain-land. The sign in front of him hid his face from the scorching rays of the sun, shining hard on his bloody clothes.

Theo made his way through the open area, searching for any runaway humans. He’s not even trying to hide his presence, he never does. He’s never met a human who could outrun him, and he never will. Pale calls him overconfident, but the evidence never lies.

He felt himself grow tired and stopped to sit on a bench, placing his sign down next to him and letting the sun hit his face. He’s been out of AREPH finding humans for a few days now, barely resting, and he can feel himself starting to reach the end. Orlar says he’s overworking himself, Pale rolls his eyes, and Dricox shrugs him off, but he knows that deep down the black darkness is threatening to spill out from inside of him again. 

Suddenly, he hears a sound. He quickly turns around and sees a human with bright red hair and running in the distance. He grabs his sign and chases after them, the black darkness being shoved down by something better, something golden and bright. 

The human looks behind them, a nervous expression on their face. Theo’s eyes light up as he takes in that expression, assuming that the human isn’t armed.

‘This is gonna be easy.’

The human grabs a rock and throws it at him weakly, more focused on not slowing down than making contact with him. Theo chuckles as he easily dodges. 

His eyes scan the human. They’re wearing a bright tank top and shorts.

‘Another stupid fucking idiot’ he thinks as his eyes notice the prosthetic on their left leg, getting an idea. He scans the scene in front of him for a rock the size of his hand, maybe a little bit bigger. He finds one and picks it up, before throwing it as hard as he can at their prosthetic. 

He laughs as they fall to the ground. While they’re down, he pulls out his gun and shoots the other leg, rendering them immobile. They cry out in pain, turning over onto their back and grabbing their bleeding leg.

“Ha! Gotcha now useless scum!” Theo walks over and presses his heel into their chest, keeping them down. “You really thought you could run from me? Nice try.” He cackles as he pulls out his knife, taking in the look of pure fear on the human’s face.

His ears perk up at the sound of a motorcycle, and he dodges out of the way just in time to see him … Vic.

He let out a sad, surprised laugh. “Well well well … look who it is.” He switches his sign from one with a neutral expression to one with a more angry one. He can’t even say his name. 

Vic wears an expression Theo’s never seen him wear before, one of pure anger. “Theo.”

“You know, after that stunt you pulled a few months ago I shouldn’t be surprised to see you here. But here I am, surprised.” There’s a mocking tone in his voice, but deep down he isn’t lying. Every time he sees Vic he’s always surprised, he always has been. Whether it’s because of his beauty, his voice, or the angry glare on his face that he sees in front of him now.

Vic pulls out a gun and points it at him. The black darkness creeps closer and closer to the back of his mouth as he’s hit with a sense of deja vu. He almost wants to laugh.

“Oh you're gonna shoot me again?! Go ahead!” He throws his sign down onto the ground, showing Vic the matching angry look in his eyes. “Just admit it, you only care about me when I do something you think is wrong. You never cared about me.”

Vic’s expression never waivered. He was focused. Concentrated. Ready. "I wasn't pretending back then. But I can't bring myself to care for someone like you now." He pulls the trigger.

Unlike a few months ago Theo was ready this time, as he successfully dodges and runs as fast as he can towards Vic, the black darkness finally falling from his eyes. 

“You're lying!" He shouts, holding his knife up in the air. "You never cared about me, if you did you wouldn't have left without a note. Without a proper goodbye. You wouldn't have left me!" He finally reaches Vic and sinks his knife into his shoulder, stabbing him.

If Vic were anyone else, he would’ve aimed for the heart. But he’s Vic, and as much as he wants to hurt him, he would never kill him.

He backs up as Vic moves his hand to the wound, breathing heavily as blood pours out. He looks down at his bloody hand before glaring at Theo.

“There's no saving you.”

Theo glares, more of that black darkness falling down his face as the realization hits him. “So I was right … You never cared about me, you only cared about saving me. Well guess what? I don’t need to be saved!”

Vic’s grip tightened on his shoulder. “That’s not-”

“Oh don’t even fucking try. I understand now. You and your “I hate it here … I need to be set free … is it wrong to want to be free?” bullshit. You were only “friends” with me to try and save me, so when you realized you couldn’t you left without a word. I bet you told that scummy sister of yours you left.” Theo is so engrossed in Vic that he doesn’t notice the human getting onto Vic’s motorcycle. 

Vic glared at him again, his hands twitching. “Don’t bring Trix into this.”

“Aw, did widdle Theo strike a nerve? Fuck you. For everything.”

Vic scoffs, slowly inching towards the motorcycle. “You’re blaming me for something that’s entirely you.” Theo snarls. “Me? Me?! I didn’t ask for any of this! I didn’t ask to be this way. I didn’t ask for us to be on opposite sides. I didn’t ask to fall in love with you!”

Vic freezes, processing what Theo said. “... What did you just say?” The glare leaves Theo’s eyes, replaced with a look of defeat and sadness. “You heard me.”

“Theo … I–” Theo pulls out his gun and aims it at Vic, although Vic could tell he had no intention to shoot. “Shut up. I don’t want to hear about it anymore.” Vic doesn’t move, looking at him with a look of … something … something like pity, but not quite. 

“Signs–” “If you’re going to leave, leave now. Or else I will shoot.”

Vic knows he’s lying, and desperately wants to stay, to reach out to him. But he knows he can’t. He said it himself, Theo can’t be saved. So he sighs, looks at him for one more second, before turning around and hopping on his motorcycle. 

Theo keeps the gun pointed at him as they ride off. He keeps it pointed even when he can’t see them anymore. He stands there, as the black darkness continues to flow out of him.

After another few minutes, he finally puts the gun down and back in his pocket along with the bloody knife. He turns around, picks up his sign and heads for AREPH, his hands running over the dried blood on his clothes in an attempt to calm him down.

As he’s walking, he’s hit with a realization.

At the end of the day, Vic has a family to go back to, a home.

But Theo will forever remain with a hole in his heart, broken for eternity.

The black darkness tears continue to fall.

theo and ember: @astoryofsuchwoe || pale (mentioned): @sotogalmo

[tsukacchako]

everybody loves somebody sometime <3

< yuuki by @sotogalmo :] hopefully i drew her well >

[lookatmysillies]

AREPH: OUR MISSION

“MISSION STATEMENT: Our fine organization was established upon the 20th anniversary of THE GREAT ANAKT GARDEN with the sole and selfless aim of locating, securing, and returning escaped pet humans to the safety of their guardians’ homes, or otherwise establishing homes for those without guardians.”

Official employee card template by @tsukacchako:

AREPH’S OBJECTIVES

1) Capture escaped humans.

2) Return them to their guardian after “conditioning” them to make them more obedient

OR

If a human is not technically escaped and was simply abandoned to the streets or was born to the slums, AREPH will pick them up off the streets, their human care unit (HCU) will tidy them and make them more presentable, then they will be sent to a shelter for adoption. If an escaped human is high profile (like Solei, Nene, etc) they will not be sent back to their guardian and will instead be kept for interrogative and experimental purposes.

