Petition To Rename G/T as "Biggie Smalls"

[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.

Bonus points if nukes dont do sht to them

What's important is that we always fear the unknown but we also think it's kinda hot 😌

I, too, love that hopeless dynamic of realizing your biggest, most powerful, most devastating weapon is utterly useless to the threat. But I also love when humans can prove to be a considerable challenge when they band together. One human alone? Yeah, probably not much of a fight.

But a whole squad, a whole army, several different military branches all firing at once from their respective fields? It can do a lot of damage. Like imagine 300 gerbils coming at you from land and sea and sky with explosive weaponry. Your ass is cooked eventually. All they need is to get you down on their level. Destroy your tech or armor.

The problem is though that it takes a full militia to take out maybe a handful of invaders at a time. It's something, but it's not sustainable. Everyone needs to work together around the world against a common threat, and even then there would be plenty of world leaders who would refuse to cooperate with so-and-so. Could we come out victorious in the end? Yes. But with a lot of casualties, a lot of damage to our global infrastructure and environments, and only if we can truly come together.