Nightowl343

"We know it looks like a butt plug, just drink the water, it's hot outside"

Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."

Robins are much more similar to each other than they seem

they got me unwell man.

SIMON AND AVA LIVE AU!!!!

My reading of the whole film was that the blood was trying to fuse whatever living things had been in contact for a long time, hence why Ella and Elsie (the SM-8 crew) were fused together into the blood eel, and why Simon exploded into a tree in the end. I also hc that its only possible when the blood is made active via radiation, which is why even Ava gets the fusion treatment.

since they only have one opposable thumb between the two of them, they're both at a physical disadvantage to Ellie, who is now blind and raging through the ocean, trying to stop them from getting the word out about the Red God's Light.

Simon rescued Ava from the wreck of the SM-14 and had carried her to a cave to heal. She has it worse off than him because of how badly the sub had crushed her lower half when Ellie smashed it, so she is unable to swim very well with her new fused tail, and still hasn't been able to move very far past the cave.

Simon on the other hand, can move fast but has to keep close to the oceanbed to anchor his roots for constant rejuvanation every dozen minutes or so.