All in all, AREPH is mostly made up of aliens with some exceptions of humans who are signed on or raised to serve the facility. Eddy was the first human agent hired and they think their mission is kind to humans because it doesn’t know the ends AREPH really goes to under wraps. Humans working for AREPH are still nothing but assets to their alien superiors; they’re like the K-9 unit, if you will. Bloodhounds and emotional support dogs.

This is an AREPH lore post that I probably should’ve made forever ago to clear up confusion, LMAO. I will create more AREPH content in the future and make an AREPH masterpost, too. In the meantime, have this, AREPH OC creators! Thank you for taking interest in a concept that just started as a basic plot device for Eddy, lol

Tagging some AREPH OC creators and people who seemed interested when I talked about this in the server that I can recall, I apologize to those I forget: @rockwgooglyeyes, @sotogalmo, @shenenenigans, @apriciticreveries

[lookatmysillies]

ALISTER THIS IS HILARIOUS TO ME BECAUSE. OKAY. One of my character inspos for Kyo is this icon

Actor AU them pulled a “I started my own band”

actor au! azure, if you will, do what you want with that information

[timmie-p]

april fools post translation 👍 * indicates i have notes on the translation if you want to read below

Hyun Woo —> He stopped acting in his childhood but is currently working on ALNST as a lighting crew member. Worries about his dull, slow sister

Hyuna —> The last and youngest of the ALNST cast to debut! Her real personality is gentle and innocent

Mizi —> Fan favourite among the actors. Shy personality and very nervous about her first leading role

Sua —> The feisty actress is popular among her co-stars, thanks to her nonchalant friendliness

Sua: Great job on the shoot today. I’m sure Director Kim was only speaking so harshly because he was worried about your safety, so don’t take it personally.

Mizi: Yeah.. ((It’s sunbae!!! What should I do! What should I do!!))

Sfx: Thump thump thump [heartbeat sound]

Ivan and Luka are actors from a different agency. They’re also in an idol group together (for the record, Luka hates it)

Ivan —> Ivan loves kids and voluntarily takes care of them

Luka —> Luka is Ivan’s best friend, so he’s forced to babysit with him

Baby Till —> Baby Till for flashback scenes

Baby Mizi —> Baby Mizi for flashback scenes when the kids are older

Till —> Till, the youngest in the series, is actually the oldest in the cast and debuted with CF before he could even speak in a diaper commercial. Till has a strong “my pace”* persona. He just wants to quickly wrap up the shoot and go home. His dark circles are from overwork, not make-up.

Others —> Three people who want to approach their mysterious** senior but can’t

Ivan: ((Lamenting over delays..?))

Mizi: Want me to talk to him?

Luka: Yeah

Till: ((I want to go home))

Sfx: Spacing out~

*according to namu wiki, either someone who’s strongly independent and doesn’t care what others think or someone who’s always chill

**according to namu wiki, the adjective translates to a famous person who deliberately keeps their private life secret. i just went with mysterious bc it directly translates to “mystic”

i didn’t choose to translate sunbae in Mizi’s thoughts because it sounds weird and most of you probably know what it means anyway

lol it looks like everyone’s personalities were flipped. does that mean ivan actually hates kids? and till as the cool mysterious senior everyone is scared to talk to vs hyuna as no thoughts head empty is kinda funny. i have a feeling ivan and luka are shipped together a lot by fans in this au.. the woes of being besties. also mizisua is always canon 🙏 theyre so yuri

[nanakah]

hello hello, I took the alien stage pill. howdy fellow sufferers

Honestly, my first reaction to basically everything was "awww, they come in sets and are all without exception horribly doomed no matter their specs (loops cool music and vids)"

I'd seen some of VIVINOS' team works without realizing it was the same artist (my favorites being Beloved and Otomeroid) so it was rather shocking to learn of a "series" with a fandom as active/relatively large as Alien Stage without ever actually stumbling upon it before...

Anyways. I like the concept, and Hyuna+Luka in particular, a whole lot. In spite of all the jokes about only yuri and yaoi losing, my spider sense says they'll get their turn of crashing horribly soon and I wanna stay here to witness it burn beautifully, of course.

TL;DR OMG HYULUKA IS SO DELICIOUS

general yapping about all alien stage duos under the cut and some Hyuna/Luka considerations and theories

disclaimer: long, chaotic post ahead - i wrote most of it during revenge bedtime procrastination so I'm kinda just rambling/discussing my general impressions and vibes here instead of formatting it nicely or properly illustrating my points. good luck if you choose to stick around and make yourself comfy

alien stage impressions under read more - also SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

funny thing - I got into alien stage completely by chance after checking out some related vids to my Love and Deepspace twitter spree and avoiding my responsibilities. Ivan's Black Sorrow made a very strong impression and I loved his eyes, so I kept going deeper down the rabbit role and felt fascinated by the web of dynamics between the characters each time I took in a little more of the plot.

(His eyes are so cool and expressive.....I was already loving everything prior and was excited to continue, but Ivan was definitely the one to sell me on the concept more strongly and eat up the rest.)

It was interesting seeing "love" portrayed under such dire conditions and I kept wondering how come the aliens are so stupid they chose a 1vs1 PVP combat format with their beloved pets instead of the optimal formation of idol units and at least duos versus each other to utilize their feelings of love. Why would they do that?

That first innocent musing made me realize how clever the team behind ALNST is. The whole thing seems to be operating as a metaphor/commentary about how predatory the real idol industry is (the concept of anakt garden really sounds like the average idol trainee camp experience and the bonds they form with their group mates) and how heartless guardian (parental) figures can be in a society that is heavily utilitarian and barely gives agency to either their own children or sentient beings like animals that we keep as pets.

So in that world, the sacrifices of being an idol are literal and humans themselves are "pets" - with all the implications that come with "being dependent on a species that does not properly comprehend them". At times, the way they refer to the fandom of each character even seems to be tongue in cheek as to how "we" too are watching the story for entertainment and making fanbases for each character and reacting like some of the in-universe alien fans.

Therefore, it's no brainer that the answer to my initial question was: aliens/Segyein don't understand how to utilize human bonds and emotions to their maximum efficiency in the first place. They know interaction between humans seems to be important and produces more beautiful songs. However, they probably experience those feelings differently and most of them are likely unable to truly empathize with human pain, ethics or feelings. (And believe me, even some people have a hard time believing other species benifit from socialization, so aliens being that way is understandable). Perhaps the awful acts of the Segyein mutilating their pet human is no different from pulling a butterfly's wings to a human or injecting colored fluid into a flower. The glimpses of their buildings and tv show that they have the same sort of "do they have rights?" feelings and similar moral conflicts to what we have in the real world about species we don't understand fully.

