#star;hyuna

[solid-lukie]

Hello lukie followers curious to know if anyone would commission me here r just examples I have varying art styles too for some variety, I have a more painted style if thats to your liking or a more bright and cutesy one. These r just some examples. Obviously nothing is open yet but im just curious if anyone would be interested in a commission from me in the future? Plsss let me know

[spoonful-of-citrus-flowers]

ALNST FINAL ROUND META

(aka a major point of ALNST is love for others, actually) [ALNST Spoilers!!]

After watching and (being devastated by) the ALNST final round, I ended up being able to finalize some thoughts I’d had since first watching the beginning of the series. (If you are in the process of watching ALNST and/or haven’t seen the final round, do NOT click the keep reading - warning again that there are spoilers.)

With the final fates of Till and Luka, it really exemplifies the theme that single-minded focus on winning in a brutal system like this ensures you survive, but at what cost?

Although he won season 49 of ALNST (and now season 50), all Luka can do is prey on the affection his opponents (Mizi, Till) had for others who lost their rounds (Sua, Ivan) by mimicking their mannerisms. He's never going to escape the fucked up world of ALNST in any meaningful way since he destroyed what was meaningful to him (Hyuna, by way of likely killing her brother).

Those of the main cast who died (Sua, Ivan, Till), in contrast, cared more about one another than they really did surviving. (Mizi did, as well, but for the purposes of this meta, I’m going to focus on those three). Sua sacrificed herself for Mizi, not knowing if Mizi would survive for very long after her death, but she still wanted to give Mizi a little longer to live, because she loved Mizi. Sua even went so far as to try to hide the truth from Mizi about what ALNST actually was (and that the loser in each round would be killed) just to keep Mizi blissfully unaware. The same goes for Ivan. I'd actually argue even more so because whoever won their (semi-final) round would for sure go against Luka. And I also think Ivan knew (no matter who won) that they wouldn't win against Luka. I mean, everyone SAW how Luka messed with Mizi in round 5. But he loved Till and wanted him to survive, even if just a little bit longer.

Till, until he saw Mizi once again in this final round, didn’t really care about surviving (as round 6 proved, since he stopped singing in order to get eliminated). Even in the final round, his will was still depleted (and he was physically exhausted, since it was a few hours since round 6 considering that Hyuna is still injured) – one could argue he performed more to honor Ivan’s sacrifice and to grieve/remember them (as Luka immediately noticed when Till began to put more energy into singing). In the end, Sua, Ivan, and Till all died. But although it caused a lot of heartache, the love/affection the four had for each other didn't amount to nothing – it allowed at least one of them (Mizi) to finally be free of ALNST. (Yes, I think Mizi does manage to escape afterwards, due to the visual parallel between her grief in round 1 and now – except now, she no longer has a collar). With all that said, it’s no accident that, in the shot where Mizi is comforting Till in his last moments, Luka is visible...but he’s utterly alone. As the now-victor of two ALNST seasons, he casts a long shadow, but there's no one there for him anymore. Hyuna is not approaching him despite being on stage as well (and likely dying, based on her injury).

[pandelacreme]

at first glance i thought the fixation on till’s neck was a sly joke about a/b/o, a genre heavily based in bl works, in the same cheeky way ivan’s name is a play on korean lgbt slang.

but the recurring motif of strangulation, how till's relationships (excluding his infatuation with mizi) are largely characterized with him being the object while the other is the subject; how him being on a leash, not just a collar, is quite literally one of his defining visual traits...

it reminds me of shakespeare's othello, where the titular character strangles his wife to death in a fit of jealousy over her alleged infidelity... the results of round 6 almost feel like a subversion of that play, where the leading artwork, esp the red one, seemed to suggest that ivan would strangle till in an act of possession, but it ended up as just the opposite.

but i wonder if there's more symbolism we can extrapolate if we hypothesize that some of the imagery are allegories to othello...

[shakingparadigm]

my personal guesses on the popularity rankings of the main 6:

1. Luka (undisputed)

2. Ivan

3. Sua (almost tied with Ivan)

4. Till (offset by his amount of haters)

5. Mizi

6. Hyuna

[uh-oh-its-bird]

Alien stage / Starwars crossover where a very traumatized and very angry Till escapes the stage and gets tangled up in the clone wars. I want him to beat a sith half to death w a guitar.

