#praetomorph

[edrawings]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲...

[julianobungus]

I absolutely love the Covenant Xeno design.

[spockvarietyhour]

miniature baby

[julianobungus]

I love this incarnation, fr

[feral-lore-creature]

I'm admittedly one of those fans that refuses to believe David 8 created the Xenomorph. Reverse engineered? Sure! I can believe that. The Praetomorph and Deacon classifications exist for a reason. People keep fucking with the thing.

I like to think the Engineers ran into the XX121 naturally, fucked around with their genetic material, and found out the hard way. David played god because he wanted to.

Also, the idea of nature on any celestial body being so inherently volatile to the point of creating the XX121 naturally is a fuck-ton more terrifying than any "false-god hubris" philosophical concept.

I guess maybe I'm a little more into the Sci-Fi side of things than the gore LMAO.

[indigosfindings]

anyway. facehugger > the spores from covenant > dog xenomorph > neomorph > vanilla xenomorph > trilobite > offspring > engineers > deacon > praetomorph > xenomorph queen > newborn

[fanofspooky]

Alien Covenant

[geekgemsspooksandtoons]

Dude looks like he's posing for a raw poster or something. And I dig that.

ODD STUDIO shared never before seen pic from Alien: Covenant Xenomorph suit.

[beyondthecosmicvoid]

Video: "Praetomorph Explored / Alien Covenant Xeno"

Definitely praetomorph since it isn't yet the monstrous biomechanical beauty of H. R. Giger. I still think that the Xenos aren't David's creation. The new comics from Marvel and the novelization of Covenant signal to the creature being something far ancient and mysterious which is the equivalent to Promethean fire. Either way, I liked the protomorph design. But of course, the Xeno is my ultimate favorite.

I think the praetomorph was David's attempt at perfecting the Xenomorph strain. David does have a God complex so it makes sense.

For all of the notorious advantages of the protomorph, as you just pointed out, it does have significant disadvantage like it bring fragile in some parts due to it not being biomechanical.

[kadkadduwa]

david and the praetomorph

[julianobungus]

Looking back at it all now, I genuinely believe that the Deacon is the natural form of the xenomorph - prior to any genetic manipulation that took place. The Engineers just held the animal in high regard.

In an act of creation, David would attempt to recreate this beast, birthing the perfected Alien we all know.

[lovelywingsart]

Another quick info dump before I finally get to working on art because I've been doing nothing but watching movies since yesterday to chill out my brain a bit and this does have to do with Emelia, as usual, so fun brain-dump info under the cut

I started watching the Alien movies(chronologically, of course) and had a small revelation during Alien Covenant-

I figured out precisely how Emelia moves when fully mutated 👀

Mix Nemesis phase 2 from the Resi3 remake and the Xenomorph specifically from Covenant (called the Praetomorph/Protomorph technically)

So a mix of this bastard

And THIS motherfucker

Because its not Resident Evil without a four legged, animalistic creature that moves like a spider on fucking steroids in an already tight, somewhat dark space. //I mean, come on... in THOSE hallways and tunnels?? Claustrophobia and Nyctophobia be damned, I'd die on the SPOT. No thank you, goodbye, that white mist is my spirit leaving my body.//

Since I can't really animate much myself(though I might try in the future for her... maybe. I only do small ones right now), I figure visuals might help... they sure as hell help me when trying to describe it. 😂 I also feel like any 'description' of mine doesn't really do it justice, and I can only sketch out so much... So yeah, have fun with those visuals!! It is now art time. uwu

[00097521135]

kiko vs praetomorph <3

[julianobungus]

This is how I see the evolutionary lineage of the Alien, as portrayed in total by the films:

Deacon -> Neomorph -> Praetomorph -> Xenomorph

With the Deacon being the natural, unaltered form of the Starbeast, and later iterations being increasingly altered and adapted.

[julianobungus]

I wish Ridely Scott had been able to finish his prequel series.

[julianobungus]

I absolutely love the Covenant xenomorph design.