I think it's really challenging to analyze a work attempting to guess future developments when you don't know the creator too well. In spite of looping OTOMEROID I wouldn't say I know VIVINOS and her team deeply as an admirer. But from the overall tone of the videos in her channel, I could pick up on a fascination with "extremes" of emotion and exploring the hypocrisy of society. Human/animal experimentation and materialism/religion/consumerism are topics that come up often. Love is also hardly ever portrayed as a simple or benevolent feeling alone - there's unrequited love, obsession, insanity, many facets of that feeling on the channel. Some works are more straightforward and focus on the visual presentation, others seem to have a deeper story behind it.

The technical quality of the Alien Stage MVs is extremely impressive, I had a blast looking at the patreon storyboards and feeling like "wow, a person actually made this". It seriously got me inspired to feel like drawing more to get out of my own artblock and to pick up on old OCs to show them some love. In the era of AI, this is a joy to get to feel. It all definitely feels like a well-put together labor of love. I'm super weak to things brimming with passion like this, it's contagious!!!!

Now that I've tried my best to make an eloquent opening and act like I'm not at all just a fangirl foaming at the mouth with this intense concept (I keep crying that I wanna see either Aka or Ohkawa try their hand at a death game scenario) and at the sight of a tragic toxic duo with a backstory of a deeply rooted mutual obsession/love and fall out (wiping drool out of the corner of my mouth as we speak), let's talk a little more about the story. In order to make sense out of my ramblings and projections, let me explain my thoughts on the other duos besides my bias first.

Mizi and Sua set the tone to their universe as well as serve as an explanation as to why "idols" work well to represent their conflict and struggle - I'm fresh out of Oshi no Ko here, so this feels equal parts like a comfort zone and everything but comfortable and hellish to go over again. But, to put it briefly, the adoration of someone as an entertainer that you want to support also overlaps with the word reserved for adoring "an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship" - idol.

Humans, stripped of their power and autonomy after arrogantly believing they were superior to everyone else and were the only beings in the vast universe, have been subjugated by other species. Because of the bleak, unforgiving circumstances they were faced with afterwards, the surviving ones were turned into luxury pets and stripped of their freedom. Free will made them children of God before, so people have forgotten all about the "God" who couldn't answer their prayers/save them. But, as Mizi says, the belief in God is innate to human nature. You are more likely live in this world successfuly if you have someone to look up to or a reason to survive.

When God seems so far away and so cruel...what they can do is look to each other as their "Gods". Because a belief in God is ultimately, a cry for salvation and acceptance...."The Bible makes it clear that “God is love” (1 John 4:8). He isn't just loving, but he is the very definition of love."Therefore, all characters are, in some way, looking for salvation and being constantly tested and brutally being forced to show off their humanity through the lens of how love affects them - and not at the privacy of their inner thoughts or anything. All of that in order to portray different aspects of "love", adoration and what it means to be human. To have a belief on the unseen - "what is essential is invisible to the eye".

IT'S ALIEN AMERICAN IDOL MEETS DANGANRONPA. WHOO.

(gOD I wish we could have gotten Luka vs Sua or vs Ivan in some way. That feels like it would be extremely close and entertaining to see. Am I losing my humanity? Why is my keyboard slimy? Am I becoming a Segyein ....?)

Of course, because I fell for all those deliciously doomed themes like the good CLAMP/Akasaka foolish nerd I am, I bought patreon access day one. Although some setting details were unexpected, I was pretty satisfied with my overall initial grasp on most of the characters. If you found me through the tags and didn't already follow me, my disclaimer here so you get to know me is that I easily gravitate to polarizing characters or doomed ships like a curse. There are also certain Themes that follow me like a plague and I could see some of my favorite characters' shadows on the doomed kids I liked right away. Like an itch to spot something more to what is being shown.

Therefore right away, Luka and Hyuna caught my eye big time. (literally, when I watched sweet dream I kept pausing and going - whOA WHO IS THE COOL GIRL WITH THE CIG. Wait wait wait show me more of the boy that looks dead inside overstimulated by the flashing lights!)

I don't really have any pretension to be quoted on anything here or say things verbatim (Patreon says it's fine to produce derivative content based on what's there, but as expected, it's enforced not to directly share it so I can't really go argument-evidence here by presenting it) and have only seen pictures of the artbook secondhand by a friend, so I'll have my fun here making commentary loosely based on extra content and sporadically showing off pretty MV captures.

Anyway.

We're introduced to this universe through the jarring cruelty of ROUND 1, contrasting a harmonic, beautiful, lullaby-like melody with a harsh outcome. Like Mizi, unless we got spoiled beforehand, we don't really know anything about what's about to horrifically transpire. And though she got education, it feels like the teachings about what death or the Alien Stage would be like were horribly sugar coated or distorted to her, as incentive to give their best performances - like sacrificing themselves was a good thing. The extra materials back this up with Mizi's first interview about "My Clematis" - it's like they're told they're simply going back to their "origins" entity (The Grand Ankt) and it's a pretty and peaceful thing. We're shown how bad humans have it in their society and simultaneously get a montage of a cute, healthy, heartwarming relationship between the two girls and a deep "pure" love, as well as feel the weight of Sua's sacrifice and how badly it hurts Mizi. You're told that Sua is her God, her Universe in a Godless world - only to have her ripped away and "God" basically slaughtered for cheap entertainment. Some of the extra materials put it as a certain "mutual love" between Sua and Mizi.

It's interesting how we're shown a stage and don't know what to expect at first - since the girls seem "calm" and happy to express their love, but there's an increasing sense of dread until the finality of Sua's death hits and the pretty, shining girl we see in the flashbacks becomes an empty husk. The MVs seem all to be roughly designed around creating a surprise at the end or recontextualizing something we have seen previously.

I won't discuss Till and Ivan at length at this time, because that would get too long and demands it's own post (I sure as hell rewatched Unknown, Black Sorrow and Cure many times though), but the key part for me here is - they similarly express "love", but through another facet - obsession of a one-sided love and the desire to reach salvation or a reason to endure the world because of that, too. To the point of choosing the chance of love over salvation, expressed by Till letting go of Ivan's hand when they had a chance to escape (not wanting to leave Mizi behind most likely) and Ivan's kiss and decision to strangle Till to give his own life in exchange for his/finally getting to express his "shallow emotions" he perceives as something that won't deeply scar Till (but it does, and it mattered, far more than he could ever have known). It's interesting that although Mizi calls Sua a God, they develop something closer to a balanced, mutual relationship, as much as their lack of understanding of "human relationship" allows - they connect deeply. Ivan, according to the comics, sees himself in Sua, but it's deeply frustrating how he couldn't build the same sort of connection with Till and felt like he could only maintain a bond through violence.

