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I wrote down in my original design post about him removing his mutated eye, and only soon after did it dawn on me that it probably wouldn’t be the only thing he would claw off…

I also drew up some concepts for my eel/Ellie design and or ideas! I’ve had in it my head for a bit that instead of the entirety of the eels consciousnesses infecting Simon, it’s narrowed down to only a few. Ofc, with the voice we hear from the eel being primarily from the Lead SM-8 researcher, that’s who I picked to be the main “survivor.” (Though she probably is mixed with a few of others) I had a lot of fun with her design and already have more drawings planned with her in them-

Some more sketched out design concepts and doll anatomy for the full body under the cut-

This will be the first thing I’ve ever posted to Tumblr… Well, my friends aren’t geeking out over this movie like I am so I need to throw this somewhere before I explode here’s my design concepts of this man while I dig more into the Iron Lung lore and make up some of my own worldbuilding

also have this sketch cause the two media characters I kin the most are similarly disturbed-

(He's a cutie)

Rubbing his mama's knife sheath

His little hand direction things (he's a visual person)

Teefs

Feeling The Blood

THIS FACE

These faces

Blinkblinkblink *head tilt* blinkblink

T-rex arms

Also I love loveee the little tapping/rubbing stims he does but I don't have a gif of those

And his head tilts

He is so dog

*crashes through the wall kool-aid man style*

Will you?

(ref below the cut)

Simons mutations sketchbook spread

Animation practice, because I haven't in years!

FISH HUSBAND

been reworking how i want him to look! enjoy my lil sketches and ideas!

i imagine mutated simon to have some cognitive and physical impairments, making it more difficult for him to communicate his needs but grace is no stranger to translating weird languages (and puppet shows) so he doesn't mind! they love each other very very much (and grace is tooootally not a complete frwak about simon's mutations)

54:11. It's the Fire extinguisher. Also I point: the way he holds it, it looks as if he changed from the piece to discharge the chemicals, so we have this hold. Add in how he swung it in an arch, and how in how apparently he didn't hit is fingers, with the fire-extinguisher is small and short, probably being a similar lenght of a knife... This looks like a well practiced *slashing movement*, something that can be done towards someones throat. Simon could have used the fire extinguisher to hit the radio in other ways, but this almost slash was the most instinctive. It's SLIM, I know, but I wouldn't be surprised if before Simon was more used to slashing than stabbing.

the fact that she's still calling for ava to help her when she sees a submarine, says she's been looking for her for ages, is probably screaming and begging for rescue the entire time- but can't be understood unless you spend enough time in the blood ocean, unless you're just as doomed as her.

her mentioning that she heard the submarine get pulled up the first time, that surely there must be a way to leave, which means the first time she caught the sm-13 in her mouth she was only trying to get home, was desperately trying to hold onto the one chance she thought she had for rescue.

her quiet grief when she realizes that the convict inside has only one bar of air left, and the sorrow in her voice when she says he's not going to make it. trying to be gentle when she tells him to control his breathing, that it's not the worst fate down here.

her clear disgust at what the butcher did to the Filament station, her horror that an entire station is lost but still not being able to just swim away from the only human contact she's had in who knows how long.

elsie, the speaker, the research lead who has held onto her sanity despite everything, who knows the full scope of the blood ocean, the voice of reason- asking so fucking quietly if he'd give anything to survive. knowing what it's done to her, knowing that she'll condemn him to darkness forever. asking if he would like to live on and then sending him to the light to be mutated into something new and survive by leaving his humanity behind.

elle, the whisper, still aware of what's happening even as she goes insane, knowing that her mind has been burst by trying to comprehend the pinhole god. furious that the eye has chosen simon instead after all her suffering.

elsie who now remembers the full horror of it, who knows that if the humans left start making food from the blood, it will slowly warp them all into monsters like her, who knows that the information in the sm-8 cannot reach the surface- even if it means killing ava.

both of them screaming at simon to stop in the end, only trying to kill him because they're trying to save him from turning into them, because can he not see that the truth will drive what's left of humanity insane, can he not see that the pinhole god wants him to fuse with the tree so that he stays down there like them forever- swimming alone in the darkness of the blood ocean, terrified and in agony, with no hope of rescue.

worm in the bait bucket, worm in the compost. or something. you understand

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