Petition To Rename G/T as "Biggie Smalls"

His name is Connor simply because that was what his name was in my dream (although no one actually ever said it and Connor never spoke the brief time he was seen, but something in my brain kept telling me his name was Connor while I was watching the scenes). The new lore reason now, though, is that the Vrak don’t really have unique names or anything, instead focusing on a person’s bloodline in regards to their ‘surnames’ of sorts. When Max starts getting into personal identities and names, she asks him if he wants to pick out a name for himself to give him his own sense of self. He picked Connor. She thinks it’s the worst.

The Vrak are a very…how to describe this - prissy, logistical species. Relationships, either personal or professional, are more of a transaction of some kind. Now yes, they do feel a very minimal amount of emotions, especially when it comes to social connections, but it’s nowhere near as intense as the average human is on a random Tuesday. They have the ability to learn and internalize these new feelings, they’ve just never had such an overwhelming source. Basically it’s like when a baby, who is perfectly content eating smashed peas and carrots forever, is given their first lick of ice cream and you can see in real time how their world has been blown wide open. 

It would take a lot more work and understanding before the Vrak as an entire species would be able to accept humans into their social circles. As it stands, they only run these experiments to see certain emotions dialed up to a 12, observe the reaction with interest, and then move on to the next rather than taking the time to really absorb the impact. The reason Connor is able to form social bonds is because he actually revisited an abandoned experiment out of curiosity and stuck around long enough to build a real bond with Max, who gives him 1-on-1 explanations or lessons.

The slurs thing was a joke because there’s like 5 survivors left here so who the fuck is teaching him how to say faggot. But honestly even if that were real, he doesn’t want to use them to be cruel, he just genuinely doesn’t understand what a slur is. Why would you make up a word and then say that word is bad and horrible and never allow anyone to use it? 

He is extremely literal. He doesn’t understand hyperboles or most insults or sarcasm. He sees things from a purely analytical view rather than taking morals into account, which is usually when Max has to (attempt) to reason with him that while it may be more efficient to leave a wounded survivor behind to save yourself and have a bigger share of resources, that’s still a pretty fucked up thing to do. 

The more he learns, the more…expressive he’s able to become, even if he doesn’t fully get it yet. The wings on the side of his head actually become his subconscious tell for what he's feeling when he either can't identify the emotion yet or when his face is too neutral to read. Wings up and splayed out, content or alert. Wings folded tight against his head, upset. Wings downturned and feathers fluffed out, angry or threatening.

Max is more or less a functioning alcoholic after the event. Part of the reason is to help her cope with the insanely traumatic rage apocalypse that happened, as well as the knowledge that no one is coming to rescue them. But another factor is because the rage impulse was triggered by a crafted frequency that affected a person’s emotional receptors in their brain, causing them to experience whatever emotion was targeted at its fullest, most feral potential.

Max, however, has hearing loss after getting the side of her head slammed against concrete from a wipe out, meaning the frequency didn’t work on her to go berserk. Instead, it gives her debilitating migraines if it happens to play near her, making her extremely nauseous and nearly crumbling to the ground in agony. Drinking dampens these symptoms significantly since alcohol dulls even more receptors and helps block out the noise. She’s not blackout drunk every day, but she’ll usually have a slight buzz if she ever goes out on city excursions.

Max is a very chill, very cool gal :) She’s an extrovert and can slide herself into any friend group in a matter of minutes. She will also not hesitate to beat the shit out of you if you try to start anything with her or if she sees you harassing someone else. She hangs out at skateparks and shitty bars and gets up to mischief like spraypainting walls. She can be easily influenced to do something stupid because of her nonexistent impulse control, but never anything that goes too far Her heart is worn on her sleeve, but she’s not very articulate when it comes to explaining her feelings in depth, which can make her more intense and frustrated when she’s trying to find the words to describe something and the other person is just clearly not getting it.

What she misses most about earth are all of her friends - she’s been estranged from her family for years, she’s very social, so going from 100 friends to 5 acquaintances because everyone got mauled to death by each other has taken a hit on her mental health. Meeting with Connor and teaching him how to be a ‘friend’ is just as much for her benefit as it is his. 

Max was in a roller derby league, and had actually just won a semi-finalist tournament for her team when the rage event happened. Watching half your friends get torn to shreds by the other half, seeing the audience panicked and scrambling and falling victim to the same fate, having no time to process what’s going on in front of her because crowds of infected are trying to rush her, was definitely not great for her psyche. 

Honestly, the other survivors haven’t really been fleshed out yet, but more than likely they’ll either have a preexisting condition or developed something afterwards.

She is not the leader of the survivor group, which is for the best lmao. She’s young, she’s impulsive, she’s clumsy as all fuck. The reason she decided to seek out Connor after his first attempt at contact was because a) she was very drunk and stupid when the idea came to her and 2) because she thought fuck it. might as well try to get some answers. might as well see what he wants. It’s less of a death wish and more of a ‘I got nothing left to lose’ mindset by now. 