Mizi seems to be the only human who was raised in a "stable home" (her alien seems to actually love her closest to a mother), but that's not enough to protect her from pain - after all, the alien's reasoning was that if Mizi likes singing, she should join. Yolo! Your human baby's life is so short! Sounds like outdoor cat owners to me. Ugh. All other pet humans are going through some flavor of parental abuse, and it all reflects in how they express their emotions and what sort of decisions they tend to take.

Till, in contrast to all that, more closely resembles the definition of looking at Mizi like an oshi/idol as a comfort to run from the pains of his life - he always looks hurt or abused, but Mizi is like medicine that even watching from far away makes him feel "saved" due to nurturing that "first love" that is heavily idealized. It's interesting how his character that is first introduced as somewhat violent or wild because of the smashing guitar and "addict"/drug imagery turns out to be one of the most sensitive.

The cloaked figure of Mizi in Blink Gone seems to resemble a saint or Mary (mother) holding a child in her lap as he takes his last breaths. She rushed into the crowd in a desperate attempt to save or at least comfort him in his predicament. Till's final position even resembles that of being crucified.

All that, however, makes Till unable to see Ivan properly - who is constantly around him and yearning for his attention, protecting and loving him in desperate ways that he doesn't realize until the very last minute. He is also seemingly detaching himself from the "real" world as a very "pure" child (shown in the way he loves with full devotion and his artistic inclinations), which of course, makes Ivan painful to face - who is a grounding entity and a reminder of the real world. The one who touches his wounds, who is "there" and not unreachable like a flower at the top of a mountain. That love between Ivan and Till got expressed in a way that was painful to both, but a very human act of a clashing selfish and selfless-ness.

None of them are built for this. They're trying to survive.

So far, what I've got is...Mizi and Sua set a standard of what is closest to a mutual love that was growing together in a relatively equal and healthy way. Ivan and Till were reworked to avoid overlap with them and are chosen to portray the sense of an immature, obsessive love and clashing emotions. It's interesting to me how much the creators stress the "one-sided" and controlling nature of Ivan for behind the scenes, and I feel like this does not mean that Till couldn't possibly return his feelings - after all, the Actor AU does show great chemistry between them. It's more like, within their living conditions and because of the emotional immaturity of both of them, they literally could not see eye to eye - Till looking at an idol out of reach (Mizi), and Ivan choosing to seek out his attention through violent means that confused Till, thus he was unable to respond to the intensity of what he felt and grow into it.

NOW. TO THE MAIN COURSE THAT IS ROTTING MY BRAIN: HYULUKA.

If we've got all those bases covered so far...where does that leave Hyuna and Luka?

(This is the most Mello/Near-like I've ever seen another ship pull off. My inner 13 yo is screaming. They're both incredibly gorgeous. How is a hetero couple simultaneously so BL and yuri-like in DRAMA AND IMAGERY? CLAMP would be proud...)

You see, there's no official answer about the true nature of their bond yet.

But I have a lot of speculations. It clearly looks like a rotten, strangled-by-the-red-string-of-fate sort bond that is just up my alley. THE MOST FUN IS GETTING TO BABBLE BEFORE GETTING AN ASSERTIVE ANSWER. I'm all for making a fool of myself, so let's get down to it.

To put it simply - I believe Hyuna and Luka's role is expressing the extremes of the setting itself and what "to love" means within it, with a turn for the worse and the tragedy of "not understanding" even if there is love.

How do you conquer an oppressive world in which all odds are against you? Would you overtake it through rebellion or would you strike at it from within?

In a world in which God's teachings have become lost to time and difficult to believe, does love strengthen or weaken you? If it causes pain and destruction, can it still be called love?

I think Hyuna and Luka are standing at opposite sides of those beliefs, and cannot understand each other's mindset.

Seems simple enough to write Luka as a mere villain final boss since he seems to be enjoying himself at the evil death game and Hyuna as the nice rebel who wants to save everyone, right? But it's confirmed Hyuna wasn't really trying to rescue more people like she had an opportune moment to do for Mizi.

The artbook also says something incredibly interesting about what the "Luka Syndrome" mentioned in one of the MVs really means - Luka's prestige as a performer is raising the prestige of pet humans. He also believes "Hyuna would be safe with him" - Why is that?

I think they might actually have similar goals and a similar stubborness in which they believe themselves to be the correct one and the other to be pitiful and foolish. Hyuna is trying to overthrow a system that is well-established and has far more power or influence than them, therefore she needs to resort to drastic measures and flashy means to assert dominance over the alien society.

Luka on the other hand, feels like he is using the system against it and exercising his own humanity while at it. Rather than tackling the incredibly daunting task of being a rebel with guns blazing, Luka became a master of the stage in a way that makes humans gain influence and thus become more valuable.Even if I try to think of it as "he's just trying to survive", that doesn't feel enough - because whenever he is not on stage, Luka looks dead inside already.

Especially in the arts he looks like a younger child or teenager, except for the ones after he seems more consistently approached by Hyuna. It's hard for me to think what moves him is a survival instinct. He is also portrayed like the typical "golden kid" syndrome victim - someone so systematically beaten to satisfy their narcissist guardian figure and submitted to so much pain that they eventually absorb part of that mindset as a way to have agency and autonomy over themselves. It gives the illusion of being successful and thus that the abuse was "effective", but it's like a curse that is difficult to break from.

I think both of them are older for a thematic reason. It feels like it could represent what it feels like, as adults, to no longer be able to hold onto naive or idealistic things about the world or society due to ignorance and having to choose a path to express your ideas and reach your goals through your "work".

Hyuna is guns blazing and "adult pleasures" - singing to an underground stage, trying to scrub off the wounds of her past with alcohol, and it's interesting that her guardian alien is portrayed like an "absent" parent figure - they have an interest in humans, but doesn't care about watching Hyuna when she first was eligible for Alien Stage. I wonder if they even are the one looking for her at all - seems to me it's more of an alien police thing because of her "crimes". Under that seemingly "thick" skin though, it seems clear that Hyuna is deeply affected by Luka still, and the loss of her brother. She deals with her wounds by not really dealing with them at all and guess what - it's a weak point. Her song is uplifting and refreshing, but she clearly demonstrates that closing your eyes to trauma and purely moving forward doesn't make them go away. In that sense, Mizi is a way she is trying to "mentor" someone navigate through loss.

I love outcasts and mildly autistic-coded characters, so I gravitated to Sua, Ivan and Luka right away.

(Extroverted cutie and the doomest doomer of the bunch. As a side note, their character design alone and contrast is genius and gorgeous. I'd expect 90% of the time for Luka to be the designated BL character and hardly do I ever see his archetype paired with the sort of sharp, striking beauty that Hyuna has so I definitely got giddy with them right away. She reminds me a lot of Michiko Malando and Luka reminds me of Near, two characters I love a whole lot and funnily enough have the same mbti types the artbook describes them as - ESTP and INTJ. Ankt garden Luka looks somewhat closer to the AU versions of Luka, so gotta love both his origins and his twisted post-alnst/hyuun woo self)

I believe Hyuna bundles Luka with that trauma of grief and loss, and it's still unclear what their roles are in it and after the fact. While singing all in verses "We only get one life, so I'm living mine for me/'Cause I'm the one from your wildest dreams", Luka's face flashes through Hyuna's mind before even her brothers, like it's something that's always on the back of it and barely suppressed.