[illustrationist-of-the-stars]

...Ehe?

*Throws Alien Stage x Honkai Star Rail AU concept/character design sketches at you and leaves* 🚪🏃‍♀️💨

Oh! Luka is a Halovian and Till's a Sigoni in this AU cause....cause why not? (Totally not in relation to anything no sire) Anyways,

[shuuuya]

Alien stage fans when there's an alien (clearly luka) (jk hes my fav..) on the stage or smth idk i never watched

[bringmebrightness]

The way Luka is cool as a cucumber the whole round, manipulates Till with ease and is even giggling when Till falls for it, and then when Hyuna shows up...

Stunned into silence, not gesturing to the crowd anymore, not soaking in his win, just staring. Absolutely floored.

What's his win, compared to the one thing he wants?

(Not to mention, she's hurt right in front of him.)

[sotogalmo]

12:09

North Star Hyuna

Shepard Luka

[mizistars]

Mizi has been going to this school as long as you have. She’s easily excitable and bubbly, but really needs to get her grades up if she doesn’t wanna be held back... But hey, at least she’ll do your hair for you!

── ⟡ This is a literate rp highschool AU portrayal of Mizi from Alien Stage, rules and extras listed under the cut.

No harassment or heavy spam of any kind. You will be blocked immediately, and I am not afraid to turn off anon asks if push comes to shove.

Interactions with canon ALNST characters, other AU’s, or ocs— are heavily encouraged!

No NSFW. Mild flirting with Mizi is okay, but no promises she’ll flirt back. Please refrain from any flirting or shipping if you are over 18, as mod (and the character in this specific AU) is a minor.

If you’d like to plan out a roleplay or ask about AU lore, my DMs are open, but please refrain from DMing otherwise! (EX: I likely won’t reply if you just message “hello”)

Feel free to claim an anon if you are reoccurring here!

⋆˙ Have fun!

[grand-army-radio]

This one goes out to the 501st.

[librarisxng]

NINE MUSES ARE COMING BACK!

[unshallow-feelings]

look, unshallow feelings, it's a shooting star go make a wish !!!

I WISH FOR EVERYONE TO BE ALIVE AND HAPPY AND ALSO TILL SINGING BLACK SORROW COVER PLEASE AND THANK YOU

[alienssstufff]

aliens stages

[HYUNA] all her canon art has triangular features like Till, I made them slightly softer here. I also wanted to make the colour of her eyes this glassy far-away look to counter Luka’s

[LUKA] Messy, lots of waves (and a halo shine) to counter Hyuna’s shapes. He got bedroom eyes that look like headlights he’s kind of intimidating that way. There’s a bit of purple gradient for his condition.

[TILL] POINTY. The intense glare in his eyes are his best feature. The red pupils a homage to Round 2 and Round 6.

[IVAN] a neatly kept squareee, his canon design has such a defined jawline. Has a star shine reference to the sky from Black Sorrow. I like the little rhinestone sequins they put on him in that one photoshoot. His eyes remind me of cameras.

[SUA] she’s the first alnst I’ve ever drawn actually. Moon shine to match Ivan’s they are similar in a way but not. Roundest face with the prettiest eyes imo.

[MIZI] Wavy hair like jellyfish and the tinge of purple highlights . Epitome of 🥹 emoji. Her canon design has really long lashes.

[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

[verdantlights]

Thoughts/Analysis Part 2 (but its coherent)

OKay so i slept (finally) after staying up since wednesday morning and only getting roughly 5 hours of sleep in total?? until I finally managed to get decent hours of sleep last night. anyways. i am still not normal in the slightest over round 7 but i have many more thoughts, am a lot more coherent, and have had it swimming in my head for a while.

TW for mentions of drug use. I'm gonna start with Luka. I've stated in the edit I made of the original post as well as in a few reblogs, but Luka is a victim. A lot of people are Luka haters, and that's valid! I am also, to an extent, a Luka hater.... even if I have a thing for blonde twinks with issues. But his character is also incredibly interesting. If you are familiar with Honkai: Star Rail, then you might understand what I'm saying when I think Luka is a combination of both Sunday AND Robin. He has the trapped bird in a cage mentality from Robin with the need for order and control mentality from Sunday. Order and control referring to winning being the only thing keeping his sanity in check.