Connor's a fkn YANDERE!!! HELL NAH!!!

But its kinda cute that he's learning emotions and stuff ... He doesn't mean to do bad things... unless....quq

Me? Making a yandere giant? Groundbreaking, never been done--

[attempts to crack knuckles but can't bc i'm wearing my wrist brace]

Here's the rundown that Nyx and I have been brewing for like the last week:

Connor is part of an alien species called Vrak. The Vrak experience very little, if any, type of emotions. This is what first intrigues them when they discover humans, this wide range of feelings and various intensities and mix of multiple emotions at once even if they're on opposite ends of the spectrum.

So they begin abducting entire towns of humans, without said humans realizing it, and triggering a city-wide pandemic that specifically forces affected humans to experience a certain emotion to its highest degree. Hysteria, anxiety, euphoria, etc. They want to see what the human mind and body is capable of expressing at its absolute limit. They'll observe, they'll be mildly fascinated, and then they'll abandon the ruined city in its test environment to move on to the next, effectively leaving any surviving humans to perish at some point.

The current group of survivors that Max (as the poll has decided to name her) is in was part of an experiment focusing on feral, blinding rage, which lead to most of the town population to be torn apart by each other. It was by total chance that Connor just happened to take a glance at the since discarded experiment and noticed that even after all this time, the remaining handful of survivors are still persisting. They don't give in to the hopelessness, they refuse to succumb to fate, they continue to persevere even when they've already been told it's a fruitless endeavor.

This interests Connor more than any of the other tests they've ran for previous emotional states, because this is the aftermath of the outburst. He wants to study these particular humans further and first attempts to capture them with the roaming mannequins, but it's far less effective than he was anticipating. So he goes to the town himself, which naturally does not go very well the first time he tries to establish contact with them.

He and Max do eventually get a chance for a one on one meeting, which begins to snowball into her teaching him about emotions through empathy and the moral lessons from a hands on perspective instead of watching from afar like before. It's definitely an uphill battle, but he is starting to grasp, and experience, new feelings he's never had before. Of course he doesn't understand all of it, but he can get the gist, and so they start to become actual friends.

Or at least, they were friends up until the point that Connor realized helping the survivors get back home (because Max said apparently this is cruel and immoral or whatever) would mean giving up his first and only bestie forever. And sure, maybe he had already promised after he understood the full scope of the situation and (mildly) felt a sense of remorse, maybe Max had been trying to convince the other survivors to trust Connor and they've finally given him a chance, buuuut...now he doesn't want to. Thinking about her leaving for good makes his stomach feel heavy and his throat tight, he doesn't like this new feeling.

Omnipresent God who has no idea on how to talk and interact with human as they have no physical form and cannot speak unless it's in dreams. Like, they can move the ground and smite people. One day a human is hanging around just chilling and the God accidentally makes it fall off a fricking cliff by trying to interact with them and now is desperately trying to get the human, who totally believes its God has banished it from its village, back home except he cant really do much. Like yea he can make mountains appear, cast lightning, make nature grow or destroy it but fire also burns humans, rain makes them cold, the mountains are useless and the nature only brings more predators

The only useful thing the God manages to do is smite the Orcs that attack the human, leaving the human traumatized as it watched an entire village of orcs catch fire and die slowly

It's giving "gamer girl falling in love with their Sims 4 character and puts 20 ladders in the pool so they never drown" energy and I love that What's also so good about it is that, even if they didn't believe in an almighty power, they still can't explain why all these "natural events" happen to them specifically. You can only rationalize so much before it becomes more than a coincidence. You can just feel something isn't right, something is happening to you, but you can't prove it.

People will either think you're insane for believing that the leaves blowing a certain way is a sign, or they'll think you're so ungrateful for not appreciating these blessings that their revered god is bestowing upon you.

Or two, I wanna jump and try to fly. Trust I saw it in a cartoon

how it started vs how it's going

me and @nyx-brown-whoami have been making actual lore for these two and it fucking slaps. can you believe he turned into a platonic yandere. we never saw it coming.

I think your recent drawings/comics had similar vibes.

Ooooohhhh, okay, yes, I am mildly familiar with the Marcoss series

I mean, there is a rebel group and stuff but the planet has like 30% of the ocean left so whats even the point. Surrender sometimes is worst than burning up.

But yeah, I do prefer humanity on top and remaining with hope and victory.

Sometimes we just gotta escape the doom n gloom of life and remember that people can be good and the world can be saved and friendship is magic

Honestly that another reason why I loved Project Hail Mary so much, amongst other reasons. I loved how nearly all of the countries came together, worked on the common problem with little arguments, came to agreements, offered solutions and resources. Because we either die trying to save the planet, or we just simply die.