See...since VIVINOS loves the "more than meets the eye"/twist concept, something I'm expecting is for Hyuna's feelings not to be as black and white as blaming Luka and actually. It obviously was dysfunctional and isn't that....delicious???

I feel like a one-sided love or obsession wouldn't make sense to repeat as themes, and because of the heavy trauma associated in the backstory, it's not like a "healthy mutual love". To bridge the themes of MiziSua and IvanTill, I think Hyuna and Luka are being told in a way to express love as something that can also destroy instead of save, and their clashing ideologies come from a place of wanting to think "-I'M- right and want to be your god", instead of ever having been able to understand each other properly.

They have a similarly "corrupt" love that has a lot of guilt and regret built into it. Even with something awful as what happened to her brother, it's curious that Hyuna's mind first thinks of Luka in an "enamored" light - the scene looks pretty tender - but that's also attached to the weight of Hyun Woo's death.

I think It's likely that the twist is Hyuna having been the one who hurt her brother, even, considering the dynamic in these comics:

Luka and Hyun Woo compete for Hyuna's attention, and it's to be expected that none of them understand the boundaries and definitions of love too well. Hyuna and Hyun Woo seem to be naive and relatively raised in a decent way, submitted to superiority tests like the rest, but not directly abused. They seem to express their love for each other in a cheerful, healthy way, Hyuna probably because of her closeness to her brother (which is unusual for other pet humans to be able to do) is extremely physical in how she shows affection. She doesn't really reprimand Luka, and that creates an unhealthy dynamic in which Luka plays the victim - in spite of starting things - to enjoy Hyuna's attention. There is a cute comic that looks silly, but encapsulates it all:

Luka is a little shit that wants to be pampered. He knows he is physically weaker - if you come across a rabbit being hurt by a wolf, you wouldn't suspect the rabbit provoked it. So Hyuna constantly seems to take Luka's side regardless of what happened, wanting to have that protector role.

Luka on the other hand, has no reference of what it's like to be "loved". He is systematically abused and treated like an object - therefore, he perceives relationships in terms of "ownership". And I don't think Hyuna truly understands just what she is enabling when she encourages Luka to act the way he does or thinks his neediness is "cute".

Honestly, I think there's strong sexual abuse imagery in Luka's art and the presentation of his stage image as someone taking charge of their objectification. His clothing for stage always shows off his body one way or another and both Hyuna and him have this sensual imagery and approach to others, as if "reclaiming one's own body". The contrast of Luka's blank expression and the red collar indicating a mental breakdown in that artwork above featuring Heperu's shadow approaching him is truly chilling.

That boy has no reference of what a familial bond or love is like. And both his introspective nature and abuse seem to make it even worse for him to connect with his peers- in the artbook his only relationships listed are Hyuna and Mizi, in very negative ways. He is also said to have retreated deeper into his own world, because "no one can understand him". Again, checks out with the imagery of "gifted son" that is treated like a narcissistic parent's doll and that becomes desensitized to many things over time.

His alien guardian Heperu even looks vaguely phallic and Luka has body language of "trying to disappear" or soothing himself when not up the stage - hugging knees, looking smaller, sucking on sleeves, stimming with toys (rubik's cube). The scars on his chest seem related to the abuse of submitting him to pain to overcome fear and I theorize the scars on the side may have been for plastic surgery like abdominoplasty or even possibly removing ribs. Normally that would be done from the back, but hey - alien science, and he already had "tainted" scarred skin on the front, so it would make sense to try preserving his back. His waist is drawn really really thin. It's also mentioned that he had a strict diet even though he is a big eater - that is, Heperu is deeply violating his agency in accordance with Lookism.

Luka has all the makings of a really tragic character and reminds me of Kamiki Hikaru's construction in Oshi no Ko. A victim turned abuser in some ways, as a way to seek autonomy, self expression and living for their ideals and love, no matter how twisted it has become.

There's a comic that has a "flashback" of anakt garden and Hyuna being asked by Luka if she likes to sing. The POV of Hyuna's face looks as soft as Luka's does from hers. She tells him that they don't have freedom for anything else, but when she is up at the stage, it's like her life is "her own", so she likes it. The image of Luka singing as an adult suggests that even now, those are the words he pictures and that is the image of Hyuna that is alive in his mind.

In a way, both of them are deeply attached to the past, and while Hyuna wants to shut it down completely and regrets it having happened, Luka's feelings are twisted.

We don't know much about the kiss. Considering the "sucking on forehead" comics, I get the feeling Hyuna was startled by the sudden escalation from Luka acting as a passive, cute pet and jumping her with so much intensity, but may not necessarily have pushed him away. The following fight could either have happened because Hyuna became withdrawn as a result of suddenly becoming aware of the effect she was having on Luka and what their feelings for each other were (since previously, she might not have been able to tell the difference between being all over her brother and all over Luka) /or/ the scenario played out like the forehead sucking. She didn't dislike it, but Luka became insistent or they got caught in a way that Hyuun Woo had no context for, thus assuming Luka was forcing her.

And there is a third option too that now I think about it, seems the /most/ likely: the growing proximity to Hyuna made Luka's feelings of "wanting ownership and exclusivity" even deeper because of love and lust, as simply being assured he is "loved" doesn't seem to be enough for Luka. It could be that Hyuna in fact disliked his attempt of kissing her and became more distant to him. Thus, he orchestrated for Hyuna to take his side once again for validation in a reckless way - but the results were "better than he thought" when it resulted in Hyuun Woo's death. Because, that is a price so heavy that it feels like "wow, you actually chose me".

This scene is super interesting, I love Luka's expression. It's joyful in a "perverse" way. He was successful in trapping his beloved Hyuna. And it seems that the emotion is so intense, like he is finally free from the mask of pitiful wounded animal with no agency over himself that the sheer ecstasy might have caused a seizure or heart attack, hence his eyes looking glassy afterwards and his fingers finally turning the blue/purple hue we see on his older design.

Skimming through the patreon posts, I was pleasantly surprised to realize my gut feeling about Ivan and Luka having a similar core wasn't wrong. Sua in comparison is the scenario of someone who doesn't go off to the deep end as the two of them. It's often stressed that the team was worried about establishing Luka and Ivan as distinguishable - their personalities are similar, but their masks are different. Ivan presents himself as the "big bro", while actually being a boy struggling with properly expressing emotions that went as far as practicing smiles and expresions at the lake. Whereas Luka is like a porcelain doll and passive - austere, even...but what about his real self?