Luka, as a human pet, is aware that he is playing a losing game. He needs to win, but he knows that winning Season 50 is not the end. He may have won against Till, but now the segyein are going to put him against Hyuna, considering Hyuna and Mizi were referred to as special guests. The way he looked at Hyuna in that last scene was part of him realizing this. It's the face you pull when you realize something horrible, but you need to keep face/keep your composure.

Their ear pieces are similar to their collars in that they show the emotions of the wearer. We can clearly see Till's earpiece glowing red the entire time (up until Mizi appears), and Luka's is constantly glowing green. Luka was seen in hysterics pretty much the entire time like the one frame where he's holding in his laughter.

Luka was drugged on something that makes him euphoric and lose his sense of control, like weed or cocaine. He found fucking with Till to be the funniest thing ever, but it's not normal for Luka to be so outwardly expressive of his elation. We know he enjoyed fucking with Mizi, even if it let to getting his ass beat, but even then, he wasn't as expressive then as he was with Till. That leads me to believe that he has something in his system to heighten his emotional output as well as some sort of adrenaline drug like what Till was most likely given.

What bugs me is that they don't show us what color his earpiece is as he looks at Hyuna. We see Till's earpiece turn green at Mizi, but does Luka's stay green as he looks at Hyuna? I feel it was orange, but that's just me.

Luka now knows what's about to happen, which is also why Hyuna tries to stop Mizi. Hyuna knew the whole time that if they were to save Till, they'd be walking straight into the trap. Mizi's heart is too kind and she's desperate to save Till.

Thankfully, what Hyuna had gone there for originally seems to be completed. Whatever files she was downloading was complete before she went after Mizi, and I think that's where were gonna see Issac and Dewey again. I think she might've been uploading those files to them so that they can take the lead from there. This leads me to my prediction for the next episode. (ill get to till last, hes my little meow meow and im not normal about him)

I don't think Blink Gone is done. I believe there is a part two to the Finals, and that round 7 wasn't even the final round. I've already stated that the most likely thing to happen next is Luka v Hyuna, but then I also talked about Issac and Dewey.

Hyuna could have gotten her hands on high profile data regarding Alien Stage. She sends the data to Dewssac, and they shut down the stage from the inside, allowing the resistance to come in and do a massive sweep, hopefully before either Hyuna, Luka, or Mizi dies.

Now, as for Mizi. We know Mizi is the main character, and there are people who are saying Till's death boosts her hero arc. Now there are two ways I see this happening, either:

Vivinos keeps up their streak of tragedy and kills off everyone, leaving Mizi isolated entirely.

Or someone (dewssac, hyuna, mizi, maybe even luka) pull through and live to save more people.

If it's the first one, Till is dead dead. If the second, Till has a chance at being alive.

There are many reasons why Till is most likely alive, and as a hopeful feeler... I also am clinging onto the more hopeful ending (the second option). Not just because "Haha guys I need Till to be alive, he's my bias" but also because seeing Mizi completely isolated and forced to fake a smile and perform would absolutely fucking destroy me and I don't think I'd ever be the same after that, honestly. Like that genuinely scares me.

There's the narrative of ALNST and vivimeng's beautiful storytelling. That is my number one hopeful reasoning for Till being alive. If Till dies here, it would be utterly nonsensical and it would ruin the narrative. It would completely void all of Ivan's character, for starters. I was just talking about this with @rockwgooglyeyes and Vant (idt they wanna be tagged here), but Ivan's character is static. He is not dynamic or fluid, but he is extraordinarily complex which makes up for it. He never really had an arc of his own unless you count what happened in his past during/before being bought by Unsha. His death is meant to haunt the narrative, meant to haunt Till. So why would he die, only for Till to die a few hours later? It would completely ruin what he was meant for and it would be so unsatisfying and bitter.

However, there's also the thematics of ALNST. Rock called out @pwippy for this already, but I'm gonna call them out too because fuck you plip (/j i love you plipster). Rock put it really well in these two excerpts I took from his post:

"Alien Stage is a universe full of suffering and pain for humans, forced to perform until they literally die on stage, all for the entertainment of the audience. It's not even meant as a way of exerting control or oppressing them, though it serves that purpose, because why would the seygein bother to oppress something that can't even fight back? Why go to the trouble of controlling something that is just a pet, whose cries are the fuel for a new age?"

