#irken society/ culture is so interesting to me i wish we saw more of it

[satirn]

what if in irken society, the pak would represent life and morality? seeing that irkens can only survive 10 minutes without it, and its assumingly a irken-only invention and can be connected to the tallest/armada as a whole. the pak can physically embody irk and its beliefs, beliefs that while morally bad to us and most of the universe, are morally good to people of irk. so, believing that irk even has the arts, the pak can share the same symbolic properties as the human figure, heart, or brain in earth’s culture art stuff. someone please make a irken verison of the creation of adam painting.

this was a conversation i had with a discord friend of mine but i think a tall tale they may have because of this is a pakless irken. in my headcanons, irkens are much more relient on their paks then they let on, we get a glimpse of this in ten minutes to doom. i like to imagine that the paks help regulate their breathing and circulatory system, taking over certain organ functions [i headcanon that irkens dont actually grow certain organs necessary to function separated with the pak, mostly the irken equivalent to the liver and pancreas and half of lung function.]. The reason they die in 10 minutes is because their circulatory system physically cannot circulate to their brain efficiently enough without the pak’s assistance.

so, an irken being capable to be independent from the thing actively keeping them alive is a different kind of horror. its like they're dead, but  somehow they’re still standing.