We're cleverly prevented from seeing an introductory MV for Luka, as round 4 doesn't happen. And for the subsequent videos, Luka shows himself partially by not disclosing his POV, but showing important sides of himself - the urge to control and the attempts to "become whatever is desired of him". A blank slate.

In a sense, that's implying to me Ivan and Luka's stage presence is an expression of their "inner selves", where their feelings and thoughts become bare. Ivan does so by casting aside his big bro warmth and stepping in as the image of a serious-faced, strongly devoted man that is coming apart at the seams with the weight of his immaturity, sadness, love and obsession.

Luka's stage presence is a distant cry from his image of passiveness and class behind the scenes. On stage, he is a seasoned performer and a calculating prince that enjoys pulling the strings to reach the ideal performance as seen in his inner world. He cunningly displays a different expression between the audience and his partners to achieve the ideal results. Luka acts like both a director and an actor while performing, in order to construct his vision - He's bold, confident and invades people's personal spaces.

(What a condescending little shit. I love him. His expression seems to be saying something like..."Done already? Hmph. I expected more of you. You need to do something for me to do my part and shine, too."

A point I theorize about Ruler of My Heart - Hyuna says in the artbook, I think, that Mizi reminds her of herself. Luka would be able to pick up on that also, especially since Mizi had just been broken by the loss of the one she loved most and formerly had that spark of "hope and dreaming high" in her eyes. Luka may have chosen the song specifically to have Mizi recreate the "role of Hyuna" envisioned for it - as in, he never expected her to be obedient at all. He was riling her up to feel what Hyuna might have responded like to this song. But the Hyuna in his idealization is probably "blazing, absolute and strong" - instead of shutting down and giving up singing. Mizi lets herself get intimidated by his provocation into silence, but when she loses it to punch him in the face with no regard for the consequences - like Hyuna surely would do - is when he finally smirks. It's also a mockery of letting emotions take her over, securing his win and further reinforcing he is "in the right". )

Another interesting tidbit is that Luka's personality isn't of the ethereal "pitiful-but-nice" character, but rather something that "fits VIVINOS taste". He is also compared frequently to Ivan in personality/mindset, who is described as a "bad boy" with a possessive/manipulative streak. If the sides of Ivan we get to see that related to Till are fairly tame and the team worries so much about contrast, that seems to imply that Luka embraces the more extreme parts left out of Ivan.

Even more interesting than that is the core of Luka's character inspiration - "the little prince", which I assume most people have read before. It's a children's book about an adult meeting a little prince from space and basically sharing life lessons.

If we look a little beyond the "cute blond kid"/moon motif...the most striking aspect about the Little Prince is probably the idea of the rose and the fox. The immature prince is taught the concept of love and responsibility by a wild fox - that to tame someone is to make them unique, and it's the time spent nurturing that love that makes it precious. The prince had been frustrated by a Rose he thought he loved, but grew annoyed by because he could not understand her. He also was confused upon realizing there were many roses in the universe, but his was too selfish and flawed. So is she not as unique as he thought? He starts missing the rose, and learns that there IS a difference - none of the roses are "his" or sound like "his" - because if they have tamed each other, going forward, he isn't just any little boy to his rose anymore - he is "the" boy, and she is "the" rose, unique in the universe.

This feels extremely relevant to a character presented as a "product" of gene editing and, basically, being created in a lab. The implication to me is that there may be many other "Luka"-like humans - the vast array of congenital diseases he manifests such as heart disease, Raynaud syndrome, asthma and chronic migraine all make him sound like their universe's equivalent of a white pug dog with dubious origins to boot.

What makes that test tube baby, raised by a ruthless alien that doesn't care about him as more than a way to vicariously live a life of success and luxury, unique in that case?

Love.

And my take is that, the fox and rose to his little prince are the siblings Hyun Woo and Hyuna.

(I'm suddenly reminded of the Vanitas no Carte Louis-Domi-Noé trio. Why do those never end well?)

IMO the rift created between Hyuna's brother and Luka wasn't necessarily there from the start. Before getting more strongly attached or opening up to Hyuna, Luka looks extremely detached. Hyuna's brother looked like the picture of excitement and youth, so it feels like he could have reached out to the quiet boy first and Hyuna tagged along. The settings mention something along the lines of Hyuna not quite being the origin of the "dreamer" outlook, but being inspired by her brother, and I can picture it.

Hyuna's MV All in and her relationship with Mizi painted to me the picture of a girl that is naturally attractive - her drive and sunny disposition are simply dazzling. But, underneath, there seems to be "something" doesn't it? I think Hyuna's charm comes from a mix of strength and vulnerability. She seems like the type of person to cope with humor and being flirty in order to lift people's moods and surprise them, but Hyuna herself can have quite heavy and serious feelings. The somber look suits her, and it's overall impressive that she didn't completely break because of her brother. It's like her innate talent for performing draws people to her, but at the same time she can sustain an illusion of "closeness", her true worries and wounds are kept deep inside and she doesn't let others truly see into her.

So.

What's shown in Blink Gone to me is that Luka's not merely surviving a death game, he is enjoying the show and trying to feel alive. To someone like him that probably already feels dead inside all the time and was "abandoned" by Hyuna, there is nothing much to look forward to. We don't know what happened between Hyuun Woo's death and their first alien stage run (quite a lot, since Hyuna even lost a leg) ot the timing of their relationship fall out. Given their memories and image of eachother, it does seem to be implied they were already going separate ways right after the incident.

It's likely that what connects Luka to Hyuna's memory the most is the feeling of performing itself - the one time he gets to be free. Luka acts like he is superior to the other pet humans for having "figured out" the system and feeding into it, and looks down on them for having no control over their emotions. But does he really have total control over his own?

In spite of all the abuse he embraced as his own will or believing he could truly get any power by playing the game according to its rules and "overcoming fear", someone as unpredictable and impulsive as Till is the natural enemy of someone like Luka. He had the upper hand as long as it stayed within his plan, but Till suddenly going as far as going back to the green light indicator was worrisome. Luka's Stamina is actually rather crappy, so if Till did decide to go all out, he might have been cooked.

I think, to Luka, it's probably about more than keeping himself alive. And Till flipping the game then would have made him waste his life on a performance that was supposed to be easy -and- it must be annoying that Till strayed off-script. My hypothesis is that he wants to reach out to Hyuna, still - either by increasing the influence of humans to shift the world closer to the one she envisioned, or by putting his life in the line at the stage as many times as possible to feel the "weight" of her presence as if she still were by his side or to grow so famous that she cannot ignore or escape him.

Deliciously hypocritical of him to look down on others so much, when Hyuna's unannounced presence shook him so badly he turned his back to the stage and stared at her with an expression we'd never seen before.

My take is that her walking in like this is seriously the worst scenario to him. Luka expresses in the artbook that he pities Hyuna and that her safety would have been guaranteed with him, so - because of his influence - I think he might actually have gone to the Alien Stage again to secure his power status AND request to keep Hyuna out of it. A condescending sort of domestication we know she would hate, but would keep her safe.