Once again mentioning the Hunger Games because I genuinely can't help myself I love THG way too much, but that's the key difference between ALNST and THG: the human pets aren't being forced to do this because of a past rebellion and are being punished by the oppressing government... They're being thrown into this for fun. Full credit to @alien-til-i-stage who said this as a joke, but it is really fucking real, but the segyein bringing their human pets to watch ALNST in the audience are like people bringing dogs to a dog fight in real life. And that, I fear, puts into perspective as to just how much of a pet the humans are to the segyein. They are only there for entertainment. The resistance is mostly a thorn in their side as of right now (dewey and issac better change that next episode or istg) and killing these humans is simply just fun for them. They know humans can be hostile, just like dogs, but they tame them and make them docile and obedient, only to make them kill each other in the end, even if it's through a singing competition rather than an all out teeth and claws brawl. (except for round 5, that doesnt count)

"In this world of pain and suffering, perhaps death is a mercy. If Till is truly dead, then he no longer a tool for his oppressors, he is free of their control. For Ivan and Sua both of their deaths were mercies to them- Ivan was able to die for the one he loved, as was Sua, and neither of them were forced to live in a world without their beloved."

(thank you rock i love you pookie snookie)

He also mentions that it's not in character for Till to die, which I completely agree with. Till's persona is that of someone who wants to win, but not in the same way Luka needs to win. Till wants to win to live and survive with those he loves, he wants to win to beat the system, but considering how dystopian of a world this is, as much as he wants to win and save Mizi, he craves death as a freedom.

That out of the way, another thing that @junebluues actually got me to think about was this:

The bomb has Till's eyes and is crying as it knows it's going to die (assuming it's a sentient alien like Freddie). And the comparison here honestly opened my eyes a little bit and got me thinking.

Was Till a catalyst? Because that was a smoke bomb. I ended up thinking about it for a minute and came up with three possibilities where Till is a bomb/smoke bomb:

Mizi is using Till to hide her feelings

Till is the bomb that sets off a chain of events

Till is used to hide/cover up the real plan for either the segyein or for the resistance

I don't think it's the first one, I feel like it'd be closer to the other two, but any three of those could work. Because Mizi's feelings of despair over her situation can be hidden behind the hope as she reached out for Till. But as the smoke clears (Till dies) she remembers that it was, in fact, a bomb.

EDIT: Also, the lyric that plays during the smoke bomb scene is "No, don't look back now" which also kinda leads me to believe that Till is the start of a chain/domino effect. Once you knock the first domino, you can't go back.

I think someone somewhere had also talked about Till being forced to be used as a catalyst/bait again considering how well it worked here. There's a good chance Urak might have supplied the drugs to Till and also paid out or WAS paid out by another person to use Till as bait. Urak wouldn't want his pet that he is grossly possessive over to die that easily without every ounce of use being wrung out of him,,, something something Till being a Trojan Horse of sorts (thanks rock for that one, too).

EDIT: I also remembered that during the sequence in the song where the audience is singing the chorus and we see Ivan on the screens, is when Till looks like he's about to pass out. What gets me here is the fact that it is quite literally a chorus of vultures. The audience singing the chorus with images of Ivan surrounding him and seeing Luka mimic Ivan made Till realize that he was surrounded and that's when he started losing hope. It's why his reaction to Mizi is so prominent, because it's like she was there to save him from the vultures. The audience singing is my favorite and also least favorite part of the video/song because the feeling of being surrounded and cornered with everyone against you and their voices echoing in your head... really does it for me. I really want to animate this sequence from up close in Till's POV.

Anyways the 4th reason i had for the bomb theory was that Till is smoking hot (sorry). okay im done now i think,,,,,, i might actually come back with more because i think i forgot something... but i cant remember..... i forgor.....

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side note that i genuinely put more effort into my analyses than i have ever put into any school essay ever

edit: FUCK I WAS SUPPOSED TO ANALYZE THE LYRICS AGAIN GOD DAMNIT i dont feel like doing that anymore ill just do it later maybe