Montreal's Worst 🪱

light in my room is kind of ass but ehhhhhh

okay I wanted to wait on this a bit to collect my thoughts but basically, I think the idea of the worms to me is that they're these cables of muscle and nerves extruded from their hosts - but the "head" end contains a packet of stem cells and can form into a lot of different structures, or fuse with other structures, something like that.

this is why the extra "hands" disappear after the fusion becomes more complete, the cables either became more interwoven with Eugene's body or started developing into more mouth-like appendages.

that's also why they can be quite varied in how they present, depending on the host and the circumstances

similar thing with Nestor's eyes, essentially the optic nerves have been converted into bundles of these prehensile cables that can do weird stuff

the worm colony relies both on more permanent "core" hosts that can be left intact, and ones that can be dispersed, extracted for resources. I could also potentially see this being a kind of defensive mechanism - you can't take out an entire colony if it's been scattered everywhere, in all directions.

my last kind of note/theory is... I think one of the reasons Nestor is terrified of being without a body is part of him can intuit that if he disperses too much, he may completely lose his mind.

YES.... I WONDER WHO INDEED...

Body horror wooo

Real life worms do freaky things and I’ve been desperately wanting to incorporate that into these guys and I just thought of subjecting it to Eugene in particular because he can’t have anything

I didn’t really do it justice so just pretend he moves like this little guy here this is the inspo :)

It’s just a quick thing though because it’s been hard to draw or write anything else I’ve been thinking of, I get too excited and I’ve generally been scatterbrained so

Nestor x Eugene or Eugene x Nestor whatever you call it

So me personally I have like a sort of idea.

What if it were the case that the game overs could be premonitions? It could be very interesting in a way.