But see. Even if she wasn't under his care, being out there causing a ruckus is one thing - she's alive and kicking, not really in the slaughterhouse. He can live with that. So, he sings to his heart's content. And...

His sneering that people are suuuch rookies at controlling their emotions...

Sooo weak to let their emotions and regrets dominate them and make them lose sight of the stage, compared to his Super Competent self that can overcome fear and control his own heart rate...

All came back to bite him in the ass, like an idiot.

All other characters were pitted against their worst case nightmare scenario, and I doubt the Prince will be an exception. I really don't think his type of obsessive is wanting to be superior to or beat Hyuna at performing either, even if it's his guardian's mindset (it seems Heperu feels inferior to Hyuna's guardian and adopted Luka simply as a means of beating him - so seems very possible he will push for having the two face off and prove Luka's "superiority").

No matter what he does now, it's either Hyuna against Mizi at the risk of death or Hyuna against him. Hyuna's a wanted criminal - there is absolutely no talking a way out of that one. Not only that, Hyuna's bleeding from her wound already. Luka facing against Hyuna as the second time champion would mean being forced to choose - keep rulling the stage, or chose the one who was his guiding light in the first place?

The imagery from the sweet dream opening (as well as Luka having covered that song) is "release" - Luka dying at Hyuna's hand even if it's not something she can truly do with pleasure, no matter how much she copes with her past wounds by hating him. I wonder if it's a red herring or if it will play out, I particularly want whatever will allow to explore their character, feelings and motivation the deepest.

I don't think Hyuna wandered onto the stage for his sake - it seems like it's for Mizi, who is completely frozen. Hyuna probably has up until now coped with hating Luka because he represented everything she was rebelling against - the "system" itself. A nasty cog in the engine of the aliens who, even if not directly, ultimately were the cause of the entire context that stripped her away of her freedom and lead to her precious brother's death.

However...

My guess to what's happening here isn't "wow your outfit is so slutty" or "you've grown". It's more like...Luka suddenly looks too human.

He wasn't supposed to.

...Phew. That's all for now. The ADHD gets strong when I'm talking about something that tickles my brain, so I hope that wasn't too messy/unintelligible to follow with the back and forth jumping timelines or repeating points of interest I did.

Well! I really, really wish there was more for me to keep going, but for now I'll live with overthinking with what we have. I might do separate analysis/speculation for the MVs if I have a deadline I'm procrastinating on come up the time.

Bottom line is, I think all those characters are very interesting, but Hyuluka are the ones I'm rotating like a rotisserie chicken in my mind. Plz hurt me more VIVINOS team and thanks for the good fucking food

[stolensorrow]

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭... ☄. *. ⋆

[PT: You are my Black Sorrow, and you stole my heart...]

Hello! My name is Ivan and I am the actor for IVAN in the series ALIEN STAGE! I was part of an idol group with Luka before becoming an actor (with him, funnily enough) for ALNST!

I may have PR manage a few things here and there, but I will interact with you all openly! I promise I'm nice :)

General rule of thumb: I may be an adult, but please refrain from being overly explicit in my inbox, I understand I have fans that are... a bit intense, and that's... fine... just tone it down a little bit? I also believe that there are still minors on this app, so be mindful of that, too.

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐬:

[PT: Featured Tags]

# ☄. *. ⋆ meteor shower - my general thoughts

# ˚��· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ fanmail - anything from my inbox/askbox

# ੈ✩‧₊˚ reblogs - anything i RB without comments

# ੈ✩‧₊˚ idle chatter - talking with my fellow coworkers!

# ੈ✩‧₊˚ lights, camera, action! - lit and/or semi-lit rp!!

# ੈ✩‧₊˚ fanart - any fanart that I recieve (any art that I draw for this blog will also be tagged with this.)

# ੈ✩‧₊˚ PR team - the mod that runs this account! anything ooc or disclaimers, etc, will be tagged w this! PR will always be colored blue italics <3

PR Team: Hello everynyan, I am @verdantlights !! I run this blog along the Isaac, Dewey, and Ivan ( @ivan-alnst ) blogs! I am an adult, and I use zey/hy. If neither of those work for you, I use he/it as well. Please be mindful of sending weird things as stated above! I am not afraid to turn off anon asks!

Mod is autistic and will be playing Ivan as such! Keep that in mind <3

[fujonaldsmanager]

Taglist ☆ ～('▽^人)

#🧸 - mostly plushies, sometimes other types of toys

#🧸💟 - same as the tag above, but these ones are very lovely

#🌧️🫧🪐 - sensory media, stimboards

#🐳🪸 - ocean-ish themed posts

#🍮 - food

#🌐 - webcore-ish themed posts

#🐬 - ocean-ish water/similar liquids (biased!)

#🎆 - posts containing videogames-related content

#🍀 - clover

#🌼🌫️🌟🌾╰(´︶`)╯ - very specific feeling-tag, hahaha

#🌴 🌤️ - tropical-natureposting

#🌴 🌤️🐚 - tropical.. trinkets

#☁️ - clouds!

#🌠 - star-shaped posting

#🍓 - strawberryposting

#🌾🍂 - nature

#🖇️ - objects

#🏡 - architecture

#🍥 - figurines

#🧼 - cleancore-related posts

#🐚 - clothes of all kind!

#📺 - (mostly human) photography

#🎧☆ - music i like!

#🧮✴ - original art reblogs

#☆ - GTBSBE-related media

#✿ - hannahxxrose (Twitch streamer, big fan!)

#HxH - "HunterxHunter"

#2ha - "Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun"

#SVSSS - "Scum Villain's Self-Saving System"

#SNSD - Girls' Generation, k-pop group

#Hyoyeon - Kim Hyoyeon

#IVE - k-pop group

#Wonyoung - Jang Wonyoung

#Doko Demo Issyo

#Peanuts - comic strip

#Snoopy - character from Peanuts

#Fear and Hunger

#ALNST - "Alien Stage" (web series)

#jjk - "Jujutsu Kaisen"

#Sweet Pool

#MGS - Metal Gear Solid videogame series

[sotogalmo]

7:14

19 hours and 6 minutes long / Title is a lyric taken from "Moonlit Bear" by Mothy/Akuno-P, when Eve (Miku) comes back to the shack and meets back with Adam, and it's also when Adam (KAITO) started to say something to her (icon is not my art)

Standalone playlist for Pale, who's an oc of my mine in Toxic Ysosu— along with @tsukacchako 's Theo and @astoryofsuchwoe 's Vic

Pale is a member of AREPH.

