Ok am I crazy or is that Ellie’s tail??? I was combing through the x-ray camera data you shared and found this while looking for stuff I may have missed while watching the movie and if I didn’t already know what her full model looked like I wouldn’t have given this a second thought, but those are some suspiciously hand shaped protrusions there…
Oh, you're gonna love this section in my master reference.
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This is the culmination of the entire SM-8 crew shoved together into something post-human. She's no alien, just a bunch of people molded into an eel shape. The Red-Eyed God treats the blood ocean like a little creative playground to build creatures in... it's scary shit.


















