#but PLleeease I wanna know ideas people have about this so bad

[ratcandy]

Under the cut:

Stray spoilers, trypophobia, potential scopophobia, body horror

Okay guys I know we don’t want to talk about the sewers but can we also talk about the sewers

I am a lover of body horror and freaky shit so when I saw all the awful terrible giant eyeballs all over the walls I was like WOAHH HI THERE but my next question is. W. Well. Gestures at the giant eyeballs. Why are they here

The Zurks we’ve been given an explanation on - man-made bacteria intended to manage waste just kinda evolved and screwed everyone over - but the. The eyes. We’re given no explanation on the awful eye hivemind. After we get out of the sewers, the zurks themselves are hardly brought up again, let alone the . the giant eyeball hivemind

An article I found suggests that the eyeball mass is a “mutated” form of Zurks, which... I can understand why, especially given that the sewers are a sort of hive or nest for Zurks, and the eyes themselves react when releasing these awful little bacteria things, but... at the same time. I mean.

Here are close-up Zurks:

(courtesy of this reddit post)

And here are the eyes:

Outside of the fact the eyes “birth” Zurks or act as a controlling force over them, there’s no visual similarities at all to suggest they’re the same... “creature.” The Zurks’ eyes are glowing yellow bulbs, while these eyes are... eyes. Just red eyes, with clear pupils and no glow to them.

Do I know then what they COULD be? Honestly, while I have a few theories, no - I haven’t the faintest idea what they could actually be. But I really wanna open the discussion on this because I want to hear what other people think. If other people want to discuss this at all, that is, as unfortunately (for me) a lot of people seem to be skirting around talking about the sewers sghksjdh

I mean it makes sense that the most condensed population of these terrible little creatures would be the darkest area, as UV rays are what destroys them, but at the same time I just. Did thousands if not millions of Zurks all congeal together, and that’s what made these eye walls? Did another bacteria interact with and form a symbiotic relationship with the Zurks, mutating them both? Seeing as this is the sewers, did a bunch of radioactive waste or something end up down there, leaving the zurks/any other wildlife that managed to refuge there to just. Suffer the consequences of it?

Were these an early, failed version of the bacteria that eventually created the zurks? And that bacteria had to mutate in order to make the bacteria that in and of itsELF would then mutate to make Zurks? OR am I just going down A RABBITHOLE now,

But then we get around to the fact that there’s one MAIN eye. There’s a “final boss” eye. What’s up with THAT? Does it actually function like a hive? Is there a “Queen” merged in with all the rest of it? So many questions I wanna know the answers to so badly.