[astoryofsuchwoe]

I WANTED TO. MAKE A GOOFY SETUP AND TAKEDOWN ANIMATIC(?). SO HERE WE ARE. in my head this would be a "promo" video that turns into them goofing off

apologies for the tags/lh

nausikaa; @rockwgooglyeyes / itsaso; @lookatmysillies / felix, bastienne, orian, yuuki; @sotogalmo / cindy; @tsukacchako / minerva; @cloverandstuff / token; @kyokills / vic, trix; me

[neverforgetyou]

Can't Get Out of This Mood

It’s been years since I’ve seen someone who shines as bright as her. Nothing in my head makes sense these days, but looking at her makes it all go away. 

She spends most of her time in her room/office, fixing and creating things out of scraps of metal. I have to pass by it when I head to and from my room so I always see her through the crack of the open door, a faint blush on her cheeks and her lips curved into a small smile as she works on another project. My heart beats faster every time I see it.

Sometimes she’s in the kitchen when I go to get myself some food. It takes every ounce of courage in my body to not run out of the room, her beauty is too hard for me to handle. 

The most we do is wave to each other or give each other a passing nod. I want to do more, at least say hi to the woman, but my nerves stop me every time. She’s just … so bright.

I’ve never felt this way before. The movies I used to watch with Guardian Thalynora described it as butterflies in my stomach, but it's more like knives stabbing my chest and bees buzzing in my head. Those liars. But somehow, the buzzing and the stabbing feels pleasant.

I like to create music, I always have and I always will. When I get overwhelmed like this, I like to write. I can’t explain it, but things are easier to understand when they’re notes on a page. After I write I play. The keyboard Vic gave me isn’t much, not as great as the piano’s I’ve worked on, but it’s still something.

While working on a piece one day, I realized something: creating out of metal for her is like creating music for me. Then, it all fell into place, the final piece of the puzzle revealed the picture. I knew what I had to do. I spent the next few days walking around the base, tapping on all different kinds of metals and taking notes of the sound and pitch. The bees turned into butterflies as I worked, excited to finally take things a step forward. I’m doing it!!

I then put those sounds into a song. What was the message of the song? Don’t ask me, I couldn’t tell you. I didn’t even know what I was really doing, I just let my heart make the music. 

I take a deep breath after I finish, smiling at the sheet music in my hand. My feet move before my brain even registers it, making my way towards her room. My cheeks get redder and redder as I realize what I’m doing. But I can’t stop now, I’m so close!

When I reach her room, I take a deep breath. Ok I take 5 deep breaths. My heart is beating so fast and it just can’t seem to stop.

“Cindy?” I hear a voice call out behind me, smooth as butter. 

I flinch and turn around, my cheeks bright red. “Y-Yuuki! Hi!” my high pitched voice echoes throughout the hall. Damn voice, embarrassing me in front of the girl of my dreams!!!! “I-uh-I have something for, um, for you.”

She giggles at my stuttering and nods, opening the door to her room and entering. I follow and close the door behind me. I’ve seen her room through the crack of the open door for so long, it feels like a dream to finally be in here.

“So, what is it?” She asks, sitting down on her bed.

I stand in front of her awkwardly, holding my keyboard and my sheet music. “Um.. Can I.. um … play something .. for you? Please?” I can’t look her in the eye, I’m too embarrassed.

She giggles again at my embarrassment, “oo sure, go ahead.”

I nod and sit next to her on her bed. I set up and start playing. Honestly I blacked out, just letting the music guide me. When I finish, I take a deep breath and look at her. She has a faint blush on her cheeks and her lips curved into a small smile.

“That was beautiful.”

I blush more, looking away. “Thank you ….” After a few seconds, I look back at her and hold my hand out, dropping my sheet music onto the floor. “Cindy.”

She looks at my hand and giggles before taking it. “Yuuki. But we’ve already introduced ourselves.”

I smile and shrug, chuckling. “I know, I just felt like doing it again.”

After that, I made sure to say hi to Yuuki every day, building up the courage to eventually ask her to hang out and then eventually ask her out. I can’t let some other hottie snatch her up! It'll be a hard process, but it’ll be worth it.

It’s been years since I’ve felt this way, this childlike happiness and sense of purpose. Thank you Yuuki, thank you.

yuuki by @sotogalmo

[tsukacchako]

Me and My Broken Heart

Trix and Vic by @astoryofsuchwoe

[lookatmysillies]

wanted to ask somehhing about. areph. becuase sirius could join them perhaps perchance mayhapssssss BUT. her main thing is mostly using people for their experiments regarding humans and other living things which areph may not? really? enjoy? like imagine getting a pet human back only for their body to be preserved with a plant growing out of their back i think that’s a bit uh. yeah. what does areph do exactly when they catch pet humans? and like what are their goals and such? how do they treat captured pet humans? if any of that has been stated before IM SORRY MY MEMORY IS HORRIBLEEEEEE

NO WORRIES I GOTCHU

Essentially their primary goal when capturing escaped pet humans is to return them to their owners—most of the time. Pet humans are captured, conditioned under wraps into more obedient behavior (they don’t like the t word around this workplace! torture. it’s torture) chipped for easy tracking in case they do escape again, then returned. If they’ve simply been found off the streets with no one claiming ownership, they typically clean them up a bit and socialize them before sending them off to a shelter for adoption. Under rare circumstances they may keep the humans for guard training.

That’s their standard procedure, however, there is a way Sirius can fit into this. Extremely high profile escaped pet humans who are a known danger to alien society are not returned or sent to a shelter—not like anyone would want those ones anyway. Like the “conditioning” only higher ups know about this, but these “throw away” pets are often taken into the deepest level of the AREPH facility for advanced interrogation and experimentation. Seems right up Sirius’s alley 😃👍

[seaajellies]

Intro!! _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):

Hii, my names Ruby!! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)

I don’t know what to post so.. here’s an intro instead!!

My interests:

Zeno Remake ☆

Precure ☆

Hypnosis mic ☆

Your turn to die ☆

Project sekai ☆

Splatoon ☆

Evangelion ☆

Toilet bound hanako kun ☆

Shoujo mangas ☆

Sonic the hedgehog ☆

Wadanohara ☆

Persona (4+5) ☆

Identity V ☆

Vocaloid ☆

Ranfren ☆

And loads of other stuff that I can’t actually remember right now!!

My favourite music artists!! :

Chappell roan ☆

Ado ☆

Kyururin te Shitemite ☆

Phantom Siita ☆

Mitski ☆

New jeans ☆

Le Sserafim ☆

Dazey and the scouts ☆

All the pjsk groups ☆

All hypmic divisions ☆

Alien stage songs ☆

Unichord ☆

For Tracy Hyde ☆

Lovesick ☆

I also like a lot of other groups/songs but I don’t know enough songs to be considered a fan!! I don’t know what I’ll post here but I like reblogging stuff!

My favourite characters include: Ada Mesmer, Rei Ayanami, Kaworu Nagisa, Nene Yashiro, Yuki Machida, Megurine Luka, Sara Chidouin Akutagawa Ryuunosuke and shadow the hedgehog (๑╹ω╹๑ )